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The week’s nuclear news in brief

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Nuclear “decommissioning”  United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) is   concerned about the global unsolved problem of dealing with dying and dead nuclear reactors

Japan – Fukushima  nuclear reactor heating up again.  Anti nuclear protests by thousands, in Japan.  Japanese nuclear companies are happy, as they are getting lucrative contracts to do radiation cleanup work.

Poland: a refrendum in Baltic Sea resort Mielno results in 94% rejection of nuclear power plant.

USA:  NRC approves 2 new nuclear reactors, and within  aweek, it’s expected that an $8.3 billion tax-payer funded loan guarantee will be provided for them. Not everyone in Washington is happy about this.

Britain:  Sellafield  nuclear reprocessing project in trouble, especially financial.

Russia:  government deception over the true danger of athe fire on a nuclear submarine. Medical science showing that exposure to ionising radiation to male  foetuses increases the risk of cancer of the testicles.

France – Government is  to  pressing on with expensive safety upgrades of existing nuclear reactors, because that’s cheaper than new ones. Nuclear power becoming an election issue in France.

February 14, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes