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Tai.pei.times.com, 12.05.2012 - A handful of anti-nuclear activists and several mothers joined forces yesterday as part of an event staged at Taipei’s Ketagalan Boulevard calling for the government to mark Mother’s Day by closing all the country’s nuclear power plants.
“Use love and peace to eliminate nuclear power,” the protesters said, urging the government to allow mothers and their children to live in a nuclear-free environment.

Business.inquirer.net, 11.05.2012 - Philippines- The government is not content with the $50 million that businessman Herminio Disini has been ordered to repay the government for his role in defrauding the country of billions of pesos through the corrupt-ridden Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) deal.

Upi.com, 10.05.2012 - It is "foolish" to take steps to build a nuclear reactor near the Green River in Utah given the dangers exposed by the 2011 Japanese disaster, advocates say.

A group of environmental advocacy groups and American Indian tribes announced plans to stage a demonstration Saturday in Green River, Utah, to protest plans for a reactor in the area by Blue Castle Holding.

Bellona.org, 10.05.2012 - Far from the political fray, as the United States celebrated the end of the Cold War and the fracturing of the Soviet Union into several states each with their own nuclear weapons, Senator Richard Lugar – who was voted out of his 35-year old senate seat Tuesday - saw through the confetti and party hats and identified a brewing catastrophe.
Charles Digges, 10/05-2012

Thebisnessjournal.com, 09.05.2012 - More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be taken out of service, the utility that runs the plant said Tuesday.

The figures released by Southern California Edison are the latest disclosure in a probe of equipment problems that have kept the coastal plant sidelined for more than three months.

Rediff.com, 09.05.2012 - When dealing with risky technology, it is most important to take people into confidence and tell them what the real risks are, says activist Nityanand Jayaraman.

Nityanand Jayaraman, an environment justice activist and a lecturer at the Asian College of Journalism on environmental journalism, is at the forefront supporting the Koodankulam nuclear power plant agitation through the Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle.

Hydrogenfuelnews.com, 08.05.2012 - Country to begin moving away from nuclear power

Bellona.org, 07.05.2012 - The answer, as it often happens, is supplied by the very question. To what extent is the ex-turned-new president of Russia responsible for the utter ruin that is the current state of Russia’s environment? Looking back over the years since Vladimir Putin first took the reins on New Year’s eve of 2000, ‘ailing’ might be too generous a word to describe what has passed for the country’s environmental policy.