Nuclear quagmire!!! The last week of news continues to escalate. Its taken several hours more than usual to put this newsletter together. Obama’s version of nuclear change wasn’t what a whole lot of us were expecting. So the fallout continues … Continue reading
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Talk about a Twilight Zone of a week. Once I weeded out the huge amount of redundant stories, it wasn’t a very busy week. Biggest chunk of content was as expected, the huge new push for reactor development across the … Continue reading
As expected. The national and many local media outlets around the country is having a huge field day promoting nuclear after Obama’s photo-op. But then that’s not the only news this last week. As usual, when the public is watching … Continue reading
After the last couple of weeks, this last one was very slow news wise. News yes, and a more than a bit of foul stuff. Expect a lot of we did it kind of PR stuff, onward to victory news. … Continue reading
A very busy week indeed, with several big stories breaking internationally. The stop story IMHO, is the news about Russia dumping nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea near Sweden! This is a breaking story, but if it is true, it … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman January 30, 2010 Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than … Continue reading
What a week. Obama goes nuclear just in time to shake up things. But let’s do the big picture. The UK investigation of the Iraqi invasion is no bigger story out there. For anyone in the U.S. with cable TV, … Continue reading
The major news this last week comes from France as Sarkozy had to call in EDF and Areva over a growing internal battle. The fallout over France’s failure to win the $40 billion UAE reactor construction contract continues as the … Continue reading
The nuclear industry gets slammed again. The state of Florida blocked funding for new reactors. Nuclear waste issues raised its head worldwide this last week with stories on 3 continents. The biggest story was out of Tennessee where a Norwegian … Continue reading
Nuclear News continues to slow down. Even the number of PR stories promoting more reactors has taken a dive. That’s not to say that they’ve disappeared, either as I’ve put a few pro-nuclear stories in the mix here. Note, that … Continue reading
As was expected the last week was a vacation week for most Americans so the volume of news was low. However, what happened was nothing of the sort. The news was mostly pretty bad stuff. The lead story has to … Continue reading
FreePress As the Copenhagen climate talks collapsed, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory moved us closer to a green-powered Earth.It happened in upstate New York, where the Unistar Nuclear Energy front group asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay … Continue reading
Introduction: I used to do regular versions of this, but have lapsed due to ongoing health problems. If you are like most Americans and just want the big splashy one liner stories during the last year, skip the intro. However, … Continue reading
Anybody have a best of the year list of articles? What’s your pick for the top nuclear stories for 2009? I’m considering putting together a special addition of the bulletin just to put the year in perspective. In a major … Continue reading
This was a fairly busy week in terms of important news. Its kind of hard to actually call what happened in Denmark important at this point as it is more than clear that we’ve lost a major chance to change … Continue reading
I’m more than a bit late in getting this out and so I’m only gonna make a couple of quick comments and you are on our own… The bad news is of course the Kerry-Lieberman campaign in the senate. Good … Continue reading
Strategy sessions are part and parcel to the nuclear industry’s frontal attack on the planet and the US public. The industry’s capacity to get its point of view heard by the general public is legend, and of course it comes … Continue reading
The nuclear world continues to be rocked by economics, safety problems and scandals. At the top of the news this last week was Japan’s formal release of its secret deal with the U.S., illegally hiding the fact that the Japanese … Continue reading
EPA’s Secret Plan to Raise Public Radiation Exposure Levels Challenged WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2009 (ENS) – Public employees have filed a lawsuit demanding documents related to the U.S. EPA’s plans made “in secrecy” to allow public exposure to increased … Continue reading
The hidden cost of Britain’s new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= The desert, with its towering … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving! This was a small news week, however, many stories that hit were powerful wacks to the the nuclear industry, like the South-Texas CPS scandal where the utility was caught lying to the public over the real construction costs. … Continue reading
A modest week in the news. Boy, I wished somebody else knew how to work with social bookmarks! On the international scene, the British Labour Party announced their latest, brand new push to build 10 new reactors. A Turkish court … Continue reading
What a difference a week can make in the news! Even as Maryland was busy locking in a devastating new nuclear nazi agenda over letting France drive this country’s nuclear agenda, Areva and EDF took one of its worst beatings … Continue reading
What a difference a week can make in the news! Even as Maryland was busy locking in a devastating new nuclear nazi agenda over letting France drive this country’s nuclear agenda, Areva and EDF took one of its worst beatings … Continue reading
Goodness, this wasn’t the best week out there, no thanks to the continuing media campaign to just let the nuclear industry pump bs into the public domain. But what’s new! Wow are Republicans capable of deceipt! All of a sudden … Continue reading
Dean Hapshe, a pioneer in solar energy and president of Majestic Son and Sons of Patchogue, New York, tells of the big advances in solar technology in recent years and how, at the same time, costs have come down. He … Continue reading
Albuquerque, NM – This past weekend over 200 Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. Although the forum focused on the uranium … Continue reading
Here’s another issue of the news. Sorry about the delay on this again. There are still a few kinks in the system yet to work out. This was a slow news week. Again the most interesting news stories are coming … Continue reading
Sorry about the delay in getting this out, there is some kind of technical problem going on with the wordpress blog software, possibly another hack attack. I’ve found a work around for now. When reporting on nuclear news worldwide its … Continue reading
Not a lot of news this week but the stories that did come out were fairly important. There were many fuel cycle issues this week with DOE pushing to dump 6,000 cubic yards of llw from West Valley in a … Continue reading
Not a big news week in terms of major stories. A bit of surprising news however, is the story out of Germany that Merkel’s new coalition partner has said that there won’t be any nuclear renaissance, but more like an … Continue reading
Good News! Nanosolar Reaches Solar Cell Efficiency of 16.4% and Starts Mass Production Treehugger by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 09.14.09 Science & Technology (solar) treehugger556:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/nanosolar-solar-power-efficiency-germany-factory-mass-production.phpBuzz up! Photos: Nanosolar Cheap, Efficient Solar Cells You Can Print For a while, … Continue reading
Welcome to the Nuclear-Free Future Award. 28SEPT’09–The Germans went to the polls in record lows and voted more than ever for special interest parties. The big winners were the pro-pocketbook Free Democrat Party (FDP), the reformed communist The Left party, … Continue reading
I finally caught up… Germany fell to the right today. Expect a major war over a new push to toss out Germany’s nuclear moratorium. A foul week indeed as new intenational alliances with Corporations are popping up worldwide. EDF and … Continue reading
Nuclear Pyschosis at the New York Times Tom Friedman’s Idiocy Atomique By HARVEY WASSERMAN France’s atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame. Its 58 reactors are unpopular, unsafe, uneconomical, dirty, direct agents of global warming, weapons proliferators and major … Continue reading
I’m getting a bit closer every few days. Maybe I’ll be caught up within two or three days. Again, its always hard to see through the whirlwind of stories, alerts and trends. We are counting down to the last few … Continue reading
I’m finally starting to catch up with the workload. Let’s hope I can keep up. My world has changed a bit. I’m struggling to hold onto my job and my home, so times are a bit unstable. I will know … Continue reading
I’m in catchup mode. I seem to have gotten the blog back into some kind of safe condition, free of attacks. Yes, over the last month I’ve had somebody attacking the blog deleting new posts, resulting in hours of additional … Continue reading
Marignac Says “Far From Being a Model, France Should be a Powerful Cautionary Tale for the U.S. about the Folly of a Headlong Rush into More Nuclear Power”. WASHINGTON, D.C.///September 15, 2009///U.S. policy makers are in the grips of “dangerous … Continue reading
It would seem that nothing is new under the sun these days when it comes to the good old USA. The state of Arizona, anybody remember McCain, recently gave the Canadian Denison ming company the go ahead to reopen the … Continue reading
A never ending mess these days. I’ve got a new look and updated the service to the latest version. Maybe that will save me some grief for awhile. Sorry, but I’m way behind now due to the attack that kept … Continue reading
Okay, I’m back after a couple of weeks of hack attacks. I’m hoping I’ve been able to finally clean up what has happened as somebody has been deleting all of my work for over a month now, causing a huge … Continue reading
Nuclear Energy group spent $570K lobbying in 2Q: Associated Press Business News – MSN Money WASHINGTON (AP) – The Nuclear Energy Institute spent $570,000 lobbying the government in the second quarter on legislation designed to reduce pollution linked to global … Continue reading
The Top energy stories person is still on vacation. The news is here and being produced, but a week late. You can click and see all the stories below! Enjoy Anyone interested in doing the commentary for the weekly bulletin? … Continue reading
The top stories is still on vacation. They are coming out a week late, so news is being kept up to date. That means, if you have monitored this news in the past, it still is available for searching via … Continue reading
I’m still on vacation… Having a wonderful time doing other things for a rare moment. I’m a history buff, and like tracking down old historic stuff, especially materials that have been lost. I promise to do a bit better cleanup … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & “Lamar’s Folly” in the Climate Bill July 21, 2009The accolades are still pouring in for departed anchorman Walter Cronkite. Few mention his critical “that’s … Continue reading
I’m kind of back… Had a great event. With lots of help and a good turnout. The event was all about the 75th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in SF. It had major impacts on the city and the … Continue reading
The Matrix guy… Mr. Anderson… I manage a large community center. Our largest and oldest tenant left the building last week leaving 20 years of work in jeopardy… Not to mention the possible loss of a home for the archives … Continue reading
Three Years, One Month, and Counting… July 6, 2009—————–Contact: Robert Stewart – 802-276-3095 “ I expect we will get a decision on our latest contention within the next few days†said Raymond Shadis, representing (pro se) New England Coalition â€If … Continue reading