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Call in Today on Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Reactor
Nebraskans and Iowans Please call in Tuesday, Aug. 27, from 1:30 until 4 p.m. CDT to listen and speak at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to oppose the restart and call for a License … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Nuclear Abolition
Tagged Fort Calhoun, nuclear abolition, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Iowa's Campaign to Stop Nuclear Power
Nuclear Neighborhoods: 11,000 Generations Prepared remarks delivered by Paul Deaton at the Iowa City Public Library on the 68th Anniversary of Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 2013. Thank you Maureen McCue for the kind introduction. I want to recognize some of our … Continue reading
Nuclear Neighborhoods: 11,000 Generations
For Iowans, August is a month to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is also the perfect time to consider the current realities of an increasingly costly and dangerous global nuclear arsenal- something about which the world seems blithely unaware. To … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Local Events, Nuclear Abolition
Tagged Iowa PSR, local events, nuclear abolition, nuclear disarmament, nuclear neighborhoods, nuclear power, Physicians for Social Responsibility
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Iowa Pulls The Plug On Nuclear Power
Pursuit of new nuclear power in Iowa was a bad idea when then governor Tom Vilsack began promoting it, and remains so. MidAmerican Energy’s announcement in the Des Moines Register today, that the utility “has scrapped plans for Iowa’s second … Continue reading
Iowa Farmers Oppose Nuclear Power
WILTON—About 65 people gathered at the Wilton Community Center last night to view a screening of the documentary, “The Atomic States of America,” hosted by the group Saving America’s Farmland and Environment (S.A.F.E.). Attendees also heard an update from two … Continue reading
Vilsack's Energy Policy Legacy
Does Tom Vilsack’s 2007 consulting agreement with MidAmerican Energy matter any more? It does, but not in the way conservative pundits characterized it, as a form of political corruption, after President Obama appointed Vilsack to his current job as secretary … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged biofuels, coal fired power plants, Iowa nuclear plant, Iowa renewable energy, MidAmerican Energy, natural gas fired power plants, nuclear abolition, nuclear energy, nuclear power, Nuclear power in Muscatine County, Nuclear power legislation, renewable energy, Tom Vilsack
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Still In Iowa Just Up The Road
And Still, in Iowa, just up the Road, and over the Hill, conveniently kept outta our moral sight, sits the Halo at Palo still glowing, still Glowing, still GLOWING… SHUT DOWN the nuclear reactor at Palo! March 11, 2013 John … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment
Tagged Fukushima, nuclear power, Palo nuclear reactor
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Senator Hogg: Nuclear Power Bill A “Radical Departure” For Iowa
Two letters in the Des Moines Register are right on target about the bill now being considered in the Iowa legislature (House File 561) that will force taxpayers to fund a MidAmerican Energy study to assess the feasibility of a … Continue reading
Posted in Iowa Legislature
Tagged Iowa Legislature, MidAmerican Energy, nuclear power
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HF 561 & Iowa's Senator Liz Mathis
As readers should know, we oppose HF 561, a bill in the legislature relating to new nuclear power in Iowa. In advocating against this bill, what has become clear is that whatever the resolution, the outcome is not about which … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Iowa Legislature, Progressive Community
Tagged energy, iowa legislature 2012, Liz Mathis, nuclear power
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Don't put Iowa's Farmers at Risk from Costly Nuclear Power
by Francis Thicke As we approach the first anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear tragedy in Japan, it is a fitting time to remember the human costs after several nuclear reactors melted down in Fukushima. Hundreds of thousands … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Farming, Frances Thicke
Tagged energy, farming, Fukushima, MidAmerican, nuclear power, Nuclear power legislation, renewable energy
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