Nuclear Industry

Bonnie Urfer, Jailed Anti-Nuclear Activist, Defiant »

By Matthew Rothschild, September 15, 2011

Sentenced to four more months behind bars on Wednesday, the anti-nuclear activist says, “I will continue to resist the ultimate crime of nuclear weapons.”read more

Nuclear Resister Gets Harsh, Illogical Sentence

September 15, 2011

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Japanese Prime Minister Did One Thing Right »

By Amitabh Pal, August 26, 2011

Too bad it took a catastrophe of Fukushima’s magnitude to make the Japanese public and leadership reconsider the country's reliance on nuclear energy.read more

Nuclear Power Losing Favor in Much of the World »

By Amitabh Pal, August 6, 2011

More countries need to take the right lessons from the Fukushima tragedy and renounce nuclear energy, once and for all.read more

Atomkraft? Nein Danke!  »

By Paul Hockenos, August 2011 issue

Germany’s anti-nuclear success offers lessons for the U.S.read more

Flooding in Nebraska Threatens Nuclear Power Plants »

By Matthew Rothschild, June 22, 2011

“There’s always the possibility of the situation escalating, especially when we don’t control all the variables. That’s what happened in Japan.”read more

Ten Lessons From Chernobyl And Fukushima »

By David Krieger, May 13, 2011

We need the courage to abandon nuclear power. No one should have to experience the wrenching pain of another Chernobyl or another Fukushima.read more

We Should Learn from the Germans on Nuclear Power »

By Amitabh Pal, May 9, 2011

The only way to get U.S. officialdom to change its mindset on nuclear power is to mobilize in similar numbers to the Germans here.read more

The Shadow of Fukushima »

We are witnessing nuclear power’s death spiral.read more

A witness remembers Chernobyl on 25th anniversary of disaster »

By Dana Smolyak, April 25, 2011

When I heard about the Fukushima disaster, it was like having a flashback. The Japanese government chanted the same “everything is under control” emergency mantra as Soviet authorities did back in 1986.read more

No more nuclear power »

By David Krieger, April 20, 2011

Japan is one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, but that did not spare it from this nuclear nightmare.read more

Solartopia, Not Nuclear Dystopia »

By Matthew Rothschild, March 17, 2011

“Atomic technology is at war with our Earth’s eco-systems.”read more

No more victims of nuclear tragedies »

By Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, March 14, 2011

Keiko Ogura writes me from Japan: “The number of hibakusha is increasing.” The Japanese term, which was once used to refer to the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has come to mean any person poisoned by radiation in nuclear testing, accidents or acts of war.read more

Calamity Reveals Folly of Nuclear Power »

By Amitabh Pal, March 14, 2011

It’s too bad that it takes a disaster of this magnitude to teach us the risks associated with nuclear energy. Those risks are way too high. We have no future with nuclear power.read more

No New Nukes in Wisconsin »

By Elizabeth DiNovella, February 20, 2010

As President Obama guarantees $8 billion in loans to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades, states are getting into the act, too.read more

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