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USA govt funds for nuclear, but nuke lobby still wants $100 billion more!

The nuclear trade group has called for $100 billion in additional loan guarantees for low carbon energy sources to help support replacing aging reactors

U.S. Loans to Boost Nuclear Industry Seen Soon abc News By Ayesha Rascoe December 28, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is poised to announce loan guarantees to help kick-start the country’s nuclear power industry, which hasn’t built a new plant in more than three decades. Continue reading →

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Depleted uranium in Utah brings regulation problem

depleted uranium, a by-product of nuclear fuel enrichment and bomb-making that has the unusual quality of becoming more hazardous over time.

Depleted uranium train arrives at Utah site/ OPEN YOUR EYES NEWS Salt Lake Tribune 29 Dec 09 – EnergySolutions Inc. opened its gates Sunday night to the latest shipment of depleted uranium from the Savannah River cleanup site in South Carolina. But the waste won’t be buried just yet, under an agreement between Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the U.S. Energy Department. Continue reading →

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Attempt to protect Colorado River from 16 million tons of uranium tailings

16 million tons of uranium mill tailings moving away from Colorado River site By GARY HARMON/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel December 27, 200
“………About 630,000 tons will have been moved from Moab to the disposal cell near Crescent Junction by year’s end, said Wendee Ryan of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Energy Department and its contractor, Energy Solutions Corp., began moving the tailings pile this year. Continue reading →

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India’s nuclear program in trouble about lack of insurance

All property insurance covers exclude losses due to nuclear reaction, nuclear radiation or radioactive contamination.

Irda sounds out insurers on nuclear accident cover The Economic Times 29 Dec 2009, Hema Ramakrishnan & Mayur Shetty, ET Bureau NEW DELHI|MUMBAI: A year after private nuclear plants became a possibility in India following the Indo-US nuclear deal, the insurance regulator is deliberating with companies to cover liabilities arising out of deliberating with companies to cover liabilities arising out of nuclear accidents, which is essential for such plants… Continue reading →

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India will not ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert India Times 28 Dec 09 Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert28 Dec 2009, 2011 NEW DELHI: A day before leaders of India and Japan hold talks, the prospects of a civil nuclear deal between the two countries receded as a Japanese official Monday urged New Delhi to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. “Japan hopes that India will sign and ratify the CTBT,” Kazuo Kodama, press secretary with Japan’s ministry of foreign affairs, told reporters here.
He was responding to a question on the prospects of Japan supplying civil nuclear technology to India.
Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times

December 29, 2009 Posted by | India, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

India soon to get nuclear submarine

India step closer to getting N-sub
THE TIMES OF INDIA 28 Dec 09 NEW DELHI: India got closer to deploying a nuclear-powered submarine by mid-2010 after the Russian Navy formally inducted the Akula-II class attack submarine `K-152 Nerpa’ on Monday. The over 12,000-tonne Nerpa is to be leased to Indian Navy for a 10-year period under a secret contract inked between India and Russia,………….. Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles is critical for India to fulfil its long-standing quest to have a viable nuclear weapon triad — the capability to fire nukes from the air, land and sea.

India step closer to getting N-sub – India – The Times of India

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Pakistan’s secret help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program

Khan adds to nuclear intrigue Sydney Morning Herald JEFFREY SMITH AND JOBY WARRICK December 29, 2009 NORTH KOREA has built a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicised account by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb program, Abdul Qadeer Khan.It is a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s.Dr Khan also said North Korea might have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with ”maybe 3000 or even more” centrifuges, and that Pakistan helped the country with vital machinery, drawings and technical advice for at least six years. Continue reading →

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Nuclear Pakistan at risk from sectarian strife

Threat of sectarian strife adds to nuclear-armed Pakistan’s woes World AP  28 Dec 09 “…………..The fourth attack on Pakistan’s Shiite minority in recent days fueled fears that a sectarian conflict alongside the nuclear-armed country’s battle with the Pakistani Taliban and other Sunni Muslim extremist groups could topple Zardari’s fragile civilian government, which was elected last year after eight years of military-led rule……………..”

Threat of sectarian strife adds to nuclear-armed Pakistan’s woes – World AP – MiamiHerald.com

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Israel pondering about nuking Iran’s nuke sites?

Israel says regular bomb cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility  http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-28   JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran’s newly-disclosed nuclear facility near Qom can withstand regular bombs. “The facility in Qom is in a bunker and therefore resistant to regular bombs,” local daily Haaretz quoted Barak as speaking to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee………………. Continue reading →

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Aging nuclear power plant too costly to clean up

Potential for another meltdown? Nuclear Reaction 29 Dec 09 Debate over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has developed into a complex game of chicken between executives with Entergy Nuclear Vermont and Democratic leaders of the state Legislature. Entergy, which has owned the Vernon facility since 2002, says if it does not win approval for its plan to sell Vermont Yankee and five other nuclear power plants to a spin-off company called Enexus, it will likely close the Vermont nuclear plant as scheduled in 2012. Continue reading →

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