House GOP's Energy Bill Calls For 100 Nuclear Plants
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
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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.
The New York Times Finally Reports the Economic Disaster of New Nukes
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
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Areva hopes to build similar reactors in the US. Its boosters have promised cheaper, cleaner, faster nuke construction with standardized designs.
Russia, Cuba Nuclear Research Co-Op Resuming
RIA Novosti | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
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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...
Sen. Alexander Pushes For $700B For Nuclear Reactors
AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander called Wednesday for doubling the number of nuclear reactors nationwide, a potentially $700 bi...
What if the Israelis Were to Bomb Iran?
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
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Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...
Spurred by Iran, Arab World Witnesses Nuclear Renaissance
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
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As North Korea restarts its main nuclear plant and Iran continues to flex its nuclear muscles, a less publicized nuclear renaissance is underway in the Middle East.
Nuclear Proliferation: A Mother's Legacy
Christie Brinkley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
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I want to tell my children that I met the people who worked to free us all from the terror of nuclear weapons, the people who decided to change history and save history.
Building a Nuke Underwater?
Carl Pope | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
It is four weeks since April Fool's Day -- but foolishness is not confined, alas, to that one day a year. Here is a snippet from one of the stranger precincts of American politics and economics.
Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
Nulear reactor backers got Congress to pass the 1957 Price-Anderson Act to protect utilities from all but a tiny portion of the potential damage. That all melt-down liability on the federal government, meaning you and me.
Oldest US Nuclear Plant Shuts Down A Reactor
AP | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green
LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The operator of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has manually shut down its reactor after equipment failed on one ...
How Chernobyl Could Happen Here
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
Chernobyl "can't happen here" only if the reactors are turned off before they kill again.
President Obama's Pledge to End "The Tyranny Of Oil"; "Peak Oil" Mutating to "Peak Consumption"
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
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A multiplicity of factors are in play that for the first time will begin to end the oil cabal's long and painful hegemony over our lives.
First Iran, Now Arabs Going Nuclear (Q&A with Richard Falk)
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
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I spoke to Richard Falk, Chair of the Board at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, about Iran's nuclear program and whether the Middle East is entering a nuclear arms race.
Yet Another $50 Billion for Rust-Bucket Nukes?
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green
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It's painfully clear that history's most expensive failed technology is not going away without a long, hard fight.
Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant, Oldest In US, Licensed For 20 More Years
AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 05.10.2009 | Green
LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — The nation's oldest nuclear power plant has been granted a new license allowing it to operate for another 20 years. The ...
Obama, Nukes, and the World
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
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While Obama's pursuit of nuclear disarmament would be noble, double standards, favoritism, and fear-mongering are cancerous elements that rob the U.S. of respect and leverage in the nuclear debate.
Cracking the Corporate Media's Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Island
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green
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But people did die at Three Mile Island. And it's the "alternative" media that now brings reality to the mainstream.
McCain Drops Yucca Mt. Nuclear Waste Storage Plan
New York Times | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
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Nothing makes the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, madder than folks pushing for the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Mr. Re...
Haneen Zuabi, New Arab-Israeli Knesset Member, Praises Iranian Nuclear Ambitions
Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
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New Balad MK Haneen Zuabi, the first woman to be elected to the Knesset as a representative of an Arab party, has welcomed Iran's growing influence on...
Ten Things to Consider Before we Start Building Nuclear Plants in Illinois Again
Jimmy Seidita | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green
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The 1987 moratorium on new nuclear plants in Illinois signaled that going nuclear was a huge mistake. It's made a mess of our electric system, our regulatory system, and worst of all, the state's economy.
Three Mile Island's 30th Anniversary Sees Nuclear Renaissance
AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The nation's worst nuclear power plant accident was unfolding on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island when an industry economist t...
Nuclear waste? No grazie!
Laura Kiss | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
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The project is finally starting and the City of Peace for Children in Basilicata will host, for the first four years, 25 minors from war torn countries.
Remembering the Three Mile Island Meltdown
Daniel Kessler | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green
Now that memories of the meltdown have faded, the nuclear industry and those in their employ are claiming that that Three Mile Island was really a success story and that the radiation was contained.
Iranian Engineer Copied, Shared Nuclear Software From US Reactor
World Tribune | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
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Iran has gained access to U.S. nuclear power plants and detailed knowledge of their operations....
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