Posted on 07 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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With all the talk among the Republican hopefuls for President about opening up more of the US for energy exploration in the name of job creation, here’s an infographic laying out in stark terms how many more jobs can be created, and more energy saved, through energy efficiency</…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 24 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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After yesterday’s earthquake on the US East Coast, two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Virginia, were shut down. I know many people will have questions about what this mean (is it a routine precaution or something gone terribly wrong?), so I did a bit of research to better understand what happened. Below are …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 21 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
A spherical robot equipped with a camera may navigate underground pipes of a nuclear reactor by propelling itself with an internal network of valves and pumps. Image: Harry Asada/d’Arbeloff Laboratory
According to a recent study released in June, about 75% of the US’s nuclear reactors have sprung a leak in the past, often with a result of contaminating groundwater. The little ball pictured above could be one of many let loose in underground pipes at nuclear r…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 31 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Want to know where every single nuclear reactor in the world is? And where every single one that’s currently scheduled to be built will be? Head over to Climate Central to check their nifty interactive maps — they also show you what percent of each nation’s power comes from nuclear! Some highlights — the US has more plants than anyone else, and China is building more than anyone else. Surprised? Me neither.
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Posted on 31 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
As the nuclear power disaster at Japan’s Fukushima power plant continues, with the endgame still out of sight, a further piece of support for the no nuclear side of the debate: A group of fifty awardees of the Right Livelihood Award (often called the Alternative Nobel Prize) and members of the World Future Council have issued a letter demanding a global phase out of nuclear power. It’s a worthwhile read in its entirety:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 15 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
photo: Oldmaison/Creative Commons
There’s lots of different information out there on just how much radiation has been released from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, with many people feeling like the full story hasn’t been told. Well, a really interesting twist to that: Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 14 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
It is an impressive explosion as the roof blows off Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3 this morning, and even though the containment vessel is still secure, its effects are being felt around the world. In Spiegel, quoted in the Guardian, Roland Nelles writes:
After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan followed by the ever-worsening stream of terrible news relating to the country’s nuclear power facilities, even the last remaining advocates of the technology must realise that we can’t go on like this. It is over. Done. Finished. Nuclear e…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 13 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Image: Details from Kent Ng‘s Tribute “Stay Strong Japan!”
One Japanese expat blogger reports that life is beginning to return to normal away from the devastated northern coast, with the Shinkansen train running again between Kyoto and Tokyo. But as rescuers continue seeking tens of thousands of missing people and delivering aid to stranded victims, news in the northern prefecture (state) of Fukushima worsens. A small radioactive leak led to an exp…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 31 July 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Küre Mountains National Park (L) is on its way to becoming part of a protected European park network, while demonstrators in Ankara (R) were arrested for protesting nuclear power. Photos via Turkish Adventures (L) and Today’s Zaman (R).
With summer in full swing in Turkey, the season’s regular environmental woes have again come to the fore. Helicopters dropping water have become a common sigh…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 09 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
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This week, Stephen Colbert brought on Stewart Brand, who has been an environmental leader almost since the first Earth Day but who has softened some of his positions. Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog, published between 1968 and 1972, which showed its readers how to live a more sustainable lifestyle and championed the Do-It-Yourself mind set. Now Brand has changed some of …Read the full story on TreeHugger
