2009 October « nuclear-news

It’s getting harder to sell nuclear power

As Thursday Vote Looms on Two New Reactors, Popular Opposition May Make Selling Nuclear Power More Difficult CPS Wholesale Customers Already Facing Public Relations Battles Public Citizen SAN ANTONIO – October 28 As a Thursday vote on two new nuclear reactors looms, cities around the state that purchase power from San Antonio’s municipal utility, City Public Services (CPS), are balking at the prospect of buying pricey nuclear power from the reactors. Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive | Leave a comment

Canadian anti-nuclear protest

Soggy protest Activists push for nuclear-free future at legislature

GWYNETH DUNSFORD

METRO EDMONTON

October 28, 2009 Banners hoisted high, hundreds of activists invaded the grounds of the legislature yesterday, outraged over potential nuclear energy developments.

“We don’t need nuclear,” said Adele Boucher Rymhs, the president of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Alberta. “Nuclear is one of the problems that is going to come up in the future.

Everyone is worried about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions, but the emissions from a nuclear power plant are far worse than emissions from a coal plant. They go on for thousands of years.”

Metro – Soggy protest

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear corporate welfare in Florida

Florida Green Party Opposes Public Service Commission Approval Of Nuclear Cost Recovery For Utilities, Calling It A “A License To Steal“( Michael Canney Green Party of Florida (GPF) denounces the October 16 decision by the Public Service Commission allowing Progress Energy and Florida Power & Light to raise utility rates paid by their customers in order to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called “nuclear cost recovery” funds. Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Russia to get nuclear-powered spacecraft

Russia to build spacecraft with nuclear engine http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-29 MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Russia is developing manned spacecraft powered by nuclear engines, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency said on Wednesday. The development of Megawatt-class nuclear power systems for manned spacecraft was vital if Russia intended to maintain its leading position in the space industry, Anatoly Perminov said in a meeting of the presidential commission on the modernization of the Russian economy. “The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs,” Perminov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.

Russia to build spacecraft with nuclear engine_English_Xinhua

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, politics, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Childhood cancers near nuclear plants linked to radioactive releases

NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE FOR FAMILIES – STRONTIUM-90 IN BABIES TEETH NEAR FLORIDA REACTORS Coober Pedy Regional Times, by David Bradbury, 28 Oct 09 A study on childhood cancer near nuclear power plants in Florida, U.S., was released in April. According to the study by the Radiation and Public Health Project, levels of fission product strontium-90 in the teeth of children living in southeast Florida had increased with 37% from 1986-1989 to 1994-1997.

The highest levels were found near the Turkey Point and St. Lucie reactors…………… The study was conducted by the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) and funded by the Health Foundation of South Florida. RHPH is an independent non-profit research organization, established by scientists and physicians to investigate the links between environmental radiation, cancer and public health.

T………………….. Concerns have been raised about reported increases in childhood cancer. RPHP studied data on radioactive releases from the plants, radioactivity concentrations in rain- and drinking water, cancer rates in the region and levels of strontium-90 in baby’s teeth in the region.

NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE FOR FAMILIES – STRONTIUM-90 IN BABIES TEETH NEAR FLORIDA REACTORS «

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Worldwide indigenous organising against nuclear industry

Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum a Success Indybay by Anna Rondon Oct 27th, 2009 This past weekend Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, indigenous issues | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

US Bill on the way to banning foreign nuclear waste imports

Bill to ban foreign nuke waste makes small advance Google News By BROCK VERGAKIS (AP) – 28 Oct 09 SALT LAKE CITY — A bill designed to keep foreign countries from disposing their nuclear waste in the United States is taking a small but significant step toward getting a U.S. House committee vote for the first time. Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, wastes | Leave a comment

Renewable Energy Bonds announced

New U.S. finance tool for renewable energy launched Oct 27, 2009 by Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday authorized more than 800 governmental agencies and power companies to issue $2.2 billion of Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, ENERGY, USA | renewables | Leave a comment

Yankee nuclear power plant has doubtful future

Vermont Yankee future dogged by doubt Burlington Free Press By Nancy Remsen • Free Press Staff Writer • October 25, 2009 Vermont’s 37-year-old nuclear power plant is constantly in the public spotlight these days as the 2012 expiration date on its license approaches. Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Iran wanting changes to uranium transfer plan

Iran to Demand Changes to Uranium Transfer Proposal, Report Says Global Security Newswire Oct. 27, 2009 * Iran intends to demand significant revisions to a U.N. proposal Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Australian nuclear agency faked poll results

ANSTO turn nuclear poll “NO” into “YES Scott Ludlam 26th October 2009, The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been caught out blatantly lying over the results of its own survey which showed overwhelming rejection of nuclear power by Australians. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

The truth about the world’s biggest mining company

World’s biggest mining company under fire‘Alternative report’ questions environmental, human rights record of world’s biggest mining company One World.net 27 October 2009 London-based BHP Billiton plc is not a household name in Britain, but the activities of the BHP Billiton group have a massive impact on communities all around the world. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a comment

Uranium poisoning of the Navajo

The Forgotten Navajo: Uranium contamination —Pavement Pieces By Rachel Morgan on October 14, 2009

CHURCH ROCK, New Mexico — Teddy Nez’s home sits 500 feet from the mouth of abandoned uranium mine.

Since 1982, Nez and his family have been breathing in uranium particles and drinking uranium-contaminated water. They didn’t know the land that surrounded their home in Church Rock, N.M. – located on the 27,000 square-mile Navajo Reservation – was slowly killing them. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, indigenous issues, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Rethink on medical imaging radiation to cut risks

A COMPUTER program that aims to make radiography imaging safer for patients by minimising their radiation exposure is expected to be tested in a clinical environment next year. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, radioactive | Leave a comment

Russia’s nuclear dustbin

Toxic debt The Engineer 126 Oct 09 “……………Big four toxic dumps – The legacy of the Soviet Union’s chemical and nuclear programmeAndreeva Bay – Russia’s nuclear dustbin, home to some 22,000 spent fuel assemblies, 35 metric tonnes of radioactive materials, and 12,000m3 of solid and liquid waste taken from decommissioned vessels of the Northern FleetAtomflot – Final resting place of the Lepse (the floating Chernobyl), an abandoned supply vessel crammed with 650 damaged nuclear fuel rods …………………………..Chernobyl – Engineers are racing to complete the construction of a new shield that will cover the leaking, 20-year-old sarcophagus Chemical weapons – Russia has the largest declared stockpile of chemical weapons — more than 40,000 tonnes. Much of this is stored in artillery shells and rocket warheads

Toxic debt – The Engineer

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Russia, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment