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(WASHINGTON DC) - Another roundup of stories about nuclear reactors, and, as the first article from Business Week indicates, The U.S Nuclear Power Industry's Dim Future.

Other articles examine the cost of nuclear energy, early retirement of nuclear facilities, and the risk that various nuclear power plants around the nation represent.

WHO`s Iraq Birth Defect Study Omits Causation

The report will not examine the link between the prevalence of birth defects and use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions used during the war and occupation in Iraq, according to WHO.

(UNITED NATIONS) - A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.

According to WHO, 10,800 households were selected as a sample size for the study, which was scheduled to be released early this year but has not yet been made public.

A Spent Fuel Accident at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Could Cost a Trillion Dollars

Article by Ace Hoffman of Carlsbad puts a straight face on a severe potential problem that could bankrupt California.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - Some people would be happy to leave San Onofre's 1,400 tons of accumulated radioactive spent fuel, from nearly half a century of leaky, unreliable, expensive and disquieting operation, right where it is.

On an earthquake fault line, in a tsunami inundation zone, amongst 8.7 million of the most beautiful, industrious, peaceful and creative people in the world -- from all over the world -- who live within a 50 mile radius of the waste, and tens of millions more who live just slightly beyond that artificial marker.

UK Government Still Won`t Come Clean on Israel`s Nukes

Politicians like Alistair Burt insult the intelligence of Parliament and the British public.

(LONDON) - The British government leads the charge to impose and tighten sanctions on Iran and makes other dire threats on the mere suspicion that the Islamic Republic may have nuclear weapons ambitions.

But its ministers continue to sidestep simple questions about Israel’s unsafeguarded nukes.

A Blanket of Fear (A Play in One Act)

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. — Harold Pinter

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Netanyahu (N) and Obama (O) are on the phone:

N: I want you to catch that schmuck Snowden, lock him up and silence him.

O: Why Ben? He's another whistle blower like Manning and Assange. How does he affect you?

UK`s Jack Straw Says Israel has Nuclear Weapons, Steals Palestinian Land

"Look, Israel has made statements in the past. Israeli ambassadors to the UN like myself have said that Israel won’t be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East." - Dr. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador

(LONDON) - A tradition has developed in the West whereby politicians speak common sense and the truth, but only when they are no longer in power. Witness, for example, the former US president, Jimmy Carter.

Now Jack Straw, who was Britain’s foreign secretary at the time of the Anglo-American aggression against Iraq, has stepped forward to keep the tradition alive.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS): Closure Has Ocean Desalination Ramifications

So Cal Edison permanent closure in San Clemente might have far-reaching implications for other projects in California, including the Poseidon Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Facility in Orange County.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Statements made by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to the Times hint at possible multiple game changers regarding controversial “Once-Through-Cooling” (OTC) at power grid facilities.

The natural gas powered, AES-operated Huntington Beach plant that supplies SCE customers brought two (2) dormant, once-retired units back online last year to offset the SONGS being offline, and that’s where it starts getting intriguing.

US Discloses Israel`s Top-Secret Military Base Outraging Tel-Aviv

According to the bid requests, the Arrow 3 system will include six interceptor missiles in vertical launch positions to be placed at the base, with a gantry crane to be erected for further missiles.

(MOSCOW RT) - The US government has inadvertently revealed the details of a top-secret Israeli missile base in published bid requests, leaving military officials in Tel-Aviv in the state of shock.

Israel has turned to the US government with its plans to build a state-of-the-art facility to host the new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3, McClatchy's Washington Bureau reports.

Stop India-Japan Nuclear Agreement

Japan recently experienced the Fukushima nuclear disaster that proved once again that nuclear power plants are deadly.

(YORK, UK) - India and Japan have a chance to learn from history, very recent history, and abandon plans for further nuclear development under the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement

India has experienced a tremendous backlash from its use of nuclear power plants that are frequently the subject of intense political activism.

U.S. Senators Could Destroy America by Attacking Iran

There aren't enough prison cells to house the Americans who will rise up against an attack on Iran.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - If an elected official uses their power to force Americans into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel, they are not working in the American interest.

They are in fact committing treason; a crime or extreme act against one's sovereign or nation.