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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[ 12.06.2009 ]
Worker’s washing up saves UK’s Sizewell A from having to air its dirty nuclear laundry
A nuclear leak over two years ago, which could have caused a major nuclear disaster in Britain, was averted only by a worker’s chance decision to wash some dirty clothes, according to a newly obtained official report released to British media under the Freedom of Information act.
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[ 10.06.2009 ]
Russia secures America’s Exelon as its fourth customer in growing number of commercial uranium deals
US utility Exelon Corp, which owns America’s largest fleet of nuclear reactors, signed a long-term uranium supply contract with Russian nuclear fuel exporter Tekhsnabexport (Tenex) Exelon said in a statement on Wednesday, making it the fourth American energy company to order nuclear fuel from Moscow under purely commercial circumstances.
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[ 09.06.2009 ]
Obama fully backs nuke fuel bank, Russia still a contender
US President Barack Obama has lifted all doubt that he plans to spear-head the creation of an international uranium fuel bank during speeches on a swing through the Middle East in an effort to limit individual nations’ ability to create nuclear weapons while at the same time obtain nuclear fuel for their atomic energy programmes.
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[ 12.06.2009 ]
Russian nuke plants complain of misinformation hoax to scare the public

Several Russian nuclear power plants claim they have been the target of a so-called information terror campaign spreading false information about an alleged nuclear accident, according to the country's nuclear powr plant operator, Energoatom.

[ 11.06.2009 ]
Putin moves toward Obama in notion to abandon nuclear weapons

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said his country could give up nuclear weapons if everyone else that had them did the same, world news agencies reported late Wednesday.

[ 10.06.2009 ]
AtomEnergoProekt snags Volgodonsk contract

Nizhniy Novgorod AtomEnergoProekt has won the tender as principal contractor for the construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant in Russia. The company has also completed assembling the initial reactor for Russia's first floating nuclear power plant.

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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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