Oyster Creek nuclear power facility deteriorating: urgent safety need to...
EDITORIAL: Time isn’t on Oyster Creek’s side AsburyPark January 29, 2015 To the surprise of no one, the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey continues to deteriorate and the Nuclear Regulatory...
View ArticleDanger in even controlled fires at Rocky Flats where soil is contaminated...
Plutonium fears hex planned prescribed fires at Rocky Flats wildlife refuge By Bruce Finley The Denver Post 29 Jan 15, The prescribed fires to restore overgrown forests and grasslands near homes in...
View ArticleFinancial problems escalate with delays in Nuclear Plant Vogtle
Cost pressure intensifies for Georgia nuclear plant http://www.sltrib.com/home/2121839-155/cost-pressure-intensifies-for-georgia-nuclear By RAY HENRY The Associated Press Atlanta 31 Jan 15, • The...
View ArticleUSA States consider helping nuclear industry, but it seems to be nuclear’s...
Analysis: Last tango for nuclear? Environmental health News, 30 Jan 15, “……..Those new nukes are falling behind schedule and soaring over budget, making an already-jittery Wall Street even more...
View ArticleUSA gets Europe to water down proposals for tougher nuclear power safety...
Nuclear safety push to be softened after U.S. objections BY SHADIA NASRALLA VIENNA Fri Jan 30, 2015 (Reuters) - The United States looks set to succeed in watering down a proposal for tougher legal...
View ArticleExelon Nuclear wants tax-payer to bail out its unprofitable Clinton Power...
Illinois nuclear shutdown threatened Herald Review CLINTON 1 Feb 15, – Stopping a threatened economic meltdown of the Illinois nuclear power industry is now in the hands of state lawmakers....
View ArticleMajority of US Republicans support action on Climate Change
Most Republicans Say They Back Climate Action, Poll Finds, NYT By CORAL DAVENPORT and MARJORIE CONNELLY JAN. 30, 2015WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the American public, including half of...
View ArticleNational, Local Groups Call for Halt in NIF Plutonium Shots
National, Local Groups Call for Halt in NIF Plutonium Shots, Tri Valley Cares, 3 Feb 15 On behalf of Tri-Valley CAREs and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the law firm of Meyer,...
View ArticleSouthern California Edison’s “Citizen Engagement Panel” (CEP) is a cruel...
David Victor, the SCE Community Engagement Panel, and the Darrell Issa Nuclear Waste Dump http://acehoffman.blogspot.com.au/ The comments below were left at the KPBS web site in response to their...
View ArticleDocuments reveal America’s Doomsday Plan To Declare Martial Law
Plan C: America’s Nuclear Doomsday Plan To Declare Martial Law http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/01/plan-c-americas-nuclear-doomsday-plan-to-declare-martial-law/ MATT NOVAK31 JANUARY 2015 Newly released...
View ArticleArizona close to classing nuclear power as RENEWABLE energy!
AZ Senate Committee Says Nuclear Power Is a Renewable Energy Resource http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/02/senate_committee_declares_nuclear_power_a_renewable_energy_resource.php By...
View ArticleRoodfop solar will get a boost from high efficiency concentrating solar cells
High efficiency concentrating solar cells move to the rooftop, EurekAlert, 5 Feb 15 ULTRA-HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS SIMILAR TO THOSE USED IN SPACE MAY NOW BE POSSIBLE ON YOUR ROOFTOP THANKS TO A NEW...
View ArticleComplicated nuclear weapons problems for USA’s new secretary of...
VOICE The Nuclear Trials of Ashton Carter The new secretary of defense-in-waiting faces some complicated decisions when it comes to the modernization of America’s nuclear triad. FP, BY JEFFREY LEWIS...
View ArticleEntergy Corp cannot stop hearings on summer closing of Indian Point nuclear...
Judge allows hearings on summer closings of New York nuclear plant Planet Ark 05-Feb-15 USA Scott DiSavino A judge in New York has ruled Entergy Corp cannot stop hearings on the state’s plan to shut...
View ArticleNuclear power , highly subsidised, but still not cost-effective or compatible...
Let’s not forget, either, that nuclear power has some of the largest per kilowatt-hour subsidies of any electricity source. Big, Expensive Power Plants Undermine a Clean Energy Future...
View ArticleActivists unite to fight the ‘vampire’ technologies of fracking and nuclear
Anti-Fracking and No Nukes Activists Join Forces Demanding Renewable Energy Revolution Harvey Wasserman 5 Feb 15 Our Earth is being destroyed by fracking and nukes. These two vampire technologies suck...
View ArticleWill USA nuclear companies really be able to sell their reactors to India?
Is the India nuclear agreement really the ‘breakthrough’ Obama promised? WP, By Annie Gowen and Steven Mufson February 4 NEW DELHI — President Obama stood alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi in...
View ArticleNuclear companies lobby USA States to legislate against renewables and energy...
Why the nuclear industry targets renewables instead of gas, Midwest Energy news, on 02/06/2015 by Kari Lydersen Cheap natural gas has upended the nation’s energy landscape and made aging nuclear power...
View ArticleNRC permits Emergency staff to be reduced at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant:...
Emergency staff to be reduced at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant Sentinel Source, By Susan Smallheer Rutland Herald 6 Feb 15 Staff members from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission took to the web Thursday...
View ArticleNuclear industry fears shift to decentralized electricity system – fights...
“One thing to understand about the nuclear industry is that nuclear is also the coal and natural gas industry” These days natural gas-fired power is cheap, but wind is even cheaper. Even if renewables...
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