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George Monbiot's riting this in a Guardian blog is a guaranteed flame-magnet, but it is important that the debate around nclear power does not devolve into an environmentalist rout. Hard, hard questions have to be fully answered about HOW we move forward before we start pulling the plug on every single nuclear plant out there.

I have yet to see someone prove, using figures in BTUs, that renewables are the answer to the problem given current and projected generation capabilities. What this crisis should, and I think will do, is push funding of alternative energy research to the top of the priority list.

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Samuel Wade at China Digital Times does an excellent job wrapping up reports of China's plans to review its nuclear program.

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"Modern life requires learning from disasters, not fleeing all risk."

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"The containment structures appear to be working, and the latest reactor designs aren't vulnerable to the coolant problem at issue here."

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"A newly released official document, which sets tough emission limits on miners producing rare earths, will force a reshuffle in the industry, Chinese experts and industry insiders said."

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"While the United States has promised to help China exploit its natural gas reserves, the current political anxiety over Beijing’s economic might this election cycle may prove to be too strong for even the White House to defend."

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The Chinese Iranian Oil Connection

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"A Chinese court on Friday rejected an appeal by American geologist Xue Feng against his eight-year jail sentence for spying, despite public calls by U.S. President Barack Obama and other officials to free him."

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Will a Middle Eastern oil disruption crush the economy? New research suggests the answer is no -- and that a major tenet of American foreign policy may be fundamentally wrong.

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A fascinating article, but like so much in the WSJ it seems to frame the reserves of fossil fuels in both the US and China in the most optimistic ways.

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How to really win the clean energy race.

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Chinese companies acquire the latest Western technology by various means and then take advantage of government policies to become the world’s dominant, low-cost suppliers.

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"No one wants growth to slow, but how can efficiency increase, especially in light of the economic crisis of 2007-9? On the back of tremendous volatility in the energy markets, the global recession caused demand to fall, spare capacity to rise, and prices to drop for all major fuels. But in the process, the crisis has also usefully highlighted both the structural forces that are straining energy markets and these markets' relative strengths and weaknesses. "

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"A crisis is looming, and it will be difficult to resolve because it will strike as two radically new changes are making it harder for governments to manage the world energy system."

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