nuclear

He's turned his back on the Grand Canyon, thwarts voting on key clean energy incentives.

The French are coming!

The issues raised on the Nuclear Deal (also popular as the 1-2-3 Deal) are however not purely environmental. Though the deal is said to strengthen India ’s energy independence, sovereignty and autonomy by putting an end to the sanctions that seem to have crippled the country’s nuclear efforts, political parties opposing the deal have raised concerns

If you are of my generation, you remember Schoolhouse Rock’s Saturday morning cartoons.  To this day, I only know what a conjunction is from “Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?”, and I clearly remember how a bill becomes a law by that little rolled up bill sitting on the congressional steps.  “The Energy Blues” is 30 years old this year, and we are still singing these blues

Just more evidence of how safely uranium is handled around the world.

More taxpayer money down the nuclear hole.

God help us.

A recent report issued by the International Energy Agency, based in Paris, has concluded it would take an investment of $45 trillion by 2050 to reduce the threat of global warming.

Three advisers to the 2008 presidential candidates describe their respective candidate's energy, environmental and climate change policies should their candidate be elected president.

The recently declassified report submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee analyzes how Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey respond if Tehran acquires nuclear weapons.

The government's futuristic "clean coal" power project has joined the long list of scuttled coal plants. The death spiral of coal energy is reminiscent of the 1980s popular blockade of nuclear plant construction. Investors and even the Bush administration are backing out.

This hearing explores the degree to which nuclear power could provide a solution for addressing climate change.The contemplated future role of nuclear power in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions will require a monumental capital investment, many years if not decades of planning and construction, extensive international coordination, and substantial assumption of risk by the general public and by investors.

The cost of decommissioning ageing UK nuclear plants has risen by £12bn to £73bn (R1.1 trillion) since 2005 according to the National Audit Office. But the government has warned that prospective bidders for any future nuclear power stations will be required to demonstrate detailed and costed plans for decommissioning, waste management and disposal.

More than 700 veterans who witnessed atomic explosions in the South Pacific in the 1950s have joined a compensation claim against the British Ministry of Defence. Many of the veterans, including the captain of the Navy warship, HMS Diana believe that the British government was deliberately testing the effects of radiation on the men as well as the ship. The ship was ordered to steam through the fallout from two atomic explosions.

"Nuclear energy officials appear to be taking the lead in the quest for storage of radioactive waste, as Nevada's Yucca Mountain looks less and less like a reality".