 CommonDreams.org Loan guarantees sought by nuclear industry for reactor construction amount to ‘preemptive bailout,’ with expected default rate of 50 percent or higher. WASHINGTON – September 29 – A new ad from Friends of the Earth accuses nuclear industry lobbyists … Continue reading
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Bob Loux resigned on Monday as head of the state of Nevada Waste Project Office. The impacts of this represent one of the most serious challenges the safe energy community faces today. It is urgent that we take the time … Continue reading
The bad news continues to mount, just as the huge economic crisis finally opens up. EDF has made new bids to buy up Britains nuclear industry. Greenpeace held protests in Turkey over new proposals for reactors, a pole in Switzerland … Continue reading
a href=”http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3780.shtml”Nuke power liabilities dwarf Bush’s bailout/abr /blockquoteNuke power liabilities dwarf Bush’s bailoutbr /By Harvey Wassermanbr /Online Journal Guest Writerbr /br /br /Sep 24, 2008, 00:09br /br / Email this articlebr / Printer friendly pagebr /br /As you read this, … Continue reading
I’m still putting most of my free time into building a major resource on uranium mining. Many of the first pages of are complete and can be viewed here. More bids for Constellation and British Energy. We have a running … Continue reading
The pay raise scandal around Bob Loux in Nevada continues as opponents have called for all kinds of investigations, even a civil lawsuit that was tossed. More reactors for Detroit, Pakistan, Kenya, and Denver? The EU blocked an attempt by … Continue reading
The Yucca Mt scandal continues to blow up. The impacts on the struggle to keep Yucca Mt. at bay has taken its worst turn to date. We may be losing the very best source on nuclear issues due to this. … Continue reading
Pretty tough times for the movement here in the U.S. and around the world. Watching Bush strong arm the NGS last week to push aside proliferation issues couldn’t have been a better example of the state of affairs here. Alerts … Continue reading
Today citizens’ groups announced that they are calling on Nuclear Regulatory Commission judges to suspend Tennessee Valley Authority’s request to build and operate four nuclear reactors at Bellefonte. The groups’ latest legal challenge describes the failure of TVA to include two partially … Continue reading
Some pretty bad news this time around. Thanks to a large bribe from India the nuclear club has agreed to let India into its midst without agreeing to global proliferation treaties, opening the door to Washington’s treaty with India. Pakistan … Continue reading
by JohnPeebles Nuclear power has come into the news, proposed by Republican candidate John McCain as an alternative to the importation of oil. The industry has suffered from a poor public image. There was of course the movie China Syndrome, … Continue reading
The Problem with Nuclear Nuclear reactorsfrom Wired Magazine The NEI is “…the propaganda wing and trade group for the American nuclear industry [which] spends millions of dollars annually to engineer public opinion.†— Dr. Helen Caldicott Check out these great … Continue reading
More scandals hit Europe, this time, its about nuclear waste leaks. As both India and N. Korea continue to waggle, the biggest story to hit is out of Japan, with the court system on the verge of shutting down two … Continue reading
Beyond Nuclear Bulletin September 4, 2008 Background: Congress will soon return from summer recess, and is likely to immediately consider energy legislation. These bills, which would allow offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf as a supposed response to high … Continue reading
This week’s news is mostly about vacation time and watching the conventions. Just as the media likes to censor the nuclear issue, it also undercovered the protest movement outside the convention halls. In St. Paul the police detained a group … Continue reading
FT.com / Companies / Energy Utilities Mining – Areva warns of soaring reactor costs Areva warns of soaring reactor costs By Peggy Hollinger in Paris Published: August 29 2008 19:00 | Last updated: August 29 2008 19:00 Areva, France’s nuclear … Continue reading
Anybody watch the DNC final night and Obama? Just kidding. People need a bit of hope on occasion. Its gonna be a long hard haul. Bush said the same thing about Yucca Mt. 8 years ago. Lots of global news. … Continue reading
I’m having trouble keeping up! Anybody got a an extra 20 hours of spare time a day??? Accidents and safety concerns in Europe continue to grow with the Finnish government wanting to take a closer look at the Olkiluoto reactor, … Continue reading
Welcome to the latest Issue! I’ve been free of my severe Urinary Tract Infection for the last week. Good news for a change at least for me. I’m late on getting this issue out as I’m working on a major … Continue reading
CCNS NEWS UPDATE Runs 8/22/08 through 8/29/08 This is the CCNS News Update, an overview of the latest nuclear safety issues, brought to you every week by Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety. Here is this week’s top headline: • NRC … Continue reading
Uranium-Action-Day – Europe’s Nuclear Heritage European uranium action day 20th of September everywhere Stop nuclear waste before it is produced! A lot of countries have uranium mines and uranium factories. For example Urenco is one of the biggest multinational companies … Continue reading
Here’s the latest in the top news stories. I’ve added logos for all the main subject areas, removed the security section as there are too few articles in that category and changed it to an NRC group. The Nuclear Weapons … Continue reading
New allegations of safety problems have come out from the #4 Finnish reactor being built. Bush is trying to get a NPT waiver for his treaty with India, the UK is restarting their talks with EDF to sell British Energy … Continue reading
Confidential documents reveal Finnish nuclear reactor cannot be guaranteed safe WEBWIRE – Wednesday, August 13, 2008 International — Finland, August 2008 — Confidential documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that basic safety procedures have not been followed in the construction of … Continue reading
I’m on editorial vacation, but will make a few comments. Its been a slow news cycle. The fallout over more accidents in France has hit Europe. The Russia – Georgia crisis appears to have oil as one of the underlying … Continue reading
The Free Press — by – Harvey Wasserman August 10, 2008 Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power. McCain says he wants at least 45 more … Continue reading
Its time to memorialize the impacts from the dawn of the nuclear age, when Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Its especially appropriate at this moment in time as Bush threatens to nuke Iran.The MSM carried very few articles this … Continue reading
Greg Palast » The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut By Greg Palast [Wednesday, August 5, 2008. North Shore, Long Island] I’m guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain’s comments from … Continue reading
Wow! the top stories are flopping all over the place! The UK nuclear plan just took a major dive as a $12 billion pound deal between France’s EDF and British Energy collapsed. Greenpeace is sueing France. Then the Brits acknowledged … Continue reading
The top story is from Platts, where the industry is claiming that they have found two potential communities willing to take spent nuclear fuel. Here we go with PFS part two! The quake in L.A. has the NRC over to … Continue reading
European Accidents and the earthquake in Japan last week has rattled the public’s nerves overseas. The superb nuclear worker contamination/compensation series last week in the Rocky Mountain News has politicians calling for change in Colorado. With safety issues popping up … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman Columns Harvey WassermanThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the reactor revival is NOT ready for prime time July 25, 2008 A devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of atomic power has … Continue reading
Bad news on the international front. The Indian Government survived the left’s attempt to block the U.S. Indian plan to expand nuclear development between the two counties. The Rocky Mountain News Has done a fabulous job of laying out the … Continue reading
The Big International news will come Tuesday with India’s vote of no confidence over the governments push to accept a nuclear energy and weapons treaty with the U.S. The biggest story is Rocky Mountain New’s multiday series on the health … Continue reading
Attempts to break the back of anti-nuclear stands in Europe and India are at a peak right now. Our international friends are needing our thoughts and support. There is also a new push in Northern California to promote nuclear power … Continue reading
This is the 2nd version of this latest format of the Top Nuclear Stories. Please feel free to send me any feedback you may have. Note that I’m putting in pictures from some of the stories to brighten up the … Continue reading
The top story this week is the major push by the Bush administration to finalize a treaty with the Indian Government. The G8 is also doing a global nuclear energy public relations push . With Australia backing out of nuclear … Continue reading
I spent the first 3 days of the week working on doctors stuff with the person I take care of as well as myself. I’ve been given a variety of Chinese treatments to knock out a severe Urinary Tract Infection … Continue reading
All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. : Indybay All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. by Francisco Da Costa Sunday Jul 6th, 2008 … Continue reading
Lots of interesting stories over the last week, many of them outside of the U.S., not to mention the shift in Iran’s offer to stop enriching uranium. I hope to make it possible for an index as well as putting … Continue reading
I’ve been adding a lot of other energy news, hope you have the chance to take a look. The best of times… The worst of times. With Australia backing out of the global nuclear push while China digs in further… … Continue reading
What week of news! I’m hoping that my health will finally turn around and I can get back to work a bit. This week, the Wall Street Journal finally discovered nuclear economics 101. But they want to rub things in … Continue reading
Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes! By Karl Grossman With Wall Street unwilling to finance new nuclear plants, U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and John Warner of Virginia have cooked up a scheme to provide $544 billion -Â yes, with a … Continue reading
Missourians for Safe Energy There are few nuclear critics who haven’t been asked this question: Sure, we’ve had problems with nuclear power, but haven’t the French got it down? Isn’t their nuclear program a success story that we should … Continue reading
Forget Nuclear Nuclear power, we’re told, is a vibrant industry that’s dramatically reviving because it’s proven, necessary, competitive, reliable, safe, secure, widely used, increasingly popular, and carbon-free—a perfect replacement for carbon-spewing coal power. New nuclear plants thus sound vital for … Continue reading
Nuclear power? Not so fast – Press-Telegram Nuclear power? Not so fast Thomas D. Elias Article Launched: 04/30/2008 07:43:16 PM PDT Ever since former Vice President Albert Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for his fight against expanding … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman: Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl–in Advance! Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl … in Advance! By HARVEY WASSERMAN Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls—in advance? Are you willing to have nuclear power … Continue reading
Top Nuclear Stories Nuclear Reactor News The Republican Eagle | Letter: Tribe questions relicensing plant S.C. utilities staff: Duke should disclose nuclear plant’s cost – Charlotte Business Journal: allAfrica.com: South Africa: Nuclear Power Poses Problems for Eskom (Page 1 of … Continue reading
Top Nuclear Stories (April 8-11th) Nuclear Reactor News 2 killed in Gas leakage at Khushab nuclear plant – PakTribune CHRONOLOGY: The ups and downs of bid target British Energy | Reuters RWE made $22 billion bid proposal for B.Energy: source … Continue reading
Navajos won’t allow uranium mining, President tells subcommittee, for March 30 NEWS FROM THE NAVAJO NATION OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30, 2008 NAVAJO PRESIDENT JOE SHIRLEY, JR., TELLS CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE NATION WILL NOT … Continue reading