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A federal grand jury in Tacoma, Washington has indicted five anti-war protesters –most of them senior citizens-- on charges of conspiracy, trespass and destruction of government property for entering a secure area at the Kitsap-Bangor Naval Base complex last November. The charges carry penalties of up to 10 years in federal prison. The five are accused of using bolt cutters last November to breach three chain-link fences surrounding the base, which is home to part of the Pacific nuclear submarine fleet.A federal grand jury in Tacoma, Washington has indicted five anti-war protesters... more
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The US is said to be negotiating a controversial agreement with Vietnam to provide nuclear fuel and technology without the usual constraints on enriching uranium to prevent proliferation. An agreement would allow US companies such as General Electric and Bechtel to sell nuclear reactors and other equipment to Vietnam.The US is said to be negotiating a controversial agreement with Vietnam to provide... more
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Reuters reports that President Barack Obama is currently seeking $80 billion to upgrade the United States’ nuclear weapons system.Reuters reports that President Barack Obama is currently seeking $80 billion to... more
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On May 2cnd, thousands of protesters rallied and marched in New York City, calling for an end to all nuclear weapons.On May 2cnd, thousands of protesters rallied and marched in New York City, calling for... more
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Obama Nuclear Security Summit 2010 Agenda: IS IT SAFE? The White House meets today in Washington D.C. with the heads of world leaders. IS IT SAFE?
Obama hopes to use the largest gathering of world leaders hosted by a U.S. president in 65 years to focus on the most serious nuclear proliferation threats and question of our time: IS IT SAFE?Obama Nuclear Security Summit 2010 Agenda: IS IT SAFE? The White House meets today in... more
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The Francis Underhill Macy Hibakusha Initiative is a month-long educational opportunity for New York City school children to hear eyewitness accounts of one of the most significant events in human history— the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. The survivors are called Hibakusha.
Sponsored by Youth Arts New York in partnership with Peace Boat and Mayors for Peace, this program coincides with the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the United Nations in May of 2010.The Francis Underhill Macy Hibakusha Initiative is a month-long educational... more
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They'd be carbon free, relatively cheap, and according to the industry, inherently safe. An underground mini-nuke could power a village.
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No, really? A whole village?
A new twist on NOT IN MY BACK YARD, this is IN EVERY BACK YARD. FAIL!
The "Nuscale" mini nuke generates 45 Megawatts and the "Toshiba" generates 10 Megawatts. One thing they also generate is NUCLEAR WASTE, which we have to deal with forever.
Thanks for this informative and well balanced article National Geographic, NOT!
No mention of the nearly 10,000 Megawatts of WIND POWER that we installed in the United States in 2009 alone.
Write and call Obama, and your local and state representatives tell them how you feel about nuclear power.
Nuclear power: unnecessary, unsafe and unwanted.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/08/mini-nukesThey'd be carbon free, relatively cheap, and according to the industry,... more
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MONTPELIER, Vt. — In an unusual state foray into nuclear regulation, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 Wednesday to block operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant after 2012, citing radioactive leaks, misstatements in testimony by plant officials and other problems.
The last time a reactor in the United States was closed by a vote of the public or its representatives was in June 1989, when the voters of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District decided to shut the Rancho Seco reactor. The issues in that case were mostly economic; the plant kept breaking down, forcing the district to buy electricity from neighbors, and it had been shut from late 1985 to early 1988 for repairs.
Commissioned in August 1966 and given its operating license in March 1972, Vermont Yankee is one of the older plants in the American inventory of 104 power reactors. The oldest still running is Oyster Creek, near Toms River, N.J., which is of a similar design and opened in December 1969.
Oyster Creek recently won a 20-year extension of its initial 40-year license, although, to the anger of its opponents, plant owners announced a few days later that it, too, was leaking tritium.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/25nuke.html?scp=2&sq=vermont&st=cse
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/25/us/25nuke01/25nuke01-popup.jpgMONTPELIER, Vt. — In an unusual state foray into nuclear regulation, the Vermont... more
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At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.htmlAt TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future,... more
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Friends of the Earth Climate and Energy Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber criticized the loan guarantees, saying they amount to a preemptive bailout for a failing nuclear industry.
“The last thing Americans want is another government bailout for a failing industry, but that’s exactly what they’re getting from the Obama administration,” Schreiber said. “The Department of Energy is putting taxpayers on the hook for bailing out costly and dangerous nuclear reactor projects when the loans used to finance those projects default. This is great news for Wall Street but a bad deal for Main Street.”
This preemptive bailout reportedly will come in the form of a conditional federal loan guarantee for Southern Company’s Vogtle reactors in Burke, Georgia.
In the absence of such guarantees, the industry has been unable to secure financing from the private sector that it needs for construction of new reactors. Michael J. Wallace, the co-chief executive of UniStar Nuclear, told the New York Times in 2007 that “without loan guarantees we will not build nuclear power plants.” Unfortunately, the Congressional Research Service says such guarantees threaten to leave taxpayers with “potentially large losses.” The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the risk of default on a nuclear loan guarantee is “very high—well above 50 percent.”
“Even Wall Street traders say these reactors are too risky to invest in, and that tells you something,” said Schreiber. “There’s a 50 percent or greater risk of default. Why should taxpayers bear that risk?”
Not only is the risk of default high, but nuclear power remains unsafe and dirty, and the problem of what to do with radioactive waste piling up at reactors around the country has not been resolved, Schreiber said.
Nuclear industry problems were highlighted recently when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission halted review of the Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear reactor design after determining that it was insufficient to deal with earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and airplane crashes. And in January, officials disclosed that a nuclear reactor in Vermont had been leaking large amounts of radioactive tritium, raising concerns about groundwater contamination.
For more information, see:
◦The group statement, “Taxpayer-Backed Loan Guarantees for New Reactors to Companies in MD, SC, GA and TX are a Risky Venture Lacking Accountability, Must be Halted”: http://www.nirs.org/neconomics/lgpstatement12112009.pdf
◦A recent analysis from CitGroup, “New Nuclear -- The Economics Say No”: https://www.citigroupgeo.com/pdf/SEU27102.pdf
◦More information on recent radioactive tritium leaks from U.S. reactors: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9617971
###Friends of the Earth Climate and Energy Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber criticized the loan... more
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Please watch this video, it may be the most important thing you do today!
Obama is completely in the pocket of the NUCLEAR POWER industry.
Write, email, and call Obama and tell him he's wrong and "we the people" do not want any more nuclear power plants.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/16/obama.jobs/Please watch this video, it may be the most important thing you do today!
Obama is... more
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WASHINGTON — President Obama told an enthusiastic audience of union officials on Tuesday that the Energy Department had approved a loan guarantee intended to underwrite construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia, with taxpayers picking up much of the financial risk.
The new plants are far from a done deal; the design is not yet fully approved.
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Write, email and call the Obama administration and tell them how you feel about this new development.
NO NUKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/energy-environment/17nukes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.scottsheehan.com.au/myspacestuff/no-nukes.jpgWASHINGTON — President Obama told an enthusiastic audience of union officials on... more
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President Barack Obama next week will announce a loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the United States in almost three decades, an administration official said Friday.
The two new Southern Co. reactors to be built in Burke, Ga., are part of a White House energy plan administration officials hope will draw Republican support. Obama's direct involvement in announcing the award underscores the political weight the White House is putting behind its effort to use nuclear power and alternative energy sources to lessen American dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming.
Loan guarantees for other sites are expected to be announced in the coming months, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been made public. The federal guarantees are seen as essential for construction of any new reactor because of the huge expense involved. Critics call the guarantees a form of subsidy and say taxpayers will assume a huge risk, given the industry's record of cost overruns and loan defaults.
Even with next week's announcement, actual construction of the first reactor is still years away. The Southern Co. has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a construction and operating license for the plant, one of 13 such applications the agency is considering. NRC spokesman Eliot Brenner said the earliest any of those could be approved would be late 2011 or early 2012.
The Southern Co. has begun site preparation in Burke, but cannot begin construction without NRC approval.
Obama called for "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" in his Jan. 27 State of the Union speech, and followed that by proposing to triple loan guarantees for new nuclear plants. Obama's budget for the coming year would add $36 billion in new federal loan guarantees on top of $18.5 billion already budgeted — but not spent — for a total of $54.5 billion. That's enough to help build six or seven new nuclear plants, which can cost $8 billion to $10 billion each.President Barack Obama next week will announce a loan guarantee to build the first... more
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"The world's energy portfolio should not include coal or natural gas, he said, and must include carbon capture and storage technology as well as nuclear, wind and both solar photovoltaics and solar thermal power."
"According to CNN, Gates spent a large portion of his speech endorsing technology that could turn spent uranium fuel rods into clean energy. Gates told the audience that the technology could power the world indefinitely, and that the U.S. could be powered for 100 years using the spent fuel rods already in its possession."
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WTF????? For everyone to live like Bill Gates, we might need to do what he says. Unplugging Bill Gates' house from the grid would be a good start, but more nukes? NO!
Reprocessing is the worst development in nuclear technology since the atomic bomb. You've heard the term nuclear nightmare? Well this is it.
100 years? Really Bill? really? Does that seem like a long time to you? When you consider the nuclear reprocessing boondoggle and nuclear waste in general, its infinitesimal. I'm beginning to think Dr. Helen Caldicott was right, some of these pro-nuclear people may be clinically insane.
I've been a fan of Gates and I've used windows beginning with version 2.0, but my next computer may very well be a solar powered MAC.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/bill-gates-ted-speech-201_n_461034.html
http://www.redesign-day.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aerial-view-of-bill-gates-house.jpg"The world's energy portfolio should not include coal or natural gas, he... more
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"President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.
Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors. This emphasis reflects both the political difficulties of passing a climate bill in an election year and a shift from his once cautious embrace of nuclear energy.
He's now calling for a new generation of nuclear power plants."
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Suddenly the state of our union is not looking so good.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/obama-administration-push_n_443586.html
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/10/27/1027_obamasolar_460x276.jpg"President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to... more
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"China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants."
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Green:
Wind Turbines, Solar Panels (+2)
Not Green:
Nuclear Reactors, Coal Power Plants (-2)
Total score? 0
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html"China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States... more
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