topic: nuclear

... forever. Our enemies are no longer communism and the Soviet bloc nations. We now know the effects of global pollution, chemicals in our water and nuclear war. Yet, knowing these things and defeating them are two totally different things.     Diabetes, muscular dystrophy, heart disease and cancer are ...
full story 07/05/08

... in forging the original agreement more than a decade ago, fearing that radioactive and toxic Cold War garbage shipped to the 890-square-mile nuclear reservation from sites including the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Golden, Colo., would spread to the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer and eventually ...
full story 07/02/08

... as the two major presidential candidates also are sharply divided on energy priorities.     GOP candidate John McCain has called for building more nuclear power plants and ending a blanket moratorium on drilling in 85 percent of the country’s coastal waters. His rival, Democrat Barack Obama, has emphasized ...
full story 07/02/08

... big, mesa-top neighbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory.     They're fretting these days about a U.S. Department of Energy proposal to have the nuclear weapons lab increase its production of plutonium pits, the core of nuclear warheads, from a few each year to as many as 80.     It's part of ...
full story 07/01/08

... Department questioned Gonzales for more than two hours. They used the same interrogation techniques they would have used on a career criminal or a nuclear physicist. They ignored two of their own officers who said 11-year-old Victoria Sandoval wasn't even at a local pool on the day in 2005 where ...
full story 07/01/08

... demand for electricity in the West growing at 1.5 times the national average, utility companies will be seeking a broad range of sources, including nuclear power, said Jeff Sterba, president and chief executive of New Mexico-based PNM Resources.     "Over 35 percent of the resources we will need in ...
full story 07/01/08

... said it is not unusual to work together with other utilities on shared power projects, noting that El Paso and PNM both went into the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station together.     “This (the solar plant) is just a project all four of us were interested in,” he said.     RFP requirements include ...
full story 07/01/08

... big, mesa-top neighbor, Los Alamos National Laboratory.     They're fretting these days about a U.S. Department of Energy proposal to have the nuclear weapons lab increase its production of plutonium pits, the core of nuclear warheads, from a few each year to as many as 80 .     It's part of ...
full story 06/30/08

... continue to call for Iran to work with the IAEA closely. Given that Iran is a net importer of refined oil, any calls for Iran to move away from nuclear power must be accompanied with a discussion on energy options and financial or technological incentives.     For America, engagement and detente were ...
full story 06/28/08

... energy resources to work for us. We have placed billions of barrels of coastal and arctic crude oil off-limits to ourselves. We haven't built a nuclear power plant in 30 years. And now the San Diego Gas & Electric Co. faces fierce opposition in its effort to build one of the world's largest ...
full story 06/28/08