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To: SCIENCE EDITORS
Contact: Ailis Aaron Wolf, + 1-703-276-3265, aawolf@hastingsgroup.com, for IPFM
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The French nuclear industry has started to unravel after the national utility firm Electricite de France's (EdF) nuclear program went under attack for the first time since 1974. The situation was aggravated by technical problems, nuclear waste disposal questions, a $12 billion investment in a suspect breeder reactor, and $30 billion owed by EdF to the national treasury.
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... in the areas of environmental restoration, waste management, and related activities. Tentative Topi...Experimental Breeder Reactor-II Decontamination and. Decommissioning. D...
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... impacts of nuclear expansion, including waste management, does not match its alacrity in conclud... program, including the five-year-long Reactor Development Program, both to boost its civilian nu... ten years (from 2006), (106) operate fast breeder reactor technologies, open new uranium mines to fu...
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... as a major part of the long-term nuclear waste disposal solution are not merited by the dismal tr...
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I know him. I feel comfortable talking to him. I may-he may not agree with me. But the fundamental question I think you're searching for is, can you still have a good relationship even though you disagree on issues? And the answer is, yes. That's part of life. There's a-look, I'm the kind of person, I make decisions; I deal with problems; I want to solve them. And sometimes-and, you know, I make it clear where I stand.
... to spend money to come up with a fast breeder reactor program, so that we can reprocess, burn, aand reduce the amount of waste, which will hopefully then make the idea of additi...
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...The problem is not just the cluster of reactors in and around Fukushima, but the nuclear system an... reprocessing facilities, and to the fast-breeder reactor project. Its leaders chose to see the most... of leaving highly toxic and long-lived wastes in ponds beside the reactor has proven a terrible ...
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... energy-there are some 440 or so nuclear reactors in the world today that are producing electricity,... is the question of what to do with the waste: the current volume of waste is mainly from the mi...The other scenario for nuclear power is breeder reactors. Most commercial reactors in the world to...
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..., a Georgia utility, has ordered two new reactors. Moreover, utilities across the country have appli...'s failure to open a long-promised nuclear waste repository in Nevada for which the utilities have ... reactors and a sodium-graphite reactor, a breeder reactor, and one other type (Dawson 1976). Only a ...
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... has been officially blood tested with no reactors. (2) It is a multiplier breeding flock, or a breed... wild birds, (b) contaminated feed or waste, or (c) birds, equipment, supplies, or personnel f... breeding flock produced by a primary breeder, are examined bacteriologically at an authorized l...