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Siemens' Significant Decision -- Abandoning Nuclear Power

Karl Grossman | Posted 11.20.2011 | Green
Read More: General Electric, Solar Power, Germany, Geothermal, Nuclear Power Plants, Siemens, Areva, Nuclear Power, Obama, Westinghouse, Wind Energy, Green News
Karl Grossman

The just-announced decision by Siemens to withdraw entirely from nuclear power is a significant declaration by a corporation about nuclear power and the world's potential energy future.

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Educating for Democracy: Are We Really Serious About Education?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 07.23.2011 | Home
Read More: Standardized Testing, Race to the Top, New York State Board of Regents, Waiting for Superman, Don't Fail US, Education in America, Westinghouse, Home News
Joel Shatzky

Just who are we fooling? Other countries are really serious about education; we seem to prefer to pretend we are.

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Japan Nuclear Crisis May Spur Use Of Safer Reactors

Daily Finance | DAWN KAWAMOTO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Fukushima, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Westinghouse, Cooling Systems, Nuclear Energy, Areva, Three Mile Island, Passively Safe Reactors, Business News

As people in the earthquake-tsunami disaster zone north of Tokyo either flee or hunker down in response to the fear of radiation being released from t...

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America's Eggshell Nukes

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Vermont Yankee, Nuclear Melt Down, Renewable Energy, Obama, Atomic Energy, Solartopia, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Renaissance, Green Power, ap1000, Indian Point, Calvert Cliffs, Chernobyl, Westinghouse, Jet Crash, Nuclear Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made it clear that America's 104 licensed atomic power reactors are not accidents waiting to happen. They are accidents in progress.

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Let's Talk AC/DC (the Currents, Not the Band)

Toby Barlow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Philips-Electronics, Smart Grid, Westinghouse, Green News
Toby Barlow

In the last century we have figured out how to put a man on the moon and make waffles in a toaster but we have not revisited how to make our energy systems fundamentally more efficient.

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Nursultan Nazarbayev

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Secretary of State, Ethics Violations, Westinghouse, Obama Administration, Barack Obama, Politics News
James Love

It will be interesting to see if the attention to Nursultan Nazarbayev will become more than an occasional opportunistic exercise in Hillary bashing.

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