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Safety shortcomings persist at Los Alamos nuclear laboratory
Safety problems at a Los Alamos laboratory delay U.S. nuclear warhead testing and production A facility that handles the cores of U.S. nuclear weapons has been mostly closed since 2013 over its...
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The scandalously unethical 1946 testing of atomic bombs on Bikini Atoll
The Crazy Story of the 1946 Bikini Atoll Nuclear Tests http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crazy-story-1946-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-180963833/ They were the first time that a nuclear weapon had...
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Listing the financial institutions that provided 344 billion available to 27...
Don’t Bank On The Bomb Dec 2016 Briefing Paper. United States 226 Financial Institutions made an estimated USD$ 344 billion available to 27 nuclear weapon producing companies since January 2013....
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NASA funding project for nuclear-powered travel to Mars
NASA Seeks Nuclear Power for Mars After a half-century hiatus, the agency is reviving its reactor development with a test later this summer, Scientific American By Irene Klotz, SPACE.com on June 30,...
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Trump wants to withdraw from 1987 Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
US Talk of Exit From Nuclear Treaty With Russia Could Blow Up in New Arms Race, Sputnik News, 30 June 17, Last week, US media reported that the Trump administration was considering withdrawing from...
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USA nuclear warhead testing is delayed by safety problems at Los Alamos...
A separate Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report in February detailed the magnitude of the shortfall: Los Alamos’ dangerous work, it said, demands 27 fully qualified criticality safety...
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All staff have now left science division of the White House’s Office of...
Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart, By JACQUELINE ALEMANY CBS NEWS June 30, 2017, WASHINGTON –– The science division of the White House’s Office of Science and...
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Need for security of America’s nuclear arsenal. U.S. Air Force planning to...
Air Force to “Cyber-Secure” Nuclear Arsenal, SCOUT WARRIOR, 2 Jul 17, Modernizing computer networks for the nuclear arsenal is part of the current Air Force plan to build as many as 400 new...
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NASA works on plan for small nuclear reactors on Mars
NBC 30th June 2017, As NASA makes plans to one day send humans to Mars, one of the key technical gaps the agency is working to fill is how to provide enough power on the Red Planet’s surface for fuel...
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Costs and dangers in “temporary” storage of San Onofre and others’ nuclear...
1,800 tons of radioactive waste has an ocean view and nowhere to go, LA Times, By RALPH VARTABEDIAN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALLEN J. SCHABEN 2 July 17 [good photographs and graphs] “…..A decade ago, the...
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US federal reports that another Hanford radioactive waste tunnel has...
2nd Hanford tunnel storing radioactive waste at risk of failing, federal study says Seattle Times, July 1, 2017 “This makes it clear that the second tunnel may also pose a risk to human health and the...
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Sa n Onofre and America’s failed nuclear waste issue
1,800 tons of radioactive waste has an ocean view and nowhere to go, LA Times, By RALPH VARTABEDIAN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALLEN J. SCHABEN 2 July 17 [good photographs and graphs] The massive, 150-ton...
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Watts Bar 2 nuclear power unit shut down after just 5 months in operation
Atomic Bellyflop: America’s 1st ’21st Century Nuclear Reactor’ Fails, Shuts Down After 5 Months bureau EnviroNews DC News Bureau ,by Julia Travers July 3, 2017 Spring City, Tennessee — On March 23,...
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NASA spending $millions on plan for nuclear reactors on Mars
NASA to place NUCLEAR REACTOR on Mars to help humans colonise Red Planet NASA is working on an £11 million project that will see the space agency develop nuclear fission reactors on Mars. Express UK...
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Pentagon now withholding results of nuclear weapons inspection
Pentagon withholding nuclear weapons inspection results: report http://thehill.com/policy/defense/340599-pentagon-withholding-nuclear-weapons-inspection-results-report BY MAX GREENWOOD – 07/04/17 The...
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USA and Russia have no intention of scaling back nuclear weapons
The two countries with nearly all the world’s nuclear weapons have no intention of scaling back...
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If you live in USA, you could well be uncomfortably close to a nuclear bomb
How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Bomb? How Close Do You Live To A Nuclear Weapons Facility? http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-close-do-you-live-to-a-nuclear-weapons-facility-1796554219 Terrell...
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Donald Trump has few real options in dealing with North Korea
For Trump, Threats but Few Options in Confronting North Korea, NYT, By DAVID E. SANGER, JULY 4, 2017 When then-President-elect Trump said on Twitter in early January that a North Korean test of an...
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Hanford nuclear station has a widlfire, now 85 percent contained
Wildfire partly on Hanford nuclear site is 85 percent contained http://komonews.com/news/local/wildfire-partly-on-hanford-nuclear-site-is-85-percent-contained by Associated Press, 6 July 17RICHLAND,...
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Nevada ready for the legal battle against Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump plan
Nevada poised to fight Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/jul/05/nevada-poised-to-fight-yucca-mountain-nuclear-wast/, By Cy Ryan (contact), July 5, 2017 | CARSON CITY —...
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