This Week in Nuclear - Episode 15 - April 5, 2006

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News & Topics We Discuss in This Show Include:
1. Entergy One Step Closer to an Early Site Permit
2. Turkey Point Media Hysteria
3. UN Security Council Scolds Iran
4. New Reactor Begins Operation in Australia
5. Russia is Putting the Hard Sell on China and India
6. Vermont Yankee Cleared to Raise Power
7. The 27th Anniversary of TMI Accident
8. China and Australia in Uranium Deal
9. Media Swarms Over Lost Keys in Germany
10. Listener Letters & Thanks

Links to stories we discussed this week:
Three Mile Island Info
Grand Gulf Early Site Permit
UN Security Council Resolution
Michael Rennhack's www.nukeworker.com Web Site


Photo of wildflowers at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant courtesy of Jim Zimmerlin of Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Avila Beach, California.

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This Week in Nuclear - Episode 14 - March 26, 2006

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News & Topics We Discuss in This Show Include:
1. Wilderness Area Blocks Used Fuel Transport Route
2. Crazy Antinuclear Claims in Michigan
3. NRC Task Force to Review Tritium Leaks
4. Calloway Nuclear Plant Works Two Years without a Lost Work-day Injury
5. Iran President Claims They Will Achieve "Nuclear Victory"
6. Lots of Smoke in the Press over Japan Incinerator Fire
7. Another Frivolous Lawsuit by the State of Nevada
8. Westinghouse to Expand and Hire 2,500
9. Canada's AECL Forms Partnership to Build New Plants
10. Since when are Japanese Judges Expert Seismologists?

Links to stories we discussed this week:
1. NRC Task Force Charter

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Episode 13

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News & Topics We Discuss in This Show Include:
1. Iran Update
2. US / India Deal Presented to US Congress
3. New Reactors for Mexico
4. Uranium Prices Climb Higher
5. Pakistan Plans Two More Units
6. Leadership Change at Russian Nuclear Company
7. Duke and Southern Announce Site for New Reactors
8. Braidwood Tritium Leaks get Legal Attention
9. Does Russian Nuclear Expansion Mean More RBMKs?

Links to stories we discussed this week:
NY Times Story by Matt Wald
RBMK Information

This Week in Nuclear - Episode 12 - March 12, 2006

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News & Topics We Discuss in This Show Include:
1. Iran Update and Proof They're Lying
2. India and USA Nuclear Cooperation Deal
3. Russia's Nuclear Plan
4. New Reactor in Japan Goes On-Line
5. Baltic States Agree to Build New Plant
6. Libya and France Close to Nuclear Deal - should we worry?
7. South Africa Suspects Sabotage
8. Tritium Issue Gaining Momentum in USA
9. Vermont Yankee Power Uprate Approved
10. TVA and Southern Company In Talks

Links to stories we discussed this week:
NPR PodCast on PBMR
The Atomic Show
How Iran Duped the West

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This Week in Nuclear - Episode 11 - February 26, 2006

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News & Topics We Discuss in This Show Include:
1. Russia and Iran Continue Negotiations
2. More Russia Deals
3. China to Build 200MW Pebbl Bed Reactor
4. Canada's CNSC has Talent Shortage
5. India and US Talks Continue
6. Georgia Power asks for Rate Increase for New Plant WOrk
7. Private Fuel Storage gets a COL from the NRC
8. Constellation Aims to Overtake Competitors
9. A Tough Week at Exelon

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