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The European Union’s executive amended its controversial proposals for nuclear safety and waste management legislation on Wednesday, but a leading environmental group slammed the package as misleading and helpful to industry.
For 50 years, nuclear power has been a solution in search of a problem. Now – oh, happy days! – two of them have arrived at once. Suddenly, climate change exists: George Bush says so. After years of ridicule, the greens’ jeremiads about declining oil production are now spilling from other people’s mouths.
Rising energy prices could force Australia to re-visit the nuclear power debate, an energy expert believes.
Dozens of police officers on today raided the offices of Kansai Electric at the site of Japan’s worst nuclear plant accident as part of a criminal investigation into the tragedy that killed five people last month, an official said.
Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion—the supposed generation of thermonuclear energy using tabletop apparatus.
Nuclear power stations may be operating in New Zealand, a country known for its anti-nuke stance, as soon as 2015 if coal continues to be shunned as a fuel source.
Explosive growth has made the People’s Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on
earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.
If you’re worried about the nation’s energy future, you can take heart in the positions of both major parties’ presidential candidates. A tweak here, an incentive there, they contend, and everything will be fine.
Nuclear power is back on the march. Reviled and rejected for 25 years as man’s most dangerous and unsustainable fuel source, its friends are now billing nuclear power as the only practical way of countering climate change, oil shocks and landscape destruction in the west.
Amidst a prolonged stalemate over where to build the world’s largest nuclear fusion facility, the US is halting work on a homegrown fusion project. The decision caused concern among researchers at a fusion meeting earlier this week.
A multimillion-dollar effort to clean polluted water flowing underground from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to the Columbia River is largely ineffective, concludes a federal report released yesterday.
Cold fusion scientists have become members of a small, close-knit culture unto themselves. And every year, their results get stronger, the group says, results that cannot be explained away by error or any other reason other than a new nuclear process.
