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Financial and safety threats in expanding production of plutonium

Some of the intractable challenges facing the President’s Commission -and the public- include some 67,000 metric tons of highly radioactive waste in temporary storage today, the prospect of expanded production of plutonium as both a health and a national security threat, nationwide transportation of highly radioactive waste, to and from, the Savanna River Site over road, rail and waterways and the unresolved problem of finding a secure repository for the long term storage of nuclear waste.

A blue-ribbon, “nuclear” bus ride Mountain Xpress,Ned Ryan Doyle, 21 Jan 2011, How could a nuclear-energy park in South Carolina impact the people of WNC? On January 7th, a “WNC Citizen’s Delegation” chartered a bus to Augusta, GA, for the only public hearing in the Southeast held by President Obama’s appointed “Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future”… Continue reading →

January 21, 2011 Posted by | safety, USA, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear reactors under the sea planned by France

France’s DCNS Plans Underwater Nuclear Plant, Echos Says,  Bloomberg, By Gregory Viscusi – Jan 20, 2011 France’s DCNS will study the possibility of building underwater nuclear power plants as part of the naval contractor’s planned diversification, Les Echos reported, citing the group’s Chief Executive Officer Patrick Boissier.The 100-meter-long (328 feet) reactor would be sunk at about 100 meters and could supply via cable a town or island of between 100,000 and 1 million people, said Boissier. DCNS builds atomic powered submarines for the French navy.

DCNS is 25 percent owned by military technology company Thales SA. France’s DCNS Plans Underwater Nuclear Plant, Echos Says – Bloomberg

January 21, 2011 Posted by | France, technology | Leave a comment

Questions on earthquake risks to nuclear plant

Is Diablo Canyon Quake Safe? – KVEC, King Harris, 20 Jan 2011, San Luis Obispo, CA — PG&E says Diablo Canyon can withstand any quake the nearby faults can deliver. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a meeting in San Luis Obispo last night to discuss the Shoreline Fault and other faults surrounding the nuclear power plant.According to the report, Diablo Canyon was designed to survive a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, and all the local faults are likely to produce a quake no stronger than magnitude 6.5. The Shoreline Fault was discovered in 2008 and has created some concern in the community, especially as the plant moves forward with its proposed license renewal.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission still needs to analyze PG&E’s report. Is Diablo Canyon Quake Safe? – KVEC

January 21, 2011 Posted by | safety, USA | Leave a comment

The global threat of nuclear terrorism

Congress must get serious about the threat of nuclear terrorism

The Hill, By Sarah Williams and Alexandra Toma – 01/18/11 “………..The fight to prevent nuclear terrorism will be lost without a serious commitment to the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear material around the globe. Currently, more than 30 countries possess significant amounts of material that could be used to make a nuclear weapon, and much of it is stored in less-than-secure facilities. Continue reading →

January 20, 2011 Posted by | safety, USA | Leave a comment

Australia refuses to sell uranium to India

Overturning the ban would reward India’s nuclear proliferation and undermine the NPT, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia Chair Tilman Ruff said.

“Selling uranium to India runs counter to Australia’s and global security interests, and would undermine Australia’s stated support for achieving a world without nuclear weapons,” he said..

No change in ban on uranium sales to India, Sydney Morning Herald, Adam Gartrell, January 19, 2011 – The federal government has told India it won’t lift its ban on uranium sales to the South Asian giant.India’s foreign Minister SM Krishna met with Resources Minister Martin Ferguson in Melbourne on Wednesday to discuss a range of energy sector issues. Continue reading →

January 20, 2011 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, politics international | Leave a comment

Film “Into Eternity” faces up to radioactive waste question

The new film is a startlingly beautiful and mind-bending provocation that asks the questions, “how can we possibly store nuclear waste safely for 100,000 years, and how will we explain to future generations not to open the storage facilities.”

International Film Circuit to Take Radioactive Danish Doc On Tour of US/Canada – indieWIRE  NY (JANUARY 18, 2011) – International Film Circuit announced today that it has acquired US and Canadian theatrical rights to “Into Eternity,” a multiple award-winning documentary Continue reading →

January 20, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

How the CIA was involved in complexities of A.Q. Khan’s nuclear network

AUDIO The ‘Fallout’ Of The CIA’s Race To Get Khan : NPR

January 20, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

New book reveals USA’s cyber sabotage of Middle Eastern nuclear programs

Their book, ‘Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking” examines the U.S.’s investigation of A.Q. Khan……the U.S. and its allies had been intercepting, analyzing and tampering with critical technologies used by nations like Libya and Iran for years….

Expert: Stuxnet Just Latest in U.S. Hacks of Covert Nuke Programs | threatpost, 19 Jan 2011, The author of a new book on the evolution of the world’s first nuclear black market says that Stuxnet is just the latest in a long string of efforts by the U.S. and its allies to slow or stop the creation of nuclear programs by rogue nations. Continue reading →

January 20, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Cameco uranium company working out how to clean up ship’s uranium spill

Cameco, regulators finalize cleanup plan for uranium concentrate spill , The Vancouver Sun, By Cassandra Kyle January 18, 2011 A ship whose cargo of uranium concentrate spilled during bad weather at sea is docked in British Columbia while a Cameco Corp. team assesses damage to its product and devises a plan to clean up the spill. Continue reading →

January 20, 2011 Posted by | Canada, safety, Uranium | Leave a comment

USA, Canada, paying for nuclear security in Russia

.. The US and Canadian governments will share part of the costs.

US, Canada to help Russia with nuclear counterterrorism centre, Sify News, 19 Jan 2011, Moscow, Russia has stepped up cooperation with the US and Canada to protect its nuclear installations from terrorist attacks, Continue reading →

January 20, 2011 Posted by | Russia, safety | Leave a comment

Renewable energy jobs refuelling the global economic recovery

Globally, research from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has shown that a shift to a a low-carbon and sustainable economy can create millions of green jobs across many sectors of the economy.

How Green Jobs Are Fueling The Recovery Responsible Careers, just means, 16 Jan 2011, “……………..The good news for responsible professionals and socio-eco innovators is that green jobs are likely to fuel the recovery both globally and in the US. Continue reading →

January 18, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, employment | Leave a comment

Transport of plutonium meets huge opposition in Germany

By using MOX, Grohnde will become even more dangerous than other nukes.
The protest was supported by 10 civic action groups across the region

2,200 protest at plutonium shipments from UK to Germany | Indymedia Australia, Diet Simon, 18 Jan 2011, About 2,200 nuclear opponents demonstrated outside the Grohnde power station in central north Germany on Sunday 16 January. The protesters, from very young to quite elderly, squatted outside the nuke in a symbolic action. They demanded that the federal and state governments scrap nuclear transport plans. Continue reading →

January 18, 2011 Posted by | Germany, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Uranium cargo ship turned back due to extreme weather

Cameco says ship carrying uranium to China returns to home port  (Platts)–David Stellfox-17Jan2011 A cargo ship carrying uranium concentrate, U3O8, from Canada to China has returned to port in British Columbia, after severe weather caused two U3O8-containing drums to spill outside their container, Canadian uranium miner Cameco said Sunday.
The ship had left Vancouver on December 23 and encountered severe weather conditions on January 3 between Hawaii and the Midway Islands.Cameco was notified that sea containers had shifted and two opened drums were outside of their container……..Cameco says ship carrying uranium to China returns to home port – Electric Power | Platts News Article & Story

January 18, 2011 Posted by | Canada, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

India’s nuclear agency keen to ‘educate’ public

“Right info needed to ease nuclear power safety fears’ – The Times of India, ‘Srinivas Laxman , TNN, Jan 18, 2011, MUMBAI: Director-general of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano on Monday said that if “appropriate information” were passed to the public, it would go a long way in allaying their fears about safety of nuclear power.

Amano made this point during an interaction with the media when he was asked about public opposition at Jaitapur towards the construction of nuclear reactors in the locality. Continue reading →

January 18, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Why abolition of nuclear weapons should be the top global priority

transforming the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) into a nuclear abolition agreement….Daley suggests that civil society and non-nuclear nations join together to insist that nuclear nations “move the issue to the top of their agendas.”

Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, HUFFINGTON POST, Lawrence Wittner, 18 Jan 2011, Apocalypse Never (Rutgers University Press, 2010), by Tad Daley, is a new book that deserves wide circulation, for it is a spirited, ringing call for nuclear weapons abolition — including why it is imperative and how it can be achieved. Continue reading →

January 18, 2011 Posted by | resources - print, safety | Leave a comment

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