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Tanzania’s uranium resource curse

Uranium resource curse already in near-full bloom in Tanzania!  The C itizen, 18 August 2012 22:31 Karl Lyimo,   The unholy mess that’s steadily but surely engulfing Tanzania in the Government’s equally unholy quest to exploit posthaste the country’s God-given uranium deposits is ample evidence – if further evidence were needed! – that there’s indeed such a gnomish malady as a natural resources curse! Continue reading →

August 20, 2012 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Taiwan cuts back on nuclear power

Gov’t seeking ways to cut back on nuclear power use: minister, China Post, 20 Aug 2012, TAIPEI–-A comprehensive review of Taiwan’s energy supply structure is underway to comply with the nation’s policy of reducing its dependence on nuclear power, Economics Minister Shih Yen-shiang said. Finding ways to use alternative energy sources is of great importance because the country’s three existing nuclear power plants will be
taken offline once their licenses expire, Shih noted..

… In the three-hour closed door meeting, Premier Sean Chen exchanged views with some 20 industry representatives about how to develop renewable energy and cut down on carbon emissions.

One of 10 conclusions reached at the meeting is that the government will continue to push for “a reduction of nuclear energy use in a stable manner,” according to a statement released by the Cabinet.

August 20, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

San Francisco’s solar festival stage

San Francisco festival features a solar stage: Is this wave of the future? Examiner,  AUGUST 19, 2012BY: ROBERT BOWEN This weekend, a festival in San Francisco is drawing music lovers from the region. What many of them may not notice is that most of the electricity used by the musicians is generated by solar power. Continue reading →

August 20, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Could Malta lead the way to nuclear disarmament?

One Step At a Time – Nuclear disarmament: Could Malta lead the way? The Malta Independent 19 August 2012 Prof. Martin Hellman,  Stanford University with the support of ICT Gozo Malta Project’s Ron Kelson (Synaptic Labs), Dave Pace, and Benjamin Gittins (Synaptic Labs)

At first, it might seem inconceivable that tiny Malta could lead the world in solving an issue as momentous as nuclear disarmament. Continue reading →

August 20, 2012 Posted by | EUROPE, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Docs get together to say no to nuclear war  Times of India, Payal Gwalani, TNN | Aug 19, 2012,  NAGPUR: If there is a nuclear war in the future, its harms would far outstretch those seen in Japan after the Second World War. It may have the potential to wipe out entire populations of the affected areas with the possibility of affecting the environment and the food supply among many other things, say medical practitioners.

Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament and Environmental Protection along with radiotherapy unit of Government Medical College and Hospital and International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPN) had together organized an awareness programme about the harms of nuclear warfare for medical students and doctors. A documentary film called ‘A Mother’s Prayer’ that has footage captured immediately after theHiroshima blasts was also screened……  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Docs-get-together-to-say-no-to-nuclear-war/articleshow/15557843.cms

August 20, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Philippines: inactive nuclear power plant still needs costly maintenace

the mothballed plant had to be maintained regardless of what the government would decide to do with it later

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant gets no funds in 2013 Philippine Daily Inquirer , August 20th, 2012 No funds have been allotted for the upkeep of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Malacañang’s budget proposal for 2013, Continue reading →

August 20, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

How Safe Is Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal? Radio free Europe By Abubakar Siddique August 19, 2012 Militants’ storming of a Pakistani Air Force base where some nuclear warheads are reportedly stored has once again sounded the alarms about the security of the country’s atomic weapons. Continue reading →

August 20, 2012 Posted by | Pakistan, safety | Leave a comment

Cars with radiation threats, Business Recorder August 19, 2012 HUSSAIN SIDDIQUI (ISLAMABAD)    For quite sometime, concerns have been shown by the local automotive industry about the import of refurbished and used cars from Japan into Pakistan that could possibly be contaminated by radiation. It is a grave issue of public health and safety,.. Continue reading →

August 20, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Brutal murder of Ukrainian anti nuclear leader

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/8/15/ukrainian-environmentalist-brutally-beaten-to-death.html  18 Aug 12 Volodymyr Goncharenko EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) reports the horrific news that, four days after conducting a press conference to warn that 180 tons of dangerous chemical and radioactive industrial waste had arrived at the city of Kryvyi Rih (in the Dnipropetrovsk area of Ukraine), which was likely to be “recycled” into the consumer product stream, 57 year old Volodymyr Goncharenko (photo, left) was brutally beaten to death.
He was the Chairman of Social Movement of Ukraine: For the Rights of Citizens to Environmental Security. As reported by EJOLT, “According to Goncharenko, during the past several years, scavengers have removed from the Chernobyl exclusion zone 6 million metric tons of scrap metal that was subsequently smelted at metallurgical combines and reprocessed into new metal. While in theory each metallurgical combine should be equipped with radiation-monitoring equipment to check all incoming scrap, financial shortfalls have meant this was rarely the case. In 2007 Ukraine ranked eighth in global steel production and steel is Ukraine’s leading export. One can only guess how much radioactive scrap metal has ended up in exported steel.”

Pavlo Khazan of the Ukrainian Green Party stated: “We collaborated with Volodymyr for 15 years in professional and public areas. The Ukrainian Green Party has no doubt that the murder was linked to his professional activities.” Although the Ukrainian police have opened an investigation into Goncharenko’s murder, Khazan feels that to deliver justice in this case, international attention and pressure will be needed.

Please contact the Embassy of Ukraine, urging a thorough investigation of Goncharenko’s murder, as well as for an end to the “recycling” of radioactive metals and other materials into the consumer product stream. In the U.S., the Embassy of Ukraine can be written at 3350 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007, faxed at (202) 333-0817, or phoned at (202) 349-2920.Embassies and Consulates of Ukraine elsewhere in the U.S., or in other countries, can also be contacted.

Thanks to Nuclear Energy Information Service in Illinois for alerting us to this story.

Click here to learn more about anti-nuclear resistance to attempts at “radioactive recycling” in North America.

August 18, 2012 Posted by | safety, secrets,lies and civil liberties, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Urgent nuclear waste problem in Ukraine

Ukraine badly needs waste nuclear fuel storage facility, says Emergencies Ministry Interfax, 17 Aug 12, Ukraine needs to give a serious thought to building a centralized storage facility for waste nuclear fuel since waste fuel from Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs), which is temporary stored in the Russian Federation will start to come back from 2013, the Emergencies Ministry said. Continue reading →

August 18, 2012 Posted by | Ukraine, wastes | Leave a comment

USA’s Treasure Island hid nasty radiation secret

 residents were not fully informed about contamination. “They should have been more open and upfront, because there would have been people who would have chosen not to live here,”

Treasure Island radiation discovery casts shadow over expansion plans
Contamination left by US navy found to have 400 times the EPA’s human exposure limits, but military branch denies report Rory Carroll in Los Angeles guardian.co.uk,  17 August 2012  It was called Treasure Island in honour of Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate classic, but the artificial island off San Francisco bay has nothing but trouble buried in its soil: radioactive contamination left by the US navy.

Internal documents and emails from the navy and public health officials reveal that the contamination, a legacy of ships exposed to atomic blasts and radiation training during the cold war, is more widespread than previously thought. Continue reading →

August 18, 2012 Posted by | environment, history, USA | Leave a comment

UK’s plans for nuclear waste burial in Cumbria

Full report published on Cumbria nuclear waste burial and local involvement  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/aug/17/lakedistrict-nuclearpower-west-cumbria-managing-nuclear-waste-safely-partnership?newsfeed=true
by   17 August 2012 Findings of three-year review by the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership are now in print and online The complicated and contentious issue of burying nuclear waste in Cumbria is heading for a milestone on 11 October when the three local councils which have expressed an interest meet to debate further involvement.

A useful waymarker has now been published in full, based on the views of some 2,300 people and organisations whose submissions, while often very different and sometimes in direct conflict, have led to changes and hesitations, albeit not altering the general approach of cautiously making headway.

The document was summarised on 19 July and you can read a precis of that here. The full report has now gone up online and that is availablehere. It is the work of the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership which is made up of the councils – Cumbria countyand Allerdale and Copeland districts – and other groups including the National Farmers Union, the Lake District national park authority and representatives of all the parish councils potentially involved.  Continue reading →

August 18, 2012 Posted by | Reference, UK, wastes | Leave a comment

Clear that USA pursues Julian Assange, while Australian government feigns ignorance

US in pursuit of Assange, cables reveal,The Age, August 18, 2012, Philip DorlingAUSTRALIAN diplomats have no doubt the United States is still gunning for Julian Assange, according to Foreign Affairs Department documents obtained by The Saturday Age. The Australian embassy in Washington has been tracking a US espionage investigation targeting the WikiLeaks publisher for more than 18 months.

The declassified diplomatic cables, released under freedom of information laws, show Australia’s diplomatic service takes seriously the likelihood that Assange will eventually be extradited to the US on charges arising from WikiLeaks obtaining leaked US military and diplomatic documents.

This view is at odds with Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s repeated dismissal of such a prospect. Continue reading →

August 18, 2012 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK, USA | Leave a comment

International Court of Justice may hear case for Julian Assange’s refuge in Ecuador

Assange looks to international court THE AGE August 18, 2012, Karen Kissane, EuropeWIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange will appeal to the International Court of Justice if Britain prevents him from going to Ecuador, according to a senior Spanish human rights lawyer. Baltasar Garzon, who is working on Assange’s defence, told Spanish newspaper El Pais that Britain was legally required to allow Assange to leave once he had diplomatic asylum.

“What the United Kingdom must do is apply the diplomatic obligations of the refugee convention and let him leave, giving him safe conduct,” he said. “Otherwise, he will go to the International Court of Justice.” Continue reading →

August 18, 2012 Posted by | 2 WORLD, Legal | Leave a comment

Youtube – Assange granted asylum by Ecuador

Aug 16, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch v=0Zs0sNyrZ7s&feature=youtu.be    by TheYoungTurks “WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador on Thursday, setting up a standoff with the British government, which has vowed to block his exit from the country. The announcement was made by the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño. He said that Ecuador was granting Assange political asylum because it believed he was being persecuted for his actions as the head of WikiLeaks…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down….

August 18, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

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