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Nuclear power has always been State financed

It was almost exclusively State-controlled, State-financed and State-operated. Its strategic deployment and costs were ultimately linked to the real business of the atom – nuclear weapons making and state security which, of course, was a State secret.

The Atomic Reality At the time when “Funky Town” was regular disco fodder circa 1977, nuclear power generation was still almost totally and exclusively reserved for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, the USSR and to a smaller extent, China and India. Continue reading →

September 30, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, history | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Paladin and Cameco’s plans for uranium mine foiled by Australia’s Northern Territory govt

NT reversal cruels U-hopefuls’ plans TradingMarkets.com, 29 Sep 2010 –Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson has withdrawn support for Cameco Corporation’s and Paladin Energy’s proposed uranium mine near Alice Springs. The announcement came just two years after Cameco and Paladin won developmentrights for the Angela Pamela project and two weeks before a local by-election in the seat of Alice Springs.

NT reversal cruels U-hopefuls’ plans | TradingMarkets.com

September 30, 2010 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, politics | , , , | Leave a comment

Australian Greens take Aboriginals’ anti nuclear cause to Parliament

“We are the Aboriginal people who own the land and the dreamings you are talking about, we are asking that you reject this bill and scrap Muckaty as a site for the waste dump.”

Greens urge rethink of nuclear dump site – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Megan Lewis Sep 29, 2010 The Greens have urged the Federal Government to scrap plans to build a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory…… Continue reading →

September 30, 2010 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, politics | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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