Los Angeles Times
14 California energy officials are beginning to plan for the possibility of a long-term future without the San Onofre nuclear plant. The plant's unexpected outage of ...
Energy Commission Plans for Clean(er) Energy Future
San Diego Reader (blog) - Jun 22, 2012
The California Energy Commission convenes a meeting this morning in Los
Angeles regarding the 2012 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update. The
report focuses on the state's long range clean energy goals and includes
questions concerning the future of ...
Berkeley City Council asks governor to pull plug on unsafe nuclear power plants
Daily Californian - Jun 20, 2012
By Oksana Yurovsky | Staff In a nearly unanimous vote, the Berkeley
City Council has decided to urge Gov. Jerry Brown to decommission two of
the state's nuclear power plants, which some say pose a hazard if
allowed to operate.
Energy purchases made by the U.S. Department of Defense do not influence
world oil prices, making cutting fuel use the only effective choice to
reduce what the Pentagon spends on petroleum fuels, according to new
reports issued by the RAND Corporation. The U.S. military can continue
to have an important role in promoting stability in major oil producing
regions and by helping protect the flow of
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which in its heyday
could trigger global economic crises by turning off the oil taps, faces
an uncertain future as the shale oil revolution transforms the energy
business.
OPEC's plight is deepened by a growing confrontation between oil price
hawks, like Iran and Algeria, and the so-called doves led by Saudi
Arabia, long the dominant me
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new cover has been installed over the used fuel pool of unit 4 at the
damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The cover will provide
additional protection from the weather and prevent debris from the roof
of the reactor building falling into the pool.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must not make final licensing
decisions until it has completed a rulemaking action on the
environmental impacts of highly radioactive nuclear waste in the form of
spent, or 'used', reactor fuel storage and disposal, as required under
the landmark Waste Confidence Rule decision of June 8th by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, according to
A Japanese minister apologised Tuesday for the nation's failure to make
use of a United States-made map showing how radiation was spreading
from crippled reactors in the days after the Fukushima crisis.
Tokyo admitted that confusion among government departments meant the map
was never used and evacuees were not directed away from areas where
radiation from the leaking nuclear plant was spiki
Lithuania's parliament on Thursday approved a deal with Japan's Hitachi
on the construction of a new nuclear plant aimed at reducing the Baltic
state's energy dependence on Russia.
Last July, Lithuania invited Hitachi in alliance with General Electric
to start talks on building a plant, rejecting a bid by the US-based
Westinghouse Electric, owned by Japan's Toshiba Corporation.
Researchers in Finland have found that acceptance of the site of a spent
nuclear fuel repository can depend on gender and economic background.
Writing in the International Journal of Environmental Technology and
Management, the team reports that affluent men more often have a
positive opinion on the location of such facilities than women or
disadvantaged people.