Keep uranium mining ban – Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties
2 statewide groups back Va. uranium ban, CBS News 16 Nov 12 RICHMOND, Va. — Two groupsrepresenting hundreds of Virginia cities, counties and towns are recommending that the General Assembly keep a 30-year ban on uranium mining in place. Continue reading
Renewable energy the choice of most Americans – of all political views
Americans of all political persuasions really like renewable energy and will almost always choose it as a priority over fossil fuels.
Poll: Independent Voters Favor Renewable Energy Over Keystone XL Pipeline By 4-1 Margin Think Progress, By 
Stephen Lacey Nov 15, 2012 Environmental groups celebrated last fall when President Obama delayed the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would pipe carbon-intensive tar sands crude from Canadian strip mines to refineries in Texas.
Now that Obama is back in the White House for a second term, those same forces are banding together to encourage the president to kill the pipeline altogether. A new poll suggests that these groups have public opinion on their side. Continue reading
Wake up America, to Great Lakes nuclear waste threat – says Sarnia Mayor
“I do not believe on the American side that there’s very much knowledge what’s going on, on this side of the border.”
Let U.S. comment on Canada’s nuclear waste plans, says Sarnia 
mayor The Star.com, November 15, 2012 John Spears Business Reporter The Canadian mayor who helped stall transport of radioactive equipment on the Great Lakes is pushing for an “international debate” on Canada’s plan for storing nuclear waste.
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley has asked fellow mayors on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border to take a “strong position” on Canadian proposals for nuclear waste.
He has written to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative to get the ball rolling. Continue reading
Disastrous economic decline of USA’s nuclear industry
Exelon, the largest nuclear plant owner in the US had a disastrous 3rd quarter. The company’s profits dropped a staggering 51%. Even when sales rebounded in 2009 their income continued to drop
Just about every instance involved economics to some extent. The costs to repair and continue running the reactor vs. the profits from selling power became an unprofitable equation
US Nuclear Industry Meltdown, Simply Info November 14th, 2012 The issues have been lining up for a perfect storm of problems for the nuclear industry lately. It wasn’t just Fukushima that turned the industry on it’s head, many other factors have rocked the industry.
Ft. Calhoun nuclear station in Nebraska that has been shut down since April 2011 when a Missouri river flood threatened the safety of the plant. Continue reading
USA had 2 projects to use nuclear bombs for fracking natural gas
U.S. tried fracking for gas using nuclear bombs — Engineer: “I think it’s awesome” — Drilling to now be allowed within half-mile of blast site? (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/fracking-natural-gas-nuclear-bombs-radioactive-engineer-awesome-drilling-be-allowed-half-mile-blast-site-video-video
November 14th, 2012
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Source: IO9
Author: Esther Inglis-Arkell
Date: July 27, 2012
The Plowshare program was both a public relations ploy and a serious scientific study. It was an attempt to see if nuclear bombs could be used in peaceful constructive ways. If it had been successful, America would pretty much be humming by now.
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the entire focus of the atomic program was to create the weapon to end any war, even one as all-consuming as World War II. After the war, the makers of the bomb saw its power, and their own uneasy public, and tried to think of ways to both soothe the American people, and put the bombs to good use. Some of their minds drifted to the Bible verse in Isiah 2:4, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
[…] Project Rulison and Project Gasbuggy were an attempt to free natural gas with nuclear explosions. […]
Post Independent, Sept. 29, 2012: Project Rulison […] released 10 times the amount of natural gas as compared to traditional methods. However, the natural gas was contaminated with radioactivity, rendering it unmarketable. […] Recently, there has been much debate over whether it is now safe to drill in the buffer zone. In December of 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved drilling within the three-mile buffer zone, although permission has not yet been given to drill within a half-mile of the blast site.
Google’s Investment in Renewable Energy Approaches $1 Billion http://mashable.com/2012/11/15/googles-renewable-energy-1-billion/
November 15, 2012 by Todd Wasserman Google announced a $75 million equity stake in an Iowa wind farm on Thursday, bringing the company’s total investment in renewable energy to “more than $990 million.” Continue reading
USA Congress paralysed on the question of nuclear wastes
Will a Lame Duck Congress Confront Nuclear Waste? NYT, By MATTHEW L. WALD , 12 Nov 12, When Congress returns to Washington on Tuesday, it has a very long “to do” list. One item, probably not near the top, is figuring out what to do with nuclear waste, given that President Obama killed a proposed repository in Nevada in March 2010. This summer, a blue-ribbon commission advised that the process of seeking a storage site be restarted.
There has been little action so far, but Congress may soon get a push from the courts: a federal appeals panel indicated in August that it might order the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission to restart a licensing hearing to rule on whether the Nevada site, Yucca Mountain is suitable, even though President Obama has declared the site “off the table.” The court gave the executive and legislative branches a few months to provide funding for the licensing hearing as part of the budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Still, Congress has not acted yet, and it is far from clear that it will. (There is no final budget either, speaking of “to do” items.) Continue reading
Nevada staunchly opposing Yucca nuclear waste dump plan
Nevada Opposition to Yucca Mountain Strong as Ever http://www.ktvn.com/story/20074747/nevada-opposition-to-yucca-mountain-strong-as-ever Nov 12, 2012 A state official says last week’s elections did nothing to change Nevada’s staunch opposition to southern Nevada becoming home of a high-level nuclear waste dump for the nation.
Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects Executive Director Bob Halstead says President Barack Obama’s re-election and Democratic gains that strengthened Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s position have eased fears the Yucca Mountain project could be resurrected.
He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/TAnWD0 ) there were no changes in the state’s congressional delegation or in the Legislature that sent a message that the state’s opposition is weakening.
The Obama administration and Reid were instrumental in shutting down the Nevada nuclear waste repository site beginning in 2009.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com
Nuclear wastes from USS Enterprise headed for Idaho
Spent nuclear fuel from USS Enterprise is Idaho-bound The Spokesman Review, by Betsy Nov. 12, 2012 Spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise will be sent to eastern Idaho for study and storage, the Idaho Falls Post Register reports. The Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is being decommissioned after participating in every major conflict with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Its spent nuclear fuel is expected to arrive in Idaho in 2015…….
Dougan said the spent nuclear fuel once in Idaho will be examined to help with future reactor design research before being placed in storage.
“(The) fuel is transported via rail in specially designed railcars that meet the Department of Transportation shipping requirements for spent nuclear fuel,” he said. “The Navy has been managing spent fuel in Idaho since the late 1950s.”
The Navy will officially deactivate the Enterprise on Dec. 1, but it will take several more years for it to be decommissioned as its reactors are taken out.
After spent fuel is removed at Norfolk, the Navy plans to tow the Enterprise to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton in Washington state. The nuclear reactors will be cut out of the ship and barged to the Hanford nuclear reservation.
The reactors will be buried in a trench the Navy has been using since 1986 to bury radioactive reactors from other nuclear-powered vessels, mostly submarines.
Reactor disposal will take six to eight years. The rest of the Enterprise will be scrapped at Bremerton. http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2012/nov/12/spent-nuclear-fuel-uss-enterprise-idaho-bound/
USA’s nuclear weapons facilities are far from secure
Our Nuclear Insecurity Complex HUFFINGTON POST, 11/14/2012 By Peter Stockton Back in July, an 82-year-old nun and two fellow peace activists breached the security at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee. The red-faced federal officials who subsequently promised thorough oversight proclaimed they had “no tolerance ” for that kind of negligence.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse for the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — the semi autonomous agency in charge of securing nuclear materials at our national laboratories and weapons production facilities. Continue reading
Legal action against approval of Wyoming uranium mine
Group sues over planned Wyo. uranium mine, Wyoming Business Report By MJ Clark November 12, 2012 — CHEYENNE — The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance filed suit in federal court in Cheyenne last week to contest federal approval of a uranium mine in southwest Wyoming…. Continue reading
Obama to join China and Australia, in action on global warming
Next year, Guangdong province, which abuts Hong Kong and is itself Australia’s sixth-largest trading partner, will begin a trial Emissions Trading Scheme. China plans to develop a national trading scheme by 2015,
Obama keen to tackle climate, The Age, November 12, 2012, Peter Hannam THE Australian government has wasted little time to sound out the newly re-elected Barack Obama over his administration’s climate change policies and the potential to work more closely together.
An issue excluded from the US presidential debates, the argument over global warming was revived when superstorm Sandy slammed into north-eastern US states a week before polling day, leaving a damage bill some expect to exceed $US50 billion ($A48 billion).
Mr Obama signalled his intention to tackle climate change in his second term during his acceptance speech in Chicago, where he underlined the issue as among his top priorities.
”We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt; that isn’t weakened by inequality; that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet,” he said.
Australia’s Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet, told the Carbon Expo conference in Melbourne on Friday that he was ”very pleased” with Mr Obama’s victory, and said he held already spoken on the issue with his US counterpart since the elections.
”I think the White House will be looking, over the course of the next four years, to be in a position to try to advance action on climate change in the US,” Continue reading
Japan pressured by USA right wing to keep nuclear power
Henry Kissinger-linked think tank pressuring Japanese to keep nuclear power (VIDEO) November 9th, 2012 By ENENews
Title: U.S. needs Japan to remain nuclear, expert says (Video)
Source: Japan Times
Author: TAKASHI KITAZUME
Date: Nov. 3, 2012
A “zero-nuclear” Japan will be a serious concern for the United States as its key ally both from economic and security standpoints, the chief of an influential U.S. think tank said at a recent seminar on Japan-U.S. relations. […]
[John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington] noted there is “too much of a romantic idea about alternative energy in this country as a substitute for nuclear power.” […]
Hamre also said the policy poses a security concern from the viewpoint of international control for nonproliferation of nuclear materials.
[…]
A recent issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is not in agreement with many of the conclusions asserted by Hamre. See: “Probable Game-Changer”: Special issue of Bulletin of Atomic Scientists shows exiting nuclear power brings economic and
environmental benefits — ‘Startling’ findings
CSIS Board of Trustees (Selected Trustees):
Richard Armitage — President, Armitage International
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
William S. Cohen — Chairman & CEO, The Cohen Group
Henry A. Kissinger — Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
Brent Scowcroft — President, The Scowcroft Group
http://enenews.com/kissinger-linked-think-tank-pressuring-japanese-to-keep-nuclear-power-video
Los Alamos nuclear lab security fix drags on, with escalating consts
Los Alamos nuclear lab fix to cost $41 million
http://www.currentargus.com/ci_21968436/los-alamos-nuclear-lab-fix-cost-41-million The Associated Press 11/10/2012 09: ALBUQUERQUE – The estimate for fixing a new but inoperable $213 million security system at the nation’s nuclear bomb lab has doubled, officials with Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed Friday.
Lab director Charles McMillan sent employees a memo this week saying it will cost an additional $41 million and take six months to fix the system, which has been under construction for seven years and was supposed to be complete this summer. That is double what officials estimated a few weeks ago, when problems with the security system were first reported. Continue reading
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – high rates near uranium processing plant
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center sought to explain an excessive number of lupus cases reported in a community five miles from a former uranium plant in Fernald, Ohio
“What prompted us was the knowledge that lupus patients may be sensitive to sunlight and irradiation, in addition to literature hinting that miners may be at increased risk for developing lupus,”
HIGH LUPUS RATES NEAR FORMER URANIUM ORE PLANT, OmGlobe.com, 11/10/2012 – High rates of systemic lupus erythematosus have been linked to living in proximity to a former uranium ore processing facility in Ohio, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Systemic lupus erythematosus, also called SLE or lupus, is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect the skin, joints, kidneys, lungs, nervous system, and/or other organs of the body. The most common symptoms include skin rashes and arthritis, often accompanied by fatigue and fever. Lupus occurs mostly in women, typically developing in individuals in their twenties and thirties – prime child-bearing age. Continue reading
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