Boosting Business With Nuclear Power
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A report (PDF) prepared for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) by British nuclear proponent Professor John Gittus optimistically concluded that nucl
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Questioning the NY Times' Nuclear Option
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Spinning (and Unspinning) Nuclear Power Worldwide
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"The nuclear industry took steps ... to head off a growing public relations -- if not health -- problem, promising to closely monitor leaks of slightly radioactive groundwater at power plants," reports AP. "Water containing tritium has been released into groundwater at half a dozen plants over the past decade," including in Illinois, Arizona and New York.
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Go Nukes
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What brings together a former director of Greenpeace and the Republican ex-director of the Environmental Protection Agency? Answer: PR firm billings and promoting a new public radiance for the nuclear power industry.
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Learning from, and Spinning, the Chernobyl Disaster
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"Chernobyl has not taught anything to anyone," Viktor Bryukhanov, the former director of the infamous nuclear power plant, told a Russian magazine.
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New Pro-Nuke Front Group Hires Whitman, Moore
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Quid Pro Glow: UK Government Funds Nuclear Lobbying
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In Britain, "public money has been used to support a vigorous pro-nuclear campaign." The campaign, Nuklear21, includes "workers from the defunct Chapelcross nuclear plant in Dumfries and Galloway," who have been handing out leaflets at "Scottish party political conferences." The leaflets call nuclear power "atoms for peace" and claim that "nuclear will help save the planet." N
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The Nuclear 'Renaissance' Will Be Advertised
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A New Nuke Sell: Reprocessing
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As "part of an effort to jump-start the nuclear-power industry," the Bush administration is proposing "a $250 million initiative to reprocess spent nuclear fuel." The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership proposal would allow General Electric and other U.S. companies to sell developing countries "reactors and nuclear fuel on the condition that the U.S.
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Nuclear Company Underwrites Parliamentary Committee
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's bid to pave the way for an expansion of the nuclear power industry through the 2006 Energy Review and its consultation document, Our Energy Challenge, has been hit by controversy over undisclosed corporate lobbying.
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