Nancy S Vann
@nsvann.bsky.social
President Safe Energy Rights Group
Keep radioactive isotopes & fossil fuels in the ground not in our air and water!
Columbia University; Yale Law; Founder & first editor-in-chief Yale Law & Policy Review
Retired Wall Street lawyer & whistleblower
Keep radioactive isotopes & fossil fuels in the ground not in our air and water!
Columbia University; Yale Law; Founder & first editor-in-chief Yale Law & Policy Review
Retired Wall Street lawyer & whistleblower
Neither SMRs nor a full-size nuke plant (like the one Gov Hochul has instructed the NY Power Authority to build) will help NY’s climate efforts or affordability crisis
Nuclear plants are the MOST expensive way to produce electricity & a 10-15 year timeline = 8+ additional years of greenhouse gases!
Nuclear plants are the MOST expensive way to produce electricity & a 10-15 year timeline = 8+ additional years of greenhouse gases!
Are we listening New York? Nuclear power has always been costly & slow to deploy. SMRs will not help. @governor.ny.gov @doreenharris.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Neither SMRs nor a full-size nuke plant (like the one Gov Hochul has instructed the NY Power Authority to build) will help NY’s climate efforts or affordability crisis
Nuclear plants are the MOST expensive way to produce electricity & a 10-15 year timeline = 8+ additional years of greenhouse gases!
Nuclear plants are the MOST expensive way to produce electricity & a 10-15 year timeline = 8+ additional years of greenhouse gases!
And if you live near a nuclear plant, don’t drink the water
Or go out in the rain
Or eat vegetables from your garden
Or allow your pets to go outside
Every operating nuclear plant emits tritium (radioactive H3O) all the time as water vapor
Like regular water but irradiating you from the inside
Or go out in the rain
Or eat vegetables from your garden
Or allow your pets to go outside
Every operating nuclear plant emits tritium (radioactive H3O) all the time as water vapor
Like regular water but irradiating you from the inside
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And if you live near a nuclear plant, don’t drink the water
Or go out in the rain
Or eat vegetables from your garden
Or allow your pets to go outside
Every operating nuclear plant emits tritium (radioactive H3O) all the time as water vapor
Like regular water but irradiating you from the inside
Or go out in the rain
Or eat vegetables from your garden
Or allow your pets to go outside
Every operating nuclear plant emits tritium (radioactive H3O) all the time as water vapor
Like regular water but irradiating you from the inside
The company that’s working on reviving the zombie Three Mile Island plant is well aware of how alarming that is. And of course they don’t want public attention to the project.
First Step: Rename it the ‘Crane Clean Energy Center’
www.nrc.gov/info-finder/...
First Step: Rename it the ‘Crane Clean Energy Center’
www.nrc.gov/info-finder/...
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The company that’s working on reviving the zombie Three Mile Island plant is well aware of how alarming that is. And of course they don’t want public attention to the project.
First Step: Rename it the ‘Crane Clean Energy Center’
www.nrc.gov/info-finder/...
First Step: Rename it the ‘Crane Clean Energy Center’
www.nrc.gov/info-finder/...
Bill Gates finally realized that his small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) - the slowest, most expensive entry into the climate addressing sweepstakes - will not be taken seriously if people realize how critical the problem is right now.
He can’t get subsidies for tech that will be MUCH too late!
He can’t get subsidies for tech that will be MUCH too late!
Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Bill Gates finally realized that his small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) - the slowest, most expensive entry into the climate addressing sweepstakes - will not be taken seriously if people realize how critical the problem is right now.
He can’t get subsidies for tech that will be MUCH too late!
He can’t get subsidies for tech that will be MUCH too late!
One has to wonder why Hochul is proposing the slowest, most expensive method of producing electricity (nuclear plants) as a way to address climate change.
Solar power that can be installed in about a year would require 10+ years for nuke plants - meaning an extra 9 or more years of fossil fuel use!
Solar power that can be installed in about a year would require 10+ years for nuke plants - meaning an extra 9 or more years of fossil fuel use!
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One has to wonder why Hochul is proposing the slowest, most expensive method of producing electricity (nuclear plants) as a way to address climate change.
Solar power that can be installed in about a year would require 10+ years for nuke plants - meaning an extra 9 or more years of fossil fuel use!
Solar power that can be installed in about a year would require 10+ years for nuke plants - meaning an extra 9 or more years of fossil fuel use!
Large scale corruption is nearly impossible without collaborators & current deregulation of the U.S. financial services industry almost guarantees more fraudulent schemes by the nuclear industry - starting with reviving zombie nuke plants that were purchased with the promise of decommissioning them!
US – Scana Nuclear Collapse.
Red flags and mounting problems with the construction of two nuclear reactors led to jail time for its chief executive and pushed Westinghouse #nuclear into bankruptcy.
www.ft.com/content/f9fc...
Red flags and mounting problems with the construction of two nuclear reactors led to jail time for its chief executive and pushed Westinghouse #nuclear into bankruptcy.
www.ft.com/content/f9fc...
Deloitte to pay $34mn over audit work on US nuclear fiasco
Former shareholders in utility said Big Four firm failed to spot red flags and allowed management to hide mounting issues
www.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Large scale corruption is nearly impossible without collaborators & current deregulation of the U.S. financial services industry almost guarantees more fraudulent schemes by the nuclear industry - starting with reviving zombie nuke plants that were purchased with the promise of decommissioning them!
Hard to believe that the industry thinks SMRs are a viable business rather than simply a way to harvest subsidies.
It’s even more puzzling that folks providing those subsidies keep going.
Paying an estimated 3 times as much per MWH & waiting 5+ times as long for implementation is incomprehensible!
It’s even more puzzling that folks providing those subsidies keep going.
Paying an estimated 3 times as much per MWH & waiting 5+ times as long for implementation is incomprehensible!
October 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hard to believe that the industry thinks SMRs are a viable business rather than simply a way to harvest subsidies.
It’s even more puzzling that folks providing those subsidies keep going.
Paying an estimated 3 times as much per MWH & waiting 5+ times as long for implementation is incomprehensible!
It’s even more puzzling that folks providing those subsidies keep going.
Paying an estimated 3 times as much per MWH & waiting 5+ times as long for implementation is incomprehensible!
The Generals didn’t look happy about having to leave their posts to be lectured to by a cosplaying Sec of Def.
It was meant to show what could happen to them if they don’t toe the traitor-in-chief’s line.
But arresting citizen veterans might make them understand the even higher cost of compliance!
It was meant to show what could happen to them if they don’t toe the traitor-in-chief’s line.
But arresting citizen veterans might make them understand the even higher cost of compliance!
"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.
So far the government has not done so."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...
So far the government has not done so."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Generals didn’t look happy about having to leave their posts to be lectured to by a cosplaying Sec of Def.
It was meant to show what could happen to them if they don’t toe the traitor-in-chief’s line.
But arresting citizen veterans might make them understand the even higher cost of compliance!
It was meant to show what could happen to them if they don’t toe the traitor-in-chief’s line.
But arresting citizen veterans might make them understand the even higher cost of compliance!
Here’s a free ‘gifted’ link to the article.
Important for all of us to keep informed - particularly on the subject of “spectacular mishaps”:
wapo.st/4np4L4K
Important for all of us to keep informed - particularly on the subject of “spectacular mishaps”:
wapo.st/4np4L4K
September 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Here’s a free ‘gifted’ link to the article.
Important for all of us to keep informed - particularly on the subject of “spectacular mishaps”:
wapo.st/4np4L4K
Important for all of us to keep informed - particularly on the subject of “spectacular mishaps”:
wapo.st/4np4L4K
We should all be alarmed by how high gas ‘delivery’ costs are no matter which state we live in.
With the rapid rise in cheaper wind and solar, the continued construction of ‘stranded assets’ to keep us locked into this expensive, climate-killing energy is unconscionable.
With the rapid rise in cheaper wind and solar, the continued construction of ‘stranded assets’ to keep us locked into this expensive, climate-killing energy is unconscionable.
100% endorse this 350NewtonMA video about getting off gas:
youtu.be/uKfJBn-WJ60?...
youtu.be/uKfJBn-WJ60?...
Pricey Pipes
YouTube video by Ron Blau
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We should all be alarmed by how high gas ‘delivery’ costs are no matter which state we live in.
With the rapid rise in cheaper wind and solar, the continued construction of ‘stranded assets’ to keep us locked into this expensive, climate-killing energy is unconscionable.
With the rapid rise in cheaper wind and solar, the continued construction of ‘stranded assets’ to keep us locked into this expensive, climate-killing energy is unconscionable.
We should definitely stop referring to the current situation as ‘unprecedented’ and should start recognizing how horrific things have been for how very long a time for how many groups of people right here in the U.S.A.
Just a suggestion to those who don't look like me in all our many beautiful shades: when you say this has never happened before you mean to y'all. When you say "this is not how we are" you mean to each other. My folk can give dates and times this
sh!t has happened to us and yes that's who you are.
sh!t has happened to us and yes that's who you are.
September 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We should definitely stop referring to the current situation as ‘unprecedented’ and should start recognizing how horrific things have been for how very long a time for how many groups of people right here in the U.S.A.
We should not be letting imported shrimp ‘Make America Radioactive Again’
Please check for all the recalls!
Please check for all the recalls!
The unprecedented #radioactive shrimp recall count now at 26 states, consumers should #FollowTheCesium @oste8minutes.bsky.social @nsvann.bsky.social @ba-ram.bsky.social @thebulletin.org @cspinet.org @rahger.bsky.social @nuclearhotseat.bsky.social @markruffalo.bsky.social @beyondnuclear.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We should not be letting imported shrimp ‘Make America Radioactive Again’
Please check for all the recalls!
Please check for all the recalls!
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...
Keep harmful radioactive waste out of our children's food, conventionally grown or organic
An official Citizen’s Petition to the FDA has been filed to put important safeguards into motion https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2013-P-0291-0001 where your comments are welcome.
Please hel...
sign.moveon.org
August 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...
Every dollar spent on nuclear plants impedes our fight against climate change
It’s not just the 15yr Vogtle plant
The avg international time from starting nuke plant construction to producing electricity is 9.9 yrs
That’s 8+ more years of greenhouse gases compared to solar!
Oil & gas ❤️s nuclear!
It’s not just the 15yr Vogtle plant
The avg international time from starting nuke plant construction to producing electricity is 9.9 yrs
That’s 8+ more years of greenhouse gases compared to solar!
Oil & gas ❤️s nuclear!
"China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week"
In the US we built one nuclear plant in 15 years. Should have another one in another 15.
In the US we built one nuclear plant in 15 years. Should have another one in another 15.
August 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Every dollar spent on nuclear plants impedes our fight against climate change
It’s not just the 15yr Vogtle plant
The avg international time from starting nuke plant construction to producing electricity is 9.9 yrs
That’s 8+ more years of greenhouse gases compared to solar!
Oil & gas ❤️s nuclear!
It’s not just the 15yr Vogtle plant
The avg international time from starting nuke plant construction to producing electricity is 9.9 yrs
That’s 8+ more years of greenhouse gases compared to solar!
Oil & gas ❤️s nuclear!
Unfortunately, the Trump administration is trying to change the regulations to allow wasps to be this radioactive.
That glowing insect might not be a firefly after all. Approach with extreme caution.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Sec. 5. Reforming and Modernizing the NRC’s Regulations.
😢
That glowing insect might not be a firefly after all. Approach with extreme caution.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Sec. 5. Reforming and Modernizing the NRC’s Regulations.
😢
August 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Unfortunately, the Trump administration is trying to change the regulations to allow wasps to be this radioactive.
That glowing insect might not be a firefly after all. Approach with extreme caution.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Sec. 5. Reforming and Modernizing the NRC’s Regulations.
😢
That glowing insect might not be a firefly after all. Approach with extreme caution.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Sec. 5. Reforming and Modernizing the NRC’s Regulations.
😢
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He’s an actual environmentalist who will make our state a leader in the fight against climate change!
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He’s an actual environmentalist who will make our state a leader in the fight against climate change!
- sign up now to join me: www.mobilize.us/delgadoforny...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm attending Delgado for New York's event, “Virtual: Meet & Greet with Antonio Delgado”
He’s an actual environmentalist who will make our state a leader in the fight against climate change!
- sign up now to join me: www.mobilize.us/delgadoforny...
He’s an actual environmentalist who will make our state a leader in the fight against climate change!
- sign up now to join me: www.mobilize.us/delgadoforny...
WTAF!
Republican candidate for Governor of California Kyle Langford stands in front of a Nazi concentration camp and proposes sending unemployed and homeless individuals to be incinerated there.
July 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
WTAF!
In fact nuclear plants are the MOST expensive way to produce electricity.
Tell Hochul: The public will be paying the excess costs either in their utility bills or their taxes.
Every dollar spent on nuclear could buy multiple times the fossil-fuels-replacing electricity with wind, solar & storage!
Tell Hochul: The public will be paying the excess costs either in their utility bills or their taxes.
Every dollar spent on nuclear could buy multiple times the fossil-fuels-replacing electricity with wind, solar & storage!
I disagree with @doreenharris.bsky.social Nuclear power isn't a good path for NY State. It's expensive & slow to deploy, a distraction from moving ahead w/ wind, solar, & hydro. And we need batteries & other storage, also move from gas to heat pumps for homes.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/20/g...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/20/g...
Gov. Hochul’s energy program: New Yorkers don’t have to choose between clean power and their budget
At a time when the price of everyday necessities continues to rise, New Yorkers are understandably focused on ways to trim household budgets, including energy costs.
www.nydailynews.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In fact nuclear plants are the MOST expensive way to produce electricity.
Tell Hochul: The public will be paying the excess costs either in their utility bills or their taxes.
Every dollar spent on nuclear could buy multiple times the fossil-fuels-replacing electricity with wind, solar & storage!
Tell Hochul: The public will be paying the excess costs either in their utility bills or their taxes.
Every dollar spent on nuclear could buy multiple times the fossil-fuels-replacing electricity with wind, solar & storage!
If you don’t continually monitor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) website you might not know that in response to an order from Trump the agency is considering increasing how much radiation you can be exposed to.
The new limit might be 100 to 1000 times higher than current requirements!
The new limit might be 100 to 1000 times higher than current requirements!
Current speaker:
Dirty little secret of EO under discussion:
It could result in allowing radiation exposures to the public 100–1000 times higher than permitted today.
Radiation at those levels is estimated to cause cancer in 4 out of 5 people exposed.
@nsvann.bsky.social @beyondnuclear.bsky.social
Dirty little secret of EO under discussion:
It could result in allowing radiation exposures to the public 100–1000 times higher than permitted today.
Radiation at those levels is estimated to cause cancer in 4 out of 5 people exposed.
@nsvann.bsky.social @beyondnuclear.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If you don’t continually monitor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) website you might not know that in response to an order from Trump the agency is considering increasing how much radiation you can be exposed to.
The new limit might be 100 to 1000 times higher than current requirements!
The new limit might be 100 to 1000 times higher than current requirements!
@governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul has approved one long-stopped pipeline project & is apparently reviewing another one
After years of inaction on NY State’s climate goals, she’s ready to throw them under the bus for deals with Trump, data centers, and the fossil fuel & nuclear industries
Just say NO!
After years of inaction on NY State’s climate goals, she’s ready to throw them under the bus for deals with Trump, data centers, and the fossil fuel & nuclear industries
Just say NO!
July 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul has approved one long-stopped pipeline project & is apparently reviewing another one
After years of inaction on NY State’s climate goals, she’s ready to throw them under the bus for deals with Trump, data centers, and the fossil fuel & nuclear industries
Just say NO!
After years of inaction on NY State’s climate goals, she’s ready to throw them under the bus for deals with Trump, data centers, and the fossil fuel & nuclear industries
Just say NO!
It would take big taxes on renewables plus big subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear to stop the switch from gas, oil & nukes to wind, solar & storage
Somehow cheaper, healthier, more distributable energy is catching on
Strange that @governor.ny.gov missed the memo. Please let her know about it!
Somehow cheaper, healthier, more distributable energy is catching on
Strange that @governor.ny.gov missed the memo. Please let her know about it!
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It would take big taxes on renewables plus big subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear to stop the switch from gas, oil & nukes to wind, solar & storage
Somehow cheaper, healthier, more distributable energy is catching on
Strange that @governor.ny.gov missed the memo. Please let her know about it!
Somehow cheaper, healthier, more distributable energy is catching on
Strange that @governor.ny.gov missed the memo. Please let her know about it!
Cuts to Medicaid etc will be a salient congressional campaign issue in 2026 even if many haven’t gone into effect yet
But of course any reversal will be subject to a presidential veto
The only hope for stopping them would be if a significant number of Republicans were terrified by a GOP trouncing
But of course any reversal will be subject to a presidential veto
The only hope for stopping them would be if a significant number of Republicans were terrified by a GOP trouncing
Raskin: "The central part of the campaign will be, do you want to elect Democratic majorities to stop millions of people from being thrown off their healthcare, or do you want to go through with it? They thought they were clever in saying they would wait until 2027 so nobody will feel the pain"
July 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cuts to Medicaid etc will be a salient congressional campaign issue in 2026 even if many haven’t gone into effect yet
But of course any reversal will be subject to a presidential veto
The only hope for stopping them would be if a significant number of Republicans were terrified by a GOP trouncing
But of course any reversal will be subject to a presidential veto
The only hope for stopping them would be if a significant number of Republicans were terrified by a GOP trouncing
Can understand why this post doesn't allow comments. Does anyone know of a low-income person who can make an extra $10 if her bus arrives half an hour earlier?
As a one-time very low income person in NYC, I used to cut back on my food budget to afford the fare to a museum or park on the weekend.
As a one-time very low income person in NYC, I used to cut back on my food budget to afford the fare to a museum or park on the weekend.
Interesting.
July 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Can understand why this post doesn't allow comments. Does anyone know of a low-income person who can make an extra $10 if her bus arrives half an hour earlier?
As a one-time very low income person in NYC, I used to cut back on my food budget to afford the fare to a museum or park on the weekend.
As a one-time very low income person in NYC, I used to cut back on my food budget to afford the fare to a museum or park on the weekend.
Lina Kahn is a national treasure and I look forward to her being back in charge of antitrust law in the next administration!
Because of Robert Bork (yes THAT Robert Bork) antitrust law was moribund for decades - leading to ‘to big to regulate’ and Elon Musk.
That needs to end, as Lina was doing.
Because of Robert Bork (yes THAT Robert Bork) antitrust law was moribund for decades - leading to ‘to big to regulate’ and Elon Musk.
That needs to end, as Lina was doing.
I asked Lina Khan what she wants people to remember about this moment.
June 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Lina Kahn is a national treasure and I look forward to her being back in charge of antitrust law in the next administration!
Because of Robert Bork (yes THAT Robert Bork) antitrust law was moribund for decades - leading to ‘to big to regulate’ and Elon Musk.
That needs to end, as Lina was doing.
Because of Robert Bork (yes THAT Robert Bork) antitrust law was moribund for decades - leading to ‘to big to regulate’ and Elon Musk.
That needs to end, as Lina was doing.