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Latest Updates

• September 1, 2009

  World Nuclear Status Report 2009, with special emphasis on economics. Study released by German Department of the Environment. Study shows nuclear power is on a downward trend worldwide.

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• August 18, 2009

  Top 10 Reasons Nukes Won’t Save Climate. Article from Michael Mariotte, first posted on DailyKos.

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• August 7, 2009

  Department of Energy proposed rule to change loan guarantee regulations to make it easier to give taxpayer loan guarantees to nuclear power projects.

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• July 31, 2009

  100 organizations sign letter to President Obama opposing possible nomination of former DOE nuclear chief William Magwood to Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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• July 9, 2009

  Comparison by PSR of current Clean Energy Development Administration (or “Clean Energy Bank”) provisions in House climate bill as passed and Senate energy bill still awaiting action.

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• July 8, 2009

  NRC licensing board admits three contentions in NIRS, Green Party, Ecology Party challenge to Progress Energy’s proposed Levy County (FL) reactors.

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• July 7, 2009

  80+ organizations send letter to President Obama in support of appointment of independent commissioners to Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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• July 1, 2009

  Nuclear subsidies in the House climate and Senate energy bills. A fact sheets from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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• July 1, 2009

  List of existing subsidies and incentives for constructing new reactors (from R&D to waste management and everything in-between).

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• July 1, 2009

  Brief Virginia Tech paper showing nuclear power by far the most water-intensive means of producing electricity (page 8). This has enormous implications because, as the report notes, 36 states face water shortages in the next 10 years.

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