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• Nuclear power station designs could be unsafe

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 434
  A report by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has suggested that the design for the build of some potential nuclear power stations may not be safe. In its Step 3 report regarding the General Design Assessment (GDA) of nuclear power station designs put forward by France’s EDF/AREVA and America’s ...
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• Are We Heading for a Uranium Crunch?

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 137
  As the world prepares for the largest investment in nuclear power in decades, owners of uranium mines last week raised the prospect of fuel shortages. To make things worse, the reliability of estimates of the amount of uranium that can be economically mined has also been questioned. Volatile oil and gas prices, along ...
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• NCS 2009: Fitch Perspective on Nuclear Credit Risks

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 486
    Part of a Special Section covering the Nuclear Construction Summit USA 2009, October 26-27 – Washington DC The Nuclear Construction Summit, USA 2009 was attended by porfessionals who finance, plan and develop next nuclear projects. Professionals delivered information that will ...
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• Krauthammer: Pending Climate Change Legislation a Dead Parrot

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  After the U.S. House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade legislation earlier this year by a thin seven-vote margin earlier this year , the possibility that it could become law seemed like it was a real one. But after the dust settled some, the White House shifted its focused to so-called health care reform. ...
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• Designs for new UK nuclear reactors are unsafe – claim

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Major setback for energy plans as report finds flaws in US and French models Britains main safety regulator threw the governments energy plans into chaos tonight by damning the nuclear industrys leading designs for new plants. The Health and Safety Executive said it could not recommend plans for new reactors because ...
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• Nuclear reactors contain safety flaws, watchdog reveals

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Major concerns over European and American designs • Redesign required before plants can be approved for construction In the race to provide energy for the nations future, two multinational companies have led the way with designs for reactors that promised clean, green electricity with unprecedented safety. But ...
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• Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stirs up radioactive dust due to cut pipes

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 535
  Dallas, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — Officials are working overtime to ensure the safety of the public and the workers stationed at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania on Monday after a cut pipe stirred up radioactive dust. Plant spokesman Ralph DeSantis said reported that ...
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• New Hinkley nuclear plant: likely to be fraught with economic and technical problems

  
  Vowles the Green in Knowle — Authority: 119
  Our Government have been telling us, yet again, that quite a bit more nuclear power is needed to meet our energy needs. However, an excellent report on last nights Newsnight cast massive doubt over both the economic and the technical aspects of this technology. No British nuclear power station has ever been built on ...
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• Swiss vote Sunday on minarets, arms exports and fuel tax

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Geneva, Switzerland (Genevalunch) – Switzerland votes Sunday 29 November on three issues: construction of minarets, Swiss arms sales abroad, spending airplane fuel tax revenues. The Swiss generally vote four times a year on a variety of federal issues. Voters will also have cantonal issues to decide Sunday: in ...
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• The power of blogging

  
  Chicken Yoghurt — Authority: 496
  …or the nuclear industry and my part in its downfall. There’s a big story breaking at Greenpeace today. Despite assurances from the nuclear industry that things had been cleaned up, Greenpeace has found that the villages near the uranium mines in Niger are still contaminated with radiation … I’m ...
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• Alert: India Preparing for Nuclear War?

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  By Zaheerul HassanReliable sources stated that Pakistani authorities have decided to move her forces from Western to Eastern border. The move of forces would start soon. The decision has been taken after receiving the threat from Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor to strike Pakistan on November 22, 2009. Indian ...
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• The Nuclear Energy Institutes Missing Link

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 565
  The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the peak nuclear industry lobby group in the U.S., is an enthusiastic promoter of the idea of a " nuclear renaissance ". NEI publishes NEI Nuclear Notes , a blog linking to stories hyping the prospects for an expanded role for nuclear power in a carbon-constrained world. ...
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• Thirty Years and Counting : Radioactive News from Three Mile Island

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 552
  Three Mile Island. Graphic from The Infrastructurist.The new nuke media machine:Fluff, lies and radiation from TMIBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 25, 2009Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors.The ...
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• “Climategate” – the smoking gun?

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 493
  Some of the more extreme climate change deniers, and others who have an anti-science agenda, continue to dredge through the domestic debris of the emails stolen by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. Their conclusions are, of course, predictable.  Meanwhile, the balanced media ...
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• Canada and India Resume Nuclear Energy Trade

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 739
  Thirty-five years after Canada slapped sanctions on India for using a reactor to help detonate a nuclear warhead, the two countries agreed to resume fuel-grade uranium sales.
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 110
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• Nuclear power is on the comeback trail

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  Filed under: Commodities Nuclear power is coming back into style, and perhaps just in time for the climate, and for the United States. Environmental groups, previously opposed to nuclear power, are starting to support the technology, as it represents the lesser of two evils compared to coal-fired electric power ...
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• Dangerous/Not dangerous

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 443
  Two headlines from The Metro: Balloons are dangerous, trader is told Nuclear power station shut by blaze
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• Most Indians still feel that US giving India short shrift

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov.24 (ANI): A majority of Indians across the United States feel that President Barack Obama gave too much deference to China during his recent Asia trip, and thus created doubts about whether Washington is on India’s side, reports the Christian Science Monitor.With Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...
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• Global Nuclear Plant Construction Moves Forward, Except in the U.S. (politics and market conditions make it tough for the one large-scale rival to carbon-based energy)

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 527
  July 17, 1955, was the first time electricity generated by a U.S. nuclear power plant flowed into a utility grid. In what then was an experiment, Utah Power & Light plugged in the Argonne National Laboratory experimental boiler water reactor, BORAX-III. The plant produced merely 2 megawatts for more than an ...
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