After nearly two years of stonewalling by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) continues to press ahead with our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation so that U.S. taxpayers can learn the full extent of the risks to which they are exposed in the massive commitment of $8.33 [...]
Documents released by the Department of Energy pursuant to March 25, 2010 FOIA Request for documents related to the Plant Vogtle federal loan guarantees.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has long been concerned with the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) push to add more nuclear reactors to their energy mix in spite of readily available energy efficiency and renewable energy alternatives. But TVA’s dogged pursuit to complete the nearly forty-year-old, antiquated Bellefonte site in Alabama is a unique and especially [...]
–This guest blog was written by SACE High Risk Energy Organizer, Mandy Hancock with assistance from Sara Barczak. Today, April 26, marks 25 years since the beginning of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Union, when reactor Unit 4 exploded and spewed massive amounts of radiation across Europe. Even after a quarter of [...]
Tomorrow marks four weeks since the the deadly earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Over 12,000 people are reported dead, nearly 15,000 are still missing, and more than 160,000 are still displaced from their homes. In breaking news, a new tsunami warning was issued for north-east Japan after a 7.1 earthquake hit off the east coast [...]
Two weeks have now passed since the fateful earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. More than 10,000 people have died and another 17,500 are still missing and hundreds of thousands are without shelter and adequate care. Compounding the crisis is the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi site, which continues to be plagued by significant setbacks. [...]
Our prayers and thoughts are with the Japanese people as they deal with the aftermath of the recent massive earthquake and tsunami. As all of you have been witnessing through news reports, the difficulties that lie ahead over the next days, weeks and months are staggering. Incredibly catastrophic destruction has occurred affecting all aspects of [...]
“In sum, trying to solve global warming with nuclear power is like trying to solve world hunger with caviar,” –Ellen Vancko, Union of Concerned Scientist’s Nuclear Energy & Climate Change Project Manager Despite over 50 years of government subsidies to support the U.S. nuclear power industry’s development and operations, the industry is still not economically [...]
The below article by Peter Bradford, a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions, originally ran in www.ElectricityPolicy.com on Monday, October 11, 2010. Learn more about this multi-faceted new website here. Access the article as posted in Electricity Policy and a .pdf [...]
While our government is demanding that BP pay up for the oil disaster in the Gulf, it is offering up billions of Americans’ hard earned money to another high risk energy player — the wealthy nuclear power industry to build costly new nuclear reactors. Will this be another disaster waiting to happen? Today the utility [...]
