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• Sweden raises nuclear waste doubts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The plan to use copper for sealing nuclear waste underground has being thrown into disarray by corrosion in artefacts from the Vasa Plans for nuclear waste disposal could be thrown into confusion tomorrow at a summit because of new evidence of corrosion in materials traditionally used for burial procedures. The ...
  8 hours ago

• Scotland powered by patriotic flim-flam

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  My countrys resistance to nuclear energy is easy to understand, but its alternative is baffling Readers of London newspapers are used to blank spaces north of the border. Maps illustrating variations in house prices, healthcare provision, obesity rates, knife crime, tourist numbers – they show white beyond the ...
  1 day ago

• Theres No Such A Thing as Nuclear Waste

  
  The North Coast — Authority: 116
  One of the larger concerns surrounding nuclear power is the management of the byproducts of fission, popularly known as "waste". As matters stand at the moment, the Yucca Mountain repository is on hold, and further development of nuclear power could be curtailed until a "solution" is found. Only in a society ...
  3 days ago

• The cost of nuclear doesnt add up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Government plans to fast-track major projects pose a real threat to their action plan on global warming ( UKs nuclear future is mapped out as race to tackle climate change hots up , 10 November). Reports on the governments national policy statements have predictably focussed on the controversial issue of new nuclear ...
  3 days ago

• Leaders discuss Yucca decision (South Carolina)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Local business leaders may get an earful on Yucca Mountain and related issues in the weeks ahead from the SRS Community Reuse Organization. J. David Jameson, president and CEO of the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce, was among several speakers at a press conference on Monday announcing a publicity drive that focuses ...
  4 days ago

• Would you live in a nuclear shadow? | Open thread

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The government is paving the way for a huge expansion of nuclear power – but would you live near a power station? A new nuclear power station in Hinkley, Somerset , is a step closer to becoming reality and could be operational within nine years, according to the This is Somerset website. Ten new plants are ...
  4 days ago

• A bright nuclear future: true or false? | Jeremy Leggett

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Britain has identified 10 suitable sites for next-generation nuclear power plants. Heres a list of awkward questions If you think the Labour government has done the right thing in its decision to expand nuclear power in the UK by 50% , see how you fare with this quiz. Are the following dozen statements true or ...
  4 days ago

• Nuclear power around the world

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  An increasing number of countries are expanding their nuclear generating capacity, while environmentalists are still split over the issue Nuclear power is back in favour, at least in government circles. Today, energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband will expand upon the UKs plans for a fleet of new nuclear ...
  5 days ago

• CNN Online Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Nuclear Energy

  
  Pro Nuclear Democrats — Authority: 114
  CNN ran a few stories about nuclear energy this past week paired with an online poll.  The articles could be described as sloppy journalism at best as noted by Kirk Sorenson on his Energy from Thorium blog . Readers know better than CNN and it shows in their commentary on the articles and in the poll with an ...
  6 days ago

• Britains nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Namibian environmentalists warn expansion of uranium mining could devastate spectacular natural landscape The hidden cost of Britains new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has ...
  1 week ago

• India, Sweden discuss climate change, energy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt held wide-ranging talks here Thursday to give a fresh impetus to their ties in the fields of trade, energy and environment.Manmohan Singh held delegation-level talks with Reinfeldt, who arrived in the morning on a ...
  1 week ago

• The Big Picture

  
  THE SONIC ASSAULT!!!.....STEADY BOMBARDMENT!!!! — Authority: 124
  Some dont see the big picture ...the system is shaking things up.. like an old school polaroid picture. Im thinking big...check this scripture...plus big beats by O-Dog in the mixture. Trying to avoid capture.. its similar to Iran ...in these streets storm troopers roll up. Trying to avoid rapture....takes more ...
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• House Panel Approves Bill Banning Importation of Nuclear Waste

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Let’s recap here: way back in April, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made this ironic joke where they said it can’t regulate nuclear materials . More specifically, the commission said it cannot stop foreign nuclear waste from being imported into the United States for disposal. This was in response to a company ...
  1 week ago

• Concerns Over Nuclear Waste Importation Should Not Lead to Ban

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 768
  Yesterday the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment unanimously approved legislation to ban the importation of foreign radioactive waste for disposal in the U.S. Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN) introduced H.R. 515: Radioactive Import Deterrence Act in January of 2009 ...
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• United States Could Be Energy Independent If…

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, a ccording to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report . As shown in the first chart below , the United ...
  1 week ago

• Lindsey Graham: For Cap and Trade, Except When He’s Not

  
  Big Government — Authority: 810
  From the “Imagine if a Democrat did this” files – say, in the context of opposing President Obama’s effort to transform our health care insurance and delivery systems . It seems that a Republican Senator has been outed as hopping in the sack with an advocacy group from the other team, itself exposed as ...
  1 week ago

• Spanish News-Soccer World Cup Bid

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 149
  The Spanish and the Portuguese have launched their joint bid to stage a World Cup in either 2018 or 2022.The two national football federations have made a 45 minute presentation to FIFA.There are 10 other submissions for the two events and the winners of each will be announced in December 2010. In the Spanish city of ...
  1 week ago

• Responses to first news of MoD plans for Argyll submarine nuclear waste sites

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  The MoD made no contact with the responsible local authority but wrote to advise Argyll & Bute MP, Alan Reid, that ‘one or more’ unspecified sites ‘in your locality’ are under consideration to host irradiated material removed from redundant nuclear submarines.Mr Reid is reported as saying that he will ...
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• Burn that Nuclear Waste

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  The more energy pulled out of uranium fuels the less radioactive waste remains at the end.  That fact has been on the minds of many in science and business for decades. Nuclear experts say the proposed Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) could help to solve the biggest radioactive waste concerns as the world atomic ...
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• Bringing Oppenheimer Back To Life: An Interview With Richard Rhodes

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Way back when I was in college, someone gave me a book that they thought I should read. "Youve been working with plutonium, and you have an interest in nuclear weapons. You really ought to read this book." The book was The Making of the Atomic Bomb , by Richard Rhodes . He was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in ...
  1 week ago

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