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Fukushima-Style Nuclear Power Plant in Washington Is Seismic Timebomb
2014-05-05 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The landscape of eastern Washington State is deceptively tranquil: a pastiche of vineyards, farms, scrub grass, ridges and windmills. But what appears peaceful and settled in the moment has proven restive and violent over geologic time. Beneath the glacial trough of the Puget Lowland, and extending east through the Cascades to the Columbia Basin, lies a hidden landscape of geomorphic rubble--broken basalt, vast shards of continental rock, volcanic ash and layers of ancient sediment. Like a picnic...
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The NYT's Unintentional "Epitaph" for Nuclear Power
2014-05-05 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: In support of the dying nuclear power industry, the New York Times Editorial Board has penned an inadvertent epitaph. Appearing in the May 2 edition, The Right Lessons from Chernobyl twists and stumbles around the paper's own reporting. Though unintended, it finally delivers a "prudent' message of essential abandonment. The edit drew 288 entries into its comment section before it was capped. I've posted one of them at NukeFree.org. Overall they're widely varied and worth reading. Because...
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Advanced Nuclear Energy Research Transcends Political Climate
2014-05-04 15:06:37| Energy - Topix.net
Many in the global community may be wrestling with whether to continue their nuclear programs, including some policymakers in the United States.
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2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor proves that Mother Nature still has a few tricks up her sleeve
2014-05-01 16:42:47| Extremetech
There has only ever been one natural nuclear reactor found, but study of how it worked, and why, is still informing nuclear decision-making to this very day.
Making Sellafield safe: counting the cost of nuclear decommissioning
2014-05-01 09:30:00| Power Technology
A report from the UKs Public Accounts Committee claims that clean-up costs at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing field have risen by 2.5bn in the last year. Julian Turner analyses the complex decommissioning process and asks why the mammoth projec
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