India’s national anti-corruption campaigner joins Gujarat battle against nuclear power
The resolve to fight till the last against land acquisition by the government or private companies for industrialization received a boost from anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who on a recent visit to Gujarat said a nation-wide campaign against land acquisition for industrialisation was the next move he would like to undertake.
Gujarat villagers vow to oppose Bhavnagar nuclear plant News One 27 May 11 Jaspara (Gujarat), May 27 (IANS) Village council members of over 50 coastal villages in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district Friday took a pledge to oppose the proposed 6,000 MW nuclear power project at Mithi Virdi, saying they would not allow the government to acquire their fertile lands. Continue reading
Sheep Mountain Alliance has legal win in its battle against uranium milling
Denver District Judge Brian Whitney sided with the Telluride-based Sheep Mountain Alliance, which contends the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) may have violated various state and federal laws in issuing a permit for the mill. The lawsuit can now move forward…...
Denver district judge allows uranium mill lawsuit to move ahead, The Colorado Independent, By David O. Williams | 05.27.11 A Denver district judge this week rejected motions by the state of Colorado and a Canadian uranium mining company to throw out a lawsuit challenging the proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in Montrose County. Continue reading
Unnecessary medical radiation endangers children and premature infants
Experts believe the negative effects of radiation are cumulative, meaning that the more radiation one receives, the higher the risk of cancer. This reality is especially concerning for premature infants whose development is constantly monitored through radiological exams
Children are Being Exposed to Unnecessary Radiation, U.S. Politics Today , May 27, 2011, While over-radiation of anyone can cause burns and an increased risk of cancer, those concerns are amplified in children. – The most vulnerable of human beings are sometimes the most mistreated. Such is the case with premature infants.
In 2007, doctors at State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn discovered that hospital staff repeatedly over-radiated premature babies during X-rays and CT scans. For example, when chest x-rays were ordered for one newborn, he underwent 10 full body X-rays without being covered by a protective shield.
The Lack of Standardized Regulation
It is the responsibility of each state to set its own regulatory standards for radiological workers. However, several states have no regulations in place at all. That means that in many parts of the country workers are not required to possess any formal minimum qualifications before they begin irradiating people.
Fortunately, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists has long been lobbying Congress to pass the CARE bill, which is supported by 26 organizations that represent over half a million American health care professionals. The CARE bill mandates nationwide regulation of radiological workers. The regulation focuses on minimum educational and certification standards for entry into the radiological profession as well as continuing education requirements to ensure competent behavior…….
Experts believe the negative effects of radiation are cumulative, meaning that the more radiation one receives, the higher the risk of cancer. This reality is especially concerning for premature infants whose development is constantly monitored through radiological exams. At Downstate Medical Center, it was discovered that babies’ entire, unshielded bodies were being imaged instead of “coning” (limiting) the radiation to the specific area of the body being examined. Only time will tell how these babies’ bodies will be affected as a result.
The Case for Medical Malpractice and Other Lawsuits
As widespread concerns regarding over-radiation of infants, children and adults comes to light, more cancer patients will undoubtedly wonder whether their condition stems from excessive radiation exposure. Patients and their attorneys will increasingly need to analyze the images from any previous exams to determine the extent of their radiation exposure. Problematic results may be grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit…..
Children are Being Exposed to Unnecessary Radiation – U.S. Politics Today – News Media Monitoring
Will Japan change energy policy, or will powerful nuclear lobby prevail?
The fate of the Shimane plant could provide clues to whether a serious shift in energy policy is in store or whether powerful interests backing nuclear power will stage a comeback……..
Japan city grapples with nuclear doubts after Fukushima crisis By Linda Sieg May 27, 2011 MATSUE, Japan (Reuters) – For decades, local politician Tomoaki Tanaka campaigned on a platform promoting nuclear power as a safe form of energy and a welcome economic boon to his hometown of Kashima, nestled between mountains and the sea in southwestern Japan.
Like many politicians in the rural backwaters that host Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants, Tanaka was a small player in a nexus linking local interest groups with powerful forces in Tokyo promoting atomic power and, critics say, ignoring the risk of disaster in this earthquake-prone land. Continue reading
Mohamed ElBaradei writes on nuclear weapons proliferation
.So long as nuclear weapons remain a security strategy for a few possessor countries, with umbrella arrangements that extend that security to a secondary circle of “allied” countries; so long as others are left out in the cold, the proliferation risk continues.
The uranium cocktail circuit Tehelka – Arundhati Ghosh, 27 may 11 FOR MOST of the last century, nuclear weapons were held to be the ‘currency of power’; unfortunately, even today, this belief refuses to die. In The Age of Deception, Mohamed ElBaradei, perhaps one of the most outspoken and therefore controversial directors-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has focused on the major nuclear crises during his tenure, the second Gulf War, the challenge to the Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT from North Korea, the Iran question and the discovery of Pakistan’s AQ Khan network.
He has illustrated candidly and in detail how countries with nuclear weapons and power sought to use that power to constrain the ambitions of other countries to acquire those weapons and in this tension, deception has played a role on both sides.
As ElBaradei says with some acerbity, “The (nuclear) threat will persist as long as the international community continues to address only the symptoms of each new nuclear proliferation challenge: waging war against one country, making a deal with a second, issuing sanctions in a third and seeking regime change in still another. So long as nuclear weapons remain a security strategy for a few possessor countries, with umbrella arrangements that extend that security to a secondary circle of “allied” countries; so long as others are left out in the cold, the proliferation risk continues. With the emergence of sophisticated extremist groups, for whom the threat of retaliation is irrelevant, the nuclear deterrent has become no more than a temporary if not delusional security strategy.”
ElBaradei was clearly referring to Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Iran and the contortions in negotiations that took place to achieve political agendas… Tehelka – India’s Independent Weekly News Magazine
Fears of Al Qaida attack on Pakistan’s nuclear facilitues
Attack on naval base raises fresh nuclear fears, gulfnews, 27 May 11A serious breach of the security perimeter could lead to calls for a unilateral American move to secure the atomic weapon, Islamabad: A raid by militants on a Pakistani naval base this week has raised fresh anxiety about Pakistan’s ability to protect its nuclear sites. Although Western governments and analysts agree there is little chance militants could succeed in stealing nuclear material in an assault like the one in Karachi, attacks by Al Qaida or the Taliban against a nuclear facility remain a possibility…..gulfnews : Attack on naval base raises fresh nuclear fears
Germany’s 7 oldest nuclear plants will not be re-starting
Oldest German nuclear plants to stay closed, FT.com By Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin May 27 2011 The seven oldest of Germany’s 17 nuclear power stations will not go back into operation when a three-month safety review finishes in June, the country’s federal and state environment ministers agreed on Friday. Continue reading
Nuclear power and the commons of this beautiful world – theme for June
It’s time that human societies made the change – started taking real co-operative action to look after our commons, in this beautiful world. – land, fresh water, air, and oceans. Already, national leaders are under pressure from their people to protect our common interests, rather than the interests of polluting corporations.
If the Fukushima nuclear crisis is doing one good thing, it is making it clear that radioactive pollution is an international problem, not just a problem for Japan.
by photographer Edgar Moskopp http://acidcow.com/pics/14022-our-beautiful-planet-16-pics.html
Long lasting radioactive contamination of the sea, from Fukushima disaster
for all the focus on land-based contamination, the continuing flood of radioactive materials into the ocean at Fukushima could have the most problematic long-term impacts. ….for centuries to come, at least some radioactive materials dumped into the sea at Fukushima will find their way into the creatures of the sea and the humans that depend on them. ……
Is Fukushima Now Ten Chernobyls into the Sea? | Common Dreams, May 26, 2011 by Harvey Wasserman New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl.
“When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceonographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl.” Continue reading
G-8 wants nuclear safety standards, (but only voluntary ones!)
binding standards will be an unacceptable constraint on the sovereignty of a growing number of countries that want to develop nuclear energy.
G-8 Affirms Need For Tightest Nuclear Safety, But Won’t Be
Bound, FoxBusiness.com, By George Nishiyama and Geoffrey T. Smith May 26, 2011| Dow Jones Newswires DEAUVILLE, France – – Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized countries Thursday affirmed the need to raise safety standards in nuclear energy after the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl accident. Continue reading
Radioactivity increasing in marine life around Japan
Greenpeace: Japan nuclear plant radiation accumulating in marine life – CNN.com 27 May 11, Radiation from Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is accumulating in marine life off Japan’s coast above legal limits for food contamination, Greenpeace said Thursday. The environmental group said its findings run counter to Japanese government reports that radiation from the Fukushima plant, damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, is being diluted as time passes.“Despite what the authorities are claiming, radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion of materials, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life,” Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte said in a press release. Continue reading
Hospital doctors at risk of cancer from medical ionising radiation
radiation can lead to cancer in doctors.
Radiation in hospitals prompts doctors to demand protection, JPost , By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH 05/26/2011 Doctors say previous wage agreements did not take into account that technological advances make radiation much more widespread and pose greater risk Continue reading
Gender of babies is affected by nuclear radiation
Nuclear radiation affects baby gender, Machines Like Us, 26 May 2011 .………exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Continue reading
Germany wants global nuclear safety tests
Germany also wanted to become a model to the rest of the world on climate protection and producing green power.
“We want to reach the era of renewable energy more quickly,” she told the Bundestag.
Merkel calls for global nuclear reactor tests The Local, 26 May 11 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the rest of the world to carry out atomic reactor “stress tests” and demanded the G8 take a leading role in nuclear security on Thursday, ahead of a meeting of the group of leading nations.
As Merkel prepares for a Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday and Friday, she told the German parliament that such nuclear plant checks needed to extend beyond Germany and the European Union. Continue reading
Russia touts nuclear industry – and wants mandatory safety rules
Russia Urges Mandatory Nuclear Safety Rules After Japan Accident, Bloomberg, By Henry Meyer – May 26, 2011 Russia called for nuclear safety rules to be tightened and made mandatory at an international level after the accident at Japan’s Fukushima atomic plant.
“There is no alternative but to strengthen these rules,” Nikolai Spassky, deputy head of Russia’s Rosatom Corp. holding, told reporters today during the Group of Eight summit in Deauville, France. “All countries which are developing a nuclear industry have to recognize this……Russia Urges Mandatory Nuclear Safety Rules After Japan Accident – Bloomberg
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