Fearsome climate prospect. Will Trump administration suppress a major federal...
This is how bad things could get if Trump denies the reality of climate change...
View ArticleSecret for 2 months – NRC’s decision to revive Yucca Mountain high-level...
Beyond Nuclear 8th Aug 2017, Even though the three currently serving U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioners voted by June 9th in favor of reviving the long-suspended Yucca Mountain...
View ArticleHow the US military co-opted a famous journalist to make the nuclear industry...
In 2004, the progressive journalists Amy and David Goodman called for the prize to be revoked, charging that Laurence had knowingly covered up the effects of radiation sickness on the Hiroshima and...
View ArticleUnder Trump administration, dramatic drop in EPA fines against polluters
EPA fines collected against polluters dropped 60% under Trump, report says, By Miranda Green, CNN August 10, 2017 Washington (CNN) The amount of money the Environmental Protection Agency is penalizing...
View ArticleU.S,. Court extends freeze in litigation over the Clean Power Plan – a blow...
A federal court just dealt another blow to Obama’s climate legacy https://thinkprogress.org/clean-power-plan-on-hold-again-5a76487bf9be/ Obama’s climate regulations could save the United States...
View ArticleDebate on whether it would be constitutional for Trump to make a nuclear...
A Trump nuclear strike against North Korea: constitutional or not? http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/10/nuclear-strike-against-north-korea-constitutional-/ By Manuela Tobias on...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s longterm obsession with nuclear war
Trump Has Been Thinking About Nuclear War for Decades. Here’s Why That’s Scary. He seems to think it’s inevitable. Mother Jones, DAVID CORN AUG. 11, 2017 “……In a 1984 interview with the Washington...
View ArticlePresident Donald Trump’s “loose rhetoric” on North Korea could have deadly...
Trump’s rhetoric could see U.S. ‘blunder into a war’ with North Korea, warns former negotiator, CBC Radio, 11 Aug 17 U.S. President Donald Trump’s “loose rhetoric” on North Korea could have deadly...
View ArticleWhy Washington should step back in Korea
Washington Should Step Back In Korea: Is Donald Trump Or Kim Jong-Un More Dangerous? Forbes, Doug Bandow , 11 AUG 17, President Donald Trump has put all of Asia and much of the world on edge. All week...
View ArticleAmerica’s nuclear industry getting desperate – seeks money from Trump
The U.S. Nuclear Industry’s Last Hope Seeks Help From Trump, Bloomberg , By Ari Natter and Mark Chediak August 12, 2017, Cost of delayed Georgia nuclear project may be $25 billion Energy Secretary...
View ArticleFacing reality: North Korea already is a nuclear weapons state
Treating North Korea as another rival nuclear power would involve using the tools the U.S. has employed for decades to deal with such adversaries: containment, deterrence, and measures designed to...
View ArticleWhat Washington should do about North Korea
Washington Should Step Back In Korea: Is Donald Trump Or Kim Jong-Un More Dangerous? Forbes, Doug Bandow , 11 AUG 17 “……..,What should Washington do? President Trump should stop competing in the crazed...
View ArticleDonald Trump: USA ready to act militarily against North Korea: Merkel calls...
Donald Trump says US military solutions ‘locked and loaded’ against North. Korea.news.com.au , AUGUST 12, 2017 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will “regret it and regret...
View ArticleHundreds of workers laid off, thousands of contractors lost jobs: lawsuit...
Pittsburgh Gazette 11th Aug 2017, Following the filing of a lawsuit alleging that Westinghouse Electric Co. violated labor laws by laying off hundreds of workers without proper notice, the bankrupt...
View ArticleIn the effort to deal with nuclear waste, pyroprocessing created even more...
Since the project began 17 years ago, 15% of the waste has been processed, an average of one-fourth of a metric ton per year. That’s 20 times slower than originally expected, a pace that would stretch...
View ArticleVery few veterans of Gulf War approved for health claims
Report: VA office denies 90 percent of Gulf War claims, Santa Fe New Mexican, The Associated Press, 13 Aug 17, ALBUQUERQUE — A Veterans Affairs office in New Mexico during the 2015 fiscal year denied...
View ArticleLawsuit against S.C. Electric & Gas – accuses mismanagement of over $1...
Lawsuit accuses SCE&G of negligence in scuttled South Carolina nuclear construction project, Post and Courier By Thad Moore tmoore@postandcourier.com Aug 12, 17, A lawsuit filed late Friday...
View ArticleUSA Federal Government not stepping in to save South Carolina nuclear power...
Trump administration silent on demise of nuclear project it once called ‘massively important’, Post and Courier By Thad Moore and EmmaDumain tmoore@postandcourier.com eduman@postandcourier.com, Aug 12,...
View ArticleSouth Carolina’s state-owned utility drops plans for rate hikes for failed...
Utility drops rate hike plans for failed nuclear project, By SEANNA ADCOX New Jersey Herald : Aug. 11, 2017 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Millions of customers who have been footing the bill for years for a...
View ArticlePyroprocessing causes MORE nuclear wastes, not less
The Pyroprocessing Files http://allthingsnuclear.org/elyman/the-pyroprocessing-files. ED LYMAN, SENIOR SCIENTIST | AUGUST 12, 2017, The ARTICLE BY RALPH VARTABEDIAN in the Los Angeles Times highlights...
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