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Swedish Nuclear Plant Posted Cleaners as Guards

October 30, 2008 The Associated Press By LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writer Managers of an atomic power plant in Sweden used janitors to guard the facility when the alarm system was ... read more

Feds Switches General Contractor at Yucca Mountain

October 30, 2008 LAS VEGAS (The Associated Press) The federal government is switching the main contractor for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project.

NRC Permit Sought to Use Funds for Spent Fuel

October 30, 2008 McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Bob Audette Brattleboro Reformer, Vt. Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee is once again asking for permission to use a portion of the nuclear power ... read more

Activists Rally for A Nuclear-Free Vermont

Monday, October 27 By CHRIS GAROFOLO, Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO -- The Brattleboro Common transformed from a picturesque, quiet corner of the town into a festival of grassroots activism Saturday ... read more

The Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?

October 27, 2008 Pulse of the Planet By BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON http://www.counterpunch.org/johnston10272008.html We are a world of some 192 separate nations. Yet, increasingly the notion of ... read more

Diablo Waste Facility Clears Final Hurdle

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/506962.html David Sneed The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled Thursday that Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant can begin loading used reactor fuel into ... read more

MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead to 'Unlimited' Solar Power

October 25th, 2008 Written by Andrew Williams Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new way of storing energy from sunlight that could lead to `unlimited' ... read more