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Half of Ukraine’s renewable energy facilities threatened with destruction via Beyond Nuclear International

By Linda Pentz Gunter “Due to the Russian war against Ukraine, half of the RES (Renewable Energy Source) facilities are threatened with complete or partial destruction,” wrote the Ukraine Association of Renewable Energy on its website earlier last month. Ukraine was, said … Continue reading

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What nuclear energy has to do with nuclear war via Newsroom

DR KARLY BURCH Dr Karly Burch is a Research Fellow from the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. Branding initiatives have successfully separated nuclear weapons as ‘bad’ and nuclear energy as ‘good’, and it is impacting our abilities to … Continue reading

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Urgent Update from Chernobyl: Nuclear Facilities Lost Access to the Electricity Grid via DiaNuke.org

Olga Kosharna Due to combat actions, Emergency disconnection of high-voltage power transmission line 750kV “Kievskaya-ChNPP” occurred on 09.03.2022 at 11:22. ChNPP and all nuclear facilities inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – SNFSF-1, SNFSF-2 and the New Safe Confinement – remain … Continue reading

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Chernobyl is now a war zone via The Ecologist

By Jim Green The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia poses several nuclear threats, including the possibility of deliberate or inadvertent military strikes or cyber-strikes on … Continue reading

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Counterfeit parts found in U.S. nuclear plants -inspector general via Reuters

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Counterfeit parts have been discovered in U.S. nuclear plants, potentially increasing the risk of a safety failure, the inspector general of the federal nuclear industry regulator said in a report released on Thursday. … Continue reading

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Nuclear baloney via Beyond Nuclear International

AP story on states’ nuclear choice fails to point out key realities by Linda Pentz Gunter […] The mantra about solving the nuclear waste problem has been repeated since the dawn of the Nuclear Age, coming up on 80 years … Continue reading

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In the Line of Eternal Fire: Ukraine’s Nuclear Reactors via Counterpunch

By Linda Pentz Gunter As Craig Hooper so chillingly warned us in his December 28, 2021 article for Forbes, a Russian invasion of Ukraine, “could put nuclear reactors on the front line of military conflict.” The result, he said, depending on the tactics … Continue reading

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Climate change: EU moves to label nuclear and gas as sustainable despite internal row via BBC

Nuclear and natural gas energy plants could be counted as “green energy” under controversial EU plans just unveiled. The European Commission says it has decided that both types of energy can classify as “sustainable investment” if they meet certain targets. … Continue reading

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Why joint US-South Korean research on plutonium separation raises nuclear proliferation danger via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

By Frank N. von Hippel, Jungmin Kang | January 13, 2022 South Korea, like the United States, has long relied on nuclear power as a major source of electric power. As a result, it has amassed large stores of spent nuclear fuel and, … Continue reading

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