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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Investigative reporter for Envirovideo Karl Grossman reports that nuclear energy is not the solution the nuclear lobby has been promoting. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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? … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau PINEDALE, N.M. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s preferred alternative for cleaning up the Northeast Churchrock Mine site boils down to placing tailings on top of tailings at the United Nuclear Corp. mill site, at … Continue reading
After a large volume of email to me (thanks) several people were worried that taking the newsletter private would mean the loss of any kind of comprehensive overview for the public on the full scope of the nuclear industrial state. … Continue reading
Field of secrets: The Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup saga hits 20 – LA Daily News BEFORE the spring of 1989, all most people knew of the Santa Susana Field Lab were the occasional rocket tests that sent a thundering … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman Big Nuke’s desperate radioactive hoax in impoverished OhioJune 18, 2009 Job-starved southern Ohioans are being promised a shiny new nuclear plant. But the announcement has come with a cruel reminder, … Continue reading
FACTBOX: European nuclear plant life extensions | Green Business | Reuters Most nuclear power plants have a nominal design lifetime of up to 40 years but many have been approved to operate for longer. The possibility of component replacement and … Continue reading
Here’s the latest energy news. I’m going to create a padding process at the top of the weekly news so that the system processes the content appropriately. I’m considering some kind of standardized statement etc. but haven’t come up with … Continue reading
I hate DC politics. Isn’t it just the most psychotic process imaginable! Just think of all those pro-nuclear ideologues just dying in their own stew… The shoe could fit for us as well. Legislation passing through congress could very well … Continue reading
Is it really over? The NY Times said it’s so. Damn it took a while for them to play out the public out for all they could. Well, don’t drop your guard yet. Internationally, The biggest news was France’s EDF … Continue reading
Joseph J. Mangano MPH MBA We hear it all the time. Nuclear reactors produce 80% of the electricity in France. Their reactors are “safe” and that means the U.S. should build new reactors. This is the sound byte. But … Continue reading
Columns Harvey Wasserman The 8 green steps to Solartopia May 26, 2009 The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us. Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, … Continue reading
For more information, contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 For immediate release, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Livermore Lab Caught Conducting Illegal Restricted Bio-Experiments Tri-Valley CAREs recently received documents that the group had long been seeking under the Freedom of … Continue reading
This isn’t a 100 story week. How about 150… I could spend a week just trying to describe what happened. I’ve got my hearing back! I’ve been working for the last 4 weeks without hearing in my left ear.   … Continue reading
What a busy week. We won some and lost some. Of all the issues that was probably the most important were the waste issues. Energy Solutions won a legal battle against Utah and the North West LLW compact commission that … Continue reading
NRC Regulatory Agenda Final Rules 1. Adjustment to Civil Penalties (Parts 2 and 13) RIN: 3150-AI45 Docket ID: NRC-2008-0412 Abstract: The final rule amends the Commission’s regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties (CMPs) it can assess under statues … Continue reading