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Three Mile Island nuclear plant being considered for closure? via Lancaster Online

Posted on 2015/08/27 by norma field

Could the Three Mile Island nuclear plant be headed for premature closure? Last week, no one bought a year’s worth of TMI’s electricity at a key energy-buying auction held by PJM, the regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of … Continue reading →

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An end to nuclear power in Illinois? via WBEZ

Posted on 2015/01/27 by kojimaaiko

Carol Browner, one of our guests on yesterday’s show, is the former EPA administrator under President Clinton, who also served in the Obama administration. Now she helps lead a group called Nuclear Matters, which is bullish on nuclear power. Today, … Continue reading →

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Bolivian President Announces US$2 Billion Nuclear Energy Investment via Telesur

Posted on 2014/10/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Evo Morales seeks to expand the country’s nuclear energy program. Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Thursday that his government will invest around US$2 billion through 2025 to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The investment is part of a broad … Continue reading →

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US nuclear agency faulted for laxity and overspending via Boston Globe

Posted on 2013/09/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Cost overruns on delayed projects add up to $16b LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — At Los Alamos National Laboratory, a seven-year, $213 million upgrade to the security system that protects the lab’s most sensitive nuclear bomb-making facilities doesn’t work. Those same … Continue reading →

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AAA 2013 Roundtable, Narrating the Nuclear: Anthropologists and Others Engage with the Atomic Era

Posted on 2013/07/04 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

November 24 Hilton Hotel, Downtown Chicago, Grand Ballroom Part I “Nuclear Weaponry”: 8:00am-9:45am, As part of AAA Executive Program Committee (executive session) Part II: “Nuclear Energy”: 10:15am-12:00pm, As part of Society for East Asian Anthropology (invited session) Organizers: Mark Auslander(Central … Continue reading →

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N-Energy Seen Covering 10 Pct of Power Sources: Motegi via Jiji Press

Posted on 2013/06/22 by norma field

Tokyo, June 21 (Jiji Press)–Nuclear energy would be the source of about 10 pct of electricity generated in Japan under the country’s new standards for nuclear plant safety at first, industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday. If the government receives … Continue reading →

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Tous Cobayes? / All of us guinea-pigs now? / 世界が食べられなくなる日 via YouTube

Posted on 2013/04/10 by kojimaaiko

(Trailer with English subtitle) (日本語字幕付き予告編） 参考リンク　遺伝子組み換え作物と原発、危険性似ている、福島で撮影　仏映画監督（東京新聞）via facebook

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The economics of a US civilian nuclear phase-out via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2013/04/09 by norma field

Amory B. Lovins […]An expanding fraction of well-running nuclear plants is now challenged to compete with moderating wholesale power prices, while plants needing major repairs or located in regions rich in wind power increasingly face difficult choices of whether to … Continue reading →

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Big Picture on German Electricity: Renewable Replacing Nuclear via Lenz Blog

Posted on 2013/01/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

All numbers below are sourced from the latest data release on electricity generation in Germany from 1990 to 2012 from Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen. […] In some detail: Fossil fuel (all flavors) was at 358.1 in 2010 and is essentially unchanged at … Continue reading →

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The Dark Knight’s Mushroom Cloud via Truth-out.org

Posted on 2012/12/09 by kojimaaiko

“The Dark Knight Rises” – in addition to being tied to real life tragedy – is so chockfull of subplots, back stories and caesura for action sequences that critics and viewers don’t seem to care about its primary narrative: After … Continue reading →

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