NUCLEAR NEWSREEL - May 16 | NIRS

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THE NUCLEAR NEWSREEL

May 16, 2012:

• NRC quietly weakens emergency evacuation rules. All the more reason NIRS' EPZ petition must succeed.

• Nuclear earmarks have friends in high places. Politicians--who want to slash Medicaid/Medicare, etc etc--still want taxpayers to fund failing USEC nuke project.

• After safety warning a full year ago, TVA still not ready for inspection of Fukushima-clone Browns Ferry reactors.

• Fukushima: Who profits and who pays? Hint: It's not General Electric. Or Hitachi. Or Toshiba.

• Hollande election jeopardizes UK nuclear "renaissance" due to reliance on French companies

• USEC may be delisted from NYSE, run out of money June 1; still wants $2 Billion taxpayer loan for new uranium plant.

• New Fairewinds/FoE report: running at reduced power no solution for San Onofre's faulty steam generators.

• Florida's nuclear CWIP tax: The joke is on ratepayers. Great column!

• NC groups gear up to fight Duke Power's efforts to shift cost risks of new reactors to ratepayers.

• Delay at EDF's proposed Hinkley reactor deals blow to UK government's hopes for new nuclear.

• New poll: Americans are willing to pay more for clean energy--but not if "clean" includes nuclear and gas.

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