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RT @MattWaldNYT: The latest assessment of #Fukushima from the #Nuclear Regulatory Commission: http://t.co/5zFfvbk
– Michael Noble (NobleIdeas) http://twitter.com/NobleIdeas/status/63821286614376448

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RT @AJELive: #Radiation levels "10,000x higher than normal" prompt fears of #nuclear #reactor breach at #Fukushima http://aje.me/hhqsSC

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RT @AJELive: #Japan: Radiation levels of 400mSv an hour detected at #Fukushima. #Nuclear association: 100mSv a year causes #cancer. http ...

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At a presentation at the Oxford Energy Futures conference on June 11th, Andy Duff, non-executive chair of RWE npower, made some controversial assertions about the future of electricity in the UK. He focused on three propositions.

a)      The UK cannot meet its carbon targets without new nuclear

b)      Electricity demand will grow at 1% less than GDP growth

c)       The UK will not have enough electricity capacity by the latter part of this decade unless UK society accepts a doubling of wholesale electricity prices, which is the minimum required to free the capital investment required to 1) meet demand and 2) decarbonise sufficiently fast.

In summary, we need nuclear and we all need to accept a substantial rise in electricity prices to pay for it.

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The United States has an atomic waste problem.

Nuclear power is without a doubt a viable source of cleaner energy, but the problem has always been what to do with the process’ byproducts.

A new Wall Street Journal report details the U.S. Department of Energy’s problems cleaning up temporary caches of steel-and-concrete casks filled with radioactive waste at now-defunct reactor sites.

The Energy Department is legally obligated to relieve nuclear plants of radioactive waste. But it hasn’t, because there’s nowhere permanent to put it.

Three months ago, the plan to build a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was canceled. It was the only candidate for the task.

Meanwhile, waste is piling up at nuclear facilities.

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The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well?

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The US can't use the nuclear option because it has signed away that right under international disarmament treaties

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The UK's most eminent engineers have warned that the biggest set of investments and social changes ever seen in peacetime are needed to meet the country's energy needs in the coming decades, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The changes include a transformation of the nation's draughty homes and cuts in how far people commute to work, as well as a vast expansion of wind and solar power and dozens of new nuclear or "clean coal" power plants.

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French anti-nuclear campaigners claim a new power plant being built in Normandy carries an accident risk of "Chernobyl proportions".

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"The idea that a few new reactors can solve climate change is attractive – and completely unrealistic"

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The average Australian household could pay up to 30 per cent more per year by 2025 for electricity generated from coal and nuclear power than from concentrating solar and hot dry rock geothermal power, according to clean energy organisation DESERTEC-Australia.

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One would expect that -- over time -- the costs associated with renewable energy would go down. With fossil fuels, costs can only go up as the un-renewable sources dwindle and become more scarce even as demand rises. Here are 5 feasible renewable energy sources that could be developed to help meet world energy needs:

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Despite the French government's global marketing of its flagship European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) as cheap and safe, nuclear energy is rapidly becoming the most expensive way to produce electricity, and its highly radioactive waste poses an ever-increasing problem.

Greenpeace has recently uncovered evidence that nuclear waste from the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) - the flagship of the French nuclear industry - will be up to seven times more hazardous than waste produced by existing nuclear reactors, increasing costs and the danger to health and the environment.

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The Hyperion Power Generation uranium hydride reactor will weigh fifteen to 20 tons, depending on whether you're measuring just the reactor itself or the cask—the container that we ship it in—as well. It was specifically designed to fit on the back of a flatbed truck because most of our customers are not going to have rail. It's about a meter-and-a-half across and about 2 meters tall. It will generate 27-30 Megawatts of electrical power from 70 MW of thermal power. This means 0.5 to 0.75 tons per MWe for the nuclear reactor.

I'm not a huge fan of non-renewable energy generation systems but I do recognise that nuclear will need to be part of the oil-less energy generation mix and this technology does appear to be one of the better nuclear options.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao announced Friday Brazil plans to build 50 to 60 nuclear power plants in half a century, with each having capacity of 1,000 megawatts.

"The general idea is to build one plant per year," he said during a visit to the construction site of Brazil's third nuclear power plant, Angra 3.

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Arthur Scargill, former head of the union of coalminers, argues for coal as an energy source for the UK.
Swapping one fossil fuel for another doesn't seem like a very sustainable response to me!

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Article ably articulating the case for and against nuclear power (read to the end for the argumants against)

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Nuclear power is often touted as the answer to the coming energy crisis. Not so, and this paper by Amory Lovins explains just why.

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