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Wireless networks the new energy hogs

April 14, 2013 | Energy, Energy Efficiency

With rapid growth wireless networks will soon pass data centers as energy hogs, that’s the finding of a new report from researchers in Australia. According to Melbourne’s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) report: Previous analysis and...

NRC Rejects NWEA’s Raising of Fukushima Issues in Relicensing of the Columbia Generating Station/WPPSS No. 2 Nuclear Plant

December 2, 2011 | Accidents, Advocacy, Columbia Generating Station, Columbia River, Energy, Human Health, Lawsuits, Nuclear Power, Petitions

After the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, NWEA sought to participate in the process to extend the operating license of the CGS reactor.  The Fukushima reactors are all General Electric boiling water reactors with what is termed a Mark I...

In Memory of Dr. Rudi Nussbaum

October 25, 2011 | Energy, Hanford, Human Health, Nuclear Power

With great sadness we note the passing of Dr. Rudi Nussbaum, professor emeritus of Physics at Portland State University.  Dr. Nussbaum, who survived the Holocaust and was an avowed pacifist, was an eloquent opponent of nuclear power and weapons.  Most recently he...