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Drunk on duty – police officers guarding UK nuclear sites

safety-symbol-Smflag-UKSafety fears over elite police officers drunk on duty at UK’s nuclear sites, The Independent ANDY ROWELL 26 June 13  Police officers with the elite force that guards Britain’s nuclear power stations have been caught drunk, using drugs, misusing firearms and also accused of sexual harassment and assault.

The offences by officers with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), released under the Freedom of Information Act, have raised concerns about the safety of the UK’s nuclear plants and radioactive material.

The CNC recently stepped up the number of officers guarding the Sellafield plant in Cumbria. The 1,000 officers in its workforce also protect highly radioactive material as it travels across the country. In one case, a police constable allegedly tested positive for cannabis at work. The matter was deemed so sensitive that the CNC refused to disclose the location or year the offence occurred, in case the identity of the officer could be traced.
Even after an internal review of the case, the date the officer resigned was deemed to constitute “personal data”, so it could not be released under the Freedom of Information Act…….

 such is the array of serious misdemeanours by the CNC officers– who are funded directly by the energy companies – that it raises grave concerns about the safety of the UK’S nuclear power plants. Paul Flynn MP said: “The UK sent 441 of our soldiers to die in Afghanistan to protect us from alleged terrorist threats to the UK, Nuclear installation are the prime nightmare targets that could create mass devastation. This evidence suggests sacrifices abroad but woefully weak protection standards at home.”

Robin Oakley, Campaigns Director for Greenpeace UK, said: “This deeply worrying catalogue of misdemeanours is a reminder that nuclear reactors will always be vulnerable to human mistakes and irresponsibility. If the people supposed to protect us from probably the highest level of nuclear risk don’t take safety seriously, what confidence can we have in the rest of the nuclear industry’s operations?”

Off duty offences ranged from being drunk and disorderly in a public place to minor public order offences and common assault. The incidents listed also included those which occurred on duty, as well as on and off site. Those on site were dealt with by the CNC, who either dismissed the officers for serious offences or gave warnings. Off-site offences led to police cautions. The CNC was unavailable for comment. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/safety-fears-over-elite-police-officers-drunk-on-duty-at-uks-nuclear-sites-8675660.html

June 27, 2013 Posted by | safety, UK | Leave a comment

Delay and doubts on Czech Republic’s nuclear power future

Political Delays to Hamper Czech Nuclear Tender, WSJ<  By SEAN CARNEY, 26 June 13,  The Czech Republic’s new interim prime minister Tuesday said he wouldn’t make any decisions that define the country’s long-term geopolitical orientation, likely delaying by months or potentially a year the decision whether the country will sign a $10 billion contract to expand its nuclear capacity.

“I won’t make strategic decisions,” said newly sworn-in Prime Minister
Jiri Rusnok, referring to the tender for two new nuclear reactors at
the Temelin nuclear power plant that would be built by an
American-Japanese consortium or by a Russian state-run company.

This throws into question whether Czech 70% state-owned electricity
company CEZAS BAACEZ.PR +0.89% (BAACEZ.PR) will be able to meet its
end of September deadline to select a winner from the tender
process……..
Mr. Rusnok–who Tuesday replaced Petr Necas as prime minister
following a corruption scandal that led the arrest of Mr. Necas’s
chief of staff–said signing off on the nuclear expansion plan
requires deeper analysis than selecting a winner based solely on the
project’s supposed economics and profitability.

The Prague-based company this spring put back its deadline to
September from the earlier envisaged July to select a tender winner
between Westinghouse Electricity Co., a unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp.
6502.TO -1.08% (6502.TO), or Russian state-owned Rosatom…….
This is the largest-ever contract in value offered by the Czech
Republic and is the only active tender for new nuclear capacity in the
European Union.

The final decision, which would align Czech industry and politics with
Russian or Western partners for the next half-century, requires
approval of CEZ’s majority shareholder, the Czech state as represented
by the government….. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323419604578568831986807530.html

June 27, 2013 Posted by | EUROPE, politics | Leave a comment

.Radiation from nuclear tests

U.N. Downplays Health Effects of Nuclear Radiation, IPS, By George Gao, 26 June 13  UNITED NATIONS, –  Fukushima on the Hudson“…… During the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site in present day Kazakhstan.

“Based on information collected during the missions and subsequent research, there is sufficient evidence to indicate that most of the area has little or no residual radioactivity directly attributed to nuclear tests in Kazakhstan,”according to the IAEA. 

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But the IAEA narrative differs from those who live around Semipalatinsk. According to the preparatory committee for theComprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO),”A number of genetic defects and illnesses in the region, ranging from cancers to impotency to birth defects and other deformities, have been attributed to nuclear testing.”

“There is even a museum of mutations at the regional medical institute in Semey, the largest city near the old nuclear testing site,” it noted.

“What radiation does – gamma, alpha or beta – is it either kills the cell or changes the biochemistry of the DNA molecule,” Caldicott, who has worked on nuclear issues for 43 years, explained. “One day [the cell] will start to divide by mitosis in an unregulated way, producing literally trillions and trillions of [mutated] cells, and that’s a cancer,” she said.

“You don’t know you’ve been exposed to radiation,” Caldicott pointed out. “You can’t taste or see radioactive elements in the food, and when the cancer develops, of course it doesn’t denote its origin.”…… http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/u-n-downplays-health-effects-of-nuclear-radiation

June 27, 2013 Posted by | environment, health, Russia | Leave a comment

People of Jadugoda, India, suffer effects of uranium mining

see-this.waySee the environmental and health damage at Jadugoda, India, in these photographs http://www.galli.in/2013/06/jadugoda-unumo-tene-ashish-birulee.html?utm_source=Galli+Magazine&utm_campaign=19921c605d-UA-24811720-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_810b488293-19921c605d-28734661

 

U.N. Downplays Health Effects of Nuclear Radiation, IPS, By George Gao, 26 June 13  UNITED NATIONS, –  “……..Radiation from uranium mining The IAEA promotes “safe, responsible development of uranium resources”, the raw materials used to fuel nuclear reactors and build nuclear bombs.

For Ashish Birulee, a Ho tribal resident of Jadugoda, India, safe uranium mining in his community is far from reality, and the health effects of radiation are as clear as the photographs he has taken to document them.

Birulee, a student and photojournalist, lives next to a tailings dam, filled with radioactive waste from a uranium purification plant operated by the Uranium Corporation of India.

“Lung cancer, skin cancer, tumours, congenital deformities, down syndrome, mental retardation, megacephaly, sterility, infertility in married couples, thalassemia [and] rare birth defects like Gastroschisis [are] common in the area,” he told IPS.

“We are like guinea pigs here,” he said, citing government negligence on the matter. “I’m experiencing everyday radiation exposure and also witnessing how my people are suffering.”…   http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/u-n-downplays-health-effects-of-nuclear-radiation/

 

June 27, 2013 Posted by | environment, health, India, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Share price falls as Paladin’s sale of Langer Heinrich uranium mine is delayed

Uranium producer Paladin’s shares slide after stake sale delay BY:BARRY FITZGERALD   The Australian June 27, 2013 SHARES in African uranium producer Paladin have been pulled back to near 52-week lows because of a delay in a planned debt-reducing sale of a minority equity position in the group’s flagship Langer Heinrich operation in Namibia.

It had been hoped that Paladin would make inroads into its $US740 million debt pile by making the sale the news of which pushed the shares from an April low of 70c to more than $1 a share in late May. But recent concerns that the previously advised June 30 target date would not be met have sent the shares lower.

The concerns were well placed, with Paladin saying yesterday that the planned sale had been delayed until mid-to-late August. Paladin shares closed 6c, or 6.8 per cent, lower at 82c.

The fall came despite Paladin managing director John Borshoff remaining confident a sale will be achieved. The planned deal is with two unnamed nuclear groups……http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/uranium-producer-paladins-shares-slide-after-stake-sale-delay/story-e6frg9df-1226670445221

June 27, 2013 Posted by | business and costs, Namibia | Leave a comment

USA granny bashing again!! A friend of Sister Megan Rice perhaps?

Psalms 71:18 “Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.”

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Obama Assassination Plotter Gets “15” Years

http://politix.topix.com/homepage/1438-obama-assassination-plotter-gets-15-years

USA: 83-year-old Catholic Nun Faces “20” Years in Prison for Break-in Protest at Nuclear Facility

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In a statement to the court, Boertje-Obed said: “Nuclear weapons do not provide security. Our actions were providing real security and exposing false security.”

http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/rights-defenders/rd-namerica/3911-nun-faces-20-years-in-prison.html

June 27, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

12 children developed thyroid cancer and 15 children with suspected cancer甲状腺がん「確定」１２人　がんの疑い１５人。

The Japanese Government should support the Fukushima disaster victims financially by giving them more regular and full examination and evacuating them into safer area.

5/6/13

 

 
 
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2013060502000133.html
(Abstract translation by Mia)
 
東京電力福島第一原発事故による放射線の影響を調べている福島県の県民健康管理調査で、十八歳以下で甲状腺がんの診断が「確定」した人が九人増え十二人に、「がんの疑い」は十五人になった。(これまで一次検査の結果が確定した約十七万四千人の内訳)
 
Fukushima Health Management Survey Team announced that 12 children under 18 years old developed thyroid cancer and 15 children with suspected to develop it.  (So far 174,000 out of 360,000 children were examined.)
 
これまで調査主体の福島県立医大は、チェルノブイリ原発事故によるがんが見つかったのが、事故の四～五年後以降だったとして「放射線の影響は考えられない」と説明している。
 
Fukushima Medical University denies the relation to the effect of the Fukushima fallout, saying that it was 4 to 5 years in the case of the Chernobyl disaster when thyroid cancer was developed.
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Dr. Yury Bandazhevsky’s comment on this news:
 
Dr. Bandazhevsky has been warning the effect of the Fukushima fallout since he visited Japan last year.  Mr. Kouta Kinoshita, one of popular blog on Fukushima disaster sent his recent thyroid news as follows:
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“12 children developed thyroid cancer and 15 children with suspected cancer”  So far about 170,000 children were examined.  It means 1.6 in 10,000 after 2 years if you include suspected children. 
 
I believe normally 1or 2 in 1million children develop thyroid cancer which means about 160 times more than normal were found in Fukushima.”
 
According to Mr. Kinoshita, he was shocked to hear the news and asked him to pass this information to all the other Japanese people. 
 
“1991年(事故の後の5年)に、チェルノブイリ原子力発電所で事故によって最も影響を受けたゴメリ地域では、子どもの中の甲状腺癌の頻度は10万人の子ども当たり11.3人でした。この中にふくまれますが、少女は、10万人の当たり16.8人となります．”
 
“In 1991 5 years after the Chernobyl disaster, ratio of children developed thyroid cancer was 11.3 in 100,000, girls among them were 16.8 in 100,000 in Gomel district in Belarus.”
Mr. Kinoshita left his comment in his blog, saying:
“According to Dr. Bandazhevsky’s reply, I think the ratio of the children developing thyroid cancer in Chernobyl in 5 years is similar to the one in Fukushima in 2 years:  If I apply it to Fukushima case, it is 1.1 in 10,000, 1.7 girls in 10,000.
The number of children developing cancer will increase as the time passes on, therefore there would be more serious consequences in Fukushima than in Chernobyl in the future.”
 
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/nagaikenji20070927/e/45fa28d0eebc0ee7d9bbd3deb359861b
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Dr.Akira Sugenoya, Matsutomo Mayor in Nagano prefecture since 2004, had worked with Chernobyl children at in the Cancer center in Gomel district in Belarus.
Dr. Akira Sugenoya’s comment on Thyroid examination
 

We should not conclude on the result of thyroid examination as nothing to do with Fukushima fallout.  Normally 1 to 2 in 1 million children develop thyroid cancer.  However in Chernobyl, 4 children developed thyroid cancer in the following year.  Also we should be well aware that cancer spread into lung in one in six cases in Chernobyl.  Nuclear disaster is a national crisis.  We haven’t learned a lesson from the Chernobyl disaster and been neglecting the danger of Nuclear energy.  The Japanese Government should support the Fukushima disaster victims financially by giving them more regular and full examination and evacuating them into safer area.

http://www.asyura2.com/13/genpatu31/msg/451.html

June 27, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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