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Renewable energy for 150 German cities, not nuclear for corporate profits!

150 German towns want nuclear power ended, de.indymedia.org, Diet Simon, 17 March 2010 Local power utilities in Germany have formed an anti-nuclear power alliance saying that planned longer running times for nukes are endangering their plans to invest billions in climate-friendly green energies…..The local governments have coalesced to resist the power giants E.on, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall, which run nuclear stations……Lengthening the running times of atomic plants, as the present government intends to do, offers the companies billions in extra profits. Continue reading →

March 19, 2010 Posted by | climate change, Germany, politics | , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

South Korea can quickly build nuclear weapons

South Korea has its own history of nuclear weapons development.

S. Korea has ability to build nuke weapons quickly: defense report, YONHAP NEWS, By Hwang Doo-hyong, WASHINGTON, March 17 – A U.S. defense report has described South Korea and Japan as having the technology to build nuclear weapons quickly if they decide to do so.
“Several friends or Allies of the United States, such as Japan and South Korea, are highly advanced technological states and could quickly build nuclear devices if they chose to do so,” said the Joint Operating Environment (JOE) 2010, released on Feb. 18 by the U.S. Joint Forces Command to forecast possible threats and opportunities for the U.S. military. Continue reading →

March 19, 2010 Posted by | South Korea, weapons and war | , , , | Leave a comment

No proper investigation done on the dangers of nuclear plants for Illinois

Jimmy Seidita: Task Force Drops the Ball; State Senate Votes to Open the Door for New Nuclear Plants in Illinois, THE HUFFINGTON POST, 17 march 2010, On Monday, the state Senate voted on and passed a potentially catastrophic bill, despite getting no input from its own state task force, set up two years ago.. Continue reading →

March 19, 2010 Posted by | politics, USA | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Colorado’s risk of uranium radioactive wastes

Colorado lawmakers trying to tighten uranium cleanup rules,  KDVR, By Associated Press  March 18, 2010, DENVER (AP) — State lawmakers are worried a new national focus on nuclear energy will allow uranium mines in Colorado to postpone cleanup of radioactive wastes.On Thursday, the Colorado House Transportation and Energy Committee approved a bill that would require uranium mines and mills to clean up nuclear wastes while they continue producing nuclear fuel.Under the current law, mines and mills are allowed to postpone cleanup until they finish production and decommission their production facilities.

Colorado lawmakers trying to tighten uranium cleanup rules – KDVR

March 19, 2010 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , | Leave a comment

Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant uneconomic- to be shut down

Exelon may shut down oldest nuclear plant in U.S.Chicago Breaking Business March 18, 2010 Associated Press | Chicago-based Exelon Corp. says it will shut down the oldest nuclear power plant in the U.S., rather than build cooling towers mandated by environmental regulators in New Jersey. Exelon says the $800 million that it would cost to build the towers is more than the 40-year-old Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is worth…..Earlier this year, New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection required the plant to build one or more cooling towers instead of relying on water drawn from the Oyster Creek in Lacey Township in New Jersey to cool the reactor.

The state says that process kills billions of shrimp and tens of thousands of fish, crabs and clams each year.

Exelon may shut down oldest nuclear plant in U.S. – Chicago Breaking Business

March 19, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Why is the mainstream media avoiding the depleted uranium issue?

So how come this isn’t a headline?

Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime, Creative-i ,  By William Bowles, 18 March, 2010 — Creative-i.infoAs if destroying a country and its culture ain’t bad enough, how about destroying its future, its children? I want to scream it from the rooftops! We are complicit in crimes of such enormity that I find it difficult to find the words to describe how I feel about this crime committed in my name! In the name of the ‘civilized’ world?…..

Even the BBC was forced to acknowledge the reality (Listen: ‘Child deformities ‘increasing’ in Falluja’ 4 March, 2010). True to form I searched the BBC Website in vain for the video clip I watched last week, so you are spared the horrific scenes I witnessed, recorded in Fallujah’s main hospital. Had this been Saddam’s legacy, we would have seen images like the one above endlessly repeated in mass media, complete with UN resolutions and the like.

So how come this isn’t a headline?

Creative-i / Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime By William Bowles

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USA to supply weapons grade uranium to France?

Shipping bomb-grade uranium to France, knoxnews.com, Frank Munger, 19 March 2010, There’s a pending application before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an export license to ship 160 kilograms of uranium (enriched to 93.5 percent U-235) from the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge to France Continue reading →

March 19, 2010 Posted by | politics international, USA | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Public opposition to secrecy of Germany’s nuclear waste disposal

Further work is to continue under mining law, which excludes public consultation,

150 German towns want nuclear power ended, de.indymedia.org,Diet Simon, 17 March 2010, The government has given the go ahead for the Gorleben site in northern Germany to be explored further as a potential final repository for nuclear waste.Storage of nuclear waste is politically charged. There is no definitive agreement on a suitable site and convoys transporting waste to interim sites regularly attract huge crowds of protesters and frequently both demonstrators and police are injured in clashes. Continue reading →

March 19, 2010 Posted by | Germany, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

France’s foreign policy: SELL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY

France seeks to pull nuclear champions into line | TopNews Arab Emirates, by Akilah Amiri , 03/18/2010 , The government has been proposing a high level authority or committee for enhancing nuclear program and tapping rising opportunities across the World. The committee will be directly under the Prime Minister and will report to the President.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has been always called for tapping export opportunities available in the World given to France’s expertise in the nuclear energy sector. The country has started to incorporate nuclear energy sector as a leading element in the French foreign policy. However, the country has been experiencing high competition from the rivals due to involvement of some degree of diplomatic pressure by respective governments.The government is concerned over Areva’s failure to get key contract in Abu Dhabi last year. Critics have now started to raise questions on the authority given to the state run firm.

France seeks to pull nuclear champions into line | TopNews Arab Emirates

March 19, 2010 Posted by | France, politics | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Obama warns of nuclear arms race, starting with Iran

Obama: Iran with nukes could trigger arms race, Google News, (AP) – 18 March 2010, WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says a nuclear-armed Iran could trigger an arms race in the Middle East, something his administration wants to avoid.Obama told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier that keeping Tehran without a nuclear weapon is one of his highest priorities. Baier asked Obama if a nuclear-armed Tehran would be a failure of his administration. Obama’s reply was to emphasize work already under way among international partners to isolate Iran.Iran has accelerated its nuclear program despite previous U.N. penalties, but the United States and some of its allies say a renewed demonstration of world resolve could finally push Iran to negotiate.

The Associated Press: Obama: Iran with nukes could trigger arms race

March 19, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , | Leave a comment

Russia pushing ahead with Iran’s nuclear power

Iran nuclear plant launch set for summer, the Age, SERGEI VENYAVSKY, March 19, 2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Iran’s Russian-built nuclear power plant will be launched in the northern summer, even as the US calls for Russia to delay the start-up.US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Moscow on an official trip, urged Russia not to launch the plant until Tehran proves it’s not developing atomic weapons.

Iran nuclear plant launch set for summer

March 19, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , | Leave a comment

The hypocrisy of Australia selling uranium to Russia

It’s amazing, the way that elected leaders can just go back on the promises that got them elected in the first place.  Australia, as a federal government, and states like South  Australia, have this wonderful ability.

When it comes to helping their  corporate overlords to make very many fast bucks,  Kevin Rudd’s Australian government has no problem in ditching their own inquiry about selling uranium to Russia.

Just as Russia goes ahead promoting Iran’s nuclear power, and Kevin Rudd has the gall to continue to pose as a world leader in nuclear disarmament.

March 19, 2010 Posted by | Christina's notes | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australia close to selling uranium to Russia

Labor MP Kelvin Thomson, who chairs the treaties committee, had previously warned that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would not care about Australia’s attitude to the safeguards. The committee was concerning lack of inspections onto Russian nuclear facilities by the Internatinoal Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Australia is edging close to sell uranium to Russia, International Business Times, 19 March 2010, The federal government is closed to ratifying the Howard-era treaty with Russia.

The agreement was made in 2007 and would boost Australia’s export revenue by up to $1 billion a year. The agreement was halted immediately after Rudd government was elected as Russia’s invasion of Georgia provoked international outrage. Continue reading →

March 19, 2010 Posted by | politics international | , , , , | Leave a comment