Japanese officials announced a new $2.7 billion project that will include 11 solar plants and 10 wind farms, built on abandoned or contaminated lands, according to The Nikkei, a Japanese newspaper.
During the Cold War, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands. The U.S. also conducted a dozen biological weapons tests and dumped 130 tons of irradiated soil, now vulnerable to rising seas.
At least a dozen prominent Marshallese musicians have suffered voices damaged from thyroid disorders — a type of illness that increased in the Marshall Islands after residents were exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons testing.
EnergySolutions, Inc. has signed a contract to acquire all licenses and assets of Unit-2 at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Middletown, Pennsylvania.
The recent shutdown should improve public health in the area around Three Mile Island and should serve as a reminder that future energy policies rely on truly "clean" sources, and not harmful ones like nuclear power.
With the Three Mile Island nuclear plant officially closed and off the power grid, nuclear advocates are turning their attention to Pennsylvania's four other plants.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
Jim Inhofe, the Senate's unwavering climate denier, turns 85 on Sunday. I requested a Q&A with him when he turns 100 to see how the "hoax" has turned out.
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