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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Civil nuke cooperation announcement a testimony to India, Canada’s

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Smita PrakashPort of Spain, Nov.28 (ANI): Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Saturday described the conclusion of the negotiations on nuclear cooperation agreement between Canada and India, as another step forward in strengthening the bonds between Ottawa and New Delhi.The announcement of the conclusion of ...
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• Climate of Fear, Ignorance and Lies

  
  The Nuclear Green Revolution — Authority: 423
  The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) has recently produced a very slick, and highly dishonest video account of the nuclear power industry. The video, inaccurately titled "Climate of Hope," include claims that the use of DU weapons has lead to cancer deaths, an unsubstantiated assertion. Power ...
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• Indian scientist designs method to reduce radioactive waste

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 28 (IANS) Nuclear power could meet all our energy needs but leaves dangerous radioactive waste. Now, a team led by an Indian scientist has developed a new method to reduce the amount of this waste considerably.The disposal of the old core rods and also reactor operation results in a large amount of ...
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• Letters: No show-stopper for new nuclear design

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  It is wrong to say that the designs for the proposed new nuclear stations in this country are unsafe ( Report , 27 November). This is not what our reports say. The reports cover our work, as independent regulators, to assess whether the two designs meet UK regulatory requirements. This work is not complete, although ...
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• Nuclear power station designs could be unsafe

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 138
  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: 136
  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: 484
    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: 837
  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: 988
  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: 988
  • 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: 534
  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: 120
  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: 539
  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: 497
  …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: 481
  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: 564
  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: 570
  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: 510
  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: 726
  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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