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Bipartisan duo pushes more nuclear power in Minnesota | StarTribune.com
Talk about lessening the world’s dependence on greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels, and increasingly, nuclear power comes up. Now if only the world could figure out what to do with all those spent fuel rods.
The proposed national nuclear waste repository in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain seems a long-shot as long as Sen. Harry Reid, of Senate Majority Leader fame, remains a force to be reckoned with in Nevada and Democratic politics.
San Antonio Clean Tech Nuclear Forum September 16, 2009 Part 1 on Vimeo
Mayor Julian Castro City of San Antonio,Steve Bartley Interim General Manager, CPS Energy,Craig Severance, CPA Author, Business Risks & Costs of New Nuclear Power,Dr. Patrick Moore Co-Chair, Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, Dr. Arjun Makhijani President, Institute for Energy & Environmental Research
At the San Antonio Clean Tech Forum noted pundits square off and discuss the San Antonio's involvement in the proposed expansion of the South Texas Nuclear project.
Prince Albert Daily Herald: Protestors voice anti-nuke opinion
Bumbling nuclear waste disposal technicians opened spent reactor fuel rods and spilt radioactive material on the ground in front of the Delta Bessborough Hotel Thursday afternoon.
And people laughed, because this political vaudeville act was a protest against the closed-door Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) hearings.
The two-day meetings at the hotel were held as part of the search for a long-term nuclear waste storage facility. The NWMO, a not-for-profit established by Canada's nuclear industry, has identified Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec as possible sites for deep geological storage.
Coalition for a Clean Green Saskatchewan held a protest with about 20 people outside the hotel. Some supporters jumped into a media scrum with reporters and posed their own questions to a NWMO spokesperson.
"What gives you the hubris, the arrogance to make us think we can solve this problem," said Jim Penna, in reference to the U.S. government's failed $90 billion Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage project.
Nuclear forum highlights contrasting opinions
All four panelists at Wednesday's forum on nuclear energy agreed the decision to partner in or forgo the expansion of the nuclear South Texas Project will play a large role in shaping San Antonio's economic future.
That's where the agreement ended.
The San Antonio Clean Technology Forum brought in three national experts to join CPS Energy interim General Manager Steve Bartley.
The forum focused on the economics around the utility's plans to partner with NRG Energy to build two more nuclear reactors near Bay City.
The utility estimates the project will cost $13 billion and wants to take a 40 percent share. CPS already has spent $276 million on the planning and permitting, and the City Council is expected in October to vote on another $400 million to enable CPS to stay in the project.
Deseret News | Governor and activists to discuss N-waste deal
Gov. Gary Herbert has agreed to meet with an environmental activist group over concerns that a controversial nuclear waste deal proposed by EnergySolutions is still on the table.
HEAL Utah sent a letter to Herbert this month after media outlets began reporting that "talks" had been revived over a proposal by the nuclear waste company to split its revenue with the state if it is allowed to import foreign waste.
With Utah facing an estimated revenue shortfall of $700 million, Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack, R-Syracuse, has said it would be prudent to revisit the issue.
A legal battle over the facility's ability to accept the waste absent the state's consent is pending before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Ranger San Antonio College - Town hall renews nuclear questions
Concerns center on water usage, cost and spent fuel disposal.
The future of San Antonio’s ever-growing power needs was addressed Aug. 26 in McAllister Fine Arts Center during KSTX’s Town Hall forum on energy.
While the topic of the forum was all things energy, most of the evening’s questions centered on CPS’ proposed $10 billion-$13 billion expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear power plant in Bay City, which intends to add two additional nuclear reactors, as well as conversation on use of alternative and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
Construction for the new reactors, dubbed STP 3 & 4, is slated to begin in 2012.
CPS’ use of renewable resources, including solar, wind and natural gas, equals over 11 percent of the city’s peak energy demand, according to the company’s Web site. The Web site also lists a goal to increase that percentage to 20 percent by 2020.
Reprocessing is the answer | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Article Highlights
* Advancements in nuclear power should help the world move beyond fossil fuels.
* In particular, spent fuel recycling with fast reactors would solve some of the most vexing problems facing conventional nuclear power.
* Other benefits include reducing weapons proliferation risks and excess plutonium and uranium stockpiles.
When you combine the country's addiction to oil to its mounting concern over global warming you have a clear-cut case for expanded nuclear power. The issue has been clouded, however, by the recent decision to stop work on the Yucca Mountain permanent spent fuel repository in Nevada, so far the only real solution the United States has for its accumulating spent fuel from its 104 light water reactors (LWR).
The Great Debate » Nuclear power: pros and cons | The Great Debate |
As part of the Reuters Summit on global climate and alternative energy, Reuters.com asked Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club and Ian Hore-Lacy, director of public communication for the World Nuclear Association to discuss the role of nuclear energy. Here are their responses.
Nuclear not good, even in remote Quebec: environmentalists
A proposed nuclear reactor that would power mining operations in Quebec's remote regions carries more risks than benefits, according to an environmental group.
Western Troy is a mining company that plans to open up a copper mine in Lake McLeod, about 200 kilometres north of Chibougamau.
The company has begun a feasibility study to investigate using a mini-nuclear reactor that could provide inexpensive power to the mine.
Western Troy will need to provide at least 10 megawatts of electricity to power the operation, said Rex Loesby, company president.
The nuclear reactor under study is a promising option, even though it poses certain problems, he told CBC News
Nationals split over nuclear power | Telstra BigPond News and Weather
Another split has emerged in the coalition, this time over nuclear power.
Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce told his party's annual federal council meeting in Canberra at the weekend that a referendum should be held asking voters if they want nuclear power in Australia.
When asked if nuclear power was a Liberal Party policy, the opposition's environment spokesman Greg Hunt said it was not.
'It's not on our plans, it's not on the table at the moment, and it won't be until such time as there is bipartisan support,' Mr Hunt told ABC Radio on Monday.
SA Liberals seek nuclear debate - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The annual meeting of the South Australian Liberal Party has supported a motion to debate the use of nuclear power technology to reduce carbon emissions.
The motion was carried by a narrow majority despite strong opposition from senior state and federal Liberal MPs.
Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond says though she is not worried about having the debate, she does not support the motion.
Rebutting the standard arguments against disarmament | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
# Those opposed to ridding the world of nuclear weapons have a tendency of setting up and knocking down the same old straw men.
# If disarmament advocates want to improve the debate, they must begin addressing these straw men with a new set of arguments.
# Specifically, they need to stress that the United States wouldn't disarm unilaterally or leave its allies in a lurch.
German nuclear debate reignites after more reactor problems | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 25.07.2009
Germany's education and research minister has warned against demonizing nuclear power after two more reactors were temporarily taken offline, adding to the controversy over the future of atomic energy in the country.
German Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan has cautioned against a demonization of nuclear power following the shutdown of multiple reactors across the country due to technical malfunctions.
San Antonio on center stage in nuclear power debate - San Antonio Business Journal:
With its recent recommendation to move forward with construction of two new nuclear power units in South Texas, the staff of CPS Energy has placed San Antonio at the forefront of a national debate that has been raging for more than two dozen years.
There hasn’t been a new nuclear power reactor constructed in the U.S. since the 1970s, but now there are five potential units on the horizon, including two that would be located in South Texas supplying power for CPS Energy — which serves San Antonio and Bexar County.
Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman came to San Antonio recently as co-chair of a group advocating for the expansion of nuclear energy nationwide and acknowledged the Alamo City’s central role in the debate.
AdelaideNow... Rio ignites nuke power debate
PRIVATELY, the Federal Government is not happy that uranium miner Rio Tinto has launched an attack on its recently stated opposition to nuclear power.
But publicly, Government ministers were polite yesterday in responding to a pro-nuclear submission made by Rio Tinto over a white paper on government energy policy.
Treasurer Wayne Swan moved quickly to ground debate, declaring yesterday: "We don't agree with Rio Tinto on that point."
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong was equally dismissive, but civil: "Rio Tinto is entitled to their view."
After lobbing the hand grenade which has reignited the nuclear debate, the uranium mining giant ran for cover yesterday.
German Nuke Shutdown Reignites Debate - BusinessWeek
The weekend shutdown of Germany's Krümmel nuclear plant has prompted political calls to close the country's oldest nukes over safety concerns
The Krümmel nuclear power station near Hamburg was shut down on Saturday after a fault in a transformer, blacking out most traffic lights in the German port city and interrupting the water supply to thousands of homes.
Power company Vattenfall said there was no release of radioactivity and no danger to the public as a result of the incident, which occurred just two weeks after the plant was restarted following a two-year shutdown caused by a fire in a transformer.
Debunking The French - US Nuclear Power Comparison : TreeHugger
We often get comments on our posts to the effect that 'if only we were like the French with their successful nuclear power program.' The most ridiculous one I recall asserted 'If it weren't for you anti-nuc liberals, we could have clean nuclear power like France does.' So common is the US myth of French nuclear power as an exemplary model for the US, I can't resist the occasional provocation, like I did in yesterday's post with: 'France is about the size of Texas and has lower total nuclear power output than the US currently does.'
After reading a recent article in the Global Journal of Energy Machinery, by Stephen Thomas, of the University of Greenwich, I found some more ''hot rods' to insert in the myth reactor. Read on, for some fissionable quotes from Dr Thomas.
French, USA comparison on nuclear power development is delusional: a synopsis.
The nuclear debate: Part five
A hair salon is an unlikely place to stage a war.
It’s the morning after the grassroots group opposed to building a nuclear reactor in the province, Renewable Power — the Intelligent Choice (RPIC), waged its latest campaign, an April 27 rally outside Prince Albert City Hall, and already members are planning their next move.
Janis McKnight and Richard Swanby, owners of the Blunt hair salon, haven’t seen their first client for the day, except for local environmentalist and professional photographer, Thomas Porter.
But he’s not here for a trim. This is strategy. This is a war for public opinion.
Forum highlights nuclear plans
Supporters and opponents of nuclear power faced off Wednesday, May 20, under the auspices of a forum sponsored by the Calvert and St. Mary's county chapters of the League of Women Voters.
The handling of nuclear waste was one fulcrum of discussion, with panelists discussing the safety and viability of short- and long-term storage methods.
Brian O'Connell, director of the Nuclear Waste Program Office for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, said the federal government, not utility companies, is responsible for nuclear waste disposal. He lamented that plans for a permanent site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have been put on hold by the Obama administration, a decision he said was politically motivated.
Expand energy hearings beyond nuclear, Saskatchewan NDP urges
The NDP opposition says the provincial government should study renewable power — such as wind and solar — in addition to nuclear energy.
Hearings on the future of uranium and nuclear energy are scheduled to begin next month. They're taking place amid a growing debate about the future of the industry in Saskatchewan.
Ontario-based Bruce Power has said a nuclear power plant for Saskatchewan is feasible, while a government advisory panel is advising that some expansion of the industry should be considered.
However, the NDP says a focus on nuclear options is not enough. Once people have all of the information — including about wind, solar and other renewable energy options — then they can make a decision about what kind of power mix to have in the future, NDP members say.
"If you're going to spend $10 billion, why don't we find out the full picture in terms of what we compare it to?" NDP MLA Darcy Furber said.
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