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UK govt’s secret research into dead nuclear test veterans

The UK Government is battling a High Court compensation bid by 1,000 veterans and widows for health problems.

The Ministry of Defense  insists almost none was exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and the high rates of cancer, death and birth defects are a coincidence.

Nuke test veterans health files to be probed after they die,  mirror.co.uk, By Susie Boniface 5/09/2010 Scientists keep tabs in secret A nuclear test veteran has discovered the Government has ordered secret research into his health – after he dies. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK | , , , , , | 1 Comment

Prolonging nuclear power in Germany – damaging to society and investment

“We are further than ever away from a consensus in society, …that is a bad basis for investments,”

German local utilities, renewables slam nuclear plan. (Reuters)(Reporting by Vera Eckert in Munich, Anneli Palmen in Duesseldorf and Christoph Steitz in Frankfurt; editing by Keiron Henderson) 6 Sept 10, – A decision to extend the lifespans of German nuclear plants in a two-tier strategy will create more dissent and discourage investment, associations for the country’s local utilities and renewable industry said. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear weapons are no deterrent to war

A new study, The Changing Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Threats from 1970 to 2010, by Samuel Black at the Washington-based Stimson Center, challenges this myth head-on

The myth that has gone nuclear,  livemint.com, 5 Sept 10, Nuclear weapons have increased the potential of both conventional war and asymmetrical attacksW Pal SidhuAmong modern myths, perhaps none is more fantastic than the notion that nuclear weapons are solely responsible for the absence of war between nuclear-armed antagonists…… Continue reading →

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Radioactive pollution from uranium milling can no longer be ignored

Regulators are examining hydrology, seismology, demographic impacts and effects on flora and fauna, as well as demanding complete plans for how ….. the site would be reclaimed.

Toxic legacy of uranium haunts proposed Colorado mill – The Denver Post, Nancy Lofholm, 5 Sept 10, GRAND JUNCTION — “………..More than a billion dollars has been spent cleaning up radioactive tailings piles and lessening toxic leaks into rivers and aquifers at nine defunct mills in Colorado. Nearly 20 million tons of radioactive tailings sit in disposal sites where they must be monitored in perpetuity. Hundreds of acres of unusable water fill contaminated aquifers. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by | Legal, Uranium, USA | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Secrecy, even to Kansas City residents, about huge weapons production

Kansas City produces parts for nuclear weapons. We craft huge proportions — 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for these weapons of mass destruction……, Kansas City for the most part has settled into benign ignorance that the plant even exists.

Consider KC’s dark nuclear secret,  MARY SANCHEZ, The Kansas City Star , 6 Sept 10, For more than six decades, Kansas City has kept a volatile shrouded secret, even from itself. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Kansas city – farmland to be given over to nuclear weapons making

“There’s no justification … to the local economy that justifies putting the whole planet at risk,”

Farmland readied for a nuclear crop, By KEVIN COLLISON, The Kansas City Star, 6 Sept 10, Bulldozers are rolling on a billion-dollar project that will transform a former soybean field in south Kansas City into America’s only privately developed plant making parts for nuclear weapons……. Continue reading →

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Nuclear power is costly – even to get out of a nuclear deal

$6.1 million spent to end nuclear deal,  my sanantonio news, by Tracy Idell Hamilton, 5 Sept 10, CPS Energy spent $6.1 million on litigation and related expenses to get out of its nuclear partnership with NRG Energy earlier this year, according to records it provided to the San Antonio Express-News……..

$6.1 million spent to end nuclear deal

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Not certain that Germany’s nuclear plants will be extended

Merkel’s coalition, however, still needs to get parliamentary approval for the new agreement.

German leaders reach agreement on nuclear energy – BusinessWeek,  JUERGEN BAETZ, 5 Sept 10, German leaders reached an agreement to grant the country’s nuclear power plants an average of 12 extra years of production time and to levy new fees on the utility companies’, stripping them of billions of their expected additional profits, a government official said Sunday……. Continue reading →

September 6, 2010 Posted by | Germany, politics | , , , | Leave a comment