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Anything to Declare? Or, Radiation Monitors Cannot Reliably Detect Highly Enriched Uranium at U.S. Ports and Border Crossings

March 25, 2008

Posted by Julia Bovey in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy

Tags:
nuclearproliferation, terrorism, uranium

I have personally lost about a dozen pocketknives and six pairs of nail scissors to the good folks from TSA at airport security checkpoints, working to make sure that terrorists do not once again attack the U.S. I don’t complain,...continued

Smells Like Radioactive Pork. Ew.

December 11, 2007

Posted by Julia Bovey in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
congress, nonukes,

We can’t waste time around here patting ourselves on the back, and never is this more apparent than in the case of the relentless attempt to get American taxpayers to dole out even more cash to the world’s most environmentally...continued

Getting Our Priorities Straight

December 7, 2007

Posted by Heather Taylor in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy

Tags:
D&DFund, nuclear, paygo, Polluterspay

A few weeks ago, I committed a cardinal sin – I didn’t call my mother on her Birthday. I was travelling with my family so I was rushing around packing, saying goodbye, trying to get to the airport and once...continued

The Galileo Syndrome

July 30, 2007

Posted by Dan Lashof in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
nuclear, renewables, solar, wind

There is nothing I find more annoying than bad reasoning by self-appointed “heretics.”Unfortunately this tactic often gets a lot of attention. Witness Jesse Ausubel’s “Renewable and nuclear heresies,” which claims that renewable energy sources are not green, while nuclear power...continued