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'Religious communities shouldn't instigate anti-nuke stir' - Zee News
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'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
6 hours 48 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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Trivialising the real dangers - Financial Express Bangladesh
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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Detangling two fast moving stories about nuclear - Energy Collective
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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Koeberg safety protocol 'outdated' - Independent Online
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Koeberg safety protocol 'outdated'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to release its emergency evacuation plans for the proposed nuclear site at Koeberg – only to find that the document is outdated.
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Southern Regulators Push Nuclear - GPB
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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We cannot wish Britain's nuclear waste away - The Guardian (blog)
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 04:59
We cannot wish Britain's nuclear waste away
The Guardian (blog)
He reveals that Prof David MacKay, chief scientific adviser to the UK government's energy department and author of Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air, has endorsed a remarkable estimate. The UK's stockpile of nuclear waste could be used to ...
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Anti-nuclear activists intensify protests - Times of India
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 18:04
IBNLive.com
Anti-nuclear activists intensify protests
Times of India
MADURAI: The already stumbling efforts by the Centre to get the activists give up their protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power project has hit a roadblock as the attack on the anti-nuclear activists by Hindu Munnani workers at Tirunelveli has ...
Tirunelveli: Assault, Stone-Pelting on Nuclear Plant ProtestScoop.co.nz (press release)
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Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment - Energy Collective
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 11:47
Black Swan theory and the anti-nuclear sentiment
Energy Collective
Every nuclear reactor has some combination of systems to remove decay heat from the core. In evaluating whether Black Swan Theory contributes to the anti-nuclear sentiment, one must consider whether such events were isolated outliers or part of a ...
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Calvert residents testify in favor of 3rd reactor - So Md News
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 09:52
Calvert residents testify in favor of 3rd reactor
So Md News
Baltimore-based utility company Constellation Energy pulled out of a joint venture with UniStar in 2010. And on Thursday, the atomic safety board was set to hold a legal hearing in Prince Frederick to address a challenge from four anti-nuclear groups ...
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Out with VY, in with natural gas and coal - Commons
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 08:34
MassLive.com
Out with VY, in with natural gas and coal
Commons
Only to the most zealous anti-nuclear ideologue does this decision make environmental sense. The historical record of fossil-fuel power generation is replete with emissions-related fatalities. In a press release last July, the US Environmental ...
Entergy CEO asks PSB to reconveneBrattleboro Reformer
Salmon: PSB's duty is to view Vermont Yankee objectivelyvtdigger.org
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Renewable energy faces problems with disposal, too - Commons
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 08:12
Renewable energy faces problems with disposal, too
Commons
Actually, the nuclear industry has invested heavily in two solutions, only to be stymied by the anti-nuclear lobby. First, billions of dollars have been spent to develop a nuclear waste repository in Nevada. For existing spent fuel that won't just go ...
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Hinkley Point: Flood risk 'yet to be resolved' for nuclear power station proposal - This is Somerset
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 06:08
Hinkley Point: Flood risk 'yet to be resolved' for nuclear power station proposal
This is Somerset
The deadline to register interest in the mammoth planning application for the proposed twin-reactor plant closed last week. Anti-nuclear group Stop Hinkley, which collected the signatures, believes last year's Fukushima disaster in Japan, which leaked ...
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Koodankulam nuclear power plant protestors assaulted - Rediff
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 17:26
The Hindu
Koodankulam nuclear power plant protestors assaulted
Rediff
Newspapers on Monday had reported that the anti-nuclear power project group would be bringing their own set of experts on the issue. However, by late evening there was news that they would not attend the meeting but would come and submit a petition ...
Hindu Munnani cadres attack protesting villagersIndian Express
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Fukushima puts East Asia nuclear policies on notice - The Japan Times
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 15:57
The Japan Times
Fukushima puts East Asia nuclear policies on notice
The Japan Times
Both Germany and Belgium declared plans to shed their nuclear power plants. Antinuclear experts and activists in South Korea, China and Taiwan who attended the Global Conference for Nuclear Power-Free World in Yokohama in mid-January meanwhile raised ...
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Expert panel, anti-Kudankulam activists rule out further talks - Daily News & Analysis
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 08:57
IBNLive.com
Expert panel, anti-Kudankulam activists rule out further talks
Daily News & Analysis
Efforts to break the logjam over the Kudankulam power plant hit a dead end on Tuesday as both the central expert committee and the anti-nuclear activists ruling out any further talks on the Indo-Russian project. The 15-member expert group, ...
Violence mars Kudankulam meetDeccan Herald
Work of central panel on Kudankulam over: ConvenorTwoCircles.net
Anti-nuke protestors to meet Central committee for fourth round of talksTimes of India
CounterCurrents.org -Outlook
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No more talks with anti-nuke protesters, says Central group - IBNLive.com
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 07:04
No more talks with anti-nuke protesters, says Central group
IBNLive.com
PTI | 08:01 PM,Jan 31,2012 Tirunelveli (TN), Jan 31 (PTI) Blaming the anti-nuclear activists for the continuing impasse over the Koodankulam power plant, the central expert committee set up to allay the fears of the people today said it had ...
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Illinois nuclear reactor shutdown probed - CBS News
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 03:20
Illinois nuclear reactor shutdown probed
CBS News
s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. (AP) CHICAGO - Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor in northern Illinois, where steam was vented to reduce pressure after it shut down. After the shut down Monday morning ...
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A matter of moral equivalency - The Argus.ca
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 20:11
A matter of moral equivalency
The Argus.ca
This past week, I awoke in the morning and found I'd received an e-mail from one of the many anti-nuclear weapons groups I belong to stating that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the doomsday clock one minute closer to midnight.
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Anti-nuke protestors to meet Central committee for fourth round of talks - Times of India
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 15:00
Deccan Chronicle
Anti-nuke protestors to meet Central committee for fourth round of talks
Times of India
... Ambrose and another run by anti-nuclear activist SP Udayakumar - located in Tuticorin and nearby districts, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) too made clear their stand by burning the models of Kudankulam nuclear plant on Monday.
No Dialogue, Only Demands During KNPP Meet: PMANEOutlook
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