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Iran Is Seen Advancing Nuclear Bid

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, William J. Broad - May. 23 (Opinion) - Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

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Going Green? Then Go Nuclear

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 22 (Opinion) - We're environmentalists, but pretending that solar power is ready for prime time is delusional.

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Japan’s Shift From Nuclear Energy

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NASSRINE AZIMI - May. 07 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Japan’s Shift From Nuclear Energy

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Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Water Leaks Into Lake Michigan

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 06 (News) - Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan was taken offline Sunday after operators discovered a leak from a water tank. Although the tank has leaked twice in less than a year, officials say there is no immediate risk. "There is no impact on

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Reactor images first in 50 years

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 25 (News) - The first footage in 50 years has been taken of what lies inside the UK's first fast breeder nuclear reactor.

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UK to sell nuclear fuel firm stake

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 22 (News Report) - The UK government is preparing to sell its one-third stake in Urenco, the world's second-largest provider of nuclear fuel.

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What's a fair nuclear price?

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 16 (News Analysis) - Why the government and EDF can't agree a new reactor deal

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Chernobyl's ghost town - in pictures

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Apr. 14 (News Report) - Pripyat, founded for the 49,000-plus Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers and their families, now stands empty within the Chernobyl exclusion zone in northern Ukraine. It was evacuated in 1986 after the explosion at reactor #4

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Opinion: N. Korea endgame: 3 scenarios

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael J. Green - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Hyperbolic North Korean threats of war are not new. What is new is the intensity and persistence of those threats this time around. Add to that an untested 29-year-old leader who is suddenly a four-star general with lots to prove. How does this end? Consider these three possibilities:

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Another Tank Leaks Water at Japanese Nuclear Plant

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By HIROKO TABUCHI - Apr. 09 (Comment) - Plant operators are struggling to contain radioactive water used to cool the damaged Fukushima reactor.

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Almost third of US West Coast newborns hit with thyroid problems after Fukushima nuclear disaster

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

rt.com - Apr. 03 (News Report) - Researchers have discovered that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had far-reaching health effects more drastic than previously thought: young children born on the US West Coast are 28 percent more likely to develop congenital hyperthyroidism. In examin

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The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet [With Photo Slideshow]

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tara Lohan - Mar. 30 (Review) - If you want to understand how much energy costs, don't look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. This massive coffeetable book contains hundreds of arresting images showing the effects of our energy choices, including oil spills, nuclear accidents, massive solar arrays, tar sands mines, fracking operations, transmission lines, and more. The photos are complemented by essays from leading writers like Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Sandra Steingraber, Douglas Tompkins, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown and many others, which put into context our growing energy problems and what we can do about them.

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Beyond Nuclear and others take action to lower radioactivity allowed in food

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

beyondnuclear.org - Mar. 29 (News Report) - Beyond Nuclear, in coalition with other groups and individuals from Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network or FFAN, filed a petition with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to drastically reduce the amount of radioactive cesium permitted in food, from a ridiculous 1200 Bq/kg, to 5 Bq/kg (see why here, read why here). The Bq (Becquerel) is a measure of radioactivity. This week the FDA officially accepted the petition into its process, which means they are now accepting comments. Our petition asks for a binding limit of 5 Bq/kg of cesium 134 & 137 combined, in food, nutritional supplements and pharmaceuticals. This is necessary in the wake of the ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima,

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"Every Challenge Imaginable," Palisades, Vermont Yankee

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

beyondnuclear.org - Mar. 29 (News Report) - 119 people watchdogged a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Webinar on Palisades reactor pressure vessel (RPV) embrittlement on March 19th. Palisades has the worst embrittled RPV in the U.S., at risk of pressurized thermal shock (PTS), which could cause a RPV breach, Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA), reactor core meltdown, catastrophic radioactivity release to the environment, and thousands of deaths and injuries, as well as over $100 billion in property damage, downwind and downstream. 85 questions were asked during NRC's arbitrarily short Webinar, few of which have yet to be addressed. Media coverage reported that Palisades' violation of NRC PTS safety standards could force the reactor's permanent shutdown by 2017 led to defensive, official denials by both Entergy and NRC.

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In U.S., nuclear energy loses momentum amid economic head winds, safety issues

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - Two years after the tsunami that crippled Japan’s Fukushima power complex, the U.S. nuclear industry is facing fundamental and far-reaching challenges to its own future. Only five years ago, industry executives and leading politicians were talking about an American nuclear renaissance, hoping to add 20 or more reactors to the 104-unit U.S. nuclear fleet. Read full article >>

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Fukushima And The Navy: Sailors Sue Japan Nuclear Plant Owner, Saying Disaster Made Them Sick

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Mar. 11 (News Report) - Within weeks of setting off a geiger counter and scrubbing three layers of skin off his hands and arms, former Navy quartermaster Maurice Enis recalled being pressured to sign away U.S. government liability for any future health problems. Enis and about

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Seepage from an Aging Nuclear Site

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Gina Mason - Mar. 03 (News Report) - Living with radiation sickness is not on my bucket list, and I would hazard that it isn’t on yours either. Nor is it what I have in mind for my children’s future. Yet our government continues to manufacture nuclear materials and unsafely store radioactive waste in clear violation of the public trust.

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Nuclear Waste Seeping From 6 Containers In Washington

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Feb. 23 (News Report) - The state's governor called the news "disturbing" but said there is no health threat at the moment. Hanford has been in existence since the 1940s, when the site was used to prepare plutonium for bombs.

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Contamination From Fukushima Disaster Still Lingers

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Aaron Sankin - Feb. 23 (News Report) - While the report notes that the levels present in the fish are well below what public health officials would deem dangerous, the presence of radiocesium from the damaged reactor shows just how far-reaching the disaster's effects have been.

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Radiation Of The Pacific Ocean In The Next 10 Years - Japan Nuclear Disaster Video | Japan Earthquake

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

beforeitsnews.com - Feb. 20 (Special Report) - video

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New Nukes Same as Old Nukes

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

populist.com - By Hank Kalet - Jan. 18 (News Analysis) - The problem with this thinking, however, is that it ignores the environmental cost of nuclear power, which goes well beyond the safety concerns and difficulty of finding places to dispose of nuclear waste. The costs include the same kind of invasive actions that accompany the drilling for petroleum and natural gas.

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The Pro-Nukes Environmental Movement

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Keith Kloor - Jan. 14 (Special Report) - What message is Hansen peddling that few seemingly want to hear? It’s twofold: No. 1, solar and wind power cannot meet the world’s voracious demand for energy, especially given the projected needs of emerging economies like India and China, and No. 2, nuclear power is our best hope to get off of fossil fuels, which are primarily responsible for the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet.

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Fukushima 50: 'We felt like kamikaze pilots ready to sacrifice everything'

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Justin McCurry - Jan. 11 (Special Report) - Nuclear plant staff live unseen in the shadow of the disaster, says worker Atsufumi Yoshizawa, as Japan grapples with the fallout from the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

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Japan PM praises Fukushima work

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Japan's PM Shinzo Abe praises workers during a visit to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, after his government said it could reintroduce nuclear power.

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Iran suspends uranium enrichment

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Nov. 04 (News Report) - Move intended as gesture of goodwill before negotiations with US over nuclear programme begin next week Iran has suspended the enrichment of uranium stockpiles to the 20% purity needed to bring it a short step from building a nuclear device, news services in the region have reported. Mohammad Hossein Asfari, a member of parliament responsible for foreign policy and national security, was quoted as saying that the move was a "goodwill" gesture, aimed at softening Iran's position before a new round of scheduled talks with the United States after this week's presidential elections.

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