nuclear-news

Opinion:

¶ “Why This Nuclear Engineer Says Every Nuke Plant in the US Should Be Shut Down Yesterday” • The good – the very good – energy news is that the Indian Point nuclear power plants will be closed. But the bad – the very bad – energy news is that there are still many promoters in industry and government still pushing nuclear power. [Common Dreams]

Sunset at Michigan’s defunct Big Rock Point nuclear plant
(Photo by John Hritz, Wikimedia Commons)

Science and Technology:

¶ Ticks are devastating the moose populations in Maine and New Hampshire. They attach themselves to a single moose by the tens of thousands. The adult females can expand to the size of a grape and engorge themselves with up to four milliliters of blood. With warmer winter temperatures, they kill 70% of the states’ moose calves. [The Boston Globe]

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