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WATCH: Newt Gingrich's Moon Colony On 'SNL'

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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ABC's Iran Propaganda

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FAIR - Feb. 02 (News Analysis) - The January 31 ABC World News broadcast featured a blatantly propagandistic report on the supposed threat from Iran.

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Panel: Start now to replace Nevada nuke site

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

tri-cityherald.com - By Matthew Daly - Jan. 28 (News Report) - The Union of Concerned Scientists said construction of an interim storage facility for nuclear waste poses a stiff political challenge and could distract from the more important goal of finding a permanent repository site.

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Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Peter Eisler - Jan. 18 (Special Report) - Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.

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Blaming U.S. and Israel, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Rick Gladstone - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver on Wednesday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.

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Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press Staff - Jan. 09 (News Report) - An Iranian court has convicted a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday.

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Mysterious explosion rocks Iranian city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - Nov. 30 (News) - An explosion rocked the western Iranian city of Isfahan on Monday, resonating in several parts of the city, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. It is not clear what caused the blast, which has not been officially confirmed by the authorities. A large uranium conversion plant, located some five kilometers from the center of Isfahan, processes uranium chemically to adapt it to the enrichment process with centrifuges carried out in other sites like Natanz.

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Is the end of the world really nigh?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Alok Jha - Nov. 20 (Special Report) - All too real are the human-caused threats born of climate change, excess pollution, depletion of natural resources and the madness of nuclear weapons. We tinker with our genes and atoms at our own peril. Nanotechnology, synthetic biology and genetic modification offer much potential in giving us better food to eat, safer drugs and a cleaner world, but they could also go wrong if misapplied or if we charge on without due care.

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Are Partisan Politics in Congress putting the US at Risk for Nuclear Terrorism?

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Fissile Materials Working Group - Sep. 15 (Editorial) - Partisan politics in Congress appear to be putting the United States (and the rest of the world) at risk for nuclear terrorism. Why can't they get it together to keep our country safe?

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Does Navy depot pose a danger to public?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Kyung M. Song - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - It's been eight years since Glen Milner first asked the Navy just how big an explosion could be triggered by an accident or an attack at its munitions depot on Indian Island. And it's been six months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one of the Navy's grounds for rejecting Milner's request under the Freedom of Information Act. Now the Department of Defense is back in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where it's pursuing its second legal argument.

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In Cheney’s memoir, it’s clear Iraq’s lessons didn’t sink in

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Woodward - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - A key lesson of the 9/11 decade for presidents and other national security decision makers is the importance of rigorously testing intelligence evidence: poking holes in it, setting out contradictions, figuring out what may have been overlooked or left out. It is essential to distinguish between hard facts and what is an assessment or judgment.

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Safety doubts raised at U.S. nuclear waste cleanup project

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Ralph Vartabedian - Aug. 14 (Investigative Report) - Senior scientists at the site said in emails obtained by The Times that Bechtel's designs for tanks and mixing equipment are flawed, representing such a massive risk that work should be stopped on that part of the construction project. But Energy Department officials in Washington said they believed the problems were fixable and that they had authorized Bechtel to keep going

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Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, George Weller - Aug. 09 (Special Report) - As radiation readings in Japan reach their highest levels since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdowns, we look at the beginning of the atomic age. Today is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed some 75,000 people and left another 75,000 seriously wounded. It came just three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing around 80,000 people and injuring some 70,000. By official Japanese estimates, nearly 300,000 people died from the bombings, including those who lost their lives in the ensuing months and years from related injuries and illnesses. Other researchers estimate a much higher death toll.

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Jesus Loves Nukes But They Have to Cool It

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - By Abby Zimet - Aug. 04 (News Report) - The Air Force has suspended a decades-long training course, commonly dubbed Jesus Loves Nukes, that taught "ethics" to nuclear missile launchers by referencing Biblical figures like Abraham, John the Baptist and other "believers engaged in wars."

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Confronting the Nuclear Industry

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

resistinc.org - By Janet Greenwald - Jul. 01 (Opinion) - As we receive dire reports from our friends in Japan and watch the levels of radiation in our rain and drinking water creep up, many progressive-thinking people feel frustrated that the Obama administration still considers nuclear power a necessary part of the “mix” of energy sources for our future—and the nuclear bomb a necessary part of our weapons reparatory. Neither should be part of our future.

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As Obama Quietly Pushes for a Nuclear Weapons Renaissance, Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Lab

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 28 (News Report) - In New Mexico, an out-of-control wildfire that began Sunday has already burned nearly 80 square miles and is a mile or less from Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to a nuclear weapons plutonium facility. Pieces of ash from the fire have dropped onto the laboratory grounds, sparking "spot" fires. A senior investigator with the Project on Government Oversight said a fire at the facility would be a "disaster" that could result in large and lethal releases of radiation. Officials insist explosive materials on the laboratory’s grounds are safely stored in underground bunkers made of concrete and steel. But the group, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, told the Associated Press that the fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dump site where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground.

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Is Karzai's Accusation That Coalition Forces Are Polluting Afghanistan with Nuclear Material Accurate or an Over-Reaction?

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Larry Greenemeier - Jun. 25 (News Report) - President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused U.S. and NATO-led coalition troops of littering

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Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, U.S. Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Seymour Hersh, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - In his latest article for the New Yorker magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran's nuclear and military threat – just like it did with Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq. Hersh reveals that despite using Iranian informants and cutting edge surveillance technology, U.S. officials have been unable to find decisive evidence that Iran has been moving enriched uranium to an underground weapon-making center.

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WikiLeaks: Al-Qaida Already Has Nuclear Capacity

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

newsmax.com - By Martin Gould - Apr. 25 (News Report) - U.S. authorities believe al-Qaida already has nuclear capacity and is ready to use it, new WikiLeaks documents detailing prisoner interrogations in Guantanamo Bay have revealed.

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Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Barbara Rose Johnston - Apr. 04 (News Analysis) - As Japan's nuclear disaster continues to unfold, a growing number of its citizens and residents are beginning their transition, becoming the newest members of the world's radiogenic community. Like the hibakusha, downwinders, uranium miners, atomic vets and the many who live in towns and cities that hosted the nuclear enterprise, they find their lives profoundly altered by a hazardous, invisible threat, where the fear of nuclear contamination and the personal health and intergenerational effects from exposure colors all aspects of social, cultural, economic and psychological well-being.

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Human Health Effects - WANMEC

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

toxipedia.org - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - Radioactive and toxic substances used in the production of plutonium and its resulting waste are dangerous to both Hanford workers and the public. These substances may have been inhaled or ingested through drinking water. All of the following radioactive contaminants have reached the groundwater at Hanford.

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TEPCO says damage possible to reactor pressure containers

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Asahi - Mar. 29 (News) - TEPCO officials told reporters Monday morning that despite the continuous pumping in of water to cool down the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactor cores, water levels were not rising as expected, meaning the pressure containers may not be completely sealed off.

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A World in Denial about Nuclear Power

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Danny Schechter - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - As Hiroshima becomes yesterday’s distant memory and Fukishima the current threat, the full extent of the human harm from the disaste is not yet in, partly because the Japanese government and the power companies don’t want to alarm the public. Years earlier, a similar cover-up was in effect at Three Mile Island complex in Pennsylvania where reports of the damage people suffered from a serious accident was minimized, never examined in depth by some of the very same media outlets who are today criticizing Japan for a lack of transparency.

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Reflections on Fukushima: A time to mourn, to learn, and to teach

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Robert Socolow - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - As a physicist, I have spent my life hoping that nuclear power could realize its potential. My teachers were scientists who had penetrated the nuclear world for the first time. They told those of us who were studying physics in the pre-1960s era that we could have all the fun they had had, as the domain of analysis moved down in scale from the nucleus to the hadrons and leptons of the sub-nuclear zoo. But, with that fun, came a second assignment: Our generation had to ensure there was no further use of nuclear weapons. My contemporaries and I were socialized to believe that nuclear physics could bring humankind amazing insights into our past via precise dating and powerful tools of diagnostic and therapeutic medicine -- but nuclear physics, we were taught, also could bring attractive energy sources. The triad of nuclear power weaknesses -- safety, waste management, and couplings to weapons -- was a surmountable challenge.

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Hebrew University's Einstein archives to go online

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Jerusalem Post - By Ben Hartman - Mar. 14 (News Report) - Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist's archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives website.

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