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Dawn Stover
Your money or your life?
There's only one right answer to that question. When we're faced with an existential threat like climate change, we should be willing to cough up the money.
Reality check
Why do so many smart people fall for the notion that we can meet all of the world's energy needs with renewables? Are they just bad at math?
Crossing the climate "red line"
Overheated rhetoric about Iran’s nuclear weapons capability contrasts starkly with the cold silence on climate change. But the world is already headed past the red line for global warming.
Fired up
Climate change is like a wildfire racing toward your home. It's smarter to fight it than to fight about it.
Treading water
The drought gripping the United States has huge implications for energy policy. It takes a lot of water to make energy, and a lot of energy to make water.
Informed consent: Getting from NIMBY to yes
Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission recommended a consent-based process for siting a nuclear waste dump. Why not take the same approach to gas wells, oil pipelines, coal mines, power lines, and wind turbines?
Climate MADness
The prospect of mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe from atomic bombs for nearly 67 years. Why hasn't it protected us from the reckless insanity of climate change?
Radiation: It's just what the doctor ordered
You're probably being exposed to a lot more radiation than in the past. But most of it is not coming from Fukushima, an airport scanner, or your cell phone. The biggest dose is coming from your doctor.
"The new retirement" for nuclear power plants
One of every five US nuclear power plants doesn't have enough money for retirement. Why? For the same reason that so many American senior citizens have put their dreams on hold.
3/11 and 9/11: Codes for tragedy
The earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that unfolded one year ago, known in Japan simply as 3/11, is similar in many ways to the American catastrophe of 9/11.
In hot water: The "other" global warming
Power plants are usually built next to rivers, lakes, or oceans. Those bodies of water are getting warmer, which isn't good for fish -- or for utilities.
Energy.gov: Where information goes to die
The US Department of Energy's redesigned website is supposed to make information easier to find. But for some types of information about nuclear energy, it may do just the opposite.
Climate change in 2050: Where's the beef?
While government officials and environmentalists hunger for new technology, the most effective and inexpensive solutions to climate change -- such as eating less meat or having fewer children -- are inexplicably off the table.
The myth of renewable energy
The sun and wind may be practically inexhaustible, but "renewable" energy isn't. Solar, wind, and geothermal power are not fundamentally different from other energy technologies that consume finite natural resources.
The "scientization" of Yucca Mountain
Let's stop pretending that choosing a nuclear waste repository site is all about science.
\ˈsāf\: America's nuclear power plants?
When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, not Merriam Webster, is left to define our nuclear reality, are we safe, safer, or safe enough?
Rising water, falling journalism
Flooding on the Missouri River has reached a nuclear power plant -- but finding information about the potential risk isn’t easy.
