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Nuclear Power Will Not Save Us From Climate Change via Yes! Magazine

Posted on 2018/11/03 by nfield

By M.V. Ramana and Robert Jensen How the IPCC’s solutions for reversing the Earth’s warming encourage business as usual. […] Underlying the IPCC report’s claims is the belief that technological solutions can fix the climate problem. Yet these fixes don’t address … Continue reading →

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Tepco apologizes over inappropriate hashtag for image of crippled Fukushima plant via the Japan Times

Posted on 2018/10/30 by nfield

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has apologized after sharing on social media an image from inside its crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant together with a hashtag that means “fascination with factories.” After the post attracted a lot of negative … Continue reading →

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THE ATOMIC GENIE Thinking about nuclear: Hard choices that may cost the planet via Climate & Capitalism

Posted on 2018/09/13 by nfield

Some environmentalists want both nuclear power and renewables. Richard Seymour says that’s an evasion. We must choose, and the choice isn’t easy. Republished with permission from the author, Richard Seymour. It was first published on his Patreon blog, which we like … Continue reading →

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Ed Markey wants answers on ex-Trump lawyer’s role in nuclear power plant via Washington Examiner

Posted on 2018/08/12 by nfield

Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts asked questions Friday about former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s lobbying of the Department of Energy, by which be sought to gain billions of dollars in financial assistance for a nuclear power plant on behalf … Continue reading →

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Lax Oversight, Poor Management Raise Concerns at Los Alamos Nuclear Lab via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2018/06/12 by nfield

By Joshua Eaton, ThinkProgress he University of California will continue to manage one of the country’s most important nuclear labs alongside two partners, despite a series of accidents that raise serious concerns about the lab’s safety. In a statement Friday, the … Continue reading →

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Seismologist testifies Fukushima nuclear disaster preventable via The Mainichi

Posted on 2018/05/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO — A seismologist has testified during the trial of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant, that the nuclear crisis could have been prevented if proper countermeasures had been taken. […] … Continue reading →

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Daniel Ellsberg Warns of ‘No Survivors’ if US Goes to War With ‘Criminally Insane’ Nuclear Weapons via Reader Supported News (Newsweek)

Posted on 2018/05/08 by nfield

By Nina Burleigh aniel Ellsberg is best known as the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed Defense Department lies about American involvement in the Vietnam War. But in 1971, when he took those top secret documents out … Continue reading →

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How Agro-Chemical Giant Monsanto Has Been Destroying Environment, Human Lives for Decades via teleSUR

Posted on 2018/04/25 by nfield

[…] Another heinous discovery was made in the 1940s, when under the guise of a “nutrition study” funded by Monsanto, Vanderbilt University, a private university, gave 819 pregnant women radioactive iron. Much later, those women sued the university and received … Continue reading →

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WSU, national laboratory to join forces on nuclear research via The Spokesman-Review

Posted on 2018/04/04 by nfield

Students at Washington State University will take part in research on nuclear science and technology, power grids and utilizing bioproduct waste in a partnership between WSU and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced Tuesday. […] WSU and PNNL will work on … Continue reading →

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Troubled French Nuclear Producer Relaunches With New Name via US News and World Report

Posted on 2018/01/23 by nfield

PARIS (AP) — France’s influential but troubled nuclear company Areva is seeking a new start with a new name. The state-controlled company unveiled its new name — Orano — and logo Tuesday. Areva, originally named after a Spanish abbey, had … Continue reading →

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