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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