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Is Nuclear Power Safe?

This research report on Nuclear Power contains interesting insights on Safety Cultures and processes.

China Promotes Another Boom: Nuclear Power

China plans to build reactors on a scale and pace comparable to the peak of the United States' nuclear energy push in the 1970's.

Mississippi Extends Hospitality to Nuclear Power

Aldermen in the City of Port Gibson voted unanimously to urge the Entergy Corporation, which already operates one reactor there, to build a second.

E-Mails Reveal Fraud in Nuclear Site Study

Government employees studying a potential nuclear waste site in Nevada acknowledged in e-mail messages that they had made up details about their research.

Nuclear Energy May Be Back in Vogue, UN Says

Global energy demand, expected to double by the year 2050, is leading to renewed interest in nuclear power and is already playing an "increasingly important" role in China, Finland, the United States and Poland, International Atomic Energy Agency boss Mohamed ElBaradei told a conference on nuclear energy. One of the many benefits of nuclear energy, ElBaradei said, is that it does not emit any climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental News Network/Reuters (3/21)

New Asian plants fuel uranium boom

Uranium prices are soaring as demand for nuclear power plants in Asia is rising and fuel from old Soviet-era nuclear weapons diminishes, the International Herald Tribune reports. More than 60 new nuclear power reactors are expected to begin operations by 2020, most of them in Asia, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. International Herald Tribune (3/14)

Terrorist Attacks on Reactor Pools

When Congress asks for a National Academy of Sciences report, like the recent one concerning the safety of our nuclear waste storage, the agencies being evaluated need to cooperate.

Nukes Are Green

The biggest environmental threat we face is global warming, not nuclear power.

The Nuclear Power Option

President Bush will have to address some crucial concerns before the public will follow him down the path to nuclear energy with much enthusiasm.