Salon

TV star's ugly Wal-Mart defense: Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe goes nuclear Salon “Dirty Jobs” star Mike Rowe pushed back against Wal-Mart critics Monday, comparing a mass email campaign to “a bag of dog crap set ablaze on my front porch” and urging that “unhappy” workers apply for scholarships from his foundation because their ...

Conserved Nuclear Envelope Protein Uses a Shuttle Service to Travel Between ... Newswise (press release) Newswise — KANSAS CITY, MO—Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have glimpsed two proteins working together inside living cells to facilitate communication between the cell's nucleus and its exterior compartment, the cytoplasm. Conserved nuclear envelope protein uses a shuttle service to travel between ...Eureka! Science News all 6 news articles »

'TEPCO done poor job at Fukushima nuclear plant' - expert The Voice of Russia Tokyo Electric Power Company suspended the removal of spent nuclear fuel rods at its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant after a cooling system failed due to a damaged power cable. The company said that no abnormalities were found at the spent fuel ... and more »

RT (blog)

Nuclear site whistleblower fired after complaining about safety conditions RT (blog) She is already speaking out about the matter, though, and says she lost her job because her employer wanted to retaliate in response to comments she made publically about the plant in the past. Busche has been vocal for years about conditions at Hanford. Whistle-blower fired from Hanford nuclear siteUSA TODAY Whistle-blower fired from most polluted US nuclear production siteCanadian Manufacturing Whistle-blower fired from job at most polluted US nuclear arms production siteThe Province all 118 news articles »

The Denver Channel

Polluted nuclear site worker voiced concerns about safety; becomes 2nd whistle ... The Denver Channel SPOKANE, Wash. - Whistle-blower Donna Busche, who raised safety concerns at the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site, was fired Tuesday from her job at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Busche's complaints are part of a string of ... Official raising nuclear safety concerns at Hanford Site firedExaminer.com Nuclear Site Project Official Fired After Airing Safety ConcernsNextgov all 34 news articles »

New generation of nuclear workers entering field The Augusta Chronicle Dennis Huff turned to nuclear as a second career after working 10 years at the Sweetheart Cup Co., now the Dart Container facility on Wrightsboro Road. Huff, 32, knew nothing about the nuclear field except there were ample job opportunities, especially ...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Carnegie Endowment for International Peace In the Department of Defense's June 2013 Report on U.S. Nuclear Employment Strategy, the Pentagon determined that the United States could achieve its deterrence and strategy requirements with “up to a one-third reduction in deployed nuclear weapons ... and more »

Do we really think Vladimir Putin feels his decisions are constrained by our nuclear weapons that are underground in Montana?

Safety problems that triggered extra inspections or oversight by regulators declined again last year at U.S. nuclear power plants.

High-jumping, laser-dodging motorbikes share a post-apocalyptic landscape with martial-arts warriors. A comic book written by a teenager on a sugar high? Nope, just another day at the office for Micky Dymond.

RESTON, Va., March 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bechtel-led Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC  has been directed by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration to immediately resume transitioning to take over the management and operation of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Consolidated Nuclear Security was selected last ...

For a brief period, Ukraine was the world's third-largest nuclear power. It gave up thousands of nuclear warheads inherited from the Soviet Union in return for a 1994 promise from the U.S. and Russia not to use force or threaten military action against the newly independent nation, a pledge Russian President Vladimir Putin repudiated this week after his troops took control of Ukraine's Crimea ...

Nuclear engineer points to the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the California coast near San Luis Obispo as the nation's second-riskiest plant, noting that an undersea fault could cause ground motion that would exceed what the plant was designed to handle.

High-jumping, laser-dodging motorbikes share a post-apocalyptic landscape with martial-arts warriors. A comic book written by a teenager on a sugar high? Nope, just another day at the office for Micky Dymond.