I’ve made some major changes to how the newsletter is designed As a result of these changes, I’m now posting them to the website rather than to this blog.
The new design has been streamlined so that an average reader can quickly see all of the stories. Using a new javascript design called an accordian, I’ve [...]
| aaenergynet June 9, 2010 | 
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In this issue I’m going to cut back on the summary style I’ve been using lately as some people have confused it with being the newsletter, not knowing that they need to click on the highlighted link at the top to actually see the real newsletter rather than just a summary. I’ve once again [...]
| aaenergynet May 24, 2010 | Comments (0)
What nuked up week its been. On the personal front I had to help a friend into the hospital who was dying. He had no family and has spent the last several years in a small space I provided for him. Before that, he was living on the streets. A product of America’s ongoing [...]
| aaenergynet May 17, 2010 | Comments (0)
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| aaenergynet May 16, 2010 | Comments (0)
What will the oil spill spin doctors do? In this oped, I will once again suggest, as I’ve been doing for years that there are no issues left to win in this world except the battle against the corporate media propaganda machine. The US nuclear industry recently hyped a new poll done by Gallup claiming [...]
| aaenergynet May 10, 2010 | Comments (0)
It would seem that Chernobyl has become a global embarrassment to the media these days! Only the Los Angeles Times cared to cover the 24th anniversary or the more delicate release by the New York Academy of Science’s exhaustive investigation of thousands of reports that were brought together, suggesting that over one million people [...]
| aaenergynet May 3, 2010 | Comments (0)
No Nukes and happy Earth Day! I’m going to start out here with an editorial comment. The international corporate run media has a global agenda to promote and frame the push to build nuclear reactors worldwide. Just days before the US economic collapse Bush’s Energy Secretary was in Austria at an IAEA planning conference [...]
| aaenergynet April 26, 2010 | Comments (0)
This is a two week addition of the news. Sorry, but I’ve had a rather severe medical emergency that put me in the Emergency Room at the local hospital twice. I’m doing a bit better after treatment for a rather severe urinary infection.
The biggest news was Obama’s global summit in Washington DC. There were [...]
| aaenergynet April 19, 2010 | Comments (0)
The FORUM “A People’s History of Radioactive Waste” will teach the public about Radioactive Waste Problems and what can be done about them. It will convene at 12:30 on Saturday June 5 – and run through a Keynote (TBA) that evening.
The SUMMIT will bring together activists and experts in this field to form the “Peoples [...]
| aaenergynet April 5, 2010 | Comments (0)
A bit of a slowdown compared to last week. Just a few breaking stories with most news about ongoing events that have already seen the light of day. I wanted to follow up the scary breaking story last week about the possibility of some kind of Asian release. It does look like the incident [...]
Just way over the top! Talk about getting buried… This is late coming out due to all of the major stories that hit last week.
Before I get started with start, we have one story of particular interest, the possibility of some kind of major nuclear release.
Completely off the radar of the media is a [...]
| aaenergynet March 29, 2010 | Comments (0)
Its always appropriate to point out just how hard it is to put a stake through the heart of a vampire. A few more stories to piss them off this time around. Portugal and Indonesia came out against development of nuclear while attempts to indemnify western companies from accident damages ran into opposition in [...]
| aaenergynet March 22, 2010 | Comments (0)
What a relief! Obama’s nuclear swine flu outbreak has finally started to slow a bit. Its clearly not over with however, has France’s President can attest to as he was sacking the head of Areva, calling for rich nations to finance nukes for poor countries, and decrying cheap reactors. Nuclaire Sortir, a coalition of [...]
| aaenergynet March 15, 2010 | Comments (0)
From: Philippe Brousse – Directeur du Réseau Sortir du nucléaire
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010
Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire”
French Nuclear Phaseout Network
Press release – Urgent
Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident risk!
The French Network for Nuclear Phase-out (Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire”) reveals confidential documents [...]
| aaenergynet March 8, 2010 | Comments (1)
Nuclear quagmire!!! The last week of news continues to escalate. Its taken several hours more than usual to put this newsletter together. Obama’s version of nuclear change wasn’t what a whole lot of us were expecting. So the fallout continues to escalate worldwide as both Russia and Canada have announced new economic investment plans. [...]
Talk about a Twilight Zone of a week. Once I weeded out the huge amount of redundant stories, it wasn’t a very busy week. Biggest chunk of content was as expected, the huge new push for reactor development across the country. There was way over a hundred stories a day for most of last [...]
| aaenergynet March 1, 2010 | Comments (0)
As expected. The national and many local media outlets around the country is having a huge field day promoting nuclear after Obama’s photo-op. But then that’s not the only news this last week. As usual, when the public is watching the big story, all kinds of other stuff slips through, many of them [...]
| aaenergynet February 22, 2010 | Comments (0)
After the last couple of weeks, this last one was very slow news wise. News yes, and a more than a bit of foul stuff. Expect a lot of we did it kind of PR stuff, onward to victory news. Let’s see, we’ve seen that how many times now in the last 4 years [...]
| aaenergynet February 16, 2010 | Comments (0)
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 | Comments (0)
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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