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Diplomats: Iran's Enriched Uranium Output Stagnates

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Nukes, Enriched Uranium, Tehran, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear Bombs, World, Nuclear Power, Iaea, Uranium, World News

VIENNA — Iran's output of enriched uranium is stagnating even as its production capacity increases, a sign that Tehran may be running out of the...

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Iran Lifts Ban, Allows UN Inspectors Access To Nuclear Reactor

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Un, United Nations, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Iran Un, Iran Nuclear, Iran Nuclear Development, Iran Nuclear Program, Nuclear Development, Un Inspectors, UN Nuclear, Iran News, Iran Lifts Ban on Un Inspection, World News

VIENNA — Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater moni...

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Add a Gigawatt a Day to Keep the Climate Crisis at Bay

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Integral Fast Reactor, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Lamar Alexander, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Green Energy, Global Warming, Al Gore Global Warming, Obama Global Warming, Obama Energy Bill, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor, Green-Energy-Jobs, Energy Bill, Green Energy Economy, Climate Bill, Green News

If we think we're going to make the goal from solar, wind, and other renewables alone, we must be smoking something. Every clean power technology, including nuclear, has to play a role.

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Burma Secret Nuclear Reactor Under Construction With N Korean Help: Defectors

Huffington Post | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Just a week and a half after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced concerns that North Korea may be transferring nuclear enrichment technology to ...

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Braidwood Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down

AP | Posted 08.31.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Braidwood Nuclear Reactor, Braidwood Generating Station, Braidwood, Exelon, Nuclear Power, Will County Nuclear Reactor, Chicago News

BRACEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A Will County nuclear reactor has shut down after electrical power flowing into its station was interrupted. Exelon Corp. sa...

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The Rabid Right

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Tea Baggers, Rush Limbaugh, John Kerry, Barabara Boxer, Sarah Palin, Oil, Twitter, Clean Energy, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Drill Baby Drill, Coal, Nuclear Power, Big Oil, Dick Cheney, Green News

Luckily for Palin, "drill, baby, drill" only takes up 18 characters, leaving a full 122 more to pay homage to Big Oil, dirty coal, and the nukes that she loves so much.

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Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & "Lamar's Folly" in the Climate Bill

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, No Nukes, Networks, Solartopia, Walter Cronkite, CBS News, Three-Mile-Island-Anniversary, Nuclear-Renaissance, Atomic Disaster, Media, Fermi Nuclear Plant, Three Mile Island, Green News

It is critical that calls start pouring into Congress. The nation -- the world -- cannot afford more Three Mile Islands, especially now that Walter Cronkite is no longer around to report on them.

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We the People: the Nuclear Option

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Waste, Good Government, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Electricity, Politics News

While in the US we have been regulating and making decisions about electricity mostly on a state level, things are becoming more interconnected.

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Grading a Climate Bill, Part 2

William S. Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Energy, Waxman-Markey, Barbara Boxer, Clean Coal, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Congress, Obama, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Clean Air Act, Nuclear Power, Green News

It is perverse public policy to tell the nation's principal environmental watchdog it can't do anything about pollutants that have been officially declared a threat to public health and welfare.

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The End of the Age of Oil: Will It Be a Soft or Hard Landing?

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Reading Steiner's $20 Per Gallon makes us realize how contingent our way of life is, and how uncertain its future prospects are.

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Green News Report - July 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Swine Flu, Renewable Energy, Pollution, Coal, Los Angeles, Coal-Fired Plants, Recycling, Bush Administration, Smog, Recycled Materials, China Energy, Sustainability, Nuclear-Meltdown, Sustainable Seafood, China, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Bush smacked down on smog; Texans told to conserve; Naked & recycled .... PLUS: The 50th Anniversary of the nation's first...

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Los Angeles Nuclear Meltdown Anniversary

Michael Rose | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Dan Hirsch, Sodium Reactor Experiment, Boeing, Meltdown, Committee to Bridge the Gap, Atomics International, Nuclear Power Accidents, Los Angeles, Nuclear Power, Sre, Green News

Fifty years ago today Los Angeles experienced the meltdown at the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) that, except for blind luck, didn't become LA's Chernobyl.

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Lamar Alexander's $750 Billion Flimflam Plan on Nuclear Energy

David Fiderer | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Cap and Trade, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, Lamar Alexander, Clean Energy, Coal, Republicans, Moody's, Business News

Anything that addresses the issue of climate change involves a tradeoff, and nuclear power may very well be one part of the long-term solution.

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About That Nuclear Revival...

Carl Pope | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Green News

Unsatisfied by a set of federal loan guarantees, subsidies, and other trinkets and baubles that would make the greediest gold digger blush, the nuclear complex is demanding still more.

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Nuclear Submarine To Be Launched By India

The Financial Times | Varun Sood and James Lamont | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Indian Nuclear Power, News From India, Nuclear, India News, Nuclear Sub India, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Launch, Nuclear Sub, India, Nuclear Submarine, Nuclear Technology, World News

India is expected to launch a locally built nuclear-powered submarine later this month, making it one of only a handful of countries with the technolo...

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Green News Report - July 7, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Cell Phones, Nrcc, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, France, Nuclear Power, Exxon Mobil, Green News, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Green News Report, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

Will the climate change in the Senate over climate change legislation?; ExxonMobil pays up & pays out; Universal cell phone charger for the EU, but not for you!; Nuclear Power vs. Summer...

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Big Nuke's Desperate Ohio Reactor Hoax

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Efficiency, Renewables, Areva, Atomic Energy, Nuclear-Renaissance, Nuclear Power, Green-Powered Earth, Green News

Job-starved southern Ohioans are being promised a shiny new nuclear plant. But the announcement has come with a cruel reminder, and the scent of a desperate hoax.

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New Nuclear Plant Set For Southern Ohio

AP | TERRY KINNEY | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Nuclear Plant, New Nuclear Plant, Piketon-Ohio, Nuclear Power, Ohio, Green News

CINCINNATI — The site of a former uranium enrichment plant tucked away in the hills of southern Ohio has the necessary infrastructure for a nucl...

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Nuclear Plant Operators Too Low On Cash To Shut Down

AP | DAVE GRAM and FRANK BASS | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Nuclear Closings, Nuclear Power, Green News

VERNON, Vt. — The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many ma...

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We Almost Lost Detroit: Round Two

Michael Rose | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Fermi, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Nuclear Power, China Syndrome, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Detroit, Dte, Business News

Michigan may become one of the early adopters of a new round of nuclear power plants, a move some say is not only dangerous but economically foolhardy.

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The GOP's 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Renwables, Green Power, Green Energy, No Nukes, Nuclear Renaissance, Solar Power, Green News

The GOP makes atomic energy the centerpiece of its strategy to deal with climate change.

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House GOP's Energy Bill Calls For 100 Nuclear Plants

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are calling for a hundred new nuclear power plants to be built in the next two decades as part of an energy plan ...

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Clean the Dirty Energy Bills

Marcy Winograd | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Clean Energy, Clean Coal, Atomic-Radiation, Nuclear Power, Energy, Green News

The dirty little secret is that these not-so-clean energy bills would also provide financing for a new generation of commercial nuclear power plants.

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The New York Times Finally Reports the Economic Disaster of New Nukes

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: New Generation Reactors, Solartopia, Federal Nuclear Loan Guarantees, Renwable Energy, Peaceful Atom, No Nukes, Nuclear-Renaissance, Green Energy, Nuclear Power, Energy, Green News

Areva hopes to build similar reactors in the US. Its boosters have promised cheaper, cleaner, faster nuke construction with standardized designs.

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Russia, Cuba Nuclear Research Co-Op Resuming

RIA Novosti | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Russia Cuba Nuclear Research, Nuclear Power, Cuban Nuclear Energy Agency, Foreign Affairs, Nuclear Energy, Cuba Russia, Russia Cuba, Fidel Castro, Nuclear Weapons, Raul Castro, Vladimir Putin, Nuclear Proliferation, Sergei Kiriyenko, Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuba, Advocacy, World News

Russia and Cuba have agreed to renew their cooperation in nuclear research with Cuba's Nuclear Energy Agency, head of Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said on...

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