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Unity alliance opposes foreign nuke waste - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    'We don't think Utah should be the garbage dump for the rest of the world,' leaders say. The community-building Alliance for Unity sees no reason for Utah to become a world dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste, and its members are urging state leaders to do what's necessary to prevent that from happening. "We must do all in our power to protect Utah's image as a beautiful, safe and healthy place," said the statement, approved Dec. 8. "As we do so, we protect not only our economic future but also the well-being of our children and future generations unborn."
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    'We don't think Utah should be the garbage dump for the rest of the world,' leaders say. The community-building Alliance for Unity sees no reason for Utah to become a world dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste, and its members are urging state leaders to do what's necessary to prevent that from happening. "We must do all in our power to protect Utah's image as a beautiful, safe and healthy place," said the statement, approved Dec. 8. "As we do so, we protect not only our economic future but also the well-being of our children and future generations unborn."
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In U.S. Office of Special Counsel a "domestic enemy"? » Knoxville News Sentinel - 0 views

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    We are current or former federal employees who "blew whistles" about agency wrongdoing and experienced unlawful reprisal for doing our lawful duty. This should worry America - that federal employees with significant responsibilities for public safety are punished for doing their duty in an age of all-too-possible catastrophic terrorist attacks. We put the blame largely upon the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and desire Congress and/or the Obama administration to do the oversight necessary to substantiate or dispel our concerns. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel was created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 with an unprecedented mandate as a federal law enforcement agency - to protect civilian federal employees from agency lawbreaking, specifically violations of the "merit principles" of the federal civil service (termed "prohibited personnel practices," most particularly from the whistleblower reprisal type).
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    We are current or former federal employees who "blew whistles" about agency wrongdoing and experienced unlawful reprisal for doing our lawful duty. This should worry America - that federal employees with significant responsibilities for public safety are punished for doing their duty in an age of all-too-possible catastrophic terrorist attacks. We put the blame largely upon the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and desire Congress and/or the Obama administration to do the oversight necessary to substantiate or dispel our concerns. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel was created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 with an unprecedented mandate as a federal law enforcement agency - to protect civilian federal employees from agency lawbreaking, specifically violations of the "merit principles" of the federal civil service (termed "prohibited personnel practices," most particularly from the whistleblower reprisal type).
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Your Turn - CPS heads must roll - 0 views

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    I'm not surprised about this new turn of events but I am stunned that your staff accepted interim GM Steve Bartley's statement that he didn't know about the omission. How could henot know? Ask Bartley what he'd do to any employee who: 1. told him he didn't know about a major element of their business, or 2. flat out lied to him? He would fire him on the spot. What CPS management did was out and out fraud. They lied to us on their application for a rate hike. Treat them the same way any bank would treat an application for a home loan if the financial information was fraudulent. Turn down the application and call the authorities to investigate. We should do the same. City Council would not tolerate any citizen coming before them and lying to their faces, or are they going to condone lying? Hopefully there are not two sets of rules - one for ordinary citizens and one for big shot citizens/companies.
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    I'm not surprised about this new turn of events but I am stunned that your staff accepted interim GM Steve Bartley's statement that he didn't know about the omission. How could henot know? Ask Bartley what he'd do to any employee who: 1. told him he didn't know about a major element of their business, or 2. flat out lied to him? He would fire him on the spot. What CPS management did was out and out fraud. They lied to us on their application for a rate hike. Treat them the same way any bank would treat an application for a home loan if the financial information was fraudulent. Turn down the application and call the authorities to investigate. We should do the same. City Council would not tolerate any citizen coming before them and lying to their faces, or are they going to condone lying? Hopefully there are not two sets of rules - one for ordinary citizens and one for big shot citizens/companies.
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    I'm not surprised about this new turn of events but I am stunned that your staff accepted interim GM Steve Bartley's statement that he didn't know about the omission. How could henot know? Ask Bartley what he'd do to any employee who: 1. told him he didn't know about a major element of their business, or 2. flat out lied to him? He would fire him on the spot. What CPS management did was out and out fraud. They lied to us on their application for a rate hike. Treat them the same way any bank would treat an application for a home loan if the financial information was fraudulent. Turn down the application and call the authorities to investigate. We should do the same. City Council would not tolerate any citizen coming before them and lying to their faces, or are they going to condone lying? Hopefully there are not two sets of rules - one for ordinary citizens and one for big shot citizens/companies.
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Letter: Why do we think we're immune to disaster?: Rutland Herald Online - 0 views

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    Do we so easily forget the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl and the Three Mile Island accident, that we are ready to re-license Vermont Yankee in the face of its continuing accidents and problems? Why do we think we're immune from disaster? The only real control we have over Vermont Yankee is shutting it down in 2012. We have no control over where the spent fuel is stored. Do you remember when the mountains of north-central Vermont were considered as a nuclear storage site? We didn't want the stuff in our back yard, so how can we imagine other people - especially poor, rural, indigenous people - want it in theirs?
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Hiroshima: Never again a nuclear holocaust | The Freeman >> The Freeman Sections >> Fre... - 0 views

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    I got back last Saturday evening after my short, but hectic trip to Japan, which is now starting its winter season. It's so cold in certain places that going outdoors is no longer funny. It's always good to be back. As always, whenever I return from a foreign trip I must say my piece, that the reason why I hate going on trips abroad is due to the reality that I must return home. While there's nothing that can beat "Home Sweet Home" the nagging question always ringing on my head is, "Why can't we make things the way they do in countries like Japan?" I was in the City of Hiroshima the whole day of Friday, taking the "Nozomi" Shinkansen from Tokyo to Hiroshima (that's the distance from Manila to Cagayan de Oro) in just 4 hours. All we wanted to do is visit the ruins of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbacku Dome) and museum. We also had 4 hours to do this, so we could rush back to Tokyo by 10:00pm on the same day.
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ElBaradei: Iran Nowhere Near Acquiring Nuclear Weapons | News From Antiwar.com - 0 views

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    In an interview today, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed ElBaradei said that Iran would be lacking key components for the production of a nuclear weapon even if they chose to do so. According to ElBaradei "they do not have even the nuclear material, the raw unenriched uranium to develop one nuclear weapon if they decide to do so." The IAEA chief's assessments are in stark contrast to accusations and bellicose rhetoric regarding the ultimate goal and progress of Iran's nuclear program. The European Union has accused Iran of "methodically pursuing a program aimed at acquiring the nuclear bomb." Permanent members of the UN Security Council met today to discuss further sanctions against the Iranians, but failed once again to reach an agreement.
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Lawmakers Spar with Gov's Energy Advisor over Nuclear Waste Policy - KCPW - 0 views

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    Conservative lawmakers disagree with the governor's energy advisor over nuclear power. While Dianne Nielson wants the state's energy policy to include a provision requiring the federal government to open a permanent high-level radioactive waste facility, but conservatives including Rep. Mike Noel warns the statement could put a freeze on nuclear power proposals in Utah. "What it's going to do is basically say, 'No nuclear power plants in the state of Utah, which will hurt our people,'" Noel says. "So that's what I read this as. Unless I'm reading this wrong, you are making a statement here that's going to be beyond what the federal government is doing right now, and hasn't been able to do because of the issues in Congress."
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Nuclear waste issue remains unaddressed| Asbury Park Press - 0 views

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    If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chooses to ignore the flashing red lights of unresolved safety problems at the Oyster Creek generating station by relicensing the facility to run for another 20 years, there still remains another unresolved problem no one has found a permanent answer for: What do you do with nuclear waste? The problem is playing out all over the world as countries scramble to get rid of their poisonous legacy. Italy has entered into agreements to send theirs to the U.S. for temporary storage in places like Texas. The United Kingdom and France are trying to figure out what to do with their failed and leaking reprocessing plants that have contaminated rivers and land areas. Germany is concerned about childrens' health problems around some of its storage facilities. And everywhere, the cost to even begin clean up is astronomical.
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Clean up West Valley : Opinion : The Buffalo News - 0 views

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    Floods and landslides expose risk of incomplete radiation cleanup The coalition urging state and federal officials to do a full cleanup of the state's largest nuclear waste site, at West Valley, has a clear understanding of the implications of doing nothing. Doing nothing means that far into the future, the legacy of West Valley will be the way in which we treated our natural resources. Will Lake Erie be a clean body of water free from radioactive-waste pollutants? Or will it contain evidence of neglect and of a refusal to take responsibility for the highly toxic nuclear wastes buried in, or leaking from, the decommissioned reprocessing site south of Buffalo? There are already signs that should heighten concerns.
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Nuke waste storage is the snake in the room - 0 views

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    When visitors traipse through the two nuclear power plants at Bay City, the spent fuel pool is as sure a stop as the Alamo is on the Gray Line Tour. A ladder emerges, and visitors are encouraged to climb it. And so they ascend, one by one, and peer into a 26 x 52-foot pool. The pool - less than a third the dimensions of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, although it's deeper - contains used, radioactive uranium rods, stored beneath 20 feet of water. You can't see much from the top of the ladder, but the message is clear enough: See how small it is? In doing so, however, visitors peer into one of the deepest issues surrounding nuclear expansion - what to do with material that will stay extremely hazardous, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, for tens of thousands of years. It's a challenge the plant's operators, and those who want to build two new nuclear plants there, say has been settled to their satisfaction. "We're in a very good position down there to manage the waste at the site," David Crane, CEO of NRG Energy, one of the partners in the proposed South Texas Project expansion, said this week. NRG would continue to store spent fuel in the pool, then convert it to dry storage. That involves encasing it in concrete on-site. Adding two plants would increase the amount stored, but plant officials say they can do it safely.
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A practical approach to alternative energy sources vs. nuclear power - 0 views

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    In the article on nuclear power [''A Comeback for Nuclear Power", August 2009], there was no discussion about what to do with the nuclear waste or the actual cost to build nuclear power plants. I have heard it may be approaching $1 billion dollars. Do not forget the cost of dealing with nuclear waste (if there is a safe way). I wonder how much solar or wind power we could build for a billion dollars.
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    In the article on nuclear power [''A Comeback for Nuclear Power", August 2009], there was no discussion about what to do with the nuclear waste or the actual cost to build nuclear power plants. I have heard it may be approaching $1 billion dollars. Do not forget the cost of dealing with nuclear waste (if there is a safe way). I wonder how much solar or wind power we could build for a billion dollars.
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AdelaideNow... Call to refine our own uranium - 0 views

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    HEATHGATE Resources wants to build a uranium conversion plant at its Beverley mine to add greater value to the raw material it mines at the site. Heathgate president David Williams said it was time to consider conversion, which is the stage before uranium is enriched in preparation for use as a nuclear fuel. "You are still not into the contentious stage. Why couldn't we do a conversion in Australia?" Mr Williams says in an interview in today's SA Weekend magazine. "Why couldn't we do that value add in Australia? "I think that will be an interesting debate to go forward. Are we simply going to stay as an exporter of the raw material or are we going to do a bit more?"
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Bill Grant: Nuclear power revisited: The elephant in the room | StarTribune.com - 0 views

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    There's still nowhere to put that toxic waste Nuclear electricity is affordable and emission free People opposed to nuclear energy applications point to the high initial price tag of enormous nuclear generating facilities that can … read more provide enough reliable electricity for several million people; they often overlook the resulting low cost per unit of power when spread over that large market. There are 104 nuclear plants operating in the US today. Many of us who are old enough to remember the controversies surrounding their construction can remember how many times we were told that nuclear power plants are frighteningly expensive and that they always cost more than predicted. We even remember that electrical power prices often increased immediately after the plants went into operation due to the effect of adding those big, expensive plants into the utility rate base. What many people who consider "news" media to be their only information sources rarely understand, however, is that the 104 plants currently operating provide the US with 20% of its electric power at an average production cost of about 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour. They also do not understand that after a few decades of operation and revenue production, the initial mortgages on those plants are largely paid off. The best information of all, which is not really "news" and does not get regularly published on the front page, is that the plants still have at least 20 years of life remaining during which they can produce emission free, low cost power. The companies that own the plants and their stock holders understand the economics pretty well; that is why 18 applications for 25 new plants have been turned into the Nuclear Regulatory Commission already with more in the pipeline. All of the used fuel - what some people call waste - is being carefully stored in a tiny corner of the existing sites, just waiting to be recycled into new fuel. It still contains 95% of its initial potential energy, but
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    There's still nowhere to put that toxic waste Nuclear electricity is affordable and emission free People opposed to nuclear energy applications point to the high initial price tag of enormous nuclear generating facilities that can … read more provide enough reliable electricity for several million people; they often overlook the resulting low cost per unit of power when spread over that large market. There are 104 nuclear plants operating in the US today. Many of us who are old enough to remember the controversies surrounding their construction can remember how many times we were told that nuclear power plants are frighteningly expensive and that they always cost more than predicted. We even remember that electrical power prices often increased immediately after the plants went into operation due to the effect of adding those big, expensive plants into the utility rate base. What many people who consider "news" media to be their only information sources rarely understand, however, is that the 104 plants currently operating provide the US with 20% of its electric power at an average production cost of about 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour. They also do not understand that after a few decades of operation and revenue production, the initial mortgages on those plants are largely paid off. The best information of all, which is not really "news" and does not get regularly published on the front page, is that the plants still have at least 20 years of life remaining during which they can produce emission free, low cost power. The companies that own the plants and their stock holders understand the economics pretty well; that is why 18 applications for 25 new plants have been turned into the Nuclear Regulatory Commission already with more in the pipeline. All of the used fuel - what some people call waste - is being carefully stored in a tiny corner of the existing sites, just waiting to be recycled into new fuel. It still contains 95% of its initial potential energy, but
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WPCVA: Uranium tearing county apart - 0 views

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    I grow weary of this constant belittling enveloping this county. What happened to the days of "Hi Neighbor"? We now have a large issue that makes most of us turn on one another. Over what? Money, jobs, maybe's. Churches are torn apart, friendships are destroyed forever. Women cry and wring their hands. Many people don't know where to go or what to do. The majority of people in this county do not want anything to do with this uranium! Check the numbers, please! People write letters pro and con. Some say leave Walter Coles and Henry Bowen alone. * The people trying to stop this are non-progressive and trying to scare everyone.
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TheDay.com - It's Time To Bury The Politics Of Dealing With Nuclear Waste - 0 views

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    Since the administration has decided to abandon the Yucca Mountain project in Nevada, Congress is obligated to come up with a plan for interim storage, and in so doing bolster nuclear power and, incidentally, do something that is good for the country. For the sake of electricity ratepayers across the country Congress must confront the issue of nuclear waste disposal. Money collected from ratepayers to solve the problem, but never spent to actually do so, should be returned.
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timestranscript.com - Nuclear waste in N.B. unacceptable - Breaking News, New Brunswick... - 0 views

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    Premier Shawn Graham, Energy Minister Jack Keir and every other politician of whatever stripe in New Brunswick need to be told and to clearly understand that New Brunswickers do not want and will not accept a national nuclear waste dump in this province no matter how deep underground, how many jobs it creates or how many glib assurances are given about its safety. Enlarge Photo Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Premier Graham has refused to just say "no" to the idea, and as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization prepares to hold public "information" meetings in New Brunswick to find out if the public thinks the "process" proposed for determining a permanent nuclear waste dump site is "fair" and "appropriate," Minister Keir has said "Whatever they do, I want to make sure they do it right and that it's in the interest of Canadians, not just New Brunswickers."
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Where nuclear weapons go to die | The Argument - 0 views

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    Obama wants a world without nuclear weapons. But what, exactly, do we do with all those warheads? Speaking in Prague on April 5, U.S. President Barack Obama called the thousands of nuclear weapons sitting in world arsenals "the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War." He proposed deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles. But when policymakers talk about nuclear reductions, what do they mean in practice? After all, you can't just leave the warheads out on the curb on Tuesday morning for the garbage collector to pick up. The first answer is, nothing much. Retiring a weapon is accomplished through paperwork. If the weapon is in storage, it continues to sit there. Eventually, small steps begin to indicate its fate on the nuclear weapons equivalent of death row. Workers come along to remove the batteries and other so-called "limited-life components" that have to be regularly changed in active nuclear weapons.
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CAUSE - PART 5 of 6: The pros and cons of nuclear energy - 0 views

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    Some claim that nuclear energy has become safer and that the public is more accepting of it because it releases less emissions into the air compared to coal. As for the benefits of nuclear energy, Schacherl has strong views on this too. "Nuclear energy has no benefits to the public, not even in lower CO2 emissions when the full nuclear cycle is taken into effect. Nuclear is expensive and dangerous, and the only benefit is to the nuclear industry itself. The claim that the third generation reactors are safer is just a joke, since none of them have ever been built and for the ACR1000, not even the design is completed. How can you claim they are safer when the safety analysis showing the probability of a nuclear accident has not even been completed?" Schacherl is emphatic that nuclear energy be phased out and replaced by renewable energy that is safer, more cost-effective and sustainable. Schacherl also encourages the public to do their homework since there is a lot of misinformation out there. "The provincial government's nuclear panel report was full of misinformation. Albertans should do their own research on nuclear. The nuclear industry provides very little solid, factual information. They just ask us to trust them."
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    Some claim that nuclear energy has become safer and that the public is more accepting of it because it releases less emissions into the air compared to coal. As for the benefits of nuclear energy, Schacherl has strong views on this too. "Nuclear energy has no benefits to the public, not even in lower CO2 emissions when the full nuclear cycle is taken into effect. Nuclear is expensive and dangerous, and the only benefit is to the nuclear industry itself. The claim that the third generation reactors are safer is just a joke, since none of them have ever been built and for the ACR1000, not even the design is completed. How can you claim they are safer when the safety analysis showing the probability of a nuclear accident has not even been completed?" Schacherl is emphatic that nuclear energy be phased out and replaced by renewable energy that is safer, more cost-effective and sustainable. Schacherl also encourages the public to do their homework since there is a lot of misinformation out there. "The provincial government's nuclear panel report was full of misinformation. Albertans should do their own research on nuclear. The nuclear industry provides very little solid, factual information. They just ask us to trust them."
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Could Russia emerge as a nuclear security leader at two-day US weapons summit? - Bellona - 0 views

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    "A two-day, 47 nation nuclear security summit beginning Monday in Washington opens a door for Russia to promote itself as an international leader on the critical issue, but many non-proliferation experts have insisted Moscow must do more to guard its own enormous and disparate stocks of bomb-grade nuclear material and asserted the world's second nuclear superpower does not have the resources to do it. But even if more security is added and more materials made safe on paper, Bellona experts assert that Russia's active pursuit of big nuclear business with all comers, and its unabated interest in continuing to do so, is the one of the world's biggest threats to non-proliferation, and at cross purposes with the intentions of the US summit."
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SA Current: Until the end of the world - 0 views

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    Part Three in a Series: Nuclear power stops; its poisonous wastes never do "I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it ... I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation." - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover Father of the Nuclear Navy
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    Part Three in a Series: Nuclear power stops; its poisonous wastes never do "I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it ... I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation." - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover Father of the Nuclear Navy
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