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Nuclear Waste Truck Overturns

Nuclear Waste Truck Overturns on I-81
16 WNEP

By Sarah Buynovsky

September 23, 2009 The truck overturned around 5 a.m. in Butler Township and crews were still working to safely clean up the mess 121 hours later.

The driver wasn’t hurt, but the contents of the truck spilled all over, causing concern.

“The problem that we have is it’s coming from a decommissioned nuclear facility that was owned by the department of energy,” said Stephen Bekanich of Luzerne County Emergency Management Agency. sing a meter, emergency officials said they found only low levels of radiation in the debris but they worried that cleanup could release higher levels of radiation………..

Nuclear Waste Truck Overturns on I-81 – WNEP

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, safety, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

China suggests:finance nuclear for poor countries, to beat global warming

Nuclear issues on the table in New York
World Nuclear News 23 September 2009
China wants to use nuclear power vigorously to fight climate change – with financial support from wealthier nations, according to a speech delivered to the UN yesterday. Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, China, spinbuster | , , , , | Leave a comment

Gordon Brown touts “atoms for peace” in New York

In Quotes: UN General Assembly
BBC News 23 September 2009
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN
“……………Britain will insist that the onus on non-nuclear states is that, in future, it is for them to prove they are not developing nuclear weapons.

Second, Britain will offer civil nuclear power to non nuclear states ready to renounce any plans for nuclear weapons: helping non-nuclear states acquire what President Eisenhower so memorably called “atoms for peace.”

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | In quotes: UN General Assembly

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, spinbuster, UK | , , , , | Leave a comment

New Russian nuclear plant not welcome in Kaliningrad

New Russian nuclear plant worries residents’
Greenpeace 24 Sept 09 Russia’s plans to build a nuclear power plant in its Baltic territory of Kaliningrad, hemmed in between Poland and Lithuania, has local residents and environmentalists worried. Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, environment, Russia | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, politics, Russia | , | Leave a comment

Nuclear power has 7 serious problems

7 Drawbacks To Using Nuclear Power
THE TECH EDITION  by Brett Stephens on September 23, 2009by Tim McDonald People may argue that 25% of the world’s energy is produced through nuclear power, but what they do not understand is all the problems it brings: Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, 1 NUCLEAR ISSUES, 2 WORLD | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Solar subsidies at some risk in German election

Center-right coalition could slash solar subsidies

By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch 22 Sept 09

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Though broad political support for renewable energy is certain to stay in place regardless of what government emerges after Sunday’s national election, a center-right coalition will likely push for bigger cuts to the state subsidies that have helped make Germany one of the global leaders in green energy. Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, ENERGY, Germany | | Leave a comment

Suntech Breaks Solar Panel Efficiency Record – Again

Suntech Breaks Solar Panel Efficiency Record – Again
Energy Matters 24 SEPTEMBER, 2009
“…… The company announced yesterday it had again beaten all previous records for polycrystalline silicon module conversion efficiency. The new world record conversion efficiency (aperture area only) was measured at 16.53% by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Germany. Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by | 1, 2 WORLD, ENERGY | | Leave a comment

Decentralised renewable power, not centralised nuclear, is the answer

the true Solartopian solution to our energy crisis.
COUNTER PUNCH Harvey Wasserman 23 Sept
Mycle Schneider, Paris-based author of WHAT FRANCE GOT WRONG in NUCLEAR ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, gets it right: “For least cost and greatest security, the energy future lies in affordable, distributed, superefficient technologies, smart grids and sustainable urbanism. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, 2 WORLD, ENERGY | , , , | Leave a comment

Kyrgyzstan: Soviet-Era Boom Town – radioactive pollution

EURASIA INSIGHT

KYRGYZSTAN: SOVIET-ERA BOOM TOWN LITERALLY BEING SOLD FOR SCRAP
EURASIANET David Trilling 9/22/09

“…………The town Min Kush bore another, more troubled, legacy: it was one of the Soviet Union’s leading sources of uranium. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, environment, Kyrgyzstan | , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, Germany, politics | , , , | Leave a comment

Uranium harm in Afghanistan and Iraq ket secret

‘Hush’ over Afghan mission must end
Rainbow Warrior September 20, 2009 Liberal Senator Colin Kenny says politicians are too afraid of offending soldiers and their families by questioning Canada’s role in Afghanistan, but it’s important to have an honest debate about the mission…… Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, Afghanistan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , | 1 Comment

In-situ uranium mining hazards for Colorado

Hope won’t protect us from Powertech’s in situ uranium mining near Nunn
coloradean.com Sue Ramsay, September 22, 2009 “………. the documented facts of the history of contamination from in situ leach uranium mining such as that proposed by Powertech Uranium Corp. in Weld County. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, environment, USA | , , , , , | Leave a comment

France’s failing atomic energy industry

Tom Friedman’s Idiocy Atomique
COUNTER PUNCH By HARVEY WASSERMAN 23 Sept 09 France’s atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame. Its 58 reactors are unpopular, unsafe, uneconomical, dirty, direct agents of global warming, weapons proliferators and major generators of atomic waste for which there is no management solution. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, business and costs, France | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Background on France’s uranium mining contamination

The Alliance 23 Sept 09 Why we are publishing such an old article? Well, there will be a series of articles about the past uranium mining in France and Canada. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by | 1, 2 WORLD, environment | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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