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Tag Archives: nuclear
Junk Science Week — Lawrence Solomon: Levelling coal makes wind look good
(May 25, 2023) U.S. use of ‘levelized costs of energy’ distorts by counting taxes and subsidies.
A 2nd Chernobyl
(August 19, 2022) Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety
Tagged Chernobyl, nuclear, Russia, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia
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Lawrence Solomon: Singing the praises of coal — the virtuous stone that liberated humanity
Among coal’s virtues is its small ecological footprint, in startling contrast to the clodhoppers that are renewable energy. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Clean Coal, Renewables
Tagged Clean Coal, nuclear, Renewable Energy
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Fukushima fear and fallout
(January 27, 2014) An interesting look at comparisons between the Fukushima, Chernobyl and Hiroshima and Nagasaki disaster zones, particularly in regard to radiation doses. In this report for the New American, quoting Lawrence Solomon’s piece “Evacuation a worse killer than radiation,” Rebecca Terrell writes that “the true Fukushima disaster was and still is the forced evacuation of some 200,000 people.” Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Evacuation a worse killer than radiation
(September 21, 2012) The Fukushima calamity claimed almost 16,000 lives, with another 3,500 missing and feared lost. This toll from one of the worst natural disasters of all time was then followed by a tragedy of another kind. Continue reading
Posted in Hormesis, Radiation
Tagged dirty bomb, evacuation, Fukushima, Hormesis, nuclear, Radiation
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Candu strike could threaten service to 34 units worldwide
(June 22, 2012) Even if the strike is not affecting Candu’s current business, and the engineers eventually return to work, Candu may end up primarily a servicing company for its old reactors. Meanwhile, skepticism regarding the completion of two new reactors planned for Darlington and the refurbishment of four existing units remains high. “The Darlington Refurbishment is like something from Alice and Wonderland,” says Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Power, Uncategorized
Tagged Candu Energy, Darlington, Norm Rubin, nuclear, SNC-Lavalin, strike
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Lawrence Solomon: Why Jews like climate policy
The Jewish drive to protect Israel by promoting nuclear and renewables was counterproductive, because it helped send society down the wrong road. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged energy independence, foreign policy, green energy, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, nuclear, oil states, renewables, solar, wind, Zionism
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Lawrence Solomon: The Green Goliath takes on nuclear
The renewable industry is wrong to claim that it is cost effective. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Power
Tagged environmentalism, Feed-In Tariffs, green energy, Hormesis, Lawrence Solomon, nuclear, Nuclear Power, OSEA, Provincial Auditor, Radiation, renewables, solar, wind
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Lawrence Solomon: Canada’s bad radiation cancer data
Radiation exposure may have been underreported in the 1950s and ’60s, making it appear more deadly. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Just a (nuclear) waste
(September 9, 2011) Canada’s nuclear industry is again plying the back routes of Ontario’s northlands, looking for a willing host in places like Hornepayne (population 1209) and Ear Falls (population 1153) for a multi-billion-dollar long-term storage facility for the country’s nuclear wastes. Continue reading
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