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Nuclear Sovereignty vs. Russian Leverage: Lessons from Finland and Germany
The idea of building the Russian-backed Fennovoima nuclear plant in Finland was always fraught, even before Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in 2022. By 2014—after Putin’s annexation of Crimea—it should have been unthinkable. Finland fought the Winter War (1939–40) to defend its sovereignty from Moscow, and the memory of Soviet aggression has always run deep. For a country with that history to proceed with a Russian state-owned nuclear supplier ( Rosatom holding 34% of th
Eric Anders
Nov 9, 20252 min read


Radically Revising the Climate Record—and the Clean Energy Narrative We Need
From Scarcity to Dignified Abundance A Revised Story of Climate Change—and How We Actually Win For decades, a fossil-fuel-aided,...
Eric Anders
Sep 22, 202511 min read


Post-War Ukraine and the Renewables-Only Fantasy — With Germany as the Cautionary Tale
Ukraine’s power system has been gutted. Before the invasion, the country had roughly 39 GW of capacity; about 13 GW is reliably available...
Eric Anders
Aug 25, 20257 min read


France’s Nuclear Mistake: Politics over Science, Again
The closure of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant in New York was fundamentally misguided because it removed over 2,000 megawatts of stable,...
Eric Anders
Jul 28, 202510 min read


Fragmented, Dirty, and Dumb: America’s Grid of 3,000 Fiefdoms vs. France’s Nuclear Backbone
Imagine trying to win a war with 3,000 generals who can’t talk to each other. That’s the American power grid. While the planet burns and...
Eric Anders
Jul 23, 20256 min read


Abundance Without Justice Is Just More Injustice: Earthrise Accord’s Divergence from the New Republic’s Critique
In a recent piece in The New Republic , the editorial team takes aim at the so-called “Abundance Agenda”—a policy orientation popularized...
Eric Anders
Jul 23, 20252 min read


Net-Zero America’s Nuclear Neglect: How Renewables-Only Orthodoxy Undermines Climate Justice
The Princeton Net-Zero America report – touted as a technology-neutral roadmap – in practice left nuclear energy on the sidelines. This...
Eric Anders
Jul 23, 202516 min read


The Power of Renewables: Their Climate Promise and Transition Limitations
Introduction Climate change has made the clean energy transition a race against time, with millions of lives and trillions of dollars at...
Eric Anders
Jul 20, 202529 min read


Elon Musk, Renewable-Only Strategies, and the Case for Nuclear & Hydrogen
Elon Musk’s Stance on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Elon Musk has a long history of dismissing hydrogen fuel cell technology, especially for...
Eric Anders
Jul 20, 202514 min read


Powering Upstate Renewal: Nuclear Energy and the Politics of Abundance
By Eric Anders In the early 1980s, I lived in the village of Cazenovia, New York, while my father commuted to nearby Utica, serving as an...
Eric Anders
Jul 19, 20258 min read


Writing Off Upstate: How Anti-Nuclear Dogma Betrays Working-Class New Yorkers
The Real Just Transition Starts with Nuclear – A Letter from My Former Home of Upstate New York Challenging Progressive Anti-Nuclear...
Eric Anders
Jul 18, 202514 min read


What Swiss Energy Surveys Won’t Tell You — The Land Truth Behind Wind, Solar, and Nuclear
In response to: ETH researcher Annalisa Manera on nuclear power and wind energy (Tages-Anzeiger) ETH nuclear engineer Annalisa Manera...
Eric Anders
Jul 15, 20253 min read


Abundance vs. Austerity II: Nuclear Power and the Battle for America’s Future
Abundance, Nuclear Power, and the Industrial Revival Needed by the U.S. and the World Introduction America stands at a critical turning...
Eric Anders
Jul 8, 202520 min read


From Toxic Legacy to Climate Solution: Earthrise Accord's Nuclear-Forward Vision for Rare Earth Mining
A recent New York Times article, " China’s Rare Earth Mining Leaves Toxic Trail of Destruction " (July 5, 2025), A recent New York Times...
Eric Anders
Jul 6, 202510 min read


The Illusion of Fusion, the Gluttony of AI, and the Near-Term Necessity of Fission
By Eric Anders As the AI boom accelerates, the American energy system is heading toward a breaking point. Data centers are multiplying....
Eric Anders
Jul 1, 20254 min read


Promoting a Realistic Nuclear Narrative for Democrats — Lessons from France, Tech, and U.S. Trends
I surprised myself recently. Despite my longstanding vow as a progressive to steer clear of Murdoch-owned media, I broke that...
Eric Anders
Jun 30, 202513 min read


Nuclear Truth, Climate Justice, and the Earthrise Accord
How Environmental Misinformation Obstructed Nuclear Energy and Prolonged the Climate Crisis – and Why Reclaiming the Atom is Key to...
Eric Anders
Jun 29, 202523 min read


Nuclear Realism Meets Pragmatic Philanthropy: A Case for Earthrise Accord–Arnold Ventures Partnership
Deepening the Abundance Agenda: Earthrise Accord's Nuclear Realism and the Path Forward with Arnold Ventures Introduction: The Purpose of...
Eric Anders
Jun 27, 202512 min read


Climate Misinformation Dominates Climate Misinformation Report
Why the UN’s Climate Misinformation Study Deserves Legal Scrutiny for Spreading Falsehoods Introduction The Guardian recently published...
Eric Anders
Jun 21, 202521 min read


Fossil-Fuel-Friendly Environmentalism: How “The Groups” Undermined Clean Energy and Let Big Oil Off the Hook
Legacy Environmental Groups' Fossil Fuel Ties and Their Betrayal of the Earthrise Accord Introduction: Climate Emergency Meets...
Eric Anders
Jun 12, 202524 min read
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