We already know wind and solar are much cheaper than Nuclear and don't present the inherent risks.
Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant 16 Mar 2013 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, equivalent to 7,400 times the state-set limit deemed safe for human consumption. The greenling measuring 38 cm in length and weighing 564 grams was caught near a water intake of the four reactor units in the power station’s port on Feb. 21 during the utility’s operation to remove fish from the port. Tepco has installed a net on the sea floor of the port exit in Fukushima Prefecture to make it hard for fish living near the sediments of contaminated soil to go elsewhere.
Obama
announces $2B corporate welfare for nuclear power and 'green' technology
research 15 Mar 2013 President Barack Obama returned to Chicago
Friday to push an energy policy aimed at weaning the country off of oil by using
revenues from increased oil and gas production. In a roughly 20-minute speech at
Argonne National Laboratory, Obama touched on research into batteries, natural
gas, wind, solar and nuclear
power that he deemed vital to America having a long-term healthy
economy and environment. As part of his administration's overall plan, Obama
also formally introduced a proposal to establish a $2 billion trust from
royalties the government receives from offshore drilling [to turn over to his
nuclear power corpora-terrorist cronies].
Nuclear
boss wants to cut family fuel aid --Chief of French company
poised to build reactors in Britain also argues against European subsidies for
renewable energy 17 Mar 2013 The boss of a company set to build two
nuclear reactors in Somerset has been demanding cuts to renewable energy
subsidies and to help for people in fuel poverty while quietly lobbying the
European Commission for financial help for new nuclear power stations. Areva,
which is part owned by the French state, has signed a contract to build nuclear
reactors for EDF, another French company, at Hinkley Point. If it goes ahead, it
will be the first new nuclear power plant in Britain for a generation.
Sealed
'black cells' stall radioactive waste cleanup at Hanford nuclear
reservation 16 Mar 2013 In the late-1990s, the Hanford nuclear
reservation's British contractor designed the world's largest nuclear waste
treatment plant around a fateful feature: "black cells." Fifteen years, a new
set of contractors
corpora-terrorists and $8 billion of construction later, the U.S. Department of
Energy is still trying to figure out whether they'll work. The cells, enormous
concrete boxes lined with stainless steel, will hold mixing silos to process
waste from 44 years of making plutonium for nuclear bombs. They'll be highly
radioactive and inaccessible to humans for the treatment plant's life. They're
also central to Hanford's [insane] plans to treat 56 million gallons of nuclear
waste stored in 177 underground tanks. Recent disclosures of fresh leaks in six of those tanks, a half-dozen
miles from the Columbia River, has brought renewed urgency to finishing the
treatment plant, already delayed by two decades.
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold public meeting on Pilgrim Nuclear April 2
Pilgrim's safety performance in 2012 is topic of discussion
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant on the shores of Cape Cod Bay a few miles north of the Cape Cod Canal. Photo courtesy of Entergy from NRC.gov.
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