A very busy week indeed, with several big stories breaking internationally. The stop story IMHO, is the news about Russia dumping nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea near Sweden! This is a breaking story, but if it is true, it could have dramatic impacts on the waste issue and Russia’s controversial nuclear role. France [...]
| aaenergynet February 8, 2010 | 
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The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman
January 30, 2010
Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically.
The long-stalled, much-hyped “Renaissance” in atomic power has failed to find private financing. [...]
| aaenergynet February 2, 2010 | Comments (0)
What a week. Obama goes nuclear just in time to shake up things. But let’s do the big picture. The UK investigation of the Iraqi invasion is no bigger story out there. For anyone in the U.S. with cable TV, you can check for coverage on the inquiry. Sunday, C-Span played the entire exchange [...]
| aaenergynet February 1, 2010 | Comments (0)
The major news this last week comes from France as Sarkozy had to call in EDF and Areva over a growing internal battle. The fallout over France’s failure to win the $40 billion UAE reactor construction contract continues as the economic downturn is now forcing EDF to likely sell off one third of its [...]
| aaenergynet January 25, 2010 | Comments (0)
The nuclear industry gets slammed again. The state of Florida blocked funding for new reactors.
Nuclear waste issues raised its head worldwide this last week with stories on 3 continents. The biggest story was out of Tennessee where a Norwegian company (Studvik) agreed to pay a major fine for contaminating black workers.
The UAE deal to [...]
| aaenergynet January 18, 2010 | Comments (0)
Nuclear News continues to slow down. Even the number of PR stories promoting more reactors has taken a dive. That’s not to say that they’ve disappeared, either as I’ve put a few pro-nuclear stories in the mix here. Note, that one of Obama’s initiatives to turn around the growing government secrecy calling for a [...]
| aaenergynet January 11, 2010 | Comments (0)
As was expected the last week was a vacation week for most Americans so the volume of news was low. However, what happened was nothing of the sort. The news was mostly pretty bad stuff.
The lead story has to be the explosion and deaths of two scientists in India’s nuclear center that takes the [...]
| aaenergynet January 4, 2010 | Comments (0)
FreePress
As the Copenhagen climate talks collapsed, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory moved us closer to a green-powered Earth.It happened in upstate New York, where the Unistar Nuclear Energy front group asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay its application to build a reactor at Oswego, near Syracuse. Meanwhile, in Texas, the San Antonio [...]
Introduction:
I used to do regular versions of this, but have lapsed due to ongoing health problems. If you are like most Americans and just want the big splashy one liner stories during the last year, skip the intro. However, if you want to look a bit closer then continue reading!
As online information tools have advanced [...]
| aaenergynet January 1, 2010 | Comments (0)
Anybody have a best of the year list of articles? What’s your pick for the top nuclear stories for 2009? I’m considering putting together a special addition of the bulletin just to put the year in perspective.
In a major surprise, considering just the week before UAE had claimed that it was putting off making [...]
| aaenergynet December 28, 2009 | Comments (0)
This was a fairly busy week in terms of important news. Its kind of hard to actually call what happened in Denmark important at this point as it is more than clear that we’ve lost a major chance to change the way this world is headed in regards to how we use energy and [...]
| aaenergynet December 21, 2009 | Comments (0)
I’m more than a bit late in getting this out and so I’m only gonna make a couple of quick comments and you are on our own… The bad news is of course the Kerry-Lieberman campaign in the senate. Good news is out there however, with the massive infusion of cash that was expected [...]
| aaenergynet December 14, 2009 | Comments (0)
Strategy sessions are part and parcel to the nuclear industry’s frontal attack on the planet and the US public. The industry’s capacity to get its point of view heard by the general public is legend, and of course it comes at a very high price. The industry has been hit over and over again [...]
| aaenergynet December 7, 2009 | Comments (0)
The nuclear world continues to be rocked by economics, safety problems and scandals. At the top of the news this last week was Japan’s formal release of its secret deal with the U.S., illegally hiding the fact that the Japanese ruling party cut a deal not to tell the public that it was storing [...]
| aaenergynet November 30, 2009 | Comments (0)
EPA’s Secret Plan to Raise Public Radiation Exposure Levels Challenged
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2009 (ENS) – Public employees have filed a lawsuit demanding documents related to the U.S. EPA’s plans made “in secrecy” to allow public exposure to increased levels of radioactivity following nuclear accidents or attacks.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday by Public Employees for Environmental [...]
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nuclear | aaenergynet November 24, 2009 | Comments (0)
The hidden cost of Britain’s 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 discovered.=
The desert, with its towering sand dunes and spectacular lunar-like landscapes, is at the centre of an international uranium rush led [...]
Tags: uranium mining
Happy Thanksgiving! This was a small news week, however, many stories that hit were powerful wacks to the the nuclear industry, like the South-Texas CPS scandal where the utility was caught lying to the public over the real construction costs. With the OMB not releasing DOE loan money as a result of the recent [...]
| aaenergynet November 23, 2009 | Comments (0)
A modest week in the news. Boy, I wished somebody else knew how to work with social bookmarks!
On the international scene, the British Labour Party announced their latest, brand new push to build 10 new reactors. A Turkish court blocked a new reactor while there is a growing fear that UAE, they practice torture, [...]
| aaenergynet November 16, 2009 | Comments (0)
What a difference a week can make in the news! Even as Maryland was busy locking in a devastating new nuclear nazi agenda over letting France drive this country’s nuclear agenda, Areva and EDF took one of its worst beatings yet as their new EPR design came under scrutiny by safety agencies setting off [...]
| aaenergynet November 9, 2009 | Comments (0)
Goodness, this wasn’t the best week out there, no thanks to the continuing media campaign to just let the nuclear industry pump bs into the public domain. But what’s new! Wow are Republicans capable of deceipt! All of a sudden all the repubs are dripping tears over DOE workers! Kind of like Thanksgiving when [...]
| aaenergynet November 2, 2009 | Comments (0)
Dean Hapshe, a pioneer in solar energy and president of Majestic Son and Sons of Patchogue, New York, tells of the big advances in solar technology in recent years and how, at the same time, costs have come down. He also outlines government tax credits and utility rebates that have resulted in homeowners now paying [...]
video | aaenergynet October 31, 2009 | Comments (0)
Albuquerque, NM – This past weekend over 200 Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. Although the forum focused on the uranium developments being proposed at Mount Taylor and throughout the grants mineral belt of New Mexico, [...]
| aaenergynet October 27, 2009 | Comments (0)
Here’s another issue of the news. Sorry about the delay on this again. There are still a few kinks in the system yet to work out.
This was a slow news week. Again the most interesting news stories are coming internationally, with a couple more scandals out of the UK (spying on activists) as well [...]
| aaenergynet October 26, 2009 | Comments (0)
Sorry about the delay in getting this out, there is some kind of technical problem going on with the wordpress blog software, possibly another hack attack. I’ve found a work around for now.
When reporting on nuclear news worldwide its always easy to ignore the bad and look for the bright side. Otherwise the look at [...]
| aaenergynet October 19, 2009 | Comments (0)
Not a lot of news this week but the stories that did come out were fairly important. There were many fuel cycle issues this week with DOE pushing to dump 6,000 cubic yards of llw from West Valley in a Tennessee landfill coming in at the top of the heap. The impacts of PUHCA [...]
| aaenergynet October 12, 2009 | Comments (0)
Not a big news week in terms of major stories. A bit of surprising news however, is the story out of Germany that Merkel’s new coalition partner has said that there won’t be any nuclear renaissance, but more like an autumn. Also, EDF has put the UK’s electric grid up for sale to try [...]
| aaenergynet October 5, 2009 | Comments (0)
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, a six-episode series by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan is a wonderful example of our imperial culture at its finest. This 6 part PBS series was worth it for its beautiful images and the mainstream history it presented. There can be no doubt that Burns and Duncan set out [...]
| aaenergynet October 3, 2009 | Comments (1)
Good News! Nanosolar Reaches Solar Cell Efficiency of 16.4% and Starts Mass Production Treehugger by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 09.14.09 Science & Technology (solar) treehugger556:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/nanosolar-solar-power-efficiency-germany-factory-mass-production.phpBuzz up! Photos: Nanosolar Cheap, Efficient Solar Cells You Can Print For a while, everybody was talking about Nanosolar. They were [...]
, video | aaenergynet October 1, 2009 | Comments (0)
Welcome to the Nuclear-Free Future Award.
28SEPT’09–The Germans went to the polls in record lows and voted more than ever for special interest parties. The big winners were the pro-pocketbook Free Democrat Party (FDP), the reformed communist The Left party, and the environmentalist Greens.
The two traditional Volksparteien, the CDU with its Bavarian sister CSU, and the [...]
| aaenergynet September 30, 2009 | Comments (0)
I finally caught up…
Germany fell to the right today. Expect a major war over a new push to toss out Germany’s nuclear moratorium. A foul week indeed as new intenational alliances with Corporations are popping up worldwide. EDF and Germany, US in Italy and and India. Canada with India, Russia with Germany and Japan. The [...]
| aaenergynet September 28, 2009 | Comments (0)
Nuclear Pyschosis at the New York Times
Tom Friedman’s Idiocy Atomique
By HARVEY WASSERMAN
France’s atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame. Its 58 reactors are unpopular, unsafe, uneconomical, dirty, direct agents of global warming, weapons proliferators and major generators of atomic waste for which there is no management solution.
But self-proclaimed “green advocate” Thomas Friedman seems to [...]
Tags: Media
| aaenergynet September 27, 2009 | Comments (0)
I’m getting a bit closer every few days. Maybe I’ll be caught up within two or three days.
Again, its always hard to see through the whirlwind of stories, alerts and trends. We are counting down to the last few days before the elections in Germany that will have international repercussions. If conservatives win, there will [...]
, Energy, Media | aaenergynet | Comments (0)
If you spot examples of nuclear green washing please log in and post links and ideas about how to deal with this problem.
Here’s a recent example. Reuters recently posted this article on nuclear fuel reprocessing and tagged it as “Green Business”. Here is Reuter’s editorial and suggestions page.
Here’s Russell Lowe’s letter to Reuters:
Commercial [...]
| aaenergynet September 25, 2009 | Comments (0)
I’m finally starting to catch up with the workload. Let’s hope I can keep up. My world has changed a bit. I’m struggling to hold onto my job and my home, so times are a bit unstable. I will know more in a few days.
In the mean time, This weeks stories were major and [...]
| aaenergynet September 22, 2009 | Comments (0)
I’m in catchup mode.
I seem to have gotten the blog back into some kind of safe condition, free of attacks. Yes, over the last month I’ve had somebody attacking the blog deleting new posts, resulting in hours of additional work. But hopefully that is over now. Due to a rather major burnout and way [...]
| aaenergynet September 20, 2009 | Comments (0)
Marignac Says “Far From Being a Model, France Should be a Powerful Cautionary Tale for the U.S. about the Folly of a Headlong Rush into More Nuclear Power”.
WASHINGTON, D.C.///September 15, 2009///U.S. policy makers are in the grips of “dangerous and costly illusions” if they think that France is a model showing [...]
It would seem that nothing is new under the sun these days when it comes to the good old USA. The state of Arizona, anybody remember McCain, recently gave the Canadian Denison ming company the go ahead to reopen the Arizona 1 uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, with two more mining permits pending. Yes, [...]
Tags: Fuel-Cycle
| aaenergynet September 19, 2009 | Comments (0)
Investigative reporter for Envirovideo Karl Grossman reports that nuclear energy is not the solution the nuclear lobby has been promoting.
, video | aaenergynet | Comments (0)
A never ending mess these days. I’ve got a new look and updated the service to the latest version. Maybe that will save me some grief for awhile. Sorry, but I’m way behind now due to the attack that kept on taking out all of my week, forcing me to redo everything over. Then, I [...]
Energy, Security, legislation | aaenergynet September 14, 2009 | Comments (0)
Okay, I’m back after a couple of weeks of hack attacks. I’m hoping I’ve been able to finally clean up what has happened as somebody has been deleting all of my work for over a month now, causing a huge amount of work. As a result I’m several weeks behind at this point. [...]
| aaenergynet September 10, 2009 | Comments (0)
Nuclear Energy group spent $570K lobbying in 2Q: Associated Press Business News – MSN Money
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Nuclear Energy Institute spent $570,000 lobbying the government in the second quarter on legislation designed to reduce pollution linked to global warming and create clean energy jobs, according to a recent disclosure report.
| admin September 7, 2009 | Comments (0)
The Top energy stories person is still on vacation. The news is here and being produced, but a week late. You can click and see all the stories below!
Enjoy
Anyone interested in doing the commentary for the weekly bulletin?
It would help spice things up!
After doing this for many years, I’m finding that I get more [...]
| admin August 18, 2009 | Comments Off
The top stories is still on vacation. They are coming out a week late, so news is being kept up to date.
That means, if you have monitored this news in the past, it still is available for searching via my social bookmarking site as well. A good reason why it would be nice if more [...]
| admin August 10, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m still on vacation… Having a wonderful time doing other things for a rare moment. I’m a history buff, and like tracking down old historic stuff, especially materials that have been lost. I promise to do a bit better cleanup of editing of stories when I come back. For now, they are there… Just not [...]
| admin August 5, 2009 | Comments (0)
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman
Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & “Lamar’s Folly” in the Climate Bill
July 21, 2009The accolades are still pouring in for departed anchorman Walter Cronkite. Few mention his critical “that’s the way it is” reporting on the atomic melt-down at Three Mile Island.
| admin August 3, 2009 | Comments (0)
I’m kind of back… Had a great event. With lots of help and a good turnout. The event was all about the 75th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in SF. It had major impacts on the city and the national labor scene. An old labor historian had been prodding me for several years to [...]
| admin July 27, 2009 | Comments (0)
The Matrix guy… Mr. Anderson… I manage a large community center. Our largest and oldest tenant left the building last week leaving 20 years of work in jeopardy… Not to mention the possible loss of a home for the archives of the anti-nuclear movement in Northern Cal. Dark side vs. light side.
I’m not gonna be [...]
| admin July 13, 2009 | Comments (0)
Three Years, One Month, and Counting…
July 6, 2009—————–Contact: Robert Stewart – 802-276-3095
“ I expect we will get a decision on our latest contention within the next few days†said Raymond Shadis, representing (pro se) New England Coalition â€If the Board rules against us, then it’s on to the NRC Commissioners.â€
| admin July 7, 2009 | Comments (0)
The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance?
From France selling off part of Areva to the Mideast or Exelon’s abandonment of its proposed Victoria reactors in Texas, or the DOE’s abandonment of GNEP and a proposed reprocessing facility at Savannah River, not to mention house republican’s failure to finance the flagging renaissance, the signs of nuclear collapse [...]
Uncategorized | admin July 6, 2009 | Comments (0)
Imagine. If even 1/10th of republicans ever read legislation, they may have overwhelmingly support the Waxman-Markey scam! Just look at the Huffington Post leaked Exelon memo! Billions are to me made by nuclear with this new cap and trade legislation. About the only good thing is that we aren’t seeing an outright give away yet.
And [...]
Uncategorized | admin June 29, 2009 | Comments (0)
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