A new U.S. government analysis has found that the plutonium at the heart of the country's nearly 10,000 stockpiled nuclear weapons could last twice as long as previously thought. That conclusion is likely to escalate the debate over the Bush Administration's campaign to build a new generation of weapons.

the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management's final report was released on July 31, 2006 in the uk. The government commissioned the report three years ago, after it decided to discuss nuclear

More than 3,000 anti-nuclear activists attempted to block the delivery of atomic waste from France to the German town of Gorleben, on November 20, 2005. The activists staging a sit-down blockade on

• Traditional owners from Northern Territory, Australia gathered outside Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney to rally against plans to place a nuclear waste facility on their land

A bacterium that mops up uranium

Catalogued by UK s Tory regime; source of concern now

Government resists analysis of nuclear facility s effluents

After crushing a French environmentalist to death, a shipment of nuclear waste reached Germany's Gorleben storage site on November 9, 2004, despite strong protests. The rail convoy of 12 containers,

What is being sold?

But nuclear power won t give up

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