German Govt offered billions to keep aging nuclear reactors going
German utilities offer billions in nuclear deal, Business Week, By VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN, 16 Aug 2010, Germany’s utilities are offering to pay the government billions to let them keep their nuclear power plants running longer instead of shutting them down as mandated under current law, energy giant RWE AG said Monday.The companies also want the government to back off a proposed tax on nuclear fuel as part of the deal………German utilities offer billions in nuclear deal – BusinessWeek
Uranium looking like a poor investment
U.S. taxpayers fork out for commercial nuclear radioactivity cleanup
The department rejected a previous request for a loan guarantee in 2009.
Separately, Duke Energy Corp. and Areva SA in mid-2009 announced tentative plans for a 1,650-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Piketon campus. That project remains unscheduled pending site review and exploration of potential federal government financial assistance.
Piketon plant to get $2.1 billion for cleanup work – Business First of Columbus, August 18, 2010, Environmental cleanup of a former uranium processing plant in south-central Ohio will get a boost under a $2.1 billion, 10-year contract the U.S. Department of Energy awarded on Aug. 16. Continue reading
Colorado uranium mill not likely to reopen
Uranium pullback, High Country News, Jodi Peterson | Aug 18, 2010 It looks like Colorado won’t have a functioning uranium mill anytime soon – to the relief of anti-nuclear advocates.We reported in July that Cotter Corp. was planning to reopen its Canon City site by 2014. Legislation passed this spring means that Cotter would have to clean up prior contamination before starting to process uranium ore again. Now the company plans to stop the monitoring it was doing for toxic emissions at the site — a signal that it won’t continue trying to reopen the mill…….
Huge tidal energy project successfully started
Tidal energy has the potential to be a billion dollar industry in Maine within the next seven to ten years, creating hundreds of jobs.
Largest Ocean Energy Device Ever Installed In U.S. Waters Generates Electricity at Design Capacity Advanced Technology Revolutionizes the U.S. Ocean Energy Industry Renewable Energy World, August 18, 2010, PORTLAND, ME, Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC), an industry leader in tidal, river and deep-water ocean current energy technology and projects, announced today that its Beta Power System, the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents at its Cobscook Bay site in Eastport, Maine…….. Continue reading
Push for renewable energy, not nuclear, in South Africa
Greenpeace pushes for renewable energy in SAfrica, Google hosted news, By MIA SNYMAN (AP) – 19 Aug, 2010, JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has renewable resources that can provide solutions to the country’s energy problems and create jobs — while fighting global warming, Greenpeace officials said Wednesday.”Greenpeace’s estimate that 78,000 green jobs could be created is conservative,” Glen Mpufane, who heads a development group, who joined a Greenpeace forum on green jobs on Wednesday…..
Environmental groups in South Africa are campaigning for a major move toward renewable energy rather than nuclear and coal energy……
The Associated Press: Greenpeace pushes for renewable energy in SAfrica
Russia supplying fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactor
Iran’s Nuclear Power Plant to be Fueled, Fox News, August 13, 2010 – by: Amy Kellogg Moscow has announced that it will start loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on August 21st……according to Mark Fitzpatrick, it can’t even manufacture the fuel for Bushehr. Continue reading
Nuclear plant taken offline at Quad Cities
Exelon takes Unit 2 of Quad Cities nuclear power plant offline in Illinois | Canadian Business Online, 19 Aug 2010, CORDOVA, Ill. (AP) – Exelon Corp. took Unit 2 of its Quad Cities nuclear generating station offline when one of two reactor recirculation water pumps tripped.According to Exelon, the pumps balance water flow through the reactor. In a statement, the electric utility said technical experts are looking into why the equipment did not function properly….
How much tritium was in Braidwood nuclear plant steam release?
NRC sends special inspection team to Braidwood | Chicago Breaking Business, By Julie Wernau | 19 Aug 2010, .The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that a special inspection team has been sent to the Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant Continue reading
Domini Social Investments will invest in energy, but not nuclear
Before nuclear power can be seriously considered to be an effective answer to climate change, we need to solve the nuclear waste problem and we need to address the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons proliferation.
To date there is no way to distinguish between the uranium enrichment process that is necessary to fuel a nuclear power plant and the enrichment of uranium for use in a nuclear bomb.
Social funds: BP, the 1960s, and greed | The Energy Collective, August 16, 2010 by Marc Gunther“.…..I heard from Adam Kanzer, who is managing director and general counsel at Domini Social Investments.….. Continue reading
India’s govt makes several changes to the Nuclear Liability Bill
it [ The Indian Government]has been keen that a liability law is in place ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to India in November. .
Amended Bill blocks private role in nuclear power – India – The Times of India, 18 Aug 2010, NEW DELHI: The government has ensured a safe passage for the civil liability for nuclear damage bill after sealing a deal with BJP on Tuesday by agreeing to bump up the “no-fault” liability from Rs 500 crore to Rs 1,500 crore and a guarantee against private firms running nuclear power plants. Continue reading
Russia censoring news about wildfires and radiation
Shoigu also demanded that those who reported on the spread of radiation fro fires burning in contaminated areas be made known to authorities.
As a consequence, public information about fires in areas posing a potential radiation hazard were ripped down from government websites,
Russia emergency minister threatens to ‘deal with’ those spreading radiation ‘rumours’ about wildfires in contaminated areas NEW YORK/ST PETERSBURG –Bellona, Charles Digges, Alexander Shurshev contributed from St. Petersburg , 17Aug 2010, Russian emergency officials have come up with a novel tool to smother the spate of heat wave caused wildfires that threaten to tear through radioactively contaminated forests and lands during the country’s hottest summer, releasing radiation: pull information about fires in radioactively contaminated areas and threaten punishment for those spreading “rumours.” Continue reading
No ‘nuclear renaissance’ – in fact it’s a decline
The view that the amount of energy derived from nuclear power worldwide will continue its slow decrease during the coming years is further supported by the 2008 annual report of the Euratom Supply Agency, which coordinates the long-term uranium needs of nuclear power plants within the European Union. According to the agency’s forecast, uranium demand in Europe will fall from 21,747 tonnes in 2010 to roughly 16,000 tonnes by 2024.
The reality of nuclear energy is inconsistent with dreams of a renaissanceNuclear energy is not on the rise – the hard facts point to a continuing, slow phase-out around the world Michael Dittmar guardian.co.uk, 16 August 2010 Repeatedly in recent years there have been calls for a revival of nuclear power. Yet that renaissance never seems to come. Continue reading
Global warming demands massive effort to prevent global disasters
The events of this summer show how vulnerable our societies are to weather-related extremes. But what we see now is happening after only 0.8C of global warming. With swift and decisive action, we can still limit global warming to a total of 2C or a bit less. Even that much warming would require a massive effort to adapt to weather extremes and rising sea levels, which needs to start now.
Will this summer of extremes be a wake-up call? This decade has been marked by a number of weather extremes – which show how vulnerable our societies are• 2010 could be among warmest years recorded by man Stefan Rahmstorf * guardian.co.uk, 16 August 2010 Continue reading
Russia’s top nuclear centre surrounded by fires
“Wildfires have surrounded the nuclear centre from all sides,” said Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, on Sunday.
Russian nuclear centre still under threat, THE HINDU, Vladimir Radyuhin, 16 Aug 2010, Russia’s main nuclear centre in the town of Sarov in central Russia is still threatened by forest fires after two weeks of desperate efforts to bring the situation under control. Continue reading
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