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High Court orders withdrawal of criminal charges against Kudankulam protestors

flag-indiaHC notice to Govt for withdrawal of cases against anti-nuclear
activists http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/hc-notice-to-govt-for-withdrawal-of-cases-against-antinuclear-activists/article4825993.ece  , 18 June, 13 The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered issueof notice to Tamil Nadu Government asking why steps were not taken to withdraw cases filed against anti-nuclear activists protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.

First Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and
Justice M. Sathyanarayanan, ordered notice to the state government and
sought reply within three weeks.

The notice was issued on a petition which sought a direction to the
state government to withdraw all criminal cases filed against
anti-nuclear activists, who have been protesting against the
Indo-Russian project in Tirunelveli District.

The petition referred to the Supreme Court’s direction to the state
government to withdraw all criminal cases against the protestors.

June 19, 2013 Posted by | India, Legal | Leave a comment

Iran considers halting 20%uranium enrichment

Russian FM: Iran willing to halt 20% uranium enrichment http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Russian-foreign-minister-Iran-willing-to-halt-20-percent-uranium-enrichment-316937 Lavrov: International community should react to Iran’s constructive steps by similar measures. By JPOST.COM STAFF 06/18/2013 Iran has expressed readiness to stop uranium enrichment to a fissile concentration of 20 percent in exchange for the easing of sanctions imposed by the P5+1 countries on the Islamic Republic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Tuesday.

“The international community should react to Iran’s constructive steps by similar measures [such as the] gradual halt of sanctions and scrapping them, including the curbs of unilateral basis or those approved by the Security Council,” Lavrov said. Lavrov added that in light of Iran’s willingness to cooperate with the West, sanctions should not be tightened, but eased.

He urged both Iran and the six world powers (five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) to show flexibility in nuclear talks in order to move forward.On Sunday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran was making “steady progress” in expending its nuclear program despite international sanctions, that do not seem to be slowing it down.

“There is a steady increase of capacity and production” in Iran’s nuclear program, Yukiya Amano said in an interview with Reuters.

He spoke shortly after Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani pledged, during a news conference in Tehran, to be more transparent about Iran’s nuclear program in order to see sanctions lifted.

But Rohani also said Tehran was not ready to suspend its enrichment of uranium, which the West fears is aimed at producing a nuclear weapons capability – something Iran denies.

June 19, 2013 Posted by | Iran, politics international, Uranium | Leave a comment

10 million radiation monitoring data points now reached by Safecast

Safecast, crowdsourced radiation monitoring project, logs 10 million data points http://boingboing.net/2013/06/17/safecast-crowdsourced-radiati.html , Jun 17, 2013The crowdsourced radiation monitoring project Safecast, which was launched in the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, has reached a big milestone: they have collected and published over 10,000,000 individual data points.

June 19, 2013 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Obama’s plans to reduce nuclear weapons stockpile in Europe

No Word From Russia as Obama Will Announce U.S. Nuclear Reductions The Daily Beast, by  Jun 18, 2013    There’s no word yet if the Russians will follow suit after President Obama. In his first visit to Berlin since becoming president, Barack Obama will give a speech including an update on his plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons and an announcement that he wants to further reduce America’s deployed stockpile of nuclear bombs by one third, a proposal that already faces stiff GOP opposition. Obama laid out his famous Prague agenda in a landmark speech speech in the Czech capital only three months into his presidency in 2009….. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/18/no-word-from-russia-as-obama-will-announce-u-s-nuclear-reductions.html

 

June 19, 2013 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Poland likely to delay nuclear power program

Poland may delay launch of nuclear plants Phys Org, 18 June 13 Poland could delay building its first nuclear power plants as natural gas, including shale gas, becomes less costly, the prime minister of the central European heavyweight said Tuesday. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-06-poland-nuclear.html#jCp

June 19, 2013 Posted by | business and costs, EUROPE | Leave a comment

Anxiety in the uranium industry

Uranium One cutting 26 staffhttp://www.mining.com/uranium-one-cutting-26-staff-43352/Michael Allan McCrae | June 15, 2013 Bowing to miserable prices for its product, Uranium One (TSE:UUU) is letting go of 26 employees.

The company’s Willow Creek Mine will see 16 people cut. The Casper operation will lose the other 10.

Donna Wicher, the company’s senior vice president of Americas, told the Wyoming Staff Tribune that the company is adjusting to the market.

“The price is so low that we have to sell our uranium at these low prices, and that’s not good,” said Wichers.

“We need higher prices in order to make a profit that we need to develop new well fields.”

Uranium One operates in situ recovery at its Willow Creek Mine in Wyoming. It also has additional exploration projects in Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.

Uranium is in the dog house after the spot price hit a seven-year low last week. In January Uranium One’s board approved a deal to be taken private by the the Russian firmJSC Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ) for C$1.3 billion, a move that was oppos

June 19, 2013 Posted by | business and costs, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

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