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Navy personnel claim cancers due to radiation exposure

Veterans who served there have long suspected their cancers were related to possible radiation exposure,

Exclusive report into Navy radiation exposure reaches Obama cabinet officials WEWS News, by Ron Regan, 3 March 11, CLEVELAND – Two top level cabinet officials in the Obama administration have been asked to review an exclusive 5 On Your Side investigation into possible radiation exposure among Navy personnel. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | health, USA | Leave a comment

A new worldwide standard for monitoring workers for radiation exposure

New ISO standard will improve protection of workers exposed to radiation, IEWY News 3 March 11, A  new ISO standard will help optimize individual monitoring and protection of workers exposed to radiation. It will also provide the technical basis for reinforcing regulation in this field worldwide. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health, technology | Leave a comment

Grudging recognition of cancers caused by radiation, among uranium workers

employees who worked outside of those dates still have to prove their cancer was caused by radiation at the plant….“They waited so long until almost everyone died,” Wytovak said.

They’re hoping for help in radiation case, Fuel Fix 3 March 2011, “…………“I thought it was a fertilizer plant,” said Wytovak, who discovered later during his 20 years at the plant that he had been part of an unwitting team extracting uranium for nuclear weapons. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | health, Uranium, USA | 1 Comment

Overexposure to radiation of some hospital patients

Cabell Huntington Hospital Says Some Patient May Have Been Overexposed to Radiation – WOWK-TV – , 3 March 11, HUNTINGTON — Cabell Huntington Hospital is informing former patients about possible overexposure to radiation.Hospital officials made the announcement Thursday in a news release. According to the hospital’s findings, officials believe it happened during a specific radiological procedure known as CT Angiography. The overexposure could have happened to patients who underwent the procedure between Oct. 9, 2009 and Nov. 23, 2010. Cabell Huntington believes the “a group of patients may have received an exposure to radiation that is above the recommended level.”Cabell Huntington Hospital Says Some Patient May Have Been Overexposed to Radiation – WOWK-TV – WOWKTV.com

March 4, 2011 Posted by | health, USA | Leave a comment

Uranium price to fall as USA sells its surplus

In analysis prepared for the department concluded that the average spot price for uranium could fall 4.9 to 8.9 percent during the period from the November 30, 2010

U.S. Energy Dept to sell surplus uranium Mar 3, 2011 WASHINGTON (Reuters), by Tom Doggett – The U.S. Energy Department plans to sell 2,000 tonnes of surplus uranium annually 2011-2013, which could push spot prices lower over the next three years…. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | business and costs, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

Global warming agents released in uranium enrichment

The radiative properties of CFCs make them a dangerous global warming agent — 1,500 times more potent than carbon dioxide, according to EPA figures. Ozone-depleting CFCs have been banned in the U.S. except in the processing of uranium ore.

As U.S. Moves Ahead with Nuclear Power, No Solution for Radioactive Waste, Solve Climate News, By Abby LubyMar 3, 2011.”…….Some observers have challenged the sector’s clean energy claims, however, especially when considering the entire nuclear fuel cycle and its impact on global warming. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | climate change, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear plants, by USA

the Stuxnet code was designed to trick human operators by showing them recorded readings indicating machinery is running normally while behind the scenes they are heading for destruction….it is a generic attack that would work well in factories, power plants, or other operations plentiful in the United States.

Computer expert says US behind Stuxnet worm, Google hosted news, By Glenn Chapman (AFP) – 4 March 11, LONG BEACH, California — A German computer security expert said Thursday he believes the United States and Israel’s Mossad unleashed the malicious Stuxnet worm on Iran’s nuclear program. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, technology, USA | Leave a comment

Destruction of Hanford Towers

the structures being demolished “weren’t radiologically contaminated so they weren’t previously an item that we were rushing to take down.” But, because they don’t have that type of contamination, they can be demolished relatively quickly, making the project eligible for federal stimulus funding

Explosives to bring down Hanford towers,  Seattle Times Newspaper, 3 March 11, A number of tall industrial structures at the former Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington will come down in a spectacular fashion Friday, courtesy of federal stimulus funding.By LYNN PORTER Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | USA, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear power subsidies – like dumping money down a rat’s hole

“It’s like dumping huge amounts of money down a rat’s hole,” he said, adding that by the time nuclear power plants actually get built, it could be too late to avoid the consequences of dangerous climate change. “What would have an immediate effect on climate change is the stuff you can do fast and cheap like weather proofing, changing light bulbs, building wind farms and solar panels,”

Group Says Subsidies Better Spent on Renewables, Solve Climate News, By Abby LubyMar 3, 2011 Criticism about nuclear’s carbon footprint hasn’t stopped the Obama administration from hawking it as clean power, however. In his proposed budget for 2012, the president is seeking an additional $36 billion in federal loan guarantees for nuclear power plant construction. That’s on top of the $18.5 billion the DOE is already permitted to deploy. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

USA not putting tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea

U.S. not mulling redeploying tactical nukes to S. Korea: official, By Hwang Doo-hyong, WASHINGTON, March 3 (Yonhap) — The United States will not consider redeploying tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea despite growing concerns about North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, a senior U.S. official has said. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | South Korea, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Dr Helen Caldicott to speak in Bristol

Dr Helen Caldicott to speak in Bristol,  Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy, 3 March 2011, Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy: Dr Helen Caldicott to speak in Bristol

The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 38 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. Continue reading →

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Ramping up a co-ordinated campaign for green energy jobs

Thousands of people from around the country worked this week at the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference on a clean energy hiring plan that will put Americans back to work with good, green jobs. We’ll be talking about the kinds of market incentives and reforms that will catch America up with the rest of the world — a renewable energy standard, incentives for energy efficiency, and the ramp up clean energy and electric auto manufacturing.

We Need a Clean Energy Hiring Plan, THE HUFFINGTON POST, David Foster, Feb 2011, More than 2,500 people from 48 states gathered this week in Washington for the fourth Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference — the leading forum for building a sustainable economy that creates good jobs and secures our economic and environmental future. Continue reading →

March 4, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

The very real health danger of low level radiation

each successive report of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation committee, a committee of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, has acknowledged a greater danger to low-dose radiation. Their most recent report states there is “no evidence of a threshold below which no cellular damage occurs.” (5) That is, even the lowest of doses may be dangerous

Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think?, THE HUFFINGTON POST, by Gayle Greene:, 3 March 11, Late last year, the American Pilots Association persuaded the TSA to allow pilots exemption from screening by full-body scanners. Captain Dave Bates, president of the association, argued that pilots “experience significantly higher exposure than most other occupations, and there is mounting evidence of higher-than-average cancer rates as a consequence.” (1)

But what about the rest of us? Continue reading →

March 3, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | Leave a comment

Nuclear plants,waste pools, waste storage – targets for terrorism

we must very carefully consider the vulnerability of reactor fuel, spent fuel pools, dry storage casks, and related fissile materials and facilities to sabotage, attack, and theft.

Gorbachev Warns of Terrorist Threat to Nuclear Power Plants, NTI: Global Security Newswire, March 2, 2011 The 1986 Chernobyl disaster offers a “warning” of the potential human and environmental cost of a terrorist attack against an atomic energy facility, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in a commentary published yesterday by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Continue reading →

March 3, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, safety | Leave a comment

US budget constraints on nuclear arsenal

D’Agostino and other officials also had to explain why the agency’s Weapons Dismantlement and Disposition budget would shrink from slightly more than $96 million in fiscal 2010 to less than $57 million in the upcoming budget year.

Senior Lawmakers Wary of Nuclear Agency Budget Increase, NTI: Global Security Newswire, March 2, 2011, By Martin Matishak WASHINGTON Continue reading →

March 3, 2011 Posted by | USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

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