Tag Archives: US

Facility for nuclear waste via The Korean Times

Posted on 2012/09/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

… Earlier, we urged the United States to grant South Korea authority to reprocess its own nuclear fuel rods in consideration of the ever worsening space problem for nuclear waste. Most recently, the Korean government has reportedly given up persuading … Continue reading →

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On a bad power trip via Power Engineering

Posted on 2012/08/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

NEW DELHI, Aug. 14 — The unprecedented northern power grid failure on July 30 and the North-eastern power grid failure on July 31 plunged 700 million Indians into darkness. This is an ominous warning of a deep crisis in our … Continue reading →

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Should We Hide Low-Dose Radiation Exposures From The Public? via Forbes

Posted on 2012/07/10 by norma field

When fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster began appearing last Spring in U.S. air, rainwater, drinking water, and milk, many U.S. media outlets ignored the story. It was a difficult story to cover. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was releasing … Continue reading →

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A nuke by any other name via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2012/05/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Both NATO and Russia would like to see the other reduce its stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons, but the two sides have been unable to agree on mutual reductions. Even modest progress on the issue at NATO’s Chicago summit seems … Continue reading →

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An Audacious Nuclear Hypocrisy via Counter Punch

Posted on 2012/05/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

  Bashing Japan and Germany Over Nuclear Exit With audacious hypocrisy, American pro-nuclear pundits have been indulging in the familiar sport of losers – the relentless bashing of the more successful. With nuclear energy rapidly losing favor around the globe, … Continue reading →

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Secret Cold War project results in largest US environmental cleanup via Knoxnews.com

Posted on 2012/03/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

… Most of the processes required the use of mercury, especially Colex (an abbreviation for “column exchange”), which proved to be the most successful. Some of the same big buildings that had been used for uranium enrichment during the Manhattan … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Could Have Been Prevented via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/03/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

On March 11, 2011, a massive tsunami inundated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan causing the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Over 300,000 people were evacuated and a vast swath of land will be unusable for decades. The … Continue reading →

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U.S.: North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear activities via USA Today

Posted on 2012/02/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States said Wednesday North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear activities and accept a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, in a breakthrough in negotiations with the secretive communist nation. The announcement comes little … Continue reading →

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How did we forget about mutually assured destruction? via BBC News

Posted on 2012/02/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

… But the end of the Cold War hasn’t removed the nuclear warheads. Relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated in recent years. China, whose nuclear programme is little understood in the West, is doubling its military spending. India … Continue reading →

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US DOE launches major funding program for small nuclear reactors via Platts

Posted on 2012/01/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Washington (Platts)–20Jan2012/426 pm EST/2126 GMT Pittsburgh-based engineering company Westinghouse Friday said it will apply for government funding to advance nuclear technology that would produce a new type of small reactors. The US Department of Energy announced earlier Friday that it … Continue reading →

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