Depleted uranium weapons: cancer and birth defects toll on American soldiers
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hey too [U.S. troops] have fathered children with stunted arms, and rare abnormalities classically associated with radiation damage. They too seem prone to cancer and leukemia. Tellingly, so are EU soldiers who served as peacekeepers in the Balkans, where DU was also used. Indeed their leukemia rate has been so high that several EU governments have protested at the use of DU.
Depleted Uranium linked to birth defects and cancers among U.S. troops The Canadian , 27 Dec 10, Doctors in Iraq have estimated that birth defects have increased by 2-6 times, and 3-12 times as many children have developed cancer and leukaemia since 1991. Continue reading
Off-grid small scale solar energy in huts in Africa
There is no reliable data on the spread of off-grid renewable energy on a small scale, in part because the projects are often installed by individuals or tiny nongovernmental organizations…Part of the problem is that the new systems buck the traditional mold, in which power is generated by a very small number of huge government-owned companies that gradually extend the grid into rural areas. Investors are reluctant to pour money into products that serve a dispersed market of poor rural consumers
Beyond Fossil Fuels African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power – NYTimes.com, by Elisabeth Rosenthal 27 Dec 10, “………As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people who live far from slow-growing electricity grids and fuel pipelines in developing countries. Although dwarfed by the big renewable energy projects that many industrialized countries are embracing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, these tiny systems are playing an epic, transformative role. Continue reading
Explaining uranium enrichment
What is uranium enrichment?, Factbox, by David Cutler, 27 Dec 10, “…….WHAT IS ENRICHMENT:-– Enrichment is a process of increasing the proportion of fissile isotope found in uranium ore (represented by the symbol ‘U’) to make it usable as nuclear fuel or the compressed, explosive core of nuclear weapons.
* WHY URANIUM MUST BE ENRICHED: Continue reading
UK youth enthusiastic about renewable energy, through games and education
Older children and teenagers learn about renewable energy and climate change in the new video game Fate of the World, a global strategy game …..94% said that offshore wind was the ‘fairest’ energy technology and 81% identified onshore wind. Ninety four percent supported solar energy
Growing up Solar – Solar Novus Today, by Nancy Lamontagne,19 Dec 10, Today’s children are growing up with solar power and other renewable sources of energy as part of their every day lives, but does this mean they view it as important ? Continue reading
Grim reality of what a terrorist attack on nuclear facility would mean
local emergency responders shouldn’t expect any substantial federal help for at least 24 hours, and perhaps as long as 72 hours……
Thinking about the unthinkable — a terrorist nuclear attack, Winnipeg Free Press , 26 Dec 10, The Obama administration is faced with one of those damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t decisions: Should it be giving Americans advice on what to do in case of a nuclear attack by terrorists on an American city?………… Continue reading
Uranium mill in Colorado will not help local unemployment
A new report estimates that the employment impact of the mill near Paradox, Colo., will be small and its socioeconomic impacts more bad than good.
Weeks out from uranium decision, new negative report, Telluride Daily Planet ’By Matthew Beaudin , December 26, 2010 “…….A uranium mill is planned smack in the middle of the Paradox Valley, about 60 miles west of Telluride. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment will decide by mid-January if the mill is permitted. Continue reading
Uranium industry in Africa fraught with corruption and poor safety
Wikileaks: Africa Offers Easy Uranium Global Issues by Julio Godoy (paris) December 25, 2010 Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents. Continue reading
Money for unproven nuclear fusion better spent on renewable energy
The EU’s eventual contribution to [nuclear fusion] construction is now expected to be around €6.6 bn……€6 billion would go a long way to helping us develop cheaper more efficient renewable energy technologies
A Christmas whimsy- and an unwanted present, environmentalresearchweb, by Dave Elliott December 25, 2010 As a lapsed nuclear physicist, nowadays active in the renewable energy policy area, I sometimes make forays back to see how the subject in progressing…..one of the reasons why I got out of nuclear research. It seems that, while often touted as being a ‘clean’ option, fusion still has safety issues, just like fission……
USA’s Tea Party targeting renewable energy
Today, with the price of solar panels dropping and demand increasing, the state grants are generally less than half of what they were. Federal grants for 30 percent of a solar project remain available………..For decades, businesses that have extracted, combusted and delivered traditional fuels have received subsidies, and their prices have excluded societal impacts like air pollution in their price
Tea party activists seeing red over Delaware’s green initiatives System discouraging waste and pollution criticized as meddling with subsidized fossil fuels By AARON NATHANS • The News Journal • December 26, 2010 DOVER — They’re not exactly money, and they’re not a direct government handout.
But they are seen as the state-backed boost that solar and wind energy need to compete with power generated from fossil fuels in the coming decade. Continue reading
UK renewable energy has grown fast
Renewable energy use reaches record levels, Rapid Electronics , 24 Dec 10, The renewable energy industry made its highest ever contribution to the UK’s electricity supply during the autumn, new figures show. Continue reading
Airport radiation scanners not effective security anyway
Fears over fatal flaws in full-body airport scanners The Age Derek Kravitz, WashingtonDecember 27, 2010 US SECURITY experts have questioned the ability of full-body scanners to detect modern chemical explosives taped to a passenger’s abdomen or hidden in a cavity.The full-body scanners – planned for some Australian airports in 2011 – can detect small amounts of contraband and hidden weapons but could miss something far more deadly…… Continue reading
US uranium – to Iran, via Russia?
Wyoming uranium mines to be sold to Russians Paltalk News Network, 27 Dec 10, Selling Russia our uranium? Really? And will that uranium end up in Iran? A very serious possibility……. Strange isn’t it that now our own NRC is potentially selling the means of our destruction to our sworn enemy – Russia. According to The Gillette News Record:The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the transfer of a Canadian uranium company with soon-to-open uranium mines in the Powder River Basin to a company controlled by the Russian government……..
UK 1970s plan – Trident nuclear missiles to kill 10 million Russians
Secret files from 70s reveal Trident strike needed ‘to kill 10m Russians’, Whitehall documents written in 1970s and marked ‘personal and top secret’ show logic of British Cold War deterrent *Rob Edwards * guardian.co.uk, 26 December 2010
The British government opted for the Trident nuclear weapons system because it estimated it could kill up to 10 million Russians and inflict “unacceptable damage” on the former Soviet Union, according to secret Whitehall documents written in the 1970s. Continue reading
Positive future for renewable energy
The Future of Alternative and Renewable Energy The Blunt Blogger By Maisy Winter 26 Dec 2010 Innovation in alternative and renewable energy sources and technologies is quickly changing the face of this rapidly expanding energy sector. The United States residential use of energy is predicted to increase by 25 percent in the year 2025, predicted by the U.S. Department of Energy. Continue reading
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