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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 ...
  14 hours ago

• 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 ...
  20 hours ago

• The Daily Dig: Nuclear Entombment Edition

  
  INFRASTRUCTURIST — Authority: 562
  • Take a tour of San Francisco’s Market Street in 1905 with this film of streetcars and busy foot traffic. ( Jalopnik ) • Is it possible to safely store nuclear waste for a million years? One geoscientist thinks so, but it’ll take a ten-thousand year trial to find out. ( BldgBlog ) • Africa’s ...
  1 day ago

• Three Mile Island Radiation Leak Again

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  Three Mile Island Radiation Leak Almost one month to the day that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)  released a Press release extending Three Mile Island’s license for 20 years, there has been another radiation leak at the facility.  ...
  4 days ago

• Do you want Foreign Nuclear Waste in TN?

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 489
  Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn Marsha Blackburn voted to allow foreign countries to dump their nuclear waste in TN! I don’t think any Tennesseans would agree with that vote. Specifically a company was trying to import 20,000 tons of low level radioactive waste from Italian nuclear facilities for processing. The ...
  6 days ago

• Somali pirates cant be beaten at sea, why we cannot condemn them!

  
  An Average American Patriot — Authority: 128
  Somali pirates are back in the headlines after a Spanish trawler and its 36 member crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment exceeding $3m was agreed. Does not sound like a great amount when you hear millions Billions and trillions bandied about ...
  1 week ago

• Sweden raises nuclear waste doubts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Scotland powered by patriotic flim-flam

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  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 week ago

• Theres No Such A Thing as Nuclear Waste

  
  The North Coast — Authority: 114
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The cost of nuclear doesnt add up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leaders discuss Yucca decision (South Carolina)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nuclear power around the world

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• CNN Online Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Nuclear Energy

  
  Pro Nuclear Democrats — Authority: 410
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britains nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• India, Sweden discuss climate change, energy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Big Picture

  
  THE SONIC ASSAULT!!!.....STEADY BOMBARDMENT!!!! — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Panel Approves Bill Banning Importation of Nuclear Waste

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Concerns Over Nuclear Waste Importation Should Not Lead to Ban

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 772
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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