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Sustainability of Uranium Mining and Milling: Toward Quantifying Resources and Eco-Efficiency

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:28:22 -0000

The mining of uranium has long been a controversial public
issue, and a renewed debate has emerged on the potential for
nuclear power to help mitigate against climate change. The
central thesis of pro-nuclear advocates is the lower carbon
intensity of nuclear energy compared to fossil fuels, although
there remains very little detailed analysis of the true carbon costs
of nuclear energy. In this paper, we compile and analyze a
range of data on uranium mining and milling, including uranium
resources as well as sustainability metrics such as energy
and water consumption and carbon emissions with respect to
uranium productionsarguably the first time for modern
projects.

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Mudd: Sustainability Aspects of Uranium Mining: Towards Accurate Accounting?

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:12:22 -0000

An analysis of the co2 gasses produced by the nuclear industry and specifically around uranium mining.

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Few See Nuclear Power as the Answer to Global Warming - NYTimes.com

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:10:46 -0000

WITH the federal government offering the nuclear industry $18.5 billion in loan guarantees and billions more in production tax credits and insurance against bureaucratic delays, at least a few new reactors seem certain to be built.

But how many?

Worries about carbon dioxide and galloping demand for electricity might seem to be setting the stage for a renaissance of nuclear power. But reactors, it turns out, are not at the top of the list for stopping global warming, at least in the United States, at least not any time soon.

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New Statesman - Why greens must learn to love nuclear power

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:53:50 -0000

Why greens must learn to love nuclear power

Global warming and finite resources mean our way of life is more threatened than ever, and it's time for the environmental movement to face up to some hard truths

Tags: climatechange nuke.comments pro-nuclear

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Britain urged to dump climate goals | Reuters

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:19:22 -0000

British climate and energy policy is incoherent and needs an overhaul, dumping carbon targets and building more coal and nuclear power stations to stop the lights going out, a pro-nuclear scientist said.

A report entitled "A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK", by Professor Ian Fells and Candida Whitmill, said renewables would not fill the impending energy gap so old nuclear and coal plants had to be kept going while new ones were built urgently.

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The Adobe Press: Nuclear Energy is not Clean

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:49:40 -0000

Nuclear energy is increasingly being called upon as a clean and renewable alternative to fossil fuels. As the threat of global warming becomes clearer, nuclear energy is lauded as a carbon-free, clean energy solution.

This is an absolute myth. When looking at the entire fuel cycle, one quickly realizes the mining, milling, processing and transportation of uranium fuel for reactors are extremely energy intensive and will emit tons of global-warming pollution.

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Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence? - NewTalk

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:52:22 -0000

Calling climate change one of the greatest challenges ever faced by the human race, some former opponents of nuclear power have recently become its advocates, if cautious advocates. Our purpose here is not to debate climate change, but rather "Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence?"

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The US Goes Nucular: Prefab Reactors and Longer Life-Spans - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:12:10 -0000

No nuclear reactors have been built in the United States since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. But that is about to change. A number have recently been approved and dozens more are waiting in the wings.

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Bush sidesteps court ruling on warming - Climate Change- msnbc.com

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:14:36 -0000

The Bush administration on Friday rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cause too many job losses.

In a 588-page federal notice, the Environmental Protection Agency made no finding on whether global warming poses a threat to people's health, reversing an earlier conclusion at the insistence of the White House and officially kicking any decision on a solution to the next president and Congress.

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Global Warming Examiner - Three Mile Island Proves Nuclear Power is Safe - Examiner.com

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:59:10 -0000

Nuclear power has a major advantage over fossil fuel power sources when it comes to global warming. Generating power from nuclear fuel does not produce any carbon dioxide. Shouldn’t we be retiring our coal-fired power plants and replacing them with nuclear plants?

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Environment Groups to Senate: Reject Amendments Promoting More Subsidies For Nuclear Power In Proposed Climate Bill

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:20:02 -0000

WASHINGTON (June 4, 2008) — Environmental, science and public health groups today commended the Senate for beginning debate on the most comprehensive legislation to date addressing climate change and urged lawmakers to reject adding nuclear power subsidies to the bill.

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Alan Farago: Nuclear Florida

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:35:42 -0000

There is a reason Miami-Dade County in Southern Florida is the first place where America's utility industry is moving forward with new nuclear capacity in three decades.

In Miami, Florida Power & Light found public officials malleable as silly putty, willing to allow a local agreement with a wink to substitute for solid facts that the public had the right to know: where the cooling water will come from at a time of chronic drought, where the water--more than 50 million gallons per day-- will go when it is evaporated, and what will its effects be on public health and the environment

Tags: climatechange ecology economics energy fl nuclear nuke.news

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Green Left - Nuclear power and climate change

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:43:39 -0000

Nuclear analyst Mycle Schneider noted in “Climate Change and Nuclear Power”, published in April 2000 by the World Wide Fund for Nature, that countries and regions with a high reliance on nuclear power also tend to have high greenhouse gas emissions. Following is an extract from his findings.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb'

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:50:39 -0000

The case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics.

It suggests greenhouse emissions from the mining of uranium - on which nuclear power relies - are on the rise.

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Nuclear power not the solution to global warming

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:40:31 -0000

Nuclear power appears to be making a comeback. With the emergence of global warming, the hopes of the industry have revived based on a growing sense that, nasty as it is, nuclear may be better than coal.

Politicians and industry interests -- including some influential people in Saskatchewan and Alberta -- are touting uranium as the climate-change fighting fuel of the future. Nuclear power is now being advertised as green, greenhouse-gas free and sustainable.

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Elias: Nuclear power is no simple carbon fix : Opinion Columnists : Redding Record Searchlight

Fri, 02 May 2008 08:38:35 -0000

Ever since Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for his fight against expanding climate change, there have been claims that nuclear power plants are the easy solution. They give phenomenal amounts of energy, after all, without much carbon production.

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An Earth Day look at nuclear energy - Newburyport, MA - The Newburyport Current

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:13:48 -0000

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13 Best Energy Ideas (And 3 Really Bad Ones)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:57:07 -0000

Tags: climatechange energy energy.news nuclear nuke.news policy renewables

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Public Citizen - Burning the Future; What Is the Energy Future of the U.S.?

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:21:46 -0000

Tags: climatechange energy.news nuke.news politics

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Brattleboro Reformer - Carbon-free without nuclear power?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:44:39 -0000

Tags: climatechange energy ieer nuclear nuke.news renewables

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