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Laser enrichment moving ahead with DOE selling 300,000 tonnes of depleted uranium to GE Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment via Next Big Future

Posted on 2016/11/11 by norma field

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to sell around 300,000 tonnes of depleted uranium hexafluoride to GE Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) for re-enrichment at a proposed plant to be built near DOE’s Paducah site in Kentucky. The agreement … Continue reading →

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Town tries to shift away from heavy dependence on nuclear plant via The Japan Times

Posted on 2016/01/31 by norma field

TAKAHAMA, FUKUI PREF. – In the wake of the disastrous nuclear accident in northeastern Japan nearly five years ago, the Fukui Prefecture town of Takahama has been seeking ways to reduce its heavy dependence on a nuclear power plant for … Continue reading →

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Privatizing the Apocalypse via Nation of Change

Posted on 2015/09/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Imagine for a moment a genuine absurdity: somewhere in the United States, the highly profitable operations of a set of corporations were based on the possibility that sooner or later your neighborhood would be destroyed and you and all your … Continue reading →

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Over 3 Times More Green Jobs Per $1 Invested Than Fossil Fuel Or Nuclear Jobs via Clean Technica

Posted on 2015/09/17 by norma field

[…]Robert Pollin, the President of Pear Energy and a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has studied this matter in depth with the Department of Energy and the International Labour Organization. As his Pear Energy team writes: “The … Continue reading →

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Peace Activists Descend on Los Alamos, but Residents Remain Indifferent via The New York Times

Posted on 2015/08/17 by norma field

[…] “All roads lead to Los Alamos,” Father Dear said. “This is the place that taught us that we can destroy one another, destroy the world, and it’s really important for us to understand how our history feeds our violence.” … Continue reading →

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Why was the Sendai nuclear power plant restarted? via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2015/08/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Two of Japan’s reactors—Units 1 and 2 of the Kyushu Electric Power Company’s Sendai nuclear power plant—have just restarted, and Unit 1 should begin generating electricity on August 14. Like all other Japanese nuclear power plants, Sendai was shut down … Continue reading →

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Rural Wisconsin Community Laments Nuclear Power Plant’s Closure via The New York Times

Posted on 2015/08/13 by norma field

CARLTON, Wis. — Sprawled over 900 acres, the Kewaunee nuclear power plant in this corner of northeastern Wisconsin is an 18-story blue and white tangle of concrete buildings, metal pipes and — deep inside — racks containing spent radioactive fuel. … Continue reading →

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My view: Depleted uranium should not be Utah’s problem to solve alone via Deseret News

Posted on 2015/07/14 by norma field

By Ashley Soltysiak Utah will soon face a huge decision — whether or not to allow the disposal of depleted uranium (DU), an extremely long-lived nuclear waste, at EnergySolutions’ facility in our West Desert. But here’s the question that state … Continue reading →

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Need to formally establish a planned economic mitigation fund for reactor communities in Illinois via NEIS

Posted on 2015/05/15 by norma field

ince Exelon’s unilateral closure of the twin-Zion nuclear reactor in 1997, NEIS has urged public officials at all levels to plan and establish economic mitigation funds to prepare for the negative consequences of the abrupt loss of tax revenue and … Continue reading →

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Let’s Bury King C.O.N.G. at People’s Climate March　via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2014/09/13 by norma field

By Harvey Wasserman bove all, the worldwide People’s Climate March on Sept. 21 must bury King C.O.N.G.: Coal, Oil, Nukes and Gas. Which also means abolishing corporate personhood and saving the internet. The fossil/nuclear corporations have been given human rights … Continue reading →

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