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[lucyoccupy]

Remember Remember NOVEMBER is Nuclear Awareness Month -- Hey! Whatcha Gonna Do to Dodge The Rads !?!

Remember Remember NOVEMBER is Nuclear Awareness Month — Hey! Whatcha Gonna Do to Dodge The Rads !?!

Time to learn a little more about #Nuclear Matters?   “Know your RAD Number!”    https://videopress.com/embed/wPXHC3Fb?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0 Just checking…. take care and continue to #DodgeTheRads — WATCHED THIS YET? It’s read to you: YTD RADS 2017  It’s read to you…. any more excuses? READ 2 YOU: TOTAL GAMMA RADIATION 2017.4 YTD…

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[nirsnet-blog]

Oops! Real reason for Exelon-Pepco merger inadvertently revealed

Oops! Real reason for Exelon-Pepco merger inadvertently revealed

Oops. Exelon’s nuclear cat was inadvertently let out of its radioactive bag by the Baltimore Sun today.

The Sun was supposed to run an ad last Thursday in support of the proposed takeover of mid-Atlantic utility Pepco by Exelon. The ad was supposed to show that some sort of local coalition of community groups support the merger.

But the Sun ran the wrong ad. Continue reading

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[nirsnet-blog]

NEI's pitiful plea to Wall Street

NEI’s pitiful plea to Wall Street

NEI to Wall Street: Nothing to learn from here; let’s move along now.

Pity those poor, sensitive souls at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Exelon’s Nuclear Matters astroturf group. It seems that some people don’t like them, and aren’t afraid to say so. And it’s hurting their feelings.

That’s the message NEI CEO Marvin Fertel sent to Wall Street this week during its annual briefing to the…

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[nirsnet-blog]

Nuclear Matters moves further from reality

Nuclear Matters moves further from reality

A Greenpeace blimp hovers near the Vermont Yankee reactor, now coasting toward its permanent shutdown–much to Nuclear Matters’ chagrin.

The very creation by Exelon of Nuclear Matters, an astroturf group devoted to keeping existing nuclear reactors operating at any cost, was a sign of the desperation that characterizes much of the nuclear power industry today, especially those utilities that bet…

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[nirsnet-blog]

With a reliance on nuclear industry talking points, Carol Browner continues to embarrass herself

With a reliance on nuclear industry talking points, Carol Browner continues to embarrass herself

Carol Browner. Photo from wikimedia commons.

Former White House climate “czar” and now Nuclear Matters shill Carol Browner continues to embarrass herself with her ill-informed, although presumably lucrative, rants in support of nuclear power no matter its bevy of environmental, safety and economic failings.

One hopes that, if not Browner herself, at least the League of Conservation Voters (LCV),…

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[carolynmappleton]

SXSW Eco 2014

Random photos from the event - excellent conference! Thanks to the staff and volunteers, as well as this year's sponsors.

[nirsnet-blog]

Nuclear Newsreel, August 6, 2014

Nuclear Newsreel, August 6, 2014

Surfers near the now-shuttered San Onofre reactors in southern California.

It’s the dog days of August; Congress is out of town (not that it does much when in D.C.); news is kinda slow….

But there are a few items that deserve some attention; so let’s first pause for a moment to recognize today’s 69th Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing and then get to it.

*The Economist recently published a piece

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[computermagazine]

Nuclear Industry Gains Carbon-Focused Allies in Push to Save Reactors

Nuclear Industry Gains Carbon-Focused Allies in Push to Save Reactors

Environmentalists are pushing to preserve old nuclear reactors whose economic viability is threatened but that produce no greenhouse gases, which could help meet national climate goals.

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