Viewpoint -- Nuclear Investment Means More Jobs (Now) and Energy Security (Sooner) (Industry Week)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:22:11 GMT
Restarting the nuclear power industry could result in more than 70,000 new jobs.
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Efforts under way to end state ban on new nuclear power plants (The Pantagraph)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:01:46 GMT
SPRINGFIELD -- An effort to lift a more than 20-year ban onbuilding new nuclear power plants in Illinois got a boost in theGeneral Assembly Monday.
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'Energy bonanza' to power 750,000 homes (The Scotsman)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:24:29 GMT
SCOTLAND has taken a world-leading role in the emerging multi-billion-pound marine energy industry by approving ten projects with the potential to power almost a third of the
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Hall then and now: Former nuclear critic still an activist in changing times (Poughkeepsie Journal)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:11:29 GMT
Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, a pioneer of the 1970s anti-nuclear movement as a rock star, and harsh critic of the Indian Point nuclear power plant as congressman, has voted for legislation that includes $7.5 billion for clean energy — including nuclear power.
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Senate votes to lift ban on building new nuclear plants (Chicago Sun-Times)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:45:42 GMT
SPRINGFIELD—The Illinois Senate voted Monday to undo a 23-year-old ban on the construction of new nuclear plants in a move one anti-nuclear activist predicted could turn Illinois into a "radioactive waste repository."Sen. Mike Jacobs (D-East Moline) said the legislation, which passed 40-1 and now moves to the House, is necessary to position the state for billions of federal dollars from ...
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UAE Nuclear Industry Working Together to Meet Human Resource Needs (Zawya)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:40:42 GMT
Representatives of UAE nuclear industry share joint strategy to develop education and training platforms to sustain the UAE civil nuclear energy program for the future .
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Hendrik Hertzberg: Can nuclear power make a comeback? (The New Yorker)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:06:13 GMT
Once the unpleasantness at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had had a little time to recede, America discovered that “the atom” wasn’t all bad. The bomb, yes—it was terrifying, as terrifying as a hundred 9/11s. American children got the wits scared out of them at school . . .
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Scots gives go ahead to wave and tidal power (Channel 4)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:11:52 GMT
The dream of harnessing the power of the waves and the tides to generate electricity has passed a significant milestone, writes science correspondent Julian Rush.
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Nuclear liability Bill “strikes right balance” (The Hindu)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:54:56 GMT
NEW DELHI: The government on Monday maintained that the proposed Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 was the “best possible regime” for putting in place for the first time a legal framework to provide compensation in the event of an accident involving a nuclear installation.
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Shumlin critics accuse him of lying about nuclear plant (Bennington Banner)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:05:03 GMT
BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont Yankee supporters are up in arms over comments made by Senate President Pro Tem and Vermont gubernatorial candidate Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, on Fox Business News last week.
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