Damn Yankee’s Nuclear Power Plant!
by virtue of a long-standing agreement with Entergy, the Vermont Legislature can deny Yankee’s request for a 20-year extension…Indeed, a desperate national industry now pushing for massive federal subsidies to build new reactors may not survive a flood of elderly clunkers being forced to close by the weight of their own contamination…
Vermont’s radioactive nightmare FDL The Seminal Harvey Wasserman
February 10, 2010
Like a decayed flotilla of rickety steamers, at least 27 of America’s 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking radioactive tritium, which is linked to cancer if inhaled or ingested through the throat or skin.
The fallout has been fiercest at Vermont Yankee, where a flood of cover-ups has infuriated and terrified near neighbors who say the reactor was never meant to operate more than 30 years, and must now shut. Continue reading
National renewable energy standard needed in USA
Renewable energy executives urging U.S. clean power standard Energy Digital, by Sarah Wolfe 11 Feb 2010
With China moving ahead of the pack in alternative energy production, executives from the US wind, solar, biomass and geothermal sectors are pushing for a federal standard for renewable energy that could create more jobs and economic growth for the nation.
With a federal standard, a larger percentage of power generation would need to come from sustainable resources in the US. Continue reading
Sarah Palin and the push for war on Iran
(USA) Palin beating drums of war on Iran PRESS TV, 08 Feb 2010 US conservative darling Sarah Palin says she thinks President Barack Obama should declare war on Iran. Continue reading
U.S. Energy Department carefully helping private uranium producers
the additional government supplies in the market could have depressed prices, making it difficult for producers to expand operations……….
Energy Dept cancels surplus uranium transfers
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department has canceled plans to put into the market during 2011 extra government-owned surplus uranium supplies, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress on Thursday, Continue reading
Protest growing against uranium storage plant at Aldermaston
(UK) Anti-nuclear protestors dressed as Romans visit council offices to object to proposed development at AWE Green Reading 5 Feb 2010 A Group of ‘Romans’ visited the West Berkshire Council offices bearing ‘gifts’ of radio-active waste. The Romans were, infact, members of the Nuclear Information Service (NIS), a pressure group, who are protesting against the latest development at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). Continue reading
Stephen Chu’s religious faith that a nuclear waste solution will be found
(Despite 60 years of fruitless search ) “Chu, testifying to the panel members on the budget proposal, maintained that “we’re going to have a solution to nuclear, the backend fuel issue…”
GOP: Chu Sending Mixed Signals on NuclearEnergy and Environment National Journal Amy Harder
February 4, 2010
Republican senators today accused Energy Secretary Steven Chu of sending mixed signals to the nuclear industry. Continue reading
Tax-payers giving a blank check to the U.S. nuclear industry?
“With hundreds of billions in bailouts already on the shoulders of US taxpayers, the country cannot afford to move forward with a program that could easily become the black hole for hundreds of billions more,” …The Senate energy bill approved by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee last June would create a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) within the DOE that could distribute a virtually unlimited number of loan guarantees without any congressional oversight.
Obama’s Nuclear Giveaway, Buried in the budget is a plan to underwrite the nuclear industry’s revival.
Mother Jones 4 Feb 2010 By Kate Sheppard
“… the Obama administration’s 2011 budget proposes tripling the loan guarantee program—from the $18.5 billion that Congress has already approved to $54.5 billion. The program’s expansion is just one of several signs that the Obama administration is throwing its muscle behind the nuclear industry’s push for a massive expansion. Continue reading
Unnecessary nuclear and uranium projects get $billions in U.S. budget
POGO is Shocked by Wasteful Spending in DOE Budget
Project on Government Oversight, Ingrid Drake, 4 Feb 2010 In the midst of initiating a federal spending freeze, it is shocking that President Obama’s FY 2011 Budget Request released this week pours billions of dollars into two unnecessary nuclear weapons construction projects. There is no demonstrated requirement for either the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) at the Y-12 National Security Complex nor the Chemical and Metallurgical Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
“Contrary to the spin, neither of these facilities are needed to ensure the safety, security and effectiveness of our weapons,” says Peter Stockton, POGO Senior Investigator.
In addition, DOE does not even have an estimated cost for completing the projects, as the budget describes their total costs as “TBD.” “To Be a Disaster,” is what POGO fears that term means, based on DOE’s atrocious record of soaring construction costs and overruns. For example, the cost of the Highly Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility (HEUMF) at Y-12 ballooned from $97 million to $549 million. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) project also experienced dramatically increased costs and delayed completion dates. The Department of Energy sold the NIF to Congress in the early 1990s with a reported cost estimate of $700 million and an original completion date of 2002, yet its most recent cost estimate is $5-6 billion with a completion date of 2010 — more than 600 percent over budget and at least 8 years behind schedule.
Despite the 10 percent spending increase on the nation’s nuclear weapons budget, one of the only areas to see reduced growth is the budget for weapons dismantlement, which was sliced almost in half….http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2010/02/pogo-is-shocked-by-wasteful-spending-in-doe-budget.html
Nuclear power on the nose in Italy
‘We are against nuclear power and today in Rome most of the regions stood for this idea’.
Political risk for Italian nuclear World Nuclear News 3 Feb 2010 Italy’s inter-regional body rejected the nuclear energy policy proposed by Silvio Berlusconi’s government during a late January session. Meanwhile, regional elections are approaching, giving rise to fears for Italy’s nuclear renaissance. Continue reading
Young Obama supporters tell Obama – Nuclear is Wrong Way
Dear Mr. President – Nuclear Power Will Set Back Race Against Global Warming « It’s Getting Hot In Here 2 Feb 2010 Dear President Obama,According to a report released by Environment America in November, the long process to build nuclear plants along with the carbon intensity of production will set us back in the fight against global warming. The next 5-10 years are CRITICAL for the future of my generation and the planet that your daughters will inherit. Continue reading
An idealistic U.S. President Influenced by Nuclear Warriors
I must admit that I have been worried since he appointed Steven Chu from Los Alamos Labs as his Secretary of Energy and John Holdren as science advisor because they are both enthusiastic endorsers of nuclear power
Helen Caldicott: How Did an Idealistic President Become a Champion of Nuclear Power and By Default, Weapons Proliferation? THE HUFFINGTON POST 2 Feb 2010 In 1983, Barack Obama, a senior at Columbia University described his visions of a “nuclear free world” in an article titled “Breaking the War Mentality” in the university newsmagazine, Sundial. He described discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and called for the abolition of the global arsenals of tens of thousands of deadly warheads.As a candidate he acknowledged that he was worried for the safety of his children who lived in Illinois because it has the highest concentration of nuclear reactors in the US – and opposed further nuclear subsidies. “I am not a nuclear proponent,” he said. Continue reading
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is a political issue
If you thought Vermont Yankee was a big election issue before, it just became even more so
Nuclear politics VY vote this year? Maybe, Burlington Free Press 1 Feb 2010 Once upon a time, the Legislature was balking at voting on Vermont Yankee’s future and the governor who was pushing for a vote. Now that tritium is leaking into groundwater at the plant from pipes that company officials said didn’t exist, things appear different. Continue reading
Some Obama supporters unhappy about tripling of Nuclear Loan Guarantees
the administration’s efforts also could alienate the environmental wing of its base.
Obama To Propose Tripling Of Nuclear Loan Guarantees THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Siobhan Hughes,; Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal and Christine Buurma of Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this article.) * JANUARY 29, 2010 Continue reading
Finance facts could end Obama’s pro-nuclear push
some experts are predicting a repeat of the experience of the 1980’s, in which the
costs of many projects soared in price until they became prohibitive and the plants were abandoned before completion.
Nuclear Power Gets Strong Push From White House
The New York Times By MATTHEW L. WALDJanuary 29, 2010The Obama administration moved vigorously on two fronts Friday to promote nuclear power, proposing to triple federal loan guarantees for new projects and appointing a high-level panel to study what to do with nuclear waste. Continue reading
Obama understands that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean
Indeed, Obama knows better. Candidate Obama understood that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean. Watch this video taken early in his presidential campaign,
Nuclear Information and Resource Service Michael Mariotte 28 Jan 2010 If you were watching last night’s State of the Union address, I’m sure you were as appalled as I was when President Obama suddenly spoke in support of “safe, clean nuclear power” (not to mention support for offshore oil drilling and “clean” coal).
Politically, Obama likely was simply parroting the effort being led by Sens. John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham to gain support for a climate bill by adding massive subsidies for nuclear power, offshore oil and “clean” coal. But recycling George W. Bush energy talking points is no way to solve the climate crisis or develop a sustainable energy policy.
Indeed, Obama knows better. Candidate Obama understood that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean. Watch this video taken early in his presidential campaign, in which he expresses concern for his daughters growing up in Chicago and surrounded by nuclear reactors. He says he is not a nuclear proponent and speaks out directly against taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power…www.nirs.org
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