Archive for July 3rd, 2008

Nuclear blackmail — not what you think.

AND THAT, friends, is the key point here: environmental movements across the globe (except notably in France and Russia) have managed to throw up hurdles to the exploitation of nuclear energy, at the same time loudly decrying the use of

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Towards an Energy Policy

But almost all nuclear energy worldwide today arises from uranium, and there are practically unlimited reserves of that. There is so much uranium in sea water that mankind’s total electricity needs can be satisfied for 7 million years.

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Wind Power or Nuclear Power?

for enriched uranium, and through the generation of plutonium as a by-product of spent nuclear fuel. The two industries have been linked since the very beginning and a nuclear weapons free world requires a non-nuclear energy policy.

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Re: [Reader-list] Open letter to the prime minister of India to

Moot point is nuclear energy is costliest and to set up plants we need to spend billions for long period of 25 years with lot many contracts and lots more kickbacks, hence the Pm is keen for this deal with US, being Mr.

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Whats the nuclear deal? And why so much confusion around it???

international atomic energy agency -The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization of UNITED NATIONS that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes.

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

ハワイで「六ヶ所村」上映だ。

electricity; instead it recycles the waste fuel from a nuclear reactor. It extracts up to 97% of its plutonium and uranium for reuse that would otherwise lay in perpetual storage potentially leaching into our environment.

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Top Defector Warns of Kim Jong-il’s ‘Obsolete Nuclear Junk’

But the Yongbyon nuclear reactor has already produced enough plutonium to make nuclear weapons. Indeed, it has already produced all the [nuclear weapons] it needs.” And as far as Kim Jong-il’s willingness to actually use one of the

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008