Let’s go nuclear already
With peak oil come and gone, Collegian columnist Yaroslav Mikhaylov argues that it’s time to start turning to the one energy source capable of competing with fossil fuels: nuclear energy.
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Collegian columnist Matthew M. Robare looks to the heavens for solutions to our energy problems here on Earth.
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Collegian columnist Yaroslav Mikhaylov teaches us the virtues of nuclear energy.
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Born the day of Chernobyl, Collegian columnist Dmitriy Shapiro is skeptical of the “benefits” of nuclear power.
View ArticleMassachusetts nuclear sites face increased scrutiny
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in Japan, several Massachusetts nuclear power generating sites are drawing increased scrutiny from government regulators seeking to ensure similar...
View ArticleAnti-Nuke Dialogue Turns Up Heat on Vermont Yankee
Grassroots activists and University of Massachusetts students gathered for a dialogue on closing the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday evening.
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on world’s ownership and progress
Collegian blogger Tom Lynch reviews Noam Chomsky's talk, "Who Owns the World? Resistance and Ways Forward” given at the FAC last week.
View ArticleNeonuclear: The hottest fashions of the season
Collegian blogger Tom Lynch looks at the accelerating nuclear development in Iran.
View ArticleLet’s go nuclear already
The age of fossil fuels will soon be over. The doomsday predictions of all of the world’s oil wells running dry are coming to fruition. Worldwide oil production hit its peak in 2005 and has been...
View ArticleBask in the sunlight
Bernd Sieker/Flickr Frankly, oil sucks and coal and natural gas aren’t much better; all three involving burning hydrocarbons, releasing pollutants into the air and water and, in the case of coal,...
View ArticleNuking the energy problem
kmichiels/Flickr It is the slowly building horror story of our generation: One day, our fossil fuels are going to run out if we don’t manage to turn our planet into a pressure cooker through the global...
View ArticleCheap power not worth human welfare
MCT The biblical tale of the Tower of Babel, whether one is a believer or not, firmly warns against human hubris in competition against God or nature. There is nothing we can build that will last...
View ArticleMassachusetts nuclear sites face increased scrutiny
A nuclear power plant in California (MCT) After the recent Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan, nuclear reactors throughout the United States have come under increased scrutiny, and reactors in...
View ArticleAnti-Nuke Dialogue Turns Up Heat on Vermont Yankee
Grassroots activists and University of Massachusetts students gathered for a dialogue on closing the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station at the Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union on Tuesday evening....
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on world’s ownership and progress
Courtesy of anticapitalistes.net Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT, author of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media and at least 99 other works according to Wikipedia, gave a talk...
View ArticleNeonuclear: The hottest fashions of the season
Nuke bombs: we have ‘em, Israel has ‘em, India and Pakistan have ‘em, and Iran and N. Korea are developing them, or have them already. Iran says they want nuclear power for energy and medical purposes,...
View ArticleShould we warn future generations about nuclear waste?
(Lennart Tange / Flickr) If you could communicate with someone living 24,000 years in the future, what would you say? Would you ask about advances in technology, or maybe about their culture? There are...
View ArticleLet’s go nuclear already
The age of fossil fuels will soon be over. The doomsday predictions of all of the world’s oil wells running dry are coming to fruition. Worldwide oil production hit its peak in 2005 and has been...
View ArticleBask in the sunlight
Bernd Sieker/Flickr Frankly, oil sucks and coal and natural gas aren’t much better; all three involving burning hydrocarbons, releasing pollutants into the air and water and, in the case of coal,...
View ArticleNuking the energy problem
kmichiels/Flickr It is the slowly building horror story of our generation: One day, our fossil fuels are going to run out if we don’t manage to turn our planet into a pressure cooker through the global...
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