A grassroots movement to punish the utilities for pushing nukes by using as little electricity as possible on 3/11--Fukushima Day. 2026 is the 15th Anniversary!
Joined January 2013
- Tweets11.5K
- Following384
- Followers1K
- Likes11.4K
Another week, another well this isn’t a crash because the plant was already shut down, but fires are worth noting.
NEWS FLASH: On Saturday an Unusual Event was declared at the H.B. Robinson #nuclear plant in #SouthCarolina after the insulation on a reactor coolant pump caught fire. The fire was extinguished after about a half-hour. The reactor was shut for refueling at the time.
2
22
Unplug Nuclear Power retweeted
I have tremendous respect for the two Democratic Senators who have negotiated the permitting bill with two of their Republican colleagues — a bill that Congress is considering for passage during the lame duck session. I sincerely and respectfully urge the Democratic sponsors of the bill to reconsider their decision to move forward with this legislation. There’s no doubt that we need to reform the way that clean energy projects are reviewed and permitted. But as it currently stands, the bill would be an extremely serious mistake, in my opinion, and would do far more harm than good. Given how this Administration has run roughshod over the environmental laws and protections that are currently in place, now is not the time to give the Trump administration freer rein to double down on fossil fuels — which is what President Trump would surely do. And after last week’s historic election, we will have a new Congress in January that can strike a far better balance.
Unplug Nuclear Power retweeted
Our statement on the updated BAAJA text:
“This isn’t a permitting compromise, it’s a sellout… There is no reason why we should pass such a heinous bill in Lame Duck when we will soon be ushering in a new Congress in January.”
foe.org/news/statement-frien…
Unplug Nuclear Power retweeted
If you vote for BAAJA, you are anti-environmental and climate denier. That’s all there is to it. Kill this fucking bad dirty Bill, and start fresh when you have a majority next year. @TheDemocrats @SenateDems @EnergyDems @DemSocialists
Unplug Nuclear Power retweeted
Solar powers more than 6 MILLION HOMES IN TEXAS! More than twice as many as nukes without creating radioactive wastes or risking unihabitable radioactive wastelands. houstonpublicmedia.org/artic…
Wind & Solar crushing nuclear…
The good news is that last year, #renewables supplied 85.6% of all new global power generation capacity. Solar capacity grew by 510GW and wind by 159GW, against just 1.5GW for new #nuclear. That’s a 462:1 ratio.
Put aside capacity, for actual annual #electricity generation output, this means last year, new wind and solar supplied 104 times more usable power than new nuclear.
In the US, 2026, between 93-99% of new utility-scale electricity generating capacity will come from #solar, #wind, and #battery storage - a combined build-out equivalent to constructing 70 new nuclear power plants in just one year, using tech that needs no uranium fuel cycle, no spent fuel storage, and no decades-long construction timeline.
Go figure. Do the maths.
Unplug Nuclear Power retweeted
And this new amendment they made is awful because it guts NRC regulations in public oversights of uranium enrichment. So if they expand in uranium enrichment, it means they’re going to expand uranium mining, which means it’s going to impact indigenous communities.
Unplug Nuclear Power retweeted
"Trump's #Nuclear regulators are also eliminating the obligation to reduce exposure to radioactive carcinogens to the lowest reasonably achievable level, despite decades of scientific evidence that any level of radiation poses a cancer risk, the report states."
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
