New Nuclear Power Plants? Come on.
January 28th, 2010
Obama’s carrot to the energy sector – endorsement of nuclear power – may not be enough to pass a climate change bill in the Senate, but it will bolster Blue Castle Holdings’ bid to build a nuclear reactor near Green River, Utah. (This will disrupt water flow in one of the West’s great rivers; no water would be returned to the river once it’s heated to spin the generator turbines.) Meanwhile, Vermont’s only nuclear power plant is threatened with closure by the state legislature after levels of radioactive tritium have grown to alarming levels in the groundwater. On a positive note, no one has dared finance a nuclear reactor since 1977, and the federal government’s stimulus package budgets money for nuclear clean-up, not construction.