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Dec 24, 2007 11:47 AM CST

Iran Plans 19 Nuke Plants

Rejects calls to drop uranium enrichment

(Newser) - Iran has dismissed calls to drop uranium enrichment and plans 19 new nuclear power plants, Reuters reports. "US officials have talked of negotiations" on the condition that Iran stop the enrichment, "but we do not accept any preconditions for talks," Iran's Foreign Minister said today. The UN...

Brown Orders Britons to
Think Green

Dec 22, 2007 1:43 PM CST

Brown Orders Britons to Think Green

UK must count 'carbon cost' of new projects—a boon to clean energies

(Newser) - British PM Gordon Brown has told his ministers to count the cost of global warming—literally. For each ton of carbon a new project emits, the UK will tack on a “carbon price" to account for climate costs. The move will prove a boon to carbon-free energy sources like...

Iran Nuke Claim Raises Fears of Israeli Strike

Nov 8, 2007 1:48 PM CST

Iran Nuke Claim Raises Fears of Israeli Strike

Tehran's alleged 3K enrichment centrifuges heightens tensions

(Newser) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that Iran has 3,000 working centrifuges for uranium enrichment—enough, experts say, to make a nuclear bomb within a year. But what worries Washington more, the Times of London reports, is whether Israel will launch a preemptive airstrike. US military sources say Tehran's announcement...

Nuclear Power Primed for Comeback

Oct 8, 2007 9:40 AM CDT

Nuclear Power Primed for Comeback

Emissions concerns, government incentives may spur new growth

(Newser) - As natural gas prices fluctuate, concern over greenhouse gas emissions mounts, and demand for electricity increases, nuclear power may be making a comeback. Although no new plant has been completed since 1996, the NRC expects applications for as many as 32 new reactors in the next 2 years. The Washington ...

New Nuke Power Plant Pitched

Sep 27, 2007 3:31 PM CDT

New Nuke Power Plant Pitched

Reactors for Texas utility first proposed in US in 3 decades

(Newser) - Despite warnings of another Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, New Jersey-based NRG Energy has set in motion a plan to build two more reactors at its South Texas nuclear power plant, an hour outside Houston. The application, filed Monday, was the first of its kind in over 30 years, and...

Iran to West: Don't Even Think About It

Sep 23, 2007 11:38 AM CDT

Iran to West: Don't Even Think About It

Tehran says attackers will rue aggression "as they regret it in Iraq"

(Newser) - In a parade flanked by missiles and homegrown fighter jets, Iran unequivocally responded to the West's indirect threats of force against the Islamic nation's nuclear ambitions: "Our message to the enemies is: Do not do it," said the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "They will regret it,...

Nuclear Screw-Ups Hushed Up

Aug 21, 2007 2:12 PM CDT

Nuclear Screw-Ups Hushed Up

Tenn. plant that supplies Navy fuel wasn't fined for uranium leak

(Newser) - In the name of national security, the NRC has held back from reporting serious violations at a Tennessee nuclear plant, including a 9-gallon uranium spill for which the facility was not fined. In balancing public safety against counterterrorism measures, an agency exec tells the AP, "The pendulum maybe swung...

Energy Bill Boosts Nuclear Expansion

Jul 31, 2007 10:48 AM CDT

Energy Bill Boosts Nuclear Expansion

Single sentence, never debated, offers billions in loan guarantees

(Newser) - The newly passed Senate energy bill contains one sentence that 's worth tens of billions of dollars to the nuclear industry. Never debated, the provision offers builders of new nuclear plants as much as $50 billion in loan guarantees over two years. That, the New York Times reports, can be...

Quake Triggers Wave of Nuke Plant Fears

Jul 18, 2007 5:42 AM CDT

Quake Triggers Wave of Nuke Plant Fears

Japanese disaster boosts movement for tighter control of power sources

(Newser) - New fears about the safety of nuclear power are rattling Japan after radioactive material leaked from a reactor damaged in this week's magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Plants must be built to withstand a 6.5, but stronger quakes are common on the Pacific Rim, and this year all 12 of...

Booming India Is
Starved for Power

May 21, 2007 8:35 AM CDT

Booming India Is Starved for Power

Chronic electricity shortages belie booming economy

(Newser) - India's economy is growing so fast it has outstripped its electrical capacity, leaving burgeoning businesses, industries and homes to generate their own power with soot-belching diesel-powered generators for hours every day. Half of India's populace has no connection to the grid at all, and new construction often goes up without...

GOP Insiders Nuke Global Warming

Mar 27, 2007 1:28 PM CDT

GOP Insiders Nuke Global Warming

87% of Republicans on the Hill don't believe in climate change. The rest have a solution: nuclear power

(Newser) - The more powerful the evidence for global warming becomes, the more skeptical hard-line Republicans appear to be. Resistance to the case against greenhouse gases is hardening into conservative dogma, Jonathan Chait writes. Last year, 23 per cent of Congressional Republicans said they believed humanity’s contribution to global warming...