EPA Proposing New Standards that Would Endanger Public Health

             The United States Environmental Agency exists for the purpose of insuring the well-being of the environment and public health by monitoring for pollutants and regulating sources of pollution. The EPA has a history of criticizing other agencies when they proposed standards for acceptable levels of radiation that the EPS felt were not sufficiently protective of the environment and human health.

Nuclear Reactors 154 - Transatomic Power is Developing a New Molten Salt Power Reactor

         There are a number of different companies that are working on the development of new designs for nuclear reactors. Some of these are in the planning stages and others are actively building test systems. There are approaches that employ alternatives to the light-water reactors that are employed in most of the nuclear power stations around the world.

Nuclear Weapons 88 - Recent Nuclear Accord Between U.S. and Russia in Jeopardy over Crimea

             Following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been cooperation between the United States and Russia in reducing their nuclear arsenals. The nuclear power reactors in the U.S. have been burning diluted Russian nuclear materials from nuclear warheads left over from the Soviet Era. U.S. scientists helped clean up the area in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested nuclear weapons.

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