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By Harvey Wasserman 
 
Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls---in advance?  Are you willing to have nuclear power PREVENT a solution to the climate crisis?
 
Twenty-two years ago today, an apocalyptic cloud rose up from Unit Four, in the heart of the Ukraine. For the next few hundred generations, you and your progeny will breathe its radioactive fallout, which was thousands of times worse than that released at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Apr 23 - Knight Ridder Washington Bureau

At a House Science and Technology Committee hearing Wednesday, expansion of nuclear power was viewed as an opportunity.

Gone are the days when lawmakers questioned the safety of reactor technology. Even among those for whom waste is an issue, there is a high comfort level with storing used fuel in dry casks for decades at the reactor sites while a more comprehensive solution is studied. read more…

Friday, April 18, 2008
Winston-Salem Journal

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173355314011&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161

A proposal to cut the U.S. nuclear-weapons stockpile sharply and renounce read more…

A leading global warming bill in Congress is coming under fire from some who support action on climate change. Some environmental groups say the bill is too weak. And at least one candidate for president wants to make the bill boost nuclear power. Washington correspondent Jeff Young reports on the climate bill's steep climb up Capitol Hill. read more…

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Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., tells congressional subcommittee Nation will not watch another generation harmed by uranium mining

http://summerrayneoakes.blogspot.com/2008/04/navajo-nation-says-no-to-uranium-mining.html
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JAKARTA, Mar 12, 2008 -- Xinhua

 The Indonesian government plans to build four nuclear power plants by
2025 to meet electricity demand, an official said Wednesday.

"If one nuclear power plant can produce 1,200 megawatts of
electricity, we need four plants by 2025 to meet our demand," State Minister
for Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman was quoted by the national
Antara news agency as saying.

"We have surveyed a number of sites for the nuclear plants including read more…

Feb 18 - Sunday Gazette - Mail; Charleston, W.V.

    Like it or not, the nukes are coming.

    Driven by soaring energy demands, the high cost of gas and oil and
worries about global warming, an expansion of peaceful nuclear power
increasingly appears to be inevitable. read more…