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What does a Banana have in common with a Nuke plant?

Abalone - 1 hour 48 min ago

What does a Banana have in common with a Nuke plant? Nothing. Ones waste will need to be cooled, guarded & bureaucrated for 500,000 years. The other you feed to your children. Questions? Watch this video below. Aging Nuke Plants On Fault ... Continue reading →

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Close look at leak days away at Cal nuke plant

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - 4 hours 31 min ago

Inspectors are waiting for the 105 degree temperature inside a nuclear reactor to drop enough to make it safe for workers and equipment to get inside and inspect a tube leak that prompted operators to shut down a nuclear plant on the California coast, officials say.

'Religious communities shouldn't instigate anti-nuke stir' - Zee News

Nuke News - 5 hours 56 min ago

'Religious communities shouldn't instigate anti-nuke stir'
Zee News
Chennai: Admitting it was the responsibility of the Centre and state governments to allay fears of locals over the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Union Minister V Narayanasamy on Saturday urged religious communities not to 'instigate' anti-nuclear ...
Religious groups should not instigate anti-nuke protesters: govtIndian Express

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Tamil Nadu government decides to constitute expert panel on Koodankulam ... - Economic Times

Nuke News - 6 hours 45 min ago

The Hindu
Tamil Nadu government decides to constitute expert panel on Koodankulam ...
Economic Times
CHENNAI: With efforts to break the logjam over the Koodankulam Nuclear power plant hitting a dead-end, Tamil Nadu Government has decided to constitute an expert panel to look into the "fears and concerns" of locals over the project.
Centre, TN should operationalise Kudankulam: MPZee News

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NRC Denies Fire Safety Exemptions at Indian Point

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 23:52

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has denied a majority of fire safety exemption requests made by Entergy Nuclear for Indian Point Power Plants in Buchanan.

Tests show no radiation increase at nuclear plant

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 19:38

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Emergency Management Agency officials say lab tests show no measureable increase of radiation after steam was released to cool a northern Illinois nuclear reactor.

Nuclear industry in limbo after disasters

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 16:28

Boosters used to talk of a resurgence in the market for nuclear energy as concerns about reliance on fossil fuels and the harmful effects of greenhouse gases mounted, but recent events have put a decided damper on that enthusiasm.

San Onofre nuclear plant radiation leak, worn tubes raise concerns

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 12:13

Officials of Southern California Edison, which operates the facility and is a majority owner, insist that the plant is perfectly safe, but others say the mishaps are one more sign of problems.

Trivialising the real dangers - Financial Express Bangladesh

Nuke News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:42

Trivialising the real dangers
Financial Express Bangladesh
Anti-nuclear activists say that uranium mining, nuclear weapons testing and accidents at power plants, storage, transport and disposal of waste, all have been creating Hibakusha. Medical physicists like Dr Goffman would agree hundred per cent.

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Many problems at SONGS and in our community

Abalone - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 08:13

There is a very serious problem going on at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station but all we hear from SCE & NRC is the same old story they always say "everything is safe, very little if any radioactivity was released,"you will be fine co... Continue reading →

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More leaks found at crippled Japan nuclear plant

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 08:04

Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable.

Detangling two fast moving stories about nuclear - Energy Collective

Nuke News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 07:10

Energy Collective
Detangling two fast moving stories about nuclear
Energy Collective
Anti-nuclear groups, including Utah HEAL and Uranium Watch, vowed to challenge the water rights decision based on the newspaper's report. Did Progress cancel its Levy County, Florida reactors? The short answer is no, Progress Energy did not cancel its ...

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Southern Regulators Push Nuclear

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 06:04

The Vogtle nuclear power plant near Augusta is in the midst of construction. Crews are preparing to build two new reactors.

George Monbiot on Junk Science, Rational Thought, and The Tragedy of Giving Up Nuclear

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 01:44

If there is a gene that codes for argumentativeness, George Monbiot must have doubles.

Koeberg safety protocol 'outdated' - Independent Online

Nuke News - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:39

Independent Online
Koeberg safety protocol 'outdated'
Independent Online
ANTI-NUCLEAR organisation Koeberg Alert Alliance (KAA) has battled with Eskom for the past two years to release its emergency evacuation plans for the proposed nuclear site at Koeberg – only to find that the document is outdated.

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Exelon to update earthquake risk at nuclear plants

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 21:40

Nuclear plants throughout the central and eastern United States must be reassessed within four years to determine how well they might withstand earthquakes, including plants in Illinois and Iowa where new geological data suggest earthquakes could be more frequent and intense than previously believed, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates tritium release at Illinois reactor

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 17:40

The trace amount of radioactive tritium released in steam to cool a reactor during a shutdown at an Illinois nuclear plant was not enough to present a danger to the public, according to the first estimates by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Southern Regulators Push Nuclear - GPB

Nuke News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:08

GPB
Southern Regulators Push Nuclear
GPB
They ensure customers get electricity while the company is guaranteed profits. Other regions take a more market-driven approach to electricity. Ellen Vanko of the anti-nuclear Union of Concerned Scientists says, in those regions, nuclear power plants ...
Trivialising the real dangersFinancial Express Bangladesh

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Feds: 'Unusual' wear on new tubes at CA nuke plant

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 13:25

Federal regulators said Thursday that unusual wear has been found on dozens of virtually new tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California's San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant.

Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima

Topix - Nuclear Energy News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 09:21

Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes, unlike the Chernobyl area that remains a no-go zone 25 years after its accident.