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.

ARTICLES
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[ 30.03.2010 ]
International fuel bank in Russia gets go-ahead from IAEA to industry cheers and environmental dismay
NEW YORK – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Russia signed off Monday to set up the world's first nuclear fuel reserve in Siberia Monday to ensure uninterrupted supplies to the world's nuclear power reactors.
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[ 27.03.2010 ]
Moscow and Washington reach new lows in new nuclear arms treaty
NEW YORK – President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reached final agreement Friday on a nuclear arms treaty that would cut the nuclear arsenals of the onetime rivals to the lowest levels since the 1960s, settling the deal during a morning phone call prior to meeting on April 8th in Prague to sign the pact.
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[ 25.03.2010 ]
Congress defends Yucca while Senators suggest White House roundtable with industry on nuclear prospects
NEW YORK – Groups of US representatives from both sides of the aisle in the House of representative have introduced a resolution of disapproval to stop the Administration of President Barack Obama from shutting down the nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain in order save crucial project data, Congressional aides told Bellona Web Thursday.
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NEWS
[ 23.11.2009 ]
Turkey kills bid it accepted for Russia to build nuclear power plant over price gouging

Turkey will put a project to build the country's first nuclear power plant up for bid again after it cancelled a bid it already accepted from Russia's Atomstroieksport, Power Engineering International reported.

[ 21.10.2009 ]
Russia shoots for slightly less ambitious claim on world nuke fuel market

Russian state-controlled nuclear fuel supplier TVEL plans to control 25 percent of the world's nuclear fuel market by 2030, the company's vice president, Pyotr Lavrenyuk, said on Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti Russian news agency.

[ 20.10.2009 ]
Czech reactors to switch to Russian fuel in 2010

Czech power group CEZ will immediately switch to nuclear fuel provided by Russia's TVEL for its Temelin power plant in 2010 instead of doing so in phases as previously planned, a CEZ spokeswoman told Reuters on Monday.

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BLOGS
Posted 04.05.2009 in Jonathan Temple's Blog by 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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