if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } Most of the nation has nowhere to send its low-level nuclear waste. It can’t stop producing this waste. It’s necessary for diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases, and for research. But because there is no-where to send the waste, it piles up in hospitals, other medical facilities and research centers.
It’s an illustration of our nation’s inability to deal realistically with nuclear issues…………………………… The problem isn’t South Carolina’s fault. States were supposed to build their own low-level-nuclear-waste facilities or form compacts to handle the waste. In 2002, Florida joined three other Southern states suing North Carolina for its failure to build a low-level waste facility there. The matter is still in litigation.
The same process has been repeated all over the nation. States have been unable to build low-level-waste sites
John Pilger: Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia | Comment is free | The Guardian
Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia
Claims of child abuse are proving a fertile pretext to menace the Aboriginal communities lying in the way of uranium mining
The Guardian John Pilger 24 Oct 08 – “……………….An epic scandal of racism, injustice and brutality is being covered up in the manner of apartheid South Africa. Many Australians conspire in this silence, wishing never to reflect upon the truth about their society’s Untermenschen, the Aboriginal people…………………………….A pervasive white myth, that Aborigines leech off the state, serves to conceal the disgrace that money the federal government says it spends on indigenous affairs actually goes towards opposing native land rights. In 2006, some A$3bn was underspent “or the result of creative accounting”, reported the Sydney Morning Herald……………………..Having let a few crumbs fall, Rudd is picking up where Howard left off. His indigenous affairs minister, Jenny Macklin, has threatened to withdraw government support from remote communities that are “economically unviable”. The Northern Territory is the only region where Aborigines have comprehensive land rights, granted almost by accident 30 years ago. Here lie some of the world’s biggest uranium deposits. Canberra wants to mine and sell it…………………………..Foreign governments, especially the US, want the Northern Territory as a toxic dump. The Adelaide to Darwin railway that runs adjacent to Olympic Dam, the world’s largest uranium mine, was built with the help of Kellogg, Brown & Root – a subsidiary of American giant Halliburton, the alma mater of Dick Cheney, Howard’s “mate”. “The land grab of Aboriginal tribal land has nothing to do with child sexual abuse,” says the Australian scientist Helen Caldicott, “but all to do with open slather uranium mining and converting the Northern Territory to a global nuclear dump.”
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Inflation Hits Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump | NBC Chicago
Inflation Hits Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump
CHICAGO NEWS Oct 22, 2008WASHINGTON, DC, August 5, 2008 (ENS) – It will cost 38 percent more to build, operate and decommission the nation’s first nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada than the federal government estimated seven years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy said today in an updated life cycle cost estimate.
The highly radioactive waste is left over from nuclear power generation and national defense programs.
An increase in the amount of waste to be shipped and stored at the repository and more than $16 billion for inflation have added to the cost, says the DOE official in charge of Yucca Mountain………………………
The new cost estimate of $79.3 billion, when updated to 2007 dollars, comes to $96.2 billion, a 38 percent increase from the last published estimate in 2001 of $57.5 billion.
The total cost of building and operating the repository is divided between utility ratepayers and taxpayers, with ratepayers estimated to pay a little more than 80 percent, or $77.3 billion.
Inflation Hits Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump | NBC Chicago
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Low-level nuclear waste, high-level problems – Carlsbad Current-Argus
Low-level nuclear waste, high-level problems
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Low-level nuclear waste, high-level problems – Carlsbad Current-Argus
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The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia’s leading newspaper.
Groundwater use unacceptable, says report
Sydney Morning Herald Marian Wilkinson Environment Editor
October 23, 2008AUSTRALIA’S peak water body has raised the alarm over the overuse and pollution of the nation’s groundwater supply, which now supplies up to 30 per cent of the country’s water consumption.
As river systems face drought and climate change, the increasing use of water from underground aquifers has become “an unacceptable risk”, the National Water Commission said yesterday in its annual report.
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Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/World
‘Nuclear incident would make 9/11 insignificant’SYDNEY: The world is on the brink of an avalanche in the spread of devastating weaponry, a new global non-proliferation group warned yesterday, saying that a nuclear incident would dwarf the September 11 attacks.The Middle East, particularly Iran, is a potential tipping point, according to Gareth Evans, co-chair of the newly formed International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.Evans, a former Australia foreign minister, said the world had been “sleepwalking” on the issue of atomic weapons for a decade.“The devastation that could be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else (in) to the category of the insignificant,” he said, referring to the attacks inflicted on the US in 2001.Evans was speaking as the commission, which was first proposed by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after a visit to the Japanese city of Hiroshima in June, entered the second and final day of its inaugural meeting in Sydney…………………………International affairs analyst Michael McKinley said there was an urgent need to rekindle debate about nuclear proliferation, but he doubted the new commission would make much headway.
“The nuclear weapons establishments are so well entrenched now that I’m concerned only a disaster will make them reconsider,” said McKinley, from the Australian National University.
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/World
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Bloomberg.com: Africa
Uranium One Closes Dominion, May Put Mine Up for Sale
By Ron Derby and Antony Sguazzin Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Uranium One Inc. shut its Dominion mine in South Africa and may seek a buyer for the operation as prices for the nuclear fuel slip to a two-year low. The company slid 19 percent in Johannesburg trading.
The operation, based on South Africa’s largest uranium deposit, needs a “sustained recovery” in uranium prices and “significant additional capital investment” to become economically viable, the company said in a statement to the Stock Exchange News Service in Johannesburg today………………..Prices have slumped 50 percent this year, partly on concern that the credit crunch will slow the development of new nuclear power projects……………….Uranium One fell 2.10 rand to 9 rand in Johannesburg trading, giving the company a market value of 4.22 billion rand ($378 million). The stock has declined 83 percent since Froneman’s departure and traded as high as 112 rand last year.
In Toronto, the shares fell 11 Canadian cents, or 10 percent, to 95 cents as of 11:11 a.m. local time.
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UK nuclear tests left ‘disease timebomb’ – politics.co.uk
UK nuclear tests left ‘disease timebomb’
politics.co.uk 23, Oct 2008 12:01
UK nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s have left veterans and their children with a variety of congenital diseases, according to a backbench Tory MP.
John Baron conducted an adjournment debate in the Commons yesterday afternoon, where he voiced concerns the government was “backsliding” on its commitment to investigate the issue.
A recent report conducted by Dr Chris Busby for the British Nuclear Tests Veterans Association (BNTVA) found higher levels of miscarriage, still birth and infant mortality among the families of those who helped conduct the tests……………………………….
The government carried out several nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean and at Maralinga, Australia between 1952 and 1967, involving over 20,000 servicemen.
Among these were the ‘Grapple Y’ and Grapple Z’ detonations on Christmas island, involving weapons far more powerful than those used to on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Of 2,500 men surveyed in 1999, 30 per cent had died, mostly in their 50s. More than 100 veterans children reported reproductive difficulties.
Many children and grandchildren of servicemen have experienced a range of problems including holes in the heart, deafness, reproductive difficulties, missing or excess teeth, deformity and early death.
UK nuclear tests left ‘disease timebomb’ – politics.co.uk
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Don’t let crisis slow carbon preparations, leaders told | theage.com.au
Don’t let crisis slow carbon preparations, leaders told
The AgeTom Arup October 23, 2008 BUSINESS leaders have been warned to speed up preparation for the incoming emissions trading scheme despite the credit crisis.
Speaking on a panel at an Australian Institute of Company Directors function yesterday, Adam Kirkman, director of risk consulting group Protiviti, urged businesses to look beyond the current financial troubles and to push on with plans to cut carbon emissions.
“There is no indication that the Rudd Government is looking to push back the start of the emissions trading scheme (despite the credit crisis),” Mr Kirkman said.
“And it’s interesting that in the same week the UK Government was nationalising banks left, right and centre, they were going to change their emissions reduction emission to 80%.”
Mr Kirkman said the benefit of the incoming ETS was that it echoed a wider shift in the community for an increasingly regulated market in the face of collapsing investor confidence.
“An ETS is essentially a regulated market — the Government will have a lot of control over it,” he said……………………..However, speaking to BusinessDay, another panelist, Dr Ziggy Switkowski, chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, said the credit crisis was a dangerous time to be framing an emissions trading scheme.
Don’t let crisis slow carbon preparations, leaders told | theage.com.au
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Safety check forces Swedish nuke plant shutdown – The Local
Safety check forces Swedish nuke plant shutdown
The Local : 21 Oct 08 13:Sweden shut down one of its nuclear reactors on Tuesday to check the plant’s control rods after cracks were found in the rods at an identical plant, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) reports.
Safety check forces Swedish nuke plant shutdown – The Local
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KRDO.com Colorado Springs, Pueblo – Weather, News, Sports – Health Concerns At Uranium Mill
Health Concerns At Uranium Mill
krdo News Channel 13 By Sean Hauser Oct 21, 2008
CANON CITY – Twenty-four years ago it was closed because of radioactive contamination. Now, a study is looking into renewed concerns at the Cotter Uranium Mill in Canon City……………………
It’s no secret that the uranium mill in Canon City has had its problems in the past.
“We do have some contamination extending off to the North and West of our property that’s a subject of a notice of violation between Cotter and the state that has been identified out there for a number of years,”…………………….state documents show a new plume of uranium-contaminated groundwater is spreading from the mill under a nearby golf course.
KRDO.com Colorado Springs, Pueblo – Weather, News, Sports – Health Concerns At Uranium Mill
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Resolving Environmental Injustice on a Local Level | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com
And Justice For All
NewsWeek 22 Oct 08 An environmental expert talks about the challenges of helping disadvantaged communities deal with pollution and climate change at a local level……………A report released today by two environmental organizations, the Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland, found that localized pollution is the leading contributing factor to disability and disease in communities across the world. Even in the United States, air pollution and contaminated water sources result in death, persistent illness and neurological impairment for millions of people. And children, researchers found, are usually disproportionately affected.
Resolving Environmental Injustice on a Local Level | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com
Uranium mining jeopardizes well-being of Navajo Nation – News
Uranium mining jeopardizes well-being of Navajo Nation
New Mexico Daily Lobo Hunter Riley 10/21/08 The Navajo Nation has struggled for years to keep uranium mining off its lands.However, with two leading presidential candidates now supporting the expansion of nuclear energy, American Indians may soon lose the power to decide who uses their land and its resources.
Community members considered the controversies surrounding uranium mining in the Navajo Nation last week, as guest lecturer Traci Voyles spoke about her research on the topic.
She said past uranium mining on Navajo land in New Mexico is an example of environmental racism, …………Uranium mining has negatively effected the Navajo population, Voyles said. The pueblos near Gallup and Crown Point have seen an increase in respiratory health problems and other diseases related to mining, she said.The Navajo Nation placed a ban on uranium mining and milling on its lands in 2005, but Dina Gilio, co-chairwoman of the Native American Studies program, said the ban may be lifted if the government decides to expand nuclear energy initiatives.
Voyles said the first part of her dissertation focuses on the historical aspect of environmental racism and colonialism and the history of the federal government’s involvement in these problems. She will also investigate how native groups are facing these issues later in her project.
Uranium mining jeopardizes well-being of Navajo Nation – News
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No Nukes Is Good Nukes | pressconnects.com | Press & Sun-Bulletin
No Nukes Is Good Nukes
PressConnects.com Donald Allen • October 20, 2008 “…………………….nuclear power generation has one very big drawback; nuclear waste. The “used up” fuel from reactors is still very radioactive and will be for about a hundred thousand years. The big problem obviously is what to do with it. In the early days we dumped used fuel from our atomic submarines in the deep part of the ocean. We don’t know exactly how it might have effected the marine environment, but we pretty soon figured out that dumping wasn’t a real good idea. From that day to this, all we have done with most of the used (but still radioactive) fuel it store it “temporarily” some where and moved it around from one temporary storage place to another……………………….The true bottom line is; nowhere is the right place! No one wants it near them because they think something that is radioactive for tens of thousands of years can’t be kept secure and safe virtually forever. It might leak, explode, be shot into the air by earth movement, get stolen or even forgotten until someday it comes back and bites us from behind. Some say the current crop of waste can be further reprocessed into safer forms and less volume of radioactive material. They even claim a use for the reprocessed material may eventually be found. But the recycling of nuclear waste process is expensive and has all of the dangers incumbent with still having some radioactive waste material at the end albeit of a lesser volume. The nuclear powered power plant is not a very attractive option, even if we think things are getting desperate, energywise!…………………….Let’s ask our putative leaders if they are willing to cast off the economic control of corporate contributions from the petrochemical industry, the nuclear industry, the financial industry that manipulates the markets, etc. Let’s ask our leaders to truly represent us and work for our general welfare as the constitution of the U.S. requires. With our support real leaders can not fail. We have the vote, which no amount of private money can buy from us if don’t let it, and that is the real key to power now and for the future.
No Nukes Is Good Nukes | pressconnects.com | Press & Sun-Bulletin
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Local News | Where McCain, Obama stand on environmental, energy issues | Seattle Times Newspaper
Where McCain, Obama stand on environmental, energy issues
The seattle Times 22 Oct 08 By Warren Cornwall – “………………….The differences can hit close to home for Washington residents and businesses: The choice of president could influence where this region gets new power, which energy industries thrive and how the state confronts climate change…………………Both say climate change is a real, man-made problem that warrants federal action. And both endorse a pollution-cutting scheme known as “cap and trade.”…………………McCain’s approach to new energy sources is largely in step with fellow Republicans. Like Bush, nuclear power is a centerpiece of his plan. He has called for construction of 45 new nuclear-power reactors in the United States by 2030…………….In past global-warming legislation, McCain has pressed for nuclear industry subsidies and loan guarantees worth as much as $3.7 billion
Obama has given nuclear power a cooler reception. While saying he supports it, he says the nation needs to figure out a way to deal with the radioactive waste it produces. He opposes the present nuclear-waste disposal plan — burying it deep in a mountain in Nevada — warning that safety questions remain……………….Washington also has a history of radioactive pollution and financial catastrophe. The Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland and a former uranium mine northwest of Spokane are both federal Superfund cleanup sites.The organization that built the Columbia Generating Station, known by the acronym WPPSS, earned the nickname “Whoops” for a $2.25 billion bond default in 1983, after cost overruns forced it to stop building four other nuclear reactors…………………..
Obama has placed greater emphasis than McCain on renewable energy, and sees a bigger role for the federal government to promote it.
He favors tax breaks for renewable power projects, as well as making utilities meet renewable energy quotas.
He has called for a $150 billion initiative to boost research in fuel-efficient cars, renewable energy and “clean coal” technology.
Local News | Where McCain, Obama stand on environmental, energy issues | Seattle Times Newspaper
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The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia’s leading newspaper.
New jobs in a clean economy *
Sydney Morning Herald October 22, 2008 Tackling the threat of climate change will destroy some jobs but replace them with others, Kelsey Munro reports. It is shaping up to be the boom sector of the future. So-called green collar careers in renewable energies, recycling industries, green services and any other jobs contributing to better environmental outcomes are expected to grow rapidly over the next few decades.Many of today’s green jobs hardly existed 10 years ago. In the 1990s, jobs such as those of carbon trader, solar panel installer or green energy auditor sounded to many like science fiction. To really expand the future green-collar economy, skills and training initiatives – up-skilling and re-skilling – will also be necessary.
That is the finding of research commissioned by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum, a not-for-profit body, and carried out by the CSIRO. The report, Growing The Green Collar Economy, says green-collar job growth should offset and possibly exceed job losses caused elsewhere by cuts to carbon pollution.
“The traditional thinking that if you’re more concerned about the environment you will lose jobs is not true,” says Heinz Schandl of the CSIRO, one of the authors of the research.
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