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UK discards British Care Worker who refused to spy on Muslims (Video) -RT

“Back in 2009, Mahdi Hashi was a care worker in a north London community center. It was then that he and four of his Muslim colleagues say they were approached and harassed separately by British security agents.”

Published: 31 October, 2012

A Somali-born Briton was stripped of his citizenship by the home secretary and probably taken in secret to the US for illegal detention and torture as reprisal for his refusal to become an MI5 informant, his family alleges.

Mahdi Hashi grew up in the UK from the age of five and was a British citizen. This summer the 23-year-old went missing, and his family found out that the Home Office had stripped him of his passport for allegedly being involved in Islamic “extremist activities”.

His parents are distraught. They say that Madhi is an innocent victim of a British intelligence plot and that he was punished after he refused to work for MI5.

“All I can say is that Madhi is a Muslim in belief; he is a practicing Muslim. But being a practicing Muslim does not mean an Islamist. That’s all why he is being victimized,” says Mahdi’s dad Mohamed Hashi.

Back in 2009, Mahdi Hashi was a care worker in a north London community center. It was then that he and four of his Muslim colleagues say they were approached and harassed separately by British security agents. They claimed that MI5 threatened to label them “Islamic extremists” if they refused to become informants for British intelligence and spy on their Muslim community.

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Russia -Top secret nuclear sub used to prove North Pole claim

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October 29, 2012
Barents Observer
 
First known mission with the Russian Northern Fleet’s unique “Losharik” deep diving titanium submarine was done at a depth down to 3,000 meters at the Mendeleyev ridge this September.

The submarine took part in the “Arctic-2012” expedition this autumn aimed at proving Russian ownership of the Mendeleyev ridge stretching across the East Siberia Sea towards the North Pole. Russia will use the data collected in its application to the UN Law of the Sea, that within the next few years will divide the continental shelf among the Arctic coastal states, including the North Pole itself.

Officially, and as reported by BarentsObserver last week, the expedition was headed by the two icebreakers “Dikson” and “Kapitan Dranitsyn.” Little has so far been known about what happened under water.

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Croatia -Flooding stops Nuclear Power plant and the strange story of nuclear flies!

  • Reuters
  • October 2, 2012

But a scientific adviser to environmental group Greenpeace – which opposes nuclear energy on safety grounds – said the use of nuclear technology in this way needed to be looked at carefully.

“We should neither view it as risk free and nor should we view it as the panacea to all food security issues,” said Paul Johnston of the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at Britain’s University of Exeter.

Krsko nuclear plant stopped

Croatian Times

Work has halted at a nuclear power plant after high water levels left ‘leaves and other impurities’ in the system.

The nuclear depot in Krsko, Slovenia, stopped automatically on Sunday after the high water threatened to flood the power plant’s secondary cooling system.

This is only the second time stoppage since the plant went operational in 1981.

The last was a similar incident seven years ago.

http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Business/2012-10-29/30524/Krsko_nuclear_plant_stopped

Nuclear “birth control” helps Croatia fruit farmers fight flies

By Sasa Kavic and Fredrik Dahl OPUZEN, Croatia/VIENNA (Reuters) – At the height of the tangerine season in Croatia’s Neretva river delta, two pickup trucks scour a maze of water channels carrying an odd-looking contraption: a mortar-like pipe spraying orchards with sterilized flies.

By Sasa Kavic and Fredrik Dahl

OPUZEN, Croatia/VIENNA (Reuters) – At the height of the tangerine season in Croatia’s Neretva river delta, two pickup trucks scour a maze of water channels carrying an odd-looking contraption: a mortar-like pipe spraying orchards with sterilized flies.

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Georgia, South Carolina called ‘Silicon Valley’ of nuclear power

“He said the growing stockpile of spent fuel stored at nuclear plants – including two that have halted operations – is like constipation blocking the progress of the industry.”
 
“The industry wants us to think that the reactors are safe, but they have not taken all the necessary precautions for predictable disasters,” said Bobbie Paul, the executive director of the Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions, one of seven environmental groups suing Plant Vogtle’s operating company over safety concerns. “It is irresponsible for our elected officials and for Southern Co. to pretend they have.”
 
By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 5:28 PM
 

ATLANTA — Georgia and South Carolina could become the center of the nation’s nuclear industry with one federal policy change, Public Service Commission Chairman Tim Echols said Monday at an international conference at Georgia Tech.

“I am very proud that Georgia and South Carolina are leading the way in this nuclear renaissance,” he said at the third annual French-Atlanta nuclear conference. He called the area the Silicon Valley of the nuclear field, a reference to the center of computer innovation and manufacturing in California.

He pointed to Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro and the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station less than 125 miles to the northeast near Columbia, where the only commercial reactors built in 30 years are under construction. In between is Savannah River Site, run by the U.S. Department of Energy.

He said the growing stockpile of spent fuel stored at nuclear plants – including two that have halted operations – is like constipation blocking the progress of the industry.

The federal government requires nuclear power plants to seal up their spent fuel rods and keep them on site while paying for the construction of a central facility that is supposed to store all of them forever.

Echols said a better idea would be to recycle the fuel rods, as the French do, so they can be used again. Current federal policy prohibits that.

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Prof. Busby -Oyster Creek proximity to New York poses threat during flooding -(Video)

Published: 31 October, 2012, 00:35

Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Sandy ripped through eastern United States, the country’s oldest nuclear power plant – located in Forked River, New Jersey – has been has been put on alert.

You can never make nuclear power stations perfectly safe. You can’t make it impossible for these situations to occur and when they do occur, they can be pretty catastrophic, Professor Christopher Busby from the European Committee on Radiation Risks told RT. The Professor added Oyster Creek plant was a particular risk, located just 65 miles from New York City.

All of the power stations in the area were built against the express wishes of the people who lived there. They were pushed through by some kind of federal axe which overcame the opposition of the people, he said.

Busby spoke to RT about the possible dangers that could occur if waters from Hurricane Sandy flood the nuclear station’s cooling system.

RT: What are the potential dangers as you see it?

Christopher Busby: I think it’s quite unlikely that anything bad will happen. It’s not like a tsunami, it’s not some big tidal wave coming at them. The problem would be that the cooling system would become flooded. The electrical systems that back up the cooling system, so there won’t be any cooling. And in these situations, with nuclear power stations, even though there might be a very remote risk of something happening, when it does happen, it’s pretty catastrophic.

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After Hurricane Sandy – Questions and Answers About What Happened with A. Gundersen (Podcast)

Duration: 13.48 mins

Fairewinds

In this special edition question & answer podcast, Gundersen and Hurley discuss what effects Hurricane Sandy had on U.S. nuclear power plants, especially Oyster Creek. Gundersen explains how spent fuel pools are not configured to be cooled with diesel power in the event of a loss of offsite power. Oyster Creek and several other nuclear power plants did lose offsite power and Thomson Reuters reports that they may use fire pumps to cool the pools.

http://fairewinds.com/content/special-edition-podcast-after-hurricane-sandy-questions-and-answers-about-what-happened

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USA -Nuclear Industry plans nuclear response centers by …………….2014

29 October 2012

The US nuclear industry is preparing for future emergencies byestablishing two regional centres that should operate from mid-2014. Vital equipment to maintain safety in an extreme event will be able to reach any of the USA’s nuclear plants within 24 hours.

All of the USA’s nuclear operators have approved a contract to establish centres at Memphis, Tennessee and Phoenix, Arizona, which will be managed by Pooled Equipment Inventory Co. Materials and equipment supplied from the centres will supplement the additional on-site portable equipment purchased at all of the country’s 64 nuclear energy facilities under an initiative announced in February 2012. Together, the equipment should enable plants to manage situations involving a loss of electrical power or supply of cooling water, or both.

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