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• Reactor Drawings Make Nuclear History Beautiful

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 751
  next image >> Not all nuclear reactors are built alike. Power plant designs can vary in their fuels, coolants and configurations, a fact beautifully illustrated by a series of reactor wall charts originally published in issues of Nuclear Engineering ...
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• This is no smoking gun, nor Iranian bomb | Norman Dombey

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Nothing in the published intelligence documents shows Iran is close to having nuclear weapons Seven years ago Condoleezza Rice said "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon, but "we dont want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud". Now the focus is on ...
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• "Generating Failure": Why Subsidizing Nuclear Power is Not the Answer

  
  Blue Virginia — Authority: 149
  This morning, Senator Webb put out a press release on the proposed "Clean Energy Act of 2009," which he is co-sponsoring with Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN). The main thrust of this legislation is to provide $10 billion "in government-backed loans for the development of clean, carbon-free energy to bring in ...
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• Do ‘The Simpsons’ Distort People’s Perceptions of Nuclear Power?

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 424
  I’ve watched ‘The Simpsons’ cartoon since their inception and have never been fazed about their misleading depictions of nuclear power. Interestingly enough, others may have. Here’s what a philosophy professor says about the show : Dr. Bill Irwin, a philosophy professor at Kings College in ...
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• EDF Confirms Role Developing Nuclear Power Plants With Chinas CGNPC

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 439
  The first unit of Taishan nuclear plant, modelled on the EPR currently under construction at Flamanville in Normandy, is scheduled for commissioning in late 2013  - By Stephen Heiser - On the occasion of the official visit to China of French Prime Minister François Fillon, Henri Proglio, Chairman and CEO of EDF ...
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• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US fabricated nuclear documents

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Iranian president dismisses western deadline to accept deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today dismissed a year-end deadline set by the US for Iran to accept a UN-brokered deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. As Iran faces a renewed US drive for ...
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• More From Frieda: Let Me Say : I TOLD YOU SO

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  No, I am not clairvoyant I just have been with this for 40 years. I saw the hubris, the arrogance and the lies since the first nuclear plant was built ! In my last e mail, I explaining the scandal over nuclear waste left from the weapons production. A scandal so bad that one official threatened to “shoot” ...
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• Frieda Berryhill Writes: Limerick Generating Station: NRC Evaluated Emergency Preparedness Exercise - Inspection Report

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  Limerick Emergency Preparedness Exercise Report November 2009 “No findings of significance were identified “……….. I wonder what this report would say concerning Salem 1 and 2 and Hope Creek. According to 2000 census data, 24,976 Delawareans live in the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone (EPC) I ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Is It Time to Pop The Iranian Nuclear Pimple?

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 123
  Oil is abundant again; some reports have it that OPEC alone has 6 million barrels a day of spare unused oil capacity.  Iraq, which has some sort of exemption to sell all it can, and Venezuela, which is selling on the cheat are pushing the price lower along with the U.S. Federal Reserve expressing some attention is ...
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• Letters: Poor response to rich states failings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ed Miliband wants to place the blame for failure at Copenhagen on China ( The road from Copenhagen , 21 December). So it was nothing to do with the rich countries walking away from commitments under the Kyoto protocol? Or because the emissions-cuts targets on the table from industrialised countries were well off what ...
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• The Sask Party Uranium Response: "We Dont Care What You Think"

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 543
  Ive posted previously about the Sask Partys latest declaration of its intention to push nuclear development regardless of what Saskatchewans citizens might think. But its worth looking in somewhat more detail at just how thoroughly the Wall government has rejected the publics input into nuclear policy. So lets ...
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• Chinas Power Majors Team On Nuclear Power

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 439
  The demonstration project, located in the city of Weihai in Shandong, will have one 1,400-mW reactor in the first phase. It will use CAP1400 technology, which is based on the AP1000 technology developed by the US-based firm Westinghouse  - Edited by April Murelio - According to a report from China Daily, State ...
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• India’s nuclear liability bill ‘discriminatory’: Greenpeace

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) International non-government organisation Greenpeace Monday said India should not enact the proposed Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill as it was “discriminatory’ and would let foreign suppliers go scot-free.The union cabinet had passed the text of the draft bill last month, which ...
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• Nuclear Reacotrs-The Next Generation

  
  OHOMEN171 — Authority: 133
  side story Nuclears next generation Dec 10th 2009 Inside story: A group of six new blueprints for nuclear power stations promise advances in safety and efficiency. How do they differ from existing designs? eyevine DWIGHT EISENHOWER observed in his “Atoms for Peace” speech in 1953 that nuclear technology ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Frieda Berryhill Writes: A Christmas Present For Utah, Savannah River Sites Depleted Uranium

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  The Salt Lake City Tribune 12/11/2009 Trainloads of depleted uranium will soon be on the move, rolling over the objections of cities on the way to the Utah burial site. SALT LAKE CITY --- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert sent Energy Secretary Steven Chu a letter Tuesday asking him to halt the shipment of ...
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• General Electric Inches Ahead With a Proposed Reactor

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 735
  General Electric considers building nuclear reactor components in Michigan.
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• NRG’s Recent Cost Estimate Increases for STP 3&4 Due to a Weaker Dollar?

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 424
  By now I’m sure most readers here have heard that NRG’s cost estimates to build two new reactors at South Texas Project increased around $4 billion just recently. Apparently quite a bit of the increase was due to a weaker dollar. From the Wall Street Journal : Dollar weakness helped drive up cost ...
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• Studies, Studies and Mo Studies with Nuclear

  
  NEI Nuclear Notes — Authority: 424
  Actually, there are only just three recent studies/reports Id like to bring to your attention. The first comes from Ted Rockwell (pdf) at Learning About Energy . Colleagues: Attached is a list of purported facts about the use of nuclear energy for generating electricity, and purported facts about the principal, ...
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