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.

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[ 09.02.2010 ]
Government report indicates Norway wants to ship radioactive waste to Russiain 'unacceptable' move
Radioactive waste from Norway’s Halden and Kjeller research reactors could be sent to Russia, according to a report ordered by the Norwegian government’s Ministry of Trade and Industry in what Bellona is calling an “unacceptable” move.
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[ 08.02.2010 ]
Obama budget proposes federal funding infusion into US nuclear power
NEW YORK – The US nuclear industry got a big boost and big oil took a hit when US president Barack Obama submitted his federal budget proposal to Congress last week, making good on a promise to the nuclear industry in his State of the Union speech last month to include it in America’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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[ 04.02.2010 ]
Kola Nuclear Power Plant first hides, then downplays incident
An energy transformer exploded into bits and pieces at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant located on the Kola Peninsula, in Northwest Russia. The incident led to a 50% reduction of power output from two reactor units leaving onsite spent nuclear fuel storage without energy supply. The authorities at the plant neglected to report about the incident.
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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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