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Nuclear Information and Resource Service faces up to nuclear lobby in 2011

(USA) Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Michael Mariotte, 1 Jan 2011 This year we’ll be facing new attempts to make taxpayers take the financial risks of new reactor construction; new efforts to put dirty and dangerous nuclear power into a “Clean Energy Standard” that would be a disincentive for investment into renewable energy; new efforts–especially by new House Energy Committee chairman (and nuclear ideologue) Fred Upton (R-MI)–to weaken EPA clean water standards so reactors like Oyster Creek and other (and potentially even new reactors) wouldn’t be forced to build expensive cooling towers or close. Continue reading →

January 1, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Portugal’s renewable energy will boost jobs and the economy

the rising g use of renewable energy could eventually mean a total of 135,000 jobs in the sector, up from 100,000 currently.

Portugal seeks to boost renewable energy use – Monsters and Critics, 31 Dec 10, Lisbon – Portugal plans to increase the proportion of energy it derives from renewable sources to one-third of the total over the next 10 years, according to government documents released Friday. Continue reading →

January 1, 2011 Posted by | EUROPE, renewable | Leave a comment

Judge postpones Texas nuclear waste dump hearing until January 13

The groups also argued the final date for receiving public comment, the day after Christmas, was a postal holiday and the deadline should have been the next business day. Wisser agreed and issued the restraining order, calling for another hearing Jan. 13.

Texas judge halts nuclear waste plan – UPI.com AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31–– A Texas judge says he is temporarily halting plans to allow a West Texas radioactive waste disposal site to accept waste from an additional three-dozen states. Continue reading →

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Wind energy growing fast in UK

Industry on target to deliver a third of power supply within a decade Bradford Telegraph and Argus) (UK)  31st December Wind power is now providing nearly half or the UK’s renewable electricity and the country is on the verge of having ten per cent of its electricity generated from renewable sources. Continue reading →

January 1, 2011 Posted by | renewable, UK | Leave a comment

New Year’s Day friendly nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India

Pakistan, India to exchange nuclear data English.news.cn 2010-12-31  ISLAMABAD, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and India will exchange lists of nuclear installations and facilities on Saturday in spite of tension over the 2008 Mumbai attacks that has disrupted the dialogue process between the two countries.The two countries exchange the list of nuclear sites on the first day of every new year under an agreement signed in 1988 and came into force in January 1991…….. The lists will be handed over to officers of the Pakistani and Indian high commissions in Islamabad and New Delhi. This will be the 20th consecutive list exchange between the two countries.Pakistan and India conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998. Both countries are de-facto nuclear-weapon powers…

Pakistan, India to exchange nuclear data

January 1, 2011 Posted by | India, Pakistan, politics international | Leave a comment

North Korea wants nuclear free Korean peninsula, but is building up military

NKorea promises denuclearization, better relations, Google hosted news, – 1 Jan 2011, SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it is committed to a Korean peninsula without nuclear weapons and wants to improve relations with rival South Korea. But the country also is vowing to boost its military strength.The North’s annual New Year’s message comes in the wake of its deadly artillery attack on a front-line South Korean island near the Koreas’ disputed western sea border.The message in the official state press on Saturday said confrontation between the two Koreas should be defused as early as possible…….The Associated Press: NKorea promises denuclearization, better relations

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Pregnant mothers especially harmed by depleted uranium

The report focused on metals as potential contaminating agents afflicting the city, especially among pregnant mothers.

Link between defects, weaponry possible? FALLUJAH, Iraq, Dec. 31 (UPI) –– A rise in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Falluja could have been caused by weaponry used in U.S. assaults that took place six years ago, a report says.The report, to be published next week in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, highlights a major rise in cancers and chronic neurological, cardiac and skeletal defects in newborns at close to 11 times higher than normal rates, Continue reading →

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Adults just as vulnerable to ionising radiation as children are

RADIATION RISKY AT ALL AGES, Community Magazine, By: Dave Gordon, 1 Jan 2011, Contradicting previous studies which found that vulnerability to radiation-induced cancer diminished with age, new research now shows that the risk of developing cancer from radiation exposure among adults may be as high as the risk among younger adults and children. Research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute was based on data concerning Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb, and was used to predict cancer risk by age of radiation exposure among Americans. Cancer risk increases following radiation exposure for some types of tumors, a finding that could impact the use of X-rays and jobs requiring radiation exposure. Community Magazine

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