Reports and Publications

Reports

On the Backs of Families and Small Businesses: Duke Energy Carolinas Justifies New Power Plants by Giving Breaks to the World’s Richest Corporations
By Jim Warren
May 2012

New Nuclear Power is Ruining Climate Protection Efforts and Harming Customers
By Jim Warren
October 2011

Too Much Baseload
Report filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission
February 2011

Solar and Nuclear Costs – The Historic Crossover
By John Blackburn and Sam Cunningham
July 2010

Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina – Dealing with Intermittent Electricity Sources
By John Blackburn (published by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research)
March 2010

North Carolina’s Energy Future: Data shows we can close power plants instead of building new ones
By John Blackburn and John Runkle
March 2009

Fire When NOT Ready
By NC WARN, Beyond Nuclear, and Union of Concerned Scientists
October 2008

Delaying with Fire: The Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant and 14 Years of Fire Safety Violations
By NC WARN, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Union of Concerned Scientists
September 2006

Opinion Articles

Safer? Cheaper? Hardly – The News and Observer
Jim Warren
August 5, 2001

Producing power with too much danger – The News and Observer
Jim Warren
May 31, 2005

Saved by nuclear power? No – The News and Observer
Jim Warren
May 25, 2006

Will we pay, again for nuclear folly? – The News and Observer
Jim Warren
July 13, 2007

North Carolina residents need straight talk from Duke Energy – The Durham Herald-Sun
Jim Warren
February 10, 2008

It’s time to get past ‘urgency denial’ – The Winston-Salem Journal
Jim Warren
January 17, 2009

A course change for utilities – The News and Observer
Jim Warren and John Blackburn
June 5, 2009

Beware the bill for nuclear plants – The News and Observer
Jim Warren and Lynice Williams
February 1, 2011

Absorbing the nuclear fallout – The Charlotte Business Journal
Jim Warren
March 25, 2011

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