Most outgoing NRC Commissioners move into plum nuclear industry jobs
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ‘enforcement’ is as fierce as the comfy chair, Ecologist Linda Pentz Gunter 2nd August 2016 “……. The first NRC commissioner, William A. Anders (1975-76), went on to...
View ArticleNew York State Public Service Commission’s $7.6 billion bailout of uneconomic...
New York Approves $7.6 Billion Bailout Of Nuclear Power Plants, Huffington Post 08/03/2016 Karl Grossman Investigative reporter The New York State Public Service Commission—in the face of strong...
View ArticleClimate change: wildfires threaten nuclear disaster at Hanford site
“Very Serious”: Wildfires burn close to US nuclear site — ‘Red Flag Warning’ issued — FEMA: “Fire threatened such destruction as would constitute a major disaster” — Largest wildfire in country (VIDEO)...
View ArticleParadox of USA’s nuclear weapons policy shown by Donald Trump
Donald Trump, Perhaps Unwittingly, Exposes Paradox of Nuclear Arms, NYT, The Interpreter, By MAX FISHER AUG. 3, 2016 WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump’s remarks on nuclear weapons have brought him, at...
View ArticlePresident Obama pushes for UN call to end nuclear weapons testing, by-passes...
Obama will bypass Congress, seek U.N. resolution on nuclear testing, WP, By Josh Rogin August 4 President Obama has decided to seek a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would call for...
View ArticleNuclear industry revs up for a new political lobbying campaign
Nuclear trade group shakes up leadership http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/290405-nuclear-trade-group-shakes-up-leadership By Timothy Cama – 08/04/16 The nuclear power industry’s...
View ArticleConsumer-funded nuclear bail out will have an unprecedented impact on the...
Impacts of NY’s Nuclear Power ‘Bail Out’ and Solar, Wind Boost, Epoch Times, By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times | August 3, 2016 New York State’s Clean Energy Standard, approved by the Public Service...
View ArticleHow to know if a nuclear bomb works without setting it off
The Nuclear Button U.S. Presidents Can Push at Will , Bloomberg Eric Roston eroston , 5 Aug 16 As President Barack Obama counts down his last months in office, he has returned to one of his earliest...
View ArticleThe ever increasing danger of nuclear apocalypse: the Pentagon’s plan
policy of nuclear bombing of targeted cities is still on the drawing board of the Pentagon. While today’s list of targets remains classified, cities in Russia, China, the Middle East, North Korea are...
View ArticleAREVA- not making money from nuclear build, but cleaning up from waste cleanup?
New facility in Moyock makes massive spent nuclear fuel storage casks By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot MOYOCK, N.C., 7 Aug 16 Marlin Stoltz put on a hard hat and bright yellow vest before walking...
View ArticleWill USA’s nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Plant really be ready by December?
Don Hancock, a nuclear waste expert with the nonprofit Southwest Research and Information Center, is skeptical officials will make the December 2016 deadline. He thinks it could take several million...
View ArticleBombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – America’s immoral sleep goes on
Hiroshima: the Crime That Keeps on Paying, But Beware the Reckoning, CounterPunch ,by DIANA JOHNSTONE , AUGUST 5, 2016“……..The decision to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a political not a military...
View ArticleAmerica’s modernised thermonuclear aircraft bombs to be based in Europe
Guess Where the US Will House Its New Modernized Nuclear Weapons Arsenal? http://www.globalresearch.ca/guess-where-the-us-will-house-its-new-modernized-nuclear-weapons-arsenal/5539984 By Sputnik Global...
View ArticleUS Dept Energy ordered by court to hand over Idaho nuclear waste documents
Court orders feds to turn over Idaho nuclear waste documents http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/court-orders-feds-to-turn-over-idaho-nuclear-waste-documents/ August 9, 2016 By KEITH RIDLER The...
View ArticleUSA Dept of Energy not protecting nuclear whistleblowers
Is the Energy Department doing enough to protect nuclear whistleblowers? BY LINDSAY WISE wise@mcclatchydc.com WASHINGTON , 9 Aug 16 Changes announced by the U.S. Department of Energy to strengthen...
View ArticleFollowing $1 billion subsidy, Exelon buys failing Fitzpatrick nuclear station
Exelon buys upstate New York nuclear plant http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/290879-exelon-buys-upstate-new-york-nuclear-plant Exelon Generation has agreed to buy an upstate New York nuclear...
View ArticleU.S. electricity consumers could end up paying more than $2.5 billion for...
Customers Could Pay $2.5 Billion for Nuclear Plants That Never Get Built http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/customers-could-pay-2-5-billion-for-nukes-that-never-get-built, Mark Chediak...
View ArticleSubsidizing Nuclear Will Only Make Our Grid Problems Worse
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ucenergy/2016/08/11/subsidizing-nuclear-will-only-make-our-grid-problems-worse/2/#20c51fcc386e Steve Cicala, While low natural gas prices are something to celebrate for...
View ArticleImplementing storage technologies – necessary in transition from nuclear power
As nuclear power plants close, states need to bet big on energy storage Skeptical Science 9 August 2016 by dana1981 Eric Daniel Fournier, Post Doctoral Researcher, Spatial Informatics, University of...
View ArticleAre tax-payers paying for nutty space nuclear research?
BRINGING NUCLEAR POWER TO MARS – FRANK H. SHU (SETI TALKS 2016), Raw Science SETI Talks @ MicroSoft Silicon Valley – July 29, 2016 Dr. Frank Shu lectured with SETI Talks at MicroSoft Silicon Valley on...
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