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Nuclear cleanup to cost billions -- Times Union - Albany NY - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 06 Dec 08 - Cached
  • But leaving the waste where it is — about 30 miles from Buffalo— would cost up to $13 billion to keep contained over the next 1,000 years. The report said the task could be technologically difficult in an area prone to erosion. It could cost up to $27 billion if radiation escapes the area a century from now and gets into creeks that flow into Lake Erie, endangering the drinking water supply.
  • Energy Net on 06 Dec 08
     
    While it will cost taxpayers billions to clean out dangerous radioactive waste from a defunct nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, storing it there would cost billions more over the centuries - and risk contamination of Lake Erie. That was the conclusion of a state-funded report on the 3,300-acre West Valley nuclear site, closed since the early 1970s and once the nation's only commercial center for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. Released Tuesday, the report comes during a growing national debate about stepping up nuclear power as a way to cut the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Critics continue to question the fate of spent fuel, which is dangerous for thousands of years. The report by Cambridge-based Synapse Energy Economics claimed it will cost nearly $10 billion to clean radioactive waste from West Valley over the next 60 years and ship it to a federal dump that does not exist yet.
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Freedom to Speak? A Report Card on Federal Agency Media Policies | Union of Concerned S... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 24 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 24 Oct 08
     
    Both democracy and science are based on the free exchange of ideas. A strong democracy depends on well-informed citizens who have access to comprehensive and reliable information about their government's activities. Similarly, science thrives when scientists are free to interact with each other, opening their ideas to wide-ranging scrutiny. Because our country's decision makers need access to the best scientific information available, federal agencies must allow their scientists to participate in the scientific community and speak freely about their research to the media and the public. Yet too often an agency's desire to "control the message" has led to the suppression of information and the censorship of the government's own experts.
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Public asks radiation test as NL legacy cost -- Times Union - Albany NY - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 18 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 18 Oct 08
     
    Albany County legislators told exam for articles is expensive, pioneering ALBANY - More than a half dozen speakers urged Albany County legislators Tuesday night to fund the continued testing of former employees and neighbors of the now-defunct NL Industries plant in Colonie for radiation contamination. Calling themselves Community Concerned About NL Industries, the speakers asked legislators to consider putting up $14,000 to test 16 former NL workers and Albany and Colonie residents who lived near the Central Avenue plant.
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30 Groups Tell Senate to Nix Nuclear Reprocessing | Union of Concerned Scientists - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 20 Sep 08
     
    Reprocessing too dangerous, too expensive, too polluting, groups say Additional Download(s): Letter to Senator Akaka on Nuclear Reprocessing WASHINGTON (September 17, 2008)-Thirty science, nuclear security and environmental organizations today urged the Senate to reject a provision in pending energy legislation that would fund the construction of a nuclear waste reprocessing facility.
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Bechtel gets $9.7B to run Knolls -- Times Union - Albany NY - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 24 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 24 Sep 08
     
    Company will take over management of Niskayuna atomic power lab from Lockheed Martin NISKAYUNA -- In a move that was not unexpected, Bechtel has been awarded a contract by the Department of Energy to manage the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna. Bechtel subsidiary Bechtel Marine Propulsion won the $9.7 billion contract, which also includes management of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory outside Pittsburgh.
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Nuclear ban? Start with U.S. -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 05 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 05 Aug 08
     
    Wednesday is the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and an appropriate time to reflect upon the persistence of nuclear danger. The world's nine nuclear powers continue to cling to some 27,000 nuclear weapons, almost all of them more deadly than that first atomic bomb, which annihilated an estimated 140,000 Japanese men, women, and children. They do so even as most people recognized long ago that nuclear war spells doom.
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Letters to the editor | NevadaAppeal: The true costs of nuclear energy are astronomical - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 29 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Nuclear reactors create radioactive waste that will remain radioactive for 240,000 years. The half life of plutonium 239 is 24,000 years, which only means that it will only be half as radioactive in 24,000 years. It will remain dangerous for 240,000 years. It has to be monitored for 240,000 years. There has never been a government in the history of humanity that has lasted 240,000 years. Mankind has barely been on the planet that long. Bury it in Nevada they say. 240,000 years ago Nevada was in the Pleistocene Age (ice age) and there were Mammoths and saber toothed cats. Mankind was in the Stone Age. How can we even begin to imagine what it will be 240,000 years in the future? One clue: if we accept all of the nuclear waste for those 240,000 years there won’t be any life forms here in Nevada. You may say of course we won’t be doing it for 240,000 years. How long will we be doing it? How much is too much? I would say any at all is too much. Until a clean method of recycling nuclear waste is in common use (not trying to stuff it somewhere, but actually making it safe), nuclear energy should not be used. If we don’t stop it, the developers will have a nuclear reactor in every state in the union, the waste will pile up exponentially. The developers will rake in billions of dollars. The rest of us will pay the real cost of their profit.Please support clean renewable sources of energy. Like wind, solar, geothermal, ocean wave action, use of the water cycle (evaporation, rain, river flow). Even use of human muscle. And please support the development of machines that use these clean renewable sources of energy. Lets not get into another disaster by burying ourselves in pollution.
  • Energy Net on 29 Jul 08
     
    Those who support nuclear energy claim it is inexpensive. The reason that they can claim that is that they only figure in the cost of generating the energy. If they figure in the cost of taking care of nuclear waste, then the cost is astronomical! But the developers only figure the cost of developing it and assume that the rest of us will pay the cost of 'disposing' of the waste. (It can't be disposed of.)
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Nuclear Power Information Tracker | U.S. Nuclear Power Plants | Union of Concerned Scie... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 25 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 25 Feb 09
     
    This page is a map that gives some basic information about reactors around the US.
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Tonko: Study NL site impac -- Times Union - Albany NY - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 14 Mar 09
     
    A congressional subcommittee on Thursday rapped a federal regulatory agency for downplaying the risks of uranium exposure to former workers and neighbors of the long-shuttered National Lead Industries munitions plant in Colonie. Democratic lawmakers said the handling of toxic exposures at the defunct plant and other sites nationwide showed that the 29-year-old U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry isn't doing enough to investigate legitimate health concerns. "It's clear ... that the ATSDR failed the people of Colonie and Albany who live near the site," said U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam.
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Union leaders back reform of sick worker program | Frank Munger's Atomic City Undergrou... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 05 Jun 09
     
    The presidents of the Metal Trades and the Building & Construction Trades Departments of the AFL-CIO this week endorsed the Charlie Wolf Bill, which would amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act to expand the eliigibility of workers and change some procedures for compensation. The press statement released by Ron Ault of Metal Trades and Mark Ayers of Building & Construction Trades endorsed the companion bills in the U.S. Senate and House and called for their quick consideration. Their statement said, in part:
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Bechtel, union group sign labor pact for new Calvert Cliffs unit - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 05 Jun 09
     
    A labor agreement for the potential construction of a new nuclear unit at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland was signed with Bechtel Construction Co., the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department, or BCTD, said June 1. Bechtel and the BCTD said in April 2008 that they were negotiating a labor agreement to lay out the terms for wages, benefits, work hours and working conditions for skilled craft workers on UniStar Nuclear Energy's planned Calvert Cliffs-3 project. UniStar, a joint venture of Constellation Energy and EDF Group, wants to build a fleet of Areva US-EPRs in the US, beginning with a new unit at its two-reactor Calvert Cliffs site.
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New U.S. Approach Toward Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons | Union of Concerned Sc... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 13 Apr 09
     
    In early April 2009, on his first trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama made good on his campaign promises and took the first steps toward fundamentally reshaping U.S. nuclear weapons policy. On April 1, the president and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev released a joint statement in which both nations agreed to "demonstrate leadership in reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world." On April 5, President Obama gave a groundbreaking speech on nuclear weapons in Prague, Czech Republic, which signaled his administration's intent to significantly reduce the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy and laid out a bold yet pragmatic plan to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. He also stated that the United States was committed to the visionary goal of "the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
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Nuclear Experts, Arms Control organizations Urge Obama to Transform U.S. Nuclear Weapon... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 16 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 16 Feb 10
     
    "In anticipation of a major nuclear weapons policy review expected to be completed March 1, former government officials, nuclear weapons experts, and leaders of arms control organizations representing more than 1 million Americans have sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to fulfill his April 2009 pledge to "put an end to Cold War thinking" and "reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy." In the letter, sent to the White House and key cabinet members on February 1, the group called on the president to ensure that the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) "advances the highest security priorities: preventing terrorists or additional states from obtaining of using nuclear weapons; reducing global stockpiles, and moving toward a world without nuclear weapons.""
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