Upcoming Events

Important events for the Alliance

• EPIC to Host Lectures on Carbon Free Energy in California
  The Energy Policy Initiatives Center is hosting the next talk in its Climate Change Lecure Series. The event, entitled California's Carbon Free Energy Future: Options and Opportunities, will explore the policies and technologies that can help California meets its future energy needs while at the same time reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
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• THE FUTURE OF ENERGY with S. DAVID FREEMAN & ARJUN MAKHIJANI
  CALIFORNIA CAN CREATE AN ENERGY FUTURE WITHOUT CARBON OR NUCLEAR POWER…The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility in association with the Empower Poly Coalition presents and evening of presentations and discussion with distinguished authors and energy experts S. David Freeman and Arjun Makhijani.
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• NRC TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING SEPT. 23 IN NYE COUNTY, NEV., TO DISCUSS REVIEW PROCESS FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN APPLICATION
  
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• CODE PINK PRESENTS AUTHOR-ACTIVIST DIANE WILSON and SINGER LIZZIE WEST
  
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Breaking News

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• Conclusions - CEC Draft Report Sept 2008
  
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• Earthquakes May Endanger New York More Than Thought; Nuclear Power Plant Seen As Particular Risk
  A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among other things, they say that the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones.
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• Progress Energy will ask for rate hike in Florida
  Progress Energy Florida will ask the state to approve a 31 percent customer rate hike partly to help pay for two new nuclear power plants. The company said Friday the increase will amount to an extra $34.27 monthly for a user of 1,000 kilowatt hours. If approved by the state Public Service Commission later this year, the hike will take effect in January.
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• Nuclear Shortcuts Exposed In U.S. Nuclear Fuel Facility
  US regulators have ignored expert safety advice in an attempt to cut corners and fast track the completion of a $4 billion nuclear fuel facility currently under construction near Aiken, South Carolina.
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• Areva faces 50 pct cost rise for Finnish nuclear reactor
  French nuclear group Areva is facing a 50 percent rise to the cost of building the world's first next-generation pressurised water reactor in Finland, the business daily Les Echos reported Thursday. The cost of constructing the plant at Olkiluoto has risen from three billion to 4.5 billion euros (6.7 billion dollars), the paper reported citing an unidentified source.
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• Nuclear plant workers evacuated
  Human error is being blamed for a radiation spike at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant that prompted the evacuation of about a dozen workers from the main reactor building for about two hours.
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• LA Times Letter to the Editor
  
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• FRANCE'S NUCLEAR CONUNDRUM - Atomic World Champ on the Ropes
  France is proud of having the world's most developed nuclear energy infrastructure, but a series of incidents at the Tricastin nuclear power plant has shaken its self-confidence. Is public sentiment about nuclear power about to shift? The winegrowers have already made their move. No longer will they label their product Côteaux du Tricastin. Why? Because the name Tricastin is slowly beginning to stand for something far removed from fine wine.
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• Efficiency, renewable energy are much cheaper than nukes
  When Arjun Makhijani talks about generating electricity with nuclear power, he knows of what he speaks. His Ph.D. is from UC-Berkeley in nuclear engineering, and he has authored numerous books on energy, including the first evaluation conducted of energy efficiency potential in the U.S. economy. His most recent tome, “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free,” is a no-nonsense policy guide for ending our dependence on fossil fuels without incurring massive debt — and courting potential disaster — by expanding our nuclear-generation capacity.
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• The Misconception of Nuclear Power
  
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• WATER WORRIES GROW
  On a hazy summer day, a pair of anglers fish on a man-made lake in PPL’s Susquehanna Riverlands wildlife habitat. Above them, the massive cooling towers of the Susquehanna nuclear plant billow white plumes of vapor, the byproduct of millions of gallons of water the two reactors consume daily from the river to cool the intense heat generated by nuclear fission
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• 42-Square-Mile Federal Uranium Program Challenged: Threatens Contamination of Public Land, Wildlife Habitat Communities, and Precious Western Water
  A coalition of conservation groups filed suit in federal court today, challenging the Department of Energy’s decision to vastly expand its uranium mining program on 42 square miles of public land near the spectacular Dolores River Canyon, a tributary to the Colorado River in southwest Colorado.
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• ACCIDENTS MAKE NUCLEAR QUESTIONS LOOM LARGE
  The recent proliferation of accidents at nuclear power plants in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe has made calls for greater reliance on nuclear energy questionable, experts say.
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• 'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution
  Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system
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• Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid
  We can't let the nuclear power industry use global warming as an opportunity to sell its insanely expensive and dangerous power plants.
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• France: Nuclear Leak Announced
  French nuclear safety authorities and the nuclear giant Areva said that a leak had occurred at one of Areva’s nuclear fuel plants, the second leak at an Areva nuclear power plant in two weeks.
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• NUCLEAR POWER, FRANCE HALTS TRICASTIN POWER STATION
  The French nuclear safety agencies have asked the company owned by the Areva Socatri group to temporarily stop operations at the treatment plant for the Tricastin power station is the south of France. On Monday it was discovered that the plants were leaking water which contained Uranium and which was running off into the surrounding rivers.
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• River use banned after French uranium leak
  Residents in the Vaucluse, a popular southern French tourist destination, were banned yesterday from drinking well-water or swimming or fishing in two rivers after a uranium leak from one of France's nuclear power plants.
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• Nuclear Recycling Fails the Test
  Over the past few years, attention to the recycling of nuclear power spent fuel has grown. Fears of global warming due to fossil fuel burning have given nuclear energy a boost; over the next 15 years dozens of new power reactors are planned world-wide. To promote nuclear energy, the Bush administration is seeking to establish international spent nuclear fuel recycling centers that are supposed to reduce wastes, recycle uranium, and convert nuclear explosive materials, such as plutonium to less troublesome elements in advanced power reactors.
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• NRC Found Lax in Oversight of Fire Safety Regulations at Reactors
  A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that reviewed the performance of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in regulating federally-mandated fire protection standards at U.S. nuclear reactors was released this week. The report confirmed that the NRC has for three decades consistently mishandled fire protection violations at the country’s nuclear power plants.
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Recent Articles

Recent articles of interest posted on the ANR website

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