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Britain urged to dump climate goals | Reuters
British climate and energy policy is incoherent and needs an overhaul, dumping carbon targets and building more coal and nuclear power stations to stop the lights going out, a pro-nuclear scientist said.
A report entitled "A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK", by Professor Ian Fells and Candida Whitmill, said renewables would not fill the impending energy gap so old nuclear and coal plants had to be kept going while new ones were built urgently.
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Department of Energy - Financial Times-World Energy Council Energy Leaders Summit
And I applaud the Financial Times and the World Energy Council for hosting this important summit together. There are few issues more timely and pressing than the need to secure our global energy future.
The fact is, we face a new energy reality. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) most recent World Energy Outlook estimates the world’s primary energy needs will grow by 55 percent by 2030. As we address this increased global energy demand, we must also address the environmental impact of our growing energy use. This creates for the world a set of unique energy challenges that no one nation – or sector – can meet alone.
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ANALYSIS-Nuclear revival needs constructors to deliver | Markets | Reuters
The world's nuclear industry is ready for a "nuclear renaissance", but it is up to the reactor builders to make it happen.
Industry sources said that constructors must build reactors on schedule and within cost constraints.
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Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Reprocessing: A Rapid Response Factsheet
On August 25, 2008, the Nuclear Energy Institute released a fact sheet for press at the Democratic National Convention claiming that “Nuclear power plants and the proliferation of nuclear weapons are not linked.” This statement assumes that sensitive nuclear technologies will not spread. However, the Bush administration’s current proposal to resume reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership has increased the risk that nuclear energy will result in more nuclear weapons-usable material in the United States and abroad. The Bush Administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) proposes that the United States would separate plutonium from spent nuclear fuel through reprocessing. GNEP envisions that “receiver” countries would voluntarily give up nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technologies and, in exchange, and would send their nuclear waste to “supplier” countries for reprocessing. In practice, GNEP is a proliferation risk, exorbitantly expensive, and not a solution to the growing nuclear waste problem in the United States
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Website of the Baltic-Polish nuclear power plant project is lauched :: The Baltic Course
Information about the new Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VNPP) project is now available at the Internet website "www.vae.lt"; the website provides information about the project's preparatory work, career and business opportunities, as well as expert opinions. The website is in Lithuanian, there is also a shorter version in English.
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Casper Star-Tribune: NRC chairman touts Wyoming uranium mine
At Cameco Inc.'s Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leach uranium mine, a typical barrel holds about 883 pounds of "yellowcake," which is 83 percent U308, the foundation of nuclear fuel that has sparked a mining rush in Wyoming.
Price-wise, it's worth about $64 per pound on the spot market, and about $45 on contract -- the equivalent of about 450 barrels of oil.
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How much radiation is too much? (phillyBurbs.com) | Courier Times
The 750 tons of radioactive sludge that Waste Management agreed to accept at its local municipal landfills would expose the public to less radiation annually than watching TV, according to a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission assessment.
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Are 'tamper-proof' nukes a safe energy solution? - energy-fuels - 30 July 2008 - New Scientist Environment
UNDER cover of night, a fleet of nondescript freighters sets sail protected by a naval escort. The only cargo aboard each vessel is a mysterious cylindrical capsule some 3 metres across and 12 metres long. Ordinarily, there would be nothing unusual about shipping goods from the US around the world, but these 500-tonne containers are no ordinary freight. The ships are carrying a new generation of self-contained nuclear power plants destined for countries such as Libya, Namibia and Indonesia - nations that the US government would not normally trust with the custody of nuclear material.
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The Hindu: 'Clean energy' will help tackle climate change threats: Saran'
With the Indo-US civilian nuclear energy initiative back on track after the recent trust vote in Parliament, government's key negotiator on Climate Change Shyam Saran on Saturday pinned hope that "clean energy" would help tackle climate change threats.
Speaking at a seminar on "Climate change: Will India's Growth story confront new constraints?" he said, "We may look forward to a major expansion in nuclear power generation in the period upto 2030-31," to meet growing energy needs.
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aikenstandard.com - trusted local news for Aiken , SC
Over the past three days, teacher LaLisa Folk learned about the Savannah River Site, the Environmental Protection Agency, nuclear energy and the nuclear industry, reactor design and the basics of radiation.
For the past decade, the U.S. Department of Energy has hosted the TREAT workshop for teachers - Teaching Radiation, Energy and Technology. The program is funded through an environmental grant with Savannah State University.
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Idaho Examiner: Nuclear Tour de France"Common Sense News"
Over the July 4th holiday week, I visited France, as a guest of its government, to tour the AREVA corporation’s outstanding nuclear facilities which enable the French to provide 80 percent of their electricity through emission-free nuclear power. I also visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial to pay my respects to our fallen American soldiers from World War II.
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Russia Eyes the Atom: The Monologue of Nuclear Power- SPIEGEL ONLINE
Russia plans to build up to 40 new nuclear reactors in the near future. But experts warn that may not be possible. The country lacks experts, skilled personnel and a clear idea about what to do with the waste.
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Switzerland : Putting Nuclear to the Vote - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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United Kingdom: The British Atomic 'Green Revolution' - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
For years, nuclear energy was seen as an "unattractive option" in Great Britain, and the country's nuclear phase-out was in fact a done deal. But in light of soaring oil prices, the British government is rethinking its position, even praising nuclear power as an environmentally friendly alternative.
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THE PEACOCK REPORT (TPR): DoE-Industry Outreach Seeks to Bring About "Commercial Nuclear Renaissance"
Nuclear technology and service providers later this month will get a chance to jointly hustle their wares to the federal government, which is planning a conference where industry representatives can set up shop, free of charge, in order to network with Dept. of Energy (DoE) officials in Denver.
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Nuclear at the Crossroad » The Foundry
As we continue to chronicle the worldwide nuclear renaissance here on the Foundry and at The Heritage Foundation, it is important to note the outlier nations and the reasons for which they resist nuclear power.
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The US Goes Nucular: Prefab Reactors and Longer Life-Spans - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
No nuclear reactors have been built in the United States since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. But that is about to change. A number have recently been approved and dozens more are waiting in the wings.
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The Canadian Press: Alberta nuclear plant would generate 2,700 jobs, $12B economic action: Bruce
The Bruce Power partnership predicts a nuclear plant in the Peace River region of Alberta would contribute $12 billion to the province's economy during the construction period and would generate 2,700 long-term jobs.
"While more detailed work needs to be done, this early report paints a good picture of the economic benefits our proposal could bring to the Peace Country," Duncan Hawthorne, president of Bruce Power Alberta, said in releasing the partnership's study Tuesday.
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Don't be misled by Entergy ad: Times Argus Online
Entergy's ads about Vermont Yankee being clean, safe and reliable are psychologically abusive to the good people of Vermont and an insult to our intelligence.
Are we supposed to ignore that uranium comes from somewhere? Uranium mining has devastated the traditional food sources and health of the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario. The workplace safety insurance board pays $30,000 to the families of uranium miners who die from workplace-related cancer. We are paying for our "cheap" energy with bodies.
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Wonk Room » Big Oil: ‘Together, We Can’ Ignore Climate Change
The American Petroleum Institute (API), the trade organization for the oil and natural gas industry, has just begun running a feel-good commercial that argues “America’s future” lies in drilling out domestic reserves of oil and natural gas off our coasts, in our western lands, and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Here’s what the ad says:
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