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Radiation testing for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant area

State of Massachusetts to do radiation testing – Boston.com, February 7,  BRATTLEBORO, Vt.—The state of Massachusetts will begin testing for radiation in the towns closest to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, but not because of radioactive tritium found on the grounds of the Vernon, Vt., power plant. *  Massachusetts Department of Public Health officials tell the Brattleboro Reformer that the tests — examining vegetation, agricultural products, fish and surface water — will be conducted in Bernardston, Colrain, Gill, Greenfield, Leyden, Northfield and Warwick, which are in the plant’s emergency preparedness zone.Suzanne Condon, director of the Bureau of Environmental Health……State of Massachusetts to do radiation testing – Boston.com

February 8, 2011 Posted by | environment, USA | Leave a comment

China militarising – like everyone else

Why we’re all up in arms over China, Sydney Morning Herald, John Birmingham , February 8, 2011 Governments around the Pacific are preparing for war with China. Not next week. Or next year. Or even any time this decade. But the slow, horrible train wreck of billions of human beings doggedly digging themselves into entrenched and hostile positions is well underway. We’re deep into this hole now. Continue reading →

February 8, 2011 Posted by | China, weapons and war | Leave a comment

UK energy chief hides the truth, under his pro nuclear hype

“It’s ironic that Huhne should be singing the praises of the nuclear industry at Hinkley Point just days after an independent report revealed that soil around the Somerset power station is heavily contaminated with cancer-causing enriched uranium.

(UK) Campaigners slam energy secretary’s attempts to hide truth about nuclear energy, Stop Nuclear Power Network, 24 Jan 2011, Following Chris Huhne’s visit to Hinkley Point nuclear power station in West Somerset today, campaign group Kick Nuclear has slammed the Energy Secretary’s glowing appraisal of the government’s consultation on the revised draft National Policy Statements on energy infrastructure and its plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations. Continue reading →

February 7, 2011 Posted by | spinbuster, UK | Leave a comment

As legal case is delayed, Hanford nuclear victims are dying

The clandestine 1949 test was among the early Hanford releases that raised thyroid cancer risks to 16,000 infants and small children who drank milk from cows eating contaminated grass, the dose reconstruction study conducted a half-century later would conclude.

Hanford radiation plaintiff near death – Spokesman.com, Karen Dorn Steele,  – Feb. 5, 2011 A woman suing Hanford contractors over her thyroid cancer, whose request for an expedited federal trial was denied last year by a Spokane judge, lies near death in a Longview, Wash., hospice. Continue reading →

February 7, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Illegal surveillance of Americans in the time of Patriot Act

the civil liberties of Americans are at a greater risk of being compromised than civil libertarians previously thought.

Report shows how FBI chronically compromised civil liberties | CAIVN, by Chris Hinyub 4 Feb 2011, A relatively ignored study has put into stark relief the cons of an emerging surveillance culture in America. According to information uncovered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a startling track record of illegal and intrusive intelligence investigation practices. Continue reading →

February 7, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

“Pre-emptve” arrests of environmental campaigners

(UK) Undercover police scandal: why we urgently need a judge-led inquiry, The Ecologist,  Dan Glass 21st January, 2011 With daily revelations about police spying on activists, we need an independent judicial investigation into the scale and nature of infiltration and use of agents provocateurs, says Ratcliffe defendant Dan Glass
It started with the 26 individuals who had been charged with planning to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station for one week. The individuals were part of the 114 arrested at the Iona School in Nottingham on Easter Monday, 2009. The incident was the largest pre-emptive arrest of environmental campaigners in recent history and prompted widespread concerns for civil liberties. Now these concerns have deepened to unimagined depths………
They had a trial late last November, and were found guilty after being accused by the prosecution of merely seeking publicity. Undercover police scandal: why we urgently need a judge-led inquiry – Comment – The Ecologist

February 7, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties, UK | Leave a comment

US govt health consultancy cancels nuclear test veterans’ meeting

Veteran’s fury as A-bomb meeting cancelled  – Shields Gazette, By TERRY KELLY Feb 06 AN angry nuclear test veteran from South Tyneside today slammed as “absolutely disgraceful” the cancellation of a special meeting for A-bomb ex-servicemen in the region.A focus group for men who witnessed nuclear tests without any protective clothing in the 1950s was due to be held in Tyneside next month.But now the health consultancy, appointed by the Government to carry out a health audit of the nuclear test veterans, has cancelled the event……. Veteran’s fury as A-bomb meeting cancelled – Health – Shields Gazette

February 7, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Fight will continue to stop radioactive shipment across Great Lakes

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities initiative — representing 73 cities, on both sides of the borders, from Thunder Bay to Rimouski, Que. — says its own analysis of the proposed [radioactive] shipment shows that it violates safety regulations.

Critics of Bruce Power say fight is ‘not over’ – thestar.com, Dan Robson, 5 Feb 2011, A controversial decision to allow Bruce Power to ship 16 radioactive, school-bus sized generators through the Great Lakes will be met with protests and appeals to the Harper government, critics say. Continue reading →

February 7, 2011 Posted by | Canada, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Surveillance of USA by unmanned drones

Unmanned drones, controlled by Air National Guard from Hancock Airfield, will fly over the Adirondacks syracuse.com February 06, 2011, If you feel like you’re being watched while floating in a canoe or driving along some lonely road in the Adirondacks this summer, you might be right. Continue reading →

February 7, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties | Leave a comment

Should big powers be selling nuclear technology to unstable regimes?

Suppliers such as France, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and the United States are eagerly competing to ink deals with, and provide nuclear aid to, more than a dozen Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia — many of the same regimes now facing threats of internal upheaval.

Safeguarding Nuclear Security in the Shadow of Middle East Revolutions, THE HUFFINGTON POST,  Jonathan Pearl, 4 Feb 2011, As revolutionary fervor sweeps across the Middle East and the Obama administration takes steps to recalibrate decades of U.S. foreign policy toward the region, it must not neglect the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. Continue reading →

February 5, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, politics international | Leave a comment

Wikileaks reveal secret deal between USA and Russia

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets, The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, By Matthew Moore, Gordon Rayner and Christopher Hope   04 Feb 2011 Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week. Continue reading →

February 5, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA, Wikileaks | Leave a comment

Unacceptable risks of plutonium nuclear fuel

Energy NW asked not to use plutonium reactor fuel | Seattle Times Newspaper, 4 Feb 2011, RICHLAND, Wash. —Friends of the Earth is calling upon Energy Northwest not to consider using nuclear reactor fuel derived from weapons-grade plutonium at its Columbia Generating Station at Hanford.The environmental organization says it has obtained Department of Energy documents that say the public power consortium is evaluating the potential use of plutonium mixed oxide fuel at the reactor. It says the use of such fuel poses unacceptable risks and costs.The government says the fuel could produce energy while disposing of plutonium from abandoned nuclear weapons. The Energy Department is building a plant in South Carolina to make the fuel.Energy Northwest spokeswoman Rochelle Olson says it has no plans to use the fuel until studies prove it would be safe, economical and technically feasible. Local News | Energy NW asked not to use plutonium reactor fuel | Seattle Times Newspaper

February 5, 2011 Posted by | reprocessing, safety, USA | Leave a comment

American companies itching to sell military and nuclear stuff to India

US commerce secretary eyes military, nuclear deals in India domain-b.com  04 February 2011 US commerce secretary Gary LockeWashington: US commerce secretary Gary Locke expects to press India to opt for US fighter jets and other advanced technology products when he leads some 24 US companies on a trade mission next week.The two dozen US companies, include aerospace and defence contractors, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and nuclear equipment suppliers GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Westinghouse Electric Company, a division of Toshiba Corp, Transco Products, NuScale Power and Exelon Nuclear Partners.These latter companies hope to garner a share of the vast civil nuclear market in India riding on the back of a landmark US-India civil nuclear deal signed in 2008…..
In Mumbai the delegation  will interact with Indian software and other industry officials and also with the Department of Atomic Energy and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. domain-b.com : US commerce secretary eyes military, nuclear deals in India

February 5, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Still time for peaceful resolution on Iran’s nuclear program

Iran “more than two years away from a nuclear weapon”A new report suggests there is still time for a peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear impasse  guardian.co.uk, Julian Borger, 4 Feb 2010, The International Institute for Strategic Studies has just brought out what it calls its “net assessment” of “Iran’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Capabilities” – a sober and informed guess on what Tehran’s WMD capability might be. Continue reading →

February 5, 2011 Posted by | Iran, politics international | 1 Comment

Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Julian Assange

Liu Xiabao was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China, Likewise: WikiLeaks have contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture.”

Julian Assange nominated for Peace Prize TECHWATCH, by Tom Coyne, February 3, 2011, Julian Assange, founder of the whistle blowing website, Wikileaks, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the Norwegian government. Continue reading →

February 4, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, civil liberties | Leave a comment

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