Do you know many companies like the nuclear industry who have only one product in their catalogue? There was Ford and the Model T, but that was 100 years ago, and they at least knew how to build and sell...
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Mohamed ElBaradei tells Atomic Energy Agency he has hit âdead endâ with Iran âThe head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday that he had reached a âdead endâ in his investigation...
China, the world's largest producer and consumer of rice, has issued a biosafety certificate for a locally-developed strain of genetically-modified rice that would pave the for large-scale production in 2 to 3 years.
In 2003 radioactive contamination was found in towns close to Nigerâs uranium mines by the independent laboratory CRIIRAD and local NGO Aghir InâMan. In 2007 CRIIRAD found dangerous levels of radiation levels near the hospital in the mining village of...
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Accident casts fresh doubt on nuclear safety âOn Nov. 21, there was a radiation leak at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., less than 100 miles north of Baltimore up...
More Insight on Those Leaked Climate Change Emails - Boing Boing Basically, some of the CRU researchers didn't want to release the data to people who weren't trained scientists because they were tired of spending their time fighting with bloggers and wanted to focus on research Can Obama save Copenhagen global warming talks? - TwinCities.com "This could be one hell of a global game-changer with...
A report from the UK says change is taking place, but some green groups in the US are still hard over against it . In a news article datelined London, the Washington Post reports some green groups now see nuclear energy “as part of the answer” to the challenge of global warming. This is good news in the U.K. where the government has committed itself to build 12 GWe of new nuclear power...
Obama offers U.S. climate cut | Reuters Washington said it would promise in Copenhagen a cut in greenhouse gases of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, a cut of about 3 percent below the benchmark year used in U.N. treaties. ... Some green groups were disappointed that he would miss the climax when other leaders arrive. "The right city, the wrong date, it seems that he's just not taking this...
Two million square miles of permafrost—an area two-thirds the size of the United States has now thawed since the beginning of the 20th century. And all that thawing permafrost is costing the Russian oil and gas industry billions of dollars to repair damaged pipelines and infrastructure as global warming changes the face of western Siberia. The energy program head of Greenpeace in Russia, Vladimir...
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Cuts loom over UK's nuclear clean-up budget âThe Government is sharpening the axe for Britain's £4 billion nuclear clean-up budget and drawing up plans for big spending cuts at contaminated sites including Sellafield...
An absolute must-see "documentary, which contraditcs these claims [about Global Warming] and has been described by some as the most explosive film of the year and the definitive answer to Al Gore features interviews from some of the Worlds leading scientists, climatologists and former environmentalists" — The Great Global Warming Swindle . Among the interviewed: "Dr. John Christy,...
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: A Nuclear Reactor Shows Its Age âAlmost every plan for limiting carbon dioxide output includes keeping old nuclear plants running. But as those plants age, they turn up new problems. The latest is...
In the November 23, 2009 issue of the Washington Post, there is an article titled Nuclear Power Regains Support that describes how some established Environmental groups and individuals have decided that nuclear power can be part of a set of tools that will enable a transition away from fossil fuels. A major reason given for what many believe is a surprising shift in politics is a sense of urgency about...