Nuclear News Roundup

(Before It's News)

Some people consider nuclear power cleantech. We don’t. But that’s not really the issue killing nuclear power anyway — it’s the cost. Here’s some news related to nuclear power that touches on both topics:

• EDF “In Big Trouble” Says French Nuclear Expert
• Lower US Power Prices Trim Revenue For Nuclear Reactors
• Slow Is Scary If France Quits Nuclear: State Institute
• Germany Builds Minus Six Coal Plants After Nuclear Phaseout
• Radioactive Nuclear Waste Leak – Hanford, WA

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• Study Links Insecticide Use to Invertebrate Die-offs
• New Films Enhance Plant Growth But May Leave Chemical Residues in Soil
• Palm Oil Health Craze May Push Animals to Extinction While Destroying the Environment
• Tesla’s Latest 1-Up
• World Meteorological Organization confirms 2012 was ninth warmest year on record – ‘The sustained warming of the lower atmosphere is a worrisome sign’
• World Press Freedom Day and Obscurantism
• DOE Smart Grid Funds Created $6.8 Billion Economic Boost, 47,000 Jobs
• Climate Sceptics Win Rocks Britain’s Political Landscape
• The last time CO2 was this high, humans didn’t exist – ‘There is the possibility that we’ve already breached the threshold of truly dangerous human influence on our climate and planet’
• Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Faces Many Environmental Challenges