Archive for July 25th, 2008

Environmental Crisis?

But nuclear energy is way safe. The World Nuclear Association is a group composed of people in the nuclear power profession and nuclear power scientists involved with discussing the various aspects of nuclear power.

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Friday, July 25th, 2008

The US – India Nuclear Deal

The deal, which marks a notable warming of US-India relations, would lift the US moratorium on nuclear trade with India, provide US assistance to India’s civilian nuclear energy program, and expand US-Indian cooperation in energy and

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Friday, July 25th, 2008

Nuclear power in France

In France, unlike in America, nuclear energy is accepted, even popular. Everybody I spoke to in Civaux loves the fact their region was chosen. The nuclear plant has brought jobs and prosperity to the area. Nobody I spoke to, nobody,

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Friday, July 25th, 2008

Post 58. Waste Needs not be a Barrier to Nuclear Energy Production.

About 97 percent of spent fuel is not waste at all, but valuable uranium and plutonium that can and should be recycled for use as fuel. It seems odd that we are enjoined by “environmentalists” to recycle paper — a truly renewable

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Friday, July 25th, 2008

Why do you get them but I can’t? The Nuclear Showdown between the

According to Wikipedia, “President Gerald Ford signed a directive in 1976 offering Tehran the chance to buy and operate a US-built reprocessing facility for extracting plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. The Ford strategy paper said

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Venezuela church-state clash grows, Berliners welcome Obama as

The Hanford nuclear reactor in Yakima, Wash., which produced plutonium for the first man-made nuclear blast in 1945, could become a national historic landmark if the Interior Department agrees with Tuesday’s National Park Service

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Obama leaks secret intell

of North Korea’s nuclear warheads at five to 10, based on the up to 50 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium the North is believed to have produced over the past decade or so at its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang.

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Friday, July 25th, 2008