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Failing Nuclear industry trying to save itself in reactor sales to China?

Here’s how the shell game could work. If the coal industry could sell outdated, pollution-spewing, coal-fired power plants to China, could the nuclear power industry do the same thing? Could they get rid of their unresolved and unfunded decommissioning headache with the same trick?

(USA) How Do You Say “Oh Crap!” in Chinese?, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Alexia Parks, February 22, 2010 China is picking up the worst of American technology along with its best. For example, to keep up with U.S. consumer demand, China has bought and imported the worst of our outdated, pollution-spewing, coal-fired power plants. American coal power plant owners made out like bandits in the sale and transfer of outdated technology. Under-regulated, their Chinese counterparts have made millions on their rapid manufacture of products for the U.S. market…………. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, China | , , , , , | Leave a comment

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge against nuclear plant

South Carolina’s nuclear fight with Obama heads to Supreme Court, South Carolina News 23 Feb 2010 In what could have far-reaching implications for efforts to build new nuclear power plants in the U.S., the South Carolina Supreme Court as set a hearing date on a challenge against a new nuclear reactor project planned in the state. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | Legal, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear lobby trying to sell a technological corpse

when you hear some hired gun selling nukes, remember: even $645 million can only buy so much green lipstick for a dead radioactive pig.

Harvey Wasserman: $600 Million Lipstick for a Dead Radioactive Pig, 23 Feb 2010 “……In the face of that $645 million cash tsunami, grassroots activists still stopped $50 billion in loan guarantees three times since 2007. No new US reactor construction has started since the 1970s, when public opinion was over 70% in favor of atomic power, and Richard Nixon promised 1000 US reactors by the year 2000.
With green jobs advocate Van Jones ditched and Obama now openly in the nuclear camp, atomic energy is still a loser. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | spinbuster, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

UK’s nuclear navy scrapyard problem

Navy dock in danger of becoming a ‘nuclear dumping ground’ The Guardian Matthew Taylor, 22 February 2010The MoD has put forward plans to use the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth as a centre for dismantling radioactive submarines
Military chiefs are running out of space to store the UK’s growing number of obsolete nuclear submarines, prompting fears that one of the country’s busiest naval ports is set to be turned into a nuclear scrapyard. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | UK, wastes | , , , , , | Leave a comment

How the nuclear lobby buys politicians and media

$600 Million Lipstick for a Dead Radioactive Pig THE HUFFINGTON POST, Harvey Wasserman February 22, 2010The mystery has been solved.Where is this “new reactor renaissance” coming from?There has been no deep, thoughtful re-making or re-evaluation of atomic technology. No solution to the nuke waste problem. No making reactors economically sound. No private insurance against radioactive disasters by terror or error. No grassroots citizens now desperate to live near fragile containment domes and outtake pipes spewing radioactive tritium at 27 US reactors.No, nothing about atomic energy has really changed.Except this: $645 million spent on lobbying and media manipulation. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, spinbuster, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Utah resisting dumping of depleted uranium radioactive nuclear wastes

Utah gov: 2 trains of SC waste won’t come to Utah, THE HUFFINGTON POST,  Brock Bergakis, February 22, 2010. SALT LAKE CITY — About 6,500 tons of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina won’t be coming to Utah as originally planned, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Monday in announcing a verbal agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Obama passes nuclear risks on to taxpayer

Obama asks taxpayers to shoulder nuclear risk MNN – Mother Nature Network, by Karl Burkart, 23 Feb 2010 Banks won’t touch them they are so financially risky. So why does Obama want U.S. taxpayers to fund nuclear plants when there is a 50% chance they will fail? Sun, Feb 21 2010

Whether you are Republican or Democrat, pro-nuclear or anti-nuclear, you probably will agree with me that it is wrong to ask the American taxpayers to fund an investment that is so risky it has a 50 percent chance of failing. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | 1, politics, USA | , , | Leave a comment

Australia: nuclear waste dumping for aborigines, not whites

Australia’s nuclear waste policy is not so much ‘evidence-based’ and ‘out of sight, out of mind.’

How to site a nuclear waste dump – Crikey.

by Bernard Keane

22 February 2010 Apart from the dispute between traditional owners, there’s a more fundamental question of why remote areas are preferred for nuclear waste dumps. The prerequisites routinely mentioned – geological stability and distance from groundwater – can readily be achieved elsewhere, without the expense and danger of transporting nuclear waste thousands of kilometres. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | , , , , , | 1 Comment

Alec Baldwin on the truth about nuclear reactors

The Truth About Nuclear Power in Utility Reactors THE HUFFINGTON POST, Alec Baldwin: February 22, 2010 “………The reactor operations at Brookhaven were reported to have released billions of gallons of tritiated water into the headwaters of the Peconic River during the period of its operations from 1965 to 1996……… Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | spinbuster, USA | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear plants are not safe from terrorist attack

Major Fallout Predicted Over Obama’s Nuclear Power Proposal. by: Grace Huang, t r u t h o u t 22 February 2010“……..According to NuclearBailout.org, though Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, said that he had considered targeting a nuclear facility instead of the World Trade Center, nuclear reactors are still “not required to be protected against air attack.” Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | safety, USA | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

USA to Scrap Nuclear-armed Cruise Missiles

Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles to be Scrapped, U.S. Says globalsecuritynewswire.o Feb. 22, 2010 A forthcoming U.S. nuclear strategy review is likely to call for elimination of the country’s nuclear-tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles, Japanese officials told Kyodo News today (see GSN, July 31, 2009).Plans to slowly phase out the missiles, unofficially communicated to Tokyo earlier this year, were prompted in part by the expense of caring for the weapons. The United States pulled the missiles from its submarines as the Cold War ended, but the weapons were maintained in case they again became necessary, U.S. nuclear experts said.

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles to be Scrapped, U.S. Says

February 23, 2010 Posted by | USA, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear industry – dirty and no solution to climate change

Nuclear power is too risky – CNN.com Mark Z. Jacobson,  22 Feb 2010 “……The on-the-ground footprint of nuclear power, through its plants and uranium mines, is about 1,000 times larger than it is for wind. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

Oh goodie, a bloody coup in Niger will lift uranium prices!

Niger military coup good for uranium? Financial Post.: February 19, 2010,  by Eric Lam A bloody military coup is “potentially positive” for uranium prices, a note from Edward Sterck with BMO Capital Markets says….. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | general | , , | Leave a comment

NATO States want nuclear arms removed from Europe

Five Nato states to urge removal of US nuclear arms in Europe  guardian.co.uk, julian Borger,  22 February 2010 “…..
Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Luxembourg will make a joint declaration “in the next few weeks”, a Belgian official said, with the intention of influencing a growing debate within Nato over the usefulness of nuclear weapons in alliance strategy………..Official figures are not published, but there are thought to be between 150 and 240 “tactical” nuclear weapons in Europe, in the form of aerial bombs. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have 10-20 each, but most are stockpiled at US bases in Italy (70-90) and in Turkey (50-90)………………Nato officials are due to meet in Washington tomorrow, and in Rome next week, to discuss the future role of nuclear weapons in the alliance’s “new strategic concept”, which is due to be decided this year.

Five Nato states to urge removal of US nuclear arms in Europe | World news | guardian.co.uk

February 23, 2010 Posted by | EUROPE, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

Protest rally against nuclear plant

Nuclear Power Opponents Rally Against Vermont Yankee VPR News, Susan Keese,  02/22/10 – Brattleboro, VTNuclear power opponents from at least three states converged in Brattleboro for a rally Sunday.They called for Vermont Yankee to stop operating immediately until the source of radioactive tritium leaking from the plant is found.

And they called for a permanent shut down when the plant’s license expires in 2012.

VPR’s Susan Keese has more.

VPR News: Nuclear Power Opponents Rally Against Vermont Yankee

February 23, 2010 Posted by | general | , | 1 Comment

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