Germany's energy plans lie between Scylla and Charybdis: fossil fuel-generated carbon dioxide emissions on the one hand and potentially catastrophic nuclear energy on the other. With strong motivation to avoid both, Germany has been left with only one al… more »

by Washington's Blog, Washington's Blogp>Fukushima Still Pumping Out Massive Amounts of Radiation Power was lost to the cooling systems to virtually all of the spent fuel pools at Fukushima for more than a day. Some of these fuel pools have lost c… more »

by Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks I hadn’t intended to do a “Rick’s Picks Predictions for 2012” because I’m skeptical that anyone could get it right. So many things could go wrong next year that it’s difficult for me to imagine the world muddling through… more »