Politics

Author: Rob Loveday and Kiersten Sundell A tunnel at the Yucca Mountain deep geological repository site (US DoE) The US has been trying to figure out what to do with nuclear waste for 44 years, and we’re not much closer to a solution than we were in 1982. Not because it’s an impossible problem – Finland and Sweden are both building […]

Author: Rob Loveday and Kiersten Sundell The Hanford nuclear site (Getty Images) In January, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright ended the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) longstanding use of ALARA to govern its standards for radiation exposure in the country’s nuclear energy industry. And the implications for the sector could be pretty seismic, to say the least. But what is ALARA?

Here’s the Generation Atomic wishlist for the coming year Author: Rob Loveday and Madison Schroder Hinkley Point C, in the UK: Get ‘er DONE (EDF) Last year was a great year for the nuclear industry. Nuclear power is now generating its highest-ever amount of electricity – around 2667 TWh in 2024, with the figure for 2025 likely to be similar. Advanced reactors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21, 2025 Contact: Eric Meyer, Executive Director, 218-384-1645, eric@generationatomic.org A coalition of Minnesota’s largest labor unions, environmental groups, and business organizations today sent an open letter to state lawmakers and the Governor, urging them to end the state’s 30-year-old ban on new nuclear power development. The Coalition for Minnesota Nuclear, organized by local

Author: The Kernel & Gayatri Karnik This year marked Generation Atomic’s eighth consecutive year at COP, and our commitment to advancing the role of nuclear energy in climate action was stronger than ever at the world’s biggest annual climate conference. COP29, known as the “Finance COP,” focused on funding and implementing prior agreements—a critical step

Author: The Kernel, Jeff, Eric G. Meyer, and Philip Hult Underpinning costs of goods and services is the cost of energy. According to a July poll from Statista, one of the most important issues for voters in 2024 is reducing inflation and the cost of living. As a source of scalable, clean, dispatchable power, nuclear energy represents a viable

Author: THE KERNEL, Gayatri Karnik & Vladislav At COP 28 in Dubai last year, parties explicitly called out nuclear energy as a legitimate part of the global clean energy transition. This mention may seem insignificant, but it demonstrates a much broader awareness of the critical role nuclear energy must play in limiting global temperature rise. As

Author: Madison Schroder On March 25th, 2022 The San Luis Obispo Tribune published, “How California’s Last Remaining Nuclear Power Plant Transformed Marine Life Off the Coast”. The article outlines the historical relationship between the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and the 40-acre inlet of the marine environment off the coast of the facility. Among the

If humans were as serious about saving life as they were about destroying it, climate change would be easy to solve Author: Rob Loveday By now, any further comment condemning Russia’s horrific war in Ukraine should surely be superfluous. But amidst the rubble, death and destruction, is there an opportunity to gain some perspective on

Author: Madison Schroder In 2016 Pacific Gas and Electric, the owners of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo, California, announced that it would begin its decommissioning process to prematurely shut down the state’s largest source of reliable, clean energy by 2025. PG&E released its joint proposal with several other organizations, including

Why developers should put community spaces at the heart of future nuclear power projects. Author: David de Caires Watson There’s talk of a nuclear rennaissance, of nuclear being the energy source of the future. Yet the industry remains shrouded in secrecy. A van with tinted windows pulled to a stop in front of our minibus.

Crowds Gather in San Luis Obispo to Prevent the Closure of California’s Largest Source of Clean Energy Author: Madison Schroder On a sunny Saturday in December, over 150 people camped out on the front lawn of the San Luis Obispo courthouse. They were there to protest the upcoming closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power

Author: Generation Atomic Join our global team and gain experience, grow in confidence and build your network. Our most recent intern was Lonnie Hastings, a Senior at NC State University. We sat down with him to talk about his time at Generation Atomic. Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Lonnie Hastings and

Author: Rob Loveday Take part in Generation Atomic’s campaign to persuade the European Union to clear nuclear energy for green finance! Scroll to the bottom if you want to take action! In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s been some fantastic news for nuclear power in the European Union recently — EU experts have said nuclear qualifies as a

Author: Oscar Archer ‘It was becoming clear that nuclear energy would never be the same and that the industry needed a different approach.’ For the last few years, GE Hitachi have been quietly working away at a reactor design that might blow its competitors out the water — including natural gas. Jon Ball, Executive Vice

Author: Rob Loveday Even trusted quality news sources get things wrong occasionally, so it’s important to set them right — especially on nuclear power. Most of the time, The Independentis a really decent news outlet — although it’s now online only, since its lauch in 1986 it has been one of the few UK broadsheet newspapers to