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UPDATE, Yesterday marked a milestone of sorts for the Fukushima Daiichi reactors: some six-and-a-half months after the onset of the accident, temperature levels at all of the reactors and fuel pools fell below the boiling point (100 degrees Celsius) for the first time since March 11.
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Costs, Risks and Myths of Nuclear Power. Major new international NGO report prepared for Sept 22 UN meeting on nuclear power. Includes chapters by leading experts across the world; U.S. update provided by NIRS. Definitely worth the download.
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Congressional Budget Office report on government’s loan guarantee program for new reactor construction. Concludes that government is understating risks to taxpayers.
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UPDATE, The New York Times reports that Japan is finally getting ready to acknowledge what we have been saying in this space for months: that the Fukushima evacuation zone is an uninhabitable Dead Zone, and no one will live there again for at least many decades. An official government announcement is expected later this week.
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Nuclear Power After Fukushima. Report and recommendations to improve safety & security at U.S. reactor sites, from Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against a Nuclear Renaissance. New book from International Forum on Globalization, now available for free download. Good stuff!
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