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San Onofre nuclear decommissioning funds may go into risky investments

 

CHANGES EYED FOR NUCLEAR-PLANT MONEY, UT San Diego 10 Sept 12 Rules on investment of decommissioning trust funds may be loosened. Utility regulators are considering loosening strict investment restrictions on money set aside for the eventual dismantling of California’s two nuclear plants. Continue reading →

September 12, 2012 Posted by | business and costs, USA | 2 Comments

Did you know that USA has a Green Party?

SO YOU’RE NOT HAPPY with Obama but you’re worried that Romney might
win. Scott McLarty Green Party We’re all afraid of the GOP, but it’s time to be afraid of the
Democrats too. Both parties keep moving further to the right.

The result is more war, more corporate power & redistribution of wealth from working Americans to the One Percent, more erosion of the Constitution, more disregard of global warming & other threats to our planet. This describes Obama as well as Romney. We can keep rubberstamping the two-party status quo for the rest of history. Or we can build a strong pro-peace pro-environment party that supports working people & accepts no corporate money. We can start by voting for local, state, & national Green candidates like Jill Stein.

September 12, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

INS (InternationalNuclear Services ) second class safety for MOX transport

INS (InternationalNuclear Services — a subsidiary of the NDA) appears hell-bent on
shipping this MOX fuel to Germany on a third-hand ship with second class safety and kept afloat on first class INS PR alone

International Nuclear Services Putting Business Before Safety http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/international-nuclear-services-putting-business-before-safety by Tom Kerwick  Whilst I was checking up on C.O.R.E. (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) this weekend, I read of latest plans to ship plutonium MOX fuel assemblies from Sellafield to the small German port of Nordenham near Bremerhaven on the NDA’s (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) ageing ship Atlantic Osprey. Continue reading →

September 12, 2012 Posted by | safety, UK | Leave a comment

Survivors of Hiroshima atomic bomb attack visit Israel, hold protest against nuclear arms WP  September 10 JERUSALEM — A group of survivors from the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack have held a protest in Jerusalem calling for the end of nuclear weapons.

The group visited Jerusalem holy sites on Monday and held signs reading “Nuclear Abolition” in Japanese….. Sixty-nine-year-old Hiroshima survivor Nagayama Iwao says “any use of the atom (bomb) should be forbidden, even for intimidation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/survivors-of-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-attack-visit-israel-hold-protest-against-nuclear-arms/2012/09/10/64a0e1ea-fb63-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html

September 12, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

“The world today produces 70 — 80 million cars every year. We only need four million turbines once every 30 years,” Jacobson reasoned, arguing it was certainly feasible….

Study says wind could power the world  Perth Now, AAP September 11, 2012  THERE’S enough wind to power the world many times over but it would take a massive infrastructure investment to harness it that analysts say is not realistic. Continue reading →

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China to double solar capacity target by 2015 China to double the installed solar power capacity target by 2015 to 40GW, which is a development indicator in the 12th five year plan of the world’s second-largest economy,the 21st Century Business Herald reported….http://www.morningwhistle.com/html/2012/Company_Industry_0911/213962.html

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