Showdown at the ole Texas nuclear waste dump
a proposed rule change commissioners could vote on Jan. 4 would allow importation of waste from elsewhere. Critics of the plan say the timing is meant to ensure it passes before Shumlin has a say.
Vermont’s nuclear waste showdown in Texas Burlington free Press, 28 Dec 10, Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin’s inauguration is causing a stir in Texas that’s reverberating back here to Vermont.That’s where a commission will meet two days before Shumlin takes office to vote on whether to allow radioactive waste from states to be dumped in a long-planned Texas site that was going to be strictly for Texas and Vermont. Continue reading
Wikileaks reveals bombing of Syrian nuclear reactor by Israel
Israel bombed Syria nuclear reactor: cable – IOL, 28 Dec 10, Israel destroyed a secret Syrian nuclear reactor in September 2007, according to a US diplomatic cable cited Friday in the Israeli Yediot Ahronoth daily.The cable, which the Israeli paper said it had obtained ahead of its publication by WikiLeaks, was written on April 25, 2008, by then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and stated that “on September 6 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Syria secretly, apparently with North Korea’s help.”Yediot said the cable provided the first official confirmation of the attack…..Israel bombed Syria nuclear reactor: cable – World – IOL | Breaking News | South Africa News | World News | Sport | Business | Entertainment | IOL.co.za
Secret radiation experiments on human patients in USA
More on Human Experimentation Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 28 Dec 10, Atomic Energy Commission Radiation Experiments. In December, 1993, Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary made a disturbing announcement: since the 1940′s, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission had been sponsoring a series of tests on the effects of radiation on the human body.
American citizens who had checked into hospitals for a variety of ailments had been secretly injected with varying amounts of plutonium and other radioactive materials without their knowledge. Most patients thought it was “just another injection,” but the secret studies left enough radioactive material in the patients’ bodies to readily induce cancer………More on Human Experimentation « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog
Concern in Kuwait over nuclear energy spread
“We can easily set up nuclear energy with the French company, there is no question about that, but the question is will our children still play in in safer surroundings the next 50 years? That is our concern,”
Expert advises against entry to nuclear club » Kuwait Times , : December 28, 2010 By Ben Garcia, KUWAIT: Kuwait should not embark on constructing a nuclear energy plant but is highly recommended that it try safer options like the development of wind and solar energies, Continue reading
Let us rejoice in the noble Stuxnet anti nuclear computer virus
The virus was set off against the Iranian nuclear threat mostly to ensure Israel’s safety and survival – but also that of all the other countries in the region
My New Friend is a Virus: Stuxnet, Philadelphia Jewish Voice,– by Annette H. Sabbah, 26 Dec 10, No, no, no… not the kind that makes us humans sick. This one is neither airborne nor contagious. Nor is it contingent on human proximity to insure high volume spreading capacity. This is one neither you nor I should fear – but rather rejoice in. Continue reading
Serbia advised not to invest in nuclear power
Serbia Takes Step Backwards on Belene, Standart, Kristian Kosturkov , 27 Dec 10, The possible participation of Serbia as in Bulgaria’s NPP belene project as an investor has become quite uncertain.According to Serbia’s Minister of Environment and Urban Development Oliver Dulic, Belgrade’s participation in Bulgaria’s nuclear project is unreal. “Serbia’s participation in NPP belene has been discussed much less at governmental level than in the media,” Dulic said quoted by the Bulgarian news agency BTA.
To his words, Belgrade should focus on renewable energy projects, which to compensate Serbia’s energy deficit, rather than build nuclear plants in Serbia or abroad.
Mr. Dulic went on to say that Serbia’s environment ministry would oppose any possible participation of the government…Bulgaria – Serbia Takes Step Backwards on Belene – Standart
Japanese fishermen affected by 1954 Bikini atomic bomb test
Diary of fisherman evidently affected by 1954 H-bomb test found Japan Today: 28th December, JSTKOCHI —A diary of a fisherman from Kochi Prefecture, who operated at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific following a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test, has been found, indicating he probably suffered acute symptoms caused by the test, which also hit a Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Fukuryu. Continue reading
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……
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