With nukes, attitudes change, but safety questions remain
Despite safeguards, waste and security are concerns for watchdogs MarketWatch gives new nuclear a mixed review. While plant officials at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Center are going forward with...
View ArticleDiplomats haggle into final hours of nuke session
Associated Press reports diplomats haggling to the bitter end of the NPT Conference. This conference, and the earlier START Treaty, have been good first steps in what looks to be a slow, painful, crawl...
View ArticleU.N. Nuke Meet Ends with Good Intentions and Empty Promises
Non-Proliferation Review Conference ends with a fizzle and one striking positive note- the call for a 2012 Conference on a nuclear-free Middle East and the goal of appointing a facilitator. "The road...
View ArticleCan We Live With the Bomb?
Lawrence S. Wittner | History News Network "...while nuclear weapons exist, we are living on the brink of an unprecedented catastrophe. Thus, if we are wise, we should draw back from the brink and...
View ArticleIndia to seek uranium import from Australia: Sushilkumar Shinde
India's Clean Energy Program is has strong dependence on nuclear power, therefore it is not producing clean energy. As activists and unions in Australia fight to end deadly uranium mining, it is...
View ArticleNuclear Proliferation: a civilian and a Military Dilemma
Heinrich Boll Stiftung l Green European Foundation TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface: Nuclear Energy – a Dead End 3 Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy – Siamese Twins or Double Zero Solution? 5 By Otfried...
View ArticleLaser Advances in Nuclear Fuel Stir Terror Fear
Laser enrichment would remove any pretense that the production of nuclear fuel is not linked to proliferation. The enrichment of conventionally produced nuclear fuel is dangerous enough. Laser...
View ArticleBelarus halts uranium repatriation to Russia over western sanctions for human...
Belarus plunges ahead with plans for new nuclear despite objections from world leaders and its own citizens. Compounding concerns, Belarus has now decided not to return its highly enriched uranium, a...
View ArticleU.S. unable to account for 16,000 kilograms of exported enriched uranium
A timely reminder following the annoucement that Silex will push to pursue laser enrichment, something that would make controlling proliferation almost impossible. As it turns out, the US doesn't even...
View ArticleControversial nuclear technology alarms watchdogs
SILEX, or laser enrichment, is a direct conduit to proliferation and must not be allowed. The idea that it will save money at the cost of even greater nuclear insecurity than exists already; and that...
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