WORLD. Ionising Radiation & Risk of Death from Leukaemia & Lymphoma in Radiation-Monitored Workers (INWORKS): anInternational Cohort Study
NIGERIA‘ s Akwa Ibom State Leaders Caucus says NO to nuclear power.
FRANCE: Grim future for France’s nuclear companies AREVA and EDF. When France shuts its nuclear reactors, it will be left with amonumental radioactive trash problem.
UK. Game Over for UK’s Hinkley Point Nuclear power project? Hinkley Point nuclear project could be delayed by years, due to Austrian legal action. Revelations on the dirty work given to Windscale nuclear cleanup workers – and at Hanford.
UKRAINE. Increased ionising radiation in Chernobyl area, following wildfires.
MARSHALL ISLANDS. Nuclear Waste Tomb in Marshall Islands – becoming more dangerous because of climate change
JAPAN. Fukushima
- Local reaction mixed to fuel loading, imminent restart at Sendai nuclear plant.
- Japanese public not well informed on the grim realities of Fukushima.
- Court orders TEPCO to pay over suicide linked to nuclear evacuation.
- Fukushima town residents protest official’s comment about radiation safety.
- Radiation effects on Fukushima’s birds are getting worse
SOUTH AFRICA. Investigation at last into radioactive pollution of Johannesburg, from uranium mining.
FINLAND. Russia’s Rosatom behind the funding for Finland’s Fennovoima nuclear project.
USA. NASA cancelling solar space missions, favouring plutonium fuelled space flights ! A losing bet – Bill Gates’ gamble on nuclear power. USA’s faith groups unite in push for clean energy. Why the nuclear industry keen to save US government’s Export-Import Bank.
CANADA. Canada’s last shipment of weapons grade uranium. Medical radioisotopes to be made in cyclotron, not nuclear reactor. Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCI) to work with Romania to market nuclear reactors.
RUSSIA. Russia trying to sell nuclear reactors to Europe, but financing them is a snag
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