Tag: nuclear
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White House Approves Rollback of Cleanup Standards for Nuclear Incidents
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY — The White House has given final approval for dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents and dirty bombs. The final version …
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Government Report Exposes Lack of Preparedness for Nuclear Emergency
NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE — The GAO warned that by failing to account and plan for the actual numbers of people who would evacuate in a nuclear emergency …
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The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
POST CARBON INSTITUTE — If you want to understand how much energy costs, don’t look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. This massive coffee table book contains …
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef at Risk from Uranium Exports
KEVIN GRANDIA — Now the largest and most well-known of these reefs, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of the province of Queensland, is under threat of becoming a shipping route for uranium—the radioactive substance used for …
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A Closer Look at Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Energy Policy
DESMOGBLOG — But there is a larger political lesson to be learned here about President Obama and his political calculus when it comes to the environment. It is a lesson that was recently summed up best by …