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Ryan Grim

Nuclear Regulator Caught In Conflicted Situation

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Read More: William Ostendorff, Metropolis, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Fred Upton, Fukushima, Uranium Conversion, Palisades Power Plant, Nrc, Palisades Power Plant Leak, Honeywell, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner William Ostendorff has invested in Honeywell International Inc., an NRC licensee, since as early as 2009...

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Will Repairs to the Oconee Nuclear Plant Cost Duke Energy a Billion Dollars?

Philip Radford | Posted 05.03.2013 | Green
Read More: Wind Power, Fukushima, Nuclear Power, South Carolina, Duke Energy, Greenpeace, Solar Power, Jim Rogers, North Carolina, Green News
Philip Radford

Duke Energy and government regulators have been hiding a not-so-little secret from the people of the Carolinas.

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Los Angeles to San Onofre: 'Not So Fast!'

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 04.29.2013 | Green
Read More: Fukushima, Atomic Energy, Nuclear Renaissance, Nuclear Power, San Onofre, Los Angeles City Council, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission conduct extended investigations before any restart at the San Onofre atomic power plant.

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'Green News Report' - April 11, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green
Read More: Wind Power, Green Jobs, Epa, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Green News Report, Gregory Jaczko, Green Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Video, Energy Department, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Arkansas, Energy, Fukushima, Environmental Health, Climate, Exxon Mobil, Nuclear Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Dept of Energy, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Water, Tipping Point, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Bernie Sanders, Coal, Gina McCarthy, Wine, Gao, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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Fukushima and the Japanese Coal Myth

Justin Guay | Posted 04.11.2013 | Green
Read More: Wind Power, Japan, Fukushima, Coal, Nuclear Power, Solar Power, Coal Industry, Green News
Justin Guay

Since you can't build a coal plant overnight -- they typically take around five years -- there wasn't much the country could do. Well maybe they couldn't ramp up fast, but they must be planning a wave of new coal plants now, right? Nope.

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'Green News Report' - April 9, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.09.2013 | Green
Read More: Wind Power, Green Jobs, Epa, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Green Energy, Video, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Arkansas, Energy, Environmental Health, Climate, Exxon Mobil, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Koch Brothers, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Water, Tipping Point, Keystone XL Pipeline, Fish, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Nuclear, Gregory Jaczko, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Margaret Thatcher, Energy Department, Fukushima, Ernest Moniz Energy Secretary, Nuclear Energy, Steve Doocy, Dept of Energy, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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No Nukes

Steven Cohen | Posted 04.08.2013 | Green
Read More: Energy, Fukushima, Renewable Energy, Technology, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Plants, Green News
Steven Cohen

As we struggle to develop a fossil fuel free economy, many thoughtful analysts look to nuclear power and think that there may be an off-the-shelf technology we can use to prevent climate change. Given the latest pair of nuclear waste leaks, it's time to look somewhere else.

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Cooling System At Fukushima Fails, Again

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.05.2013 | World
Read More: Nuclear Regulation Authority, Fukushima Nuclear Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant, Video, Fukushima, Nuclear-Power, Fukushima Cooling System, World News

TOKYO -- Power was restored Friday to a cooling system at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant in Japan that failed for the second time in a month after an...

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Chilling Out Globally

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 04.02.2013 | Green
Read More: Kintisch, Progress, Hansen, Hamilton, Geo-Engineering, Mckibben, Fukushima, Global Warming, Civic Religion, Green News
Craig K. Comstock

Fossil fuel firms warn that reducing emissions might wreck the economy, depressing the standard of living. So the carbon builds up, and geo-engineering waits as the potential savior. Why not just do it? Let's run through several difficulties.

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Tom Zeller Jr.

More NRC Insiders Step Forward On Nuclear Flood Risks

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 03.29.2013 | Green
Read More: Nuclear Flood Risk, Fukushima, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Nuclear Power, Watts Bar, Nuclear Power Safety, Green News

According to findings made public earlier this month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently uncovered potentially significant flooding vulnerabil...

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Utility Company Takes Blame For Fukushima Meltdown

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 03.29.2013 | World
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TOKYO — The utility that operates Japan's crippled atomic plant said Friday that it deserves most of the blame for the country's nuclear crisis,...

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LOOK: Abandoned Nuclear Town In Japan Added To Google Street View

The Huffington Post | Hunter Stuart | Posted 03.28.2013 | Technology
Read More: Video, Fukushima Google Street View, Japan Google Street View, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima, Namie Japan Google, Japan Nuclear Disaster, Namie Google Street View, Nuclear Town Google Street View, Technology News

It has already brought us up some of the world's tallest mountains, inside the Grand Canyon and underwater to the Great Barrier Reef. Now, Google Stre...

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This Rat Caused A 29-Hour Power Outage At The Fukushima Plant

Reuters | Posted 03.26.2013 | World
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TOKYO, March 26 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co on Tuesday blamed a rat for a 29-hour halt in power used to help cool spent nuclear fuel rods a...

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The Japanese Architect, or How to Be the Voice of People After the Disaster

Andrea González | Posted 03.25.2013 | World
Read More: Iwate Prefecture, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Miyagi Prefecture, Kumiko Inui, Fukushima, Tohoku, Architecture Global Aid, Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Ubasuteyama, World News
Andrea González

From my experience as an architect in the reconstruction of Tohoku and as a member of the architecture office of SANAA in Tokyo, I have witnessed the precarious conditions and needs of the Japanese society in northern Japan since March 2011.

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'Green News Report' - March 19, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.19.2013 | Green
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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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Nuclear Power: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't?

Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 05.18.2013 | Green
Read More: Fukushima, RADIATION EXPOSURE, Global Warming, Climate Change, Nuclear Power, All Terrain, Green News
Tom Zeller Jr.

Some say there is no riskier source of electricity than nuclear power. Others argue its minimal greenhouse gas footprint makes it a vital alternative to carbon-belching coal and natural gas in the pitched battle to curb climate change. To still others, nuclear power's advantages in the carbon war are eclipsed by the crippling economics of getting a nuclear power plant built. Everyone is right.

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Record Level Of Radioactive Cesium Reported In Fish Near Fukushima

AP | By MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 05.17.2013 | Green
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TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant says it has detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of...

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The Climate Post: Carbon Tax Is a Popular Topic in Washington

Tim Profeta | Posted 05.15.2013 | Green
Read More: Energy, Fukushima, Carbon Tax, Nuclear Power, Environment, Climate Change, Natural Gas, Canada, Clean Energy, Japan, Pollution, Australia, Carbon Pricing, Co2 2.0, Green News
Tim Profeta

Japanese officials point to the recent gas boom in the United States as evidence that complex drilling processes can yield big results -- a fact that has Australia worried. Japan is Australia's top natural gas customer.

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'Green News Report' - March 14, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.14.2013 | Green
Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Navy, Green News Report, Green Energy, Methane, Video, Energy Department, Rising Sea Level, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Protest, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Environmental Health, Climate, Yoko Ono, Nuclear Power, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Sean Lennon, Interior Department, BRAD BLOG, Water, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Natural Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Republicans, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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'Green News Report' - March 12, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.12.2013 | Green
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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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Lynne Peeples

Exposed At Sea: Navy Sailors' Lawsuit Blames Japanese Power Company For Fukushima Radiation

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.12.2013 | Green
Read More: Fukushima Navy, Video, Fukushima, Nuclear Power, Japan Nuclear Navy Lawsuit, Navy, Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Japan Meltdown Navy Lawsuit, Fukushima Lawsuit, Radiation, Green News

Within weeks of setting off a geiger counter and scrubbing three layers of skin off his hands and arms, former Navy quartermaster Maurice Enis recalle...

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My Old Country Home

Beth Murphy | Posted 05.11.2013 | World
Read More: Son of Saichi, Fukushima Anniversary, Fukushima Survivors, Fukushima Documentary, Fukushima Radiation, Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, World News
Beth Murphy

Though they are alive and well, the nuclear refugees of Fukushima face a long, slow, surreal struggle that seems to have only just begun two years after they walked away from their homes and livelihoods.

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2 Years After Tsunami, Japan Continues To Struggle

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 05.10.2013 | Green
Read More: Shinzo Abe, Fukushima, Masaaki Watanabe, Yuko Endo, Japan Disaster, Japan Earthquake 2011, Memorial Services, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan-Earthquake, Video, Migaku Suzuki, Japan Tsunami, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan Tsunami 2011, Kenichi Oi, Japan-Earthquake-Anniversary, Japan, Tepco, Fukushima Prefecture, Green News

TOKYO — Amid growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery, Japan marked the second anniversary Monday of the devastating earthquake an...

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PHOTOS: Japan Mourns On Second Anniversary Of Tsunami

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2013 | World
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By Linda Sieg TOKYO, March 11 (Reuters) - Japan honours the victims of its worst disaster since World War Two on Monda...

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Two Years on, Remembering The Fukushima Disaster

Andrew Lam | Posted 05.09.2013 | GPS for the Soul
Read More: Tohoku, Deaths, Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, Disaster, Earthquake, Nuclear, Anniversary, GPS for the Soul News
Andrew Lam

Two years ago the Tohoku earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated the region, seriously damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant, sending radiated...

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