Hanford nuclear wastes – shameful injustice to the Yakama tribe
Some 400 billion gallons of liquid wastes were dumped into the [Hanford] soil — enough to create a poisonous lake the size of Manhattan Island — 80 feet deep. Enormous groundwater plumes containing radioactive and other hazardous wastes are migrating into the river….…..the Federal government has a moral and legal trust responsibility to ensure that tribal treaty resources are protected and that the health of tribal people is not being harmed
Endangerment Near a Nuclear Weapons Site. THE HUFFINGTON POST , Robert Alvarez, 17 Dec 10, Yesterday President Obama held a meeting with the leaders of indigenous people in the U.S. One important issue is the fact that tribal people, because of their subsistence lifestyle, are the most vulnerable group of humans to environmental contaminants. Continue reading
India sticking with its Nuclear Liability Law, despite pressure from nuclear salesmen
the dealings by nuclear suppliers with India will have to be well within the legal framework envisaged in the legislation passed in Parliament….
India Rules out Change in Civil Nuclear Liability Law India Journal Dec 17, 2010 BRUSSELS – India on Dec. 9 firmly ruled out any change in the civil nuclear liability law notwithstanding repeated concerns expressed by countries exporting atomic equipments over compensation claim in the event of an accident. Continue reading
Like USA, Russia doesn’t want to foot any costs of nuclear accident in India
Kadakin was equally clear that the international law would take priority over any domestic law that India might have, specially when it came to international nuclear commerce…..There have been some protests against the project in West Bengal, which put the future of the project in doubt
Russia asks India to mend nuke law – The Times of India, 18 Dec 10, ………Russian envoy Alexander Kadakin was more unyielding on the liability law. Russia was expecting “explanations” from the Indian side on the nuclear liability issue, he said. Continue reading
Russia wants to defeat India’s Nuclear Liability Law
India’s nuclear liability legislation, passed in August, caps the operator’s liability atRs 1,500 crore ($331 million) and also gives it the right to seek damages from suppliers, if there is an accident.
Ahead of prez visit, Russia seeks clarity on N-liability Hindustan Times
New Delhi, December 18, 2010Ahead of President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit that begins on Monday, the Russian ambassador on Friday said the country was still awaiting an explanation on how India’s nuclear liability legislation would work. Continue reading
US Republican hawks threaten Republican senators against voting for nuclear arms reduction treaty
“fully committed” to defeating any GOP senator that votes for ratification during the lame-duck session.
Group Vows Primaries for GOP Senators Who Vote for START – Real Clear Politics – TIME.com, by Scott Conroy, 18 Dec 10, A prominent conservative political action committee is vowing to defeat any Republican senator who votes to ratify the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia in the lame-duck session of Congress. Continue reading
USA and UN half-hearted on nuclear non proliferation
Fallout shelters making a comeback, American Thinker , Ethel C Fenig, 18 Dec 10, Whoops! Just when you’ve finally removed those cracked yellow and black 50 year old Civil Defense signs from your grandparents’ or old office building basement along comes a new report with news you hopefully will never have to use; those air raid atomic bomb fallout shelters might be useful after all.
Apparently resigned to the fact that their governmental counterparts–and the UN–have failed in their half hearted efforts to derail Iran, North Korea and who knows what other unstable American hating regime from getting nuclear weapons, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has taken us back to the 50s of coping with nuclear fallout,,,,,,,,There, you feel safer already. American Thinker Blog: Fallout shelters making a comeback
USA business as usual, and by the way, Duck and Cover
Here we are back in December of 2010. Iran is enriching uranium. So is North Korea. China has 10,000 missiles aimed at Taiwan, whom we must protect and defend. Now the government is presenting us with detailed advice on surviving nuclear explosions. But they remind us that we have no need for concern. It’s “Business as usual”. Rumor has it that several Senators have refused to discuss the matter until bills are added to promote online shopping for flashlights and batteries, and the elimination of soda pop for poor people — let them drink water!
The Government Wants Us to “Duck and Cover.” – Blogcritics Culture, John Lake 18 Dec 10, “Let us face without panic, the reality of our times.” So begins a widely viewed televised presentation prepared and aired to the public during the long remembered 1950s decade of concern; concern of a coming nuclear attack. (see video at Nuclear attack survivable if you stay inside, U.S. government says | Posted | National Post ) Continue reading
Nuclear weapons for Iraq?
The Security Council’s action demonstrates how the inconsistency and hypocrisy apply not only to nuclear weapons but also to nuclear programs short of weapons……we ought not to get very relaxed about Iraq possibly developing a nuclear weapon in the future, however remote a possibility that may seem now.
An Iraqi Nuclear Weapon | The National Interest , by Paul Pillar, 16 Dec 10, At the urging of the United States, the United Nations Security Council passed on Wednesday a resolution permitting Iraq to have a civilian nuclear program. Continue reading
UK: a nuclear subsidy by another name is still a nuclear subsidy
nuclear’s “inflexibility and intermittency and the toxic legacy”. Should Mr Huhne not explore a levy on nuclear to balance any “hidden even if unspecific windfall subsidy” which might come about?
Huhne under pressure over his definition of nuclear subsidy, FT Westminster, December 17, 2010 by Jim Pickard If all low-carbon energy is given a public subsidy then has nuclear power been subsidised? You might have thought so.
But Chris Huhne insisted yesterday that this was not the case.
Except that surely it is Continue reading
Nuclear protesting is effective – politicians be warned!
Nuclear protesting works and we’re not going to stop | Greenpeace International,by Justin – December 17, 2010 Here is a great victory for the anti-nuclear power campaign in Germany: Continue reading
Chernobyl nuclear reactor still has 180 tons of radioactive material
the status of the estimated 180 tons of radioactive material trapped inside the nuclear power plant is still unclear.
Chernobyl Tour, Ukraine: Visit the Site of the Nuclear Disaster/Accident.Ukrainian Web 17 Dec 10, n 26 April 1986, reactor # 4 at the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) Nuclear Power Station, 100 km north from Kiev, blew up during a routine daily operation. Nearly nine tons of radioactive material – 90 times as much as the Hiroshima bomb – were hurled into the sky. Winds over the following days, mostly blowing north and west, carried, fallout into Belarus, as well as Russia, Poland and the Baltic region. Continue reading
USA tax cuts will preserve 85,000 jobs in wind energy
The head of the American Wind Energy Association, Denise Bode, called it “a great holiday present for the 85,000 American workers in the wind energy industry, tens of thousands of whom will now be able to get back to work.’’……
Tax Cuts for Energy, Too – NYTimes.com. Matthew Wald, 17 dec 10, The just-concluded fight in Congress over taxes has mostly been viewed as an argument over the Bush-era tax cuts, but it was also a cliffhanger make-or-break deal for a variety of energy taxes. Continue reading
North Korea wants South to stop military drills in disputed waters
North Korea Pressures The South To Cancel Military Drills In Disputed Waters : The Two-Way : NPR, 18 Dec 10, North Korea is threatening retaliation if South Korea follows through on planned live-fire military drills on the same island that was the scene of a deadly artillery barrage from the North on November 23rd. Four people died when North Korea rained artillery shells on Yeonpyeong Island in response to an earlier military drill there by South Korea. The island sits in disputed waters off the coast of the Korean Peninsula………..North Korea Pressures The South To Cancel Military Drills In Disputed Waters : The Two-Way : NPR
Pro nuclear spin is getting funnier, and more tragic
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It is probably the success of renewable energy and energy conservation, ( a success happening in local areas, rather than centrally, or government directed) that is causing a wave of panic in the global nuclear industry.
The result – a stream of jolly news about how low level radiation is good for you! About how Chernobyl is thriving, and we should all go there for our holidays!
And now – well, even a nuclear bomb attack is not such a worry any more! Older people will remember “Duck and cover” – what fun that was , too! (see the video at Nuclear attack survivable if you stay inside, U.S. government says | Posted | National Post)
But there were narks around then, too, in the 50s. Like Bertrand Russell, who pointed out that “the lucky few” would be those who were hit right in the centre by the nuclear bomb.
And there are narks around today – with scientifically thorough studies showing the long term effects of nuclear radiation, (not to mention the weapons, terrorism, and financially catastrophic risks of the nuclear industry and its mounting toxic wastes.) – Christina Macpherson
Oh goody, a nuclear bomb attack is not all that bad!
VIDEO “Duck and cover” Nuclear attack survivable if you stay inside, U.S. government says | Posted | National Post Nuclear attack survivable if you stay inside, U.S. government says National Post, 17 Dec 10, Is it the return of “Duck and Cover”? A number of U.S. officials are trying to get the word out that if U.S. cities faced a nuclear attack the best thing to do is to stay put and find shelter. Continue reading
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