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Dangerous burden of nuclear power

Cost of nuclear power is too great a burden THE NATION (Thailand) by GARETH CLAYTON BANGKOK October 30, 2009 “……..danger of accidents from nuclear power stations.
These dangers are real. Continue reading →

November 2, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, climate change, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, renewableenergy | Leave a comment

Nuclear power- a bad financial risk

Engineering the return of nuclear power by Jo Abbess, 28 Oct 09 “………….why Nuclear Power is a bad idea :-1. Capital Locked Up In Construction During the build phase of all construction projects, large amounts of capital are locked up. Continue reading →

October 31, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

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.

The French Connection: plutonium problems in France linked to Duke’s Catawba reactor & the Savannah River Site MOX plant « The New Liberator

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, safety | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Financial problems in Bulgarian nuclear plan

German RWE withdraws from nuclear plant project in Bulgaria due to financial issues Washington Examiner Associated Press10/28/09 EDTSOFIA, BULGARIA — German utility RWE AG has announced its withdrawal from a joint nuclear plant project due to problems with its financing, Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, EUROPE | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Russia to use nuke-powered space travel?

October 28th, 2009 Will Russia’s Next Rocket be Nuclear? Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson space “…. Russia’s agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine. Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

San Antonio’s new nukes hit a financial brick wall

Breaking: Toshiba tells San Antonio its new twin $13 billion nukes will cost $4 billion more! The city balks. This looks like a job for clean energy. Climate Progress 28 Oct 09 One of the very first new nuclear power plants proposed to be built in the U.S. in over 30 years just hit a brick wall. Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive | Leave a comment

Canadian anti-nuclear protest

Soggy protest Activists push for nuclear-free future at legislature

GWYNETH DUNSFORD

METRO EDMONTON

October 28, 2009 Banners hoisted high, hundreds of activists invaded the grounds of the legislature yesterday, outraged over potential nuclear energy developments.

“We don’t need nuclear,” said Adele Boucher Rymhs, the president of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Alberta. “Nuclear is one of the problems that is going to come up in the future.

Everyone is worried about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions, but the emissions from a nuclear power plant are far worse than emissions from a coal plant. They go on for thousands of years.”

Metro – Soggy protest

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear corporate welfare in Florida

Florida Green Party Opposes Public Service Commission Approval Of Nuclear Cost Recovery For Utilities, Calling It A “A License To Steal“( Michael Canney Green Party of Florida (GPF) denounces the October 16 decision by the Public Service Commission allowing Progress Energy and Florida Power & Light to raise utility rates paid by their customers in order to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called “nuclear cost recovery” funds. Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Russia to get nuclear-powered spacecraft

Russia to build spacecraft with nuclear engine http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-29 MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Russia is developing manned spacecraft powered by nuclear engines, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency said on Wednesday. The development of Megawatt-class nuclear power systems for manned spacecraft was vital if Russia intended to maintain its leading position in the space industry, Anatoly Perminov said in a meeting of the presidential commission on the modernization of the Russian economy. “The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs,” Perminov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.

Russia to build spacecraft with nuclear engine_English_Xinhua

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, politics, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Yankee nuclear power plant has doubtful future

Vermont Yankee future dogged by doubt Burlington Free Press By Nancy Remsen • Free Press Staff Writer • October 25, 2009 Vermont’s 37-year-old nuclear power plant is constantly in the public spotlight these days as the 2012 expiration date on its license approaches. Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

The truth about the world’s biggest mining company

World’s biggest mining company under fire‘Alternative report’ questions environmental, human rights record of world’s biggest mining company One World.net 27 October 2009 London-based BHP Billiton plc is not a household name in Britain, but the activities of the BHP Billiton group have a massive impact on communities all around the world. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a comment

Uranium poisoning of the Navajo

The Forgotten Navajo: Uranium contamination —Pavement Pieces By Rachel Morgan on October 14, 2009

CHURCH ROCK, New Mexico — Teddy Nez’s home sits 500 feet from the mouth of abandoned uranium mine.

Since 1982, Nez and his family have been breathing in uranium particles and drinking uranium-contaminated water. They didn’t know the land that surrounded their home in Church Rock, N.M. – located on the 27,000 square-mile Navajo Reservation – was slowly killing them. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, indigenous issues, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Exorbitant cost of nuclear power

The wider lessons from nuclear power cost inflation SCITIZEN (UK) 26 Oct, 2009 “……………. the full costs of nuclear technology are probably well above today’s wholesale electricity prices. We may well need nuclear power but we are going to pay heavily for it. The government’s optimistic noises from 2006 to the middle of this year about the commercial viability of nuclear power have turned out to be wrong…………………. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs | Leave a comment

UK govt promoting new nukes despite waste report

Energy fear over nuclear waste dumps Former senior advisers say ministers ‘cherry-picked’ reports to bolster case for new power plants Guaradian.co.uk Alok Jha 25 Oct 09

Former senior government advisers on nuclear power have accused ministers of being “cavalier” and “cherry-picking” their advice to bolster the case for a new generation of nuclear power stations. Continue reading →

October 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, UK, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Navajos anxiety over uranium mining

A new demand for uranium power brings concerns for Navajo groups
Mining planned at a mountain considered sacred

By Kari Lydersen

Washington Post
October 25, 2009

Indian people gathered in Acoma, N.M., for the Indigenous Uranium Forum over the weekend decried future uranium extraction, especially from nearby Mount Taylor, considered sacred by many tribes. Continue reading →