1. Senator Menendez Denies All Charges as Investigation Heats Up
(N.J./State)

... response to Iranian and North Korean nuclear aspirations, is all too familiar with these allegations since they first surfaced last year in the conservative publication The Daily Caller. The remaining ...

2. Congressman Holt Proposes Day to Honor Darwin
(U.S./Nation)

... believe that Earth is but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was made in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible tells us.” Holt is a nuclear physicist by training, according to The New York ...

3. Buono says Gubernatorial Run will Focus on Jobs, Economic recovery
(N.J./State)

BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM State Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) kicked off her gubernatorial campaign with promises to revive New Jersey’s struggling economy and spread benefits and burdens ...

4. Nearly 3 Years later...no study from the NRC?
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Mr. Green: So why has the NRC waited nearly three years to even begin the new cancer study? These groups are all in bed with each other hopping from the nuclear industry jobs back to the government and ...

5. Fukushima Rescue Mission Lasting Legacy: Radioactive Contamination of Americans
(U.S./Nation)

... and their families caught in the radioactive clouds blowing from the destroyed nuclear power plants at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan. The decision to cease updating the registry means there will be no way ...

6. Cruel and Unusual: Iran Introduces "Finger Chopping Machine"
(World/International)

BY MICHAEL HAYNE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM  The Islamic Republic of Iran mostly generates headlines and foreign policy interest over its purported nuclear program, of which the threat of war seems ...

7. Investment Prospectives: Hits and Misses
(Money/Economy)

BY MARK LUSCHINI SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY The annual ritual of hitting the reset button on a New Year brings to mind forecasts and reflection. Last year was no less eventful than ...

8. A Great Hollywood Story: The Mesmerizing & Mysterious Falconetti, Who Dazzled in 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Study. On everything from the next nuclear war (Pakistan versus India, predicted a panel of experts) to a defense of Typhoid Mary (she wasn’t persuaded that she was a carrier) to why blondes have more ...

9. Gun Lobby Director suggests Armed Revolt to 'Overthrow Popularly Elected Government '
(Opinion/Commentary)

... stand little chance against drones, nuclear bombs and the Marines. Our unflinching support for unbridled gun usage is like our unflinching and blind support for Israel. But even as many ardent gun proponent ...

10. End of the World? Expert Says Mayans Never Forecast Dec 21st Apocalypse but 12 percent of Americans say the end is near
(Life/Style)

... of a whole variety of threats, from radiation to nuclear annihilation and societal collapse. Today, zombies appear in a post-apocalyptic world where the institutions of society have collapsed and we are ...

11. Double-Teamed: New York Battles Feds And Entergy Over Indian Point Nuclear Plant
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Law Judges, on the adequacy of a deliberately vague set of guidelines to oversee the operations of the Indian Point nuclear power plants for the next 20 years.  And though Entergy had four of its ...

12. New York Giants vs. Redskins preview: Eli Manning and RGIII set for rematch
(Sports/Professional)

... won their last two games with RG3 throwing a combined eight TDs and one interception. Here are some things to look for in tonight’s game. How the Giants Contain the Redskins’ Nuclear Offense The Redskins ...

13. Gutless PSC Denies Indian Point's Clean Safe Virtues
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... and acid rain free can you get than a nuclear plant? "In addition, closing Indian Point would end the damage ... kills billions of fish annually and violates the Clean Water Act." Where did he get ...

14. When the nuclear fission stops: PSC seeks future without Indian Point
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... without electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plants. In the first concrete action taken by a state agency to move towards a non-nuclear energy future in the lower Hudson River Valley, the ...

15. Report: U.S. wanted to nuke the moon after Russian Sputnik launch
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to take the early lead in the space race, the U.S. considered a plan of detonating a nuclear bomb on the moon. According to a report obtained by CNN that had been declassified years ago, the top-secret ...

16. On the Hurricane Sandy gas crisis: Mandating stations have generators would not have helped
(Opinion/Commentary)

... temporary gas outages we faced recently. Even if every gas station had their own miniature nuclear power plant installed, it still wouldn’t have eliminated the gas lines. I applaud Senate President Sweeney ...

17. Energy Dept. moving forward with a smaller, less costly nuclear reactor
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY GINA G. SCALA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Earlier this week, The Department of Energy announced plans to fund the development of a new generation of smaller, less costly nuclear reactors. The plan is ...

18. Oyster Creek and NJEF
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... They would close despite a federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval that allowed them to operate another 20 years because it was not cost effective to retrofit the plant with costly cooling ...

19. Inspections Reveal New Risks at Oyster Creek: Governor, Feds Urged to Enforce Safety Measures Before Nuke Plant Re-Opens
(N.J./State)

Concerned local citizens and national experts announced today they filed formal, emergency legal proceedings with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) late yesterday, and have made a personal ...

20. Twinkies brand goes bankrupt: Hostess overrun by Ho Hos and Ding Dongs
(Life/Style)

... it tolls for thee. Now if there’s a nuclear apocalypse, we’ll have nothing to eat. I love Twinkies. I know they’re full of fake stuff and tons of sugar and blah blah blah. I like them way better than ...