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There are ways besides nuclear to create jobs - Jackson, Michigan Opinion - Jackson Cit... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 24 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 24 Oct 08
     
    It cost millions to build one nuclear power plant. It will not give us jobs. It just takes a few people to run one. There are dangerous radioactive materials stored in special boxes near the plant that cannot be disposed of. Water has to constantly run to keep the reactors cooled. If something were to happen, there would be death for miles around, like the atomic bomb, and radiation for years to come. Politicians are talking about building these plants, yet we need to work at getting these tariff acts removed and get jobs back in the United States and put American-made products on our shelves.
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Former CNSC chief resigns from lesser job, continues court challenge - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 27 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 27 Sep 08
     
    Deposed nuclear-safety chief Linda Keen has quit her diminished job with Canada's atomic-industry watchdog and is speaking out about the need to protect a non-partisan public service. In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the former president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) resigned Monday as she was scheduled to assume her demoted post as a commissioner with the federal agency. The Harper government fired her from the top job after the commission forced a shutdown last fall at a Chalk River reactor that produces vital isotopes for medical uses.
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Hanford spending could create 12,400 jobs - Tri-City Herald - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 21 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 21 Feb 09
     
    Hiring at Hanford should begin soon thanks to $2 billion from the economic stimulus bill, and a plan to use cleaned up land for an energy park should help sustain jobs here, Tri-City leaders said during a Thursday visit by Sen. Maria Cantwell. The Department of Energy plans to spend enough money from the economic stimulus bill to pay wages for more than 4,000 workers, Cantwell, D-Wash., said at the Richland Labor Temple. That will pump enough money into the Tri-City area economy to create 12,400 jobs in total, she said.
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Department of Energy - 800 to 1000 New Jobs Coming to Piketon - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 10 Aug 09
     
    Department of Energy to Accelerate Cleanup Work While USEC Further Develops ACP Technology (Washington, D.C.) The Department of Energy announced today that it will further expand and accelerate cleanup efforts of cold-war era contamination at the Portsmouth site in Piketon, Ohio - an investment worth about $150 to $200 million per year for the next four years that is expected to create 800 to 1000 new jobs. At the same time, the Department has encouraged USEC to withdraw its application for loan guarantee funding for the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon. This would allow USEC to work over the next 12-18 months to continue research, development, and testing to resolve the technology issues facing ACP without hurting the chances of USEC to secure approval for a loan guarantee in the future. "While we believe USEC needs time to develop its technology and demonstrate that it can be deployed at a commercial scale, we're moving forward with other investments that will create good, high-paying jobs in the community," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "USEC will have another chance to resubmit their application if they can overcome the technical and financial hurdles, but in the meantime we'll put more people to work in the environmental cleanup effort."
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Will the nuclear cheerleader keep her job? | Power struggle | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 18 May 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 18 May 09
     
    Will Anne Lauvergeon, the nuclear-energy industry's most tireless cheerleader, keep her job as boss of Areva? WHEN Anne Lauvergeon arrived in 1999 as the new boss of COGEMA, a French state-owned uranium-mining and fuel-recycling firm, it was at a low point. Nuclear power was so unpopular that some employees would not admit to working for the company. A friend told her taking the job would be professional suicide. When she first visited its headquarters, with decor unaltered since the 1970s-all chrome and dark-wood furniture, and long corridors of orange-laminated cupboards-she realised it would take a huge effort to drag the firm into the 21st century.
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U.S. EPA: $600 million in Recovery Act Funding to Clean Up Hazardous Waste Sites, Creat... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 09 May 09
     
    EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced $600 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the cleanup of hazardous waste (Superfund) sites across the nation. In most cases, this recovery act funding will accelerate the hazardous waste cleanup already underway at the sites and fund new clean-up projects. It will also jumpstart the local economy by creating jobs in the site areas. "EPA has an answer to these challenging economic times," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "Under the Recovery Act, we're getting harmful pollutants and dangerous chemicals out of these communities and putting jobs and investment back in."
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DOE - Secretary Chu: President's Energy Budget Creates Jobs, Restores America's Scienti... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 09 May 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 09 May 09
     
    U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today detailed President Barack Obama's $26.4 billion Fiscal Year 2010 budget request for the Department of Energy, highlighting the Administration's commitment to transformational discoveries, breakthrough science, and innovative technologies in the nation's effort to secure reliable, clean, safe and secure energy, create new jobs and fight climate change. While the budget makes important investments in energy independence and job creation, it also cuts back on programs that don't work as well or are no longer needed. "The President's budget for energy reflects his commitment to ending our dependence on foreign oil, restoring our scientific leadership and putting Americans back to work through investments in a new green energy economy," Secretary Chu said. "It also demonstrates his commitment to using taxpayer dollars wisely - cutting spending on programs we don't need so we can make strategic investments in our economic future." The President's FY10 budget complements $38.7 billion the Department of Energy will invest as part of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Specifically, the President's FY10 budget:
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FPL pays fine for guards sleeping on job - Business - MiamiHerald.com - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 13 Apr 09
     
    More than two years after a federal investigation found that guards were sleeping on the job at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point nuclear plant, the utility has paid a six-figure fine to resolve the case. FPL sent the Nuclear Regulatory Commission a check for $130,000 in January, the commission confirmed Monday. FPL spokesman Tom Veenstra confirmed late Monday that the company had paid the fine. Six guards at the Miami-Dade County plant slept or served as lookouts for other guards who were sleeping ''on multiple occasions'' between 2004 and 2006, the commission concluded. All of the guards were contractors with Palm Beach Gardens-based Wackenhut. None remained on the job after the violations were announced last year, officials said.
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Jobs, fish-kills concerns at Oyster Creek hearing - pressofAtlanticCity.com : Ocean County - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 01 Mar 10
     
    "Residents, environmentalists and company officials on Wednesday debated a proposal requiring the Oyster Creek Generating Station to build cooling towers. The state Department of Environmental Protection wants the plant to build cooling towers as part of a water-discharge permit. The plant's owner, Exelon Corp., said closing the plant would be preferable financially to installing a cooling system the company estimated would cost more than $700 million. At the hearing, most local residents and elected officials sided with the company and urged the DEP to let the plant continue using its current cooling system, which circulates 662 million gallons of water per day from canals off the Forked River. Lacey Township Mayor Gary Quinn defended the private jobs and public revenue the plant provides, including more than $11 million in Energy Receipts Taxes the township receives each year. Exelon Corp. lawyer William J. Donohue said 700 plant employees would lose their jobs if the state prevailed in adding cooling towers to the plant's water-discharge permit."
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Sellafield decommissioning job worth £1.5bn attracts big hitters | News | Con... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 09 Nov 09
     
    A host of international firms are lining up to battle for a package of decommissioning works at Sellafield that could be worth as much as £1.5 billion. Balfour Beatty is understood to be bidding for the three-phase contract in a joint venture with Amec and French nuclear specialist Areva. Meanwhile, Costain is believed to have teamed up with US engineering giant Fluor to bid for the job, which will eventually see the construction of a highly active liquid effluent facility. Laing O'Rourke is also thought to be in a consortium with Jacobs, Nuvia and Doosan Babcock to tender for the work - valued at between £250 million and £1.5bn.
  • Energy Net on 09 Nov 09
     
    A host of international firms are lining up to battle for a package of decommissioning works at Sellafield that could be worth as much as £1.5 billion. Balfour Beatty is understood to be bidding for the three-phase contract in a joint venture with Amec and French nuclear specialist Areva. Meanwhile, Costain is believed to have teamed up with US engineering giant Fluor to bid for the job, which will eventually see the construction of a highly active liquid effluent facility. Laing O'Rourke is also thought to be in a consortium with Jacobs, Nuvia and Doosan Babcock to tender for the work - valued at between £250 million and £1.5bn.
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Is It Time to Restart the Uranium Industry in the U.S.?: Scientific American - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
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  • Energy Net on 06 Jul 10
     
    "In Colorado's far western reaches is a valley called Paradox. Unlike most, it is cut crosswise through the middle. The Dolores River runs perpendicular through it, creating a geologic anomaly that is also the valley's namesake. Brilliant orange cliffs cradle the valley floor under the white gaze of Utah's La Sal Mountains. Sagebrush plains and irrigated hay fields are broken only by herds of cows and the tiny hamlets of Bedrock and Paradox. Within the region's perplexing geology run rich veins of uranium, fuel for the nation's incipient nuclear renaissance. A proposal to build the nation's first uranium mill in 25 years has divided the community there between those who see good jobs and a stable economy and neighbors fearful of uranium's history of health impacts, environmental harm and unstable prices. Both sides recognize that the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill - fed by ore from up to 41 nearby mines - could transform this quiet corner of Colorado into the fountainhead of the nuclear fuel industry."
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Ontario's energy chief collides with a troubled nuclear history - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 14 Jun 10
     
    "By most accounts, Brad Duguid is more committed to nuclear power than his predecessor as Ontario's energy minister. But, because of circumstances that mostly predate his time on the job, Mr. Duguid may wind up presiding over the continued decline of the nuclear industry in his province. That industry revolves around Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the troubled Crown corporation that the federal government is desperately trying to unload. Under the right circumstances, the sale of its Candu division could mean the revitalization of a sector with room for growth and job creation - particularly in Mississauga, Ont., where much of its operations are centred. But by most insider accounts, the circumstances really couldn't be much worse. "
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BBC News - Uranium revival sparks New Mexico land battle - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 26 Jul 10
     
    "Thousands of feet under a hot patch of sand and brush is buried a deposit of uranium so rich it could revive a hardscrabble New Mexico town pocked with vacant lots and shuttered buildings. The mining industry and those residents of the area who are eager for an influx of jobs see the plateau around Mount Taylor near the town of Grants in the northwest corner of New Mexico as an irresistible opportunity for economic gain. "It's what we need, it's what's going to fuel the future," said Star Gonzales, director of the Grants chamber of commerce. "They will be good paying jobs.""
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FR: NIOSH: Worker's Cohort petition Canonsburg Pa - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 13 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 13 Dec 08
     
    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at the Vitro Manufacturing in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows: Facility: Vitro Manufacturing. Location: Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All Atomic Weapons Employer employees. Period of Employment: August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1957.
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FRz: NIOSH: Worikers Cohort petition Chicago Il - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 13 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 13 Dec 08
     
    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows: Facility: Metallurgical Laboratory. Location: Chicago, Illinois. Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All Atomic Weapons Employer employees. Period of Employment: August 13, 1942 through June 30, 1946.
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FR: NIOSH: Worker's Cohort petition St Louis Mo - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 13 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 13 Dec 08
     
    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at the Mallinckrodt Chemical Co., Destrehan Street Plant in St. Louis, Missouri, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows: Facility: Mallinckrodt Chemical Co., Destrehan Street Plant. Location: St. Louis, Missouri. Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All employees who worked with uranium. Period of Employment: January 1, 1958 to December 31, 1958.
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US nuclear industry calls for loan guarantee program shake-up - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 05 Feb 09
     
    A nuclear industry official said Tuesday that the US Department of Energy has done such a poor job of running a program to provide federal loan guarantees to clean-energy projects that it may be time to move the program to another agency that is better equipped to handle the job. Derrick Freeman, senior director for government affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute, said in an interview that DOE is taking far too long to issue the billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees that Congress authorized in major energy bills in 2005 and 2007.
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NIRS: No taxpayer loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors! - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 31 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 31 Jan 09
     
    The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee late on the night of January 27 snuck in a provision to President Obama's economic stimulus package that would allow as much as $50 BILLION of your dollars to be used as loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors. This would be on top of the $18.5 Billion taxpayer dollars already authorized by Congress during the Bush administration. These loan guarantees would mean more nuclear reactors and more radioactive waste piling up in communities across our country. They would also mean less money for safer, cheaper and cleaner energy alternatives like solar and wind power. The provision is vaguely worded. It would authorize $50 Billion in new loan guarantees for "eligible technologies." These technologies include nuclear, "clean coal," renewable energy sources and electric transmission. But the stimulus package is intended to create new jobs and economic activity over the next two years. Not only should new nuclear reactors and the false concept of "clean coal" be excluded from taxpayer support, but the reality is that neither technology is ready to produce any jobs within the next two years.
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knoxnews.com | Oak Ridge cleanup and economic stimulus - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 16 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 16 Jan 09
     
    John Shewairy of DOE's Oak Ridge office said nobody knows how much money might be coming to Oak Ridge to support an accelerated cleanup plan or how many jobs would be created if it's included in an economic stimulus package. On Friday, however, DOE's Oak Ridge manager Gerald Boyd reportedly told an ETEC (East Tennessee Economic Council) audience that the job figure could be as high as 1,000 this year if the best case funding scenario came to be.
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The Associated Press: NM's Sen. Domenici leaves office after 36 years - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 03 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 03 Jan 09
     
    Sen. Pete Domenici, who is retiring after 36 years in the Senate, has packed up his office and said goodbye to most of his staffers. But with only days left in office, it seems the thought of retirement is still unreal to him. "I love the job too much," Domenici said. "I feel like I'd like to have the job tomorrow and the next day." Domenici is known for his work on crafting a national energy policy, budget reforms and his support for New Mexico's national laboratories, military installations and other projects his earmarks helped create.
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