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Freedom of information – a basic priniciple upheld by Julian Assange

WikiLeaks has taught us valuable lessons about the suppression and manipulation of information, and how such activities pose a threat to the common good.

VIDEO Don’t shoot the messenger, award him the Nobel Peace Prize – Eureka Street Don’t shoot the messenger, award him the Nobel Peace Prize, Eureka Street, Michael Mullins,  December 06, 2010 WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are being demonised by what appears to be a slanderous propaganda campaign being waged at the highest levels of governments around the world. Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, civil liberties | 1 Comment

Ethical scientists should not work for nuclear industry

scientists should refrain from activities that have the potential to indirectly aid the production of nuclear weapons

The Responsible Scientist: A Philosophical Inquiry, Eureka: Ethics Research, Australian Museum, December 2010, WINNER – The Responsible Scientist Setting a Moral Compass for Scientists As atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the final stages of World War II in 1945, the world witnessed the devastation that science could inflict on humankind.Since that moment, countries around the world have been called to account on their nuclear weapons programs. But what responsibility rests on the shoulders of the scientists who make such grand-scale destruction possible? Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, Religion and ethics | Leave a comment

Business leaders of the future want clean renewable energy

The report calls for …… a fair deal for young people in the decision making process, active work to ensure the Government doesn’t pass policies that lock future generations into ecological debt,..

(UK) Potential business leaders of the future champion renewable energy, Green Investing, By Michelle Ward | 05 December 2010, Government research published this week shows that young people in the UK strongly support the use of renewable energy, including solar, offshore and onshore wind power. Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 Posted by | Religion and ethics, UK | Leave a comment

France selling India increasingly costly, untested, nuclear reactors

India is slated to purchase up to six of these reactors, of which the first two alone carry an estimated price tag of €11 billion…..The exact cost of each EPR in India has not been disclosed…..If the regulator asks for an additional safety system, for example, that could increase the price of the plant. If I was India, I would wait to see when that happened.”

India racing to buy an untried reactor?, The Hindu, 6 Dec 2010,  The EPR is still a reactor in the making, whose design is likely to undergo serious modification before it can be built as a series.The announcement last week by the Finnish utility TVO of yet another year-long delay in the construction of the new Areva European Pressurised Reactor/Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) being built at Olkiluoto in southern Finland has re-launched the controversy surrounding the world’s biggest, most expensive and as yet untried nuclear reactor. Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 Posted by | business and costs, India | 1 Comment

Russia manipulating to avoid India’s Nuclear Liability Law

Russia’s concern over liability law may delay new Kudankulam pacts, The Hindu Priscilla Jebaraj, 4 Dec 10, Decision not taken to accept liability: Atomstroyexport MOSCOW: Russian reservations about the implications of India’s nuclear liability law may be delaying the contracts for two nuclear power reactors to be built in Kudankulam, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 Posted by | India, politics, Russia | Leave a comment

Turkey wants nuclear-free Middle East

a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East is the essential backbone of our policy.”

Turkey opposed to nuclear proliferation in Middle East, Issues like Iran should be solved through diplomacy, minister says gulfnews :

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

Progress towards START nuclear arms reduction treaty

Obama gains ground in push for nuclear treaty Associated Press , topnews 360, WASHINGTON, December 05, 2010 — President Barack Obama gained ground in his push for Senate ratification of a stalled nuclear treaty as once–reluctant Republicans signaled a willingness to back the pact with Russia.
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said Thursday that he is “wide open” to supporting the treaty if his concerns about modernization of the remaining U.S. nuclear arsenal are addressed. He praised the White House for working with lawmakers………Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a Senate speech that he was encouraged by the discussions involving GOP lawmakers and the administration. Kerry says he expects a “positive outcome” in the next few days…….. Obama gains ground in push for nuclear treaty

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

USA has lost control of key parts of nuclear fuel chain

Russians to gain US uranium foothold, FT.com, By Ed Crooks   December 5 2010 A Russian state-owned company is set to control up to half of US uranium output by the middle of the decade, after American authorities gave the go-ahead to thepartial takeover of Uranium One of Canada by ARMZ.The deal is the latest sign of how, after a three-decade hiatus in new reactor projects, the US has lost control of key parts of the nuclear supply chain……..FT.com / Companies / Mining – Russians to gain US uranium foothold

December 6, 2010 Posted by | politics international, USA | Leave a comment

Complicated nuclear waste problems between USA States

The prospect of losing space to waste from generators in other states worries the incoming governor of Vermont, Peter Shumlin, who has vowed to shut down that state’s reactor, Vermont Yankee.

Texas Proposal Spurs Race to Dispose of Nuclear Waste – NYTimes.com, By MATTHEW L. WALD  December 2, 2010 WASHINGTON — Aged nuclear plants in Vermont and Illinois may be playing the equivalent of musical chairs in a graveyard, vying for space at a dump in Texas whose owner hopes to accept radioactive waste from many other states. Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 Posted by | USA, wastes | Leave a comment