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Follow the Defense Dollars -- If You Can

Joe Newman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Pentagon, House of Representatives, White House, Deficit, Senate, Congress, Military, Federal Budget Deficit, Plutonium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Budget, Ndaa, Transparency, Accountability, Politics News
Joe Newman

What happens when Congress does the public's business in secret? The well-connected corporate lobbyists, fundraisers and campaign contributors are the ones who benefit the most because of their insider access.

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Ridding The World Of The “Element from Hell”

| David Biello | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Radioactive Plutonium, Nuclear Waste, Video, Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium, Nuclear Power, Physics, Environment, Mox, Science, Nuclear Proliferation, Science News, Science News

The vast majority of the radioactive plutonium on the planet is man-made—roughly 500 metric tons, or enough to make 100,000 nuclear weapons by the c...

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Fukushima's Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People)

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Nuclear Waste, Sarkozy, Fukushima, Cesium, Mitsuhei Marata, Mox, Hydrogen, Earthquake, Daichi, Fuel Pool, Fire, Radiation, Explosion, Npr, Mikhail Gorbachev, Solar Energy, Tsunami, Reactor, Fission, Plutonium, Reactor 4, Uranium, Areva, Strontium, Cancer, Japan, Arnie Gunderson, Chernobyl Gorbachevnuclear Energy, Soviet Union, Business News
Vivian Norris

Why does Fukushima still matter? Because no matter what TEPCO or the authorities have claimed, the reactors and the fuel pools are unstable.

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The Deadly Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead

Karl Grossman | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Plutonium, Space, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Accidents, Space Technology, Nuclear Free, Space Exploration, Nuclear Reactors, Science News
Karl Grossman

These missions don't present threats to life on Earth -- unlike the use of nuclear power overhead. Also, the production of nuclear fuel on Earth for use in space -- or in the atmosphere for drones -- constitutes danger, too.

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Problems Plague Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Waste Site

USA Today | Posted 01.18.2012

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HANFORD SITE, Wash. – Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation i...

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Wildfire Advances On Famed Nuclear Lab

AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Los Alamos, Nuclear Waste, Los Alamos Fire, National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Joni Arends, Nagasaki, Cold War, Los Alamos Laboratory, Tom Udall, Los Alamos New Mexico, Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons, New Mexico, Plutonium, Hiroshima, Wildfires, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Nuclear Bomb, Concerned-Citizens-for-Nuclear-Safety, Green News

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor dr...

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Buddhist Thoughts On Impermanence, Plutonium And Beauty

Lewis Richmond | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Impermanence, First Noble Truth, Shunryu Suzuki, Buddhism, Plutonium, Buddhism and Impermanence, Japan Disaster, King Midas, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Religion News
Lewis Richmond

What a startling thought: that the very evanescence of things can be a cause for joy, and a way to see this ever-changing, ever-aging world as a thing of beauty.

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New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero

James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Alamos, Nagasaki, Trinity Site, New Mexico, Edward Teller, Plutonium, Physics, Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic Bomb, H-Bomb, Ground Zero, Trinitite, WWII Veterans, Japan, Hydrogen Bomb, Manhattan Project, Travel News
James M. Clash

Trinity was the culmination of the Manhattan Project where, during World War II, some of the best scientific minds toiled to perfect a device they called "the gadget." With the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, the gadget broke windows 90 miles away

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ReThink Interview: Lawrence Bender and Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero and Nuclear Weapons

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Kim

Why are nuclear weapons so far off our collective radars when they retain the potential to extinguish millions of lives -- if not all life on the planet -- in mere minutes?

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Netanyahu Cancels Trip To Washington For Obama's Nuclear Summit

AP | Mark Lavie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sanctions, Turkey, Npt, Negev Desert, Nuclear Security Summit, Washington DC, Obama, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Ira, Egypt, Plutonium, Tehran, Benjamin Netanyahu, War Heads, Un, US, Israel, Arsenal, Warheads, World News

JERUSALEM (AP)-- Israel's Prime Minister called off his trip to Washington next week to attend a conference on the spread of nuclear weapons, official...

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North Korea Uranium Program Roughly 15 Years Old

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea appears to have launched a uranium enrichment program as a new way of building atomic bombs soon after its 1994...

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Trucks Carrying Nuclear Weapons Around The Country Revealed (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The idea of nuclear weapons being carted around in our highways, cities and neighborhoods doesn't really put one's mind at ease. However, the governme...

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After the Nuke Test, the US and North Korea Should Keep Talking

Michael Roston | Posted 06.02.2011

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Michael Roston

History is not on North Korea's side, and ensnaring the hermit state in negotiations establishes some possibility of reining in its behaviors.

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Ukraine Arrests Lawmaker, Businessmen For Trying To Sell Plutonium

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian security agents have arrested a regional lawmaker and two companions for trying to sell a radioactive substance that c...

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McCain, Obama & the Trojan Horse of Nuclear Energy

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Waste, John McCain, Nuclear Energy, Plutonium, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Presidential Campaign, Plutonium-239, Proliferation, Chernobyl, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Energy Debates, Green News
Steven Crandell

Under the guise of concern over climate change, some ask us to re-consider our aversion to new nuclear power, ignoring the same old problems that have stopped any plants from being commissioned since 1979.

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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

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