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Nuclear reactors, old or new designs, doomed without hefty tax-payer subsidies
under the 1957 Price-Anderson Act, each plant owner’s accident liability is limited to some $300 million per year, even though the Fukushima disaster showed that nuclear accident costs can exceed $100...
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We can’t solve the problem of a nuclear-armed North Korea without talking to...
To Address Nuclear Threat, We Must Talk To North Korea http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-h-hamilton/to-address-nuclear-threat_b_11572840.html Isolated and secretive, North Korea presents the United...
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Report: U.S. Transfers Nukes From Turkish Airbase to Romania
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.737585, 18 Aug 16 The reported move comes after a U.S.-based think tank said the stockpile, consisting of 50 nuclear bombs, is at risk of being captured by...
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Rocky Flats’ dangerous radioactive legacy
The concerns are not limited to the refuge itself. There is plenty of plutonium offsite, thanks to a combination of sloppy practices onsite and the high winds for which the area is notorious. In 2010,...
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Get used to extreme floods: climate change is becoming urgent
Extreme Floods May Be the New Normal Communities should plan defenses and emergency responses based on the climate of the future, not the past, Scientific American By Erika Bolstad, ClimateWire on...
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While Louisiana drowns, sociopaths sabotage action on climate change
The Path of the Sociopath They did it while Louisiana drowned. http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/08/20/the-path-of-the-sociopath/#.V7jF_CUlnoY.twitter by D.R. Tucker August 20, 2016 They didn’t give a...
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Exelon readies for legal fight to keep New York nuclear subsidies
Exelon girds for challenges to Cuomo’s N.Y. nuclear subsidy, Jeffrey Tomich and Saqib Rahim, E&E reporters EnergyWire: Friday, August 19, 2016 Even before the first counterpunch to New York’s plan...
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The case for ending the policy of Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike
End the First-Use Policy for Nuclear Weapons http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/opinion/end-the-first-use-policy-for-nuclear-weapons.html By JAMES E. CARTWRIGHT and BRUCE G. BLAIRAUG. 14, 2016...
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Inadvertent’ Nuke Risks Still Not Tracked Eight Years After Warning http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/23/inadvertent-nuke-risks-still-not-tracked-eight-years-after-warning/ ETHAN BARTON A Department of...
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Entergy and Exelon ask New York regulators to approve sale of FitzPatrick...
Companies ask regulators to approve sale of FitzPatrick nuclear plant , syracuse.com, 23 Aug 16 By Tim Knauss | tknauss@syracuse.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The...
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Barack Obama’s climate change achievements
Obama’s science legacy: climate (policy) hots up President sidesteps Congress to curb US greenhouse-gas emissions. http://www.nature.com/news/obama-s-science-legacy-climate-policy-hots-up-1.20468 Jeff...
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Indigenous Americans still paying the health price of uranium mining, long...
Years after mining stops, uranium’s legacy lingers on Native land...
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USA’s National Nuclear Security Administration approves controversial B61-12...
Controversial New U.S. Nuclear Bomb Moves Closer to Full-Scale Production http://inewsnetwork.org/2016/08/23/controversial-new-u-s-nuclear-bomb-moves-closer-to-full-scale-production/ By: LEN ACKLAND...
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Allison MacFarlane on Glacial Pace of New Nuclear development
A View from Allison Macfarlane, Nuclear’s Glacial Pace There’s a reason it takes so long to approve a new reactor design.MIT Technology Review ,August 23, 2016 “……. a number of startups are...
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USA govt censoring severity of WIPP nuclear waste problem, $2 Billion Cleanup
“There is no question the Energy Department has downplayed the significance of the accident,” said Don Hancock, who monitors the dump for the watchdog group Southwest Research and Information Center....
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3.7 million documents now pubicly available on Yucca nuclear waste dump plan
Yucca Mountain Documents Now Publicly Available – In a New Online Library, USA Nuclear Regulatory Commission August 19, 2016 David McIntyre Public Affairs Officer The NRC is flipping the switch today...
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USA President’s deadly nuclear “football”
The ‘nuclear football’ – the deadly briefcase that never leaves the president’s side Donald Trump’s views on nukes may be the scariest thing about his candidacy. But how does Potus launch an attack at...
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Stuck in the past – America’s nuclear weapons policy
US nuclear policy remains dangerously stuck in the past http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/292299-us-nuclear-policy-remains-dangerously-stuck-in-the-past By Diana Ohlbaum,August 23, 2016,...
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Requiem for five nuclear power plants
Nuclear Renaissance–Nuclear Requiem, Union of Concerned Scientists DAVE LOCHBAUM, DIRECTOR, NUCLEAR SAFETY PROJECT | AUGUST 25, 2016 There was considerable discussion a decade or so ago about the...
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Sea level rise will threaten 2 million American homes
As sea levels rise, nearly 1.9 million U.S. homes could be underwater by 2100, WP By Brady Dennis August 24 The real estate data firm Zillow recently published a research analysis that estimated...
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