While we're debating the safety of nuclear power, it's easy to overlook two significant nuclear...
Category - Environment
And the Bad News Keeps Piling Up
Without anywhere to go with their spent fuel rods, the Fukushima plant has accumulated quite a...
Republicans Continue War Against Parks
They can't help themselves. Republicans have to ruin good things with really awful things. Ohio...
Wrong Answer on Nuclear Loan Guarantees
I wasn't particularly thrilled to see this exchange in Secretary Chu's testimony on the Hill today:...
Meltdown Imminent
Horrendous news from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the...
Big Bang
Here's an historical look back at Japan's second awful encounter with atomic energy. The bombing of...
Fukushima is a Nuclear Triumph?
This link is making its rounds through the tubes. Here's the topline: Japan's nuclear powerplants...
Radiation Flooding Directly into Atmosphere
The tragedy escalates: (Reuters) - Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog radioactivity was being...
Boss Hogg is a Big, Sweaty Shill
Check this out: In a speech to the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce today, [Haley Barbour] accused...
Nuclear Disaster Imminent
Things are rapidly disintegrating at the Fukushima power plant. FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) ...
The Tsunami Before and After
These before and after slides make it appear as if Japan was hit by another series of atomic bombs...
More Bad News for Japan
The latest on the nuclear crisis: it could last for "weeks or even months." WASHINGTON — As the...
Safe, Clean Nuclear Power
Here's video of the Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion. I'm waiting for everyone who says it's...
The Headline You Won’t See
Posted by JM Ashby "Strict Government Regulations Save Millions of Lives" Everyone is focused on...
Republicans Would Furlough Tsunami Watchers
Dan Sobien, president of National Weather Service Employees Organization, on the impact of the...
Japanese Nuclear Reactor Crisis
But nuclear power is totally safe. The Japanese government declared an atomic emergency and told...
The Tsunami
More staggering photographs here.
Massive Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
Unbelievable natural disaster in Japan. An 8.9 magnitude earthquake has created a 12-foot tsunami...
Fracking Earthquakes
Posted by JM Ashby As if more reasons were required to be skeptical of the gas-drilling technique...
It's Raining Oil
NASA reports Gulf-based evaporation is creating "oil rain," which is precisely what you think it is...