Nuclear energy

Nils Bøhmer

As the world debates the best way to preserve clean water and air, green house gas free skies, emissions free factories and alternative methods of transport as ways to fight climate change, the worldwide nuclear industry steps forth and offers itself as a possible solution. Nuclear energy is free of CO2 and other harmful green house gasses and can run for years on comparatively small amounts of fuel. But therein lies the rub: This nuclear fuel and radioactive will remain deadly for centuries and generations to come and not one country in the world has deployed a safe method for storing it. This section will focus on nuclear energy as a viable source for powering the future.

ARTICLES
[ 02.09.2010 ]
Radwaste processing plant at Russian military shipyard catches fire
A fire broke out at the radioactive sorting plant at Polyarny shipyard on the Kola Peninsula on the morning of August 27th. The fire was extinguished several hours later. Reports indicate a rise in the background radiation on the plant’s premises and Russian are officials keeping a tight lid on information.
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[ 31.08.2010 ]
International protestors blockade Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP for 10 hours
OLKILUOTO, Finland – The main road leading to Finland’s Olkiluoto Nuclear power plant was blocked off for nearly 10 hours by anti-nuclear demonstrators from all over Europe – including from Russia and Belarus – before police forcefully disbanded them toward Saturday evening, demonstrators said.
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[ 30.08.2010 ]
Comment: Putin and ecology
MOSCOW – On August 27, as the bitter controversy surrounding the clear-cutting of Moscow’s Khimki forest – the felling was started to make room for a new Moscow-St. Petersburg motorway – and environmentalists fighting to protect it had reached it peak, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepping in with an order to suspend the felling for “further analysis,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed in with a comment of his own. Bellona’s regular contributor Vladimir Slivyak offers a short review of the situation – and Putin's true ecological credentials.
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NEWS
[ 15.04.2010 ]
No nuclear energy revival in the EU

BRUSSEL – A hearing on the risk of a nuclear renaissance in the EU was held at the European Parliament on April 7th. It discussed three projects for new units at existing nuclear power plants that are under planning or construction in Europe. While one project was withdrawn, one was caught in legal entanglements and a third was facing massive cost overruns and delays.

[ 12.04.2010 ]
Russian and Norway to sign and present joint audit of nuclear safety programmes

Russian Accounts Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin and his Norwegian counterpart Auditor General Jørgen Kosmo will together sign a memorandum with analysis and conclusions on Norway-sponsored nuclear safety projects in the Russian Northwest, the Barents Observer reported.

[ 23.11.2009 ]
Turkey kills bid it accepted for Russia to build nuclear power plant over price gouging

Turkey will put a project to build the country's first nuclear power plant up for bid again after it cancelled a bid it already accepted from Russia's Atomstroieksport, Power Engineering International reported.

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BLOGS
Posted 04.05.2009 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by Jonathan Temple

WASHINGTON VIEW: World economies ask more for US emissions cuts while political landscape in DC shifts

WASHINGTON – The world’s major economies wrapped up a climate change discussion that fell slightly short of expectations with President Barack Obama, while committees in the House of Representatives continue to debate climate change legislation.

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