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Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum		09 May 2005	Daily Grist
Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum President Bush hearts nuclear -- or in the argot of the day, nucular -- claiming that a boost in nuclear energy could reduce oil imports and help America reach the Shangri-la of "energy independence." But people who, um, know stuff about nuclear energy are highly skeptical. There are some ways that nuclear could m ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

No Nukes Is Good Nukes An interview with longtime anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott	Gregory Dicum	03 May 2005	Main Dish
Helen Caldicott. Photo: Greg Barrett. In 1971, Helen Caldicott had an epiphany: all life on earth could end at any moment, simply because a few pig-headed people imagined they could "win" a nuclear war. A decade later, she had given up her promising medical career to devote her life to nothing short of saving the world. Her urgent Australian twang became a sane voice ...
Topics: energy, interview, nuclear power (all these topics)

The Nukes of Hazzard Utilities not as hot for new nuke plants as Bush is		02 May 2005	Daily Grist
The Nukes of Hazzard Utilities not as hot for new nuke plants as Bush is Not everyone is as cuckoo for new nuke plants as President Bush, not even the nation's electric utilities. Though some power companies have shown some interest in planning for future nuclear power plants in the U.S., experts concede the stars are not aligned just yet to make nuke power palatable to energy companies. The cost of building a new nuke plant ...
Topics: business, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Waste Like absentminded professors, nuclear plants misplace their waste		12 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Waste Like absentminded professors, nuclear plants misplace their waste A comprehensive new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reveals pervasive problems in the nuclear industry, abetted by lax federal regulation. You know all that waste nuclear plants produce, the stuff that stays radioactive for a kajillion years? Yeah, well, seems they keep ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Kristof declares nukes green N.Y. Times columnist says climate change makes nuclear energy a must	Lisa Hymas	11 Apr 2005	Gristmill
Inspired, no doubt, by recent lively discussion in Ask Umbra and Gristmill on nuclear power (necessary evil or pure evil?), New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has decided to join the fray with his simplistically titled (and conceived) 'Nukes Are Green' column. He's of the James Lovelock school of thought, arguing that with climate change bearing down on us and renewables not yet up to full speed, nuclear is our only hope.Kristof makes a few pithy points: America ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Spare the Rod, Foil the Riled Spent nuclear fuel vulnerable to terrorist attacks, experts warn		07 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Spare the Rod, Foil the Riled Spent nuclear fuel vulnerable to terrorist attacks, experts warn Despite its renewed popularity (even Umbra's giving it a second look!), nuclear power makes the eggheads at the National Academy of Sciences nervous. Specifically, a new NAS report raises red flags about the dangers posed by possible terrorist attacks on the pools of spent fuel rods stored at nuclear reactors all ...
Topics: National Academy of Sciences, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Half-Life Is Beautiful? On nuclear energy	Umbra Fisk	07 Apr 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, What are your thoughts on the reconsidering of nuclear power as a viable solution for helping with energy shortages and improving environmental conditions? I was shocked to hear a "scientist" say (in a "no duh," matter-of-fact type of way) that nuclear power is far cheaper and cleaner than our current coal- and oil-based energy system. He even talked about how much radiation is leaked when burning ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Eh, Just Throw It Out Back in the Shed Nuke industry says cheapest waste-disposal plan is plenty safe		29 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Eh, Just Throw It Out Back in the Shed Nuke industry says cheapest waste-disposal plan is plenty safe With the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste disposal facility mired in technical, legal, and political difficulties, nuke boosters have decided, hey, who needs it anyway? "People are no longer saying Yucca Mountain has to be finished in order for the nuclear industry to have a revival in this country," says a s ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Waste	David Roberts	21 Mar 2005	Gristmill
On Energy Priorities, a short but interesting piece on France's struggles with nuclear waste. The good bit:Every day, about ten shipping containers arrive on trucks at the Soulaines-Dhuys storage facility outside Troyes, in the province of Ardennes, 180 kilometers east of Paris. On board are barrels of waste that isn't radioactive enough to be stored at Marcoule. Every year, 15,000 cubic meters of waste contaminated with uranium, plutonium and tritium arrive here. The ...
Topics: energy, France, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science		17 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science The use of fabricated sources in a study about the safety of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump -- revealed in a series of emails between scientists -- has Energy and Interior Department officials scrambling to investigate. The U.S. Geological Survey study was critical to the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

The Loan Arranger U.S. plans to subsidize four new Chinese nuke plants		01 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Loan Arranger U.S. plans to subsidize four new Chinese nuke plants A nearly $5 billion proposed loan package from the U.S. government to British-owned Westinghouse Electric Corp. to build four massive nuclear reactors in China is encountering a flurry of objections. The objections are not about the nuclear waste that would result, or reactors' vulnerability to te ...
Topics: business, China, Dennis Kucinich, news, nuclear power, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry Sen. Harry Reid, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, knows full-well that his home state of Nevada isn't a liberal or environmental stronghold. Thus he has had to balance his party's political agenda with his state's economic interests, and one of those big interests is mining. Reid has repeat ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole 'Yucca is a necessity' thing		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole "Yucca is a necessity" thing Nuclear advocates have long insisted that the planned nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is necessary before new nuclear reactors can be built, because on-site storage of waste is just too dangerous. But with Yucca's prospects (at least in the short term) looking dim, and the prospects for new ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Maoist That Roared China tries to balance need for energy with environmental caution		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Maoist That Roared China tries to balance need for energy with environmental caution China's economy, as we report with obsessive regularity, is growing like gangbusters, and with it grows the country's need for energy. One response to this need is an aggressive push to develop nuclear energy: Conservative estimates project the commissioning of two new reactors a year through 2020, quadrupling nuclear output to 16 billion kilowat ...
Topics: China, nuclear power (all these topics)

Uncritical Mass Anti-nuke opposition muted even as U.S. nuclear industry expands		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Uncritical Mass Anti-nuke opposition muted even as U.S. nuclear industry expands Opponents of nuclear power in the U.S. have been having a rough time of late attracting attention to their cause, even as the nuclear-power industry gears up to build five new reactors by 2015 and as many as 50 by 2050, with enthusiastic backing from the Bush administration. Concerns over high oil prices, enthusiasm over the prospect of ...
Topics: business, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue In an interview with The Wall Street Journal -- his first newspaper interview since winning re-election -- President Bush pledged to, among other things, renew the push for his long-stalled energy bill and aggressively promote nuclear power, saying he looked forward to "making good, crisp, sound decisions." Bush spoke o ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

We Know, We Know, You're Sick of Hearing About Tajikistan, but ... Former Soviet republic littered with radioactive mine sites		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
We Know, We Know, You're Sick of Hearing About Tajikistan, but ... Former Soviet republic littered with radioactive mine sites The former Soviet republic of Tajikistan may be on the brink of environmental disaster as decades-old abandoned uranium mines lie open to the elements and some 55 million tons of nuclear waste contaminate the northern part of the country, left in the wake of Stalin's arms race with the U.S. ...
Topics: Asia, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Green, Even in the Dark Nuclear industry lobbies for 'green' credit		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Green, Even in the Dark Nuclear industry lobbies for "green" credit Nuclear-plant owners in the Northeastern U.S. are campaigning to be recognized as "green" energy sources. Following the success of a New Hampshire plant that last year received credits for not polluting the air, the nuclear industry is lobbying to be included in the Northeast's nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initia ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Put Up Your Nukes Judge may override Washington state voters on Hanford initiative		02 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Put Up Your Nukes Judge may override Washington state voters on Hanford initiative An initiative on the Washington state ballot last month, which would prevent more waste from being dumped at the federal Hanford nuclear site in the state, will go before a federal judge today. Were there Diebold machines involved? A flurry of recounts? No. In fact, voters approved the measure by a greater than 2- ...
Topics: elections, nuclear power, politics, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Dude, the Powder Is Nuclear Today! Extreme microbes may aid nuclear waste disposal		17 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Dude, the Powder Is Nuclear Today! Extreme microbes may aid nuclear waste disposal Researchers with the Department of Energy, hip to the latest trends, have developed genetically manipulated "extreme microbes" that reportedly survive entirely on Red Bull and communicate via appropriated skater slang. Ah, we kid. But there are some pretty bitchin' microbes out there. Able to survive in earth's most inhospitabl ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bela-ruse Poor Belarusians returning to areas contaminated by Chernobyl		15 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Bela-ruse Poor Belarusians returning to areas contaminated by Chernobyl It's been 18 years since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Ukraine exploded and spewed forth a cloud of radiation that contaminated some 22 percent of neighboring Belarus. Now many poor Belarusian residents are returning to normal life there, foraging for mushrooms and planting crops in areas that critics say remain contaminated. Yuri Kuz ...
Topics: Belarus, nuclear power, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford		03 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford By a more than a 2-to-1 margin, Washington state voters passed Initiative 297, which blocks the U.S. Department of Energy from sending more nuclear waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the southern part of the state until current waste at the former nuclear-weapons facility is fully cleaned up. The measure ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Cross Purposes Prominent Brit bishop booted from enviro group for advocating nuclear		22 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Cross Purposes Prominent Brit bishop booted from enviro group for advocating nuclear England's Reverend Hugh Montefiore -- member of the Church of England, former Bishop of Birmingham, and long-time champion of the environment -- has been forced to resign from the board of Friends of the Earth for arguing that nuclear power is the only viable way to avoid the oncoming catastrophe of global warming. Montefiore's argument a ...
Topics: climate, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Pebbles: Bam, Bam! China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Pebbles: Bam, Bam! China Gears Up to Build New, Smaller Nuke Plants China's economy is expanding faster than Bruce Banner with road rage, straining against the limits of its current capacity for creating or importing energy -- and pumping out some of the world's worst air pollution. The plan? Go nuclear. This year China announced its intention to build 30 new nuclear power facilities by 2020, and a team of Chinese scientists told B ...
Topics: China, nuclear power (all these topics)

Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program The Bush administration is clashing with Republicans in Congress over a compensation program for workers at nuclear facilities sickened by exposure to radiation, asbestos, and other toxic substances. As of July, the Energy Department had paid out only $700,000 of the $95 million it has received since the program was created, ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

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