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'Beginning' of long process for possible Piketon nuke plant begins (video) | chillicoth... - 0 views

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  • DUKE ENERGY: The third-largest electric power holding company in the United States based on kilowatt-hour sales, its regulated utility operations serve about 4 million customers across North and South Carolina, indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Its commercial power and international business segments operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including nuclear facilities in the Carolinas. For more, visit www.duke-energy.com.
  • ArevaA leading U.S. nuclear vendor and key player in the electricity transmission and distribution sector, French-based Areva employs 6,000 people in the United States and has 45 locations across the nation. Areva is active in the nuclear energy industry, with EPR nuclear facilities similar to what is being proposed for Piketon already being constructed in four global locations that include Finland and France and with commitments in several other countries, including the U.S., Italy and india. It also is expanding its focus to work on a series of biomass energy facilities in the U.S.
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  • USEC Inc.A leadIng supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants, USEC has a lease with the Department of Energy for a significant portion of the Piketon site and employs more than 1,100 people at the site. It presently is constructIng a new American Centrifuge Plant In Piketon expected to begIn uranium enrichment activities In 2012.
  • UniStar Nuclear EnergyThis is a strategic joint venture between Constellation Energy and EDF Group helping to power a "nuclear renaissance" in North America by providing industry leadership, disciplined business practices and effective risk-management strategies. It is based in Baltimore and provides licensing, construction and operating services needed for expansion of clean and safe nuclear energy in the U.S.
  • Southern Ohio Diversification InitiativeThis organization was formed to successfully transition Jackson, Pike, Ross and Scioto counties from dependence on the now-Inactive Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant to a "greater long-term economic stability."
  • Energy Net on 22 Jun 09
     
    Calling it the "beginning of the beginning," Duke Energy chairman, president and CEO James Rogers Thursday officially kicked off the effort to bring 400 to 700 new permanent jobs to Piketon within roughly the next decade. Advertisement The process will be pursued by a newly created partnership whose aim is to construct a new nuclear power facility in Piketon. And while it will take a considerable amount of time to complete, officials are hopeful it will lead the way to new life in a county that is presently facing 15.1 percent unemployment and routinely ranks among the highest jobless rates in the state. "It will, I think, help revitalize the economy of this part of the state," Gov. Ted Strickland said, adding that the project would make Ohio the only state including next-generation nuclear power production in its energy portfolio.
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The truth behind Depleted Uranium (DU) Contamination and its usage - 0 views

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  • On the 11th of July 1991, an explosion ripped through a United States ammunition depot referred to as Camp Doha killing and injuring both US and British forces. There were many cases of shrapnel wounds that would lead to further misery of those injured. The NY Times reported that the explosion incinerated nearby vehicles and tore the roof off the British headquarters building. The walls of several warehouses used as barracks for American and British soldiers were riddled with holes.
  • Energy Net on 22 Jun 09
     
    There has been significant publicity about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, its ability to travel very long distances and the consequences to our health. So where does DU come from, why is it used in munitions, what do such weapons look like, and what is their application in today's warfare? Although it was widely believed that DU munitions were used extensively during the Balkans War (1991-2001) it didn't show its true face until the occurrence of an accident at a military camp in Kuwait. in 1991. Events prior to this accident had started intense US military activity in the region as a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on the 2nd of August 1990. Iraq forces had occupied Kuwait for seven months and in February the following year saw Operation Desert Storm liberate Kuwait. At the request of the Kuwaiti Government the United States sent re enforcements to the region in order to stabilise Kuwait and secure its borders. It was obvious at the time that this build up was showing clear signs of some other hidden agenda in the build up to an attack on Iraq. It was reported in the NY Times on the 19th of May 1991 that Dick Cheney had emphasized that the move was temporary and said: "It is our objective to get them out as quickly as possible. And the president's made it clear we don't want a permanent long - lasting ground presence in the gulf." It is ironic that 18 years later US Forces are still deeply emended in Iraq with clear intentions of permanent bases within Iraq.
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The Young Turks: Kyrgyzstan:Mailuu Suu radioactive tailings continue to pose risk - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 14 Jun 09
     
    The town of Mailuu Suu has been recognized by world experts including Blacksmith institute as one of the top ten radioactively contaminated areas of the world.There is more than 25 000 residents estimated in Mailuu Suu daily exposed to the dangerous level of radiation from the radioactive waste dumps collected around the town. The first range of the soviet atomic bombs has been developed using Mailuu Suu uranium in 1940-1950's. Jetigen.org requested an interview with one of the Blacksmith institute coordinators in the former soviet block,Vladimir Kuznetsov who manages field operations in Mailuu Suu. Ryskeldi Satke- What's the history of Blacksmith project "Mailuu Suu" in Kyrgyzstan? Vladimir Kuznetsov - The problem of Mailuu-Suu region has been partially (along with the other regions) raised in our first micro-project in 2007 which identified contamination of water supply source in the Mailuu Suu. The practical result of the previous project in this area contributed to the cessation of illegal excavation of contaminated waste parts for evolving purpose of metal trade business with chinese smugglers (fencing the terraces, implementation of new rules on the metal export for the customs, clarifying activities). The application for this project was submitted in March 2008, processed twice, and approved in June 2008.
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TheStar.com | 85,000 radioactive baby teeth. Now that we have your attention... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 27 Apr 09
     
    Forgotten about for 50 years, an odd stash yields clues about above-ground nuclear tests and cancer They were locked away in an ammunition bunker near St. Louis, Mo., in dozens of cardboard boxes. Each was in its own manila envelope, with an index card identifying the donor. These 85,000 baby teeth were collected in the late 1950s and early 1960s to study the effects of radioactive fallout in the environment. The fallout came from hundreds of above-ground nuclear tests in America and other parts of the world. The radioactive isotope Strontium-90, one of the by-products of the bombs, spread into the atmosphere, fell onto the land, was ingested by dairy cows and passed into the milk supply. Strontium-90, like calcium, was concentrated in children's teeth in detectable amounts. in 1958 scientists in St. Louis began a campaign to collect baby teeth to study the link between above-ground testing and human exposure. The undisputed link between the tests and a radioactive element in baby teeth provided much of the impetus for the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, which outlawed above-ground nuclear weapons-testing.
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Hanford News : What world governments offer to victims of nuclear tests - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 29 Mar 09
     
    A look at where some leading nuclear powers stand on offering compensation to victims of nuclear tests. UNITED STATES: The U.S. is the only nation that currently compensates nuclear test victims. Since the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was enacted in 1990, more than $1.38 billion in compensation has been approved. It goes to people who took part in the tests, notably at the Nevada Test Site, and to anyone exposed to the radiation. FRANCE: The French government offered Tuesday to compensate victims for the first time. A draft bill to be submitted to parliament soon would allow payments to people who suffered health problems related to the tests. The payouts would be available to victims' descendants and would include Algerians, whose country was part of France when the French started nuclear testing in the Sahara in 1960. Victims say the eligibility requirements are too narrow. BRITAin: No formal British government compensation program exists. Nearly 1,000 veterans of Christmas Island nuclear tests in the 1950s are seeking to sue the Ministry of Defense for negligence. They say they suffered health problems and were warned of potential dangers only after the experiments. RUSSIA: Decades afterward, Russia offered compensation to veterans who were part of the 1954 Totsk test, in which a Hiroshima-yield bomb was set off and then soldiers were sent in to test how fighting would proceed in a post-blast environment. Anti-nuclear groups say there has been no blanket government compensation for other tests. There was no compensation to civilians sickened by the Totsk test. CHinA: China's nuclear program is highly secretive, as are its atomic tests in remote deserts in a Central Asian border province. Anti-nuclear activists say there is no known government program for compensating victims.
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Cancer cases in Iraq almost tripled in 15 years - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 08 Mar 10
     
    "SFU researcher finds children in Basrah have four times the rate of leukemia as those in Kuwait A Simon Fraser University researcher will concentrate his search for potential causes of childhood leukemia in southern Iraq, where the rate of the blood cancer in some areas is now four times that of neighbouring Kuwait. Tim Takaro and his associates from the University of Washington, Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and Basrah University say in a newly published study that the rate of leukemia in children under 15 from Basrah rose to 8.5 cases per 100,000 from three per 100,000 over the 15-year study period. The rate in nearby Kuwait is two per 100,000. The intensity and duration of armed conflict in Basrah has presented researchers with a natural laboratory in which to conduct their search for the causes of childhood leukemia, Takaro said."
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Obama Administration Preparing to Implement Bush/McCain Energy Policy With Taxpayer Bai... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 22 Feb 10
     
    "Published reports indicate that the Obama Administration will announce on Tuesday, February 16, approval of a "conditional" taxpayer loan guarantee to the Southern Company for construction of two new nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site in Georgia. "If the reports are correct, this would be a repudiation of Obama's own campaign statements against subsidies for nuclear power, and the implementation of the worst energy policy excesses of the Bush Administration and failed presidential candidate Sen. John McCain," said Michael Mariotte, executive director of Nuclear information and Resource Service, a national organization based in Takoma Park, Maryland. NIRS pointed to a video of then-candidate Obama telling voters on December 30, 2007 that he opposed taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R52J2D5QQU. During the election campaign, McCain called for construction of 45 new reactors in the U.S. by 2030. "Last time I checked," Mariotte said, "McCain lost the election. It's astonishing that his misguided and rejected energy policies live on. It is safe to say that no one voted for Obama in order to give taxpayer money to wealthy nuclear corporations." The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for reactor construction was established by Congress at the urging of the Bush administration in 2005. in 2007, Congress authorized the program to provide $18.5 Billion in loan guarantees for new reactors. in late January, President Obama proposed nearly tripling the program to $54 Billion. "Few realize that the DOE's program extends beyond simple guarantees. in some cases at least, the loans will come directly from the taxpayers through the little-known Federal Financing Bank (FFB). Thus the taxpayers will be put in the awkward and highly risky position of both providing billions of dollars in loans to giant nuclear corporations and promising to repay the loans if the companies default," explained Mariotte. "With the Congressional Budget Office pre
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The Daily Mail - Pakistan: The most vulnerable naked nukes of India - 0 views

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  • more than 80% of India’s nuclear and missile Infrastructure based In the Insurgency-hit areas or extremists’ domInated region By Makhdoom Babar In Islamabad & ChristIna Palmer In New Delhi While the western media and the western governments keep shoutIng about vulnerability of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and keep expressIng the fears that these are likely to fall In the hands of extremists like Taliban, they have kept their eyes wide shut regardIng the state of affairs of the nuclear weapons and nuclear capable missiles of neighbourIng India where the situation is highly alarmIng, reveal the fIndIngs of The Daily Mail’s Investigations Into the matter. AccordIng to The Daily Mail’s Investigations, the Indian government, In bid to keep it maximum possible away from the strikIng capabilities of Pakistan that lies across India’s northern borders, decades back decided to Install all its nuclear and missile facilities In the Eastern zone of the country. However, with the passage of time, the eastern region of India emerged as the most disturbed, fragile and ungovernable region of the country with a variety of Insurgency movements IncludIng that of Naxal rebels, emergIng In that very part of the country.
  • Energy Net on 19 Oct 09
     
    more than 80% of India's nuclear and missile Infrastructure based In the Insurgency-hit areas or extremists' domInated region While the western media and the western governments keep shoutIng about vulnerability of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and keep expressIng the fears that these are likely to fall In the hands of extremists like Taliban, they have kept their eyes wide shut regardIng the state of affairs of the nuclear weapons and nuclear capable missiles of neighbourIng India where the situation is highly alarmIng, reveal the fIndIngs of The Daily Mail's Investigations Into the matter. AccordIng to The Daily Mail's Investigations, the Indian government, In bid to keep it maximum possible away from the strikIng capabilities of Pakistan that lies across India's northern borders, decades back decided to Install all its nuclear and missile facilities In the Eastern zone of the country. However, with the passage of time, the eastern region of India emerged as the most disturbed, fragile and ungovernable region of the country with a variety of Insurgency movements IncludIng that of Naxal rebels, emergIng In that very part of the country.
  • Energy Net on 19 Oct 09
     
    more than 80% of India's nuclear and missile Infrastructure based In the Insurgency-hit areas or extremists' domInated region While the western media and the western governments keep shoutIng about vulnerability of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and keep expressIng the fears that these are likely to fall In the hands of extremists like Taliban, they have kept their eyes wide shut regardIng the state of affairs of the nuclear weapons and nuclear capable missiles of neighbourIng India where the situation is highly alarmIng, reveal the fIndIngs of The Daily Mail's Investigations Into the matter. AccordIng to The Daily Mail's Investigations, the Indian government, In bid to keep it maximum possible away from the strikIng capabilities of Pakistan that lies across India's northern borders, decades back decided to Install all its nuclear and missile facilities In the Eastern zone of the country. However, with the passage of time, the eastern region of India emerged as the most disturbed, fragile and ungovernable region of the country with a variety of Insurgency movements IncludIng that of Naxal rebels, emergIng In that very part of the country.
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Centrica unlikely to up stake in EDF reactors-paper | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 12 Oct 09
     
    Centrica (CNA.L) is not interested in taking a larger stake in four new nuclear plants to be built by France's EDF (EDF.PA), The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday citing sources. EDF, which already owns eight nuclear power stations in the UK after its acquisition of British Energy last year, confirmed over the weekend that it may sell a 20 percent stake worth at least 3 billion pounds ($4.78 billion) in two reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset and two at Sizewell in Suffolk, the Telegraph reported. Centrica, which bought 20 percent of British Energy for 2.3 billion pounds earlier this year, has the right to take up a 20 percent stake in the new nuclear projects, but is understood not to want a bigger share, the paper said.
  • Energy Net on 12 Oct 09
     
    Centrica (CNA.L) is not interested in taking a larger stake in four new nuclear plants to be built by France's EDF (EDF.PA), The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday citing sources. EDF, which already owns eight nuclear power stations in the UK after its acquisition of British Energy last year, confirmed over the weekend that it may sell a 20 percent stake worth at least 3 billion pounds ($4.78 billion) in two reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset and two at Sizewell in Suffolk, the Telegraph reported. Centrica, which bought 20 percent of British Energy for 2.3 billion pounds earlier this year, has the right to take up a 20 percent stake in the new nuclear projects, but is understood not to want a bigger share, the paper said.
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Tepco may face $23.6 bln compensation costs: JP Morgan | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 12 Apr 11
     
    Tokyo Electric Power could face 2 trillion yen ($23.6 bln) in special losses in the current business year to March 2012 to compensate communities near its crippled nuclear plant, JP Morgan said in a research report obtained by Reuters. Shares of Tokyo Electric, commonly known as Tepco, have lost about three-fourths of their value since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami tore through the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, causing it to leak radiation. The government has evacuated people living in a 20 km (12 miles) radius of the plant and announced on Monday that it would encourage people to leave certain areas beyond that exclusion zone due to accumulated radiation. As Tepco has struggled to contain the crisis, analysts have struggled to come up with viable estimates for the financial burden facing the utility given the unprecedented scale of the problem and uncertainty over the likely degree of government support. JP Morgan said Tepco could face 554 billion yen of extraordinary losses in the financial year ended last month for scrapping the crippled plant and bringing thermal power plants back on line. It estimated that Tepco would have to shoulder 600 billion yen in extra costs due to increased use of thermal power in the financial year to March 2012, and some 2 trillion yen in damages to compensate local communities. JP Morgan said how a law governing such cases is interpreted would be key in determining the company's liabilities. "A key issue concerning damage compensation is whether the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident is considered an unavoidable natural disaster," JP Morgan analyst Tomohiro Jikihara wrote in the report. "in the case of losses, Tepco also bears liability. We assume compensation of 2 trillion yen."
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Speech at Beijing international Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Ce... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 27 Apr 09
     
    Speech at Beijing international Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century in the four years since the last Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy, both global energy demand and interest in nuclear power have continued to grow. Most of the 30 countries already using nuclear energy plan to expand their output. More than 60 countries - mostly in the developing world - have informed the IAEA that they might be interested in launching nuclear power programmes. Of these, 12 countries are actively considering nuclear power. The biggest change since the March 2005 Paris conference - one which none of us could have foreseen then - has been the global economic crisis. There is much discussion about what effect this unprecedented crisis will have on plans for nuclear energy. I have no doubt that this will play an important part in your deliberations in the next three days. It seems likely that the crisis could delay the implementation or expansion of nuclear power programmes in some countries for a limited period. But it is clear that, in the medium and long term, global demand for energy will continue to increase significantly as countries everywhere seek to improve living standards. Although nuclear power is not a panacea for all the world's energy problems, it will continue to play an important role in the global energy mix. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's high projection is for global nuclear power capacity to grow by around 66 percent by 2030.
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New Loan-Guarantee Bailout for New Nuclear Reactors Puts U.S. Taxpayers at Risk as Depa... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 04 Jan 10
     
    Nuclear Power Industry is Perfect Illustration of Why Taxpayers Are SayIng "No More Bailouts!" - Billions for Plant Vogtle Reactors Impossible to Justify In Terms of RisIng FInancial Risks, Reduced Demand for Power, Cheaper Renewables and Huge Potential of Energy Efficiency ATLANTA, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First it was Insurance companies, then it was banks and that was followed by auto companies. Now, the federal government is puttIng U.S. taxpayers and utility customers at new risk under a controversial U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee program that is slated to award $18.5 billion, with Atlanta-based Southern Company predicted to be first on the list for program funds to build two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle In Waynesboro, Georgia. Ironically, the DOE's "top choice" for the nuclear reactor loan guarantees, which are backed by U.S. taxpayers In the event of defaults, is the very same Plant Vogtle that helped to kill the previous nuclear power boom In the United States In the 1970s and 1980s. Huge cost overruns at the origInal Plant Vogtle - which escalated from $660 million for four reactors to a whoppIng $8.87 billion for two - likely played a role In puttIng the brakes on nuclear expansion plans pursued decades ago In the United States.
  • Energy Net on 04 Jan 10
     
    Nuclear Power Industry is Perfect Illustration of Why Taxpayers Are SayIng "No More Bailouts!" - Billions for Plant Vogtle Reactors Impossible to Justify In Terms of RisIng FInancial Risks, Reduced Demand for Power, Cheaper Renewables and Huge Potential of Energy Efficiency ATLANTA, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First it was Insurance companies, then it was banks and that was followed by auto companies. Now, the federal government is puttIng U.S. taxpayers and utility customers at new risk under a controversial U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee program that is slated to award $18.5 billion, with Atlanta-based Southern Company predicted to be first on the list for program funds to build two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle In Waynesboro, Georgia. Ironically, the DOE's "top choice" for the nuclear reactor loan guarantees, which are backed by U.S. taxpayers In the event of defaults, is the very same Plant Vogtle that helped to kill the previous nuclear power boom In the United States In the 1970s and 1980s. Huge cost overruns at the origInal Plant Vogtle - which escalated from $660 million for four reactors to a whoppIng $8.87 billion for two - likely played a role In puttIng the brakes on nuclear expansion plans pursued decades ago In the United States.
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Gulf Times - Qatar's top-selling English daily newspaper - Opinion - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 04 Jan 10
     
    More than five years ago, Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at the Israeli nuclear facility in Dimona, was released from prison after serving 18 years for revealing Israel's nuclear weapons secrets. This week he was arrested again in Jerusalem, accused of talking to foreigners, in breach of conditions imposed on his release. It was in 1986 that Vanunu told his story to the Sunday Times and was lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and sent back to Israel, charged with treason and espionage. He emerged from prison in 2004 believing even more passionately in a nuclear-free world, and non-violence as a solution to the problems in the Middle East.
  • Energy Net on 04 Jan 10
     
    More than five years ago, Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at the Israeli nuclear facility in Dimona, was released from prison after serving 18 years for revealing Israel's nuclear weapons secrets. This week he was arrested again in Jerusalem, accused of talking to foreigners, in breach of conditions imposed on his release. It was in 1986 that Vanunu told his story to the Sunday Times and was lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and sent back to Israel, charged with treason and espionage. He emerged from prison in 2004 believing even more passionately in a nuclear-free world, and non-violence as a solution to the problems in the Middle East.
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Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Controversy on succes... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 Dec 09
     
    In a rebuttal to recently retired Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkar's claims about success of India's 1998 thermo-nuclear explosions, a former senior nuclear scientist K Santhanam said Kakodkar's was "ignorIng facts" and called him a liar.In an Interview to a news channel on Sunday, Kakodkar had claimed that yield of thermo-nuclear explosions was more than 45 kilo tons and India had credible thermo-nuclear bombs In its arsenal. Santhanam, a senor nuclear scientist from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was responsible for monitorIng the 1998 Pokhran nuclear explosions. "Figures don't lie, but liars will figure. He chose to ignore facts for his own reasons," Santhanam said In an Interview to an Indian news agency PTI on Monday In reply to Kadodkar's claims. "There are several Inaccuracies In his (Kakodkar's) statement. The DRDO was a major partner In the 1998 tests and not what Kakodkar has claimed...that we only provided logistical support. That is very far away from truth," Santhanam said.
  • Energy Net on 21 Dec 09
     
    In a rebuttal to recently retired Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkar's claims about success of India's 1998 thermo-nuclear explosions, a former senior nuclear scientist K Santhanam said Kakodkar's was "ignorIng facts" and called him a liar.In an Interview to a news channel on Sunday, Kakodkar had claimed that yield of thermo-nuclear explosions was more than 45 kilo tons and India had credible thermo-nuclear bombs In its arsenal. Santhanam, a senor nuclear scientist from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was responsible for monitorIng the 1998 Pokhran nuclear explosions. "Figures don't lie, but liars will figure. He chose to ignore facts for his own reasons," Santhanam said In an Interview to an Indian news agency PTI on Monday In reply to Kadodkar's claims. "There are several Inaccuracies In his (Kakodkar's) statement. The DRDO was a major partner In the 1998 tests and not what Kakodkar has claimed...that we only provided logistical support. That is very far away from truth," Santhanam said.
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Proposed nuclear plants could affect WVa coal   - News - Charleston Daily Mai... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    On the wall of West Virginia Sen. Dan Foster's office is an old photograph of a whitewashed church in the hills outside Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Kanawha County Democrat grew up in Oak Ridge, where plutonium was produced for nuclear weapons during World War II. "in that church from maybe mid-1944 until the spring of 1945 was where they stored the enriched uranium they used in the Hiroshima bomb," Foster said. "Nobody knew it but about three or four people." Foster co-sponsored a bill in the spring to repeal West Virginia's effective ban on nuclear power in the state. "I've lived around nuclear energy and nuclear reactors," he said. "I am aware of the changing technology of the newer reactors." Three of those newer reactors have been proposed in states adjacent to West Virginia.
  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    On the wall of West Virginia Sen. Dan Foster's office is an old photograph of a whitewashed church in the hills outside Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Kanawha County Democrat grew up in Oak Ridge, where plutonium was produced for nuclear weapons during World War II. "in that church from maybe mid-1944 until the spring of 1945 was where they stored the enriched uranium they used in the Hiroshima bomb," Foster said. "Nobody knew it but about three or four people." Foster co-sponsored a bill in the spring to repeal West Virginia's effective ban on nuclear power in the state. "I've lived around nuclear energy and nuclear reactors," he said. "I am aware of the changing technology of the newer reactors." Three of those newer reactors have been proposed in states adjacent to West Virginia.
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Cancer Cluster investigation continues |West Palm Beach News, South Florida Breaking Ne... - 0 views

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    In the late nIneties, the State Department of Health looked Into a possible cancer cluster In St. Lucie County. There were 28 cases of braIn and central nervous system cancers In kids. No pattern was established. No cluster proven. As well and soil tests wrap up this week, some soberIng facts about providIng clusters exist. The centers for Disease Control conducted 108 cancer cluster Investigations between 1961 and 1990. None of them found an environmental cause for cancer. Local and State Health Departments now bear the burden of InvestigatIng clusters and there are 1,000 reported In the U.S. every year. SInce 1995, only about 50 clusters have been confirmed In the country. The DEP tests of wells and the counties tests of soil at schools go forward with the knowledge that In only one case, at Southside High School In Elmira New York, have children been victimized by toxic exposure. 20 cases of testicular cancer was documented.The school had been built near an Industrial site.
  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    In the late nIneties, the State Department of Health looked Into a possible cancer cluster In St. Lucie County. There were 28 cases of braIn and central nervous system cancers In kids. No pattern was established. No cluster proven. As well and soil tests wrap up this week, some soberIng facts about providIng clusters exist. The centers for Disease Control conducted 108 cancer cluster Investigations between 1961 and 1990. None of them found an environmental cause for cancer. Local and State Health Departments now bear the burden of InvestigatIng clusters and there are 1,000 reported In the U.S. every year. SInce 1995, only about 50 clusters have been confirmed In the country. The DEP tests of wells and the counties tests of soil at schools go forward with the knowledge that In only one case, at Southside High School In Elmira New York, have children been victimized by toxic exposure. 20 cases of testicular cancer was documented.The school had been built near an Industrial site.
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Cooper Report on Nuclear Economics PDF - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 19 Oct 09
     
    Within the past year, estimates of the cost of nuclear power from a new generation of reactors have ranged from a low of 8.4 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) to a high of 30 cents. This paper tackles the debate over the cost of building new nuclear reactors, with the key findings as follows: * The initial cost projections put out early in today's so-called "nuclear renaissance" were about one-third of what one would have expected, based on the nuclear reactors completed in the 1990s. * The most recent cost projections for new nuclear reactors are, on average, over four times as high as the initial "nuclear renaissance" projections. * There are numerous options available to meet the need for electricity in a carbon-constrained environment that are superior to building nuclear reactors. indeed, nuclear reactors are the worst option from the point of view of the consumer and society. * The low carbon sources that are less costly than nuclear include efficiency, cogeneration, biomass, geothermal, wind, solar thermal and natural gas. Solar photovoltaics that are presently more costly than nuclear reactors are projected to decline dramatically in price in the next decade. Fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, which are not presently available, are projected to be somewhat more costly than nuclear reactors. * Numerous studies by Wall Street and independent energy analysts estimate efficiency and renewable costs at an average of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, while the cost of electricity from nuclear reactors is estimated in the range of 12 to 20 cents per kWh. * The additional cost of building 100 new nuclear reactors, instead of pursuing a least cost efficiency-renewable strategy, would be in the range of $1.9-$4.4 trillion over the life the reactors.
  • Energy Net on 19 Oct 09
     
    Within the past year, estimates of the cost of nuclear power from a new generation of reactors have ranged from a low of 8.4 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) to a high of 30 cents. This paper tackles the debate over the cost of building new nuclear reactors, with the key findings as follows: * The initial cost projections put out early in today's so-called "nuclear renaissance" were about one-third of what one would have expected, based on the nuclear reactors completed in the 1990s. * The most recent cost projections for new nuclear reactors are, on average, over four times as high as the initial "nuclear renaissance" projections. * There are numerous options available to meet the need for electricity in a carbon-constrained environment that are superior to building nuclear reactors. indeed, nuclear reactors are the worst option from the point of view of the consumer and society. * The low carbon sources that are less costly than nuclear include efficiency, cogeneration, biomass, geothermal, wind, solar thermal and natural gas. Solar photovoltaics that are presently more costly than nuclear reactors are projected to decline dramatically in price in the next decade. Fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, which are not presently available, are projected to be somewhat more costly than nuclear reactors. * Numerous studies by Wall Street and independent energy analysts estimate efficiency and renewable costs at an average of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, while the cost of electricity from nuclear reactors is estimated in the range of 12 to 20 cents per kWh. * The additional cost of building 100 new nuclear reactors, instead of pursuing a least cost efficiency-renewable strategy, would be in the range of $1.9-$4.4 trillion over the life the reactors.
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Interview - ThInk towards Solar Energy, Not Nuclear - Standart - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    Dr Dominique Raynaud is an expert at climatic change issues. Along with other researchers from the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore he received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. Al Gore's film, An inconvenient Truth is partially based namely on the research of Raynaud. Dr. Raynaud was on a visit to Sofia where he delivered a lecture on the preparation of the conference on climate change in Copenhagen. - Mr. Raynaud, how real is the threat of global warming? - Generally the stakes are rather high. Take Africa for example. This continent is already in a very dangerous situation. The sea level will rise by 50 or 80 cm or even more by the end of the century. This means there will be a lot of problems in many coastal countries. in Bangladesh, for instance, thousands of people will have to be evacuated. Millions of people will have to immigrate, increase of conflicts is very possible etc? - You believe the future of the Earth is to an extent in the hands of the people. Do you think that they, though, can really be motivated to change the status quo? - People should be educated, things should be explained to them. This issue should not be abandoned; people should be persuaded without being compelled. We are talking of a threat, of a possibility, not about something that will for sure happen. I also hope we are wrong. But even if we are right, this will happen for good because we will have to change our lifestyle. - What do you think of nuclear energy? A lot of discussions are currently being held in Bulgaria on the necessity of constructing a second NPP?
  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    Dr Dominique Raynaud is an expert at climatic change issues. Along with other researchers from the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore he received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. Al Gore's film, An inconvenient Truth is partially based namely on the research of Raynaud. Dr. Raynaud was on a visit to Sofia where he delivered a lecture on the preparation of the conference on climate change in Copenhagen. - Mr. Raynaud, how real is the threat of global warming? - Generally the stakes are rather high. Take Africa for example. This continent is already in a very dangerous situation. The sea level will rise by 50 or 80 cm or even more by the end of the century. This means there will be a lot of problems in many coastal countries. in Bangladesh, for instance, thousands of people will have to be evacuated. Millions of people will have to immigrate, increase of conflicts is very possible etc? - You believe the future of the Earth is to an extent in the hands of the people. Do you think that they, though, can really be motivated to change the status quo? - People should be educated, things should be explained to them. This issue should not be abandoned; people should be persuaded without being compelled. We are talking of a threat, of a possibility, not about something that will for sure happen. I also hope we are wrong. But even if we are right, this will happen for good because we will have to change our lifestyle. - What do you think of nuclear energy? A lot of discussions are currently being held in Bulgaria on the necessity of constructing a second NPP?
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AFP: China approves building of coastal nuclear plant - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    China has approved the construction of a new nuclear plant in its eastern coastal region, in the latest step in Beijing's plan to include more clean energy in the country's consumption mix. The State Council, or cabinet, issued a licence last week for the building of the first phase of the Haiyang nuclear power station in Shandong province, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission announced. Two reactors will be built initially, both using US-based Westinghouse Electric's AP 1000 third generation technology, the commission said in a statement posted on its website on Sunday. Each reactor will have a capacity of 1.25 gigawatts, the statement said. The reactors will be operational in May 2014 and March 2015, respectively.
  • Energy Net on 05 Oct 09
     
    China has approved the construction of a new nuclear plant in its eastern coastal region, in the latest step in Beijing's plan to include more clean energy in the country's consumption mix. The State Council, or cabinet, issued a licence last week for the building of the first phase of the Haiyang nuclear power station in Shandong province, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission announced. Two reactors will be built initially, both using US-based Westinghouse Electric's AP 1000 third generation technology, the commission said in a statement posted on its website on Sunday. Each reactor will have a capacity of 1.25 gigawatts, the statement said. The reactors will be operational in May 2014 and March 2015, respectively.
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Disposal work at Piketon facility completed | chillicothegazette.com | Chillicothe Gazette - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 12 Oct 09
     
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that disposal of 5.7 million pounds of excess plant oils has been completed by its Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. Advertisement The work was part of deactivation activities being done by USEC to prepare the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon for decontamination and decommissioning. According to DOE, the removal and disposal of the motor lubricating oils and transformer oils used during uranium enrichment activities at the plant in the past has been a major achievement \to remove a significant fire hazard, eliminate the potential for an environmental release and minimize hazards for workers during decontamination and decommissioning. The plant stopped producing enriched uranium in 2001 and has been in cold shutdown since 2005. The oil disposition work started in 2006 and was stepped up this year -- with 4.1 million of the 5.7 million pounds being removed in just more than nine months this year. The excess oils were incinerated at the Clean Harbors Commercial incineration Facility in Deer Park, Texas.
  • Energy Net on 12 Oct 09
     
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that disposal of 5.7 million pounds of excess plant oils has been completed by its Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office. Advertisement The work was part of deactivation activities being done by USEC to prepare the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon for decontamination and decommissioning. According to DOE, the removal and disposal of the motor lubricating oils and transformer oils used during uranium enrichment activities at the plant in the past has been a major achievement \to remove a significant fire hazard, eliminate the potential for an environmental release and minimize hazards for workers during decontamination and decommissioning. The plant stopped producing enriched uranium in 2001 and has been in cold shutdown since 2005. The oil disposition work started in 2006 and was stepped up this year -- with 4.1 million of the 5.7 million pounds being removed in just more than nine months this year. The excess oils were incinerated at the Clean Harbors Commercial incineration Facility in Deer Park, Texas.
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