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USA censoring whistleblowers on depleted uranium

“”They are hampering efforts to prove the relation between Depleted Uranium and the illness,”” Durakovic said:
Note about Dr. Durakovic;  Firstly, he was warned to stop his work, then he was fired from his position, then his house was ransacked, and he has also reported receiving death threats.
Evidently the U.S. D.O.D is very keen on censoring DU whistle- blowers!)

Public health disaster for Iraqi people by Depleted Uranium, tehran times, 31 Jan 2011,“.……Durakovic said: “Preliminary tests show that the air, soil and water samples contained hundreds to thousands of times the normal levels of radiation.” Continue reading →

January 31, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties, depleted uranium, USA | Leave a comment

Passing of an anti-nuclear women’s leader

In September of that year, [1961], philosopher Bertrand Russell, then 89, was arrested for his part in an anti-nuclear bomb demonstration at London’s Trafalgar Square. The night of the arrest Wilson and her husband were hosting a cocktail party at which she expressed her anger at Russell’s jailing…..The next day she began calling every woman she knew…………..Wilson’s high visibility in the protest made her a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee,
Dagmar Wilson dies at 94; organizer of women’s disarmament protesters Dagmar Wilson obituary: Dagmar Wilson, who organized 50,000 women to protest against nuclear weapons, dies at 94 By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times January 30, 2011 At the height of the Cold War, the illustrator and mother of three organized 50,000 women to demonstrate against nuclear weapons. Foes tried to paint her as a Communist, but failed miserably. Continue reading →

January 31, 2011 Posted by | USA | Leave a comment

Mohamed ElBaradei a voice for calm on Iran

ElBaradei said the international community should act only on concrete information. He warned against a repetition of the 2003 experience with Iraq, when IAEA inspectors did not find signs of an active nuclear arms program but were ignored by the United States, which proceeded to use unsubstantiated intelligence to make the case for war. Since then, the IAEA has been proved right that Saddam Hussein did not possess any of the alleged weaponry.

Calm Is Urged in Iran Debate* Voices — Mohamed ElBaradei Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan 2011, Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N. nuclear agency chief, sees no imminent danger from Tehran and asks those discussing the issue to `lower the pitch.’March 31, 2006 By Jeffrey Fleishman and Alissa J. Rubin, BERLIN — United Nations atomic energy chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged the international community Thursday to steer away from threats of sanctions against Iran, saying the country’s nuclear program was not “an imminent threat” and that the time had come to “lower the pitch” of debate. Continue reading →

January 31, 2011 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium – a public health disaster

“”I arranged for a delegation from Japan’s Hiroshima hospital to come and share their expertise in the field of radiological diseases that we are likely to face over time.

The delegation told me the Americans had objected, so they decided not to come.

Public health disaster for Iraqi people by Depleted Uranium, tehran times, 31 Jan 2011, “……….Ross B. Mirkarimi, a spokesman at The Arms Control Research Centre stated:””Unborn children of the region are being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA.” Continue reading →

January 31, 2011 Posted by | depleted uranium, health, Iraq | Leave a comment

Nuclear Power and Civil Liberties – theme for February

With uranium mining, nuclear power, nuclear wastes, and nuclear weapons,  –  civil liberties are increasingly eroded.  They must be, even when all seems to be going smoothly. Nuclear reprocessing, with plutonium as fuel, would necessitate taking away even more civil liberties.

A police state would develop, even with “peaceful” nuclear reprocessing.  But imagine how fast we would lose civil liberties, in the event of a nuclear mishap – theft of plutonium, terrorist strike, accident. For a start, the public would not even be informed, (for fear of public panic). Very quickly, that police state would be turned into a martial law state.

January 31, 2011 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

In Canada, it’s time to pull the plug on nuclear

Time to pull the plug on nuclear?, The Star, Robert Bernecky, 29 Jan 2011,”………. Nuclear power continues to be a huge money-losing proposition, filling the pockets of AECL and OPG, while at the same time generating huge amounts of long-lived nuclear waste that nobody know how to dispose of, forcing our children and their children to pay for the excesses of our generation.

This waste has to stop.It is time for Ontario and Canada to stop backing an always-losing horse, and to take that $33 billion slotted for reactor refurbishment, and put it into wind, solar, and other forms of renewable, clean power.Better yet, take some of that money and fund research into ways to embed large-capacity power storage within the grid, so that intermittent power generators can be used to best advantage, and allow scalable growth of power generation in Canada……..”Time to pull plug on nuclear? – thestar.com

January 29, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

How ordinary citizens defeated the crooked tactics of a giant nuclear power company

Although they are not experts in the field of radioactive carcinogens, the residents’ many voices were not too intimidated to call the energy giant to account for its actions.

How residents delivered a major upset to GE-Hitachi Canada’s nuclear operations,  rabble.ca, By Zach Ruiter and Liat Mandel| January 28, 2011 David versus Goliath has recently been retold as a story of environmental justice: a small group of Trent students and Peterborough residents defeated the General Electric-Hitachi Corporation of Canada (GE) at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) tribunal. Continue reading →

January 29, 2011 Posted by | Canada, civil liberties | Leave a comment

Legal technicality leaves Navajo no redress for uranium contaminated land

The Navajo Nation only became aware that the two sites nearby were also contaminated in the early 2000s.

Federal Appeals Court Rules DOE Not Responsible for Navajo Uranium Cleanup By LAWRENCE HURLEY, NYTimes.com January 28, 2011 A federal appeals court ruled today that the Department of Energy does not have to remediate two sites on Navajo Nation land that are adjacent to an old uranium mine. Continue reading →

January 29, 2011 Posted by | indigenous issues, Legal, USA | Leave a comment

General Electric Hitachi pushing to sell nuclear technology to Poland, at unknown cost

Nuclear power for Poland, but at what price?, Warsaw Business Journal -28th January 2011 The government is pushing to bring its first nuclear power plant online in 2020, but it still has no idea how much the undertaking will cost. Deputy ministers from the Treasury and the Economy Ministry admitted as much earlier this week, saying they have not even commissioned any studies into the issue, Rzeczpospolita reports.
According to the daily, the heads of PGE – Poland’s largest utility and the firm charged with overseeing construction of the nuclear plant – say the cost of building one 3,000 MW plant will be zł.35-55 billion. General Electric Hitachi Nuclear said on Wednesday that it is looking to enter Poland’s nuclear components market…….Nuclear power for Poland, but at what price? – Warsaw Business Journal – Online Portal – wbj.pl

January 29, 2011 Posted by | EUROPE, politics international | 1 Comment

Chilean public not happy as USA and France push for selling nuclear technology to Chile

international environmental activists, Chilean naturalists and the Chilean public in general upset and displeased that the country keeps heading toward the nuclear power option.

U.S. and Chile Seeking Cooperative Nuclear Energy Deal, Despite Displeasure of Many Chileans, Hispanically Speaking News, January 28, 2011  Continue reading →

January 29, 2011 Posted by | politics international, SOUTH AMERICA | 1 Comment

The power of energy efficiency to cut world’s greenhouse gas emissions

whereas new generation techniques take years to come on stream, efficiency can be improved today, with existing technologies and know-how.

Efficiency could cut world energy use over 70 per cent, – New Scientist,  26 January 2011 by Helen Knight Simple changes like installing better building insulation could cut the world’s energy demands by three-quarters, according to a new study. Continue reading →

January 28, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, ENERGY | Leave a comment

World could run on renewable energy by 2030

“The actual footprint required by wind turbines to power half the world’s energy is less than the area of Manhattan,” said Jacobson.

Jacobson noted that most wind turbines could be placed offshore, and that others could be implemented on land already used for agriculture as is already the case with many large-scale land wind projects in the U.S.

By 2030, world can run on renewables, CNET News,  by Candace Lombard 27 Jan 2011, Scientists from Stanford University and the University of California at Davis have crunched the numbers and come up with a plan for how the world might economically and feasibly make the move to renewable energy in the next 20 to 40 years. Continue reading →

January 28, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, renewable | Leave a comment

60th anniversary of the first secret nuclear fallout on American citizens

When it was learned years later that no American was given these maps
and forecasts – only Kodak and its industry peers – the reaction of
those who came to realize their bodies too became ‘exposed’ by the
fallout was one of anger and rage……...Downwinder Day is needed because Americans should have been deemedabove corporations, not below them. Their lives should have been given importance above that of a cartridge of film. They should have known, just as Kodak’s officials knew, that the “situation is serious.”

Downwinder Day – 2011 USA – from Andrew Kishner, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 27 Jan 2011, Sixty years ago today, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission conducted itsfirst ‘experimental nuclear detonation’ at the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. The date was January 27, 1951. The time was 5:45 am. The bomb test was dubbed ‘Able.’ Continue reading →

January 28, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties, history, USA | 1 Comment

UK’s plan for new nuclear plants add to danger of Sellafield radioactive waste problem

Experts in the field say the ongoing problems at Sellafield are worrying, especially in light of the possibility of waste that will be created from new-build nuclear…The consultation process on how to deal with nuclear waste and new nuclear plants across the country has been clearly lacking,

Sellafield is where we house the toxic legacy of our failed nuclear industry’ Industry experts say the government must deal with legacy waste before committing to new nuclear in the UK Nidhi Prakash,   27 January 2011,   guardian.co.uk There are many uncertainties about the renaissance of nuclear power in the UK, particularly surrounding the level of public subsidy, but one thing remains constant: the industry’s waste problem hasn’t gone away. Continue reading →

January 28, 2011 Posted by | decommission reactor, UK, wastes | Leave a comment

Global risk of nuclear materials being obtained by terrorists

“Another risk is nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists. Some people do not believe this is a real risk. But the IAEA has a database and, on average, every two days we receive information about the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials or radioactive materials and this may only be the tip of the iceberg.”

Nuclear Watchdog Chief Warns of Nukes Falling Into the Wrong Hands, By Amy Kellogg January 27, 2011  FoxNews.com “……Among those worried about funding his project in this tight environment is Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. Continue reading →

January 28, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, safety | Leave a comment

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