$4billion boost to renewable energy and energy efficiency in USA
US Plans New $4 Billion Renewables Support Program http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=4266 17 April 14 The USA’s Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a...
View ArticleNuclear companies switch to more lucrative business – closing down reactors
OPG, Westinghouse forge nuclear alliance OPG and Westinghouse will join forces to bid for nuclear projects around the globe Toronto Star, By: John Spears Business reporter, Apr 16 2014 Ontario Power...
View ArticleObama does what he can to promoter solar energy
Obama to challenge private companies to boost solar power use WP, By Juliet Eilperin and Katie Zezima, April 16 E-mail the writers President Obama will challenge companies Thursday to expand their...
View Article$Millions spent on Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) “just gone”
Irresponsible spending on nuclear weapons infrastructure http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/203685-irresponsible-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-infrastructure By Eric Tamerlani 17 April...
View ArticleRadioactive trash from fracking is just booming
Radioactive Waste Booms With Fracking as New Rules Mulled, Bloomberg, By Alex Nussbaum Apr 16, 2014 Oilfields are spinning off thousands of tons of low-level radioactive trash as the U.S. drilling...
View ArticleA sort of a comeback for renewable energy loan guarantees in USA
Loan Guarantees for U.S. Renewables Making a Comeback, National Geographc by Pete Danko on April 17, 2014 Federal loan guarantees for renewable energy, which spurred the development of massive projects...
View ArticleU.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul said: Nuclear Iran is Not a Threat to Israel
Rand Paul: Nuclear Iran Not a Threat to U.S., Israel, Washington Free Beacon, Endorsed Bilderberg conspiracy theories before winning Senate seat BY: Alana Goodman April 18, 2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R.,...
View ArticleWashington State and DOE squabble over disatrous radioactive waste problem at...
State, feds reject each other’s Hanford proposals http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/18/4968158/ap-newsbreak-state-rejects-hanford.html April 18 BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS SPOKANE, Wash. — The state of...
View ArticleWaste Isolation Pilot Plant so radioactive that crews had to retreat
AP: Crews retreat after nuclear material found at WIPP — Officials: Correct to turn back, contamination was increasing — Robots brought to site for radiation levels too high for humans — ‘Significant...
View ArticleDesperate publicity manipulations by the nuclear industry
You know the nuclear industry is desperate when… Michael Mariotte April 1, 2014 You know the nuclear power industry is getting desperate when it solicits its CEOs to start piling on ghost-written...
View ArticleLatest Nuclear PR Gimmick – reactors floating on the ocean
Christina Macpherson’s websites & blogs What really fascinates me about this proposal is this bit -”the ocean serves as an “infinite heat sink,” which allows for the core to be cooled...
View ArticleGreater earthquake risks recognised now for New England nuclear reactors
Quake risks at New England nuclear plants cited...
View ArticleClimate Change: coastal properties already threatened by sea level rise
Rising tides threaten communities on the beach — and far from it, too USA Today, Matt Alderton, Green Living April 19, 2014 The mud in Folsom Lake, near Sacramento, Calif., is dry and chapped, like...
View ArticleAmerica’s loyalty to the nuclear industry, rather than to sick, irradiated...
Is America Abandoning its Bravest Heroes Yet Again?, WhoWhatWhy By Karen Charman on Apr 21, 2014Reason for Navy Cover-up?“………..Because U.S. military personnel are prevented from suing the government,...
View Article!8 demolished US nuclear missile facilities inspected by Russians
Russians inspect demolished missile facilities http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/russians-inspect-demolished-missile-facilities/article_14343d6d-0f7d-587f-9125-51b77eac9abc.html HELENA, Mont....
View ArticleNuclear Regulatory relaxes rule for hot water discharge from nuclear plant
Connecticut’s nuclear plant can use warmer water WSJ, 21 Apr 14 HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s nuclear power plant won permission to use warmer water from Long Island Sound for cooling at one of its...
View ArticleQuestions on nuclear radiation, that the US Navy cannot answer
Is America Abandoning its Bravest Heroes Yet Again?, WhoWhatWhy By Karen Charman on Apr 21, 2014 “……….What Did the U.S. Navy Know? Whether the plaintiffs succeed in holding the Japanese utility...
View ArticleTime for Washington to disclose information on alleged Israeli nuclear theft
Former Officials Seek U.S. Disclosure on Alleged Israeli Nuclear Theft National Journal 21 Apr 14 Two former atomic officials say revealing U.S. findings on a decades-old alleged nuclear theft by...
View ArticleOnly available remedy for irradiated sailors is to sue TEPCO
Is America Abandoning its Bravest Heroes Yet Again?, WhoWhatWhy By Karen Charman on Apr 21, 2014Legal Remedy Sought“………Meanwhile, the only remedy available to Cooper, Goodwin, Sebourn, Simmons, and...
View ArticleAnother new nuclear gimmick fails economic test
Another one (or more) bites the dust …http://johnquiggin.com/2014/04/20/another-one-or-more-bites-the-dust/ April 20th, 2014 John Quiggin Coming back yet again to nuclear power, I’ve been arguing for a...
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