FT.com / Companies / Energy Utilities Mining – Areva warns of soaring reactor costs Areva warns of soaring reactor costs By Peggy Hollinger in Paris Published: August 29 2008 19:00 | Last updated: August 29 2008 19:00 Areva, France’s nuclear … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Anybody watch the DNC final night and Obama? Just kidding. People need a bit of hope on occasion. Its gonna be a long hard haul. Bush said the same thing about Yucca Mt. 8 years ago. Lots of global news. … Continue reading
CONTACT: Burton Glass, 434.971.1224, burton@hairpincommunications.com FOR RELEASE TODAY: Thursday, August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON DC — Possession of nuclear weapons by some countries encourages others to develop their own nuclear arsenals, according to more than two-thirds of U.S. adults … Continue reading
I’m having trouble keeping up! Anybody got a an extra 20 hours of spare time a day??? Accidents and safety concerns in Europe continue to grow with the Finnish government wanting to take a closer look at the Olkiluoto reactor, … Continue reading
Welcome to the latest Issue! I’ve been free of my severe Urinary Tract Infection for the last week. Good news for a change at least for me. I’m late on getting this issue out as I’m working on a major … Continue reading
CCNS NEWS UPDATE Runs 8/22/08 through 8/29/08 This is the CCNS News Update, an overview of the latest nuclear safety issues, brought to you every week by Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Here is this week’s top headline: • NRC … Continue reading
Uranium-Action-Day – Europe’s Nuclear Heritage European uranium action day 20th of September everywhere Stop nuclear waste before it is produced! A lot of countries have uranium mines and uranium factories. For example Urenco is one of the biggest multinational companies … Continue reading
Here’s the latest in the top news stories. I’ve added logos for all the main subject areas, removed the security section as there are too few articles in that category and changed it to an NRC group. The Nuclear Weapons … Continue reading
New allegations of safety problems have come out from the #4 Finnish reactor being built. Bush is trying to get a NPT waiver for his treaty with India, the UK is restarting their talks with EDF to sell British Energy … Continue reading
Confidential documents reveal Finnish nuclear reactor cannot be guaranteed safe WEBWIRE – Wednesday, August 13, 2008 International — Finland, August 2008 — Confidential documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that basic safety procedures have not been followed in the construction of … Continue reading
I’m on editorial vacation, but will make a few comments. Its been a slow news cycle. The fallout over more accidents in France has hit Europe. The Russia – Georgia crisis appears to have oil as one of the underlying … Continue reading
The Free Press — by – Harvey Wasserman August 10, 2008 Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power. McCain says he wants at least 45 more … Continue reading
Its time to memorialize the impacts from the dawn of the nuclear age, when Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Its especially appropriate at this moment in time as Bush threatens to nuke Iran.The MSM carried very few articles this … Continue reading
Greg Palast » The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut By Greg Palast [Wednesday, August 5, 2008. North Shore, Long Island] I’m guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain’s comments from … Continue reading
Wow! the top stories are flopping all over the place! The UK nuclear plan just took a major dive as a $12 billion pound deal between France’s EDF and British Energy collapsed. Greenpeace is sueing France. Then the Brits acknowledged … Continue reading
GasHole the Movie: History of Oil Prices and Alternative Energy : Sustainablog The movie title Gas Hole likely conjures varied humorous, if not-quite-sure-where-this-movie- is-headed, ideas in the minds of prospective viewers. Maybe then it is highly suitable that the term … Continue reading
Karl Grossman documents the fact that we can move into renewable energy now. Its just a matter of getting the hard path proponents to let go of their control of the media and the politicians. The first segment of this … Continue reading
Karl Grossman interviews Gordian Raacke, the Executive Director of the National Renewable Energy Labs about renewable energy resources like wind, solar, hydrogen and other less known alternative energy resources. … Continue reading
The top story is from Platts, where the industry is claiming that they have found two potential communities willing to take spent nuclear fuel. Here we go with PFS part two! The quake in L.A. has the NRC over to … Continue reading