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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[ 14.05.2008 ]
Bush submits US-Russian civilian nuclear pact to Congress – Congress unimpressed
Despite warnings from lawmakers that the United States’ recently signed civilian nuclear pact with Russia will face stiff opposition at their hands, President George Bush nonetheless submitted the deal Tuesday for Congressional review.
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[ 13.05.2008 ]
Atomstroiexport prez appointed Energy Minister by PM Putin, showing Russia means nuclear business
Former President Vladimir Putin In one of his first acts as Russia’s new prime minister – a job that he is expected to turn into the country’s true seat of power - appointed as his new energy minister Sergei Shmatko, head of the state run worldwide nuclear reactor building firm Atomstroiexport.
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[ 12.05.2008 ]
Putin’s swan song before leaving office: turning Russia into a nuclear outhouse
MOSCOW - In the hours preceding what was hailed as yet another “democratic transfer of power” by the western media, as Vladimir Putin handed the reins of power to his hand picked successor Dmitry Medvedev, an agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation was signed in the shadow of the pomp of the new president’s inauguration and the nuclear missiles to be comically and anachronistically paraded across Red Square on Victory Day.
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[ 02.05.2008 ]
Contractor slapped on wrist for bilking millions out of Ozersk with phony building permits

MOSCOW - The court of the closed nuclear city of Ozersk issued a guilty verdict against a contractor used phony building contracts to completed several projects for the city - and was sentenced to pay less than one percent of the amount he bilked out of the city’s coffers as punishment.

[ 24.04.2008 ]
Russia’s state nuclear power plant operator hit with mutli-million dollar back tax claim

MOSCOW - Russia's state-controlled nuclear operator Rosenergoatom was hit with a back tax claim for 1.7 billion rubles ($70 million), the Russian business daily Kommersant reported this week.

[ 19.03.2008 ]
IAEA wraps up 10-day nuclear emergency response test in NW Russia

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducted a review of Russia's emergency response plan for a radiation incident in a region that is home to aging nuclear submarines, United Press International reported.

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