Arrests of Plowshare protestors at Oak Ridge nuclear weapons site
Protesters Arrested At Oak Ridge’s Y-12 Nuclear Site http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/protesters-arrested-oak-ridge-y-12_n_1715732.html OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Officials say three protesters have been arrested for trespassing and defacing a building in a high-security area of a nuclear weapons site in Tennessee.
Steven Wyatt is a spokesman for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. He says the activists spray painted the building and defaced it with a substance that looked like blood. The protesters were arrested early Saturday.
The group’s spokeswoman, Ellen Barfield, says the three protesters had to cut through fences to get to the building.
The Department of Energy is investigating the security breach.
Y-12 maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and provides nuclear
fuel for the Navy and for research reactors worldwide.
Plowshares speak out against USA nuclear weapons facility
Transform Now Plowshares Continues a Long Tradition by Leonard Eiger for Salem-News.com 29 July 12Includes two statements from Transform Plowshares about Y-12 nuclear weapons facility, Courtesy: disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com
(OAK RIDGE, TN) – Early this morning three plowshares activists performed a disarmament action in response to Government plans to invest $80 billion to sustain and modernize the nuclear weapons complex. Calling themselves Transform Now Plowshares, Michael R. Walli (63), Megan Rice (82), and Greg Boertje-Obed (57) entered the Y-12 nuclear
weapons facility before dawn.
They released a faith-based statement saying, “A loving and compassionate Creator invites us to take the urgent and decisive steps to transform the U.S. empire, and this facility, into life-giving alternatives which resolve real problems of poverty and environmental degradation for all.”
The actors also delivered an indictment citing U.S. Constitutional and Treaty Law as well as the Nuremberg Principles:
“The ongoing building and maintenance of Oak Ridge Y-12 constitute war crimes that can and should be investigated and prosecuted by judicial authorities at all levels. We are required by International Law to denounce and resist known crimes.”
This action is one of a long tradition of Plowshares disarmament actions in the US and around the world which challenge war-making and weapons of mass destruction.
At Y-12 NNSA plans to replace facilities for production and dismantlement of enriched uranium components with a new consolidated Uranium Processing Facility (UPF). It is budgeted to cost more than $6.5 billion……
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july292012/transform-plowshares-le.php
Conservative USA think tank finds that human changed climate is real!
Climate results turn sceptic: ‘let the evidence change our minds’ The Age July 30, 2012, Leo Hickman THE Earth’s land has warmed by 1.5 degrees Celsius in the past 250 years and ”humans are almost entirely the cause”, according to a scientific study set up to address climate sceptic concerns about whether human-induced global warming is occurring. Richard Muller, a climate sceptic physicist who founded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project, said he was ”surprised” by the findings. ”We were not expecting this, but as scientists, it is our duty to let the evidence change our minds.”
He said he considered himself a ”converted sceptic” and his views had received a ”total turnaround” in a short space of time. ”Our results show that the average temperature of the Earth’s land has risen by 2½ degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of 1½ degrees over the most recent 50 years.
Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases,”Professor Muller wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times.
The team of scientists based at the University of California, Berkeley, gathered and merged 14.4 million land temperature observations from 44,455 sites across the world dating back to 1753. Previous datasets created by NASA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Britain’s Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit had gone back only to the mid-1800s and used five times fewer weather station records.
The funding for the project included $US150,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, set up by the billionaire US coal magnate who is a key backer of the climate sceptic Heartland Institute think tank. http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-results-turn-sceptic-let-the-evidence-change-our-minds-20120730-23769.html#ixzz229AhMmUv
What has happened with UK’s nuclear Polaris missiles?
Faslane and Coulport nuclear weapons maintenance to be privatised – Polaris? For Argyll.com July 28, 2012 The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made a contractual commitment to hand over to a private sector consortium the maintenance of the UK’s nuclear weapons – described by the BBC as ‘Trident and Polaris weapons systems’ – held in Argyll at Faslane and Coulport on the Clyde.
This raises an immediate public information issue.
What is our position on the Polaris system? It was quite a shock to see it mentioned, like a rising from almost forgotten history. Polaris – and are we storing redundant warheads? Continue reading
Green Party formed in Japanese politics
Japanese Green Party forms with an eye on national politics, Asahi Shimbun, July 30, 2012 By KOJI SONODA Sensing the timing is right, a Japanese version of the environmentalist Green Party has been formed to nudge Japan to abandoning nuclear power by fielding candidates in upcoming national elections. subscription only
NUKES TO GO PRIVATE PRIVATE Daily Star 29 July 12 “… contractors are to take over the maintenance of the UK’s nuclear weapons in Scotland.
The MoD has signed a 15-year deal with a consortium to provide support for the Trident weapons system at the Royal Navy’s Clyde bases.
Under the contract 149 MoD civilian posts will transfer to thecontractor, ABL Alliance…..
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/264444/Nukes-to-go-private/
Oak Ridge Y-12 Indicted for War Crimes
Statement from Transform Plowshares about Y-12 nuclear weapons facility. 29 July 12 Courtesy: disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com
Oak Ridge Y-12 Indicted for War Crimes“Today, through our nonviolent action, we—Transform Now Plowshares—indict the U.S. government nuclear modernization program,
including the new Uranium Processing Facility planned at Oak Ridge and the dedication of billions of public dollars to the continuation of the Y-12 facility.
WHEREAS, This program is an ongoing criminal endeavor in violation of international treaty law binding on the United States under the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article VI): Continue reading
Ionising radiation as a cause of breast cancer
In the United States, more than 220,000 women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer each year and the disease kills more than 37,000 women each year in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute.
Radiation a major risk factor for breast cancer? Food Consumer, By David Liu, PHD July 29, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) — Last December a committee of the Institute of healths released a study report sponsored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure indicating that medical radiation and hormone-based therapy are two major risk factors for breast cancer for women in the United States.
The IOM press release says that women can reduce their risk for breast cancer by avoiding unnecessary medical radiation, Continue reading
Opposition to privatisation of UK’s nuclear weapons management
Faslane and Coulport nuclear weapons maintenance to be privatised – Polaris?
For Argyll.com July 28, 2012 “….Privatisation of maintenance of nuclear weapons – no new notion The privatisation of security which produced the inglorious G4S failure, undermined public confidence in the organisation of the ongoing 2012 Olympic Games in London. One would therefore have expected some gesture of consultation with the Scottish government and the Scottish people on any plan to privatise the maintenance of nuclear weapons here. Continue reading
Japan’s nuclear power utilities paid candidates for regulatory body
Candidates for nuclear regulatory commission paid by power utilities, Asahi Shimbun July 27, 2012 By SATOSHI OTANI Two of the five prospective commissioners of a new nuclear regulatory commission received payments from operators of nuclear power plants but likely did not violate guidelines intended to ensure neutrality, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.. . subsribers only http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207270093
Australia finding that 3 big uranium mining projects are not economically viable
Uranium prices halt Sandy Desert project, BY: BARRY 
FITZGERALD The Australian July 29, THE most likely of Australia’s next big uranium mine developments – the Kintyre project in Western Australia’s Great Sandy desert – has fallen victim to sluggish demand and prices for the nuclear fuel, and WA’s “hot” construction market for resource projects.
Project operator and 70 per cent owner, Canada’s Cameco, has revealed that the economics of the project are “challenging” in that a development would not be profitable at current uranium prices. Prices are 34 per cent below where they need to be for a viable project.
The sluggish demand backdrop has implications for BHP Billiton which must find a home for the additional uranium it will produce with the planned $30 billion expansion of its Olympic Dam copper/uranium/gold mine in South Australia’s outback.
The expansion would see uranium output at Olympic Dam grow massively from 9.6 million pounds a year to 40.6 million pounds a year – 17 per cent of forecast global mine output in 2020.
But the Weekend Australian revealed that BHP plans to defer a decision on the project for two years.
Sluggish uranium demand has already reported to have led to BHP becoming disinterested in moving towards developing its Yeelirrie uranium deposit in WA.
Cameco chief executive Tim Gitzel told analysts that Cameco was “not going to develop Kintyre at any cost Continue reading
UK hastening plan to bury radioactive waste
Govt fast-tracks nuclear dumps despite warnings, The Independent/London, 29 July 12 The burial of radioactive nuclear waste is to be fast-tracked by the government despite warnings about the risks.
Ministers have revealed an “enduring ambition” for Britain’s first burial of waste from nuclear power stations to happen as early as 2029, instead of 2040 as originally planned, The Independent on Sunday revealed. Continue reading
Sound and fury, but not science, behind UK’s anti wind energy lobby
But ‘the biggest threat to our valued landscapes is climate change. Onshore wind is the cheapest source of low-carbon power, and restricting its development would jeopardise our firm commitment to offer value for money to the consumer, as well as green energy.
Bashing wind, Environmental Rsearch, 28 July 12 A new report from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says on-land wind projects can threaten the ‘beauty and tranquility of much-loved landscapes.’… Continue reading
Medical experts concerned about medical and dental radiation
How many imaging scans are too many? By Ben Sutherly, The Columbus Dispatch Sunday July 29, 2012 Cumulative radiation exposure has been shown to cause cancer. And thathas the pediatric-care community more carefully weighing whether the benefits of medical imaging justify the radiation risk in children.Children are far more sensitive to radiation than adults. And they might receive too great a dose if their smaller body size isn’t factored into the scanning process, according to the National Cancer Institute.The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging was formed five years ago after a group of pediatric radiologists noted
that some hospitals used adult-size doses of radiation on children, said Dr. Marilyn Goske, the alliance’s chairwoman and a radiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.“If you can get the picture using a lower dose and still make a diagnosis, that would be
best,” Goske said. Continue reading
Uranium-mining meetings questioned By: REX SPRINGSTON | Richmond Times-Dispatch July 28, 2012 RICHMOND, Va. — Some environmentalists say the public was not adequately notified of six meetings scheduled in August to discuss uranium mining in
Virginia. Continue reading
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