2010 February 03 « nuclear-news

Young Obama supporters tell Obama – Nuclear is Wrong Way

Dear Mr. President – Nuclear Power Will Set Back Race Against Global Warming « It’s Getting Hot In Here 2 Feb 2010 Dear President Obama,According to a report released by Environment America in November, the long process to build nuclear plants along with the carbon intensity of production will set us back in the fight against global warming. The next 5-10 years are CRITICAL for the future of my generation and the planet that your daughters will inherit. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

UK Property prices slump where nuclear reactors planned

Cumbrian property prices hit by nuclear power station plans News & Star By Julian Whittle Political Editor 02 February 2010 Proposals for nuclear power stations at Braystones and Kirksanton in west Cumbria are causing “property blight”, Cumbria County Council believes…….. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, reactor, reactors | Leave a comment

Nuclear renaissance not likely, despite Obama’s support

This unending stream of technical, financial and political downfalls could doom the “reactor renaissance” to history’s radioactive dump heap. “

Harvey Wasserman: Obama’s New Nuclear War THE HUFFINGTON POST 2 Feb 2010 Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically.The long-stalled, much-hyped “Renaissance” in atomic power has failed to find private financing. New construction projects are opposed for financial reasons by fiscal conservatives such as the Heritage Foundation and National Taxpayers Union, and by a national grassroots safe energy campaign that has already beaten such loan guarantees three times. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

U.S. – Russia Agreeing to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

U.S., Russia Close In on Arms Nuclear Arms Treaty – WSJ.com Jonathan Weisman FEBRUARY 2, 2010 WASHINGTON — U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an “agreement in principle” on the first nuclear arms reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms control officials said Tuesday.

The deal would bring down deployed nuclear warheads and sharply limit the number of missiles and bombers that can deliver them………….

The deal would bring the ceiling for deployed nuclear weapons from the 2,200 agreed to in 1991 down to between 1,500 and 1,675, but nuclear delivery systems would fall more sharply, to between 700 and 800 a side.

U.S., Russia Close In on Arms Nuclear Arms Treaty – WSJ.com

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Obama boosts nuke weapons funding, while talking disarmament

“The plan described in this budget is not about maintaining a reliable nuclear stockpile. It is a multi-billion dollar ‘radioactive pork’ construction plan

Administration Budget Plan Contradicts Obama Pledge to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Threat Billions to be spent on new nuclear weapons production facilities WASHINGTON – Common Dreams.org February 1 – The Administration’s budget, released today, contradicts President Obama’s pledge to reduce the nuclear weapons threat by working toward their elimination, according to a national network of groups in communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear sites. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Iran agreeing to UN about sending uranium abroad

Iran says ready to send uranium abroad as UN wants

The Washington Post By NASSER KARIMI

The Associated Press Associated Press Writer George Jahn in Vienna contributed to this report.
February 2, 2010

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said on Tuesday it was ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the U.N. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Increased cancer risk from low dose ionising radiation

Cancer — Is Low-Dose Radiation Imaging Increasing Your Risk?

EmpowerHER 2 Feb 2010 by Lynette Summerill A trip to your doctor or dentist usually means you will be examined from the inside out. But, low-dose radiation like that used in x-rays, mammograms and other diagnostic tests could be causing some cancers. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

An idealistic U.S. President Influenced by Nuclear Warriors

I must admit that I have been worried since he appointed Steven Chu from Los Alamos Labs as his Secretary of Energy and John Holdren as science advisor because they are both enthusiastic endorsers of nuclear power

Helen Caldicott: How Did an Idealistic President Become a Champion of Nuclear Power and By Default, Weapons Proliferation? THE HUFFINGTON POST 2 Feb 2010 In 1983, Barack Obama, a senior at Columbia University described his visions of a “nuclear free world” in an article titled “Breaking the War Mentality” in the university newsmagazine, Sundial. He described discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and called for the abolition of the global arsenals of tens of thousands of deadly warheads.As a candidate he acknowledged that he was worried for the safety of his children who lived in Illinois because it has the highest concentration of nuclear reactors in the US – and opposed further nuclear subsidies. “I am not a nuclear proponent,” he said. Continue reading →

February 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment