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Not in My Backwards Japanese Town Vies for World's First Fusion Reactor		19 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Not in My Backwards Japanese Town Vies for World's First Fusion Reactor With all the Not In My Backyard squabbling that takes place over nuclear energy facilities, it's tough to believe that some communities actually invite nuclear power into the neighborhood. But that's exactly the hope of Rokkasho-mura, a tiny fishing village in Japan that wants to house the world's first fusion-based nuclear reactor. The International Thermonuclear ...
Topics: Japan, nuclear power (all these topics)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nevada Appeals to Federal Court to Stymie Nuke Waste Site		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nevada Appeals to Federal Court to Stymie Nuke Waste Site Nevada is digging in its heels and promising a bitter fight to keep the nation's high-level nuclear waste from being shipped to an underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Last year, President Bush signed a bill designating the site as a permanent nuclear-waste repository, but next month ...
Topics: health, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Markey-Mark and the Nukey Bunch GAO Finds Shortage of Money for Closing Atomic Reactors		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Markey-Mark and the Nukey Bunch GAO Finds Shortage of Money for Closing Atomic Reactors Nearly half of the nuclear-reactor owners in the U.S. are not setting aside sufficient money to decommission the plants when they are shuttered, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. As a result, 42 plants might not have enough money to be safely shut down. "While happ ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (all these topics)

Whatever Floats Your Nuke Russia Offers Floating Nuclear Plants to India		02 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Whatever Floats Your Nuke Russia Offers Floating Nuclear Plants to India How's this for a bad idea: floating nuclear plants. Russia, which has plans to build 11 such plants in its far north in the next few years, is also hoping to export the technology. Last month, Russia pitched the idea to India, reportedly offering to moor Russian-operated nuke plants off the Indian coastline -- a plan that would conveniently circumvent in ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, oceans (all these topics)

No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros It's been a roller coaster year for environmentalists in Brazil. Last October, with the election to the presidency of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula, for short), they were elated, because he was seen as one of their own. Now, though, enviros say they have been betrayed on virtually ev ...
Topics: Brazil, dams, energy, GMOs, international government agencies, nuclear power, rainforests (all these topics)

Crash Test Dummies Energy Dept. Reviews Hazards Posed by Military Aircraft at Yucca Mtn.		20 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Crash Test Dummies Energy Dept. Reviews Hazards Posed by Military Aircraft at Yucca Mtn. Increased military flights over Nellis Air Force Range and the Nevada Test Site will require revising hazard calculations about the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the U.S. Department of Energy announced yesterday. Earlier this week, a military jet crashed on the Nellis range, the third crash in as man ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, US Military (all these topics)

Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment After many weeks of pork-barrel politics conducted behind closed doors, Republican negotiators yesterday released a final version of the first big energy bill to emerge from Congress in more than a decade -- and it's a doozy. The package, which contains loads of subsidies for industry and loads of bad news for ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, Midwest, nuclear power, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Low-level Blow Bush Plans to Loosen Rules for Radwaste Disposal		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
A Low-level Blow Bush Plans to Loosen Rules for Radwaste Disposal Radioactive waste may be coming soon to a dump near you, brought to you by -- you guessed it -- the Bush administration. The U.S. EPA is proposing a significant rule change that would let the nuclear industry dispose of low-level radwaste at commonplace dumps and hazardous waste sites that weren't designed to handle it. The cha ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry		14 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry Germany began its historic phaseout of all atomic energy by shutting down the first of 19 nuclear power plants today. The Stade plant, in a city of the same name, had been open since 1972, making it the nation's second-oldest atomic energy facility. Anti-nuclear activists celebrated i ...
Topics: France, Germany, Greenpeace, nuclear power, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup After years of bitter wrangling, the federal government and Washington state on Friday reached an agreement on a timeline for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southern Washington. Under the deal, the U.S. Energy Department will treat the equivalent of several hundred thousand b ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Nuclear Holler Costs Nuclear Weapons Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorists, Whistleblower Says		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nuclear Holler Costs Nuclear Weapons Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorists, Whistleblower Says Nuclear weapons facilities in the United States are vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to a whistleblower who recounts his tale to reporter (and Grist contributor) Mark Hertsgaard in the November issue of Vanity Fair. Until September 2001, federal employee Rich Levernier was in charge of coordinating simul ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Nuclear Waste By Any Other Name... Energy Department Wants to Redefine Nuclear Waste		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nuclear Waste By Any Other Name... Energy Department Wants to Redefine Nuclear Waste The U.S. Department of Energy is asking Congress for the power to redefine some nuclear waste to allow it to be left where it is or disposed of at low-level radioactive waste sites instead of buried deep underground. The waste in question consists of tens of millions of gallons of salts and sludg ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan Last week's blackout in the eastern U.S. and Canada caused food spoilage, water contamination, economic losses, transportation delays, and all manner of disruptions ranging from the inconvenient to the awful. Now, environmentalists fear it might also cause a change for the worse in U.S. national energy policy. They worry th ...
Topics: Canada, green living, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors Dozens of cleanup workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state -- the most contaminated site in the nation -- have registered complaints in the past two years about ammonia-laden vapors seeping up from waste tanks at the site. The workers bl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington (all these topics)

Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries The withering heat wave in Europe, which is believed to have led to dozens if not hundreds of deaths, is now causing problems at nuclear facilities and other power plants. Government authorities in France and Germany have announced that they are relaxing rules to let plants pump warmer-than ...
Topics: climate, France, Germany, health, marine life, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

When Irish Eyes Are Smiting		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
When Irish Eyes Are Smiting Meanwhile, in nuclear news from elsewhere on the globe, Ireland has gone to international court in The Hague to try to shut down Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant. The Irish, who have been fighting the plant for decades, claim that it violates the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea by polluting the Irish Sea with radioactive waste. The Sellaf ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

Greens Pan Greenspan		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Greens Pan Greenspan The Bush administration and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan are expressing increasing concerns about dwindling natural gas supplies, a move that environmentalists see as a ploy to drum up support for nuclear energy and drilling on public lands. The concern over natural gas comes as Congress debates a comprehensive energy bill that could include provisions for d ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Swiss Miss		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Swiss Miss In a closely watched referendum, Swiss citizens voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to keep nuclear power going strong in the country. Although Switzerland has abundant sources of hydroelectric power, voters rejected two initiatives on the ballot that would have phased out the nation's five nuclear power plants over the coming decades. Philippe de Rougemont, representative for an anti-nuke coalition, predicted ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, Switzerland (all these topics)

Don't Call It a Comeback		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: nuclear power Don't Call It a Comeback The nuclear industry is swinging into comeback mode. A bill expected to pass the U.S. Senate in the next few weeks would provide federal loan guarantees for as much as 50 percent of the cost of constructing up to six new nuclear power plants. Sponsored by Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), the legislation also would earmark $1 billion for building an advanced nuclear reactor in Idaho that would generate hydrogen. "If the demonstration [proje ...
Topics: nuclear power (all these topics)

Ignoble Chernobyl		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Ignoble Chernobyl It's been 17 years since the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe -- but a new disaster could be around the bend if the concrete shield encasing the old power station isn't rapidly reinforced, according to Russia's energy minister. "We can see a situation where the roof could fall in, or rather the supports that hold up the roof could fall down. There are a lot of holes in the sarcophagus," said Alexande ...
Topics: nuclear power, Russia, Ukraine (all these topics)

In a Moment of Leakness		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
In a Moment of Leakness A baffling leak has been discovered at one of the newest nuclear reactors in the U.S. The South Texas Nuclear Project, 90 miles southwest of Houston, was discovered to have leaked cooling water from its large reactor vessel, a problem that experts have never before encountered. "This is the first time it's been seen, either here or abroad," said Victor Dr ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ohio, Texas (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, nuclear power (all these topics)

A Great Grandma An Aboriginal elder battles construction of a radioactive-waste dump in Australia	Michelle Nijhuis	16 Apr 2003	Main Dish
In the 1950s and '60s, the British military conducted a dozen full-scale nuclear tests in the desert of southern Australia. To the military, the region was a wasteland, the best possible place for such a project; to the Aboriginal people who had lived in the desert for millennia, the land was their home. Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield. Photo: Robert ...
Topics: Australia, interview, nuclear power, population (all these topics)

Glow With the Flow		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment	Amanda Griscom	03 Apr 2003	Powers That Be
It's a long-held tenet of U.S. environmentalists that nuclear power is bad news. Critics argue that the clean-air benefits of nuclear reactors are far outweighed by the consequences of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage -- not to mention the damage that could result from an accident at an atomic power station. Now more than ever, with growing concern about terrorist at ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom, United States, West (all these topics)

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