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French reactors leak again

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

France orders tests on all nuclear power stations after leak
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last updated: 8:18 PM BST 17/07/2008

Fears over France’s nuclear reactors have been raised as the government orders ground water tests at its 58 power stations, after a uranium leak at one polluted local water supplies.

The safety lapse at a plant in Provence run by French nuclear giant Areva has raised questions over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s drive to roll out reactors around the world – in Britain but also in states with less stringent safety norms.

“I don’t want people to feel that we…

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Tags: Radiation · Pollution · Nuclear Waste · Nuclear Energy

Nuclear power failure

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Gordon Brown says the UK is at the forefront of a global ‘nuclear renaissance’. But despite all the rhetoric, the real picture is grim

* John Sauven
* guardian.co.uk,
* Friday July 18, 2008

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Just this week Prime Minister Gordon Brown confidently assured us that the UK was at the forefront of a global “nuclear renaissance” and that within a few years we’d be home to at least eight bright, shining new reactors. We’re told a week is a long time in politics, but it must seem an absolute eternity to the ever more bedraggled British nuclear industry.

Yesterday…

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Tags: Nuclear Waste · Nuclear Energy

Britain’s nuclear clean-up increases by £10bn

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Bill for Britain’s nuclear clean-up increases by another £10bn
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

· A week after MPs criticise accounts, numbers go up
· Repairing broken reactors brings cost total to £83bn

# Terry Macalister
# The Guardian,
# Friday July 18, 2008

The credibility of the nuclear industry was shaken last night after the estimated cost of cleaning up Britain’s atomic waste was raised by a further £10bn.

The latest clean-up estimate from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) suggests the commonly accepted figure of £73bn should rise to £83bn. But the agency insisted that £10bn of income from generating and fuel reprocessing…

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Greenpeace Supports Historic Launch of CANE

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Greenpeace Supports Historic Launch

If the nuclear industry thinks they’re on the edge of a nuclear renaissance, they’ll have to think again − at least in South Africa.

This past weekend in Bloemfontein saw the successful launch of the Coalition Against Nuclear Energy (CANE), with representatives from all corners of the country, including: Namaqualand communities affected by nuclear waste at Vaalputs; neighbours of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; landowners around Pelindaba (site of the proposed pebble-bed fuel factory, nuclear enrichment plant, and nuclear waste smelter), and residents opposed to the proposed sites for a new nuclear power station at Bantamsklip and Thyspunt,…

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Tags: Press Releases · Eskom · NECSA - Nuclear Corporation of SA · PBMR - Pebble Bed · Nuclear Waste · Nuclear Energy

We do not need Nuclear Power.

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Bishop Tutu - We do not need Nuclear Power

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Tags: Radiation · Nuclear Waste · Nuclear Energy

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