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• Reform of carbon trading could pay for UK nuclear stations

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  EDF the French utility giant has insisted that reform of the carbon trading system would be a cheap way for consumers to help pay for a new generation of UK nuclear power stations.
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• Government clean coal plants ‘will bust climate targets’

  
  Rob Edwards — Authority: 466
  from Sunday Herald, 15 November 2009 Attempts by Scottish ministers to clean up coal so that it can replace nuclear power will lead to massive amounts of pollution and wreck the government’s targets to combat climate change. A new analysis reveals that the £2 billion “clean” coal plant proposed for ...
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• No real sign of a nuclear renaissance

  
  Rob Edwards — Authority: 466
  for Sunday Herald, 15 November 2009 France is the world’s biggest consumer of nuclear power, with more than three quarters of the country’s electricity being generated by 58 reactors. But even it has its nuclear headaches. This summer, the heat put a third of the reactors out of action , because the river ...
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• NISSAN LAUNCHES LEAF EV IN USA

  
  Steve Parker, Motoring Journalist — Authority: 116
  In 1947, Tokyo Electric Cars Company built a lead-acid battery powered EV delivery truck called the Tama which it sold through 1950, when oil supplies and prices stabilized after WWII (cars and trucks were also powered by flammable gasses captured...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• FM newswire, 14 November – links to old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 547
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news.Links to interesting news and analysisValuable AdviceQuote of the DayNews, updates to posts past on the FM websitePlus, an Afterword(I)  Links to interesting news and analysis(a)  “Spanish Wind Power Tops 50% of ...
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• ‘US has no specific concern about nuclear proliferation from Pakistan’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Nov.14 (ANI): The US State Department has said it has no specific concern about nuclear proliferation from Pakistan.“We don’t have any specific concerns about proliferation per se specifically from Pakistan. We feel confident that the command and control of nuclear weapons in Pakistan secure,” The ...
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• Nuclear reaction

  
  iPM | Radio 4 Blog — Authority: 413
  Earlier this week, alongside wave, wind and whats called clean coal power stations, the government gave the go ahead for 10 new nuclear facilities and a new planning system. There was a mixed reaction from listeners who emailed, but there were two that caught our eye and we invited their authors onto the programme ...
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• 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 ...
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• UK government approves 10 new nuclear station sites

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 437
  The UK government has permitted 10 locations in Wales and England as new sites for nuclear energy stations. However, it has rejected the proposed site in Dungeness, Kent on environmental grounds. Ed Miliband, Secretary of Energy, informed that a new Infrastructure Planning Commission will make assessments on the ...
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• New Life for the Old Tokamak

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  From two different places the old tokamak confinement method has gotten a new lease on life.  Well, its life is set by the ITER effort paid for by governments across the planet with tens of billions of dollars.  It might make one cringe or celebrate, depending on one’s view towards the basic tokamak concept to ...
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• Speaking For South Miami, Mayor Horace Feliu Told the PSC, He was in Favor of 2 New Nuclear Reactors. By Geniusofdespair

  
  EYE ON MIAMI — Authority: 509
  Homestead and Florida City did the same - see end of post.On January 9, 2008 Mayor Horace Feliu, representing the City of South Miami, addressed the Public Service Commission on the matter of a Petition to Determine Need for Turkey Point Nuclear Units 6 & 7 Electrical Power Plant, By Florida Power & Light ...
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• Anthropogenic Global Warming

  
  Tinkerty Tonk — Authority: 413
  Is a myth . Or at the very least, theres nothing "settled" about the "science" backing the push. The first few comments are excellent. The global warming skeptics crowd always seem to have far more facts and sensible arguments than the global warming credulists. Of course, we could always try the Nuclear Option:
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• European regulations threaten crucial £140m government loan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • EU rules threaten to delay crucial government loan • Sheffield firm could lose key manufacturing contract European rules on state aid are delaying the completion of a crucial £140m government loan, which would allow British manufacturers to help build new nuclear reactors at home and abroad. Lord Mandelsons ...
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• Renewable Energy Myths Exposed In New Industry Report

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 428
  Leading energy publisher examines common misconceptions about renewable energyEnergy Business Reports, a leading publisher of energy industry reports, is pleased to announce the availability of its new report “10 Renewable Energy Myths Revealed.”  This complimentary report examines ten common misperceptions about ...
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• Britains renewable energy targets are physically impossible, says study

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The Institution of Mechanical Engineers battle plan for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear power It will be physically impossible for the UK to meet its renewable energy targets in both the short and long term, according to a group of engineering experts. In a new study, they called for the ...
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• Miliband ‘misguided’ over nuclear and coal

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  The Government’s focus on nuclear power and ‘clean’ coal has been heavily criticised by a leading environmental organisation. Read more from the original source: Miliband ‘misguided’ over nuclear and coal Please Share or Bookmark this post
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• Doonreay to be ‘nuclear heritage site’ as cost of Westminster rush for new nuclear is tallied

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) is overseeing the decommissioning of the former nuclear power station on Scotland’s northern shores on the Pentland Firth in Caithness.It has announced that, in 2010,  it will hold  a 3-month consultation on what should be left as its legacy. Try to keep a straight face.The ...
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• Nuke Renaissance : Same Old, Same Old

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 506
  Not looking so good:Much-hyped nuclear renaissanceIf history repeats itself as farce, then the nuclear power industry represents the most incompetent jester of all time...By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 12, 2009The much-hyped "renaissance" of atomic power has taken three devastating hits with potentially ...
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• Rudd attempts to soothe India ties

  
  Uranium Investing News — Authority: 437
  The Age.com reports Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pitches deeper political ties and partnerships with India in this very unstable time period.Mr Rudd said Australia wanted shortly to launch negotiations on a new bilateral free trade agreement, and Canberra would also support India’s desire to become a ...
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