The undiscussed supply chain – Scitizen
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France David Thorpe 10 Dec 08The mining and milling of uranium is dangerous, leaves a toxic legacy for millions of years in vulnerable parts of the world, and is hardly conducted in an ethical fashion, yet British ministers – while sourcing FSC timber – are complacent about the supply-chain consequences of their enthusiasm for nuclear new build.
YThe UK government is in a hurry to get eight new nuclear plants built around the country. It is even manipulating the planning laws to achieve this end: the Planning Act, Climate Change Act and Energy Act became law this week, all of which pave the way for a new generation of nuclear power stations. Nuclear power is the Government’s magic ticket not only to meet its 2020 carbon emission goals and “stop the lights going out” but to export British nuclear know-how around the globe.
One can condemn ministers’ gung-ho enthusiasm for this technology from any number of angles: the threat of terrorist attack; nuclear proliferation; global insecurity; the waste legacy, and so on.
I want to discuss one that is rarely raised: the fuel supply chain.
The government has in place guidelines for the ethical and sustainable sourcing of many raw materials. The Government promotes Corporate Social Responsibility, and in this context Tony Blair launched something called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative [http://eitransparency.org/ ] t the World Summit for Sustainable Business Development in 2001. The Government’s Sustainable Procurement Action Plan includes purchasing advice for its departments and agencies in order to reduce waste production, energy and water use, and reduce impact upon biodiversity. The most obvious example is timber; Government departments and agencies are supposed to source timber using the internationally recognised auditing trails.
You won’t find anything about uranium sourcing in that document, because the government itself does not buy uranium: British Energy does that. And yet the increased sourcing of raw uranium that will arise from nuclear new build is directly due to the U-turn in government policy on nuclear power that has come in the last three years.The World Nuclear Association (WNA), the trade body for the ten companies that make up 90% of the industry, has convinced politicians that “Nuclear energy is one of the very few available large-scale sources of clean energy (CO2 free)” [http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NE/NEFW/documents/RawMaterials/CD_TM_IBPinUM&P%20200810/02WNA%20pres%20-%20IAEA-WNA%20TM%20-%20u%20mining%20EH&S%20-%2015oct08.pdf].
The WNA admits that in “emerging uranium producing countries” there is frequently no adequate environmental health and safety legislation, let alone monitoring. It is considerately proposing a Charter of Ethics containing Principles of Uranium Stewardship for its members to follow. But this is a self-policing voluntary arrangement. Similarly, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Safety Guide to the Management of Radioactive Waste from the Mining and Milling of Ores are not legally binding
hat transparency is not a value enshrined in the extractive or the nuclear industries. Put the two together and you have a major quality of information problem. Access to the truth is, to say the least, uncertain. Journalists and others trying to obtain reliable information find themselves blocked. Recently, to tackle this issue, Panos Institute West Africa (IPAO) held a training seminar for journalists in Senegal which highlighted that only persistent investigation – or, in the case of the Tuareg, violent rebellion – has a chance of uncovering the truth.The co-editor of The Republican in Niger, Ousseini Issa, said that only due to local media campaigns was there a revision of the contract linking Niger to the French company Areva. “We realized then that the country drew little benefit from uranium. As a result of our efforts, the price of a kilogram of uranium increased from 25,000 to 40,000 CFA francs,” he said. This means that the local community receives a decent income from the extraction of their resources.
IPAO has plenty of evidence that in Africa the legacy of mining is often terrible health, water contamination and other pollution problems. The health and safety of workers and local communities is frequently a low priority. IPAO would laugh at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative – an Orwellian creation.
What is the effect of uranium mining specifically? Under current world market conditions, nuclear fuel from fresh uranium is cheaper than from recycled uranium or recycled plutonium (MOX), which is why there is a uranium rush going on worldwide.
gh uranium fuel – about 25 tonnes – to keep your average (1300 MW) reactor going for a year entails the extraction of half a million tonnes of waste rock and over 100,000 tonnes of mill tailings. These are toxic for hundreds of thousands of years. The conversion plant will generate a further 144 tonnes of solid waste and 1343 cubic metres of liquid waste.Contamination of local water supplies around uranium mines and processing plants has been documented in Brazil, Colorado, Texas, Australia, Namibia and many other sites. To supply the number of power stations worldwide expected to be online in 2020 would mean generating 50 million tonnes of toxic radioactive residue every single year.
The milling process recovers about 95% of the uranium. The residues, or tailings, contain naturally-occurring radioactive elements, including uranium, thorium, radium, polonium, and radon-222 emissions. In countries like the US, the Environmental Protection Agency sets limits of emissions from the dumps and monitors them. This does not happen in many less developed areas.
The current market prices of nuclear fuel do not include all of the costs incurred. For uranium mill tailings, the long-term management cost that is not covered by the uranium price may be as high as the uranium cost itself. The situation for the depleted uranium waste arising during enrichment even may be worse, says the World Information Service on Energy.
No one can convince me that the above process is carbon-free. It takes a lot of – almost certainly fossil-fuelled – energy to move that amount of rock and process the ore. But the carbon cost is often not in the country where the fuel is consumed – certainly in the case of the UK. So that’s why it’s ‘carbon free’.
And what of the other costs? Over half of the world’s uranium is in Australia and Canada. In Australia the Government is relishing the idea of making money from the nuclear renaissance being predicted, and uranium mining is expanding all over the place. Australian greens are fast losing the optimism they felt when the Labor Party won the last election. The temptation to cash in the expense of the environment and traditional peoples under the pretense of it being ‘low carbon’ is too much.
Uranium mining has often been a disaster for indigenous peoples. In the Northern Territory plans to expand a nuclear dump at Muckaty station are being pushed forward with no regard for the land’s Aboriginal owners. The supposedly greener new Australian government Minister Martin Ferguson has failed to deliver an election promise to overturn the Howard Government’s Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act, which earmarks a series of sites for nuclear waste dumps. Senator Ludlam asked him last week at a senate hearing: “How can Martin Ferguson wash his hands of this issue and allow small Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory to cop this waste in a repeat of the worst nuclear colonialism of the past?”
In South Australia, in August the Australian Government approved the expansion of a controversial uranium mine, Beverley ISL. This was dubbed a “blank cheque licence for pollution”. Groundwater specialist Dr Gavin Mudd, a lecturer in environmental engineering at Monash University, has examined the data from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and called for it to be “independently verified by people not subservient to the mining industry” (The Epoch Times Sept. 2, 2008).
Elsewhere in the Northern Territory, on Oct. 31 BHP Billiton said it plans to have the first of five planned stages of expansion at its Olympic Dam mine in production by 2013. This will increase production capacity to 200,000 tonnes of copper, 4500 tonnes of uranium and 120,000 ounces of gold. This is a vast open cast mine, from which the wind can carry away radioactive dust.
Not far away locals are fighting a new uranium mine 25 kilometres south of Alice Springs. Elsewhere, at the Ranger mines, on November 17, Energy Resources of Australia – 68.4% owned by Rio Tinto – said it expects to find 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes of ore in the Ranger 3 Deeps area. In October the company signed an agreement to supply uranium oxide to a Chinese utility. At the same time they signed a safety accord. This is how safe the mine in fact is – and you won’t find such records at African mines: almost 15,000 litres of acid uranium solution leaked in a 2002 incident, and since then further leaks ranging from 50 to over 23,000 litres have been reported on the South Australian Government’s Primary Industries website. The most recent was on April 22, 2006 when 14,400 litres of solution containing approx. 0.5% uranium leaked out.
The list goes on.
The bottom line is this: UK ministers are blind to the consequences of their pro-nuclear evangelism. Their hypocrisy is breath-taking. Carbon credits under the Kyoto mechanism have to be independently audited by a global body to ensure that new renewable energy is unique, additional and lives up to its claims. At the very least there should be an independent, global body verifying the ethics, health and long-term safety of the nuclear supply chain.
But you won’t find anything about uranium sourcing in that document, because the government itself does not buy uranium: British Energy does that. And yet the increased sourcing of raw uranium that will arise from nuclear new build is directly due to the U-turn in government policy on nuclear power that has come in the last three years.
The undiscussed supply chain – Scitizen
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Family Security Matters » Publications » Israel Going Through the Motions of Planning Iran Attack?
Israel Going Through the Motions of Planning Iran Attack?
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS December 9, 2008 Rick MoranWould Israel attack Iranian nuclear facilities without the cooperation and approval from the United States?……………………………….As for statements by the current regime in Iran speaking to their intent; while mouthing nonsense about using their knowledge and technology for “peaceful purposes” they have, out of the other side of their mouths, been a little more forthcoming in their desire to “wipe Israel off the map” and make Iran “a great power.”
Put one and one together and you are left with the unmistakable impression that Iran wants to build a nuke. It would be the height of folly and wishful thinking to believe anything else.
From the Jerusalem Post The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned.While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.“It is always better to coordinate,” one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. “But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination.”……………..They and the rest of the world have time, but not much. Postulating that Iran has someplace they could enrich the uranium they already have to bomb making levels, it would still take many months at their current level of technology to accomplish the task. Unanswered questions are whether they have a workable bomb design and more importantly, have been able to configure the bomb to fit atop one of their Shahab missiles. But I doubt whether Israel is going to wait to discover the answers. More likely, once the Iranian nuclear program has passed a certain point of no return, they will consider acting. Right now, Israeli intelligence pegs that point as the end of 2009.
Family Security Matters » Publications » Israel Going Through the Motions of Planning Iran Attack?
STLtoday – Former Weldon Spring uranium workers seek money for cancer claims
Former Weldon Spring uranium workers seek money for cancer claims
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STLtoday – Former Weldon Spring uranium workers seek money for cancer claims
Mineweb – URANIUM – Market malaise fails to budge Alliance Resources despite high grade uranium hits
Market malaise fails to budge Alliance Resources despite high grade uranium hits
The Four Mile uranium project in South Australia, already ranked as the best new uranium discovery in Australia this year, failed to provide share price impetus for its junior partner despite the spectacular nature of the new intersections. MineWeb : Ross Louthean , 08 Dec 2008 PERTH -……………..the price stagnation reflects how tough times have hit Australia’s uranium juniors………….The project sits within the shadow of the Flinders Ranges, 550 kilometres north of Adelaide, and is being brought into production by Alliance’s 75% partner Quasar Resources, an affiliate of Heathgate Resources which runs the Beverley in situ recovery (ISR) uranium mine only 8 km away. Heathgate in turn is controlled by the big American conglomerate General Atomics.
Mineweb – URANIUM – Market malaise fails to budge Alliance Resources despite high grade uranium hits
You know what happened, but do you know why? – Opinion – Editorial – General – The Canberra Times
You know what happened, but do you know why? NICHOLAS STUART9/12/2008 8:57:00 AM – “……………….the invasion was beginning to cause political problems for the government. It had just been revealed in Washington that the claims that Iraq had been attempting to obtain uranium out of Africa were completely bogus………………….This was also the time when the US wanted to ramp up the Australian troop commitment in the country,
You know what happened, but do you know why? – Opinion – Editorial – General – The Canberra Times
Give tax break to miners, says study – National – smh.com.au
Give tax break to miners, says study –
Sydney Morning Herald Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter December 9, 2008 EXTENSIVE tax breaks would be given to mining and resources companies that do the right thing by native title claimants under proposed improvements to the native title system.Fifteen years of negotiations under the Native Title Act had produced a handful of model agreements because native title groups were inadequately represented and companies and governments had taken advantage of that.
New entrants into the industry were the worst offenders, the report said. “While hundreds of agreements exist between traditional owners and industry, there are only around one dozen agreements that provide substantial benefits to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders and exhibit principles embodying best practice in agreement making.
“Traditional owners’ interests are often compromised in negotiations. Commonly the traditional owners’ interests are not adequately represented………….More than 60 per cent of mineral operations in Australia are next to indigenous communities, and about 340 new resource development projects are proposed in coming years.
Give tax break to miners, says study – National – smh.com.au
Give tax break to miners, says study – National – smh.com.au
Give tax break to miners, says study –
Sydney Morning Herald Joel Gibson Indigenous Affairs Reporter December 9, 2008 EXTENSIVE tax breaks would be given to mining and resources companies that do the right thing by native title claimants under proposed improvements to the native title system.Fifteen years of negotiations under the Native Title Act had produced a handful of model agreements because native title groups were inadequately represented and companies and governments had taken advantage of that.
New entrants into the industry were the worst offenders, the report said. “While hundreds of agreements exist between traditional owners and industry, there are only around one dozen agreements that provide substantial benefits to Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders and exhibit principles embodying best practice in agreement making.
“Traditional owners’ interests are often compromised in negotiations. Commonly the traditional owners’ interests are not adequately represented………….More than 60 per cent of mineral operations in Australia are next to indigenous communities, and about 340 new resource development projects are proposed in coming years.
Give tax break to miners, says study – National – smh.com.au
It’s the climate, stupid – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
It’s the climate, stupidBy Amanda McKenzie
ABC News 9 Dec 08 It seems that many, including the government, no longer believe it is “realistic” to take the action necessary to prevent substantial shifts in the global climatic system. However, failing to take adequate action to mitigate climate change will impose substantial economic and societal costs, as well as locking Australia out of the benefits of the emerging green economy.
The speculation in the media this week is that the government will set an emission reduction target of 5 to 15 per cent based on a global greenhouse gas concentration stabilisation of 550 parts per million (ppm), substantially higher than what the world’s scientists recommend.
What does this target mean for Australia? In a recent interview on the ABC’s Lateline, Professor Ross Garnaut, the government’s climate change advisor, acknowledged that on the balance of probabilities, allowing global emissions to reach 550 ppm would all but destroy the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, the Alpine region and do immense damage to the Murray-Darling Basin.
The risk to the economy from this scenario is substantial……………………………..Cloudy Germany is now is a world leader in renewable energy exporting their technology to the world. Businesses have capitalised on the new regulatory environment with turnover in the renewable energy industry increasing nearly fourfold since 2000 and jobs doubling between 2004 and 2007. Jobs in renewable energy in Germany are expected to increase from 250,000 to 710,000 by 2030.
Australia would be wise to follow the example and vision of these countries and disregard the outdated dichotomy of “jobs vs environment”. Our economy, particularly in Australia, is fundamentally intertwined with the health and capacity of our environment. To fail to recognise this will see Australia suffer from substantial climate change impacts as well as fail to capitalise on the emerging green economy – leaving Australia to share the wins of a diminishing pool of traditional industries.
It’s the climate, stupid – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Have Irvine and Lennar Ignored Hazardous Nuclear Waste at El Toro? – Salem-News.Com
Have Irvine and Lennar Ignored Hazardous Nuclear Waste at El Toro?
Tim King Salem-News.com 8 Dec 08 The Chair for the former Marine base Technical Subcommittee in 2000, went public with details about nuclear contamination at El Toro shortly before his death the same year.(IRVINE, Calif.) – We have written several articles and produced a number of video reports about the environmental damage on the grounds of the now-closed El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Orange County, California………………..El Toro is also contaminated by nuclear waste………………..Dr. Bennett wrote. “The Uranium they found in Site 1 has too much Uranium 235 in it (N.B. it is the U235 in Uranium that makes nuclear power plants work and splits when an atom bomb explodes). The amount of U235 in the Site 1 samples is more than twice as much as you would find in natural uranium, and several outside experts have confirmed that the Site 1 results demonstrate enriched uranium. If it is enriched, it is man made and not natural. If it is not natural, the DoN will become liable for remediating all the Uranium………………………….ormer Marine said, “our squadrons worked out of El Toro and the test or (tests) were actually carried out on the Yucca Flats (or wherever we did the bulk of our ground testing which included even smaller nuclear weapons which could be mounted on 105-155 etc artillery).” I am hoping to hear from Marines and former Marines and anyone else who may have information regarding the nuclear contamination at El Toro.
Have Irvine and Lennar Ignored Hazardous Nuclear Waste at El Toro? – Salem-News.Com
AFP: UN watchdog chief says Iran anti-nuclear efforts failed: report
UN watchdog chief says Iran anti-nuclear efforts failed: report
8 Dec 08 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said that international efforts to halt Iranian nuclear activity have been a failure, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times.”We haven’t really moved one inch toward addressing the issues,” said Mohamed ElBaradei who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, in an interview published Saturday.”I think so far the policy has been a failure.”……………………Iran has faced three sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment activities, but over the past five years Tehran has pressed on with its controversial nuclear work.
The United States and other western powers suspect that the Islamic republic’s nuclear program is a cover for an atomic weapons-making program…………….The IAEA reported last month that Iran now has more than 5,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges in operation.
AFP: UN watchdog chief says Iran anti-nuclear efforts failed: report
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Not a done deal – Las Vegas Sun
Not a done deal
Application for rail line in Nevada to haul nuclear waste is, at the least, premature Las Vegas Sun, Dec 7, 2008An application for a rail line to carry high-level nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain presumes far too much, as Nevada officials made clear at a Thursday hearing.
The application was filed by the Energy Department, which for more than 20 years has been working toward opening a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Even after that amount of time, the department admits that its planned opening of the dump in 2020 is an “extreme stretch.” In our view, that is mainly because of all the legitimate safety issues that Nevada has raised not only with the dump itself, but also with the transportation of the deadly waste………………Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Rep. Shelley Berkley, both D-Nev., submitted prepared statements blistering the board over safety issues. Nevada has long said that moving high-level nuclear waste long distances by rail is dangerous.
Not a done deal – Las Vegas Sun
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wfn.org | Government Spies on Taitung Church for Opposing Nuclear Waste
Government Spies on Taitung Church for Opposing Nuclear Waste Taiwan Church News by Lydia Ma 8 Dec 2008 The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan’s aboriginal presbytery in Taitung city and county joined a movement opposing nuclear waste storage in Taitung.
In recent days, church members have reported that Taitung county police department and Taitung investigation bureau have sent representatives to monitor church activities.
......................... Authorities have also enquired whether opposing nuclear waste disposal in Taitung will be discussed during church activities. According to one local pastor, Taitung city and county officials have offered all kinds of excuses to refuse renting venues to churches because of the latter’s opposition to nuclear wastes being disposed in Taitung.............……… mysterious individuals have appeared at meetings held by organizations opposing nuclear waste disposal in Taitung……………
……..Ever since President Ma took office, protests, rallies, and large group events organized by the opposition party or other organizations in Taiwan have been closely monitored by the government. .
wfn.org | Government Spies on Taitung Church for Opposing Nuclear Waste
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The Canadian Press: Safety research on nuke burial plan lags by decades
Safety research on nuke burial plan lags by decades – THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA 8 Dec 08 — As plans progress for a radioactive-waste site buried deep in Ontario limestone, the federal nuclear watchdog says the related safety research is full of holes.Ontario Power Generation wants a licence by 2012 to bury low-to intermediate-level radioactive waste at its Bruce nuclear plant near Kincardine, Ont…………………..environmental critics and geoscientific experts are asking how the federal regulator can credibly assess crucial safety issues – especially when the commission itself says it lacks up-to-date, independent research………………….
The Citizens Environmental Alliance last June gave OPG the dubious 2008 Weenie Award for environmental degradation. It blasted the giant utility for planning the repository so close to Lake Huron – a precious freshwater resource.
“Once a facility like this is built it is more than likely going to be the permanent site” for nuclear waste from across Canada, alliance research and policy director Derek Coronado said at the time.
“Any contamination of the Great Lakes and we’re all in serious trouble.”
Environmental activists want more focus on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
The Canadian Press: Safety research on nuke burial plan lags by decades
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Business Spectator – Rudd’s carbon flop
Rudd’s carbon flop Business Spectator Giles Parkinson 8 Dec 08
It’s just a week away from the release of the Rudd government’s white paper on carbon trading and its interim targets on carbon reduction, and there is growing speculation the path of least political resistance will be chosen, along with a modest reduction target of between 5 and 15 per cent.
Let’s hope not. For a start, a soft target would mean the government abandoning any pretence that it was a ‘leader’ on the issue of tackling climate change. Instead, it will suffer the ignominy of being the first developed country to run up the white flag as the world embarks on the tortuous negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, where the UN is pushing for cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent………………a compromise target of 10 per cent ……………… fails to recognise the opportunities and the economies of energy efficiency and the potential of new technologies. It fails the science – and you’d have to wonder why the government would be doing any of this if it didn’t believe in it – and it fails to satisfy the business craving for regulatory certainty.
For nearly a decade, investment in energy infrastructure in this country has been virtually paralysed by the federal government’s weak stance on climate change policy and an inability to plot a likely carbon price and build that into investment models.
Now, more than ever – thanks to the financial crisis and the recession it will inevitably cause – the country needs a strong carbon price signal that can provide a fillip to major investment. And it needs it soon, not in five or 10 years time.
Business Spectator – Rudd’s carbon flop
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ABC North West WA – WA Govt looks to eliminate native title on public works land
The Western Australian Government has foreshadowed a push to extinguish native title on land needed for public works.
ABC North West WA 6 Dec 08 Currently the Government must negotiate an Indigenous land use agreement with traditional owners before building things like police stations, sporting facilities and rubbish tips……………………..The Minister is considering a number of options to streamline the process, including appealing to the Commonwealth to extinguish native title on land needed for public works and the use of umbrella agreements rather than case-by-case negotiations.
Aboriginal groups have rejected Mr Buswell’s suggestion, saying it would be a blow for Indigenous land rights.
ABC North West WA – WA Govt looks to eliminate native title on public works land
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