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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last week, Texas’s Windy Deuce Fire, one of several large fires that broke out in the state’s panhandle region, passed within a few miles of a nuclear weapons facility and necessitated an emergency evacuation of nonessential employees. Worryingly, they also forced a temporary shutdown and evacuation of the Pantex nuclear weapons facility.

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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen

PA Environment Daily

Forty-five years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. The fear and uncertainty about what was going to happen-- Was there a “bubble”? Should we evacuate or not? commercial nuclear power industry.

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Why nuclear energy must be part of ‘net zero’ climate targets

Physics World

Tricky problem Nuclear energy is often not viewed as a low-carbon energy source. According to a poll carried out in 2020 by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), only a quarter of people aged between 18 and 24 in the UK are aware that nuclear is a low-carbon source of energy. Courtesy: Shutterstock/andrea dantee).

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Federal Water Tap, April 25: Colorado River States, Interior Near Completion of 2022 Drought Response Plan

Circle of Blue

And lastly, a Great Lakes water quality group releases a report to guide decommissioning of nuclear facilities in the basin. “It The guidelines address those fears. Why restore the assessment of cumulative impacts? Nuclear Decommissioning along the Great Lakes. Studies and Reports. The panel recommends that the U.S.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.28.22

PA Environment Daily

Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. Click Here to watch live. WEDNESDAY 10:00: House Appropriations Committee budget hearing: Department of Agriculture. House Floor. Click Here to watch live. Spoiler - Not From The U.S.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

He argues that I construct strawmen, promote nuclear energy above other energies, and engage in ad hominem (personal) attacks. He argues that I construct strawmen, promote nuclear energy above other energies, and engage in ad hominem (personal) attacks. What we differ on is how to get there.

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100+ Business, Religious, Community, Public Health, Elected Officials, Environmental Leaders: Pennsylvania Needs a Sustainable, Inclusive Economic Development Plan

PA Environment Daily

We urge the Governor to return to his campaign platform of forging a new path toward a clean and sustainable economy so that we can all work together to ensure Pennsylvania’s 10-year economic strategy gets it right. We agree the Commonwealth needs a long-term economic development strategy. We must act accordingly.