nuclear power
OPINION | "Unusual event" at Prairie Island nuclear facility reminds us our watershed is at stake
There was an “unusual event” on March 6 at the Prairie Island nuclear plant that seems to have escaped the local media but caught the attention of newspapers in western Wisconsin, the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle in California and the Miami Herald in Florida.MORE »
Stepping further from the precipice
As the one year anniversary of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster approaches, Stephen Smith of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy recently MORE »
Environmental groups sound alarm about nuclear plants
Nearly 4,000 gallons of water containing “small amounts” of tritium and “trace amounts” of other chemicals have been released by Prairie Island nuclear plant since November. The most recent leak happened February 3rd when 27 gallons of water overflowed a holding tank.MORE »
After Japan crisis, officials assure state’s nuclear power is safe
Triggered by the evolving nuclear crisis in Japan, safety officials across the country are looking inward at their own nuclear facilities, including Minnesota's two plants.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will spend 90 days reviewing the nation's 104 nuclear facilities for emergency preparedness, according to an announcement made earlier this week.MORE »
Nuclear power
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan was a horror on its own, but the effects on several nuclear reactors has added to the emergency. There has almost certainly been a partial "meltdown" in two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi and there may be more. This is still unlikely to lead to a catastrophic failure and release of a large plume of radioactive material, but even a small chMORE »
Making small waves
On the TV screen the images look at once familiar and bizarre. Wide swaths of trash--the wreckage of appliances, houses, cars, furniture--swept along as if by an off-camera bulldozer doing an ordinary day's work at a landfill without end. There's a soothing feel to the lava flow rhythm of the trash, as if the monstrous mass has a mind of its own and is in no hurry to get to whereverMORE »
Political fission
It's hard to ignore the white cloud of steam that streaks across the sky driving north on Highway 94 from the Twin Cities.
Even on a clear day, the cloud hovers over the city of Monticello, a growing community of more than 12,000.
Tracing the cloud across the sky leads to a highly-guarded facility built on the Mississippi River - the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant.MORE »
The end to a moratorium?
More than 16 years ago, Minnesota policy makers declared that more nuclear power plants would be bad for the state's environment and banned new construction of plants. Now, legislators say economics and energy uncertainty call for repealing that nuclear ban. But a well respected economist says don't buy the economics argument.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Two Minnesotans Arrested For Declaring Independence
37 anti-nuclear activists were arrested this morning at the entrance to the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant outside Oak Ridge, TN as part of a group under the statement "Declaration of Independence from Nuclear Weapons at Y-12".MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Obama’s Nuclear Blunder
President Obama has made yet another bad decision, one that will likely harm your children and grandchildren, and generations of your family, for centuries.MORE »
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