February 2010
40 posts
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
nonprofitblogs: © Greenpeace / Basil Tsimoyianis In an historic decision, and after the tireless campaigning by local residents, Greenpeace and other pro-environment groups, the Vermont State Senate…
Feb 25th
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
nonprofitblogs: Today’s big stories from the nuclear industry: NRC investigates Calvert Cliffs’ unscheduled shutdown ‘Federal inspectors are at Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant this week to…
Feb 25th
Across the Border(s): Nukes in your backyard →
How would you feel if you had a nuclear power plant in your back yard? “No way!” is what I imagine most of you would say. But then, I bet most of you are thinking about the huge nuclear power plants that have those 170 foot tall cooling towers. What if though, you could have nuclear power without…
Feb 25th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
CDU will Energiekonzerne zur Kasse bitten →
Längere Laufzeiten für Atomkraftwerke bedeuten mehr Geld für die Betreiber - und das soll nach dem Willen der CDU auch für die Beseitigung der strahlenden Hinterlassenschaften verwendet werden. Doch Umweltminister Röttgen bezweifelt, dass die Konzerne überhaupt zahlen müssen.
Feb 22nd
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
youandusandme: President Barack Obama is to signal a major step-change in the global nuclear industry this week when he announces loan guarantees for two nuclear reactors to be built in the US. Two? Only…
Feb 21st
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
youandusandme: Today’s big stories from the nuclear industry: The impacts of uranium mining on indigenous communities. ‘The climate change debate positions nuclear power as a partial solution to…
Feb 21st
WatchWatch
pied-a-terre: Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. [via worldchanging]
Feb 19th
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Oil nay, nuclear yea, but not in Yucca  →
Feb 18th
New US reactors still awaiting safety approval →
Feb 18th
Obama sblocca fondi per due centrali nucleari dopo... →
Ma “sblocca” in che senso? Da quando in qua avanzano soldi in US?
Feb 17th
Time to Ban Production of Nuclear Weapons Material →
Feb 17th
Can Fresh Funds Jump-Start a U.S. Nuclear... →
Feb 17th
Feb 17th
Feb 17th
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
nonprofitblogs: Today’s big stories from the nuclear industry: The impacts of uranium mining on indigenous communities. ‘The climate change debate positions nuclear power as a partial solution to…
Feb 16th
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
nonprofitblogs: President Barack Obama is to signal a major step-change in the global nuclear industry this week when he announces loan guarantees for two nuclear reactors to be built in the US. Two? Only…
Feb 16th
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Next in Line for a Bailout: The Nuclear Industry? →
age-of-ecology: The Obama Administration has been pretty upfront about its support for an energy policy that promotes both clean energy technologies and renewed investment in old technologies such as nuclear, coal and offshore drilling. “I think that on energy there should be a bipartisan agreement that we have to take a both/and approach rather than an either/or approach,” the President...
Feb 16th
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Going nuclear (in UK) →
(back in 2007)
Feb 13th
Nucleare? Non nel mio mandato - La corsa... →
Feb 13th
Europeans demand abolition of Euratom Treaty  →
(from 2007)
Feb 12th
CND Questions & Answers: Nuclear Power →
Feb 12th
Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear... →
Civil liability? Cominciamo bene… cioè se la società responsabile fallisce, tanti saluti? Qui i chiarimenti su Encyclopedia of Earth. Ecco invece come la cosa viene presentata altrove: Liability of the operator is limited in amount. Under the Vienna Convention the upper ceiling is not fixed**; but it may be limited by legislation in each State. ** The Paris Convention set a maximum...
Feb 12th
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Regulators call for redesign of France’s latest... →
British nuclear safety regulator HSE, French regulator ASN and Finnish regulator STUK have asked for amendments to the reactors’ design, which could incur expensive delays in completing the first two EPRs that Areva is building in France and in Finland. “Independence is important because, if a safety system provides protection against the failure of a control system, then they should not fail...
Feb 12th
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Fusion for energy →
The European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy or ‘Fusion for Energy’ is a type of European organisation known as a Joint Undertaking created under the Euratom Treaty by a decision of the Council of the European Union.
Feb 12th
UN agencies mark Chernobyl anniversary with launch... →
Feb 12th
I burattinai dell'atomo →
E poi, ai primi di novembre, il comunicato congiunto - mai accaduto nella storia del nucleare - delle tre agenzie di sicurezza nucleare, quelle finlandese, inglese e pure la francese, per chiedere adeguamenti per il software per l’emergenza dell’Epr, allo stato attuale inaccettabile.
Feb 12th
Nucleare: ambientalisti spaccati sull’ipotesi... →
Feb 12th
Nucleare, centrale chiusa per due giorni in Spagna... →
Feb 12th
Cosa dice Zaia del nucleare?
Formigoni, Zaia e Palese: “Nucleare sì ma da noi no” Nucleare, Calderoli smentisce Zaia Nucleare, Zaia: “Mai in Veneto, la Regione ha già dato” Ministro Zaia: “Nucleare in Veneto? Meglio Green Economy” Nucleare: Della Vedova, Da Zaia colpo a strategia governo, serve responsabilità nazionale Nucleare: Brunetta Con Zaia, No In Veneto Perche’ Ha Gia’ Dato (probabilmente le “scelte...
Feb 12th
Polverini e Alemanno: in Lazio niente nucleare →
E qui anche la nota relativa sul sito della Polverini. Polverini: nel Lazio niente centrali nucleari. Bonelli: la marcia indietro è una balla atomica “Ormai si e’ superato il limite della decenza: alcuni giorni fa la stessa Polverini commentava come legittimo e giusto l’intervento del governo contro le leggi regionali di Puglia, Basilicata e Campania che dicevano ‘No’ alle centrali sul proprio...
Feb 12th
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear... →
nonprofitblogs: A report in Canada’s Toronto Star yesterday states that the four aging nuclear reactors at the Pickering B Nuclear Generating Station on the shores of Lake Ontario (arguably Canada’s most…
Feb 10th
Nucleare, ok dal Consiglio dei ministri →
(Corriere della Sera)
Feb 10th
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Feb 7th
Dimentico sempre...
…che alla Francia non dovremo pagare solo l’uranio (che noi non produciamo, ma dei cui giacimenti la Francia possiede una parte sostanziosa), ma anche i tecnici, la consulenza e soprattutto la licenza per i brevetti EPR! (Questi purtroppo non sono tutti i costi, diciamo che ad esempio quello di smantellamento almeno non dovrebbe andare direttamente in tasche francesi.)
Feb 7th
Fusione, il nucleare senza scorie. La ricerca... →
Comunicato stampa ENEA del 24 settembre 2009. Sempre che non siano stati tagliati pure questi fondi…
Feb 7th
Intrigo atomico →
(via Qualenergia)
Feb 7th
La 'ndrangheta sui rifiuti delle centrali... →
(via Qualenergia)
Feb 7th
Il Governo impugna le leggi regionali che bloccano... →
Feb 4th