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• Silence is Acquiescence

  Published: September 6, 2007, 8:10 am

  Tags: Candu, Atomic Energy, Nuclear Power, Green House Gases, Nuclear Waste, Apec

  Zip.Harper silent on nuclear energy initiative And while Harper is silent on this crucial issue being discussed at the APEC meeting, Australia isn't.Australia 'will never' accept nuclear waste Of course it just so happens that his government is planning to open up a nuclear waste site in Northern Ontario. So will it be accepting American

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• Tory Transparency: GNEP

  Published: September 8, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Spp, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Transparency, Apec, Accountability

  Nuclear Energy Partnership. Nuclear Energy Partnership? The government is planning to sign a Nuclear Energy Partnership? Was this one of the Conservatives five priorities? It was not publicly discussed nor raised in the House. It was a side deal from John Howard's visit to Canada.Ottawa near decision on nuclear plan: Bernier"Australia and

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• Non-Treehuggers Criticize the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

  Published: November 4, 2007, 5:12 pm

  Tags: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, Gnep, Nuclear Industry, Russia, United States, Nuclear Waste, Spent Fuel, Yucca Mountain, Nuclear Proliferation

  "Accelerating Clean and Safe Nuclear Energy", it advocates worldwide expansion of nuclear power via nuclear fuel-recycling technology, with (theoretically) less nuclear waste.  In short, build more nuclear plants, and...reduce, reuse, recycle! The general GNEP nuclear fuel supply/demand/waste relationship. (Click to enlarge.) [The GNEP

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• Where does stored nuclear waste go?

  Published: November 27, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Science, Ecology, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

  of gallons of hazardous waste resulting from the nation's nuclear weapons program lie in a remote location in southeastern Washington state called Hanford. Beneath this desert landscape about two million curies of radioactivity and hundreds of thousands of tons of chemicals are captured within the stratified vadose zone below which gives

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• Harpers Nuclear Opportunism

  Published: December 19, 2007, 7:19 am

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear

  Nuclear Crisis in Canada produced an opportunity for Stephen Harper to not only engage in political opportunism but to set the AECL and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the path to privatization. His former appointed head could not get the job done, so time to replace himNever one to miss an opportunity to make a purse out of a sows ear,

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• Nuclear Bait and Switch

  Published: January 19, 2008, 5:33 am

  Tags: Privatization, Stephen Harper, Chalk River, Nuclear Power, Gary Lunn, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear, Aecl

  Golf A Little HustleCANDUNuclear NIMBYTarsands To Go Nuclear Conservatives Glow GreenFind blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:Chalk River, isotopes, CANDU, Canada, privatization, nuclear, nuclear-power, power-plants, nuclear-energy,Stephen Harper, Gary Lunn, , atomic energy, Conservatives, Government, AECL, Natural Resources

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• Another "Significant Discount"

  Published: January 31, 2008, 8:34 am

  Tags: Nuclear Waste

  HOUSTON, Jan 31, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Oxford Funding Corporation has won the bid and secured financing for the purchase of a portfolio of mortgage loans offered by a national lender which is finalizing its bankruptcy proceedings. The pool of loans carries principal balances of $2.6 million, and consists of a mix of performing, sub-performing

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• About that nuclear waste thats over 20 years old..

  Published: February 18, 2008, 3:45 am

  Tags: Dustys Posts, Energy, Environment, Federal Fuckwits At The Helm, Politics, Hanford, Nuclear Waste, Tax Dollars, Yucca Mt, Time, Bless, The, Taxpayer Hanford, Nuclear, Reservation, Reactor, Waste, Sitting, Storing, Temporary, Generates, Roughly, Tons, Toxic, Commercial, And, Def

  If you were expecting the Federal Government to actually do something with the waste from nuclear reactors, well, your sorely mistaken my dear reader.Because the truth of the matter is that the “waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still [...]

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• About that nuclear waste thats over 20 years old..

  Published: February 18, 2008, 11:17 am

  Tags: Our Tax Dollars At Work, Nuclear Waste

  generates roughly 20 tons of waste a year. All the waste is currently in, cough, temporary storage at 131 sites in 39 states. Of course that is if you consider 20 years of storing the nuclear waste temporary. I do not. Yucca Mountain was going to solve all our nuclear waste problems, yes indeed it was. The earliest it will, if ever, accept

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• Vintages, Revintages, and Defaults

  Published: April 1, 2008, 8:12 am

  Tags: Delinquency, Default, Nuclear Waste

  Our friend PJ at Housing Wire had a nice post up the other day about Michael Perry, CEO of IndyMac, and his startling announcement that IndyMac would be changing the way it collected and presented statistics on delinquent and defaulted loans. Of course I'd say it's a nice post; I contributed around two cents' worth to an earlier draft of PJ's.

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