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Recent setbacks in a hoped-for “nuclear renaissance” raise questions about how much of a role nuclear power can play.

Critics of the AP1000 reactor argue that design flaws could lead to release of radioactive material.

Last fall, as costs and accidents were mounting at Duke Energy Corp.’s massive power plant in Edwardsport, the project’s engineering contractor warned that Duke was taking “significant risks” with the way it was managing the $2.9 billion construction project.

NC utilities seek a blank check and annual rate hikes – as the US nuclear revival fails.

On January 16th Dr. John Blackburn died unexpectedly but quietly in his home. He has been a wonderful friend and colleague – our volunteer technical advisor for over five years – and all of us
at NC WARN already
miss him dearly.

Find a list of Dr. Blackburn’s work
for NC WARN here.

The merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy makes it likelier that a new nuclear reactor would be built in the Carolinas in the next 10 years. It also means that customers could pay higher bills almost immediately to get a reactor built.

New government figures for the global climate show that 2010 was the wettest year in the historical record, and it tied 2005 as the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.

Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry executive, said the proposed Westinghouse reactor design — known as the AP1000 — is more susceptible than today’s reactors to cracks and holes which have shown up in at least 40 currently operating plants.

Duke Energy’s purchase of Progress Energy not only creates the nation’s biggest electricity provider, but it also combines two fans of nuclear power that are eager for more.

Rogers has a chance now to move ahead. He could be heroic in terms of cutting greenhouse emissions and helping avert what the scientists are calling an ‘extreme crisis’ with climate change.

Duke Energy and Progress Energy, the two power companies that serve the Triangle, intend to merge late this year if their shareholders and regulators from state and federal governments approve.

Duke Energy and Progress Energy will announce a merger Monday that will base the combined N.C. power companies in Charlotte and make it the nation’s biggest electric utility with 7.1 million customers.

Duke Energy and Progress Energy announced plans today to merge and create the nation’s largest power company with 7.1 million customers in six states.

Despite the discovery of a continuing series of cracks and holes in protective structures at the nation’s nuclear power plants, federal regulators are bowing to industry pressure and forging ahead to approve new nukes.

Statement by Executive Director Jim Warren

By Sue Sturgis
Two North Carolina-based electric utilities plan to merge, creating a company that…

NASA’s James Hansen and the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R.K. Pachauri,…

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