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Friday, March 16, 2007

Nuke plan has key glitch
By sstamper @ 1:33 PM :: 555 Views :: 0 Comments ::

IDAHO FALLS — Department of Energy officials acknowledged Thursday a proposed nuclear energy program could run contrary to a 12-year- old agreement banning the importation of spent nuclear fuel into Idaho.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Nuclear hearing draws big crowd
By sstamper @ 1:23 PM :: 499 Views :: 1 Comments ::

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It's too early in the process to say how the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is going to play out, but one thing resonated clearly at a hearing Thursday night in Idaho Falls: If the U.S. Department of Energy plans to get back into the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, eastern Idaho's leaders want the work done here.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Hanford proposal riles crowd
By sstamper @ 11:22 AM :: 341 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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Both sides claimed the moral imperative at an overflow hearing Tuesday night to discuss Hanford's possible role in a proposed new national nuclear energy program to reuse spent commercial reactor fuel.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Senators say GNEP funds not assured
By sstamper @ 4:22 PM :: 357 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- The energy committee in the U.S. Senate has found "no consensus" on President Bush's international nuclear power and waste plan.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Speak out against flawed plan to jumpstart nuclear power program
By sstamper @ 3:46 PM :: 352 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of Energy's deeply flawed plan to resuscitate nuclear power plants worldwide. They make it sound so easy. All it will take is billions of your (taxpayers') money.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Differing views on GNEP
By sstamper @ 3:13 PM :: 298 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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Paducah task force touts possible nuclear recycling plant; neighbors, opponents balk

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Recycling nuclear fuel for energy purposes makes sense
By sstamper @ 8:13 PM :: 501 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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As the public has become more comfortable with nuclear power as a clean and safe energy resource, anti-nuclear groups across the country have stepped up their misleading rhetoric.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Expert dismiss GNEP as 'a goofy idea'
By sstamper @ 7:42 PM :: 515 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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The Bush administration's ambitious Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is "a goofy idea" as a development program, a prominent nuclear expert said today.

Friday, May 19, 2006

INL to review plans for new nuclear fuel reprocessing plants
By jmaxand @ 5:45 PM :: 501 Views :: 0 Comments ::

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The Bush administration will rely on the Idaho National Laboratory for technical review of proposals by businesses and local government groups seeking to build a new plant to reprocess spent reactor fuel, a practice the U.S. discontinued in the 1970s because of concerns it was spurring the nuclear arms race.

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