Amory Lovins: Forget Nuclear

Written on May 6, 2008 by admin

Forget Nuclear
 Nuclear power, we’re told, is a vibrant industry that’s dramatically reviving because it’s proven, necessary, competitive, reliable, safe, secure, widely used, increasingly popular, and carbon-free—a perfect replacement for carbon-spewing coal power. New nuclear plants thus sound vital for climate protection, energy security, and powering a growing economy. 
innocent-looking civilian disguise. (Reprocessing nuclear fuel, […]

Nuclear power? Not so fast - Press-Telegram

Written on May 2, 2008 by admin

Nuclear power? Not so fast - Press-Telegram
Nuclear power? Not so fast
Thomas D. Elias
Article Launched: 04/30/2008 07:43:16 PM PDT
Ever since former Vice President Albert Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for his fight against expanding climate change, there have been claims that nuclear power plants are the easy solution. They give phenomenal […]

Harvey Wasserman: Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl–in Advance!

Written on April 28, 2008 by admin

Harvey Wasserman: Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl–in Advance!
Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl … in Advance!
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls—in advance? Are you willing to have nuclear power prevent a solution to the climate crisis?
Twenty-two years ago today, an apocalyptic cloud rose up from […]

Top Nuclear Stories (April 11-14th)

Written on April 27, 2008 by admin

Top Nuclear Stories
Nuclear Reactor News
The Republican Eagle | Letter: Tribe questions relicensing plant
S.C. utilities staff: Duke should disclose nuclear plant’s cost - Charlotte Business Journal:
allAfrica.com: South Africa: Nuclear Power Poses Problems for Eskom (Page 1 of 1)
SLC firm eyeing U.K. reactor - Salt Lake Tribune
Defects found in nuclear reactor the French want to build in […]

Top Nuclear Stories (April 8-11th)

Written on April 27, 2008 by admin

Top Nuclear Stories (April 8-11th)
Nuclear Reactor News
2 killed in Gas leakage at Khushab nuclear plant - PakTribune
CHRONOLOGY: The ups and downs of bid target British Energy | Reuters
RWE made $22 billion bid proposal for B.Energy: source | Reuters
FPL fined over sleeping security guards - 04/10/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA: GE-Hitachi withdraws from […]

Navajos won’t allow uranium mining, President tells subcommittee

Written on April 1, 2008 by admin

Navajos won’t allow uranium mining, President tells
subcommittee, for March 30
NEWS FROM THE NAVAJO NATION
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2008
NAVAJO PRESIDENT JOE SHIRLEY, JR., TELLS CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE
NATION WILL NOT WATCH ANOTHER GENERATION HARMED BY URANIUM MINING
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., told a
Congressional subcommittee here Friday that the […]

Arithmetic, Population & Energy

Written on March 8, 2008 by admin

GUBA - Arithmetic, Population & Energy

Study says nuclear power isn’t as “safe and clean” as Bush claims

Written on March 7, 2008 by admin

Study says nuclear power isn’t as “safe and clean” as Bush claims | Cleantech.com
Study says nuclear power isn’t as “safe and clean” as Bush claims
March 5, 2008
Similar
* Scheer calls nuclear power stupid
* Bush cleantech fund “window dressing”
* Nuclear power is green […]

Money Is the Real Green Power: The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy

Written on February 5, 2008 by admin

by Karl Grossman

Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a
massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United
States-with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually
assisting in the promotion.

“With a very few notable exceptions, such as the Los Angeles Times, the U.S.
media have turned the same sort […]

Alert: Yucca Mountain: DOE: Comments due 1-10

Written on January 4, 2008 by admin

DOE is moving ahead to make the sacred Shoshone Yucca Mountain that is also leaky and geologically unstable the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump (the vast majority of the waste that would go there is from making electric power East of the Mississippi River). This is categorically wrong since both the Western Shone Nation and […]

GROUPS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST NORTH ANNA WATER POLLUTION PERMIT

Written on January 3, 2008 by admin

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
www.BREDL.org  PO Box 88  Glendale Springs, North Carolina 28629  BREDL@skybest.com (336) 982-2691 office   (336) 977-0852 cell
 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 2, 2008
 
CONTACT:
Louis Zeller 336-977-0852
 
GROUPS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST NORTH ANNA WATER POLLUTION PERMIT
 
Today the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and the People’s Alliance for […]

Greenpeace has disowned Moore

Written on January 1, 2008 by admin

Greenpeace has disowned Moore: Rutland Herald Online
 January 1, 2008
The Rutland Herald failed its readers by not identifying Patrick Moore as a paid spokesman for the U.S. nuclear industry. On Dec. 27, the Herald published Moore’s commentary titled “Vermont’s Low Carbon Leadership,” which encouraged relicensing the Vermont Nuclear Plant.
Instead of accurately identifying Moore, the […]

Majority of Portsmouth/Piketon Sick and Dying Atomic Workers of The Cold War Still Not Compensated

Written on December 20, 2007 by admin

Majority of Portsmouth/Piketon Sick and Dying Atomic Workers of The Cold War Still Not Compensated

National and Local Activist Groups Lobby Congress To Intervene

Over 70% of eligible nuclear workers formerly employed at the nuclear weapons complex in Piketon during The Cold War still have not been compensated for work related injuries and […]

South Carolina, the Nuclear Heart of the Nuclear South

Written on December 20, 2007 by admin

Mary T. Kelly, Ph.D. Assoc. Director, LWVSC
  
League of Women Voters: South Carolina
The Future of SRS:
          Now that Energy Solutions, the current owner of the Chem Nuclear site seems to have given up attempts to keep the Barnwell site open beyond the 2008 closure date for states that are not members of the […]

Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process

Written on December 18, 2007 by admin

La Jicarita News - Community Advocacy for Northern New Mexico
Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process
By Mark Schiller
In the October 2007 issue of La Jicarita News I wrote an article about the dysfunction and corruption that pervades the administration of the program to compensate workers who have developed cancer and respiratory diseases […]

Book: NUCLEAR NEBRASKA (the fight to stop a LLW dump)

Written on December 17, 2007 by admin

  
New AMACOM Book Chronicles the Story of One Community’s 18-Year Struggle with Big Government and Big Business
NEW YORK, NY, November 2, 2007 –/WORLD-WIRE/– AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association, has released a new book, NUCLEAR NEBRASKA: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought, that chronicles the struggle between the […]

ATOMIC BALM: NUCLEAR REVIVAL IGNORES CASUALTIES

Written on December 7, 2007 by admin

Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #936, December 6, 2007
ATOMIC BALM: NUCLEAR REVIVAL IGNORES CASUALTIES
By Joseph J. Mangano
Nuclear power plants employ a controlled atomic fission reaction, splitting uranium atoms to create heat to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine to generate electricity. Because nuclear power is so complex, it is accident-prone and unforgiving […]

PETITION FOR CONGRESS TO END NEGLIGENT DELAY OF COMPENSATION TO WORKERS MADE ILL FROM SERVICE IN THE COLD WAR IN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX

Written on November 29, 2007 by admin

PETITION FOR CONGRESS TO END NEGLIGENT DELAY OF COMPENSATION TO WORKERS MADE ILL FROM SERVICE IN THE COLD WAR IN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX

Mismanagement, misrepresentation and misplacement of workers’ medical records by the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Labor have caused seven years of compensation delays for many workers […]

Technology Review: Cleaner Nuclear Power?

Written on November 27, 2007 by aaenergynet

Technology Review: Cleaner Nuclear Power?
 
Senators representing several Western states, including Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, of Nevada, are working on legislation to promote thorium. They say it’s a cleaner-burning fuel for nuclear-power plants, with the potential to cut high-level nuclear-waste volumes in half.
"They’re concerned about the spent fuel from nuclear […]

Nuclear Plant Site Declared Safe

Written on November 27, 2007 by aaenergynet

Nuclear Plant Site Declared Safe — Courant.com
 
HADDAM — - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the former Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant site a clean bill of health Monday, releasing several hundred Haddam Neck acres for unrestricted public use.
"A member of the public can live, sleep and eat at the site, 365 days a year and […]

Initiative to reverse ban on nuclear plants statwide is withdrawn

Written on November 27, 2007 by aaenergynet

San Luis Obispo County’s website | Initiative to reverse ban on nuclear plants statwide is withdrawn
An initiative to lift the state’s ban on new nuclear power plants will not appear on the June 2008 ballot.
State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, has withdrawn the ballot initiative he submitted to state elections officials, after public opinion […]

Panel weighs new information in Rocky Flats case : The Rocky Mountain News

Written on November 26, 2007 by aaenergynet

Panel weighs new information in Rocky Flats case : The Rocky Mountain News
 
Federal scientists acknowledged Monday they have records suggesting workers from 19 buildings at the top-secret Rocky Flats site near Denver may have risked exposure to dangerous neutron radiation.
But after they answered questions from a presidential advisory board, it was still not clear why […]

Alert: Southern’s Vogtle Reactor to grab groundwater

Written on November 25, 2007 by admin

YOUR COMMENTS NEEDED — Deadline is Wed. Nov 28 — this week!
Addresses at bottom.
Issue: New Nukes want to suck groundwater at unprecedented rates!
Specifics: Southern Company is planning to expand (double) the Vogtle Nuclear Power Station in Georgia and are currently seeking an Early Site Permit from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC). Southern wants to […]

Nuclear industry may running out of steam - nuclear

Written on November 24, 2007 by aaenergynet

Nuclear industry may running out of steam - nuclear - 25 November 2007 - New Scientist Tech
 
Rumours of a nuclear power renaissance have been greatly exaggerated. So says an audit of the nuclear power industry released on Wednesday.
The report, commissioned by The Greens, a European parliamentary group, points out that many ageing reactors are due […]

Calif. lawmaker cancels nuclear power ballot move

Written on November 21, 2007 by admin

Calif. lawmaker cancels nuclear power ballot move | News | Reuters
Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:37pm EST By Bernie Woodall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore on Tuesday vowed to continue his efforts to repeal a state law banning new nuclear power plants, one day after he canceled an effort to gather signatures […]

Cibola County Beacon - Former workers meet with federal caseworkers

Written on November 20, 2007 by aaenergynet

Cibola County Beacon - Former workers meet with federal caseworkers
 
GRANTS - Only one third of the uranium workers who could be applying for compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program and Part E of that program have done so. That is according to representatives of the Department of Justice and the Department of […]

Department of Energy - U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition

Written on November 20, 2007 by aaenergynet

Department of Energy - U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition
 
WASHINGTON, DC –U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Director Sergey Kiriyenko have signed a joint statement outlining a plan to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium from Russia’s weapons program.
Under the new plan, […]

Nuclear Plants Subject to Terrorism, Earthquakes, States Warn

Written on November 20, 2007 by aaenergynet

Nuclear Plants Subject to Terrorism, Earthquakes, States Warn
 

WHITE PLAINS, New York,, November 16, 2007 (ENS) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the attorneys general of five other states have submitted a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, expressing "serious concerns" about the commission’s disregard of safety issues - such as […]

People were killed by Three Mile Island & other nuclear disasters

Written on November 19, 2007 by admin

The Free Press — Independent News Media - Harvey Wasserman
 November 18, 2007
One of the biggest lies ever told in American industrial history is that “no one died at Three Mile Island.”
In the frenzy to get public funding for still more nuclear reactors, some industry backers now say no one has ever been killed […]

POWER Magazine : DOE pushing to recycle closed plants’ spent fuel

Written on November 16, 2007 by aaenergynet

POWER Magazine : DOE pushing to recycle closed plants’ spent fuel
 
The Energy Department is planning to ask Congress in next year’s budget request for authority to take title to spent nuclear fuel stockpiled at closed U.S. nuclear plants and to reprocess it, most likely in France.
DOE officials in recent years have resisted congressional pressure to […]