nuclear energy

Green Watch
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Unexpected”
By July 2023 ReNew Economy, "Unexpected and increasing wind turbine failure rates, largely in newer and bigger models, are savaging the profits of some of the world’s biggest manufacturers, as…
by Ken Braun on February 27, 2024

Green Watch
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Extraordinarily Rare”
Wind-industry spokesman typically characterize wind turbine failures as "very rare," "isolated," and even "extraordinarily rare." But wind turbine fires and other failures have happened often enough to raise serious questions…
by Ken Braun on February 27, 2024

Green Watch
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Support for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
In 2011, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced it was partnering with the Vestas “WindMade” campaign. WWF is anything but a champion of nuclear power. Throughout 2020 and 2021 the…
by Ken Braun on February 27, 2024

Green Watch
Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists
The history of the Union of Concerned Scientists repeatedly promoting the closure of nuclear energy facilities makes it fair to argue the group has opposed nuclear power. In recent years…
by Ken Braun on February 22, 2024

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #301: The Politics of the Power Grid (with Robert Bryce)
If you’re like me, electricity is something that just comes out of the wall and turns on the lights. If you’re like our guest, energy policy expert and creator of…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on January 26, 2024

Green Watch
Following the Money and Influence in Politics
On the Tom Nelson Podcast, Ken Braun discussed how CRC tracks money and influence in politics. One of many notable successes was exposing the Arabella Advisors network, a multibillion dollar…
by Ken Braun on October 30, 2023

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #287: The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Practice
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on September 22, 2023

CRC in the News
The Anti-Nuclear Industrial Complex
On the Hügo Krüger, Ken Braun discusses his report on the antinuclear movement and explores the implications for the United States and other industrialized countries. These including the large footprint…
by Ken Braun on September 13, 2023

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #284: The Anti-Nuclear Movement
The weather is unreliable, and often unpredictable—anyone who has grumbled at the weatherman’s forecast knows this. But increasingly, environmentalists demand that only the weather can generate the electricity that modern…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on September 1, 2023

Green Watch
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
InfluenceWatch's new movement profile, the Opposition to Nuclear Energy, uncovers the hundreds of well-funded left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy—including nearly all of the nation’s largest…
by Ken Braun on August 23, 2023