2010 April 22 « nuclear-news

Kentucky court case over leaked uranium

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled then that the landowners don’t have to prove they were actually harmed to sue past contractors for trespassing by allowing contaminants to spread beyond the plant.

The high court also held that land devaluation by intentional trespassing is a recognized measure of damages once actual injury is determined. There is injury if groundwater is contaminated and it can’t be consumed.

Ky. landowners settle lawsuit over uranium leaks, BusinessWeek, By BRETT BARROUQUERE 21 April 2010, Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, radiation, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Belarus will not send its enriched uranium to the Russia or USA stores

Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko , ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire, 20 April 2010, Belarus has no plans to build a “dirty” nuclear bomb but no one can take its enriched uranium stockpiles away from it, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.”Russia and the United States are telling us – give us your enriched uranium. We will not give anything away. Everything here is under IAEA control. Russia tells America: Calm down, we will take it from there [Belarus]. No one will take anything without our consent. We will not allow that,” he said in a state-of-the-nation address.

Lukashenko added that his strained relations with Russia and the United States were due, among other things, to its reluctance to give away enriched uranium.

Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Belarus, politics international | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear weapons, plutonium, radiation, uranium | Leave a comment

India has no compensation for victims of ionising radiation

Need law for damages to radiation victims’ indian express.com 21 April 2010, The government on Tuesday admitted its helplessness in providing adequate compensation to victims of radiation exposure in Mayapuri market in the absence of a specific law backing compensation to victims of radioactive accidents. Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan told the Rajya Sabha that such a law needs to be enacted ……………Opposition parties said the incident was a “regulatory failure” and had exposed the government’s lack of preparedness to deal with radioactive incidents.

‘Need law for damages to radiation victims’

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

USA bipartisan effort to get compensation for more victims of nuclear radiation

US senators want to expand radiation compensation, KIVITV.COM | Associated Press – April 20, 2010 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from western states wants to expand federal compensation for people who became ill from working in uranium mines, living near debris left from mining or living near atomic tests from the 1940s to the 1960s.The measure, introduced Monday, would broaden who’s eligible for compensation, expand the downwind exposure area to include seven states and fund a study of health impacts on families of uranium workers and people living near uranium Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, uranium | Leave a comment

Heavy toll of AREVA’s uranium mining on Niger’s poor

Niger: French State-Owned Company ‘Poisoning’ Poor | Coalition Against Nuclear Energy, Julio Godoy, April 2010, Paris — Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people… Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Niger | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment