Georgia nuclear power plant could be Solyndra redux, report says
“Despite widespread redactions, the documents released indicate significant problems with the DOE's loan guarantee process”
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Five factors that will impact Southeast solar financing in 2020
An analysis of five key factors shaping Southeast solar financing in 2020, including the maturation of the solar industry, new market entrants, and corporate/regulatory developments. The article references Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's solar capacity projections…
Proposal for Nuke Waste Site Questioned
“If this amendment sticks, Georgia is going to be seriously in trouble”
CODE RED ALERT: CONFRONTING NUCLEAR POWER IN GEORGIA
SACE's comprehensive report 'Code Red Alert' examines the dangers of nuclear power in Georgia, including radiation health effects, nuclear waste storage problems, terrorism vulnerabilities, and excessive water consumption. The report details existing nuclear facilities in Georgia…
Tritium
“With radioactive material, they generally consider ten half-lives have to pass by before you have a fraction of what you started with. That would be about 130 years for all the tritium from the original spill to dissipate.”
Georgia Power wins ruling on research study
“something of a farce”
New $900 million Vogtle lawsuit filed
“We were concerned from the beginning for Georgia Power ratepayers. Even if they got this settled, we would find it hard to believe that Georgia Power wouldn't be on the hook for some of the costs. To see that their mediation and whatever else they were doing did not work so early in the project is a big red flag”
The Radicals
“You can't come into a community and say, 'Hey, wake up. Look at what's wrong.' You have to learn the community. When you say this is such a backward and slow place, you put people on the fences because you're making them feel right away that they're ignorant and don't care about the community.”
Code Red: Report warns of danger in the resurgence of the nuclear power industry
“The industry never really backed off from building new plants”
Net tight for G-8 security on water
“They've gotten millions of dollars to upgrade security, but what have they spent it on? Higher fences and better lighting are all things that can easily be overcome by a determined person”
Nuclear power's dangers
“With more than 20 years of tracking the industry, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy strongly warns against ongoing and increased reliance on this dangerous energy source.”
Global warming issue hardly 'unsettled'
“Global warming science is not "unsettled." A 2001 National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by the Bush administration found that greenhouse gases are building up as a result of human activities, causing temperatures to rise.”
SRS practices threaten the river, researcher says
“It's not alarm bells but warning bells”
Radioactive SRS sludge won't budge
“He says he's going to save $16 billion but the original vitrification was only set at $12 billion”
We've met the polluters, and they are us
“Energy is almost like a non-point source pollution because each of us turns on a light in the morning. Each of us has the ability to make the decision to use energy more wisely.”