America’s expensive nuclear white elephant
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With the title “Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future”, it is pretty clear that President Obama’s expensive touring panel to “find a solution to nuclear wastes” is a waste of tax-payers’ money.
Wedded as they are to promoting nuclear energy, the panel has e an obvious, not a vested, interest in producing more nuclear waste. Hardly an encouraging outlook, as still there is no known way of getting rid of the existing wastes.
9,000 jobs in Ohio’s renewable energy
Ohio hosts 169 renewable energy firms: survey Cincinnati.Com, 5 Jan 2011, A new survey by the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center has identified 169 companies in Ohio as suppliers to the wind power and solar energy markets. The list includes more than a dozen companies in southwest Ohio including Cast-Fab Technologies in Oakley, Magna Machine Co. in Forest Park and Melink Corp. in Union Township, Clermont County.
The state’s manufacturing base, skilled workforce and policies encouraging renewable energy sources have helped spur development of more than 9,000 jobs across the state in the wind and solar markets according to Ohio Department of Development data sited by the survey. To view the survey, go to www.elpc.org/Ohio Energy. Ohio hosts 169 renewable energy firms: survey | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com
The basic facts on Texas Radioactive Waste Commission decision
Post your opinion on this site. Texas to US: Send Us Your Radioactive Waste – Commission OKs site, to be fourth such dump in country SHARE YOUR TAKE 
Texas to US: Send Us Your Radioactive Waste – NewserBy Kate Schwartz, Jan 5, Commission OKs site, to be fourth such dump in country– In a move sure to delight the nuclear-energy industry and depress environmentalists, a Texas commission yesterday set the ball rolling on legislation that would make the state the final destination for 36 states’ low-level radioactive-waste. Continue reading
USA’s Blue Ribbon Commission to talk about wastes and new nuclear reactors
The commission has until June to come up new strategies for dealing with the thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel…….They will also hear about plant Vogtle’s expansion. There Southern Company plans to build the first new nuclear reactors in decades
Commission Plans Nuclear Tour, GPB Newsw, By Noel Brown 5 Jan 2011, AUGUSTA, Ga. — A federal panel charged with finding new ways to store high level nuclear waste will tour the Savannah River Site near Augusta Thursday. The Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future was created by the Obama administration last year Continue reading
Secretive plans for nuclear reprocessing at Savannah Rivers Site
Clements will be first on a panel at 10:55 a.m. on Friday, January 7 and will speak to problems with the secretive push by special interest to pursue reprocessing at SRS, which is unsuited to receive more of the nation’s nuclear waste burden.
National Nuclear Waste Commission to Hear from Public, Environmental Groups on Friday in Augusta | WJBF–TV, 5 Jan 2011, Augusta, GA –-A national panel established by President Obama to decide the way forward with high-level nuclear waste will meet in Augusta, Georgia on Friday, January 7. Continue reading
Germany’s booming green collar jobs
Merkel’s Nuclear Embrace Earns Derision as German Clean-Power Costs Climb – Bloomberg , By Jeremy van Loon – Jan 5, 2011 “…………..Germany a green-power success story. It gets more than 17 percent of its electricity from wind turbines, solar arrays and other renewable resources, up from about 6 percent a decade ago, according to the German Renewable Energy Federation. Continue reading
Cape Cod’s tourism and water endangered by uranium industry
the same kind of issue has arisen again out in Colorado, concerned not with nuclear waste disposal and reprocessing as with the aborted “Atomic Park,” but with uranium mining and processing…..Even if no leak ever occurred, however, the presence of a large scale uranium industry in the area would kill the booming tourist industry -a real concern for the Cape fifty years ago as well…..
Nuclear Idiocy Redux -From Cape Cod To Telluride, Cape Cod Today, 5 Jan 2011, “………Proponents of the Atomic Park scheme, including the Buzzards Bay and Barnstable Chambers of Commerce, said it would be a huge boon for the Cape. In actuality, the idea was conceived as a huge boondoggle for the nuclear industry, a way to save billions in the proper handling and disposal of nuclear waste that would jeopardize the health and safety of all Cape Cod residents. Continue reading
New book details murky history of CIA and nuclear weapons proliferation
“What’s needed is a new multilateral legal regime that puts trafficking in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on a par with crimes against humanity. This won’t be easy, but blind adherence to narrow national objectives increases the risk to all of us.”
Authors: CIA waited years to stop nuclear proliferation | Raw Story, 6 Jan 2011, The US government is guilty of allowing nuclear materials and intelligence to proliferate among some of the most dangerous regimes in the world for more than 30 years, a new book alleges. Continue reading
36 states to dump nuclear waste close to Texas aquifer?
the landfill is close to a major aquifer that provides water to one-quarter of the country’s irrigated land as well as drinking water to thousands of people.
Commission Lets 36 States Dump Nuke Waste In Texas, NPR, by The Associated Presstext HOUSTON January 4, 2011, Texas commission approved rules on Tuesday that paves the way for 36 states to export low-level radioactive waste to a remote landfill along the Texas-New Mexico border. Continue reading
Texas – “bring me your poor huddled masses of radioactive waste”
some environmental groups said the plan would provide an incentive to the nuclear-energy industry to expand without coming up with better places to store its refuse.
“It’s defying logic to make more waste that we don’t have a good place to put,”……Opponents say a conflict of interest exists between the commission,
Texas to Take States’ Radioactive Discards – WSJ.com, 5 Jan 2011, By ANA CAMPOY A Texas commission Tuesday set in motion the importation of low-level radioactive-waste from 36 other states, a move long sought by the nuclear-energy industry and long opposed by environmentalists.The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission, which manages the state’s radioactive-waste dump, voted 5-2 to approve rules governing the process for accepting the out-of-state material. Continue reading
Bad smell coming from Texas Radioactive Waste Commission
Public vs. Texas Commission » Abilene Reporter-News, Nhele Oetken, 5 Jan 2011, “………the biggest stink coming from a nuclear waste dump in Andrews County is actually coming from the commission that’s supposed to regulate it.When faced with a highly controversial plan to make our state the nuclear waste dumping ground for the entire country, the Texas commission that handles radioactive waste disposal decided to have the public comment period end the day after Christmas.Someone needs to explain why they chose the holiday season, when the public is most likely to be distracted, to solicit these public comments. This is especially true since they had already withdrawn a similar proposal earlier in the year in the face of strong public opposition. Not only that, the e-mail address they published in the Texas Register was wrong and many people had their comments returned.It certainly looks like they’re trying to suppress public comment ………Letter: Public vs. Texas Commission » Abilene Reporter-News
Warren Buffett’s nuclear fuel bank won’t stop nuclear weapons spread
Can Warren Buffett stop the spread of nuclear weapons , TIME By Michael Crowley Jan. 04, 2011
“………..”The existence of the fuel bank won’t deter Iran from continuing with its enrichment program,” says Mark Hibbs, a nuclear-energy expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Iran spent billions of dollars on this investment and took considerable political risks to make it happen. Because of that enrichment program, Iran sits at the table with the world’s powers. By the same logic, the fuel bank on its own merits won’t deter other countries — such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey — from giving up the option of enriching uranium sometime in the future. Developing countries are suspicious that the fuel bank is a tool designed by a handful of advanced nuclear countries to discourage the rest from developing nuclear technology themselves.” ……
Solar – nuclear marriage in China
First Solar Teams With Guangdong Nuclear in China Bloomberg News – Jan 6, First Solar Inc., the world’s biggest maker of thin-film solar modules, will team up with a state- owned Chinese energy company to build a 30-megawatt solar plant in China’s Inner Mongolian desert.Tempe, Arizona-based First Solar will have a minority stake in the solar plant in the city of Ordos. China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development Co. will be the majority owner and operator of the project, according to a statement distributed before a briefing. First Solar will supply solar modules and provide engineering services, President Bruce Sohn told reporters in Beijing today…… Continue reading
China’s very very secretive nuclear program
China’s recent claim of a nuclear-power breakthrough is no piece of (yellow) cake – – WSJ, 5 Jan 2011, ……..The historic ties between China’s military nuclear program and its more recent commercial push may beg for transparency as the country seeks foreign help to move forward, from French power plant technology to American know-how in storage.
Transparency is also needed for another reason: China’s eight-year sentence last July for American geologist Xue Feng on charges that his possession of information about the country’s oil wells constituted theft of state secrets has caused widespread anxiety among foreigners working in China’s nuclear power sector. In interviews, these people reason that China’s nuclear program is so secretive already that any involvement could put them at risk given what happened to Mr. Xue……
Energy from the ocean
If these prototypes are successful, IHS believes the global ocean energy project pipeline is poised to begin scaling. They estimate that more than 1.8 GW of ocean projects in 16 countries are currently in the pipeline…….
Ocean Energy on the Verge of Rapid Growth? Green Investing By Rona Fried, Ph.d. | 05 January 2011, Surge of prototype projects could signal dramatic growth in ocean energy industry Is the global ocean energy industry at a turning point? Continue reading
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