Archive for August 24th, 2008

Alternative and Renewable Energies

Alternative: Nuclear energy is an alternative fuel since it does not consume fossil fuels. Renewable: Nuclear energy is not renewable. Uranium and plutonium ore are a limited resource. Environmental Impact: Nuclear waste is an obvious

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

PART 1: BUILDING THE GREEN ECONOMY

Plutonium, for example, has a half-life of 24400 years while other harmful substances persist millions of years in our environment with no known safety treatment. Nuclear energy has an inevitable link to nuclear weapons proliferation.

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Nuclear power - going out with a bang or a whimper

According to an article by James Ridgeway, titled “4.5 Billion Years in Provence,” energy companies are enthused about nuclear energy“especially when it is fueled by substantial government subsidies. In a country that hasn’t broken

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

The time bomb

Officials at Sofia’s Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, where the spent fuel had been stored since its reactor was shut down in 1989, claimed security had been beefed up in recent years, but the Institute was clearly

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

?Nuclear energy — safe and secure

But if we recycle fuel and use plutonium, we have enough resources for over a century. Also, thorium resources are estimated to be greater than uranium resources. However, the benefits of fast reactors cannot be enjoyed unless we

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

[경향신문] [개번 매코맥 칼럼](8) 핵 산업은 ‘위험한 공상’

The future nuclear state can only be centralized, heavily policed, and non-, if not anti-democratic. The nuclear reactor is as false a response to global warming as the nuclear weapon has long been to global security.

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Subject: I suspect nuclear weapons have been stolen from US military

Air Force pilots as part of the package with the F-16 Falcon fighter jets and because I was the primary test pilot in the 1970’s for the F-16 Falcon figher jet, that would bomb the Osirak nuclear reactor that was under construction.

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008