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
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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
GasHole the Movie: History of Oil Prices and Alternative Energy : Sustainablog The movie title Gas Hole likely conjures varied humorous, if not-quite-sure-where-this-movie- is-headed, ideas in the minds of prospective viewers. Maybe then it is highly suitable that the term … Continue reading
Karl Grossman documents the fact that we can move into renewable energy now. Its just a matter of getting the hard path proponents to let go of their control of the media and the politicians. The first segment of this … Continue reading
Karl Grossman interviews Gordian Raacke, the Executive Director of the National Renewable Energy Labs about renewable energy resources like wind, solar, hydrogen and other less known alternative energy resources. … 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
Drivers shave off nearly 10 billion miles in May – Jul. 28, 2008 Commuters are driving less, the federal government says. Workers are leaving their cars at home and finding other ways to get to work. Highway funds at risk. … 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
Study says nuclear power isn’t as “safe and clean†as Bush claims | Cleantech.com Study says nuclear power isn’t as “safe and clean†as Bush claims March 5, 2008 Similar * Scheer calls nuclear power stupid * Bush cleantech fund … Continue reading
by Karl Grossman Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States-with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the … Continue reading
DOE is moving ahead to make the sacred Shoshone Yucca Mountain that is also leaky and geologically unstable the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump (the vast majority of the waste that would go there is from making electric power East … Continue reading
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League www.BREDL.org PO Box 88 Glendale Springs, North Carolina 28629 BREDL@skybest.com (336) 982-2691 office  (336) 977-0852 cell   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 2, 2008  CONTACT: Louis Zeller 336-977-0852  GROUPS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST NORTH … Continue reading
Greenpeace has disowned Moore: Rutland Herald Online January 1, 2008 The Rutland Herald failed its readers by not identifying Patrick Moore as a paid spokesman for the U.S. nuclear industry. On Dec. 27, the Herald published Moore’s commentary titled “Vermont’s … Continue reading
Majority of Portsmouth/Piketon Sick and Dying Atomic Workers of The Cold War Still Not Compensated National and Local Activist Groups Lobby Congress To Intervene Over 70% of eligible nuclear workers formerly employed at the nuclear weapons complex in Piketon during … Continue reading
Mary T. Kelly, Ph.D. Assoc. Director, LWVSC Â Â League of Women Voters: South Carolina The Future of SRS: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now that Energy Solutions, the current owner of the Chem Nuclear site seems to have given up attempts to keep the Barnwell … Continue reading
La Jicarita News – Community Advocacy for Northern New Mexico Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process By Mark Schiller In the October 2007 issue of La Jicarita News I wrote an article about the dysfunction and corruption that … Continue reading
  New AMACOM Book Chronicles the Story of One Community’s 18-Year Struggle with Big Government and Big Business NEW YORK, NY, November 2, 2007 –/WORLD-WIRE/— AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association, has released a new book, NUCLEAR NEBRASKA: … Continue reading
Rachel’s Democracy & Health News #936, December 6, 2007 ATOMIC BALM: NUCLEAR REVIVAL IGNORES CASUALTIES By Joseph J. Mangano Nuclear power plants employ a controlled atomic fission reaction, splitting uranium atoms to create heat to boil water to make steam … Continue reading
PETITION FOR CONGRESS TO END NEGLIGENT DELAY OF COMPENSATION TO WORKERS MADE ILL FROM SERVICE IN THE COLD WAR IN THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX Mismanagement, misrepresentation and misplacement of workers’ medical records by the U.S. Department of Energy … Continue reading
Technology Review: Cleaner Nuclear Power? Senators representing several Western states, including Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, of Nevada, are working on legislation to promote thorium. They say it’s a cleaner-burning fuel for nuclear-power plants, with … Continue reading
Nuclear Plant Site Declared Safe — Courant.com HADDAM — – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the former Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant site a clean bill of health Monday, releasing several hundred Haddam Neck acres for unrestricted public use. … Continue reading
San Luis Obispo County’s website | Initiative to reverse ban on nuclear plants statwide is withdrawn An initiative to lift the state’s ban on new nuclear power plants will not appear on the June 2008 ballot. State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, … Continue reading
Panel weighs new information in Rocky Flats case : The Rocky Mountain News Federal scientists acknowledged Monday they have records suggesting workers from 19 buildings at the top-secret Rocky Flats site near Denver may have risked exposure to dangerous … Continue reading
YOUR COMMENTS NEEDED — Deadline is Wed. Nov 28 — this week! Addresses at bottom. Issue: New Nukes want to suck groundwater at unprecedented rates! Specifics: Southern Company is planning to expand (double) the Vogtle Nuclear Power Station in Georgia … Continue reading
Nuclear industry may running out of steam – nuclear – 25 November 2007 – New Scientist Tech Rumours of a nuclear power renaissance have been greatly exaggerated. So says an audit of the nuclear power industry released on Wednesday. … Continue reading
Calif. lawmaker cancels nuclear power ballot move | News | Reuters Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:37pm EST By Bernie Woodall LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore on Tuesday vowed to continue his efforts to repeal a state law … Continue reading
Cibola County Beacon – Former workers meet with federal caseworkers GRANTS – Only one third of the uranium workers who could be applying for compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program and Part E of that program … Continue reading