August 2014

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.

Nuclear Reactors 153 - Proposals to Clean Up Reactor F at Hanford

             The United States developed and manufactured nuclear weapons at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in South Central Washington State from 1942 to 1987.  The B Reactor,  the first full sized plutonium reactor ever built, generated plutonium for the test of the first nuclear bomb and the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II. Eventually a total of nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium processing facilities.

Nuclear Reactors 152 - Japan Debates Restarting Nuclear Power Reactors

         Japan had been generating about thirty percent of its electricity from nuclear reactors before the Fukushima disaster in March of 2011. Following the disaster, all of Japan's 54 power reactors were shut down. Since then, there has been a debate about whether or not the power reactors should be shut down permanently. The Abe government wants to restart the reactors and to make export of nuclear technology a big part of Japan's international trade.

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