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Jan. 14, 2013
After Fukushima, is nuclear energy still the best way to fight climate change?
James Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, is one of the most impassioned and trusted voices on global warming. People listen closely to what he says about how drastically the climate is changing.
But when Hansen suggests what to do about it, many of those same people tune him out. Some even roll their eyes. What message is he peddling that few seemingly want to hear? It’s twofold: No. 1, solar and wind power cannot meet the world’s voracious demand for energy, especially given the projected needs of emerging economies like India and China, and No. 2, nuclear power is our best hope to get off of fossil fuels, which are primarily responsible for the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet... read more
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The Washington Post
April 2, 2011
The mining and burning of coal was deemed far more destructive to human health than generating power from nuclear plants in a 2007 study, which attempted to measure deaths and serious illnesses attributable to various methods of generating electrical power in Europe. The methods of measuring and accounting for illnesses have been debated and disputed...read more
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The Baltimore Sun
Dan Rodricks
March 27, 2011
Through all the debates over how to generate electricity and save the planet, nuclear is still key... read more |
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Bloomberg Businessweek
March 23, 2011, 7:03 PM EDT
by Gwyneth Cravens
Amid all the hysteria about nuclear meltdowns and radiation poisoning, here’s something to consider: U.S. commercial reactors have never caused a single death.
Worldwide, nuclear power has the lowest accident rate based on the amount of energy generated by any source. Compare that record with the havoc caused by dam failures and the disease and deaths wreaked by fossil-fuel pollution and explosions.
Because uranium provides so much energy relative to its mass, the volume of reactor fuel is small. The roughly 70,000 tons of nuclear fuel from many decades of delivering trillions of kilowatt-hours of power could fit in a single Best Buy store. If the fuel were recycled, as is done in France, the residue could fit in the TV department...read more
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The Christian Science Monitor
March, 2011
State and federal legislators voice concerns about the earthquake risk at two California nuclear power plants – as well as the adequacy of safety protocols in place there... read more
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By D. Richard Anderson And Gwyneth Cravens
ABQ Journal.com
Sunday, February 27, 2011
On Feb. 10, the Albuquerque Journal published an op-ed by Roger Y. Anderson claiming the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant would not be able to store "hot" nuclear waste and that disposing of it remains a worldwide problem. He's wrong.
The problem is not technological, it's political — there's a successfully operating nuclear waste repository in New Mexico and others being built abroad...read more
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by Gwyneth Cravens and Dan Yurman
New York Daily News
Published online November 22nd, 2010
Andrew Cuomo must not shut Indian Point nuclear plant, which provides safe, clean and cheap power
The Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County produces 2,000 megawatts of electricity - about one-third of the metro area's needs. It powers Metro-North and the subway system, which transport an average weekday ridership of 5.1 million. Like the circus strongman at the base of a human pyramid, Indian Point supports the statewide grid of high-voltage transmission lines that protects against power failures. An economic engine for the state, Indian Point directly provides about 2,500 jobs. Unlike the fossil fuel plants that produce most U.S. energy, Indian Point emits no air pollution, and it keeps the lights on at a low cost....read more |
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with Italian subtitles
November 26, 2009
Intervista a Gwyneth Cravens, aututrice del libro "Il nucleare salverà il mondo"
www.youtube.com/?v=HD7my0zMD9U
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by Gwyneth Cravens
Discover Magazine
Published online April 25, 2008
Despite its negative image, nuclear energy may be the most efficient and realistic means of meeting the rapidly-growing demand for power in the United States...read more
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Gwyneth Cravens
Featured in WIRED, from Power to Save the World
December 7, 2007
Visiting New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, the only active long-term nuclear-waste-burial facility in the country...read more
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Posted November 5, 2007
The Real Risks From Power Plants
Last week at an Arizona nuclear plant, guards, who are required to search every vehicle that enters the grounds, detained an employee at a checkpoint 1.5 miles from the plant when a five-inch long improvised pipe bomb was found in his truck. The news media kept referring to the pipe bomb as a scary threat and speculating on various deadly but impossible scenarios. But did this incident reveal how vulnerable our nuclear plants are? |
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