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      <title>France's Nuclear Reputation Takes More Hits</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It's been a bad couple of weeks or couple of months for Areva and EDF<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/pTPKlZjc7Us" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Chinese Eye Fast Breeders</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~3/o9qeVgHOSeg/chinese-eye-fast-breeders</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[And they'll likely regret it<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/o9qeVgHOSeg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Siemens Natural Gas Plant Sets New Efficiency Record</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Bavarian plant achieves 60 percent efficiency<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/Uo4WBunssLw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Iran Nuclear Fallout</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Reactions to news of a secret uranium enrichment facility have divided on counter-intuitive lines, with the hawks in Europe and the doves in the United States<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/aKLPqldhogo" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>German Election A Likely Reprieve for Nuclear</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decisive victory over the Social Democrats positions her to scrap, or at least, delay the nuclear energy phaseout instituted in 2001 by her erstwhile coalition partners<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/lUulWvwWN2w" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>French Nuclear Model Called Into Question by French Expert</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[France's industry has had trouble doing what it supposedly does so well<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/vhDDgcESpc8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>A Decentralized Model for U.S. Nuclear Waste Management</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~3/MQF_5v28pEY/a-decentralized-model-for-us-nuclear-waste-management</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[With Yucca dying on the vine, two experts propose that spent fuel from American reactors should be handled on a regional basis, the way it is in Europe<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/MQF_5v28pEY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Doubts Cast on Nuclear Renaissance</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~3/KaH8vu511Rs/doubts-cast-on-nuclear-renaissance</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Developments and analyses raise question about whether nuclear will really be able to step up to the plate in a world desperately trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/KaH8vu511Rs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>U.S. and Russia Agree to Continue Arms Reduction Efforts</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Obama in Moscow signs "joint understanding" with Medvedev on nukes<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/ffAL-PDV3a4" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>At Last, Something New Under the Nuclear Sun</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Babcock & Wilcox unfurls plans for a small reactor with some head-turning features<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/qkQlLnvgZjM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Four Selected for First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor Projects</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Supposed nuclear renaissance gains some credibility with Energy Department¿s designation of the companies that will lead the first new reactor projects in a generation<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/g3BqwZFxPAc" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Japan Pushes Forward on Plutonium Imports</title>
      <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~3/d-HwB9FtQ1E/japan-pushes-forward-on-plutonium-imports</link>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/japan-pushes-forward-on-plutonium-imports"><img border="0" alt="null" src="http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/57179"/></a><br/><br/>Mixed-oxide fuel arrives amid protest<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/d-HwB9FtQ1E" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Obama Ratchets Up CAFE to Match California's Standards</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[President Obama gathered auto executives, auto workers, environmentalists, and top federal and California officials at the White House this week to unveil a new consensus on fuel economy standards. His plan will harmonize the federal government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy or CAFE standards with tougher tailpipe standards for CO2 poised to take effect in California and 17 other states.

Obama traded up, according to close Detroit observer Jim Motavalli, who <a title="NYTimes' Wheels Blog" href="http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/obama-to-raise-fuel-economy-standards/" target="_blank">writes in  the New York Times' Wheels blog</a> that the new-and-improved CAFE is "roughly equivalent to those proposed under Californiaâ¿¿s tailpipe greenhouse-gas program." &hellip;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/dGRYzek8Cxk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Why New Nuclear Depends on Loan Guarantees</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Constellation Energy and Electricite de France boasted this week that they are <a title="Constellation Energy press release" href="http://ir.constellation.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=384945" target="_blank">closer to winning federal loan guarantees</a> for a new reactor they propose to build at Constellation's Calvert Cliffs power station in Maryland.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/uJiKdOgFmtk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Trails for Rails?</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The time is ripe to use some of the Economic Recovery Act monies for conversion of trails back to their original mass transit use.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/PInlXgTN7j8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Subversive Additives to a Cash-for-Clunkers Bill</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1079" title="Bike parking in Freiburg Germany COPYRIGHT P FAIRLEY" src="http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/dsc02120.jpg?w=300" alt="Bike parking in Freiburg Germany COPYRIGHT P FAIRLEY" width="300" height="225" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />Prospects for a "cash-for-clunkers" bill to stimulate new car sales in the U.S. are dimming amid dissatisfaction with the law's slim environmental benefits.

As Energywise reported, representatives in the House led by Michigan Democrat John Dingell <a href="http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/2009/05/07/is_cash_for_clunkers_a_clunker.html">converged on an automotive scrappage bill earlier this month </a>that would provide cash vouchers worth up to $4,500 to buyers of new cars and trucks that get at least 22 miles to the gallon if they scrap an &hellip;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/3gR8dUE18qw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>BASF Takes Fuel Cells to the Next Level</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[For decades, ever since fuel cells provided electricity to the Apollo spacecraft, their design and manufacture has been a niche businessâ¿¿one in which small startups or somewhat obscure divisions of big companies made the electrochemical devices and most of their ingredients in-house, almost by hand. But on Wednesday, May 6, the German chemicals company BASF cut the ribbon at a new plant in New Jersey where it will make the key components used in high-temperature methanol fuel cells, without actually making or selling fuel cells as such.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/ETqG_9Uxt8w" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Unsolved Problems of Long-Term Coal Waste Disposal</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One doesnâ¿¿t want to make overly direct and invidious comparisons between coal-generated and nuclear-generated electricity, for fear of being called a vulgar environmentalist. But itâ¿¿s hard not to wonder, sometimes, why such a fuss is being made about hypothetical dangers that nuclear wastes could pose 100,000 years from now, when coal wastes are wreaking havoc right now, right before our eyes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/zDitZfeRI58" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Is Cash for Clunkers a Clunker of a Concept?</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Those formulating the U.S. cap-and-trade climate bill appear to have converged this week on a â¿¿cash for clunkerâ¿¿ formula: those driving cars or trucks that get 18 miles to the gallon or less will be entitled to trade them in for more fuel-efficient vehicles, entitling them to a cash voucher of up to $4,500, depending on how much better the new vehicle is. Taking into account the elementary fact that it takes a lot of energy to make a new car, does the formula make sense? IEEE Spectrumâ¿¿s automotive editor <a href="http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1020481_cash-for-clunkers-bill-cuts-greenhouse-gases-but-only-after-70000-miles">John Voelcker addresses the question</a> critically in a recent &hellip;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/sY_6HFCMW4U" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Cosa Nostra Goes Green</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[â¿¿Like giant sentinels, dozens of wind turbines straddle the mountain ridges near Sicily's infamous mafia stronghold of Corleone,â¿¿ the ancestral home of the fictional Corleone family of Godfather fame. So begins <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/265e25ea-390c-11de-8cfe-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">a story in todayâ¿¿s Financial Times</a> detailing the alleged muscling of the Sicilian mob into the lucrative business of building wind farms, taking advantage of generous government subsidies. "Sicily is blessed with sun and wind, but it is also cursed by the Mafia," an official told the FT. So itâ¿¿s only to be expected that Cosa Nostra would make the sun and wind one of its things.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumNuclear/~4/fRREsr3z11s" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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