A 2021 report out of Stanford and MIT argues that in order for California to meets its 100% carbon-free by 2045 goals, the state should reverse course and delay closing Diablo Canyon for another decade or two. Pro-nuclear energy interests have been increasingly vocal in the past several months suggesting that the planned 2024 wind-down […]
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Academy Moves Forward on Nuclear Crisis Awareness
On March 11, 2011, there was a seismic catastrophe unrelated to greenhouse gas emissions that devastated the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and placed a huge question mark on the claims of nuclear fission to be a “clean” and relatively benign source of energy. Revelations over the past year have brought alarming clarity to the […]
California Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case
The California Supreme Court last week refused to hear the World Business Academy’s case against the State Lands Commission. This decision, while disappointing, doesn’t detract from the strong legal arguments presented in the case, and we are confident they will someday become law — protecting the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). We urge you to […]
Closing Diablo Canyon: Academy Files with Supreme Court
The World Business Academy asked the California Supreme Court on Monday July 23, to weigh in on its lawsuit to force Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to study the environmental and human health dangers stemming from continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach. The Academy filed a Petition for Review […]
Academy Files for Rehearing in Diablo Canyon Case
Academy Seeks Rehearing in Lawsuit against “Ticking Time Bomb” Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant We pledge to continue to push for an environmental review of Diablo Canyon, all the way to the California Supreme Court Vowing to take the case all the way to the California Supreme Court, the World Business Academy has filed new court […]
Closing Diablo Canyon: Jerry Brown’s Journey
Closing Diablo Canyon: Jerry Brown’s Journey as an Anti-Nuclear Advocate The World Business Academy’s Director of the Safe Energy Project, Jerry Brown Phd., tells the story of his introduction into the anti-nuclear activist field after co-authoring Profiles in Power: The Antiunclear Movement and the Dawn of the Solar Age with Rinaldo S. Brutoco. From helping […]
Nuclear Power, Cancer and Infant Mortality
By Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., Director, Safe Energy Project I first learned about “the secret legacy of the Nuclear Age” from epidemiologist Jay Gould in the winter of 1997. With Ernest Sternglass, a radiation physicist, Dr. Gould founded the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) to investigate the impact of cumulative doses of low-level radiation […]
Published… But Censored
The Difficult Truth of Diablo Canyon Sometimes we tell a truth that people don’t want to hear because it’s controversial, it doesn’t meet a certain political agenda, or it makes people uncomfortable. This is the case with the aging and dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County. We spoke an inconvenient […]
Academy Continues Effort to Close Diablo, Protect CEQA
Academy files reply brief with the Court of Appeals We are pressing forth with our lawsuit seeking an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to address the significant environmental and human health dangers that will result from continued operation of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo. We filed a Reply Brief earlier on February 16th […]
Jerry Brown Summarizes 2017 Accomplishments
Who are we and what have we accomplished in the last year? Director of the Safe Energy Project Jerry Brown gives an overview of the work of the Academy for the past year, succinctly exploring the core mission and local collaborative successes and accomplishments throughout 2017. Did you miss our year in review? Read it here. […]
2017: A Year in Review
A letter from the Academy team on the clean energy progress we’ve made this year: Dear Friends, It is with great pleasure at this time of year that we write to you and fill you in on the impact that the World Business Academy has created over the past 12 months. Our focus has been […]
Beyond Nuclear Energy Video
Our safe energy initiative team is committed to the pursuing the decommissioning of existing nuclear power plants such as Diablo Canyon and finding feasible solutions for the permanent disposal of radioactive waste. As outlined in our video, an important part of securing a clear energy present and future is coming to terms with the events of Fukushima and how we can […]
