NASA’s Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes in Australia
VIDEO Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes on launch : Dynamics of Cats NASA loses a balloon in the outback April 29, 2010 The Nuclear Compton Telescope (PI Boggs at UCB’s SSL), a soft γ-ray telescope designed for balloon launch, observations in the stratosphere, and recovery, crashed because of a wind gust during an attempted launch in Australia earlier toda Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes on launch : Dynamics of Cats
Nuclear waste dump rejected by Australian Aborigines
Australian aborigines reject nuclear waste plant, fullstory, Canberra, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Aborigines from northern Australia rejected government plans to build a plant for nuclear waste storage in their territories.Diane Stokes, an indigenous woman from the Warumungu and Warlmanpa tribes in the Northern Territory Muckaty Station, about 125 miles north of Tennat Creek town, opposed to the discharging of radioactive waste on their land.The government now seeks to build a permanent facility to house the nuclear waste that Australia used in hospitals, industries, agriculture and research.In 2007, the Labour Party promised a new study to select the site based on inclusion and consent of the community through a process of solid and transparent principles.Activist Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation, declared there is a lot at stake with radioactive waste that lasts thousands of years and can cause cancer and genetic changes
Nuclear power promotion should not be included in USA’s Climate Bill
“The nuclear power industry stands to benefit tremendously,” said Slocum. “And this is probably the most undeserving industry in the entire American economy.”
5 Green Groups Declare Senate Climate Bill unacceptable, , SolveClimate.com, Stacy Feldman – Apr 28th, 2010 Five national environmental groups declared the stalled Senate climate and energy bill “unacceptable” on Tuesday, saying the nation would be better off in the long run without it. Continue reading
AREVA’s deceitful spin that nuclear power is clean
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AREVA, France’s state-owned nuclear company is aggressively pursuing its world-wide business empire. Despite the recent revelations of the degradation AREVA has caused in Niger, AREVA claims this image of being a good global citizen. AREVA aso claims that nuclear is “clean”, and “carbon free ” ( forget the carbon polluting fuel and waste disposal cycle)
My advice to California about its “Clean” Energy Park – When you sup with the devil, use a long spoon
AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group Move Closer to Clean Energy Park Today AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group announced another important step toward building the nation’s most advanced Clean Energy Park to region near Fresno, California.
AREVA and FNEG signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop the country’s most advanced Clean Energy Park in the state’s San Joaquin Valley.As part of the Clean Energy Park concept, both nuclear and renewable energy sources would be used for generating clean, reliable electricity..
..When complete, the park’s nuclear and solar energy sources would produce clean [?], constant, reliable, carbon-free electricity
VIDEO on India’s radiation victims
At least eight persons involved in the scrap business were exposed to gamma radiation from radioactive cobalt-60 earlier this month after they tried to …
U.S.A.’s business interests pushing for India’s Nuclear Liability Bill
The US government has its interest in the Bill as most nuclear firms because of a cap in the US have little business and they see an enormous opportunity at low cost in India.
No good civilian bargain, Central Chronicle – Madhya Pradesh’s News Portal Shivaji Sarka, April 28, 2010A scrap yard has exposed the country’s inability to handle a nuclear radiation hazard. The Mayapuri incident in the country’s capital, Delhi involving a cobalt-60 exposes the inadequacy of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Body and raises doubts about the efficacy of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill (CLND), put off for the present. Continue reading
Citizens rally to save Balpakram National Park from uranium mining
Uranium mining in Balpakram Park opposed, The Assam Tribune Online, TURA, April 28 – The Tura A’chik (Garo) Senior Citizens Forum has opposed the move to mine uranium by denotifying an area of eight square km in Rongcheng plateau of Balpakram National Park.The senior citizens forum in an emergent meeting here attended by members of the Asima Dingsima Rangsaljong Association (ADRA) opposed the move by the Department of Atomic Energy to denotify the area for the proposed uranium mining…. Continue reading
Resuscitation of nuclear industry in peril with no solution to radioactive wastes
DOE announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission of nuclear experts who will spend the next 18 months working to evaluate policy options for the management of spent nuclear fuel.
Nuclear Waste Issue Persists as New Plants Forge Ahead | ecopolitology, by Timothy B. Hurst on April 28, 2010 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy are preparing for a new era of American nuclear power plants.
The United States electric industry is gearing up to build new nuclear power plants for the first time in decades. Whether and when any of these new plants are actually completed depends on the outcome of many issues, including regulatory, financing and the ultimate disposal of spent nuclear fuel…… Continue reading
Colorado: uranium mining wastes clean-up demanded as Senate passess Bill
Colo. Senate passes bill requiring uranium cleanup, Google hosted news, (AP) – 29 April 2010, DENVER — The state Senate has passed a bill requiring uranium mines and mills to clean up nuclear waste before accepting more radioactive material.The Senate voted 24-9 in favor of the bill Wednesday. It now heads back to the House, where backers hope lawmakers will agree with changes made in the Senate…..Mines and mills are currently allowed to postpone cleanup until they finish production and decommission their production facilities. Lawmakers are concerned that a national focus on nuclear energy will allow mines to postpone cleanup of radioactive wastes while they increase production.
The Associated Press: Colo. Senate passes bill requiring uranium cleanup
Don’t add radioactive tailings to already polluted streams
What would the mining activities of two huge open-pit uranium mines, with a reported possible third mine at Coles Hill, do to the streams and rivers of Southside Virginia over the proposed mining span of 30 years?
Study links stream pollution to higher cancer rates, Star Tribune, , April 27, 2010 Researchers at West Virginia University and Virginia Tech now have the study findings to show a causal link between West Virginia streams, those polluted by coal mining activities, and premature cancer deaths in the humans who live near them. Continue reading
International Atomic Energy Agency warns on childrens’ CT scans and cancer
UNIAE Warns: Kids Exposed More to Radiation in CT Scans TopNews, by Jason Ramsey on Wed, 04/28/2010 The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency has forwarded a word of warning by stating that, kids in various nations, are being largely exposed toradiation, when they undergo computed tomography scans, which increases their risk of developing cancer.A latest report submitted by the agency established that even though specialists have cautioned against the practice, for almost a number of years, yet the kids have been getting adult –sized radiation dosages, at the time of scanning. UNIAE Warns: Kids Exposed More to Radiation in CT Scans | TopNews United States
Guam’s nuclear bomb test victims might be compensated, at last
US legislation a “first step” in compensation process for Guam nuclear radiation victims Radio NewZealand, 28 April, 2010 UTCThe Pacific Association of Radiation Survivors, or PARS, has welcomed a new bill in the US senate which would allow Guam residents exposed to nuclear tests decades ago to claim as much as US$150,000 each in damages.The bill looks to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include Guam on the list of affected areas where victims can make claims alongside the likes of Nevada, Utah and Arizona.One of the bill’s co-sponsors, Guam’s congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, says many people in so-called “downwinder” areas like Guam have been affected by nuclear testing……
“We’ve never been compensated. The Marshall islands were compensated partially and they, evidently, ran out of money through their trust fund and now they’re… ignored. If we (Guam) weren’t a US territory out here, I don’t think they (US lawmakers) would even entertain it.” US legislation a “first step” in compensation process for Guam nuclear radiation victims
Bin Laden would use nuclear weapons if he could
Former Bin Laden Bodyguard: Bin Laden Would Not Hesitate to Use Nuclear Weapons, The MEMRI Blog, 28 April 2010, In an interview, Nasser Al-Bahri, who served as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard in Afghanistan, said that bin Laden had indeed made attempts to gain possession of a nuclear weapon, …The MEMRI Blog – Full Blog Entry
Nuclear radiation affects women more than men
NUCLEAR POWER and WOMEN – our focus for May 2010
Decisions on nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear wastes are almost exclusively made by men.
Yet the brunt of nuclear-caused cancer is suffered by women and children, as is the brunt of nuclear war, and of depleted uranium spread.
Opinion polls over many years, and in many countries, consistently show that women are opposed to nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
More women than men are concerned about health and environmental effects of the nuclear industry.
Yet they are consistently reassured by narrowly educated nuclear physicists, and other technocrats, that nuclear power is safe, and that they have nothing to worry about in regard to ionising radiation.
India’s radiation victim dies
Indian Man Dies After Radiation Exposure, New York Times, By JIM YARDLEYPublished: April 27, 2010, NEW DELHI — A man hospitalized for radiation exposure died Monday night from multiple organ failure, the first fatality stemming from a major case of radiation exposure earlier this month that forced authorities to temporarily cordon off an industrial area near the heart of the national capital….. Continue reading
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