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Capitals nuclear energy ads irk environmentalists

The Washington Capitals are opening the NHL season with a new sponsor that has some environmentalists seeing red instead of green.

Venezuela's Chavez aims to tap nuclear energy

Hugo Chavez wants to join the nuclear energy club and is looking to Russia for help in getting started.

Britain Backs New Nuclear Power Plants

The British government on Thursday approved construction of the first new nuclear power plants in a generation, saying atomic energy could help fight climate change and secure the country's energy supplies in an increasingly unstable world.

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Nuclear power is key to U.S.'s future electricity supply
Source: The Hill

Even from the bottom of what they're calling the Great Recession, it is clear that America will have to generate roughly 40 percent more electricity in the next 20 years if we're to keep up with people's needs and ensure long-term national prosperity.

Chavez says Iran helping Venezuela find uranium
Source: Yahoo! News

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Iran is helping his country explore for uranium, but stressed his government would only seek to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Greenwashes Nuclear Power
Source: Common Dreams

Bowing to pressure from the pro-nuclear lobby, Senators Boxer and Kerry have included nuclear power into their bill to address climate change.

Researchers Develop a Penny-Sized Nuclear Battery
Source: Popular Science -

A tiny nuclear energy source could help power micro- and nanomachines of the future

Fareed Zakaria on Iran's Nuclear Program
Source: Newsweek

It is time to clarify the debate over Iran and its nuclear program.

Nuclear disarmament: equilibrium through right use of energy
Source: Examiner

Nuclear bombs, if used in any major war today, would have catastrophic consequences. They should have been discarded decades ago among the international community of nations.

US nuclear expert Scott Ritter slams US, Israeli "hype" over Iran's peaceful nuclear energy
Source: MWC News

Ritter: "Iran is not an aggressor. Iran has not attacked anybody. Iran is simply trying to do that which it is legally allowed to do: produce enriched uranium for the purposes of nuclear power. It's Israel ... creating crisis"

The nuclear tipping point
Source: Guardian Unlimited

The potential spread of nuclear weapons to states and terrorists, the spread of nuclear technology and know-how and the residual nuclear threat from the cold war have brought us to the precipice of a new and dangerous nuclear era.

U.S. to focus on nuclear issue Iran talks: W.House
Source: Reuters

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The United States will focus on Iran's nuclear program, which the West suspects is to develop weapons, in upcoming talks with Tehran despite its refusal to discuss the subject, the White House said on Saturday.

Why not sanctions for Israel? By Paul Craig Roberts , Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration
Source: http://www.worldbulletin.ne

..."The kind of blockade that Netanyahu wants qualifies as an act of war. Israel has long threatened to attack Iran on its own but prefers to draw in the US and NATO. Why does Israel want to initiate a war between the United States and Iran?

Yes we can! The city of Apeldoorn, Netherlands plans 100% renewable energy by 2020
Source: Science Hub

Apeldoorn (population just over 155,000) is located 70 kilometers from Amsterdam: "In 2020, all the energy consumed in Apeldoorn will be renewable, not fossil fuels, nuclear-free and produced in our own city".

Nuclear Energy Gaining Some Ground
Source: WorldNetDaily News

Some promising signs from the DOE on embracing more nuclear energy. But power plants coming by 2015-16... not fast enough. With the money passed in the stimulus packages we could have plants being finished by 2012-13.

Canada close to inking nuclear deal with India: Day
Source: CTV News

OTTAWA -- Canada is poised to sign a deal with India to sell nuclear technology and materials to the energy-starved South Asian juggernaut, International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday...

Lab Unveils 'Star Maker' Laser System
Source: KTVU

A lab in Livermore, California will soon be able to replicate the heat at the birth of stars, hopefully paving the way toward fusion energy.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - GOP goes nuclear in policy pitch « - Blogs from CNN.com
Source: CNN

Wow.This is the first reasonable idea I've heard from the Republicans side of the bench in many months; but why must they sound so combative and then whiny all the time?

Republicans push nuclear energy to lower costs
Source: Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – The U.S. should build 100 more nuclear plants rather than spend "billions in subsidies" for renewable energy if it is truly committed to lowering electric bills and having clean air, the Republicans say.

7 Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs
Source: Wired News

You might think of nuclear weapons as just the most fearsome weapon ever invented by humans, but that would be seriously underplaying their versatility.

Iran opens first nuclear power plant

April 9 -Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today the opening of the Islamic Republic's very first nuclear power plant.

LancasterOnline.com:News:Three Mile Island: A good neighbor?
Source: articles.lancasteronline.com

TMI - safe operation for 30 years

Cold fusion experimentally confirmed
Source: eetimes.com

U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting.

Cold fusion is back: scientists report evidence

Scientists at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California, reported scientific evidence supporting the existence of cold fusion at a meeting of the American Chemical Society at Salt Lake City in Utah, United States, on Monday.

Nuclear expansion, the road to oblivion!

Like the tobacco companies of yore, the nuclear establishment is currently aggressively marketing its dubious products.

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