Wisconsin nuclear plant: licensee wants license to be terminated
Decommissioning Debate Continues At Former Nuclear Power Plant Near La Crosse New License-Holder Wants Some Land Released From License Requirements Wisconsin Public Radio, September 20, 2016, By Chuck...
View ArticleUS taxpayers up for huge costs for accident at Waste Isolation Pilot Project...
WIPP nuclear waste accident will cost US taxpayers $2 billion. Ecologist, Dr Jim Green 20th September 2016 The clean-up after the February 2014 explosion at the world’s only deep underground...
View ArticleRecurring problems cited at Westinghouse nuclear plant
The State, BY SAMMY FRETWELL sfretwell@thestate.com COLUMBIA, SC An internal review of a Columbia nuclear fuel factory has identified multiple problems with how the site has been managed for atomic...
View ArticleUSA could lend $billions to India – anything to sell nuclear reactors!
India Could Get Billions from the U.S. To Build a Nuclear Reactor, Fortune, by Reuters SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 If a lending freeze doesn’t get in the way. India is negotiating with U.S. Export-Import Bank...
View ArticleWind energy getting popular with USA Republicans
Why Republicans support wind energy Tom Kiernan, Roberta Combs, Michele Combs, Desmoines Register September 20, 2016 Did you know that American wind turbines can now produce as much electricity as 17...
View ArticleFactor climate into national security policy – executive direction by...
For the first time, Obama requires U.S. government to factor climate into national security policy,WP By Juliet Eilperin September 21 President Obama signed a presidential memorandum Wednesday...
View ArticleAnother secret and dangerous trade deal – the Trade In Services Agreement
The new TTIP? Meet TISA, the ‘secret privatisation pact that poses a threat to democracy’...
View ArticleUSA and South Korea to conduct mock attack on nuclear facility, (with North...
South Korea, US to simulate attack on nuclear facility By Jungeun Kim, Paula Hancocks and Joshua Berlinger, CNN September 21, 2016 Story highlights The two countries will simulate attacks on nuclear...
View ArticleUSA House committee voted to remove a 2020 deadline for a nuclear power plant...
House committee votes to lift 2020 deadline on nuclear power tax credit http://www.utilitydive.com/news/house-committee-votes-to-lift-2020-deadline-on-nuclear-power-tax-credit/426850/ By Peter Maloney...
View ArticleCheap, Portable Solar Panel could transform the solar power industry
This Cheap, Portable Solar Panel Will Be the iPad of Renewables by Good News Network – Sep 24, 2016 A California-based startup unveiled a product this week that aims to disrupt solar power production,...
View ArticleCommunity protest has stopped development of deep borehole waste disposal...
Protests spur rethink on deep borehole test for nuclear waste http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/protests-spur-rethink-deep-borehole-test-nuclear-waste By Paul VoosenSep. 27, 2016 DENVER—Along the...
View ArticleNew US Bill Would Ban President From Launching ‘First Use’ Nuclear Strike
US Congress Bill Bans President From Launching ‘First Use’ Nuclear Strike, https://sputniknews.com/us/20160927/1045761657/bill-ban-us-nuclear-strike.html, Newly-introduced legislation would ban the US...
View ArticleBoth Russia and America Prepare for Nuclear War? (and this is ‘good for...
Dangerous Crossroads: Both Russia and America Prepare for Nuclear War? http://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-crossroads-both-russia-and-america-prepare-for-nuclear-war/5548074 By Prof Michel...
View ArticleClimate change will expose top-secret US nuclear project in Greenland
Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project Camp Century – part of Project Iceworm – is underground cold war network that had been thought buried forever, until climate change...
View ArticleOpposition to South Carolina becoming a nuclear waste dumping ground
Environmentalists say there is no need to move spent nuclear fuel off of atomic power plant sites. They contend it can be stored safely. Transporting it to a disposal area near Barnwell would increase...
View ArticleFrom nuclear to solar power in Sacramento County
From nuclear to solar power http://www.abc10.com/news/local/from-nuclear-to-solar-power/327657069 The two cooling towers of the decommissioned Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant continue to stand tall...
View ArticleShadow Courts – The Secret Tribunals That Corporations Use to Sue Countries
US trade negotiators are now working to include Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in as many new treaties as possible, including both of the massive new free trade deals coming down the pike....
View ArticleUS tells Pakistan that its nuclear threats to India are not acceptable
Nuclear threat not acceptable, US tells Pakistan, http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nuclear-threat-not-acceptable-us-tells-pakistan/article9170042.ece VARGHESE K. GEORGE, 1 Oct 16 The United...
View ArticleObama’s opportunity to reduce America’s nuclear arsenal, and reduce...
It’s time to cut America’s nuclear arsenal http://thebulletin.org/it%E2%80%99s-time-cut-america%E2%80%99s-nuclear-arsenal9942 Daryl G. KimballKingston Reif, 30 Sep 16, As he enters his final months...
View ArticleSan Onofre’s nuclear wastes a great danger to public safety
Critics Question Plans For Nuclear Waste Storage At San Onofre Nuclear expert says it’s a “witches brew of radioactivity” 7 San Deiego By JW August , 30 Sept 16 The threat of a nuclear meltdown is no...
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