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Experts: U.S. Nuclear Power Faces Higher Costs, Continued Major Challenges in 2012

Give Long-Term Uncontrollable Costs and Short-Term Pressure from Needed Post-Fukushima Safety Regulations, Nuclear Reactors Even Less Able to Take on Natural Gas, Other Alternatives

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - With the Fukushima disaster, earthquake-related reactor shutdowns, further reactor project cost escalation, infighting at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and cheap natural gas, 2011 was a year the nuclear power industry would prefer to get behind it as quickly as possible.

But, looking ahead to 2012, experts see continuing challenges that will make it extremely difficult for the nuclear power industry to expand in the U.S. beyond a small handful of reactor projects...

The Media, Ron Paul and a Third Rail named Vanunu Mordechai

Includes a letter to Ron Paul dispatched today.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - One week before the Iowa caucus as Ron Paul’s poll numbers are surging, the Media’s scrutiny is focused on the contents of an “investment newsletter” that Paul produced and profited from back in the ’80s and ’90s.

Entitled the “Ron Paul Investment Newsletter” or the “Ron Paul Survival Newsletter” it also contained a series of racially biased attacks.

UPDATE: - Report Claiming U.S. Missiles `hit Iranian village` actually from 2003

The Daily Mail released a story from 2003 as a new report, there is no current strike on Iran.

(LONDON) - We have determined that the following story was carried in error by the Daily Mail in the UK. It is a 2003 report that was somehow recycled, we presented the material as unconfirmed, we now confirm that the information is carried in error.

The report indicated that a pair of U.S. missiles had hit a target in Iran and that the source was the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Christ Under Occupation: Christmas in the Holy Land

In Israel, the indigenous Palestinians are labeled “Israeli-Arabs” and approximately 9% are Christian.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - This weekend millions of cultural Christians throughout the world will flock into churches and sing “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and hear stories of Nazareth and Jerusalem. Too few know the 21st century realities about the land where Jesus/AKA The Prince of Peace promised that the Peacemakers are the children of God.

The indigenous Christian population in the Holy Land has shrunk from 20% in 1948 to less than 2% in Israel and the West Bank today.

Hanford Commercial Nuclear Reactor Cited for Safety Violations

It appears that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) failed to disclose safety violations and inspection report during a public comment period and hid the report in the holiday shuffle.

(HANFORD, Wash.) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced yesterday that it issued safety violations for five events this spring and summer at the Northwest’s sole commercial nuclear reactor, located on the Hanford Nuclear eservation.

The incidents included loss of over four thousand gallons of reactor coolant and water twice in four months, and the insertion of reactor control rods when operators believed they were withdrawing the rods.

Questions Persist as to US Arms Treaty Compliance

Includes the complete text of Section 817 of the USA PATRIOT Act, with the questionable subsection underlined.

(GENEVA, Switzerland ) - Questions concerning the compliance of the United States with the international treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, came to a head recently during the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention, which is being held now in Geneva, Switzerland at the United Nations.

The most recent compliance report, listed in the BWC catalogue as BWC/CONF.VII/INF.2/Add.1, has failed to quash concerns as to the reliability of statements made by the United States as to its compliance with obligations under the BWC.

Mordechai Vanunu: `Iran poses no threat`

The world cannot ignore what Israel has been doing over the past 40 years… The United States should make Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

(ROME / TEL AVIV) - Against the current backdrop of Israeli talk of pre-emptive strikes against Iran’s alleged military nuclear facilities, Voltaire Network is republishing this exclusive 2005 interview of Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.

Twenty-five years ago, this former Israeli nuclear technician exposed the existence of his country’s nuclear arsenal, tearing down the wall of Israel’s secrecy and hypocrisy.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Scuffle at NRC Has Stench of Industry Influence Behind It

The latest roundup of stories about nuclear-related issues worldwide.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is at the center of the first three entries featured in this collection of the latest stories making headlines from the world of nuclear energy and power.

There is also a fight among nation's top nuclear regulators gets airing before Congress, as Christian Science Monitor reports. With an emphasis on the recent, ongoing tragedy in Fukushima, Japan, Daily Science covers 3 Reasons to Avoid Nuclear Power.

US fear and loathing over spy drone

Iran says that it has no intention of returning the drone and that Washington should compensate Tehran for violating the country's airspace.

(TEHRAN) - In what seems to be nothing but US-style barefaced arrogance, President Barack Obama has demanded the return of a spy drone which violated the airspace of the Islamic Republic but which was to the humiliation of the US officials downed by the Iranian army.

The top-secret RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which was used by Washington as part of the covert operations the US officials have already vowed to conduct inside Iran, was hunted down by an electronic ambush and landed with a minimal degree of damage over the city of Kashmar about 140 miles inside Iran.

James Morris Discusses Planned U.S. - Israeli War Games

Playing war games with war criminals... a step in the wrong direction for U.S. troops.

(SALEM) - In the video below, Political Analyst and Correspondent James Morris in Los Angeles, talks to Press TV about scheduled U.S.-Israeli war games that will take place in 2012.

The 'war games' are obviously a move designed to raise tension with Iran and prove to the world that the U.S. not only participates in terrible war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan; but that it specifically and openly condones Israel's rampant war crimes, where accountability for crimes is less than zero.