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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[ 06.05.2013 ]
Thuggish arrests of activists and journalists mar Chernobyl anniversary march in Minsk, Belarus
MINSK – Still bent on plowing ahead with the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, Minsk remains intolerant of any opposition to the project – even on the day commemorating the Chernobyl disaster, when protesters taking part in a sanctioned rally against the construction ran into often violent scrapes with government security services and blockades and detentions of environmentalists and reporters.
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[ 03.05.2013 ]
The enduring glow of a radiation disaster: Villagers near Russia’s Mayak still struggle to survive on contaminated lands
ST. PETERSBURG – A rural gathering that recently brought together residents of the villages of Muslyumovo, Brodokalmak, Russkaya Techa, and Nizhne-Petropavlovskoye, all located in the vicinity of the notorious nuclear reprocessing facility Mayak, in Chelyabinsk Region, resulted in a list of demands that the 120 participants feel must be heard by federal and regional authorities – grievances that have been barely addressed in the fifty years of local inhabitants’ desperate plight in what is deemed the most contaminated place on the planet.
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[ 30.04.2013 ]
Andreyeva Bay and Lepse nuclear service ship remain major nuclear dangers to Northwest Russia
MOSCOW – The two most dangerous nuclear and radiation hazard elimination projects in Northwest Russia – the dismantlement of the Lepse nuclear waste storage ship, and remediation of the former nuclear submarine spent fuel depository Andreyeva Bay – have stalled on the shoals of financial, logistical and safety concerns.
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[ 30.05.2012 ]
Bellona-konferanse om Sellafield

Torsdag 31. mai og fredag 1. juni arrangerer Bellona konferanse om Sellafield sammen med eierne av atomanlegget (Sellafield Ltd) og den norske organisasjonen Lofoten mot Sellafield. Blant temaene på konferansen er resultatene av stress-testen av Sellafield i etterkant av Fukushima-ulykken, status for tømningen av de 21 gamle tankene med flytende høyaktivt radioaktivt avfall og sikkerhetskulturen ved Sellafield.

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[ 20.10.2011 ]
Baltiysky Zavod drops appeal against impounding world’s first floating nuclear power plant

The Russian Legal Information Agency has reported that the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard has dropped its appeal against a court decision to impound the world's first floating nuclear power plant, which it is helping to build, World Nuclear News reported.

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[ 25.01.2011 ] Ny rapport slår fast alvorlig miljøtrussel:
Syv ganger verre enn Tsjernobyl

Ifølge estimater fra Statens strålevern vil en eventuell ulykke ved Sellafield ha syv ganger så store miljøkonsekvenser for Norge som Tsjernobyl-ulykken hadde. – Erik Solheim har til nå ikke gjort jobben sin i denne saken, sier Bellonas Nils Bøhmer.

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BLOGS
Postet 04.05.2009 i Jonathan Temple's Blog av 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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