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ccxxxviii Silva Herrmann, “The Price Tag of Nuclear Power”, Friends of the Earth Europe, http://www.foeeurope.org; Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., pp. 68, 75. ccxxxix See Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, op. cit., pp. 99-105 for a more detailed discussion of this. ccxl Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 44. ccxli Kim Cawley, “The Federal Government’s Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act”, Statement before Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs ccxlii “Yucca Mountain cost estimate rises to $96 billion”, Aug 6, 2008, http://www.world-nuclear-news.org ccxliii Steve Tetreault, “Federal panel to examine nuclear waste storage”, Las Vegas Review Journal, Jan 30, 2010, http://www.lvrj.com ccxliv “Yucca Mountain cost estimate rises to $96 billion”, Aug 6, 2008, http://www.world-nuclear-news.org ccxlv “The Financial Risks of Nuclear Power”, Decommissioning Costs, Greenpeace; “Everything you want to know about Nuclear Power”, Nuclear Power Education, http://nuclearinfo.net ccxlvi Steve Thomas, cited in: Mycle Schneider et. al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 44. ccxlvii “Economics of new nuclear power plants”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org ccxlviii Bruce Biewald & David White, “Stranded Nuclear Waste: Implications of Electric Industry Deregulation for Nuclear Plant Retirements and Funding Decommissioning and Spent Fuel”, Jan 15, 1999, http://www.synapse-energy.com ccxlix “Experts: Three latest industry setbacks further dim nuclear 'renaissance', taxpayer-backed loan guarantees can’t fix fundamental problems with new reactors”, Dec 16, 2009, www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/nuclear4.pdf ccl Steve Thomas, “The Economics of Nuclear Power”, Dec 2005, http://www.nirs.org, p. 29. ccli Ibid., p. 18. cclii Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 46. ccliii Ibid., p. 58. ccliv Ibid., p. 58; Steve Thomas, “Can nuclear power plants be built in Britain without public subsidies and guarantees?”, op. cit., p. 16. cclv Steve Thomas, “The Economics of Nuclear Power”, Dec 2005, http://www.nirs.org, p. 11; Mycle Schneider, et al., ibid., p. 56. cclvi “Nuclear energy essential for India: Manmohan Singh”, March 24, 2008, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal cclvii “N-power the new green fuel, says PM's scientific adviser”, August 13, 2009, http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews cclviii “Canadian Nuclear Association clings to inaccurate, unsupported claims”, Sept 30, 2010, http://www.northumberlandview.ca cclix Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, Melbourne University Press, 2006, pp. 8-9. cclx Ibid., p. 9. cclxi Helen Caldicott, “Nuclear Power is the Problem, Not a Solution”, April 15, 2005, Australian, http://www.helencaldicott.com cclxii Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen, “Nuclear power – the energy balance”, http://www.stormsmith.nl; Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., p. 6. cclxiii “World Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2005”, World Resources Institute, http://www.wri.org cclxiv Ibid. cclxv Ibid. cclxvi The IEA is an intergovernmental organisation which acts as energy policy advisor to 28 member countries. cclxvii “Energy Technology Perspectives 2008”, IEA/OECD, June 2008, cited in: “Nuclear power: a dangerous waste of time”, Greenpeace, Jan 2009, http://www.greenpeace.org; also cited in Praful Bidwai, “No global 'nuclear renaissance', only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, March 25, 2010. http://www.prafulbidwai.org cclxviii Praful Bidwai, “No global 'nuclear renaissance', only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, ibid. cclxix Estimate made in: “Getting Serious about Nuclear Power”, Greenpeace, www.greenpeace.org and “Nuclear power: a dangerous waste of time “, Greenpeace, Jan 2009, http://www.greenpeace.org cclxx Bill Dougherty, senior scientist, Stockholm Environmental Institute, cited in: “Nuclear Power and Children’s Health”, Symposium Proceedings, Chicago, Illinois, Oct 15-16, 2004, http://www.helencaldicott.com/childrenshealth_proc.pdf 188
cclxxi “Nuclear power: a dangerous waste of time”, Greenpeace, Jan 2009, http://www.greenpeace.org, p. 11. cclxxii Source: IAEA-PRIS: IAEA-Power Reactor Information System, http://www.iaea.org, January 9, 2010. cclxxiii Source: “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, 2010 edition, http://www-pub.iaea.org cclxxiv Statistics taken from 2009, 2008 and 2007 editions of IAEA reports: “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, http://www-pub.iaea.org cclxxv http://www-pub.iaea.org cclxxvi Statistics taken from 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 editions of IAEA reports: “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, http://www-pub.iaea.org cclxxvii Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, Commissioned by German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety, Aug 2009, p. 9. cclxxviii Source: IAEA-PRIS: IAEA-Power Reactor Information System, http://www.iaea.org, January 9, 2010. cclxxix “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, 2010 edition, op. cit. cclxxx Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., pp. 9,10; Trevor Findlay, “The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and its Implications for Safety, Security and Nonproliferation - Overview”, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, February 2010, http://www.cigionline.org, p. 10. cclxxxi Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, ibid., pp. 10, 11; “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, 2010 edition, op. cit. cclxxxii Statistics taken from 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 editions of IAEA reports, “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, http://www-pub.iaea.org cclxxxiii Source: IAEA, International Status and Prospects of Nuclear Power, 2008 (Taken from Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 15). cclxxxiv Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, ibid., p. 14. cclxxxv Ibid., p. 11. cclxxxvi Ibid., pp. 14-17, 115-116. cclxxxvii Ibid., pp. 17-18. cclxxxviii Fact admitted to by “The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and its implications for safety, security and nonproliferation: Overview”, Report by The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010, p. 9. cclxxxix Saibal Dasgupta, “No hand in NKorea N-facilities: China”, The Times of India, April 20, 2009, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com ccxc Hideo Kubota, “China's Nuclear Industry at a Turning Point”, EJAM, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Nov 2009), http://www.jsm.or.jp ccxci Dinah Deckstein, et. al. “Is the nuclear industry in meltdown?”, Oct 21, 2009, http://www.presseurop.eu ccxcii Compiled from: Gordon G. Chang, “The Best And Worst Of Times For China's Environment”, July 9, 2010, http://www.forbes.com; Andreas Lorenz and Wieland Wagner, “The downside of the boom: China's Poison for the Planet”, Feb 1, 2007 http://www.global-sisterhood-network.org; Jonathan Watts, “China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic boom”, June 7, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk ccxciii “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, 2010 edition, op. cit. ccxciv “Mayak: A 50-Year Tragedy”, Greenpeace, Sept 2007, http://www.greenpeace.org; “Greenpeace highlights 50 years of nuclear disaster in Mayak, Russia”, Sept 28, 2007, http://www.greenpeace.org ccxcv Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 91. ccxcvi Testimony submitted by David Lochbaum, Director, Nuclear Safety Project, to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, United States House of Representatives, Mar 12, 2008, http://globalwarming.house.gov ccxcvii Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., pp. 91-92. ccxcviii Ibid., p. 92. ccxcix Ibid., p. 92. ccc Ibid., pp. 91-92. ccci “Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades”, Feb 17, 2010, http://www.greencarcongress.com cccii Tyson Slocum, “Nuclear’s Power Play: Give Us Subsidies or Give Us Death”, Multinational Monitor, Sep/Oct 2008, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org ccciii Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 92; “Federal Loan Guarantees for Nuclear Reactors”, Jan 2010, http://www.nonukesyall.org 189
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