We’re repeating the mistakes of the bellbottom era by going back to nuclear power.

The Obama Administration will provide loan guarantees to backstop the construction costs of new nuclear power plants. Republicans like that, even though it hides an implicit electricity tax to cover the high capital costs.

Russia Floating Nuclear Reactor.

Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically.

pome about Vermont Yankee (leaking tritium) being a ‘person’

Greenwald’s analysis is obviously wrong. U.S. negotiations ended in a major victory for Iran. It conceded nothing or virtually nothing.

Where’s Rahm in this amalgamation drive.

Thirty years ago this week, Randall and Joy Thompson were hired to monitor radiation releases after the Three Mile Island reactor meltdown. What they saw didn’t match what officials say happened — but, fearing for their lives, they gave up trying to tell their story. Now, Facing South shares their account — and their warning about the dangers of a nuclear revival.