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Reflections on the thermonuclear ignition at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
https://ieer.org/news/reflections-on-the-thermonuclear-ignition-at-lawrence-livermore-laboratory/
Published: December 20, 2022 22:11
On December 13, 2022, Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, announced a historic scientific achievement; President Biden would call it a “BFD” she said. Eight days before, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Department’s Lawrence Livermore…
Will clean energy impoverish the poor or help create a path to energy justice? (Part I)
Published: February 2, 2022 00:36
Millions of low-income families already face crushingly high burdens of energy costs. High energy costs burdens as a percentage of income are a principal cause of financial distress, creating conflicts between paying utility bills or rent or buying…
The electric grid in a time of climate disasters: communities show the way
https://ieer.org/news/the-electric-grid-in-a-time-of-climate-disasters-communities-show-the-way/
Published: September 14, 2021 05:10
Three major electricity grid disasters in just over a year are exemplary of the havoc that climate extremes are causing and what needs to be done about it: (i) the howling winds of the 2020 derecho, when hundreds of thousands lost power in Iowa and…
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
https://ieer.org/news/from-pearl-harbor-to-hiroshima-2/
Published: August 7, 2021 00:18
For decades, there has been an argument in the United States every August 6 and 9, the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One side says the Japanese militarists were brutal and determined to fight to the end; there is…
Getting to a 100% renewable electricity sector
https://ieer.org/news/getting-to-a-100-renewable-electricity-sector/
Published: May 3, 2021 23:22
There is not much argument now about whether the United States can get to a 100% carbon-free electricity sector in the next 15 years or so. But many still believe that nuclear energy will be needed for the job as a complement to wind and solar. Their…
Nuclear weapons ban treaty is now international law
https://ieer.org/news/nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-is-now-international-law/
Published: January 22, 2021 23:03
Today, January 22, 2021, is a historic day. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force, three months after the 50th country, Honduras, ratified it. Nuclear weapons are now illegal under international law in every aspect. Possession…
Public Transit – an element of economic and environmental justice
https://ieer.org/news/public-transit-an-element-of-economic-and-environmental-justice/
Published: November 29, 2020 21:24
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2017, about 50 million U.S. households were under such economic stress that they could not cover an unexpected $400 expense, like the breakdown of a car or a sudden health problem, without borrowing; many are unable to…
On January 22, 2021, nuclear weapons will be illegal under international law
https://ieer.org/news/the-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-gets-set-to-enter-into-force/
Published: October 26, 2020 18:23
In 2017, the United Nations General Assembly convened a conference to consider a treaty on a complete ban on nuclear weapons — including their manufacture, possession, use, transfer, and testing. On July 7, 2017, 122 countries voted to adopt the Treaty on…
The Nagasaki atomic bombing – why the rush?
https://ieer.org/news/the-nagaski-atomic-bombing-why-the-rush/
Published: August 9, 2020 16:52
Nagasaki was destroyed by a plutonium atomic bomb seventy five years ago, on August 9, 1945. Called “Fat Man,” it was the same design that had been tested in the New Mexico desert less than a month before, spreading intense radioactive fallout over a wide…
When was the decision to use the atom bomb made?
https://ieer.org/news/when-was-the-decision-to-use-the-atom-bomb-made/
Published: August 6, 2020 19:38
When was the decision made to use atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Was it one decision — or several that made their use inexorable and inevitable? What were the forums in which those decisions were made? When was Japan targeted? And Germany?…