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
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andrei Ozharovsky

[ 12.03.2010 ]
Lithuania indignant over neighbouring Belarus’ nuclear project safety claims
VILNIUS, Lithuania – At a public hearing that took place in Vilnius on March 2 to discuss the potential environmental impact of the Ostrovets Nuclear Power Plant under planning in Belarus, participants voiced a strong opposition to the idea of having a new nuclear site just 50 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital. They followed with a request that the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment make an official notation of their disapproval of the experimental Russian project in the meeting’s record. Bellona’s regular contributor Andrei Ozharovsky reports from Vilnius.
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[ 10.03.2010 ]
Battle to revise Russia radioactive waste bill continues as enviro groups are shut out of the dialogue
NEW YORK – Powerful environmental groups in Russia have stepped forward to say they have been shut out of a process to revise a new bill on radioactive waste management in Russia, saying their suggestions to improve the bill have been ignored, representatives of Greenpece Russia and Ecodefence told Bellona Web Tuesday.
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[ 08.03.2010 ]
EU pushes worldwide binding standards on nuke plant builds while France leads way with possible Chernobyl II
NEW YORK – The head of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso began a European Union-wide push on Monday to enforce European nuclear safety standards on the building of atomic energy plants to become the binding worldwide standard, while French president Nicolas Sarkozy chastised international banks’ reluctance to invest in nuclear power.
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NEWS
[ 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.

[ 20.10.2009 ]
Russia shoots for slightly less ambitious claim on world nuke fuel market

Russian state-controlled nuclear fuel supplier TVEL plans to control 25 percent of the world's nuclear fuel market by 2030, the company's vice president, Pyotr Lavrenyuk, said on Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti Russian news agency.

[ 19.10.2009 ]
Czech reactors to switch to Russian fuel in 2010

Czech power group CEZ will immediately switch to nuclear fuel provided by Russia's TVEL for its Temelin power plant in 2010 instead of doing so in phases as previously planned, a CEZ spokeswoman told Reuters on Monday.

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BLOGS
Posted 03.05.2009 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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