By Karl Grossman | CounterPunch | November 18, 2014 The recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space flight equation—as the U.S. and Russia still plan. “SpaceShipTwo has experienced an in-flight anomaly,” Virgin […]
A New Generation of Nuclear Reactors, the logical “Solution” for the Climate Scare Stephen Tindale The “Switchers” and assorted prominent pro-nuclear climate activists: George Monbiot – columnist with The Guardian newspaper in the UK, and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. “Atomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest […]
RT | November 5, 2014 The first of four sets of spent nuclear fuel rods has been removed from a damaged reactor building at Japan’s Fukushima power plant, scoring a major success in an effort to dismantle the quake and tsunami-wrecked facility. The 1,331 spent fuel rod assemblies weighting some 400 tons have been recovered […]
By JOHN LaFORGE | CounterPunch | October 31, 2014 Weakening radiation standards; a cap on accident liability; reactor propaganda vs improvements; old units running past expiration dates; revving the engines beyond design specs …. You’d think we were itching for a meltdown. The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended increased radiation exposure limits following major releases. […]
RT | October 28, 2014 A local council has voted to re-open the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant on the outermost western coast of Japan, despite local opposition and meteorologists’ warnings, following tremors in a nearby volcano. Nineteen out of 26 members of the city council of Satsumasendai approved the reopening that is scheduled to take […]
By Timothy Cama | The Hill | September 30, 2014 The Department of Energy (DOE) is drafting a solicitation to provide as much as $12.6 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear energy projects. The goal of the loan guarantees is to commercialize advanced nuclear technologies that could not otherwise get financing for research and development. […]
By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | September 7, 2014 As if we needed any more proof that the “Iranian nuclear threat” is just a cooked-up pretext which is unrelated to any actual nuclear threat, Australia, which holds about 1/3rd of the world’s uranium reserves, has decided to sell uranium to India. That such a […]
By Ralph Nader | The Nader Page | September 5, 2014 The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) – the corporate lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for the disintegrating atomic power industry – doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from the negative impacts of nuclear power. For nuclear power is a government/taxpayer-guaranteed boondoggle whose staggering costs, incurred and […]
RT | August 26, 2014 A confidential report by a senior nuclear expert calls on regulators to close California’s last nuclear plant until it can be established the facility can survive a powerful earthquake, according to an exclusive AP report. The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, which was built near three geographical fault lines, provides electricity […]
By Arnold Gundersen | The Mark News | August 21, 2014 Only luck and real courage at 14 nuclear reactors on Japan’s Pacific coast overcame the technical failures of nuclear power and prevented the nation from being destroyed by radiation. The untold story of March 11, 2011 is how close Japan came to three more […]
