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Obama seeks more nuclear energy loan guarantees
... At the insistence of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, the request for more spending on nuclear energy would be coupled with $9 billion in loan guarantees for renewable energy ... AP; 5/23/2010 |
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Your actions now can stop $9 Billion in new nuke taxpayer loans!
The Obama Administration is attempting to get $9 billion more in loans for new nuclear reactor construction. They're trying to sneak this money on to an emergency supplemental funding bill ... Nuclear Info; Linked on May 28, 2010 |
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White House to announce energy-loan plan
... Pelosi has been open to Chu’s request but wants parity for her priorities: solar and other renewable energy programs. And within the California delegation, there has been criticism ... Politico; May 20, 2010 |
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Nuclear power industry sees opening for revival
With the Obama administration staking the nation's energy future on clean sources, the U.S. nuclear power industry aims to make a comeback by building dozens of new reactors ... SF Gate; March 8, 2009 |
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Should Economic Stimulus Bill Include Billions for Nuclear Power?
A coalition of environmental groups are calling on senators to remove a controversial provision from the $900 billion stimulus bill that could lead to the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants. Dem Now; 2/5/09 |
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Climate bill could turn friends into foes as some go nuclear
... Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer – Bay Area Democrats with similar political views – are on opposite sides. Pelosi used to be an ardent foe of nuclear power but now holds a different view. LA Times; April 9. 2007 |
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Amy Goodman: Don't Drink the Nuclear Koolaide
While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power. TruthDig; July 17, 2008 |
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Gas woes so bad now nuke power is looking good, poll finds
Here at Pelosi Watch, we are committed to the car-free existence, for obvious reasons. We do NOT believe we are entitled ... SF Gate; July 17, 2008 |
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Making YOU Pay for the Next Chernobyls…in Advance!!
Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls — in advance? Are you willing to have nuclear power PREVENT a solution to the climate crisis? Common Dreams; April 26, 2008 |
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WARNING: A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT COULD SOON BE BUILT NEAR YOU
Official site of Nuke Free. Posted January 5, 2008. |
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Anti-Nuclear Renaissance: A Powerful but Partial and Tentative Victory Over Atomic Energy
As the presidential primary season heats up, an “anti-nuclear renaissance” against loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants will escalate ... Common Dreams; January 5, 2008 |
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Groups Seek to Stop Relicensing of Nuclear Plants
A coalition of East Coast environmental and anti-nuclear groups filed a petition with U.S. regulators on Thursday to suspend all pending relicensing efforts by nuclear reactors in the United States. Reuters; 1/4/08 |
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Spending Bill Includes $24 Billion Loan Guarantees for Nuclear Industry
The House is set to vote Tuesday on the $500 billion 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. Hidden in the bill is a major energy package that would boost government financing for the nuclear industry. DN!; December 17, 2007 |
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Nuclear Power Gets Boost from Candidates
Except for Edwards, top contenders in the GOP and Democratic races consider it a possible energy solution. Los Angeles Times; December 31, 2007 |
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Dept of Energy moves to turn Yucca Mountain into nuclear waste repository
Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in favor of the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country in this one sacred place. FCJ; December 31, 2007
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Nuclear Plants Raise Leukaemia Threat
It has been a miserable month for the Brosowskys, a German family in the small city of Marschacht. Inter Press Service; December 29, 2007. |
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The candidates on nuclear power
Insight, the Nuclear Energy Institute's monthly pro-nukes pamphleteer, did a survey of the presidential candidates' positions on nuclear power. SFBG; December 19, 2007 |
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Nuke Industry Is on the Verge of Getting $25 Billion Handout
The House is set to vote on Tuesday on the $500 billion 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill. AlterNet/Democracy Now!; December 18, 2007 |
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Not the bill to take home to mother
The Senate is debating the wide-ranging $500-plus billion omnibus spending package right now. GRIST; December 18, 2007 |
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Beyond Nuclear Blogging
Obama supports superior nuclear technology AND clean coal. Wait, we forgot to put those Big Rock Candy Mountain dreams in quotation marks ... Beyond Nuclear Blog Spot; Posted December 17, 2007 |
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Beyond Nuclear
Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear; Posted December 17, 2007 |
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Don't buy the big nuclear lie
Under the guise of fighting global warming, the nuclear power industry and its allies in Congress are pushing a plan to construct the first new nuclear power plants in the U.S. in decades. Friends of the Earth; 12/1/2007
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Clean, cheap energy? Not really
Nuclear power is billed by Christine Todd Whitman and other nuclear advocates as the cure for summertime power outages, but that's exactly when nuclear power is the least dependable. SF Chron; October 2, 2007 |
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Nuclear power is not today's solution for global warming
For the past year, former Environmental Protection Agency head Christy Todd Whitman has been working as a paid spokesperson for the nuclear power industry. SF Chron; October 2, 2007 |
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Nuclear Agreement With US Rips India Apart
Presented by Indian P.M. Manmohan Singh as one of the biggest successes of his term, the cooperation agreement on civilian nuclear matters ... could paradoxically cost his government its life. Liberation; September 27, 2007 |
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Accidents Dim Hopes for Green Nuclear Option
The recent earthquake in Japan and accidents at two German power plants raise questions on the safety of nuclear energy as a cleaner alternative. Christian Science Monitor; July 19, 2007.
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Reports: New Leak at Japan Nuke Plant
Japanese regulators discovered a fresh leak of radioactive material Thursday from a nuclear power plant damaged in an earthquake this week, news reports said, adding to criticism of the embattled plant operator. AP; 07-19-07. |
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Japan Quake Hurt Automakers, Power Co.
The mammoth earthquake that ravaged northern Japan this week did more than take lives and trigger radioactive leaks. It nailed some of the most important industries undergirding growth in Japan. SF Gate; 07-19-07. |
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Japan Nuke Plant Still Leaking Radiation
Radioactive material leaked undetected for days at an earthquake-battered nuclear power plant even as the utility was assuring the public that the damage posed no danger ... SF Gate; 07-19-07. |
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California’s New Nukes War
A major pro-nuke “surge” against the renewable solution to global warming is about to erupt in California. Common Dreams; July 16, 2007.
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Japan quake causes 9 deaths, nuke leak
A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast Monday, setting off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea. AP; July 16, 2007. |
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Nuclear Expansion is a Pipe Dream, Says Report
Hope for new era of cheap, clean power is a "myth." Building more stations would increase terror risk. Guardian/UK; July 5, 2007.
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Nuclear greenwashing
Global warming has suddenly put nukes back on the agenda — but there's a lot the industry isn't telling you. SFBG; May 30, 2007. |
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Nuclear Power No Sure Cure for Climate Ills
Nuclear energy may not live up to its promise as the solution for global warming, according to separate reports released this week by an environmental group and an independent think tank. Reuters; May 3, 2007.
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Huge Anti-Nuke Demo was 30 Years Ago This Week
30 years ago this week, 100s of anti-nuclear demonstrators trekked down a dusty road and set up camp next to construction material destined to become the Seabrook nuclear power plant. Common Dreams; 04-29-07. |
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Chernobyl Reminds Us that Nukes are NOT Green
Twenty-one years ago this week, lethal radiation poured into the breezes over Europe and into the jet stream above, carrying death and disease around the planet. Common Dreams; April 28, 2007. |
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Why Must Nuke-Power Lemmings Again Flock to the Radioactive Sea?
It’s baaaaaack. The fifty-year multi-trillion dollar failure of atomic energy has resumed its lemming-like march to madness. Why? Common Dreams; April 10, 2007. |
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Pelosi, Clinton, Obama Favor More Nuclear Plants
Pelosi used to be an ardent foe of nuclear power but now holds a different view. “I think it has to be on the table,” she said. LA Times; April 9, 2007. |
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Nuclear Policy Research Institute
Official website of Helen Caldicott's organization. Posted April 4, 2007. |
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The Sierra Club weighs in on nuclear power and says "No."
Two years ago, when George W. Bush was promoting nuclear power, the Sierra Club came out with this statement of opposition. How will it respond to Nancy Pelosi's recent, more positive remarks regarding nuclear power (on February 8, 2007)? 2/09/07. |
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