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7/3/08
Nuclear Carnival ?
Bloomberg.com:
Latin America: "July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil plans to set up partnerships with local and foreign companies to build nuclear power plants, Science and Technology Minister Sergio Rezende said."
3/31/08
World Nuclear Association Picture Library
Picture Gallery: "World Nuclear Association Picture Library"
3/19/08
Hanford nuclear tours fill up in one day
Travel | Hanford nuclear tours fill up in one day | Seattle Times Newspaper: "The highlight of the tour is an hour spent inside B Reactor, which produced plutonium for the first atomic explosion in the New Mexico desert and the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II."
All 2008 DOE Hanford Site Tours are currently full.
We're sorry but we are unable to maintain a waiting list.
Tour slots do come available from time to time so
please check back periodically.
3/9/08
U.S. nuclear experts help clear Olympic sites in top-secret Beijing visits
The Canadian Press: U.S. nuclear experts help clear Olympic sites in top-secret Beijing visits: "U.S. nuclear experts help clear Olympic sites in top-secret Beijing visits"
3/5/08
NIGER: Uranium - blessing or curse?
Reuters AlertNet - NIGER: Uranium - blessing or curse?: As the global demand for nuclear energy rises, analysts say the large amount of uranium in Niger is not a benefit to the country's people but adds to the serious problems facing the region."Originally published "DAKAR, 10 October 2007 (IRIN)
2/28/08
Will U.S. become world's nuclear-waste dump?
Will U.S. become world's nuclear-waste dump? | csmonitor.com: "The federal government is weighing a Utah company's request to import large amounts of low-level radioactive waste from Italy – a step critics say could lead the United States to become a nuclear garbage dump for the world."
France getting ready for a nuclear accident- part 1
France prépare with the conséquences of an accident of the Tchernobyl type on its ground the WORLD | 20.02.08 | 12h23 Put • à day 20.02.08 | 12h31 thirty years rès après the accident nucléaire of Three Mile Island (the United States, 1979), more than twenty après the explosion of the réactor nº4 of Tchernobyl (Ukraine, 1986), France faces a taboo. It outlines "doctrines" in order to préparer à gérer the conséquences of a catastrophe nucléaire on its ground. In the next days, the Prime Minister will be recipient of a letter of directing Comité for the management of the post-accidental phase of a situation urgently radiological (Codirpa) présentant éléments of réflexion likely to found these doctrines. This mail is the fruit of work carried out by Autorité of sÃ"reté nucléaire (ASN) in bond with services and agencies of the State, the opérateurs nucléaires and certain associative actors, à the continuation of a interministérielle directive of April 2005. It témoigne of a radical change in the façon whose autorités consider the aléa nucléaire. During décennies, they are montrées obsédées by the sÃ"reté, insistent on the mécanisms of défense and of the statistics reassuring, the accident having only one chance on a million to occur, ensured one fréquemment. They are placed désormais from the point of view où it would occur indeed, with environmental and medical conséquences of means and long term. "Until à présent, the texts géraient the emergency phase of an accident, until à the end of the radioactive rejections, which gives per annum place à ten exercises, témoigne Jean-Luc Lachaume, director général assistant of the ASN. The post-accidental one, it is to explore what occurs then: how to return à a livable situation, if as well is as it is it, in the zones touchées." To project itself in this situation, Codirpa has imaginé two scénarios †"rupture of tube of vapor générator, fusion partial of the cÅ"ur of the réactor †"including/understanding rejections respectively of an hour and a journée. Is it or not necessary to authorize the return of the populations in the territories contaminés, and so yes à which échéance? How to organize their medical follow-up, gérer déchets, to dimension the compensations? A mass of interrogations is née of these exercises spéculatifs, led in working groups spécialisés. In décembre 2007, a séminaire allowed synthétiser these contributions, and to measure the way which remains à to traverse. For example, "the méthodology remains à to définir on the évaluation of the amount reçue by the population, notes Mr. Lachaume. It is necessary to introduce a scientific débat, à cold, on this point controversé." Concrètement: décontaminer the houses with the jet, to prévenir the incrustation of the radionucléides, won't it induce pollution in the réseaux ones of water? In would the agricultural zones, be necessary to harvest to concentrate the radioactivité and of débarrasser, or to seek its dilution? In 2008, Codirpa will begin à to give instructions to the préfets, to organize new exercises of crisis to test the ébauche de"doctrine", to engage of the discussions with the mediums associative, éducatif, médical and médiatic. Isn't it inquiétant of être still in the medium of the gué? "One knows well gérer the première accidental phase, ensures Jean-Luc Lachaume. One would be able to réagir well in the event of longer crisis." "One can modéliser, to calculate; from all façon, nothing will occur like prévu ", estimates Monique Sené, of the Grouping of the scientists for information on the énergie nucléaire, which took share with work of Codirpa. The physician greets the effort of the State to fill her gaps, but estimates that one of the priorités consists à to associate the population. Fine expert of the situation in Ukraine and Biélorussie, touchées with the first chief by the radiological cloud of Tchernobyl, Jean-Claude Autret, of Association for the contrÃ' it of the radioactivité in the West, has to him also participé in Codirpa. "One works on accidents très minorés by report/ratio à Tchernobyl, reassuring for the autorités", regrets it, noting that the field of research is "énorme". He félicite however of the change of mentalité within the ASN, so much "he is hard of appréhender the sacrifice of a territory for several siècles, even of the millénaires". Hervé Morin
France getting ready for a nuclear accident- Chernobyl type....but small !part 2
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France getting ready for a nuclear accident- Chernobyl type....but small !
in french here - lots of great link on what's going on...
2/20/08
Award for beautiful waste facility...
Award for beautiful waste facility: "Award for beautiful waste facility
12 February 2008
The�artistic concept of the Habog facility has won operators Covra the PIME Award for communication in the nuclear industry. Its theme of gaining value from decay was developed by the artist William Verstraeten.
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2/13/08
UniStar Picks New York Site For Possible Nuclear Reactor
UniStar Picks New York Site For Possible Nuclear Reactor: "NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- UniStar Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between Constellation Energy Group (CEG) and French energy company EDF Group (EEN.FR), said Tuesday that it has chosen Constellation's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in New York as the site of a possible new nuclear reactor."
Picture: OSWEGO, NY
2/11/08
Back to the wolves watch for Green byte !-
BELARUS: February 5, 2008 REUTERS NEWS PICTURE SERVICE - Story by Vasily Fedosenko
Photo by VASILY FEDOSENKO
A wolf stands in a field in the 30 km (18 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin some 370 km (217 miles) southeast of Minsk.
Wildlife in the exclusion zone has been teeming despite radiation, since people left the area around Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear disaster, keepers of the ecological reserve said.
1/7/08
Israeli nuclear complex 'very pretty' inside
Israeli nuclear complex 'very pretty' inside[Associated Press, 2 January] The Israel Atomic Energy Commission has shown footage of the interior of the Dimona nuclear complex at a jobs fair at Ben Gurion University. Nili Lifshitz, a spokeswoman for the commission, said that while no sensitive material was shown, "we showed footage to show the place is very pretty inside and that regular people work there." She added, "This year a lot people are retiring at once and the demand for engineers and physics experts is very high and so we decided to shown the film to compete with other companies." The film included shots of the nuclear compound lit up at night, a production line for equipment used in nuclear medicine and a radiation detector. Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons - probably developed at the Dimona facility - although the country has neither confirmed nor denied it has them. The country does not have a civilian nuclear power program. Officially, the Dimona facility and a smaller reactor in Soreq are for research purposes.
12/7/07
11/29/07
British Energy eyes nuclear sites
BBC NEWS | Business | British Energy eyes nuclear sites
he firm said flood defence and coast protection could make nuclear power possible at all eight sites. The UK is to define its nuclear policy in 2008.
11/6/07
Wind farms in Vermont
Burlington Free Press.com | Top Stories
TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON, N.Y. — While Vermonters fight over proposals for a few wind farms, the largest concentration of wind turbines in the eastern United States has begun to rise just 60 miles from Burlington.
10/11/07
Nature lovers discover Chernobyl....
globeandmail.com: Nature lovers discover Chernobyl
Yes, nature lovers have discovered Chernobyl. The region near the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident is now dubbed the "Chernobyl Riviera" for its grand homes and commanding vistas.
9/12/07
6 nuclear warheads fly over U.S. ...
A B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states last week, prompting an Air Force investigation and the firing of one commander,
6 nuclear warheads fly over U.S. - Military Affairs - MSNBC.com http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/USNEWS/070905/AP_BOMBERWARHEADS.gif
8/31/07
Vermont Yankee spews 350,000 gallons...
The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Harvey Wasserman: "A cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant has collapsed. A broken 54' pipe there has spewed 350,000 gallons per minute of contaminated, overheated water into the Earth. 'The river water piping and the series of screens and supports failed,' said a company spokesman. They 'fell to the ground.' "
Read More......8/21/07
"Chornobyl Special" ---Grin it !
II.) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT TURNS CHORNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE - 48,870 HECTARES - INTO GAME RESERVE:
Interfax-Ukraine, August 13, 2007
The Chornobyl exclusion zone and zone of absolute resettlement (48,870 hectares - Interfax-Ukraine) have been declared a general zoological game reserve of national importance "Chornobyl Special".
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed the decree to this effect on August 13, the presidential press service has said.
The decree was signed to preserve the unique features of the forests in the exclusion zone within the Kiev Polisya region, Ukraine's largest reservation of wild life that needs protection and regulation of population of animals.
According to the decree, the Cabinet of Ministers should approve a regulation on the general zoological game reserve of national importance "Chornobyl Special" within three months.
Also, the cabinet was instructed to transfer the area under protection of the state department for administration of the exclusion zone and zone of absolute resettlement.
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