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$100-million a year in public funding for CANDU questioned
(January 16, 2002) OTTAWA – Herb Dhaliwal, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, said yesterday a review is underway to determine whether Canadian taxpayers should keep subsidizing the CANDU reactor sales program to the tune of $100-million a year. Mr. Dhaliwal, only hours after taking over the portfolio, said a report will soon be presented to Cabinet to determine whether there are sufficient prospects for future sales of the reactor. Continue reading
Battle looms on Coleson Cove
(January 14, 2002) A battle over the air we breathe and the future cost of electricity begins today in a hotel conference room in Saint John. Continue reading
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Pickering A slow start
(January 13, 2002) TORONTO – Ontario’s multibillion-dollar effort to refurbish ailing nuclear plants is running years behind schedule and hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, Southam News has learned. Continue reading
Chronic Insecurity: Three Case Studies
(January 13, 2002) The Project on Government Oversight investigates, exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. Continue reading
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Tight security rings U.S. nuclear power plants
(January 10, 2002) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A day after a dismissed California nuclear power plant worker was arrested for allegedly threatening colleagues, U.S. power industry officials said he stood few chances of ever delivering those threats on the job. The nuclear power industry, already on high alert following the deadly Sept. 11 attacks, run its employees through a tough gauntlet of checks aimed at weeding out anyone who might jeopardize plant safety. Continue reading
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No-fly zones over nuclear facilities unlikely
(December 20, 2001) OTTAWA (CP) – Canada is unlikely to impose no-fly zones over its nuclear reactors or station missiles around them, a senior nuclear regulatory official says. Continue reading
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Unsafe at Any Price
(December 19, 2001) If terrorists take down nuclear plants, you pay – by the hundreds of billions. Even as the human tragedy of two jets smashing into the World Trade Center tore at the hearts of energy traders, their minds were turned to two things: the oil and the nukes, both seeming suddenly more vulnerable than ever to hostile forces from abroad. Continue reading
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Residents near nuclear plants may get cancer prevention pills
(December 19, 2001) (CNN) — More than two decades after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, the United States is again confronting the fear of an unexpected release of radiation. This time the concern isn’t about an accident, but about a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant. Continue reading
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News brief – Sellafield nuclear plant
(December 16, 2001) The following news brief appeared at the end of ‘Bin Laden in plot to bomb City’. M15 has warned Ministers that a determined terrorist attempt to fly a jet into the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria could not be prevented because it is only two minutes’ flying time from transatlantic flight paths. Continue reading
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Watchdog warns of inadequate nuclear security
(December 3, 2001) VIENNA (REUTERS) – The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) said last week recent cases of illicit nuclear material trafficking showed the urgent need for better protection and control of radioactive material. Continue reading
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Energy Probe 