Germany’s Plan to Nix Nukes: Macht Nichts!

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 14th at 11:00 PM  | 

Well, that didn’t take long. In late May, and in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Germany announced that it would phase out nuclear power generation by 2022. Nine active nuclear sites currently supply 22% of German electricity. Another eight are offline. But there’s a hitch in this well-thought-out plan: it gets cold in northern Europe in the winter, and people need lots of | Read More »

Will the Vermont Yankee Leak Throw a Wrench in Obama’s Nuclear Future?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 11:00 PM  | 

There seems to be a pattern here. Just when President Obama expresses his support for an issue, said issue turns to ca-ca. Less than one month ago in his State of the Union address, the Rookie President read the following from TOTUS: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new | Read More »