Category: Nuclear Power
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
India's Nuclear Insanity / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Global_Research
Dr. Vandana Shiva writes: Fukushima has raised, once again, the perennial questions about human fallibility and human frailty, about human hubris and man’s arrogance in thinking he can control nature. The earthquakes, the tsunami, the meltdown at Japan’s nuclear power plant are nature’s reminders of her power.
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Hamaoka, Another Japanese Nuclear Plant Shut Down / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Pravda
Premier orders shutdown of another nuclear plant in Japan, Naoto Kan asks suspension of Hamaoka reactors until there are security measures to tackle tsunami or earthquake...
The Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, decided on Friday to suspend the operation of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant (southwest of Tokyo) because of the risk of an earthquake in the region, informed the local agency "Kyodo."
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Big Future for Nuclear Power on the Horizon / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: The_Energy_Report
Japan's nuclear catastrophe sent shock waves through the uranium market, but in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Haywood Securities Analyst Geordie Mark explains why the disaster in Japan isn't the end for uranium miners.
The Energy Report: Geordie, take us through what it was like on March 11 once you learned that Japan's nuclear reactors had suffered severe damage in an earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Friday, April 22, 2011
The Trillion Dollar Costs of A Nuclear Catastrophe Bankrupting an Entire National Economy... / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Washingtons_Blog
Preface: I am not against all nuclear power, solely the unsafe type we have today. Future designs - like thorium reactors (see this and this) - may be a different animal altogether.
AP has a good article (via the Washington Post) on nuclear power economics:
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Monday, April 18, 2011
The Nuclear Power Mercantilist Myth / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Andrew_McKillop
The myths surrounding nuclear power have been worked up into a complex web as massive and multiple as the debts and deficits assailing government leaderships and central bankers in most OECD countries, but like these myth-based no alternatives the nuclear myths are easy to cut back to basics.
Monday, April 11, 2011
The Symptoms of Nuclear Hysteria / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Peter_Schiff
Imagine you invented a machine that revolutionized travel. You know your invention could cut local and long distance travel time substantially and vastly improve the ability for business to deliver freight efficiently. The invention would add trillions to global GDP. If released, your invention would no doubt be universally used and admired. However, based on the initial safety assessments, analysts predict that if used widely your invention would cause the deaths of 300,000 Americans per year and countless more around the globe. Would you still release it?
Monday, March 28, 2011
After 40 years of Nuclear Passion, It Hurts / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: OilPrice_Com
For 40 years I've written about nuclear power, defended it and believed, as I still do, that it offers the best signpost to a great future; to what Churchill called the "sunlit uplands"; in short, utopia.
I regard electricity as one of mankind's great achievements, saving people from the menial, painful drudgery that marks daily existence without it. Growing up in Africa, I'd see men and women walking miles, many miles, barefoot across the savanna, looking for a few pieces of wood to burn for cooking and hot water.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Japan Crisis Is Not the End of Nuclear Power / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: The_Energy_Report
John Pugsley has been publishing The Stealth Investor newsletter for the past five years, producing a recommendation record that is enviable by any standard. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, John reveals his current thinking on energy-related investments in light of the global economic situation and the effects of the catastrophe in Japan.
Editor's Note: Shortly after this interview was recorded, Mr. Pugsley suffered a major heart attack. Our thoughts are with him and his family as we share his insights. New subscriptions to The Stealth Investor have been temporarily suspended.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Beyond Japan Fukishima: A World in Denial About Nuclear Risks / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Danny_Schechter
What will it take for our world to recognize the dangers that nuclear scientists and even Albert Einstein were warning about at the “dawn” of the nuclear age?
Amy Goodman reminds us of the prophetic statement by Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett who tried to find words to describe the horror he was seeing in Hiroshima in 1945 after the bomb fell.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Japan Nuclear Crisis: New Power Plant Construction Renaissance in Peril / Stock-Markets / Nuclear Power
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Concerns revived by the nuclear crisis in Japan could well reverse a renaissance in new power plant construction in many countries, while design upgrades to prevent similar reactor failures will make those that are built more expensive.
The 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on Friday have caused a series of catastrophic failures in several nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Attempts to cool overheating fuel rods have led to four explosions, giving rise to fear over how much nuclear radiation may have escaped.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Nuclear Power Madness / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Global_Research
Norman Solomon writes: Like every other president since the 1940s, Barack Obama has promoted nuclear power. Now, with reactors melting down in Japan, the official stance is more disconnected from reality than ever.
Political elites are still clinging to the oxymoron of "safe nuclear power." It's up to us - people around the world - to peacefully and insistently shut those plants down.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Nuclear Power Industry Praying Japan Will Avert a Nuclear Disaster / Stock-Markets / Nuclear Power
By: Martin_D_Weiss
Explosions and meltdowns at nuclear reactors in Japan this past weekend will forever change the world of energy.
Authorities have already scheduled widespread power outages starting today — and they could continue the planned outages for weeks or even months.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Japan Nuclear Melt-Down? The Government to the Rescue / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: LewRockwell
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers writes: The nuclear power plant failures and explosions near Fukushima, Japan are an excellent case example of the failure of government. Here, the Japanese government has been horribly derelict before, during and after this incident. This freak occurrence would be a tragedy of comical proportions if only it weren’t so grotesque and a real-life horror show. It has been a brutal tragedy of errors that makes me wonder why anyone would trust or believe anything the government says.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Seven Steps To Reclaiming The Nuclear Energy Initiative / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Once there was a time when America bestrode the nuclear world as a colossus. Names such as Einstein, Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project helped to win World War 2 and contribute to many peacetime applications as well. Over the ensuing decades the United States allowed other nations to take the lead in the development of nuclear power.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Reveille For The American Nuclear Industry, Uranium Stocks Investing / Companies / Nuclear Power
By: Jeb_Handwerger
A few days ago the French upstaged the US mighty nuclear reactor construction industry under our very noses in broad daylight making us appear as Homer Simpson napping at the control plant of Mr. Burns’ atomic energy plant in Springfield. Most of the media never mentioned the event. Only one gave it token coverage hidden on pg. A13 without realizing its true significance. French President Nicholas Sarkozy signed a landmark deal with the Indian Government to sell billions of dollars of nuclear reactors and fuel for the next 25 years, while the US is battling in hard economic times, beset by unemployment to maintain a grip on India’s extremely profitable and growing nuclear industry.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Critical Decisions Looming for Japan's Nuclear Industry / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: Global_Intel_Report
SITUATION: Japan is advancing with plans to reprocess spent nuclear fuel and boost its external nuclear exports. These decisions will impact the conduct of Japan's global non-proliferation diplomacy.ANALYSIS: Assessing the degree of salience to Tokyo of non-proliferation goals will be aided by monitoring its policy in two areas: its negotiating strategy in nuclear technology supply talks with other states, and especially India, and its management of its internal nuclear power program. Other aspects of its nuclear diplomacy, including pressure for North Korean disarmament and support for enhanced global nuclear security, are likely to remain robust.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Megatons To Megawatts: Thirteen Percent Or Four Percent ? / Commodities / Nuclear Power
By: Andrew_McKillop
President Barack Obama has moved into high gear trying to prolong the US-Russian "Megatons
to MegaWatts" program for turning mostly Russian nuclear warheads into reactor fuel. He has
enlisted former top defense and foreign policy officials from past Democratic and Republican
administrations, in a bid to push the Senate to ratify a stalled nuclear arms treaty with Russia.