“Countdown to Zero” – Queen Noor’s global campaign against nuclear weapons
“I am one of a million for whom Islam and Western cultures are not incompatible,” she said, reminding the nearly filled auditorium that she is Muslim,….Her Majesty says nuclear weapons have no place in a world striving to achieve international security. Rather terror can be their only purpose.
Queen Noor On Nukes, THE HUFFINGTON POST, April 19, 2010, Cross-Cultural Understanding, at CU Boulder “……..Queen Noor al Hussein of Jordan is the founder of Global Zero, a worldwide movement that seeks to eliminate both actual and potential stockpiles of nuclear weapons across the globe by year 2030. Continue reading
Pro nuclear push discredits Nuclear Non Proliferation meeting
The serious proliferation risks associated with peaceful nuclear programs will be studiously ignored at the five-yearly Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York next month…..the task of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not only to carry out safeguards inspections to assess NPT compliance, but also to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It would make as much sense to ask drug enforcement agencies to promote the cultivation of poppy seeds.
The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, Recent nuclear talk-fests have quietly ignored the fact that even so-called ‘peaceful nuclear programs’ — like power generation — can be used for proliferation, writes Jim Green Continue reading
Global experience shows that reprocessing and breeder reactors are not viable
France has not solved its nuclear waste problems and now needs a repository in face of strong public opposition to the development of such a facility.
Nuclear waste reprocessing not viable for United States: study, Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine, 4/19/2010 Reprocessing of nuclear waste is neither an affordable remedy for future waste disposal in the United States nor will it eliminate the need for a deep geologic repository to replace Yucca Mountain, according to a recent study released by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), a nonprofit and nonpartisan research group. Continue reading
Former official of Nuclear Regulatory Commission urges an end to subsidising nuclear power
Security should come first…At a minimum, that means an end to promoting and subsidising nuclear power all over the world.”
The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, “……..Physicist Victor Gilinsky, previously with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Atomic Energy Commission, noted in the January 2009 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:”In international affairs, nuclear energy trumps just about everything. Even so-called arms controllers fall over themselves trying to establish their bona fides by supporting nuclear energy development and devising painless proposals that grandfather everything that’s already in place. … It’s time to take a more serious view. Security should come first — not as an afterthought.”We should support as much nuclear power as is consistent with international security; not as much security as the spread of nuclear power will allow. At a minimum, that means an end to promoting and subsidising nuclear power all over the world.”The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom | newmatilda.com
World Bank urges renewable energy investment for East Asia
through additional fiscal investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency, the bank said in a new report….Renewable energy could take up a big proportion of East Asia’s energy demands by 2030, the World Bank suggested.
East Asia must begin clean energy revolution now – World Bank, EcoSeed, 19 April 2010 , By Claire M. Umali[ ] China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam can simultaneously stabilize their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 without compromising growth.East Asia’s six major energy-using countries will need to mobilize about $80 billion in investment yearly, as well make domestic policy and institutional reforms, to attain sustainable energy growth, said the World Bank. Continue reading
U.S. Climate Bill could be stuffed up with pro-nuclear measures
Along the way, the industry has hired a bevvy of flacks with marginal green credentials.
Will Progressives Swallow a Pro-Nuclear Power Energy Bill Stuffed with Nuke Plant Subsidies?, HARVEY WASSERMAN, BUZZFLASH, 20 April 2010, The Climate Bill is due on Earth Day.By all accounts it will be a nuclear bomb. It will be the ultimate challenge of the global grassroots green movement to transform it into something that can actually save the planet. For the atomic power industry, the bill will cap a decade-long $640-million-plus virtual cleansing of its radioactive image. Continue reading
Vested interests controlling study on uranium mining impacts?
Virginia currently has a moratorium on uranium mining and milling.
Tobacco Commission Gets Process Rolling For Socioeconomic Uranium Mining Study The Gazette Virginian, JOHN R. CRANE/Danville Register & Bee. 20 April 2010 The process has begun for the second part of a study focusing on the socioeconomic impacts of uranium mining and milling in Virginia. The Virginia Tobacco Commission’s executive committee voted Thursday during its meeting in Roanoke to recommend the commission supply up to $200,000 to the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission’s Uranium Mining Subcommittee to pay an entity to perform the socioeconomic study. Continue reading
AREVA’s uranium mining first takes Namibia’s water, then offers to sell them water
The recent growth in uranium activities in Namibia has boosted water demand in the Erongo region, near the Namib Desert, and stretched the nation’s limited resources….Namwater, Namibia’s state-owned water supplier, will be able to buy the excess water to supply other mines, ensuring that a shortage doesn’t harm uranium production,
Areva Offers Uranium Miners in Namibia Water to Ease Shortages – BusinessWeek, 19 April 2010, Areva, based in Paris, will be able to supply about 6 million cubic meters (1.32 billion gallons) of treated water a year to other miners in Namibia’s Erongo region, Chief Executive Officer Anne Lauvergeon said at the plant’s opening on April 16…………….. Continue reading
Iran now willing to discuss swapping its enriched uranium
Iran wants to reopen talks about a nuclear fuel swap, guardian.co.uk, Julian Borger, 19 April 2010, As a new sanctions resolution is discussed at the Security Council, Tehran has sent signals it might still be prepared to strike a deal over its uranium stockpile….. Continue reading
U.S. govt has no real policy to counter iran’s development of nuclear capability
Gates Says U.S. Lacks a Policy to Thwart Iran, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKERPublished: April 17, 2010 WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document.
Dramatic effects of radiation exposure shown in India
In all the affected persons, the platelet count and TLC count have shown a sharp drop. Jain’s bone marrow is significantly suppressed and his condition is quite serious.
Hospital sounded radiation alarm on Apr 5, The Times of India, Apr 10, 2010, NEW DELHI: Scientists from various government institutions, including Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, visited the area in Mayapuri where radiation exposure was reported on Thursday. Continue reading
India’s doctors ignorant of health effects of ionising radiation
“In their reply to the questionnaire developed by us to test their knowledge, most replied that MRI and ultrasound involves radiation exposure which is completely wrong,”
Doctors ignorant of radiation exposure effects: AIIMS, Press Trust of India, , Apr 19, 2010 Doctors who regularly subject patients to X-rays and CT scans are ignorant of the harmful effects of radiation exposure, a study at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has found. Continue reading
Ukraine’s HEU to Russia, then back as Low Enriched Uranium
BSANNA NEWS 20 April 2010, Russia will convert Ukraine’s highly enriched uranium into low enriched, and return – MFA head KYIV, /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine’s highly enriched uranium will be sent to the Russian Federation, where it will be converted into low enriched, and then returned in Ukraine, says Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko.In his words, the United States will also provide Ukraine with low enriched uranium.As reported, on April 12, during the talks with US President Barack Obama, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych expressed the intention to liquidate the national reserves of highly enriched uranium by the year of 2012.BSANNA News – BSANNA NEWS
Finland govt wants renewable energy boost, not new nuclear plants
Minister: Finland does not need new nuclear plants, Google News hosting, (AFP) – 20 April 2010, HELSINKI — Finland does not need three new nuclear plants to secure its future energy needs, the minister who is preparing a government proposal on the subject said in an interview published on Monday. Continue reading
Lots of loopholes in India’s proposed nuclear liabilities bill
Many anomalies in n-liabilities Bill: Lawyers, activists, Business Standard, Kanika Datta / New Delhi April 20, 2010, Getting the requisite numbers to pass the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 in the Lok Sabha may be the least of the United Progressive Alliance’s problems. Lawyers and legal experts, including those who support the legislation, say there are many instances of poor drafting and anomalies that have the potential to generate more controversy if the Bill is passed in its current form. Continue reading
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