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This portal is a joint project between the Center for Media and Democracy and the U.K.-based Spinwatch. A substantial proportion of the articles in the Nuclear Issues portal originated from Nuclear Spin, a project of Spinwatch.
Rebadging Nuclear Power as Clean and Green: The nuclear power industry is lobbying to have nuclear power included in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The CDM -- which currently excludes nuclear power -- allows industrialized countries required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol (known as Annex I countries) to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries, as partial fulfillment of their obligations. A decision on whether to overturn the existing ban on nuclear power is likely to be taken at the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen which starts in early December. For the full details see Clean Development Mechanism and Nuclear Power.
Spotting the wind shift: Following the defeat in late November 2007 of the pro-nuclear Prime Minister John Howard, BHP Billiton moved quickly to boost its credentials with the incoming Labor government by employing Geoff Walsh. Walsh has been a an adviser to a string of Australian Labor Party politicians and a senior party official. BHP Billiton are planning a major expansion of their Roxby Downs uranium and copper mine in South Australia. The Australian newspaper recently reported that the expanded mine would need "nearly half of South Australia's current electricity supply" to power the project.
BHP Billiton operates the world's largest uranium mine in the South Australian desert. The mine currently extracts 42 million litres of water a day from the Great Artesian Basin, for which it pays nothing. When the mine was being established in the early 1980's, the mining consortium persuaded the government of the day to grant exemptions to the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988, the Development Act 1993, the Environmental Protection Act 1993, the Freedom of Information Act 1991, the Mining Act 1971 and the Natural Resources Act 2004 (which incorporates the Water Resources Act 1997). The company prefers not to comment on the deal. [1]
Jeers: CNN's meltdown: On his July 22 CNN show, conservative host Glenn Beck interviewed former Greenpeace activist turned industry PR consultant Patrick Moore. No one disclosed that Moore is paid to co-chair the Nuclear Energy Institute's front group, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. The segment focused on Al Gore's ten-year plan to switch to renewable energy sources, which Moore called "crazy." Moore told Beck, "Hopefully, by 10 years from now, the first new nuclear plants will be coming online and, hopefully, by then we will have built more wind power so that we can turn the gas off when the wind is blowing."
Cheers: CASE Study: In an August 6 article about the high cost of new nuclear power plants, Forbes.com reporters Brian Wingfield and Joshua Zumbrun note that Christine Todd Whitman "is drumming up publicity for what might be a nuclear renaissance in the U.S." They go on to note that "Whitman's got a vested interest in seeing the U.S. nuclear industry bloom," as she's paid by the Nuclear Energy Institute to co-chair the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. After providing that disclosure, the piece goes on to examine claims by Whitman and other nuclear boosters, as thorough reporting should.
- The Nuclear Energy Institute U.S. industry group held its annual Nuclear Energy Assembly in Chicago between May 5 to 7, 2008. Titled "Energizing a Low-Carbon Future", the conference (pdf) was focused "on one of the global community’s most challenging issues: averting climate change by reducing carbon emissions—using mechanisms that meet the economic test of the marketplace. An increasing number of voices are calling for more nuclear energy. We’ll examine what it will take to secure a 'nuclear future.'" * Diane Farsetta reports on the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual conference recently held in in Chicago. See "When Recycling Isn't: Lessons from a Nuclear Industry Conference" (May 9); and
- The World Nuclear Association (WNA) is holding its annual conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London between September 3-5, 2008. The theme of the conference, the WNA states, will be "Charting the Future" with the aim of taking "a wide-ranging look at current industry developments and at the practical steps needed to guarantee and accelerate the nuclear renaissance."
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- Requested pages: There's no page on Chem-Nuclear Systems, which operates the the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste dump in South Carolina. Chem-Nuclear Systems is a division of EnergySolutions Inc, a Utah company that wants to import to the U.S. "large amounts of low-level radioactive waste from Italy." [2]
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Disclosure:A substantial proportion of the articles in the Nuclear Issues portal originated from Nuclear Spin, a project of Spinwatch. Nuclear Spin was funded by grants from the JMG Foundation, Greenpeace UK, the Network for Social Change, Greenpeace International and Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation.
