Published on Thursday, June 11, 2009 by CommonDreams.org By Harvey Wasserman As the prospective price of new reactors continues to soar, and as the first "new generation" construction projects sink in French and Finish soil,...

The climate talks in Bonn, Germany have come to an end, and by all reports we sure could have used some of that leadership on global warming policy that Obama keeps promising us. According to my Greenpeace colleagues who were there,...

Saturday, March 28th, is the 30th anniversary of the reactor meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. The nuclear industry is currently trying to portray itself as making a comeback, and working hard to paint nuclear energy as...

If you're on Twitter like me you'll know that there's a whole heap of s#!t out there. But despite all the noise it's a powerfully popular communications tool. I'm finding twitter more and more useful for engaging with people who can...

Josef here in Washington, DC! You may have heard that some colleagues of mine are currently in Park City, Utah, attending the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to help draw attention to the plight of overfishing on our seas as documented...

Within hours of President-elect Obama's victory, the nuclear industry was at it again: spinning nuclear power and attempting to put the best light on the industry's prospects after the loss of their favorite candidate, Sen. John McCain...

Just as Americans are being asked to back the biggest bailout in U.S. history, Senator McCain would again put the American taxpayer on the hook for yet another corporate giveaway. Senator McCain wants to build 100 more nuclear...

Seven years have past since the attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon and now a little more than four months remain in the Bush Presidency. The American homeland hasn’t been attacked again since that horrific day, but if...

This post was originally published April 26, 2008: As American nuclear corporations move toward constructing new reactors in the U.S., it’s important that we remember the downside of the nuclear industry on this 22nd Anniversary of...