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EXCLUSIVE: Beyond the Nuclear Mordechai Vanunu: Part One in a Series

"If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." - Emile Zola

(CLERMONT, Fla. ) - In June 2005, I was just a few days before my first of seven journeys to Israel Palestine.

A Palestinian American friend warned me, “Don’t visit Mordechai Vanunu, if you see him; don’t speak to him. He’s not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble.”

Experts: U.S. Agrees to Store Enough Nuclear Waste to Fill Two Yucca Mountains - or Face Billions in Penalties

“Under the Radar”: Outgoing Bush White House Hiked Likely Penalties Borne by Taxpayers By Inking Deals With Over a Dozen Utilities; 170 Groups in All 50 States Release Principles Urging an Upgrade in Spent Reactor Fuel Storage Safety to Withstand Equivalent of “9/11 Attacks.”

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The U.S. already agreed to store enough spent reactor fuel to fill the equivalent of two Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repositories.

U.S. taxpayers would be on the hook for potentially tens of billions of dollars in penalties that would have to be paid to utilities if the 21 proposed reactor projects proceed.

Nuclear Waste/`Fast Breeder` Reactor - Study: Problem-Plagued Reactor No Solution to Long-Term Nuclear Waste Problem

The rationale for breeder reactors is no longer sound.

(PRINCETON, N.J. ) - A major new study dashes hopes that the “fast breeder”– might serve as a major part of the long-term nuclear waste disposal solution.

The findings lend credibility to a 1956 summation that the reactors are ‘expensive to build, complex to operate, susceptible to prolonged shutdown as a result of even minor malfunctions, and difficult and time-consuming to repair.’

Nuclear Waste Problem: Study to Show if Fast Reactor Is Solution to Long-Term Waste Storage Headaches

Fast Breeder Reactor/ - Major Implications Seen for Obama Blue-Ribbon Waste Panel, New Interest in “Generation IV” Reactors; U.S., Russia, UK, France, India and Japan Programs are Evaluated in the Study.

(PRINCETON, N.J.) - Do concerns about inadequate options for long-term nuclear reactor waste disposal now mean that it is time to make a new commitment to the development of fast reactors?

How about cost, reliability, safety and proliferation issues?

Experts Say All 4 Reactor Candidates Are `Ugly,` Risky to U.S. Taxpayers

Obama Nuclear Bailout/Not Workable - "Ugly" Field of Four Bailout Candidates Present Huge Taxpayer Risks With Rising Cost Estimates, Delays, Flawed Reactor Designs, and Credit Downgrades; January One of Worst Months Ever for Industry.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - What if the federal government held a beauty contest for taxpayer-backed nuclear reactor loan guarantee bailouts ... and no reactor project "beauties" could be lined up for the runway?

Florida Power and Light Billion-Dollar Rate Hike Denied

Does this signal a death knell for nuclear power?

(CHICAGO) - The Florida Public Service Commission (PUC) denied Florida Power and Light (FPL) Company's $1.27 billion rate-hike request, granting instead a minuscule $75.5 million in a decision that could be the death knell for not only two proposed nuclear reactors in Florida, but several elsewhere in the U.S.

While the economic downturn certainly played a role in lowering demand for the additional power in Florida, many of FPL's demands for advance payments, higher guaranteed profit margin, and less public scrutiny in constructing nuclear plants were beyond the level of outrageous even the Florida PUC would tolerate.

Congress/Nuclear Power - Expert: `French Model` for U.S. Reactor `Renaissance` is a Hoax

Leading European Industry Expert says he'll debunk "Myth of French Nuclear Model" for U.S.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Yves Marignac, a leading international consultant on nuclear energy issues and the executive director of the energy information agency WISE-Paris, will challenge the myth of the so-called “French nuclear model” that supposedly could serve as a blueprint for the revival of the embattled industry in the U.S.

Marignac is visiting the United States to meet with federal and state officials, among other groups.

Letter to Editor Decries Ohio Mandate for Another Nuclear Operation

Why didn't they go door to door and ask the community what kind of jobs they want for the area?

(PORTSMOUTH, Ohio) - How can our representatives, Strickland, Voinovich and Schmidt just, out of the blue, mandate another nuclear operation for our area when previous nuclear endeavors here have been so devastating?

How? When these representatives know good and well that area residents and workers from prior nuclear operations here are deathly ill from toxic chemical and radiation exposures! The Feds have designated Scioto County as having one of the highest cancer rates in the nation, and they even have a categorized list of illnesses caused from THE FORMER PORTSMOUTH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT !

Echoes of Rancho Seco Nuclear Shutdown Still Heard Two Decades Later (AUDIO)

“Shot Heard Round the World” Echoes in Strong Local, State Opposition Across U.S. to New Nuclear Reactors.

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - Ahead of the 20th anniversary on Saturday of Sacramento voters going to the polls to shut down Rancho Seco, a nuclear reactor operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) about 25 miles southeast of the city, organizers held a news conference today to mark the event.

In his remarks at the news conference, Scott Denman, former executive director of the national Safe Energy Communication Council, emphasized that votes against nuclear power continue to this day.

UN Secretary-General Deplores DPR Korea`s Underground Nuclear Test

Mr. Ban urged DPRK to refrain from taking further actions that would increase tensions in the region, and insisted that the country comply with its obligations and restart dialogue with the parties concerned without delay.

(GENEVA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly deplored the conduct of an underground nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday, in “clear and grave” violation of resolutions of the Security Council which also spoke out against the act.