Nuclear is not renewable, but it's listed here for organizational reasons. I wasn't really interested in nuclear, didn't think it had any future, and that it was effectively dead. I wasn't writing about it. However, like a vampire, nuclear kept rising from the grave and stalking the land. Talk continued of reviving it one more time. This talk had a real effect on public policy in North America, especially in Ontario, Canada. Thus, I felt it necessary to include nuclear topics and this was the place on my web site where it was easiest to insert.
In a startling development widely reported across Europe in the English-, French-, and German-language press, France imported electricity to meet peak demand during a brutal cold snap February 7,...[more]
French Socialist Party candidate for President François Hollande says France could cut its dependence on nuclear to 50% by 2025.
negaWatt (nW) "drops a bomb on French energy policy" with detailed plans to substitute conservation and renewables for nuclear power, says the French newspaper.
The giant German supplier will no longer build nuclear power plants or its components. The article, in French, appeared in one of France's leading national newspapers. It was Liberation that recently...
and build more wind and solar, increase efficiency, implement reverse block rate structure, and in effect emulate German industrial development. . . However, Aubry has to win her party's nomination,...
One Suggests France Could Become a Renewable Energy Powerhouse[more]
The Conservative German government has issued a 14-page document outlining how Germany can close all its reactors by 2017 and keep the lights on. The report, Hintergrundpapier zur...[more]
New Nuclear Costs as Much as German Solar Today--Up to $0.34/kWh in 2018--Nuclear Insurance Costs More than Electricity Says German Report[more]
According to Thomas Wellock, historian for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, "PG&E envisioned many multi-plant sites all situated on the California coast about thirty to fifty miles apart....
German Wind more Stable Year-to-Year than Fukushima Reactors[more]
As Ontario debates the future of renewable energy, questions are raised about the province's reliance on nuclear power. . .
Two excellent documents have been released by the Association négaWatt in France. These reflect on the electricity crisis in France during the cold spell just prior to Christmas, 2009 caused by...[more]
Anti-wind activists often claim that nuclear is more reliable than wind energy and, therefore, we should just use nuclear and forget wind energy, solar energy, and renewables in...[more]
On the Improvement of the British Renewable Energy Policy
The government-sponsored event was the second in a series of nationwide hearings to gauge public opinion on three options for retaining nuclear power in Japan's energy mix in 2030 — 0 percent, 15...
En effet, le démantèlement de la centrale de Brennilis (Finistère), le seul en cours actuellement, est pour l'instant chiffré entre 450 et 500 millions d'euros et l'opération n'est pas encore achevée.
