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The week’s nuke news

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Medical Nuclear reactor not needed to produce top medical isotope .  New breast cancers, in certain circumstances promoted by radiation treatment for breast cancer.

Canada refuses asylum to Japanese nuclear refugee

Thorium nuclear reactors not all they’re cracked up to be, especially, uneconomic.

USA. Vermont Attorney General appeals court, in move to retain Vermont’s power to shut down  a nuclear reactor. In Georgia, USA Energy Secretary Steven Chu on a mission to sell nuclear power to the public, as USA approves $14 billion expansion of Vogtle nuclear plant. Meanwhile Vogtle’s nuclear waste continues to pile up. Obama putting the brakes on nuclear loan guarantee program.

UK and French leaders get together, to bolster France’s flagging nuclear export industry, by promoting French nukes in Britain. Protestors occupy Hinkley nuclear site.

France – all sorts of spy stuff and dodgy doings going on with AREVA nuclear corporation and its treatment of its former CEO Anne Lauvergeon

Russia to get new nuclear submarines, thanks to money from oil billionaires.

February 21, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes