Nuclear Power News Summary

Van-sized robot to hunt radiation (BBC News)

A remotely operated vehicle is to be built to recover radioactive particles from the seabed near Dounreay.. More.

Japan Cap-and-Trade Bill Approved by Cabinet, Heads for Diet (Bloomberg)

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s Cabinet has endorsed a climate-protection draft law today that would cap industrial emissions for the first time and thrust the second-biggest economy into the $125 billion market for trading carbon credits.. More.

Press Releases: Briefing on the Release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State)

Briefing on the Release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Michael H. Posner Assistant Secretary , Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Washington, DC March 11, 2010 ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNER: Thank you, Secretary Clinton, and welcome. I want to just, if I may, say a few introductory words about the report and something about the trends we see, and then open it up for .... More.

Need for more nuclear reactors in Cumbria 'justified' (North-West Evening Mail)

TECHNICAL experts, academics and politicians will today call for an independent inquiry into the “justification” of new nuclear reactors which would bring billions of pounds of investment into Cumbria.. More.

Vt. utilities enter deal with Quebec (Seattle Times)

Two Vermont utilities signed an agreement Thursday on a 26-year deal to buy power from Canadian provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, replacing contracts that expire beginning in 2012.. More.

Gates Sees Saudi Help, International Support for Iran Sanctions (Bloomberg)

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday the U.S. has enough backing from other nations to make tougher sanctions work against Iran and signaled that Saudi Arabia may try to persuade China, its biggest oil customer, to go along.. More.

Additional Resources (Public Citizen)

The science is clear: burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil for our energy has released unprecedented concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, raising the Earth's temperature.. More.

Additional Resources (Public Citizen)

Costly nuclear power poses unnecessary safety and environmental risks, is heavily dependent on taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies, and generates deadly radioactive waste. Building new nuclear power plants will also not effectively address climate change.. More.

Additional Resources (Public Citizen)

The nuclear power industry is pushing for a revival of nuclear energy. The industry is aggressively seeking to license and build the first new nuclear reactors in a generation.. More.

U.S.-born terror suspect worked at nuclear plants (The Clarion-Ledger)

A spokesman for a group of nuclear power plants in New Jersey says a U.S. man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida had previously worked at the plants.. More.