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This website is concerned with the nuclear industry, and the proven danger of cancer-causing ionising radiation.

The story is not the same for other types of radiation. Therefore we don’t generaly cover these.  However, that doesn’t prove them safe.  therefore, we should not ignore information on electromagnetic radiation, which might also have its risks. – Christina Macpherson

Researchers Report Alarming Rise in Brain Cancer in Scandinavian Countries,The Investor Relations Group, 11/2/2011 Environmental Health Trust Reports Continued and Unexplained Increases in Brain Cancer Incidence in Nations With Longer-Term Cell Phone Use

 New cases of brain tumors have continued to rise throughout the past three decades in some Scandinavian countries with longer-term and heavier cell phone use, according to analyses conducted by Environmental Health Trust scientists.  The analyses are based on data provided by the national cancer registries of Finland and Norway to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Continue reading →

November 3, 2011 Posted by | health, Sweden | Leave a comment

Rare Earths: non China projects difficult, costly, unlikely to make a profit

The rare earth market is in a correction cycle after China’s export cuts, mining reforms and stockpiling pushed prices of most REM to an unsustainably high level, Lifton said, adding prices at this lower level would make it even harder for non-Chinese ventures to make a profit.

Most Non-Chinese Rare Earth Projects Doomed: Consultant, Planet Ark 02-Nov-11, BRITAIN Alessandra Prentice The vast majority of non-Chinese rare earth metal (REM) ventures will fail due to a lack of expertise and high ore processing costs, says Jack Lifton, founder of the industry consultancy Technology Metals Research. Continue reading →

November 3, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, technology | Leave a comment

A dubious claim about nuclear fusion

Cold Fusion Experiment: Major Success or Complex Hoax?, Fox news, By ,  November 02, 2011 A physicist in Italy claims to have demonstrated a new type of power plant that provides safe, cheap and virtually unlimited nuclear power to the world, without fossil fuels or radiation concerns.

The only hitch: Scientists say the method — cold fusion — is patently impossible. They say it defies the laws of physics……   Jonathan Koomey, an energy consultant who has advised the EPA, said any extraordinary discovery requires extraordinary proof. He said the E-Cat must be verified by an independent study conducted by scientists who are allowed access to the machine’s inner-workings.

“[The E-Cat experiment] should be treated as a hoax until independent scientists are able to replicate these results,” Koomey told FoxNews.com — as one would treat claims that someone had defied the laws of gravity or found a major flaw in the theory of relativity.

Koomey explained that cold fusion defies the laws of thermodynamics. Energy requires an initial, consumable power source that erodes and breaks down — it simply isn’t self-sustaining……

Rossi claims his company, Leonardo Corp., will produce the E-Cat machine, which he first demonstrated earlier this year at the University of Bologna. Proof of the experiment’s success is that the customer will pay for the technology and start using it, he said…
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/02/andrea-rossi-italian-cold-fusion-plant/#ixzz1cgMMbKLB

November 3, 2011 Posted by | Italy, Reference, technology | 1 Comment

UK Ministry of Defence doesn’t know what to do with outdated nuclear test site

Nuclear reactor test site may close, Google News, (UKPA) –3 Nov 11 A nuclear submarine reactor test site could be decommissioned after 2015, the Ministry of Defence has said. The Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE) site at Dounreay, in Caithness, has historically been used for the development of new reactor core designs.

However, the MoD said confidence in the technology and computational modelling meant “prototyping activities” were no longer needed. It is now considering what will become of the site after the current series of reactor core prototype tests are completed in 2015. Possibilities include decommissioning it or putting it into “care and maintenance”.

In a statement, the MoD said: “Options for the future of the site are currently being assessed; these range from placing the prototype facilities into care and maintenance while retaining the site’s strategic capabilities, to decommissioning the site and returning it to Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ownership…. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gIZLQQYe2lNLK4dKWPBN-LFRWCVQ?docId=N0428681320269334933A

November 3, 2011 Posted by | decommission reactor, UK | Leave a comment

Doubts on safety procedures at Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory

Questions about Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory safety program raised, Security Info watch BY JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. 11-2-2011 -Los Alamos National Laboratory has repeatedly missed deadlines to fix nuclear safety problems, according to two September letters to the lab from federal managers.

The letters suggest no immediate nuclear dangers. But they raise questions about a number of systems intended to reduce risk, most importantly procedures intended to prevent what are called “criticality” accidents — inadvertent nuclear chain reactions. Continue reading →

November 3, 2011 Posted by | safety, USA | Leave a comment

One nuclear reactor restarts in Japan

First nuclear power plant restarted in Japan since tsunami, Herald Sun  November 02, 2011 A NUCLEAR reactor in southern Japan was to begin producing electricity again today, its operator company said, in the first restart of a stalled atomic power plant since the Fukushima disaster. Continue reading →

November 3, 2011 Posted by | business and costs, Japan | Leave a comment

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