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IAEA’s Chernobyl cancer data – Dracula keeping Blood Bank records?

Controversy rages over the agendas of the IAEA, which has promoted civil nuclear power over the past 30 years,

Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute•The Guardian UK John Vidal 10 Jan 2010 Suspected infant mortality rise difficult to prove• Predicted deaths range from 4,000 to half a million

At the children’s cancer hospital in Minsk, Belarus, and at the Vilne hospital for radiological protection in the east of Ukraine, specialist doctors are in no doubt they are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases linked to the Chernobyl nuclear accident Continue reading →

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USA and Russia in the grip of useless nuclear weapons industry

…led Reagan to embrace nuclear abolition, but not even he could break the transcendent combine of industry-Congress-Pentagon. Those three define the sides of the iron triangle within which America still finds itself imprisoned.

US nuclear arsenal a dangerous remnant The Boston Globe, James Carroll, January 11, 2010 AT MORE than a dozen “missile alert facilities’’ in caverns below the exquisite landscape of the northern Rockies, teams of young men and women spend 24-hour shifts in steel-and-concrete bunkers. Continue reading →

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Generator failure shuts Russian nuclear reactor

Russia nuclear power plant block shut down Jan 10, 2010
MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A reactor block at a nuclear power plant in southern Russia has been shut down for maintenance due to a steam generator failure, Russia’s state nuclear energy firm Rosenergoatom said on Sunday.

“At 0920 (local time) on January 10 the first reactor block at Volgodon nuclear power plant has been shut down….

UPDATE 1-Russia nuclear power plant block shut down | Markets | Reuters

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Cost blowout in refurbishing Canadian nuclear plant

N.B. premier threatens to sue Ottawa over nuclear power plant refurbishment Google News By Kevin Bissett (CP)  11 Jan 2010 FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham has delivered an ultimatum to the federal government – cover the cost overruns on the refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant or his government will sue Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Continue reading →

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UN chief optimistic on nuclear weapons free world

Ban vows to work for nuclear-free world India Today United Nations, January 11, 2010 UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday vowed to work towards a world free of weapons of mass destruction noting that there is a “new window of opportunity for disarmament and non-proliferation”.”I pledge to continue to do everything in my power to advance the goal of a world free of weapons of mass destruction,” Continue reading →

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