If used nuclear fuel is still so dangerous that we have to bury it in mountains, why can't we keep producing electricity from it? New initiatives around the world are exploring the energy potential of nuclear recycling.READ»
They're easy and cheap to build, ostensibly safer, and more portable: A fleet of small nuclear reactors about the size of a train car might be what powers us in the future.READ»
What if instead of restoring its reactors, the country figured out a way to do it all with renewables. It would take work and ingenuity, but it's totally possible.READ»
It's not profits or the end of coal (they're pretty confident about both those things). Rather, it's a dwindling resource that you wouldn't expect.READ»
We spend billions on advertising. A program that takes ad dollars and invests them into local renewable energy projects would mean major change if it was implemented widely. READ»
Christopher Flavin of the World Watch Institute says there wasn't a revival of nuclear power before the accident. It's actually a dwindling energy source.READ»
One positive solution to our environmental challenges is simply applying know-how we already have to our problems. We just have to ask the right people for solutions.READ»
The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011, proposed this week by 10 U.S. senators, could grow the country's hydropower infrastructure with grants and sped-up site approval. Is this a good thing? READ»
March 20th marked the beginning of National Tsunami Awareness Week. We will continue to hear more about the tragedy in Japan and about which preparations worked or which ones didn't. Those discussions also need to include the ongoing threat from a rise in ocean levels. READ»
Radiation is top of mind now, what with panicked Californians buying iodine tablets because of the (totally imagined) threat of fallout from the Fukushima meltdowns. You can kind of understand the panic: Whenever we hear "radiation," ...READ»
There are reports that the U.S. military used a Global Hawk spy drone to peep inside the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan. Here's how this tech could help Japan solve its nuke woes.READ»
Roger Gale, a nuclear industry consultant and former official at the U.S. Department of Energy who served as a consultant to Tepco for 20 years, says the earthquake, alone, is not to blame for the nuclear to crisis--Tepco was complicit.READ»
We're constantly reporting on plans to build mammoth solar, wind, and geothermal installations. But in the end, will our increasing reliance on alternative energy even put a dent in overall power use? That's the question consulting ...READ»
What would happen if we actually followed through on Waxman-Markey's emission cut requirements as they stand today? The Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit consortium of electricity-generating companies, takes a look in a new report.
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Every renewable energy source has its downside--nuclear power uses radioactive material, wind turbines generate noise complaints, solar production can leach chemicals into water supplies, and geothermal projects...cause earthquakes?READ»
