Friday, March 8, 2013

Book Review: Japan's Catastrophic 2011 Temblor

Asia Sentinel - ‎7 hours ago‎

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. By Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill. Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover, 226 pp. US$17.82. Anyone who was in Japan on March 11, 2011, when the 9 pt. Richter ...http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5236&Itemid=604

World Energy Council calls for 'effective' nuclear governance

Energy Live News - ‎2 hours ago‎

It is vital to have an “effective global governance” of the nuclear power industry to restore the public's trust in the sector. That's the view of the World Energy Council, commenting ahead of the second anniversary of the tragic Fukushima accident in Japan. http://www.energylivenews.com/2013/03/08/world-energy-council-calls-for-%E2%80%98effective%E2%80%99-nuclear-governance/

IAEA: Fast reactors offer "thousands of years" of nuclear power

PennEnergy (press release) - ‎10 hours ago‎

Using currently known uranium resources, "fast reactors operating in a closed fuel cycle would be able to provide energy for thousands of years as well as easing concerns about waste," says Stefano Monti, Team Leader for the IAEA's Fast Reactor ...http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2013/03/iaea-fast-reactors-offer-thousands-of-years-of-nuclear-power.html

Bill Gates says nuclear power is the key to solving climate change

CERAWEEK-Gates favors nuclear power to help limit climate change

Reuters -

HOUSTON, March 7 | Fri Mar 8, 2013 2:03am EST. HOUSTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates said that expanding nuclear power and making it safer was the most economic way to ward off climate change. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/ceraweek-gates-nuclear-idUSL1N0C01HV20130308

Bill Gates Touts Nuclear Power in Climate Change Battle

Energy Tribune - ‎

Bill Gates said he favors expanding the use of nuclear energy around the world in an effort to limit climate change. The Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder, according to Reuters, told a group of international energy company executives Thursday ...http://www.energytribune.com/74905/bill-gates-touts-nuclear-power-in-climate-change-battle

Bill Gates says nuclear power is the key to solving climate change

Power Engineering Magazine -

Speaking to a group of international energy executives at the IHS CERAWeek conference this week, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates called nuclear power the most economically viable way to combat climate change. “The only way to solve the ...http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2013/03/bill-gates-says-nuclear-power-is-the-key-to-solving-climate-chan.html

Gates Calls for Increased Spending on Energy Research, Renewed Focus on ...

POWER magazine - ‎

Bill Gates didn't mince words last night when sharing with the IHS CERAWeek crowd his thoughts about public support for basic scientific research in the United States. “It's an incredible travesty that we're spending so little,” he said. Delivering the final ...http://www.powermag.com/POWERnews/Gates-Calls-for-Increased-Spending-on-Energy-Research-Renewed-Focus-on-Nuclear_5438.html

Bill Gates urges government to spend more on energy R&D

FuelFix (blog) - ‎

Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates urged the U.S. government and other countries on Thursday to spend more money on energy research and development as a catalyst to innovation that he believes will bring more options to people around the ...http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/03/07/bill-gates-urges-government-to-spend-more-on-energy-rd/

Two years after Fukushima, Japan's nuclear lobby bounces back

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/us-japan-nuclear-discontent-idUKBRE92619S20130307

Japan to revise Fukushima decommission roadmap by June

Wilson testifies in Congress about SRS cuts

http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20130307/AIK0101/130309742/1007/AIK0101/wilson-testifies-in-congress-about-srs-cuts

UPDATE 1-U.S. nuclear plant inspections need to improve -report

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/usa-reactors-inspections-idUKL1N0BZAS520130307

Editorial Two Enlistees in the Climate Wars

Editorial

Two Enlistees in the Climate Wars

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/two-enlistees-in-the-climate-wars.html?_r=0

Pearce looks to WIPP to help solve nuke problem

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/Pearce-looks-to-WIPP-to-help-solve-nuke-problem-4336900.php

Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm

Hopes for 'safe' temperature increase within 2C fade as Hawaii station documents second-greatest emissions increase

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/08/hawaii-climate-change-second-greatest-annual-rise-emissions

Nuclear Power and the Emptiness of Political Promises

Nuclear Power and the Emptiness of Political Promises
http://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00080/

Japan’s Economic Troubles Spur a Return to Nuclear

Some of the nuclear power plants shut down after the Fukushima disaster could restart soon.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512151/japans-economic-troubles-spur-a-return-to-nuclear/

By Elaine M. Grossman
Global Security Newswire
HONOLULU -- There’s an old adage about blaming the messenger who bears bad news – a practice often applied to journalists -- but when it comes to disturbing media revelations about the potential theft or unauthorized use of Pakistani nuclear weapons, fingers point in all directions.
Pakistani officials blame their U.S. counterparts for press leaks on some of the most sensitive aspects of their security apparatus. South Asia experts in Washington decry media coverage for sometimes being inaccurate, inflammatory or harmful to relations between the two countries. Public interest advocates in both nations criticize the Pakistani military for a lack of transparency on nuclear security policies and practices that might endanger the region’s population.

Carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies calculated

from ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

Solar and wind power pose a challenge for the U.S. electrical grid, which lacks the capacity to store surplus clean electricity and deliver it on demand. Researchers are developing grid-scale storage batteries, but the fossil fuel required to build these technologies could negate some of the environmental benefits of new solar and wind farms, say scientists.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130308111310.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_technology+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+News+--+Top+Technology%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

China may start exporting AP1400 nuclear reactor this year

from Next Big Future by noreply@blogger.com (brian wang)

Officials behind China's self-developed nuclear reactor, known as the CAP1400, expect to sign its first overseas orders for the technology this year, most likely from South America or Asia.

Sun Qin, the chairman of China National Nuclear Corp told China Daily in an exclusive interview, that the deals could seal should the construction of a CAP1400 reactor in China begin by the end of this year, after approval from the State Council.

The Chinese technology is attractive because of the “favorable and unconditional” credit conditions offered to other nations.

The construction site of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province. China's nuclear plant construction, after a 20-month halt due to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan, gradually resumed by the second half of last year. Geng Yuhe / For China Daily

Read more »http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/china-may-start-exporting-ap1400.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Obama Energy nominee will be hit with green energy loan questions Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/08/obama-energy-nominee-will-be-hit-with-green-energy-loan-questions/#ixzz2My1yJSAj

Obama Energy nominee will be hit with green energy loan questions

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/08/obama-energy-nominee-will-be-hit-with-green-energy-loan-questions/

ANS Update: A Tour of EBR-I: Birthplace of Nuclear Energy

A Tour of EBR-I: Birthplace of Nuclear Energy

By pbowersox on Mar 08, 2013 08:45 am

Don Miley, Tour Guide at Idaho National Laboratory, takes viewers on a trip to the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I). In 1951, the first electricity from nuclear power was generated at EBR-I – using a reactor which actually bred more … Continue reading →
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