Upcoming Events

Important events for the Alliance

• Rochelle's Annual Peace Potato Party
  
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• EPIC to Host Lectures on Carbon Free Energy in California
  The Energy Policy Initiatives Center is hosting the next talk in its Climate Change Lecure Series. The event, entitled California's Carbon Free Energy Future: Options and Opportunities, will explore the policies and technologies that can help California meets its future energy needs while at the same time reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
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• THE FUTURE OF ENERGY with S. DAVID FREEMAN & ARJUN MAKHIJANI
  CALIFORNIA CAN CREATE AN ENERGY FUTURE WITHOUT CARBON OR NUCLEAR POWER…The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility in association with the Empower Poly Coalition presents and evening of presentations and discussion with distinguished authors and energy experts S. David Freeman and Arjun Makhijani.
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• NRC TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING SEPT. 23 IN NYE COUNTY, NEV., TO DISCUSS REVIEW PROCESS FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN APPLICATION
  
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Breaking News

Here's the latest news

• Most States Can Be Energy Independent, New Report Shows
  A new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) suggests that at least half of the fifty states could achieve energy self-sufficiency with the help of locally-focused federal energy policy. The findings should inform the energy policy of President-elect Barack Obama.
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• State poll: People like wind power, not nuclear waste
  A new type of polling done for the Department of Public Service found most respondents "extremely concerned" about nuclear waste and so supportive of wind power they wouldn't mind a wind farm within sight of their homes.
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• REASONABLE DOUBT
  Among the many environmental concerns surrounding nuclear power plants, there is one that provokes public anxiety like no other: the fear that children living near nuclear facilities face an increased risk of cancer. Though a link has long been suspected, it has never been proven. Now that seems likely to change.
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• The Unquenchable Fire - Is Nuclear Power Green?
  We are told that nuclear power is about to achieve a "green renaissance," "clean coal" is just around the corner, and municipal garbage is a "renewable resource," which, when burned, will yield "sustainable energy." On the other hand, sometimes we are told that solar, geothermal and tidal power are what we really need to "green" our energy system.
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• Under Obama, nuclear industry faces tough test - President-elect still vague about his degree of support
  The nuclear industry's hopes for a renaissance are still on. But with President-elect Barack Obama taking office in January, and Democrats retaining control of Congress, the industry knows its uphill battle has not gotten any easier on Capitol Hill - especially with the instability of the world's financial markets.
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• Areva's Finnish nuclear costs rise sharply
  France's Areva will have to take a provision because of a nuclear reactor project in Finland where costs have spiralled to 4.5 billion euros ($6.66 billion) from a planned 3 billion, French newspaper Les Echos said on Thursday.
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• Duke doubles cost estimate for nuclear plant
  Duke Energy Carolinas has raised the expected construction costs of its proposed Lee Nuclear Station to $11 billion, excluding financing costs. That's roughly twice the company's original estimates.
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• Green Investments and Jobs: A Response to the Heritage Foundation
  Over the long term, a $1 million increase in green investment spending that is offset by a $1 million reduction in spending within the oil industry will still produce a net increase of 12.5 jobs.
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• Forget Nukes, Go Renewable Energy
  Governor Schwarzenegger endorsed Senator McCain for president and supported his energy proposal to build more nuclear reactors. Yet, our new president has expressed his concern for nuclear safety and the lack of a permanent solution to nuclear power's deadly byproduct: high-level radioactive waste.
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• Fire Hazards at Reactors Leave Millions at Risk (from Beyond Nuclear)
  Deliberate bureaucratic negligence has left millions of Americans exposed to unnecessarily high risks from fire hazards at the nation’s nuclear power reactors for more than a decade, according to a new report written by experts at Union of Concerned Scientists, Beyond Nuclear and NC WARN.
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• THE FLAWED ECONOMICS OF NUCLEAR POWER
  “Over the last few years the nuclear industry has used concerns about climate change to argue for a nuclear revival. Although industry representatives may have convinced some political leaders that this is a good idea, there is little evidence of private capital investing in nuclear plants in competitive electricity markets,” says Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power. “The reason is simple: nuclear power is uneconomical.”
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• Conclusions - CEC Draft Report Sept 2008
  
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• Earthquakes May Endanger New York More Than Thought; Nuclear Power Plant Seen As Particular Risk
  A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among other things, they say that the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones.
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• Progress Energy will ask for rate hike in Florida
  Progress Energy Florida will ask the state to approve a 31 percent customer rate hike partly to help pay for two new nuclear power plants. The company said Friday the increase will amount to an extra $34.27 monthly for a user of 1,000 kilowatt hours. If approved by the state Public Service Commission later this year, the hike will take effect in January.
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• Nuclear Shortcuts Exposed In U.S. Nuclear Fuel Facility
  US regulators have ignored expert safety advice in an attempt to cut corners and fast track the completion of a $4 billion nuclear fuel facility currently under construction near Aiken, South Carolina.
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• Areva faces 50 pct cost rise for Finnish nuclear reactor
  French nuclear group Areva is facing a 50 percent rise to the cost of building the world's first next-generation pressurised water reactor in Finland, the business daily Les Echos reported Thursday. The cost of constructing the plant at Olkiluoto has risen from three billion to 4.5 billion euros (6.7 billion dollars), the paper reported citing an unidentified source.
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• Nuclear plant workers evacuated
  Human error is being blamed for a radiation spike at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant that prompted the evacuation of about a dozen workers from the main reactor building for about two hours.
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• LA Times Letter to the Editor
  
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• FRANCE'S NUCLEAR CONUNDRUM - Atomic World Champ on the Ropes
  France is proud of having the world's most developed nuclear energy infrastructure, but a series of incidents at the Tricastin nuclear power plant has shaken its self-confidence. Is public sentiment about nuclear power about to shift? The winegrowers have already made their move. No longer will they label their product Côteaux du Tricastin. Why? Because the name Tricastin is slowly beginning to stand for something far removed from fine wine.
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• Efficiency, renewable energy are much cheaper than nukes
  When Arjun Makhijani talks about generating electricity with nuclear power, he knows of what he speaks. His Ph.D. is from UC-Berkeley in nuclear engineering, and he has authored numerous books on energy, including the first evaluation conducted of energy efficiency potential in the U.S. economy. His most recent tome, “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free,” is a no-nonsense policy guide for ending our dependence on fossil fuels without incurring massive debt — and courting potential disaster — by expanding our nuclear-generation capacity.
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Recent Articles

Recent articles of interest posted on the ANR website

• YES WE CAN. . .Phase out aging nuclear reactors on California’s precious coast!
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