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Climate action a winner for USA with clean energy and transport policies
Clean energy is win-win for the US, Climate News Network, March 13, 2016, by Tim Radford Simply implementing its Paris climate conference commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions could save the...
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Plutonium and ” fourth generation nuclear power”
Bill Gates’ Nuclear Pipe Dream: Convert Depleted Uranium to Plutonium to Power Earth for Centuries, Truth Out Tuesday, 15 March 2016 By Josh Cunnings and Emerson Urry, EnviroNews | Video Report...
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Bill Gates enjoys spruiking his plutonium dream
Bill Gates’ Nuclear Pipe Dream: Convert Depleted Uranium to Plutonium to Power Earth for Centuries, Truth Out Tuesday, 15 March 2016 By Josh Cunnings and Emerson Urry, EnviroNews | Video Report Voice...
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Nuclear Disaster by Design – Nuclear Safety inFLEXibility
For the NRC’s Fukushima fixes to reach their target destination, the NRC must determine why Pilgrim procured an inadequate FLEX air compressor, why River Bend thought it had 24 hours to handle a...
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The radioactive heaps at Paducah, USA
Voice of Paducah Plant Worker #1: And then later on, they took the Geiger counters out, and they told us, “That stuff won’t hurt you. It’s harmless. It won’t hurt you if you ate it, it wouldn’t hurt...
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USA worried about weapons proliferation risks in China’s Nuclear Recycling plan
China’s Plans to Recycle Nuclear Fuel Raise Concerns U.S. energy secretary airs worries about proliferation risks ahead of nuclear-security summit WSJ, By BRIAN SPEGELE, 17 MAR 16, BEIJING—China’s...
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NASA and Rosatom want nuclear rockets to take astronauts to Mars
Nasa wants to use nuclear rockets to get to Mars: Space agency claims the technique is ‘most effective way’ of reaching red planet Nuclear propulsion weighs almost half as much as a chemical rocket...
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Union of Concerned Scientists Annual Review of U.S. Nuclear Plant, Near Misses
March 17, 2016 :: Staff infoZine In 2015, three of the ten near misses reported at U.S. nuclear power plants occurred at reactors owned by one company—Entergy. Washington DC – infoZine – There were...
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For the first time, most Americans now against nuclear power
Most Americans now oppose nuclear energy, poll finds http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273558-poll-majority-of-americans-oppose-nuclear-energy-for-first-time By Mark Hensch, 18 Mar 16 A...
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Cocaine use among staff at Nuclear Missile Base
Air Force Investigating Cocaine Use at Nuclear Missile Base http://gawker.com/air-force-investigating-cocaine-use-at-nuclear-missile-1765720042 Sam Biddle 18 Mar 16, Cocaine and nuclear weapons: A good...
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Toshiba investigated Over Westinghouse Accounting
Toshiba Said to Face U.S. Probe Over Westinghouse Accounting, 17 Mar Tom Schoenberg and Matt Robinson, 2016, Bloomberg Toshiba Corp. is under investigation by the U.S. government over allegations...
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Armed UK vessels secretly take weapons grade plutonium from Japan to USA
The Pacific Egret and its escort ship Pacific Heron are reportedly lightly armed UK flagged vessels and arrived in Kobe port from Barrow-in-Furness, England on March 4th. The Egret docked in Tokai for...
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High costs loom for Xcel Energy’s nuclear reactors
Xcel Energy faces more big investments to keep its nuclear units running Xcel faces $487 million in upgrades at its Prairie Island facility by 2020 By David Shaffer Star Tribune MARCH 19, 2016 The...
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Campaign opposing licenses for nuclear expansion in Texas
Environmentalists try to block nuclear growth in Texas, Victoria Advocate By Sara Sneath March 19, 2016 WADSWORTH – One of the largest nuclear power facilities in North America is set to double in...
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New York looks to fees to save uneconomic nuclear power stations
NY eyes fee to save some nuclear plants Democrat and Chronicle March 20, 2016 ALBANY – New York’s energy regulators have a problem. ……… two of the state’s three upstate nuclear plants — the R.E. Ginna...
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New design nuclear reactors not happening for a long time (if at all)
Amid a Graying Fleet of Nuclear Plants, a Hunt for Solutions, NYT, By HENRY FOUNTAIN MARCH 21, 2016“……….The industry and the Department of Energy are also pinning their hopes on the development of...
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LARGE-SCALE SOLAR POWER STORAGE CAN BECOME A REALITY
CAN LARGE-SCALE SOLAR POWER STORAGE BECOME A REALITY?, Stanford Engineering, An unexpected finding by a team of engineers could lead to a revolutionary change in how we produce, store and consume...
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NEW NUCLEAR AIR-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE A REDUNDANT CAPABILITY
CRUISE CONTROL: WHY THE U.S. SHOULD NOT BUY A NEW NUCLEAR AIR-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE KINGSTON REIF MARCH 21, 2016 The Obama administration’s fantastical plan to modernize the Cold War-era nuclear...
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South Carolina does not want to be the world’s nuclear waste dump
“We strongly object to foreign-origin plutonium coming into South Carolina over the next seven years we will continue to see dangerous shipments of nuclear waste routed through Charleston harbor More...
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St Louis County residents count the health toll from radioactive wastes
As they painstakingly mapped out the cases, Wright, Schanzenbach, and other members of the group were struck by the statistical improbability of what they were seeing. They found higher than average...
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