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Top Nuclear Stories (July 14th-17th) 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 in the major media. Polls are shifting if favor of nuclear there as a [...] Top Nuclear Stories (July 10th-14th) 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 look. I’ve currently got a bit of extra time to do this, [...] Top Nuclear Stories (July 7th-10th) 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 power, growing concerns in Japan, and the escalating decommissioning costs in the U.K. all [...] Top Nuclear Stories (July 3rd-7th) 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 as well as continuing prostate problems. I’m hoping to get back onto schedule [...] All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards - Prop P. 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 11:22 AM All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to residential [...] Top Nuclear Stories (June 30th - July 3rd) 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 a few images to make this a bit more interesting. Nuclear Reactor News The Press Association: France to [...] Top Nuclear Stories (June 27th - 30th) 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… Its all here this week, including a major pro-vs.-anti nuclear piece in the Wall Street [...] Top Nuclear Stories (June 23rd-27th) 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 with opponents by implying that the other issues don’t count. Their [...] 435 groups ask senate to reject hard path subsidies SUSTAINABLE  ENERGY  NETWORK 8606 Greenwood Avenue, #2 Takoma Park, MD 20912 Sustainable-energy-network@hotmail.com     News Release   435+ BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS AND  ACTIVISTS  URGE  U.S. SENATE TO REJECT NUCLEAR AND FOSSIL SUBSIDIES - SUPPORT EFFICIENCY/RENEWABLES; APPROACH CAP-AND-TRADE WITH CAUTION IN CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION     For Release:  Thursday, May 29, 2008   Contact:  Ken Bossong 301-588-4741     WASHINGTON DC — In a letter delivered today, 201 businesses and organizations - joined by 236 [...] Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes! [...] WHAT ABOUT THOSE FRENCH NUKES? 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 emulate here?    The answer in a word is ?No? (or is that [...] Amory Lovins: Forget Nuclear 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 climate protection, energy security, and powering a growing economy.  innocent-looking civilian disguise. (Reprocessing nuclear fuel, [...] Nuclear power? Not so fast - Press-Telegram 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 climate change, there have been claims that nuclear power plants are the easy solution. They give phenomenal [...] Harvey Wasserman: Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl?in Advance! 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 prevent a solution to the climate crisis? Twenty-two years ago today, an apocalyptic cloud rose up from [...] Top Nuclear Stories (April 11-14th) 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 1) SLC firm eyeing U.K. reactor - Salt Lake Tribune Defects found in nuclear reactor the French want to build in [...] Top Nuclear Stories (April 8-11th) 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 | Reuters FPL fined over sleeping security guards - 04/10/2008 - MiamiHerald.com Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA: GE-Hitachi withdraws from [...] Navajos won?t allow uranium mining, President tells subcommittee 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 WATCH ANOTHER GENERATION HARMED BY URANIUM MINING FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. ? Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., told a Congressional subcommittee here Friday that the [...] Arithmetic, Population & Energy GUBA - Arithmetic, Population & Energy Study says nuclear power isn?t as ?safe and clean? as Bush claims 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 “window dressing” * Nuclear power is green [...] Money Is the Real Green Power: The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy 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 promotion. "With a very few notable exceptions, such as the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. media have turned the same sort [...] Alert: Yucca Mountain: DOE: Comments due 1-10 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 of the Mississippi River). This is categorically wrong since both the Western Shone Nation and [...] GROUPS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST NORTH ANNA WATER POLLUTION PERMIT 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 ANNA WATER POLLUTION PERMIT   Today the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and the People?s Alliance for [...] Greenpeace has disowned Moore 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 Low Carbon Leadership,” which encouraged relicensing the Vermont Nuclear Plant. Instead of accurately identifying Moore, the [...] Majority of Portsmouth/Piketon Sick and Dying Atomic Workers of The Cold War Still Not Compensated 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 The Cold War still have not been compensated for work related injuries and [...] South Carolina, the Nuclear Heart of the Nuclear South Mary T. Kelly, Ph.D. Assoc. Director, LWVSC    League of Women Voters: South Carolina The Future of SRS:           Now that Energy Solutions, the current owner of the Chem Nuclear site seems to have given up attempts to keep the Barnwell site open beyond the 2008 closure date for states that are not members of the [...] Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process 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 pervades the administration of the program to compensate workers who have developed cancer and respiratory diseases [...] Book: NUCLEAR NEBRASKA (the fight to stop a LLW dump)    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: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought, that chronicles the struggle between the [...] ATOMIC BALM: NUCLEAR REVIVAL IGNORES CASUALTIES 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 to turn a turbine to generate electricity. Because nuclear power is so complex, it is accident-prone and unforgiving [...] 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 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 and U.S. Department of Labor have caused seven years of compensation delays for many workers [...] Technology Review: Cleaner Nuclear Power? 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 the potential to cut high-level nuclear-waste volumes in half. "They’re concerned about the spent fuel from nuclear [...] Nuclear Plant Site Declared Safe 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. "A member of the public can live, sleep and eat at the site, 365 days a year and [...] Initiative to reverse ban on nuclear plants statwide is withdrawn 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, R-Irvine, has withdrawn the ballot initiative he submitted to state elections officials, after public opinion [...] Panel weighs new information in Rocky Flats case : The Rocky Mountain News 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 neutron radiation. But after they answered questions from a presidential advisory board, it was still not clear why [...] Alert: Southern?s Vogtle Reactor to grab groundwater 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 and are currently seeking an Early Site Permit from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC). Southern wants to [...] Nuclear industry may running out of steam - nuclear 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. The report, commissioned by The Greens, a European parliamentary group, points out that many ageing reactors are due [...] Calif. lawmaker cancels nuclear power ballot move 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 banning new nuclear power plants, one day after he canceled an effort to gather signatures [...] Cibola County Beacon - Former workers meet with federal caseworkers 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 have done so. That is according to representatives of the Department of Justice and the Department of [...] Department of Energy - U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition Department of Energy - U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition   WASHINGTON, DC –U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Director Sergey Kiriyenko have signed a joint statement outlining a plan to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium from Russia’s weapons program. Under the new plan, [...] Nuclear Plants Subject to Terrorism, Earthquakes, States Warn Nuclear Plants Subject to Terrorism, Earthquakes, States Warn   WHITE PLAINS, New York,, November 16, 2007 (ENS) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the attorneys general of five other states have submitted a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, expressing "serious concerns" about the commission’s disregard of safety issues - such as [...] People were killed by Three Mile Island & other nuclear disasters The Free Press — Independent News Media - Harvey Wasserman  November 18, 2007 One of the biggest lies ever told in American industrial history is that ?no one died at Three Mile Island.? In the frenzy to get public funding for still more nuclear reactors, some industry backers now say no one has ever been killed [...]