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50 years after Cuban missile crisis: 5 ways US must promote nuclear nonproliferation Christian Science Monitor – Daryl Kimball, October 19, 2012, Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust, the threats posed by the bomb have changed but still hang over us all. Continue reading →

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Northern Scotland goes from nuclear to wind and waves, DW 19 Oct 12, The sparsely populated region of Caithness in northern Scotland once relied heavily on the development of nuclear energy for electric power and for job creation. Now wind and wave energy are set to take over. Continue reading →

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USA sends nuclear powered aircraft carrier through South China Sea

US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier cruise through disputed seas
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/se-asia/story/us-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-cruise-through-disputed-seas-2012102   on a cruise through the South China Sea, projecting its power in waters that are fast becoming a focal point of its strategic rivalry with Beijing.

The USS George Washington’s mission could raise hackles in China, which is locked in disputes with Vietnam, the Philippines and other governments over ownership of islands in the region.

The United States is building economic and military alliances with the smaller nations, which are grateful for American support as a hedge against China’s growing economic and naval power.

On Friday, China held naval exercises in the East China Sea, where it is engaged in a dispute with US ally Japan over the ownership of other islands.

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Nuclear terrorism danger

Consider the domestic and international panic that could ensue if rebel factions, terrorists, government insiders or looters in civil war got control of nuclear weapons or their feedstock, or strike at a nuclear reactor to release radioactive contents

Syria as dress rehearsal: Securing WMD in midst of civil war Reuters, By Bennett Ramberg OCTOBER 19, 2012 Continue reading →

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US and Australia in cahoots for years over Assange intel -RT

ublished: 19 October, 2012, 14:59

Australia has been handing key intelligence on Julian Assange to Washington for over two years. Newly-released cables indicate the US conducted an “active and vigorous enquiry” as early as 2010 to ascertain if they could try Assange for espionage.

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) revealed it had been in cahoots with the US over the Assange case for over two years, saying it had turned over documents as early as 2010 that pertained to the whistleblower’s activities.

One of the cables dated November 2011 includes a communiqué between former Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and former Attorney-General Robert McClelland on the subject of how best to prosecute Assange.

The cable stipulates that the most successful route to prosecution “would be to show that Mr. Assange had acted as a co-conspirator – soliciting, encouraging or assisting [US Army private] Bradley Manning, to obtain and provide the documents.”

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October 20, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Mobile Phone research cover up in the UK -Italian court finds cancer link -Concern for children

“Parents need to know their children are at risk of this illness.”

Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.

A landmark court case has ruled there is a link between using a mobile phone and brain tumours, paving the way for a flood of legal actions.

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8:28AM BST 19 Oct 2012

Innocente Marcolini, 60, an Italian businessman, fell ill after using a handset at work for up to six hours every day for 12 years.

Now Italy’s Supreme Court in Rome has blamed his phone saying there is a “causal link” between his illness and phone use, the Sun has reported.

Mr Marcolini said: “This is significant for very many people. I wanted this problem to become public because many people still do not know the risks.

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“Parents need to know their children are at risk of this illness.”

British scientists have claimed there is insufficient evidence to prove any link to mobiles.

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And here is the reason for the limited studies

Dr Busby and Children with Cancer -mobile phone research shut down

Published on Mar 9, 2012 by 

Chris Busby lays into the UK charity Children with Cancer, the largest childhood cancer charity in the UK, which he explains is standing in the way of finding the real causes of childhood cancer. He advises people to stop donating their money to an organisation that wastes it and which avoids looking at what is the obvious cause of childhood cancer, environmental exposure to radioactive contamination. This is clear from the recent studies of uranium particle exposure in Fallujah Iraq and a 14-fold increase in childhood cancer in that town. Nuclear sites, he argues, also run on uranium and release particulates, and are associated with childhood cancer. He accuses the conference committee of bias and draws attention to the astonishing choice of ex- nuclear industry British Nuclear Fuels (Sellafield) research chief, Richard Wakeford, (a man who has described himself as BNFLs Rottweiler) as the CWC plenary conference speaker on the relationship between ionizing radiation and childhood leukemia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zMyWYbqvlFM#t=56s

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They said electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile and cordless phones can damage cells, making tumours more likely.

Prof Levis told The Sun: “The court decision is extremely important. It finally officially recognises the link.

“It’ll open not a road but a motorway to legal actions by victims. We’re considering a class action.”

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NMC – Jeff Berger said he was surprised that flying over Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant violated no rules. (Video)

“That didn’t seem to impress several of those in the room. Selectman John Mahoney, who is the board’s liaison to the NMC noted that, when Entergy officials gave a presentation at Plymouth North High School last year, residents were told any threatening aircraft wouldn’t get close to Pilgrim. “Obviously, that was fraudulent,” Mahoney said.”

by MATTHEW NADLER on OCTOBER 19, 2012

Paul Rifkin, a Cotuit resident and an opponent of the relicensing of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, recently took photographs of it from a helicopter.

He told CapeNews.Net he was shocked that he recivred no warning, either from Pilgrim security or flight controllers, for his actions. He shouldn’t have been.

It seems that, while entering the power plant’s property from land or sea is tightly controlled, flying over it is just fine. While aviators are advised to avoid it, Pilgrim Station is not in a no-fly zone, PNPS spokesman David Tarantino told the Nuclear Matters Committee Monday night.  If an aircraft were to linger near the plant, security would contact the FAA, he said.

NMC Chairman Jeff Berger said he was surprised that flying over Pilgrim violated no rules.

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Next to an elementary school -radioactive hotspot that measures 38.54 microsieverts! Date City, Fukushima

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The myth of ‘decontamination’

The ‘decontamination’ effort in Fukushima continues despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles, among which are:
 

1.  After a specific property (or school) is ‘decontaminated’, it is nearly impossible to prevent it from becoming re-contaminated with radiation from neighboring properties that have yet to be ‘decontaminated’ when it rains or when the wind blows.2.  Short of actually cutting down all the forests and shaving the topsoil (both large sources of radiation) off the surface of the mountains in the entire contaminated area, true ‘decontamination’ will be impossible.

3.  Many companies in charge of ‘decontamination’ are simply small, local construction companies that have no experience or expertise in ‘decontamination’ and offer employees nearly no specialized training and even less personal protection.

4.  During ‘decontamination’, which often takes place around schools and homes where children live, the actual act of cutting down trees and removing contaminated dirt in and of itself causes radiation to become airborne once again and causes danger to people, and especially to children, breathing in the contaminated dust.

5.  ‘Decontamination’ is viewed by many citizens of Fukushima as a way for the government to make residents “feel safe”, therefore terminating the discussion of evacuation and, more importantly, the associated cost to the government of providingfinancial compensation to those affected.

Today I met with Date City council member Mr. Yoshiaki Kanno to discuss the concerns of the citizens living in the area.  We met on the property of one of his constituents whose home is currently undergoing ‘decontamination’.  He told me that like the people he represents, he too, thinks ‘decontamination’ is impossible, and that the people should at least be given the option to evacuate and receive compensation.  Mr. Kanno did make it clear that this needed to be an “option” as there are people, including some elderly, who have expressed their desire to remain in their homes and on their ancestral land.

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Japan robot suit offers hope for nuclear work at Fukushima Diachi disaster site?

Japan robot radiation suit“We have to think of ways to protect nuclear workers, otherwise Fukushima won’t be sorted out,” he said.

Agençe France-Presse

19 October 2012

TOKYO: Brainwave-controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight have been unveiled in Japan.

Researchers showed off the latest incarnation of HAL, the Hybrid Assistive Limb, a full body suit that could eventually be used by workers dismantling the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

HAL – coincidentally the name of the evil supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey – has a network of sensors that monitor the electric signals coming from the wearer’s brain.

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