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Nuclear
Power
As
the prices for fuel oil and natural gas rise, and concerns about
global warming take hold, supporters of nuclear power are taking
the political opportunity to push for licensing of more power
plants, and the implementation of new, and largely unproven reactor
technologies. State
legislatures, Utah’s among them, are considering legislation
to encourage the development of nuclear power plants.
More nuclear power plants only increase the
size of the waste problem, the risks to the environment and
human population, and the threat of nuclear proliferation. Plants
continue to experience safety violations and missing spent fuel,
and the owners of aging plants are succeeding in getting 20
year license renewals. On this page we will focus on the licensing
and safety issues of nuclear power plants, and present studies
and news articles that suggest alternatives.
Latest
nuclear power news
Special
Reports
Power
Plant Media Articles
- February
2006
- 2-14-06
Dominion Should Submit More Information About Proposed Reactors
WAVY, VA
- 2-14-06
FPL and Constellation May Combine Nuclear Units During Planned
Merger South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL
- 2-14-06
MidAmerican Holdings Company Acquisition of Pacificorp Approved
in Idaho PRNewswire, US
- 2-14-06
Low Radiation Levels Found at Yankee Plant Middletown Press,
CT
- 2-13-06
Electric Bills Could Rise if Plant Closes Asbury Park Press,
NJ
- 2-13-06
Corrosion Test Sought for Radiation Barrier Asbury Park
Press, NJ
- 2-13-06
Nuclear Energy is Safe and Clean Deseret News, UT
- 2-12-06
Nuclear Moves to Front Burner San Francisco Chronicle, CA
- 2-12-06
Nuclear Industry Plans Ad Push for Plants Wall Street Journal,
NY
- 2-12-06
Nuclear Reactor Sunday Herald, Scotland
- 2-12-06
Nuclear Fear Ad Criticized Boston Globe, MA
- 2-12-06
Palo Verde's Costly Slump Arizona Republic, AZ
- 2-12-06
Oyster Creek Manager Lost Job After Positive Test for Cocaine
Asbury Park Press, NJ
- 2-12-06
Near-Miss Prompts Safety Wake-Up Call Asbury Park Press,
NJ
- 2-11-06
NPPD Head Steps Down Lincoln Journal Star, NE
- 2-11-06
Federal Regulators Ask Dominion For More Details About Potential
Reactors Daily Press, VA
- 2-11-06
Oyster Creek: Vessel Won't Collapse Asbury Park Press, NJ
- 2-9-06
Area Lawmakers Seek a Say on VY License Extension Brattleboro
reformer, VT
- 2-8-06
NRC Budget Boosted to Cover New Licence Applications Nuclear
Engineering International, UK
- 2-8-06
NRC Requests Grid Reliability Data Nuclear Engineering International,
UK
- 2-8-06
NRC Clears Duke Energy, Cinergy Deal MSN, US
- 2-8-06
UT Regents to Consider Reactor Teaming Agreement Midland
Reporter-Telegram, TX
- 2-8-06
AREVA Steps Closer to Reactor Approval Lynchburg News and
Advance, VA
- 2-8-06
Too Little is Known About Firms With Nuclear Ties, Critics Say
Globe and Mail, UK
- 2-8-06
Residents to Probe Tritium Spill Chicago Tribune, IL
- 2-7-06
NRC Meets With Duke Energy About S.C. Nuclear Plant WWAY,
SC
- 2-7-06
Oyster Creek Restarts After Pump Repairs Press of Atlantic
City, NJ
- 2-7-06
Xcel Reactor Shut Down Pioneer Press, WI
- 2-7-06
Noel Is Wrong About Nuclear Energy Deseret News, UT
- 2-6-06
Pro-Nuclear Campaign Coming Wisconsin State Journal, WI
- 2-6-06
Bush and Russia Wish to Join Forces in Making Nuclear Fuel
Bellona, UK
- 2-6-06
Environmental Group Lobbies Orangetown Board on I.P. The
News Journal, NY
- 2-6-06
Better Choices Than Nuclear Power Jackson Clarion-Ledger,
MS
- 2-6-06
Energy Dilemma for Belarus Eurasia Daily Monitor, D.C.
- 2-6-06
Oyster Creek Plant Restarts Asbury Park Press, NJ
- 2-5-06
The Case for Nuclear Power San Francisco Chronicle, CA
- 2-4-06
Legislators Seek to End Nuclear Moratorium Manitowoc Herald
Times, WI
- 2-4-06
The Plutonium Question Chicago Tribune Chicago, IL
- 2-4-06
NRC to Meet with Duke Energy about S.C. Nuclear Plant WIS
10, SC
- 2-3-06
Will Vermont Yankee Get a 20-Year Lease on Life? Vermont
Guardian, VT
- 2-3-06
Bush's Budget to Call for a Nuclear Partnership with Russia
New York Times, NY
- 2-3-06
Train Derailed: Freight Line Was Slated to Carry Nuclear Waste
This is Hertfordshire, UK
- 2-3-06
Tainted Water in Will Preserve Chicago Tribune, IL
- 2-3-06
Duke Called to Nuclear Meeting Charlotte.com, NC
- 2-3-06
Utah, Wyo, Clear Pacificorp Acquisition BusinessWeek Online,
IA
- 2-2-06
It's Capitalism or a Habitable Planet - You Can't Have Both
Guradian, UK
- 2-2-06
3rd Man Arraigned Over Besse Woes Toledo Blade, OH
- 2-2-06
Duke Energy, Cinergy Shareholders to Vote on Merger March 10
Myrtle Beach News, SC
- 2-2-06
NRC Issues Final Order Requiring Backup Power for IP Sirens
Mid Hudson News, NY
- 2-2-06
Nuclear Industry Finds Interest Renewable Chicago Tribune,
IL
- 2-1-06
Waste Storage Meetings Convene Thursday Monticello Times,
MN
- 2-1-06
Utah House Urges Study of N-Power Deseret News, UT
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- January
2006
- 1-31-06
Nuclear Information and Resource Service Press Release NIRS
- 1-31-06
Groups Push For Safest VY Storage Casks Brattleboro Reformer,VT
- 1-30-06
Georgia Power Picks Westinghouse Reactor Tribune Review,
PA
- 1-30-06
Feds Push for Reuse Of N-Waste Salt Lake Tribune, UT
- 1-30-06
A Plan For Nuclear Waste Washington Post, D.C.
- 1-28-06
2 Ex-Workers Deny Guilt In Cover-Up at David Besse Toledo
Blade, OH
- 1-28-06
MidAmerican Gets OK to Purchase PacifiCorp Deseret News,
UT
- 1-28-06
Nuclear Power Plant Shutting Down To Check Malfunction Newsday,
NY
- 1-28-06
NRC Task Force To Look At U.S. Nuclear Plant Leaks The Day,
CT
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- 1-28-06
Welch Wants Legislature To Weigh In On Yankee Relicensing
Brattleboro Reformer, VT
- 1-27-06
Xcel Seeks More Waste Storage St. Paul Pioneer Press, MN
- 1-27-06
State Report: Yankee Plan Could Violate Radiation Rule Rutland
Herald, VT
- 1-27-06
Law Drafted to Regulate Energy Sector China Daily, China
- 1-27-06
Utilities Eye Westinghouse Technology for Possible New Nuke
Units Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA
- 1-27-06
Oyster Creek Operates at 53% Capacity Asbury Park Press,
NJ
- 1-26-06
Coalition Seeks Government Action to Prevent Further Ground
Water Contamination Yubanet, CA
- 1-26-06
No 'early nuclear waste solution' The Scotsman, Scotland
- 1-26-06
Plymouth Seeks $2m a Year for Pilgrim's Nuclear Waste Boston
Globe, MA
- 1-26-06
Nuclear Waste Experts Quell Hopes Of Nuclear Revival By Friends
Of The Earth Nieuwsbank, Netherlands
- 1-25-06
Opinion: Anyone Listening? MPG Newspapers, MA
- 1-25-06
IP Foes Call For More Security Mid-Hudson News, NY
- 1-25-06
Nuclear Plant Plan to Draw Opposition The Herald-Sun, NC
- 1-25-06
Radioactive Leak Taints Water in Will Chicago Tribune, IL
- 1-25-06
Battle Over VY Uprate Isn't Over Brattleboro Reformer, VT
- 1-25-06
Federal Atomic Safety Board to Hold Hearings in Hawai'i
Earthjustice Press Release, US
- 1-24-06
Nuke Waste Panel Wants Delay on New Plants Washington Times,
D.C.
- 1-24-06
U.S. Nuclear Plant Proposed, Battle Looms MSNBC, US
- 1-24-06
Belarus Enlarges Financing of Chernobyl Cleanup Program
ITAR-TASS, Russia
- 1-24-06
Casella Waste is Safe Metro West Daily News, MA
- 1-24-06
Tackle Nuclear Waste Disposal First, Warn Advisors Independent,
UK
- 1-24-06
The Power Struggle Daily Record, Scotland
- 1-24-06
Belarus May Start Building Nuclear Power Plant in 2008 China
View, China
- 1-24-06
Westinghouse Bids Reflect Revival in Demand for Nuclear Energy
Bloomberg, US
- 1-24-06
Safety of the Nuclear Facilities of Iran: a 'Forgotten Dimension'
Persian Journal, Iran
- 1-23-06
Worker Falsified Safety Records York Daily Record, GA
- 1-23-06
FirstEnergy Admits to Nuclear Power Plant Cover-up Reuters,
NY
- 1-23-06
Triangle Area May Get Second Nuclear Reactor Herald-Sun,
NC
- 1-23-06
No Obstacles to Atomic Option, Says 'nuclear neutral' Energy
Minister Guardian, UK
- 1-23-06
EdF Down on Fears of Nuclear Waste Provisions Dow Jones
Newswires, NY
- 1-23-06
Progress Energy Picks Possible Site for Reactors Charlotte
Business Journal, NC
- 1-23-06
Could Nuclear Plants Withstand an Attack? Baltimore Sun,
MD
- 1-22-06
Exelon to Test Braceville Drinking Water Herald News, IL
- 1-22-06
Fossil Fuel Crisis Drives European Countries to Nuclear, Green
Energy Gulf Times, Qatar
- 1-22-06
Lawmaker to Appeal for Nuclear Plant Fayetteville Online,
NC
- 1-21-06
Uranium Interest Worries Utah Residents WebIndia, India
- 1-21-06
Unit 1 Sets Record for Continuous Operation Morris Daily
Herald, NY
- 1-21-06
Russia Proposes Ukrainian-Russian Atomic Cooperation Bahrain
News Agency, Bahrain
- 1-20-06
FirstEnergy Unit to Pay $28 Mln Penalty to DOJ Reuters,
NY
- 1-20-06
Nuclear Waste Haul Road Opens Knoxville News Sentinel, TN
- 1-19-06
MPUC Approves DAEC Sale Transaction PRNewswire, NY
- 1-19-06
Taking the Wind out of Nuclear Power Pacific Ecologist,
US
- 1-19-06
Tax the Rods? MPG Newspapers, MA
- 1-19-06
Removal of Radioactive Waste Raising Concern The Herald,
SC
- 1-18-06
Seal Leaks Force Shutdown of Browns Ferry Reactor Huntsville
Times, AL
- 1-18-06
Palo Verde Unit 1 Shut Down for Repairs Business Journal
of Phoenix, AZ
- 1-17-06
Nuclear Waste Hurts Local Economy North County Times, CA
- 1-17-06
Race on to Build New Wave of Nuclear Plants Jackson Clarion-Ledger,
MS
- 1-17-06
UCI Nuclear Reactor Stirs Up Controversy Again New University,
CA
- 1-17-06
British Swing Back to Nuclear Power Times Online, UK
- 1-16-06
Davis-Besse Court Cases Could Loom Over Big Step Toledo
Blade, OH
- 1-15-06
Fiasco of Secret Nuclear Waste Tips Herald, Scotland
- 1-15-06
What About Reprocessing? Raleigh News and Observer, NC
- 1-15-06
N-Plant Plans Revive Spent Fuel Concern Raleigh News and
Observer, NC
- 1-15-06
Critics Want a Voice, and More Cash From Pilgrim Boston
Globe, MA
- 1-14-06
Fuel for Thought: Nuke Debate Heats Up Sidney Morning Herald,
Australia
- 1-14-06
Ukraine Must Produce Nuclear Fuel: Yushchenko Ireland Online,
Ireland
- 1-14-06
Greenpeace Video of 'terror attack' is Condemned Independent
Online, UK
- 1-14-06
New PSC Chairman Pledges Changes Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
GA
- 1-13-06
'Smart' Use of Nuclear Waste Pahrump Valley Times, NV
- 1-13-06
Nuclear Waste Dump Plans are Refused News and Star, UK
- 1-13-06
Davis Besse Federal Regulations Ease WTVG, OH
- 1-13-06
Opinion: Drilling Deeper MPG Newspapers, MA
- 1-13-06
More Output if OK'd for Vt. Nuclear Plant Boston Globe,
MA
- 1-13-06
Ukraine Looks to Nuclear After Gas Row With Russia Reuters,
UK
- 1-13-06
Belarus Approves 2006-2010 State Program on Mitigating Chernobyl
Consequences Belarus National Web Site, Belarus
- 1-12-06
Radioactive Waste Recycling Criticized Las Vegas Review-Journal,
NV
- 1-12-06
Power Plant Says Samples Contain Low-Level Radiation Middletown
Press, CT
- 1-12-06
Whose Mine is it? Salt Lake City Weekly, UT
- 1-12-06
NRC Reports on Soil Testing Hartford Courant, CT
- 1-12-06
Agency to Inspect Oyster Creek Plant After Violations Found
Asbury Park Press, NJ
- 1-11-06
Valve Concern Prompts Investigation at Cordova Quad-City
Times, IA
- 1-11-06
Nuclear Waste Casks Hold Up in Accidents, Study Says Baltimore
Sun, MD
- 1-11-06
Report: Nuclear Waste Cylinder Could Have Withstood Tunnel Fire
WJLA, DC
- 1-11-06
Europe Debates Nuclear Energy United Press International,
DC
- 1-11-06
Supervisors Will Send Letter Urging State to Study Nuclear Waste
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA
- 1-11-06
Soaring Uranium Prices Renew Exploration Provo Daily Herald,
UT
- 1-10-06
Dumping Ground Signature Magazine, Australia
- 1-10-06
Federal Regulators Order Utilities to Come Up with Power Plan
WJLA, DC
- 1-10-06
Progress to Cooperate in N.C. Nuclear Inspection St. Petersburg
Times, FL
- 1-10-06
Still No Answers to Question of Waste San Luis Obispo Tribune,
CA
- 1-10-06
NRC Not Taking Threat Seriously San Luis Obispo Tribune,
CA
- 1-10-06
Radiation Evaluation to End This Month Middletown Press,
CT
- 1-10-06
Gas Crisis Rekindles Nuclear Option Interpress, Italy
- 1-10-06
Lithuania Plea for Nuclear Plant BBC, Lithuania
- 1-9-06
Key Panel Gives Vermont Yankee Green Light to Boost Power
Vermont Guardian, VT
- 1-9-06
Canadians Stake Claim to Utah's Uranium Salt Lake Tribune,
UT
- 1-9-06
Uranium Resources, Inc. Announces Favorable NRC Decision
Houston Chronicle, TX
- 1-9-06
Ministers Warned of Huge Rise in Nuclear Waste Guardian,
UK
- 1-9-06
Ukraine Names U.S. Company to Establish Spent-Fuel Engineering
News-Record, US
- 1-9-06
Fossil-fuel Crisis Drives Europe to Nuclear, Green Energy
Financial Express, UK
- 1-8-06
Public Must Pressure NRC on Oyster Creek Safety Asbury Park
Press, NJ
- 1-8-06
Entergy Joins Coalition MPG News, MA
- 1-8-06
The Nuclear Option whizbang.com, US
- 1-7-06
Mitsubishi May Acquire Westinghouse Tribune, PA
- 1-7-06
FPL-Constellation Merger Needs Close Eye of Regulators Palm
Beach Post, FL
- 1-7-06
Meetings Set To Discuss Nuke Reactor In Andrews Odessa American,
TX
- 1-7-06
Indian Point 2's Leak Stops; Probe Continues The Journal
News, NY
- 1-6-06
Davis-Besse Regulators Scale Back Inspectors From 3 to 2
Toledo Blade, OH
- 1-6-06
Blowing Away the Nuclear Argument Yorkshire Post, UK
- 1-6-06
Feds Slow Clinton Nuke Process Lincoln Courier, IL
- 1-6-06
Europe Warms to Nuclear Power Christian Science Monitor,
MA
- 1-6-06
N.C. Power Plant Faces Investigation into Poor Security Allegations
AP, US
- 1-5-06
High Risks if Nuclear Waste Stored Locally The Day, CT
- 1-5-06
TMI-Incident Evacuation Plans Upheld The Patriot News, PA
- 1-5-06
NRC Gives Indian Point Green Light to Install New Sirens
Mid-Hudson News, NY
- 1-5-06
Nuclear Waste a Hazard Forever Irish Examiner, Ireland
- 1-5-06
France to Develop Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactor by 2020
Forbes, US
- 1-5-06
Energy Report Pushes Nuclear Option Epoch Times, Ont, Canada
- 1-5-06
Besse Nuclear Plant Probes Wrap Up Cleveland Plain Dealer,
OH
- 1-4-06
Evacuation, Taxation, Security MPG Newspapers, US
- 1-4-06
Seabrook's License Extended by Over 3 Years Boston Globe,
MA
- 1-4-06
Public Meeting on Shippingport Beaver County Times, PA
- 1-4-06
NRC Approves Westinghouse Electric's AP 1000 Nuclear Plant Design
Energy Online, US
- 1-4-06
Spescom Awarded $500,000 Contract for eB Nuclear Marketwire,
NY
- 1-3-06
Callaway Plant May Expand in Future Columbia Tribune, MO
- 1-3-06
Navajos Act to Stop Potential Uranium Rush KOLD, AZ
- 1-1-06
Closure of Mine Wipes Out Tribe Jobs NY Times, NY
- 1-1-06
NRC Dismisses States Concerns Ashbury Park Press, NJ
- 1-1-06
MillstoneWaste Storage Could Increase The Day, CT
- 1-1-06
Activists Respond as Elites Push for Nuclear Revival New
Standard, NY
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- December
2005
- 12-31-05
Commentary: Time's Running Out; Get Back to Nuclear Power
Santa Fe New Mexican, NM
- 12-31-05
Grand Jury Decision on Besse May Come Soon Toledo Blade,
OH
- 12-30-05
Electric Rates -- They Promised Topeka Capital-Journal,
KS
- 12-30-05
SoCal Edison to Close Coal Plant at Center of Pollution Dispute
KFWB, NV
- 12-30-05
Nuclear Station Tests for Potential Water Hazard Joliet
Herald News, IL
- 12-29-05
SRS: Report Clears Cleanup Hurdle Augusta Chronicle, GA
- 12-29-05
Pacificorp Buyout Gets Green Light from Nuclear Commission
KATU, OR
- 12-29-05
Constellation Announces Multi-Billion Dollar Merger Oswego
County Business, NY
- 12-29-05
Consumer Advocates as Board to Reconsider Sale of Iowa's Nuclear
Plant WCF Courier, IA
- 12-29-05
Green vs. Nuclear Sun-Times, SC
- 12-29-05
Public Not Interested in Storing Nuclear Waste Here, Wall Says
Canadian Broadcast Company, CAN
- 12-29-05
Vermont Yankee has Full Plate for '06 Boston
Globe, MA
- 12-28-05
Interstate Power and Light Receives Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Approval to Transfer DAEC Operating License to FPL
PRNewswire, NY
- 12-28-05
A New Breed of Nuclear Reactors? Scientific
American Blog, US
- 12-28-05
'Even if the Nuclear Deal Were to be Deferred,US-India Relations
Will Flourish' India Monitor, India
- 12-27-05
Taking a Giant Step Deccan Herald, India
- 12-27-05
Piles of Nuclear Waste Worry Officials
Patriot-News, PA
- 12-27-05
Old Idea is Back Again on N-Waste Deseret
News, UT
- 12-26-05
Vt. Yankee Site Could Stay Hot For Generations
Rutland Herald, VT
- 12-26-05
Ukrainian, U.S. Cos. to Build Facility
AP, Ukraine
- 12-24-05
PG&E Fined for Mistake 37 Years Ago Contra Costa Times,
CA
- 12-23-05
Point Beach Gets 20-Year License Renewal
Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, WI
- 12-21-05
Pacific Gas and Electric Accepts Nuclear Regulatory Decision
on Humboldt Bay Power Plant PRNewswire, NY
- 12-16-05
Blast Rips Through Smelter at Russia Nuke Plant
AP on MSNBC
- 12-16-05
The Wrong Way to Get Cheap Electricity Chicago
Sun-Times, IL
- 12-15-05
Hobson Urges Feds to Consider Nuclear Energy as Fuel Source
Dayton Daily News, OH
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- November
2005
- 11-30-05
Energy Proposal Meets with Resistance Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 11-30-05
Nuclear Power Amendment Tossed Deseret
News, UT
- 11-28-05
Power to the People Wall Street Journal,
NY
- 11-27-05
Iran Seeks Guarantees from Europe on Domestic Nuclear Fuel Production
Pravda, Russia
- 11-18-08
2,200 Acres Set Aside for Tailings Disposal Site
Deseret News, UT
- 11-16-05
Governor Honors Radiation Manager Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 11-9-05
Third of Utah Funding is to Move Tailings Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
Alternatives
to Nuclear Power Plants
- February
2006
- 2-8-06
Three Companies Selected for U.K. Wave Hub Project EERE,
USDOE
- 2-8-06
Shell Sells Silicon Cell Business, Focuses on Thin Film
EERE, USDOE
- 2-2-06
Alternative Fuel is Attracting Venture Capital Wall Street
Journal, NY
- January
2006
- 1-21-06
China to Build World's First "artifical sun" Experimental
Device People's Daily Online, China
- 1-18-06
Walgreens to Install Solar Power on 112 Stores EERE Newsletter,
US DOE
- 1-18-06
California Approves $2.9 Billion Solar Energy Initiative
EERE Newsletter, US DOE
- 1-17-06
About Schmitt: Return to the Moon SciScoop, US
- 1-12-06
The Wind and the Willful Grist, US
- 1-11-06
EERE Newsletter - Interior Department Seeks Comments DOE,
US
- 1-11-06
Switch to Renewable Solar Energy in U.S. Daytona Beach News-Journal,
FL
- 1-10-06
Whole Foods Switching to All Wind Power in U.S. American-Statesman,
TX
- 1-7-06
Tribune Should Get its Facts Straight on IPP Salt Lake Tribune,
UT
- December
2005
- 12-16-05
BLM to Speed Wind Farm Permit Process Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 12-16-05
Land-Use Plans Amended for Analysis of Wind Power
Deseret News, UT
- 12-11-05
Solar Towers Would Solve Energy Crisis Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 12-10-05
Get Tough on Toxins Salt Lake Tribune,
UT
- 12-10-05
The Time Has Come to Speak of Renewable Energy
Salt Lake Tribune, UT
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