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Activism should be fun, pro- or anti-whatever, since the rewards of activism are often frustration, lost friends, and learning what it is to be called fanatic. So a bow to the unbending squirrel : A French anti-nuclear activist nicknamed the "unbending squirrel" managed to stop a train carrying...

I can almost hear Another One Bites The Dust , the ubiquitous Queen song played at so many American high school sporting events. According to Professor Barry Brook's Brave New Climate , James Hansen and Tom Blees have influenced another long time anti-nuclear activist to take another look at nuclear...

The Washington Times, which acts in DC as a counterweight to the more liberal (and far more influential) Washington Post, writes today about a report (the full report in PDF) from the Energy Information Administration on the Waxman Markey climate change bill. For the nuclear industry, its conclusions...

Let’s peek in on some stories we’ve been following and see what’s what: The South Texas Project wants to build a new unit on its site and has found strong support from the San Antonio Express News: CPS customers pay rates that are routinely among the lowest of any major utility in the country. That's...

The latest manifesto from Greenpeace UK is the first ever with no explicit anti-nuclear policies. It was launched with the tagline "Change the politics. Save the climate."

Probably not in the U.S., but in the UK they may be lessening their anti-nuclear stance. World Nuclear News has the story : The latest manifesto from Greenpeace UK is the first ever with no explicit anti-nuclear policies. It was launched with the tagline "Change the politics. Save the climate."...

Haunted by the goblins of the cold war, a Boise-based group is obsessed with a uranium enrichment plant A relic with knee-jerk anti-nuclear reflexes from the cold war has revived itself to oppose Areva's planned $2.4 billion  uranium enrichment plant in Idaho.  The Boise-based Snake River...

Pranksters create turmoil at National Press Club The Washington Post reports that a press conference held at the National Press Club today (Oct 19) purporting to be a statement by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversing its position on climate change is a hoax. Environmental activists held a hoax press...

Ken Edelstein over at Mother Nature News acknowledges that what we might call “classic” environmentalists, those raised on the Whole Earth Catalog and the No Nukes concerts, might have a bit of a problem . How much less politically radioactive nuclear power has become was underscored Oct. 11 in a Sunday...

Tom Ashbrook from NPR's OnPoint got the two to cordially hash out their opposing views on nuclear . Though the conversation lasted for about 12 minutes, not much was actually debated. I guess a good debate is what the blogosphere is for. So far I haven't seen much praise for Lovins' latest...

Anti-nuclear groups claim the end of a fuel test is “huge setback” for the utility A rapid-fire exchange of press releases this week Friday, Nov  13 made short order of a claim [ press release ] by Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) that the end of testing of...

Six Greenpeace activists yesterday boarded the Happy Ranger , a cargo ship transporting steam generators from France to the Areva EPR under construction at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Finland.

Generally speaking, folks who dislike nuclear energy have lost their footing a bit because the pressing energy issue of the day – climate change – seeks solutions that nuclear energy readily provides. A fair number of former anti-nuclear   advocates have put the issues on the scale and found the...

Barry Brook published a great piece on the contradictory thinking of anti-nuclear environmentalists . It was posted a few days ago and is now up to almost 100 comments. He’s found 32 hypocrisies so far (with the help of others) and below is a taste of a few: 1. They claim renewables can replace fossil...

Nuclear Power Pants , a band from Baltimore, MD, has a uniquely awful video up on YouTube that might best be described as GWAR meets Ed Wood . (That's one heckuva high bar for this high camp.) Enjoy. Can the nuclear energy industry sue for defamation of character? ...read more

On Monday, CAP attempted to provide some facts about DOE’s loan guarantee program that needless to say completely distorted the picture. After spending a few days dissecting their analysis, NEI came out with a 13 page response that rebuts CAP and clarifies the facts . Below the rest of this post are...