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'The Nuclear Jihadist' by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins; 'Deception' by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark; 'America and the Islamic Bomb' by David Armstrong and Joseph Trento; 'The Seventh Decade' by Jonathan Schell - Los Angeles Times
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:17 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
In the first week of this year, four lions of the American foreign-policy establishment took to the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal to jointly champion a view more commonly associated with peaceniks and left-wing utopians.
Sadness over last Yorkshire visit for the children of Chernobyl - Yorkshire Post
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:14 PM EST (yorkshirepost.co.uk)
FOR a small band of children from a forgotten part of the former Soviet Union, East Yorkshire has become a second home. Christmas will be tinged with sadness as an extraordinary effort by a mother and daughter team which has allowed the young people from Belarus precious weeks o …
Faults at Nuclear Plants Recharge Power Controversy | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 21.12.2007
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:08 PM EST (dw-world.de)
Minor structural faults were reported on Thursday, Dec. 20, at two nuclear power plants in Germany. The incidents come on the heels of a scandal involving a pair of other plants accused of covering up defects.
Brattleboro Reformer - Nuclear provision in energy bill has lawmakers concerned
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:06 PM EST (reformer.com)
WASHINGTON -- Vermont lawmakers expressed concern about a provision slipped into a massive budget bill last weekend intended to help the nuclear energy industry add new reactors to its aging fleet of power plants for the first time in three decades.
Tri-City Herald: Construction resumes on Hanford vit plant
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:02 PM EST (Tri-City Herald)
After almost two years of quiet at the largest building at Hanford's vitrification plant, workers began putting up steel beams this week. "It was a ghost town," said Larry Simmons, project manager for Bechtel National. "It's all coming back to life."
The Coloradoan - No scientists needed to see danger
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:59 PM EST (coloradoan.com)
No scientists needed to see danger
Micah Zenko - A Nuclear Site Is Breached - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:55 PM EST (The Washington Post)
An underreported attack on a South African nuclear facility last month demonstrates the high risk of theft of nuclear materials by terrorists or criminals.
Used nuclear fuel shipments start
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:53 PM EST (world-nuclear-news.org)
On 17 December the first transport to France of irradiated fuel still present in Italy was completed. The first two special containers, with 34 of the 1243 fuel rods that will be reprocessed at La Hague, left the shut down Caorso nuclear power plant.
Whitehaven News: £10m: New deal to compensate for nuclear waste
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:51 PM EST (whitehaven-news.co.uk)
A MULTI-million pound funding package is heading for Copeland as compensation for having the Drigg low-level nuclear waste repository in the borough.
Reactor shutdown costing $100k a week - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:48 PM EST (abc.net.au)
The head of medical isotope production at Lucas Heights says the high cost of imports and interruption to supplies make it crucial to get Sydney's nuclear reactor running again. The final bill for imports is likely to exceed $6 million.
Discovery in Pilgrim wells fuels debate - The Boston Globe
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:43 PM EST (The Boston Globe)
The radioactive tritium discovered this month in monitor wells on the grounds of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth was at levels below any reporting requirement, according to federal regulators, and poses no danger to the public. more stories like this
- Link to Manhattan Project Was Tucked Away in Plain Sight - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:39 PM EST (The Washington Post)
Paula DeSutter's curiosity about the history of her office suite in the State Department building in the District's Foggy Bottom area has led to the rediscovery of an important Manhattan Project landmark.
NewsChannel 5.com Nashville, Tennessee - Activists Challenge Uranium Storage At Erwin Plant
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:07 AM EST (newschannel5.com)
(AP) ERWIN, Tenn. - Environmental activists are making another push for a public hearing on federal oversight of a nuclear processing facility in Erwin.
Test site at Lawrence lab may shut under new federal plan
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:03 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)
More than 900 nuclear weapons program workers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could lose their jobs if the federal government goes ahead with a proposal to stop testing at a site in the Altamont Hills.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing Hunters Point NO favor - it is a Superfund Site - $1 Billion : Indybay
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:00 AM EST (indybay.org)
When the clueless Mayor Gavin Newsom makes a statement that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has got the City and County of San Francisco - some $82 million or so - for the on going clean up - it really makes no sense.
AFP: Russia offers to help Libya in pursuit of nuclear energy
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:39 AM EST (Google)
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia offered Wednesday to help Libya in its pursuit of nuclear energy and announced a visit to the former pariah state this weekend by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a report said.
CTV.ca | Feds tried to order nuclear regulator to bend rules
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:35 AM EST (ctv.ca)
OTTAWA -- The Conservative government issued a cabinet order last week to federal nuclear regulators in an apparent effort to pressure them into letting medical isotope production resume at the Chalk River nuclear reactor.
The candidates on nuclear power - SFBG Politics Blog
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:30 AM EST (sfbg.com)
Insight, the Nuclear Energy Institute's monthly pro-nukes pamphleteer, did a survey of the presidential candidates positions on nuclear power. The only one that's explicitly against more nuclear power plants is John Edwards.
U.S. to cut nuclear weapons stockpile - Los Angeles Times
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:28 AM EST (The L.A. Times)
The Bush administration said Tuesday that it would make a 15% reduction in the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, taking the overall inventory down to less than a quarter of its size at the end of the Cold War in 1991.
aikenstandard.com - Your trusted source for local news
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:25 AM EST (aikenstandard.com)
Washington Savannah River Company officials are still puzzled as to how a shipping container that once held radioactive material managed to turn up at a Columbia scrap yard last month. The 32-gallon drum – which had previously contained tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen …
Metro Pulse: The New Atomic Age
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:21 AM EST (metropulse.com)
The nuclear arms race may be behind us, but a new nuclear power race has just begun, and the Tennessee Valley Authority hopes to win it.
SPEAKOUT: Vote against uranium mine a state first : Speakout : The Rocky Mountain News
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:16 AM EST (rockymountainnews.com)
On Dec. 4, the Fort Collins City Council made Colorado history.
Uranium mine approved over objections of some
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:15 AM EST (gjsentinel.com)
Janet Johnson remembers debating fellow students at Grand Junction High School about the positive aspects of uranium. But that was before she graduated in 1962.
Uranium mine approved over objections of some
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:11 AM EST (gjsentinel.com)
Janet Johnson remembers debating fellow students at Grand Junction High School about the positive aspects of uranium. But that was before she graduated in 1962.
Carlsbad Current-Argus - Regional GNEP efforts appear to be at a standstill, for now
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:46 AM EST (currentargus.com)
CARLSBAD — GNEP facilities aren't coming to the area at any point in the near future.
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