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Jim Harding: Seven Myths of the Nuclear Renaissance
Thirty years ago, my now-deceased colleague David Comey was asked to make a presentation before the annual meeting of the Atomic Industrial Forum, then the major trade association backing expansion of nuclear power worldwide. He was asked to deliver that speech because he had built credibility with the press and with key decision makers by being scrupulously careful with his facts and analyses. The industry understood that its reputation – particularly with the media – was poor, and they wanted to understand how David had received such good results. In Comey’s view, there was an easy explanation - the nuclear industry regularly exaggerated and misled.
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10 Reasons Not to Invest in Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power generates approximately 20 percent of all U.S. electricity. And because it is a low-carbon source of around-the-clock power, it has received renewed interest as concern grows over the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on our climate. Yet nuclear power’s own myriad limitations will constrain its growth and make it an infeasible solution for making energy more affordable as well as more sustainable.
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G8 nations to push nuclear energy - UPI.com
Group of Eight leaders meeting in Japan will push for more nuclear power generation as a way to curb greenhouse gas emissions, sources said Sunday. The Yomiuri Shimbun quoted anonymous sources saying the G8 nations will pressure China and India to satisfy a greater percentage of their electricity needs from nuclear power
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Massive Global Car Growth To Crash Into Peak Oil | SolveClimate.com
The end of the fossil fuel era may end with a whimper, not a bang -- just with lines for gasoline that are too long. Consider these two pieces of unsettling data: (1) The number of cars on the road globally will hit 1 billion by 2011. (2) The world's oil will peak by 2015, according to the CEO of Shell.
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Global nuclear stockpiles 'must be reduced to prevent terrorist attacks' - Telegraph
Nuclear stockpiles around the world must be reduced to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, a coalition of senior British politicians has warned. The four former British defence and foreign secretaries warn that the more nuclear material in circulation, the more countries who have not had such weapons to date are likely to want to acquire their own.
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The Associated Press: Nuclear weapons programs around the world
A look at nuclear weapons programs around the world: CONFIRMED NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITIES: United States, Russia, China, France, Britain, Pakistan, India, North Korea
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Chris Ames: Nuclear scare stories | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Recent reports that blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon could have been sold to "some of the most treacherous regimes in the world" are pretty frightening. But is there less to the story than meets the eye? It seems the only thing really new is the suggestion that the designs are for a bomb small enough to suit Iran's requirements - so is the story more about politics than proliferation?
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ENERGY: Only Nuclear Dreams Mushrooming
PARIS, Jun 13 (IPS) - The proposal by the Paris-based International Energy Agency for more than 1,400 nuclear power plants to be built over the next 40 years is unfeasible, environmental activists say. The International Energy Agency (IEA) the energy agency of the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), the official think tank of the 30 most industrialised countries, released a report Jun. 6 on 'Energy Technology Perspectives' in the face of climate change and falling oil reserves. The IEA called for an "energy revolution", and urged investments worth 45 billion dollars for the next 40 years in wind energy and nuclear power plants.
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Top World Oil Producers, Exporters, Consumers, and Importers, 2006 — Infoplease.com
This is an important reference for anyone wanting to look at the number that are driving the current energy crisis.
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BBC NEWS | Business | Green energy 'revolution' needed
A leading energy body is calling for a $45 trillion (£23 trillion) green revolution to tackle global warming. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said nations must spend 1% of annual economic output on new technology to halve carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
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DOE - Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Members Convene in Jordan For Second Steering Group Meeting
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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The Associated Press: UN steps up campaign against nuclear, chemical terrorism
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging stepped-up efforts to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and black marketeers. It calls on all states to fully implement a council resolution approved in April 2004 requiring all 192 U.N. member states to adopt laws to prevent "non-state actors" from acquiring nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
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U.S. gesture on enrichment sales splits atom suppliers | Politics | Reuters
VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.S. offer to set criteria rather than seek a ban on uranium enrichment technology sales to non-nuclear states failed to win over critics led by Canada at a 45-nation meeting on Tuesday, diplomats said.
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World Politics Review | British, Russian Support May Not Save Ambitious Nuclear Power Club
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Bloomberg.com: Samurai-Sword Maker's Reactor Monopoly May Cool Nuclear Revival
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