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Nova Scotia News - Pickering station worries nuclear watchdog

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:47 -0000

OTTAWA — Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog warned last month that it was concerned about an "erosion of safety margins" at the Pickering B nuclear station near Toronto.\n\nA letter from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission surfaced Tuesday on the eve of a hearing in which Ontario Power Generation will make the case for renewing the station’s operating licence until 2014.

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Scullion still keen on Muckaty for nuclear dump - (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:31:58 -0000

Country Liberal Party Senator Nigel Scullion is continuing to push Muckaty Station, 110 kilometres north of Tennant Creek, as an ideal spot for a national nuclear waste dump.

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Nova Scotia News - N.B. greens want ban on uranium mining

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:31:46 -0000

FREDERICTON (CP) — Environmental groups in New Brunswick are calling for an immediate ban on uranium exploration and mining as companies continue staking large swaths of the province.\n\nRepresentatives of several conservation groups said Wednesday about 30 organizations, including church and farming groups, have signed a statement calling for a no-uranium mining policy, similar to moratoriums already in place in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

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CLEAN-UP JOB THAT WILL TAKE MORE THAN 100 YEARS

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:31:03 -0000

As the Government gives the go-ahead for a new generation of power plants, MARTIN BOOTH takes a look at what will happen to Oldbury nuclear power station as it nears the end of its life after 40 years of service.

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RenewableEnergyWorld.com - Renewable Energy News and Information

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:29:23 -0000

In 2006, China imported 145 million tons of crude oil, accounting for 44% of its consumption of oil. With the rapid growth in vehicle sales in China, consumption of fuel oil for vehicles accounted for 35% of oil consumption in 2006

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A Blind Man's Guide to Energy Policy - Business - redOrbit

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:28:29 -0000

The broad vision needed to transform the energy system will develop only when narrowly focused constituencies learn to see through the eyes of others. The United States has seemingly reached a consensus that energy is a serious problem. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on the solution. Three major constituencies are dominating discussion of the problem, and each approaches the issue from a different viewpoint. The constituency that is worried about climate change sees profligate use of fossil fuel that has dramatically changed our atmosphere. The energy security group sees dangerous reliance on foreign oil held by countries hostile to the United States. The economic vitality group sees high energy prices and market volatility threatening the economy and the U.S. standard of living. These three are certainly not the only constituencies, but they are the three that define the public interest aspects of the current policy debate in the United States, and more important, they are each pushing an agenda that does not mesh with that of the others.

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Commanding heights (2) | Nuclear diplomacy | Economist.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:26:29 -0000

British Energy proves a slow sell

EVEN today, 13 years after it was built, Britain's newest nuclear-power station looks futuristic, with its landmark white containment dome and the blue haze of Cerenkov radiation in the cooling pond. In contrast to the huge furnaces needed to burn coal, a reactor core at Sizewell B roughly the size of a smallish lorry produces 3% of Britain's electricity. But its construction was so controversial—sparking one of the longest planning inquiries ever—that, after it was finished, nuclear power was abandoned for a generation.

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Sydney Morning Herald: Government forced into inquiry on radioactive site

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:24:40 -0000

RELATIVES of a couple who died of cancer after living near an unmarked radioactive waste dump at Hunters Hill have welcomed a parliamentary inquiry into the contamination scandal that has dogged state governments since the 1960s.

"I hope they uncover exactly the level of damage that has occurred in terms of people's health and lives," said Katie McGrath, whose mother and father died of cancer in their 30s after living at the family's home in Nelson Parade.

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DOE - Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Members Convene in Jordan For Second Steering Group Meeting

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:21:00 -0000

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced continued progress at the conclusion of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership’s (GNEP’s) second Steering Group meeting. Representatives from twenty-eight countries and three intergovernmental organizations attended the two-day meeting in the Kingdom of Jordan hosted by the Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission.

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Traditional owners urged to back solar over uranium (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:20:11 -0000

The chief executive officer of Alice Springs' native title body says traditional owners should not support a uranium mine south of the town.

Darryl Pearce from Lhere Artepe says Aboriginal people would prefer to see solar technology projects instead of uranium mines.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission calls meeting about local GE plant | WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Wilmington NC News

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:33 -0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has called a meeting regarding the GE Plant in Castle Hayne. The commission is concerned about an alert the global nuclear fuels facility issued in January when moisture may have leaked into a container of uranium dioxide powder.

The executive director of the environmental watchdog group NC Warn said it was most likely a human error. However Jim Warren voiced his concern, saying, "That's the NRC's clever way of saying there was no risk."

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Chadron Record: NRC says mine opponents’ contentions merit attention

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:14:20 -0000

Plans for expansion of the Crow Butte uranium mine to a 2,100 acre near the cemetery north of Crawford will face additional scrutiny by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the result of a ruling released April 29.

After considering issues raised at a January hearing in Chadron, a three member panel of NRC administrative law judges concluded that concerns about potential contamination of groundwater supplies and threats to human health raised by opponents of the mine expansion deserved further consideration and oral arguments.

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The Times - Nuclear plans will triple SA’s power prices

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:17 -0000

And Eskom GM says a mild winter will go a long way to minimise load shedding

The government’s plan to include nuclear and renewable sources in the energy mix could push electricity bills even higher than currently foreseen, a senior Eskom official said yesterday.

The Cabinet has formally committed the country to build conventional and Pebble Bed nuclear power stations.

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Whitehaven News: Tenders sought for new N-waste storage ideas

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:09 -0000

As revealed in The Whitehaven News, the option of storing spent fuel in underground vaults, is becoming a possible alternative to reprocessing for Britain’s expected fleet of new nuclear reactors and a graphic illustration of the mountain of spoil, as large as the Egyptian pyramids, that would be created by an underground repository has been reproduced by a Welsh council that feared such a repository coming to Wales.

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New Wave of Nuclear Plants Faces High Costs - WSJ.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:05:24 -0000

A new generation of nuclear power plants is on the drawing boards in the U.S., but the projected cost is causing some sticker shock: $5 billion to $12 billion a plant, double to quadruple earlier rough estimates.

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Shooting accident is third in 9 months by Seabrook Station security officers

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:04:26 -0000

SEABROOK — Three nuclear power plant security officers were the triggermen during separate accidental shootings during the past nine months, according to police.

The most recent incident involved an off-duty Seabrook Station security officer who accidentally shot a 9 mm bullet through his hand and will face criminal charges after making some medical progress, said Seabrook Police Chief Patrick Manthorn.

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No proof, no license | APP.com | Asbury Park Press

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:03:41 -0000

We have long argued that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval process for nuclear power plant license extensions is a charade. The agency's inspector general continues to provide support for that thesis.

Six months ago, an audit of the license renewal process by the inspector general found that information provided in some NRC safety evaluation reports was identical, or nearly identical, to the corresponding applications, casting doubt on whether the NRC independently reviewed the applications.

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Nukes: A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:55:56 -0000

What do you do when you have a barn-sized pile of nuclear waste materials that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity? In the Netherlands, the answer was to stick it inside a giant art project: specifically, this orange building called the Habog Facility, covered in physics formulas by Einstein and Planck. Every twenty years, the building will be repainted in a lighter color to symbolize the slowly decaying radiation in the waste.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

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U.S. Retail Gasoline Historical Prices

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:37:37 -0000

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06-27-2006 - Levin-Coleman Report Finds Speculation Adding To Oil Prices: Put the Cop Back on the Beat : Senator Carl Levin: News Release

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:37:11 -0000

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