China aiming to be world leader in renewable energy
China – A Powerhouse in Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy World, March 21, 2010, “China missed the first industrial revolution, missed the computer revolution, and the biology revolution – they want to be a leader in the green revolution.” And indeed, China is now the third largest producer in the wind power market and one of the fastest-growing in domestic wind installations. For the fourth consecutive year, China has more than doubled its wind installations.
And offshore wind, a technology with a great deal of sex appeal, is yet another story. China installed its first major offshore wind farm near Shanghai and is 9th in the world as far as total offshore capacity……..China is also the world leader in PV manufacturing and production –
Growing concern over safety of nuclear reactors
Nuclear “SpinCo”, t r u t h o u t , 18 March 2010 by: World Business Academy, Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin “…..About a quarter of all US nuclear power plants are leaking radioactive tritium, but the pro-industry Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) refuses to require Entergy and other nuclear plant owners to monitor their groundwater. Continue reading
US Calls on Russia to stop supplying Iran’s nuclear program
Clinton, Lavrov Clash Over Iran Nuclear Plant – Antiwar.com, 20 March 2010, Visiting Russia today with an eye toward negotiating a nuclear arms reduction treaty, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instead harangued Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over Iran’s civilian nuclear program.Secretary Clinton called on Russia’s government to stall the completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran until further notice. Russia is constructing the plant, and expects it to be completed this summer.
Clinton, Lavrov Clash Over Iran Nuclear Plant — News from Antiwar.com
Nuclear company creates a “spinoff” to avoid paying its debts
The New York Public Commission staff has concluded that Entergy’s proposed spinoff is not in the public interest, and that the new company will be too debt-burdened and financially unstable.
Nuclear “SpinCo”, t r u t h o u t , 18 March 2010 by: World Business Academy, Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin The nuclear industry, like Wall Street, knows how to make money with other people’s money: move liabilities off balance sheet, use lots of borrowed money and leverage, don’t worry about loading too much debt onto the company as long as insiders can walk away with plenty of money and look to the fool taxpayer to cover the losses. Continue reading
UK Conservatives nuclear power policy – impossible?
“Huge amounts of private sector investment will be needed to deliver this energy infrastructure.”
(UK) Tory energy policy given lukewarm response by energy analysts, Energy analysts have criticised Tory plans to effect the biggest shake-up of Britain’s energy policy in a generation as “verging on the impossible”. Telegraph, By Louise Armitstead , 19 Mar 2010 “……….. Continue reading
Colorado endangered by uranium mining’s radioactive wastes
(USA) Colorado lawmakers trying to tighten uranium cleanup rules, KDVR, By Associated Press, March 18, 2010, DENVER (AP) — State lawmakers are worried a new national focus on nuclear energy will allow uranium mines in Colorado to postpone cleanup of radioactive wastes. Continue reading
150 German towns unite against nuclear power
150 German towns want nuclear power ended, de.indymedia.org, Diet Simon, 17 March 2010Themen: Atom Weltweit ÖkologieLocal power utilities in Germany have formed an anti-nuclear power alliance saying that planned longer running times for nukes are endangering their plans to invest billions in climate-friendly green energies… Continue reading
Arms race danger as Iran develops nuclear power
Russia getting Iran’s nuclear power going
Iran nuclear plant launch set for summer, The Age, SERGEI VENYAVSKY, March 19, 2010 – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Iran’s Russian-built nuclear power plant will be launched in the northern summer, even as the US calls for Russia to delay the start-up.US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Moscow on an official trip, urged Russia not to launch the plant until Tehran proves it’s not developing atomic weapons.
Antinuclear campaign growing in India
Campaigners from around India have now joined the resistance movement set up by farmers and fishermen
India’s government withdraws nuclear power legislation – Nuclear Reaction 14 March, 2010, .”…….’Indian farmers battle against nuclear plant A robust people’s movement against a major nuclear power project has built up in a cluster of small villages on India’s picturesque Konkan coast. Continue reading
Obama’s nuclear promotion stalled in India
government is keen to pass the bill before the next meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to US President Barack Obama scheduled in April. According to government, there is need to pass this bill for completing the 123 civil nuclear pact with US as the private companies in the US are not willing to sell any nuclear equipment to India without such a law in place.
Govt. defers tabling of nuke liabilities bill in Lok Sabha, NEWSTRACK India, New Delhi, 15 March, 2010, Continue reading
New Research: Depleted Uranium Causes Cancer
This study shows that both types of uranium may carry a health risk because they both affect DNA in ways that can lead to cancer.
Depleted and enriched uranium affect DNA in different ways. Environmental Health News, 16 March, 20201, Continue reading
France’s nuclear industry – not safe, not clean
(This site contains an informative video on France’s radioactive pollution. In French and Italian)
The safe French nuclear is a Government joke. Try and put the words France “nuclear accidents” into Google. You get about 28,000 results. Nuclear accidents in France are no longer news.
(France and Italy) Nuclear dwarves, Beppe Grillo’s Blog 17 March 2010, “…….If the nuclear “picciotto” {rank and file mafioso} in Italy is Berlusconi, its instigator is Sarkozy. The greatest pusher of nuclear power stations in the world. And thus it is with joy that I read the news of the electoral collapse of the “Transalpine Carlànano”. One dwarf attracts another…. Sarkozy could lose in the whole of France at the second round…. Continue reading
Uranium prices too low to make production economical – AREVA
AREVA May Cut Uranium Production By Melissa Pistilli, Uranium Investing News, 15 March.2010, Depressing uranium prices have forced French uranium miner AREVA to plan a review of its projects, which may lead to a 20 per cent cut in its 2012 output target.
Last September, the company pegged its 2012 production number at 12,000 tonnes of U308, but now says uranium prices are too low to make production costs economical. Continue reading
Pro-nuclear report ignores waste, safety issues
PricewaterhouseCoopers avoid the details on nuclear power, 
Nuclear Reaction , 16 March 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers have released a report, Resurgence of nuclear power, …It paints an extraordinarily glowing picture of the upcoming nuclear ‘renaissance’.It doesn’t mention nuclear waste once.
The safety concerns around nuclear power have been ‘refuted’. Oh, really? The global movement against nuclear power refutes that refutation. Continue reading
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