Obama making ambiguous noises about nuclear power
by Christina Macpherson President Obama is making some rather ambiguous noises about nuclear energy. This is, of course, in the context of present debates on the USA’s Climate Bill. And we know that the Democrats are so keen to get some sort of Climate Bill passed, that just about anything goes, even nuclear, if the word “Climate” is tacked on to the Bill.And, of course, there’s always the dear old “military-industrial complex” , and now, the pressure to somehow put so-called “peaceful” nukes, into nuclear disarmament plans.
Perhaps Obama is just placating them all with these seemingly pro-nuke noises. He can’t be unaware of the financial and waste-problem debacle that is the present state of this dying industry. Continue reading
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Video: MIT Students Grade Obama On Green Energy By SARAH BUSH and ANDREW PHELPS October 23, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — President Obama got a glance at some of the world’s most innovative clean energy technologies during a visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday. In a speech, he touted a major climate change bill and urged Americans to lead on renewable energy. But Mr. Obama’s critics say he has hardly made any progress toward making America “green.” We interviewed MIT students before and after his speech for their assessment.
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WHAT Nuclear Power Renaissance?
Nuclear Power Renaissance? Thirty years after Three Mile Island, nuclear is still too risky. But now the risks have shifted from physical to financial. Technology Review Nov/Dec 2009 By Matthew L. Wald “………………the nuclear industry faces tremendous risks, though their nature has changed since 1979. As the possibility of an accident that panics or injures the neighbors has diminished, the likelihood has grown that even a properly functioning new reactor will be unable to pay for itself. Continue reading
Anti-uranium mining, anti-nuclear movement in India
Mounting pressure against new uranium mining and nuclear power plants NewsPost Online by admin i 19 Oct 09 There is a growing civil society movement against the new uranium mining and nuclear power plants in India. Continue reading
French Polynesians: almost impossible to get nuclear compensation
Nuclear payments blow to French Polynesia ABC News By Geraldine Coutts for Radio Australia Oct 15, 2009 Activists fighting for victims of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are stunned by conditions imposed in a compensation bill by France’s upper house. Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman on the nuclear “renaissance”
Interview with Harvey Wasserman OpEd News Joan Brunwasser 6/10/09 “………….Skyrocketing costs and fierce resistance led to the cancellation of scores of reactors across the US in the 1970s and ’80s. Continue reading
Anti-nuclear activists arrested
Anti-nuke activists arrested Brattleboro reformer By BOB AUDETTE VERNON 30 Sept 09 — A group of women with a history of being arrested for protesting at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant were again escorted by police from the site on Monday after walking past the security shack at the plant’s front gate and settling into lawn chairs on the access drive to the reactor site. Continue reading
Gordon Brown is no environmentalist
UK: A Green Response to Gordon Brown’s Speech Green Christina September 29, 2009 “………Gordon Brown’s environmental credentials were further undermined Continue reading
Political opposition to Germany continuing with nukes
Greens vow to oppose U-turn on German nuclear phaseout
The Local : 28 Sep 09
Green groups vowed on Monday to hit the streets if Chancellor Angela Merkel’s victorious new coalition keeps its campaign promise to reverse Germany’s scheduled exit from nuclear power. Continue reading
Russian public opposition to new nuclear plant
Thousands of Russians Petition to Stop Nuclear Power Plant
Environment News service MOSCOW, Russia, September 25, 2009 (ENS) – More than 36,000 Russian citizens have signed a petition protesting the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region east of Moscow. Continue reading
French authorities try to silence anti-nuclear protest
Beyond Nuclear, Linda Gunter 25 Sept 09 With 10,000 people or more already expected to gather in the French border town of Colmar for an anti-nuclear rally on October 3, local authorities are attempting to renege on their agreement to allow the demonstration.
The rally, which will call for the phase-out of the nearby 30-year old Fessenheim reactor, the oldest in France, coincides with an expected decision to extend the reactor license for another 10 years. But now the prefect of Upper Rhine and the mayor of Colmar, both nuclear power advocates, are trying to move the rally out of the town center and away from the media spotlight.
Raising the specter of “German rioters”, news reports claim the authorities are preparing tear gas-armed police to disperse the rally. Beyond Nuclear joined many others in writing to the two officials, pointing out that their decision further confirms that the French nuclear system and democracy are incompatible.
China, Britain diverge on Iran nuclear sanctions
Thu Sep 24, 2009 By Ben Blanchard and Claudia Parsons
BEIJING/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China dampened expectations of further sanctions on Iran on Thursday, telling other major powers that more pressure would not persuade Tehran to halt its nuclear program.
In contrast, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the U.N. Security Council the world should consider “far tougher sanctions” if Iran continues to seek a nuclear weapon. Continue reading
Russia completes nuclear plant’s automated control system for Iran
Russia completes automated control system for Bushehr
TEHRAN TIMES NPP MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) September 24, 2009– Russia is completing work on an automated control system for Iran’s first nuclear power plant, the Russian civil nuclear power corporation Atomenergoprom said on Wednesday.The automated control system, which will be commissioned on a turnkey basis, is designed to control the NPP’s first reactor, Atomenergoprom said in a statement.
tehran times : Russia completes automated control system for Bushehr NPP
German Nuclear Plants’ Future Hangs On Election
German Nuclear Plants’ Future at Stake in Merkel Election Fight
By Brian Parkin and Nicholas Comfort Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) — Angela Seidler, a 41-year-old tour guide at E.ON AG’s Grafenrheinfeld nuclear-power plant in southern Germany, may have to find a new career before she retires. Continue reading
New Zealand committed to remain nuclear free
Key to stress nuclear-free commitment in UN speech
stuff.co.nz By TRACY WATKINS – The Dominion Post 21/09/2009 Prime Minister John Key will use his first speech to the United Nations to underscore his Government’s commitment to a nuclear-free New Zealand.In the first speech by a National prime minister to the United Nations General Assembly in nearly 15 years.Mr Key will reaffirm New Zealand’s anti-nuclear credentials and emphasise its determination to keep an independent foreign policy.
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