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Nuclear Subsidies May Be Slowing Transition to Clean Energy, Advocates Say,
The fight to define what counts as clean energy has grown more contentious as the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill takes shape. Many activists, scientists and lawmakers agree that nuclear energy which provides one fifth of power in the U.S is by definition not “clean” or renewable, given that spent fuel remains radioactive and dangerous for thousands of years….. A group of staunch advocates say billions in state and federal subsidies that prop up the nuclear industry payments that the Biden administration has signaled it may continue to support may be slowing the transition to a truly clean energy economy…… Four days after Indian Point shuttered, on May 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a 20-year license renewal for two Dominion Energy reactors in Virginia, now slated to run until May 25, 2052. Half of the United States’ nuclear fleet of
par Nicolas Celnik Liberation 5th June 2021
Sezin Topçu: “The state monitors militants and plutonium with the same fears” For the sociologist of science, the trial of the Bure activists shows that nuclear power is a strategic issue for France, which explains a”criminalization of anti-nuclear action”.
Twelve months firm required for one, 10 to 18 months suspended sentence required for the other six defendants: the anti-nuclear fight could cost them dearly. The judgment of the seven opponents of the disposal project of the National Agency for the Management of Radioactive Waste (Andra), dubbed “Cigeo”, whose trial was held between Tuesday and Thursday, will be delivered on September 21. The means put in place by the justice system (which would have spent nearly a million euros for the investigation, according to Reporterre and Mediapart) have not yet made it possible to prove anything else on this “organized band” of “criminals” that the organization of
EnergyCanada plans hydropower push as Biden looks to clean up U.S. grid
Nia WilliamsAllison Lampert
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High voltage electrical power transmission lines are photographed at night in Toronto, February 9, 2007. REUTERS/J.P. Moczulski (CANADA)/File Photo
Canada sees an opportunity in U.S. President Joe Biden s push to achieve a carbon-free electrical grid by 2035: hydropower exports.
With Canadian crude exports taking a hit from Biden s decision to scrap the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Ottawa is increasingly focused on sales of clean energy.
Around 60% of the 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed in the United States in 2019 came from fossil fuels, government data show. Biden s push to convert that to clean energy gives Canada, the world s third-largest producer of hydropower, a window to sell more hydro exports to its southern neighbour.