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Next Solyndra? $8.33 Billion Vogtle Loan Guarantee

Groups Urge DOE to Force Disclosure of 12 Secret Delays, Cost Overruns at Troubled Reactor Project

(WASHINGTON, DC) - If you are a taxpayer who liked the less than half a billion dollar Solyndra federal loan guarantee debacle, you will love the $8.33 billion loan guarantee.

This recipient is to the even riskier Vogtle nuclear reactor project licensed last week by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Solyndra, Part 2?
Vogtle Reactors Already Seeing Major Delays, Cost Overruns

12 Groups Suing to Stop Construction, Arguing NRC Violated Federal Law in Issuing Vogtle Reactor Licenses.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The federal government is believed to be days away from awarding 15 times more in federal loan guarantees to the controversial Vogtle reactors in Georgia than it did to the failed Solyndra enterprise.

Experts will warn that the Vogtle reactor project is already racking up major cost overruns, with additional slowdowns expected to continue plaguing the project.

Iran Places Indigenous Fuel Rods Into Tehran Reactor

Iran has placed the first indigenous fuel rods into the heart of Tehran Research Reactor as President Ahmadinejad unveils the country’s latest nuclear achievements.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran reports that fuel rods were produced at Isfahan nuclear facility and transferred to the Tehran Research Reactor under the supervision of the IAEA inspectors.

By placing nuclear plates into the Tehran reactor, Iran has taken the final step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle.

The Human Toll from India`s Uranium

Researchers believe radiation is behind the human and environmental catastrophe.

(CHENNAI, India) - Jadugoda, located in the mineral-rich Singhbum district of Jharkhand, is the chief source of Uranium in India, providing fuel for the nuclear reactors.

However, the uranium comes at a colossal human cost.

Reactor Reax- Weekly Roundup of Nuclear-Related Articles

New reactors means no lessons learned...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - After decades of no activity, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted to award a license to a group to build two reactors in Georgia.

Western Shenanigans Against Syria, Iran

Syria's problems are all part of a plan to attack Iran...

(TEHRAN) - The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen.

There is certainly one ulterior motive behind the US-friendly Syrian crisis extravagantly fuelled by the presstitute media which keep distorting the facts on the grounds.

San Onofre Nuclear Reactor May Have Radiation Leak

Officials say there is no danger...

(SAN DIEGO) - The San Onofre nuclear plant had a potential radiation leak in one of the unit's steam generator tubes Tuesday.

Southern California Edison said, "The potential leak poses no imminent danger to the public or plant workers. There has been no release to the atmosphere."

Iran`s Secret weapon: Oil for Gold

Peaceful blitzkrieg and Israeli counterattacks - news from The Intrepid Report.

(NEW YORK) - So who’s got the last laugh now? Iran’s reputed nuclear bomb, even if proved in the making today, would take a year to build.

Yet, the more potent bomb, and less lethal to humans, is paying in gold for Iran’s oil, as India, China, Russia, and even Europe plan to do.

India`s Nuclear Madness: 560 Million at Risk

Narora nuclear power plant is 93 kilometers east of Delhi; Tarapur and Madras stations are closer to Bombay and Chennai, respectively.

(NEW DELHI, India) - When mad men and women run the world, to be sane is dangerous. An American psychologist Dr. Harvey Cleckley, professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Medical College of Georgia, wrote ‘The Mask of Sanity’ published in 1941.

In this book Dr. Cleckley talks of psychopathic personalities, humans that are without conscience.

Washington Wages War of Sanctions against Iran

In the long run, Western oil firms and consumers may “emerge the biggest losers.”

(TEHRAN) - Washington's double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well.

Goaded by Washington, EU foreign ministers decided on January 23 to impose a ban on oil imports from Iran under the fickle excuse that the country is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.