Full Coverage: Nuclear Issues

29.10.2009 If just one of the subsidies for nuclear power were to be withdrawn, the price of electricity from new nuclear power stations would rise to about 41 US cents per kWh, a level that would make it deeply unattractive to investors, says a new report.

19.07.2009 Advocates of a revival of nuclear power tend to overlook that uranium is a finite resource, quite apart from other disadvantages. Perhaps this is the time to pay more attention to thorium as an alternative. Guardian

02.03.2009 Catherine Mitchell points out that building new nuclear and coal power stations is inconsistent with the legally binding targets for UK emissions. Guardian

21.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 21 (OneWorld) - South Carolina voters concerned about global warming are calling on the Democratic candidates for president to focus on climate change solutions as they stage a public debate in the resort town of Myrtle Beach this evening.

17.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - A diverse coalition of environmental and peace organizations in the United States is urging Congress to reject the Bush administration's move to send nuclear technologies to India.

26.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 26 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration is pushing for plans to reuse spent nuclear fuel in power reactors across the United States, but key senators and nuclear analysts have raised economic and security concerns about reusing the weapons-grade fuel.

17.08.2007 The United States-India nuclear cooperation agreement, tabled in India's Parliament on Monday, has precipitated a political crisis for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's United Progressive Alliance (UPS) government since it was formed a little over three years ago.

10.08.2007 Indian NGO National Alliance of People's Movements believes that the India-US nuclear deal has grave consequences for India’s national security and sovereignty as well impacts the rights and well-being of the Indians so demands the government to withdraw the India-US nuclear deal.

07.08.2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first-ever atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima as a “powerful reminder” to halt nuclear proliferation and to make the world a safer place.

01.08.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 1 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's decision to let India obtain nuclear technology from the United States is renewing long-held fears that it could result in further proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world.

26.07.2007 The former project manager of SS Norway (Blue Lady) has submitted an evidence which reveals that the toxic ship-for-scrap renamed Blue Lady and currently anchored 4000 feet off Alang coast has radioactive material on board in at least 5500 fire detection points.

19.07.2007 K Srinivas, Climate and Energy Expert, Greenpeace, reacts to the recent leak from Japan’s nuclear plant and says nuclear energy is not the answer to India’s power crisis. Clean and renewable energy sources need to be developed to combat global warming.

17.07.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (OneWorld) - The huge fire and radioactive leak at a nuclear site in Japan caused by Monday's earthquake have prompted new calls for restraints on the use of nuclear technology.

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09.05.2007 UNITED NATIONS, May 9 (OneWorld) - The UN's experts on climate change are facing the wrath of many environmental groups this week for embracing the notion that additional use of nuclear power could be helpful in the fight against global warming.

28.12.2006 In October 2006, eight years after India and Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold, the world witnessed yet another breakout, when North Korea exploded an atomic bomb and demanded that it be recognised as a nuclear weapons-state. Talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, in return for security guarantees and economic assistance, collapsed last week.

15.12.2006 from Science Blog:
A new generation of fast nuclear reactors could create energy, while producing virtually no long-lasting nuclear waste, according to new research.

08.11.2006 Voices for nuclear disarmament in the South Asian region will find the ISF a strong platform for voicing their pacifist views. Events like - Nuclear Free South Asia, People's Initiative for a Peaceful South Asia and Reducing Military Spending in India and Pakistan - the Peace Dividend - are taking place at the ISF on November 10 and 12. Most have been organised by Indian and Pakistani NGOs working on improving relations between the two countries.

19.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (OneWorld) - The United States, in a twist on social Darwinism, maintains protection standards so low that they shield only the strongest people from cancer-causing radiation. So say scientists whose conclusions are propelling a new campaign to provide greater safety for women, children, and others at greatest risk.

13.10.2006 The Ministry of Environmental Protection, Spatial Planning and Construction recently published the summary of the Environmental Study of Pacs nuclear power-plant in Hungary (located about 100km from Croatian border, on its web-site (www.mzopu.hr). Zelena akcija environmental association believes that the study is incomplete and demands that it is amended with appropriate information.