2010 May 27 « nuclear-news

How the world’s savings are used to promote the nuclear industry

Who gives the nuclear industry the billions of dollars and euros of our money to build new reactors, block renewable energy, contaminate the environment and create highly dangerous waste that will be with the human race for hundred of thousands of years to come? The banks do. This is the secret the www.nuclearbanks.org website will tell you.

Nuclear banks? No thanks! | Greenpeace International, by jmckeati – May 26, 2010 , Today sees the launch of the http://www.nuclearbanks.org website, a joint venture between BankTrack, Greenpeace International, Urgewald (Germany), Les Amis de la Terre (France), Antiatom Szene (Austria), WISE (the Netherlands) and CRBM (Italy).Banks around the world love to boast about their investments in green technologies and renewable energy. What they don’t like to boast about is their involvement with the dirty and dangerous business of nuclear power. Continue reading →

May 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear renaissance, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Lengthy final debate on who should have or not have nuclear weapons

Nuclear ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ debate into final days of UN treaty conference, Washington Examiner, By: CHARLES J. HANLEYAssociated Press05/26/10 UNITED NATIONS — Nuclear-armed and non-nuclear nations entered the final days of a monthlong treaty conference Wednesday haggling over the trade-off between steps to disarm those with the weapons and steps to keep atomic arms from those without.The final three days of the twice-a-decade gathering to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty promised long hours of intense debate. Continue reading →

May 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Britain’s somewhat cryptic disclosure of size of nuclear stockpile

only in the somewhat cryptic way: “the overall stockpile…will not exceed 225 warheads

Britain Discloses Size of Nuclear Stockpile: Who’s Next? » FAS Strategic Security Blog, By Hans M. Kristensen, 26 May 2010, The new British government today followed the French and U.S. examples by disclosing its total military stockpile of nuclear weapons. Continue reading →

May 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear solution to oil spill could be worse than the problem

BP Oil Spill: The Nuclear Option, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Susan Deily-Swearingen, 26 May 2010, “……One solution that is getting increased attention on the web and in the European press is the terrifying sounding nuclear option which, essentially, would detonate a nuclear bomb underground near the oil well shaft……………What are the lasting effects of such an explosion? Is there a potential for them to be even worse than the pollution from the dispersants already used to “solve” or abate the problem? Continue reading →

May 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Pressure on Russia and China to reveal nuclear weapons stockpile numbers

Britain Discloses Size of Nuclear Stockpile: Who’s Next? » FAS Strategic Security Blog, By Hans M. Kristensen, 26 May 2010, “….. Who’s Next? Three of the five original nuclear weapon states have now disclosed the sizes of their military stockpiles of nuclear warheads. The pressure is increasing on the other nuclear weapon states to follow the good example.The size of the Russian stockpile is unknown but Norris and I estimate Russia possesses 12,000 nuclear warheads, of which 4,600 might be operational. A Russian official recently told Reuters that Russia after ratification of the New START agreement “will likewise be able to consider disclosing the total number of Russia’s deployed strategic delivery vehicles and the warheads they can carry.” That would not be disclosing the size of the stockpile, but still be progress.China’s stockpile is even more opaque, although Norris and I estimate it at approximately 240 warheads

Britain Discloses Size of Nuclear Stockpile: Who’s Next? » FAS Strategic Security Blog

May 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, weapons and war | antinuclear, disarmament, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment