French nuclear company marketing a dirty old solution
Accident casts fresh doubt on nuclear safety, Baltimore Sun 25 Nov 09 In the current issue of Scientific American, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi propose a technically feasible, clean and efficient energy future from wind, water and sun. They note that wind – at 7 cents per kwh and projected to drop to 4 cents by 2020 – is getting cheaper than new nuclear, which is growing more expensive. Continue reading
France’s EPR nuclear reactors are not safe
Interview with Giuseppe Onufrio, Director of Greenpeace Italia. 22 Nov 09 Giuseppe Onufrio: “In Finland and in France they are busy building these new power stations known as Epr, which are a French design. In this regard, a few months ago we discovered that these power stations have never been approved due to the fact that their emergency systems do not meet the minimum nuclear safety requirements, Continue reading
USA would be wise not to follow France’s nuclear path
French Nuclear Energy Policy – a cake the US may do well not to consume too much of Treehugger, by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 11.22.09 “………………. US politicians now cite the French energy policy example with excitement; claiming that nation’s high reliance on nuclear power is exemplary. Continue reading
Nuclear Power- a (French) Socialist Solution
Nuclear Socialism, YGLESIAS 7 November 09 the American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so at odds with American conservatives’ ardor for the free market. Continue reading
Nuclear power- no good in heat, no good in cold?
France’s not-so-nuclear winter Greenpeace 4 Nov 09
You may remember that back in July this year, the summer weather put a third of France’s nuclear reactors out of action. It was just too darn hot to keep the reactors safely cooled and France was forced to import electricity from the UK.
So, we can expect things to improve now the colder winter weather is on the way? Er, not so much… Continue reading
Nuclear plant problems threaten France’s winter electricity
Winter power cuts could be imposed The Connexion November 03, 2009 HOUSEHOLDS in France could be hit by a series of power cuts this winter as the electricity network tries to cope with a shortage of supply. Continue reading
Crisis of confidence in French nuclear industry
France tries to calm nuclear reactor fears FT.com By Peggy Hollinger in Paris November 4 2009 France was trying to avert a crisis of confidence yesterday over its new-generation EPR nuclear reactor after regulators in three countries raised questions over control and safety systems. Continue reading
Safety problems cause AREVA’s shares to fall
Areva shares fall over nuclear safety concerns New reactor design criticised by French politicians By Nina Sovich
PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) – A new generation of French nuclear power reactors came under attack Continue reading
Critical build-up of plutonium in France’s nuclear plant
The French Connection: plutonium problems in France linked to Duke’s Catawba reactor & the Savannah River Site MOX plant The New Liberator Tom Clement, 28 Oct 09 “…………..a serious problem at a plutonium facility in Cadarche, France, which is under the control of the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA, French Atomic Energy Commission). This facility, the Atelier de Technologie du Plutonium (ATPu), produced plutonium fuel (MOX) and is being cleaned out and decommissioned. Due to poor accounting methods of the plutonium in the facility, it was discovered that the build-up of plutonium had reached amounts of concern for a nuclear criticality incident, which has been big news in France.
Documentary exposes scandal of France’s nuclear waste
Unclean Energy Truth Out 10 October 2009by: | Libération “Waste, the Nuclear Nightmare,” a documentary by Eric Guéret and Laure Noualhat, produced by Arte France and Bonne pioche. Demain, 20h45, Arte. 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
Work stops with safety fears at French nuclear plant
Watchdog suspends work at French plutonium plant
PARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The French nuclear safety watchdog ASN has suspended work dismantling a plutonium technology plant over worker safety fears, after almost three times as much plutonium was found at the site than expected. Continue reading
France making it hard for Polynesian nuclear victims
Nuclear payments blow to French Polynesia
By Geraldine Coutts for Radio Australia
ABC News 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………….Roland Oldham, president of the Mororua e Tatou Association representing French Pacific nuclear test workers, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat the actions of the French Senate reflected arrogance in metropolitan France towards its territories. Continue reading
EDF and AREVA send “really dirty” radioactive stuff to Siberia
EDF ‘sends used nuclear material’ to Siberia EDF, the French firm which owns eight of Britain’s nuclear power stations has shipped hundreds of tons of used radioactive material to Russia.
Deception surrounds nuclear waste shipments to Russia
Recycling Atomic WasteNuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Carparks SPIEGEL ONLINE 13 Oct 09 The largest utility company in Europe, Électricité de France, has been accused of storing nuclear waste in an open air car park in Siberia. Continue reading
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