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Alternative Energy News Saturday March 31st 2007

Nuclear power has too many negatives
(USA Today: Fri, 30 Mar) Nuclear power has too many negatives Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists - Washington USA TODAY's article Some rethinking nuke opposition correctly reported that the Union of Concerned Scientists is willing to consider nuclear power as part of a long-term...

Fusion Experiments Show Nuclear Power's Softer Side
(Addict 3D: Thu, 29 Mar) All but abandoned twenty years ago, nuclear energy is again hot news. But while new fission reactors vie with wind turbines and biofuels to raise the old NIMBY hackles, some look to a future where atoms are spliced, not split.

Nuclear energy 'not the solution to global warming'
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Mon, 26 Mar) Environment ministers from Austria, Iceland, Ireland and Norway said Monday that nuclear power was not the solution to global warming.

Part of power plant shut down for repairs
(Boston Globe: Fri, 30 Mar) Part of a nuclear power plant went offline Friday afternoon for repairs and will remain shut down for the next few days, a spokesman said.

Evergreen Pulp aims to produce 'clean' biomass hydrogen
(The Eureka Reporter: Sat, 31 Mar) Evergreen Pulp Inc. announced this week that it has entered into an agreement with an out-of-state renewable energy company to install new equipment at its Samoa mill that will convert plant matter into a clean burning "syngas" that can be used to replace natural gas.

Toshiba Says It's in Talks With Sumitomo on Westinghouse Stake
(Bloomberg.com: Fri, 30 Mar) March 30 (Bloomberg) - Toshiba Corp., Japan's biggest supplier of nuclear power reactors by capacity, said it is in talks to sell Sumitomo Corp. a stake in its nuclear-plant construction unit Westinghouse Electric Co.

Florida Senate Considers Renewable Energy Bill
(WCTV Tallahassee: Thu, 29 Mar) The bill is to be considered Thursday by a Senate committee. The Senate's energy plan would require half of new electricity in Florida be generated with renewable energies such as biomass, wind and solar by 2017.

GE Energy opens reactor design site
(The News & Observer: Wed, 28 Mar) GE Energy exhibited its hope for nuclear energy as it opened its reactor technology design center for a new generation of nuclear reactors.

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