Topic Page: Nuclear
Carbon-free but potentially dirty in other ways, nuclear energy is both praised and condemned. PF Members offer their solutions to how to fit nuclear power into our energy future. Have an idea in Nuclear? Tell us
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Webisodes Related to Nuclear
Planet Forward: Our Energy Future
Our first TV special focused on great ideas from you, our members, about how we as a country should approach our energy future. Originally broadcast on April 15, 2009 on PBS.
Articles From the Blog Related to Nuclear
What to do with Nuclear Waste
This week, our expert Christopher Cahill was asked: Why don’t we dump our radioactive waste into the Mariannas Trench, where it will be subducted? After a reactor uses its nuclear fuel, there’s still a lot of energy in it. It’s still hot, highly radioactive and potentially harmful. The fission process has just slowed and is …Read More…
Does the Government Help or Hurt Innovation?
This Week’s Featured Topic: Government Green What’s the best role for government to spur innovation in the energy and sustainability space? In the past few weeks, the government has approved the first nuclear power plant to be constructed in the U.S. since the 70s, rejected, for now, a controversial pipeline project and thrown its support …Read More…
First Nuclear License in 40 Years
Posted by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson of Public Agenda on the Great Energy Challenge Blog The Watts Bar 1 reactor was the last built in the U.S. Will there be more? Photo: Tennessee Valley Authority Sometimes the decisions we make are less decisive than they seem. Last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its …Read More…
The World’s Aging Nuclear Workforce
There has not been a new construction of a reactor in the United States since 1977, so the average person who is earning their PhD in nuclear science now wasn’t alive when the last plant was built. How are we going to deal with the brain gap? GWU scientist Christopher Cahill answered this question as …Read More…
Nuclear Crisis in Japan
By Bill Chameides from the Great Energy Blog, a project in partnership with National Geographic. A game-changer or the price of doing business? At first there was the shock — the unbelievable devastation wrought first by Japan’s largest recorded earthquake (recently upgraded to a magnitude of 9.0) and then by the tsunami. Then, as the …Read More…
President Obama calls for Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy in his State of the Union Address
During his State of the Union address, President Obama set a new goal: by 2035, 80 percent of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources.
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Maybe You Don’t Know Nukes
This blog post was originally published on The Energy Blog, a project of Planet Forward and National Geographic Have you ever wondered why so many former opponents of nuclear power are switching sides and are now advocating for nuclear power plant construction with the same passion they once devoted to fully abandoning this controversial technology? …Read More…
Bill Gates on Climate Change & Fast Reactors
It looks like Gates is “all in” so to speak with respect to climate change. He has substantial investments in a new type of nuclear technology (that people on this website have been ranting about for about a year). http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html In an odd coincidence, the president recently “upped nuclear investment for climate fight.” http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61F33V20100216 And …Read More…
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