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July 16, 2008
Source: Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute
Expanding Nuclear Power Makes Climate Change Worse
There’s one issue that President Bush and presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama all agree on: expanding the use of nuclear power.
July 09, 2008
Source: Spiegel International
French Nuclear Leak: Critics Worry as Authorities Ban Water Use
Following Tuesday’s accidental leak of over 30,000 liters (7,925 gallons) of a solution containing uranium in southern France, nuclear safety agencies are minimizing the possible danger.
June 02, 2008
Source: Salon.com
Nuclear Bomb: Untold Problems with Nuclear Energy
No nuclear power plants have been ordered in this country for three decades. Once touted as “too cheap to meter,” nuclear power simply became “too costly to matter,” as the Economist put it back in May 2001.
April 25, 2008
Source: Texas Observer
Let Them Eat Nukes
Your government in action: Yesterday the House passed 118-21 a bill that would subsidize the nuclear power industry to the tune of roughly $200 million.
December 15, 2007
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists
Nuclear Power in a Warming World
The life cycle of nuclear power results in relatively little global warming pollution, but building a new fleet of plants could increase threats to public safety and national security.
November 20, 2007
Source: Nuclear Engineering International
How Much? For Some Utilities, the Capital Costs of a New Nuclear Power Plant Are Prohibitive
Just before the release of the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) Annual Energy Outlook 2005 (AEO 2005) the then senior vice president of nuclear generation and chief nuclear officer at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), Marvin Fertel, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the assumptions made on new nuclear plant construction were erroneous.
June 29, 2007
Source: Victoria Advocate
Incentives aren’t the cake. They’re the icing
Governments often offer economic incentives to entice a major employer, such as a nuclear power plant.
News & Events
Nuclear plant proponents overlook drought’s realityTwo recent Express-News articles were highly predictive of South Texas’s future: “This dry spell may be the drought of record” and “Energy giant wants to keep Guadalupe River water rights.” The two highlight the relationship between nuclear power and water.
Global warming studies predict South Texas will experience longer and more severe droughts.
The future is here and its reality is staring us in the face.
Paper water rights deceptiveCentral Texas is experiencing one of the worst natural droughts of the last 50 years. It’s dry and we all know it - we feel it. And during such times, it makes a lot of sense to seriously question our state and local water policies. When it rains, we have enough for all of our dreams. It is when we are dry that reality appears.
TSEPA: GBRA Sells Guadalupe Water Rights to Exelon Amidst Basin-Wide DroughtVICTORIA, TX - Texans for a Sound Energy Policy Alliance (TSEPA) today questioned the logic of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s (GBRA) decision to extend its water reservation agreement with Exelon while simultaneously requesting others to conserve.
With the Guadalupe River Basin experiencing Stage 2 drought conditions, GBRA encouraged all users to limit their water usage. Additionally, GBRA was forced to increase the release rate from Canyon Lake into the Guadalupe River in order to meet the current water supply demands for its downstream user, the City of Victoria. At the same time, GBRA accepted $1.1 million from Exelon to reserve 75,000 acre-feet from the Guadalupe for its proposed nuclear power plant near Victoria.