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President Ahmadinejad of Iran points out an unpalatable nuclear truth

He is not alone in seeing the old nuclear powers as an arrogant club who believe they have the right to rule…….As the US presses for sanctions against Iran, President Ahmadinejad has come to stir up charges of hypocrisy and double standards

An unlikely anti-nuclear campaigner? BBC, Mark Mardell  , 3 May 2010 President Ahmadinejad of Iran says nuclear weapons are “disgusting and shameful”, a danger to the countries that have them.We have to assume this is an indirect denial that he is on the verge of developing such a weapon. Continue reading →

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USA’s nuclear weapons stockpile – huge, but still greatly reduced

When the Bush administration took office in 2001, the stockpile included 10,526 warheads.

United States Discloses Size of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile , FAS Strategic Security Blog, By Hans M. Kristensen, 3 May 2010,

The Obama administration has formally disclosed the size of the Defense Department’s stockpile of nuclear weapons: 5,113 warheads as of September 30, 2009. Continue reading →

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UK govt’s Sustainable Development Commission finds that nuclear is not the answer

Is nuclear the answer? · · Sustainable Development Commission 3 May 2010, Nuclear power is not the answer to tackling climate change or security of supply, according tothe Sustainable Development Commission.In response to the Government’s current Energy Review, the SDC nuclear report draws together the most comprehensive evidence base available, to find that there is no justification for bringing forward a new nuclear power programme at present. Continue reading →

May 4, 2010 Posted by | politics, UK | , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Renewable energy appearing as best option following oil disaster

How Obama Could Use the Gulf Oil Disaster to Buoy Renewable Energy, Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World, by Brit Liggett, 05/03/10 Amid the depressing news that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is still not contained nor getting better — over two week after the disaster started — there may be a little green ray of hope. The devastating effects of this oil rig spill could be the perfect moment to garner support for renewable energy.

Last week President Obama announced that he was halting all future offshore drilling until this oily mess is figured out, but we think he should take that a step further. This oil spill is the perfect chance to educate the public about the devastating side effects of our dependency on oil and the clean future that renewable energy offers us as an alternative.

How Obama Could Use the Gulf Oil Disaster to Buoy Renewable Energy | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World

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Mammogram screening unwise for healthy young women

The American Cancer Society ..this study strongly supports their recommendation that screening mammography should begin at age 40 and not earlier.

Mammograms in your 30s: – Paging Dr. Gupta – CNN.com Blogs ‘A needle in a haystack’ By Sabriya Rice CNN Medical Producer May 3, 201 0An estimated 29 percent of U.S. women in their 30s undergo mammograms each year, but false-positives and callbacks for additional screenings are frequent, and few breast cancers are detected in women of this age group, a new study finds. Continue reading →

May 4, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , | Leave a comment

USA’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Nuclear Wastes More of a Nuclear Power Promoter

National Grassroots Summit and Forum
on Radioactive Waste Policy, Chicago, June 4-6

In January, the Obama Administration’s Dept. of Energy announced the creation of its “Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on the Future of Nuclear Power in America“, ostensibly to “study and recommend” what the U.S. should do about its radioactive waste problems, especially in light of the wise cancellation of the dangerous Yucca Mountain, Nevada dumpsite proposal.  Many of us watched or attended the first meeting of the Commission in April — and are deeply disturbed by what we saw and heard. The panel seems much more devoted to expanding atomic energy than it is to addressing our nation’s unsolved radioactive waste crisis. Risky “illusions of solutions” for radioactive waste, such as reprocessing, also seem high on the Commission’s agenda.

As a response a number of organizations have come together to create a National Grassroots Summit and Forum on Radioactive Waste Policy — to articulate a national radioactive waste policy for the other 300 million Americans the DOE panel seems intent on ignoring. This event will be held in Chicago from Friday, June 4th to Sunday, June 6th.

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Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Conference not likely to get anywhere, really

The administration is likely to be criticized, however, for its failure to see progress on U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

US: Consensus unlikely at nuclear treaty meeting, SunHerald.com, By DESMOND BUTLER – Associated Press Writer 2 May 2010, WASHINGTON –– The United States already is acknowledging that delegates from 189 countries gathering next week to review a treaty designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons are unlikely to reach consensus. Continue reading →

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Nuclear weapons numbers to be revealed by USA

US to unveil size of nuclear stockpile, The American government will disclose for the first time the exact size of the US nuclear stockpile at a major United Nations nuclear disarmament summit, according to officials. By Alex Spillius in New York  Telegraph UK 02 May 2010 “…….Arms-control groups estimate the US nuclear arsenal contains 9,000 weapons, roughly 5,000 of them active and the rest in line for disassembly.The announcement could be timed to prevent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, from hijacking the conference with demands for more global controls of nuclear stockpiles. He speaks before Mrs Clinton. The international community believes Iran is secretly preparing to build a nuclear weapon. US to unveil size of nuclear stockpile – Telegraph

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Britsh nuclear submarines at sea despite dangerous safety defects

Nuclear submarines went to sea with potentially disastrous defect. British vessels Turbulent and Tireless allowed to leave port with safety valves sealed off, risking catastrophic explosion, leaked memo reveals mo reveals Severin Carrell and Rob Edwards guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 May 2010
Two British nuclear submarines went to sea with a potentially disastrous safety problem that left both vessels at risk of a catastrophic accident, the Guardian can reveal. Continue reading →

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Radioactive dust from Australia’s uranium mines found in Antarctica

Australian uranium dust found in Antarctic ice  ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 3 May, 2010, An ice core from the Antarctic bears traces of uranium that may have been carried by the wind from Australian mines in 1995, a glacier expert has told a Chilean newspaper.The minuscule amounts of the radioactive element “correspond to a year (1995) when Australia increased its uranium production,” Ricardo Jana, who participates in an international research effort in the frozen continent, told El Mercurio daily.He said scientists theorise the uranium particles were carried by the wind from Australia and deposited in the northern part of the Antarctic’s Detroit peninsula. Australian uranium dust found in Antarctic ice – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporati

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Un Nuclear Conference Amid Fears of a Middle Eastern Arms Race

Egypt’s  president, Hosni Mubarak, has spoken out bluntly about the alternatives, implying that his country might feel the need to develop nuclear weapons.

As U.N. Nuclear Conference Opens, U.S. Is Pushing to Deter Mideast Arms Race,  NYTimes.com By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER May 2, 2010 The opening Monday of a monthlong United Nations conference to strengthen the main treaty meant to halt the spread of nuclear arms is likely to be dominated by Iran’s president denouncing the West and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warning that if Tehran gets the bomb, the rest of the Middle East will soon follow. Continue reading →

May 3, 2010 Posted by | MIDDLE EAST, weapons and war | , , , | Leave a comment

Bomb in New York, close to UN Nuclear Conference

NY Police Finds Failed Bomb Prior to UN Nuclear Conference May 02, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) – Just hours before UN nuclear conference is due to start, there’s news coming out of New York about US police evacuating thousands of people from the city’s busy Times Square because of a bomb scare. In New York, police is checking a vehicle suspected to be containing bomb found outside a theatre on Saturday. US police officer Paul Brown said, ‘This appears to be a car bomb that the bomb squad is in the process of dismantling.’ The bomb made of explosives, burned wires, three tanks of propane and two canister of gasoline seems to have failed……..

NY Police Finds Failed Bomb Prior to UN Nuclear Conference

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Pervasive radioactive risks in India

the death of a single person, through disparate chains of official negligence, serves to show that he was not safe. And neither are we.

The radioactive risk society , Indian Express, by Neha Sinha, 3 May 2010, On April 10, 2007, a uranium pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our nuclear energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on radioactivity in India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008, another uranium pipe burst, spewing houses near the village of Dungridih in Jaduguda with uranium waste. Continue reading →

May 3, 2010 Posted by | environment, India | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Non profit organisations find ways to fund decentralised renewable energy

“If we can deliver energy on site, whether it’s a school, college or small town, all that infrastructure is already in place. We just have to bring in the actual equipment. We don’t have to build tens of millions of lines,” said NexGen President John Brown, formerly of NREL.

(USA)  Nonprofits Find Ways To Pay For Renewable Energy, Colorado Business News, CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer, May 2, 2010DENVER (AP) ― The Upper Scioto Valley School District in Ohio, battered by a slowdown at a nearby Ford Motor Co. plant, wanted to explore alternative energy when it developed a plan to fix its budget and create jobs. Continue reading →

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New study on nuclear plants and cancer

“…..the 1990 study as limited to cancer deaths and not covering a wide enough area, and he also said it did not factor in nuclear plant workers nor take into account weather or geography…..”

New US study on nuclear plant health risks hailed, CNBC: The Associated Press | 02 May 2010 Pennsylvania officials and activists say they are glad the federal government is taking another look at whether people who live near nuclear plants have a higher risk of getting cancer. Continue reading →

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