Posted 3 days ago

With only a matter of days left of his presidency George Bush is a man in a hurry. And with its future under an Obama presidency currently uncertain, so is the nuclear industry. (Fast forward to one m

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Posted 3 days ago

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed:Tennessean.com: Foes slam nuclear waste plan A Bush administration project aimed at reprocessing nuclear waste in a global sharing arr

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Posted 4 days ago

Yesterday we saw how the nuclear reactor builders in the US can t or won t launch new projects without government loan guarantees. We also saw how the loan guarantee system actually financially pena

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Posted 4 days ago

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed:The Japan Times: Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert Japan's plan to reprocess and recycle spent nuclear fuel in a reprocessi

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Posted 4 days ago

Via FiredogLake I learn that the Wall Street Journal is reporting on a drop in electricity consumption in the US. An unexpected drop in U.S. electricity consumption has utility companies worried that

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Posted 5 days ago

There s a fascinating insight into the way the nuclear industry works in the news that Exelon Nuclear has dropped plans in the US to build an Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) at Vict

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Posted 5 days ago

Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed:The Seattle Times: Wash. sues feds over Hanford cleanup Washington state is suing the federal government to seek a faster cleanup of t

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Posted 5 days ago

Over at our New Zealand blog Bunny sets the stage for the upcoming climate negotiations in Poznan.

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Posted 6 days ago

Almost 20 years after the Exxon Valdez caused the worst oil spill in US history the affected communities may finally be about to see some compensation.

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Posted 6 days ago

If the Vermont Yankee nuclear power station were a family pet, it would be long past the point when it was time to do her a kindness and put her out of her misery.Cooling tower collapses and reactor

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