Nuclear renaissance in India? Russia to strengthen nuclear, economic ties
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS)
India and Russia Monday decided to accelerate their economic ties and agreed to factor in New Delhi’s liability concerns in their techno-commercial negotiations for units III and IV of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.
“We discussed the preparatory work for units III and IV. A techno-commercial agreement is being negotiated,” External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told reporters after talks with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
“I have no doubt that we will arrive at a mutually satisfactory result,” Krishna said.
Krishna was responding to a question on the progress on units III and IV of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, which is embroiled in differences over perceptions over India’s civil nuclear liability.
New Study! US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’ -Prof Busby responds (Video)
UPDATE
Chris Busby responds to the study. video hereIraqi birth defects surge from US depleted uranium ammo Christopher Busby RT/
“The study found a “footprint of metal in the population,” Mozhgan Savabieas fahani, one of the lead authors of the report said. Savabieas fahani is an environmental toxicologist at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.
“In utero exposure to pollutants can drastically change the outcome of an otherwise normal pregnancy. The metal levels we see in the Fallujah children with birth defects clearly indicates that metals were involved in manifestation of birth defects in these children,” she said.”
Published: 14 October, 2012, 13:33
US and UK weapons ammunition were linked to heart defects, brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, according to a recent study. The report revealed a shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children conceived after the US invasion.
Titled ‘Metal Contamination and the Epidemic of Congenital Birth Defects in Iraqi Cities,’ the study was published by the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. It revealed a connection between military activity in the country and increased numbers of birth defects and miscarriages.
Video: Japanese receiving biased information — Hundreds of thousands or more may die of cancer from Fukushima disaster
http://enenews.com/expert-japanese-receiving-biased-information-hundreds-of-thousand-or-more-may-die-of-cancer-from-fukushima-disaster-but-that-is-all-hidden-from-view-video/comment-page-1#comment-295529
Published: October 14th, 2012 at 10:44 pm ET
By ENENews
Dr Stephen Hickey, School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, England; Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology, Staffordshire University, England
And the information that they receive from the government and the officials channels and the media is biased. Individuals in Japan and anybody affected by the disaster have only one option and that is to take responsiblity for themselves and their family. And to act as a rational human being to take what measures are practicable and beneficial for themselves. […]
There are going to be at least tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousand or more of people in the future dying of cancer or having children with birth defects, but that once again is all hidden from view.
Watch the full video here
More here on UK University and military connections….
British government’s PR for the nuclear industry – playing down Fukushima risk
Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan • Read the emails here Guardian UK, 19 Aug 12,
British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.
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world’s largest defence group -French to swoop on British nuclear fuel -Sunday times
FRANCE is preparing an audacious multi-billion-pound tilt at Urenco, Britain’s state-backed nuclear fuel producer.
Areva, the nuclear reactor developer controlled by the French state, hatched the plan after Urenco’s biggest investors — two German utilities and the British government — put their stakes up for sale.
The move sets the scene for a political showdown over the control of a strategically important industry just days after the dramatic collapse of merger talks between BAE Systems and EADS. That deal fell apart because German, French and British politicians could not agree on the ownership of what would have been the world’s largest defence group.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/energy_and_environment/article1147406.ece
Emotional Anti-Nuclear Protest Rally Hibiya Park | Tokyo Oct. 13 2012 (Video)
Published on Oct 14, 2012 by freedomwv
This protest video includes a beautiful song sang by a beautiful women, as well as, massive drum core action and video evidence of micro kettle actions by the Tokyo Metro Police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P45L69xfwn4
Celebrations in Lithuania as Election Authority rejects new nuclear plant project
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s election authority says nearly two-thirds of voters have rejected the idea of building a new nuclear power plant.
The Central Election Commission says that with 45 percent of precincts counted some 64 percent of votes cast in the referendum were against the new plant, while 36 percent were in support. The commission says the vote proportion is unlikely to change.
Although the Sunday referendum was non-binding, a strong ‘no’ vote could torpedo Lithuania’s plans to build the facility along with neighbors Estonia and Latvia and Japan’s Hitachi.
The current center-right government says the plant is necessary to wean Lithuania off its energy dependence on Russia, while critics say the project is too expensive and the Fukushima catastrophe has cast an indelible shadow over Japanese nuclear technology.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-10-14/lithuanians-reject-new-nuclear-plant-project
Belarusian anti-nuclear activists ‘blacklisted’ by Lithuanian government
Belarusian anti-nuclear campaigners Tatyana Novikova, a Bellona contributor, and Nikolai Ulasevich were on Wednesday refused entry to neighboring Lithuania on the grounds that the Baltic country’s government had declared them “personae non grata” and potential threats to the national security of that and other European Union nations.Bellona, 28/09-2012
Breaking! Radioactive kitchenware shipment ordered out of Canada -Global problem?
The CNSC issued an order on Oct. 5, demanding that the contaminated container be sent back to India by Hanjin Shipping Canada — the company that delivered the cargo to Montreal’s port last May.
The Canadian Borders Services Agency (CBSA) found the merchandise during routine scans performed on incoming cargo.
“There could have been a source that is used in medical devices,” he said. “[Devices] to treat cancer, are very high-level sources and thereplacement and disposal…is extremely regulated and it is possible that the source was inadvertently misplaced or misdisposed and found its way in the recycling industry, was melted with other metals and the metal was used to produce all sorts of manufactured goods.”
New! – Australia -Gillard ready to discuss Indian nuclear exports despite fears over safety
By Ben Doherty
Oct. 15, 2012, 2:30 a.m.
Fron Borderwatch
DELHI: India’s nuclear industry, Australia’s newest prospective uranium customer, has been slammed by the country’s own auditor as dangerously unsafe, disorganised and, in many cases, completely unregulated.
The two countries will soon begin negotiations on a safeguards deal to allow Australian uranium to be sold to India, after the Labor Party last year dropped its long-standing opposition to trading with countries outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Before Ms Gillard’s arrival in Delhi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bob Carr, said Australia’s relationship with India was ”in good working order” and that progress was being made towards a safeguards agreement so that Australian yellowcake could be sold to India.
”The Indians are happy with the progress on this,” he said. ”We always, where there is the sale of Australian uranium, we always have a treaty that governs it and puts in place all the safeguards we require.”
While Indian media have reported Australia and India are poised to sign a uranium safeguards agreement during Ms Gillard’s visit, the Herald understands any deal is several months from being finalised.
Australia holds the world’s largest uranium reserves and exports more than 7000 tonnes every year, including to China. The government’s refusal to sell to India is a source of continuing friction between the two countries.
India is estimated to have between 80 and 100 nuclear weapons, but refuses to sign the treaty, arguing it discriminates against emerging nations and that it needs its nuclear weapons as a bulwark against nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Nobel Laureate and 6 More Cancer Scientists Quit Texas Institute Over Grants -Cancer industry “politically driven”
NY Times
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 13, 2012
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — At least seven more scientists have resigned in protest from Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming that the agency in charge of it is charting a “politically driven” path that puts commercial interests before science.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, created with the backing of Gov. Rick Perry and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor, has awarded nearly $700 million in grants since 2009; only the National Institutes of Health offers a bigger pot of cancer-research money.
Scrutiny of how the state agency selects projects has intensified since May, when its chief scientific officer, Dr. Alfred G. Gilman, a Nobel laureate, resigned in protest after it approved a $20 million commercialization project without scientific review.
Scandal involving military’s top brass exposed in Britain -UK/military academic Funding details
The scandal, revealed in a Sunday Times investigation, involves retired high-ranking military officers, who are filmed claiming they can influence lucrative arms deals worth millions of pounds as lobbyists, despite Ministry of Defence (MoD) regulations banning the practice.
The three-month investigation by the paper has been carried out by reporters posed as representatives of arms manufacturing companies.
Retired military figures including General Lord Dannatt, the former head of the army, and Lord Stirrup, former chief of the defence staff, from among others have been filmed claiming they could give weapons manufacturers influence in
Whitehall and Westminster in return for six-figure sums.
According to the paper, Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, former head of the Defence Academy, claimed he could use his role as president of the Royal British Legion to influence his clients’ agenda with the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Richard Applegate, a former Ministry of Defence procurement chief, reportedly described a secret lobbying campaign in parliament for a £500million military programme on behalf of an Israeli arms company.
It was also reported that Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, Commander of the naval fleet until March 2011, told undercover reporters he would “ignore” the two-year ban imposed on lobbying ministers.
Lord Dannatt, the former head of the army, also talked about ignoring a ban on discussion of a £400m contract by “targeting” the MoD’s top civil servant, with whom he went to school.
This comes as Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to tackle acts of lobbying before he came to power in May 2010 general elections.
“Just before the election, Cam [Prime Minister David Cameron] was passionate to stop next great scandal of lobbying. Action so far? Nothing. Scandal breaks up in Sunday Times”, said Paul Flynn MP in a tweet.
Threat to marine life in the Gulf! -Millions of unexploded bombs lie in waters off US coast, researchers say -FoxNews (Video)
War Games
Published October 08, 2012
Lurking (and leaking) beneath the world’s oceans are an estimated 200 million pounds of unexploded and potentially dangerous explosives — from bombs to missiles to mustard gas.
Texas A&M oceanographers William Bryant and Niall Slowey documented two such dumpsites in the Gulf of Mexico recently. They conservatively guess that at least 31 million pounds of bombs can be found not just in the Gulf, but also off the coasts of at least 16 states, from New Jersey to Hawaii.
Thousands of gallon containers of mustard gas lie strewn off the New Jersey coast, for example. And there are a total of seven dumpsites on the Gulf seafloor, each approximately 81 square miles, one at the mouth of the Mississippi River Delta.
“The amount that has been dumped was unbelievable,” Bryant said. “No one seems to have reported seeing explosives in the Gulf. We felt it was our responsibility to report it.”
The existence of unexploded ordnance (UXO) is hardly a secret, they acknowledge: Sea disposal of munitions was an accepted international practice until quite recently. Dumping conventional and chemical munitions captured from enemies — from Nazi Germany, for example — was also an accepted practice.
In 1970 the Department of Defense prohibited the practice, and Congress followed up by passing the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
in 1972, generally banning sea disposal.
‘We just don’t know much at all about these bombs, and it’s been 40 to 60 years that they’ve been down there.’
– Texas A&M oceanographer William Bryant
But after half a century or more on the sea floor, the condition of the munitions is a dangerous unknown.
“Is there an environmental risk? We don’t know, and that in itself is reason to worry,” Bryant said. “We just don’t know much at all about these bombs, and it’s been 40 to 60 years that they’ve been down there.”
Suspicions have long circulated that undocumented munitions have been “short-dumped” — as in dumped long before reaching their designated site, leaving them far closer to the coast than believed by authorities.
While conducting marine geology research on the sea floor of the Gulf, Bryant’s team came across the two dumpsites and vividly captured decaying canisters they believe most likely contain chemical weapons.
They presented their research at the International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions in Puerto Rico recently.
They also found themselves floating in a field of munitions as large as 500 pounds.
US nuclear submarine collides with warship off East Coast
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USS Montpelier nuclear-powered submarine arrives pierside in Souda Bay near the town of Souda on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete on November 24, 2007.
The Saturday incident caused the cruiser’s sonar dome to collapse besides leading to possible other damage, but did not cause any casualties, Reuters reported. The dome covers some of the warship’s electronic navigation, detection, and ranging equipment.
Prior to the incident, the cruiser spotted the submarine’s periscope, but failed to avoid the collision.
A related investigation is underway and overall damage to both vessels is still being evaluated.
http://presstv.com/detail/2012/10/14/266555/us-nuclear-sub-collides-with-warship/
India, Sri Lanka to strengthen bilateral civil nuclear cooperation
The External Affairs Ministry said that both sides exchanged views on all aspects of the issue at their first round of talks on comprehensive civil nuclear co-operation held in New Delhi.
These included training of officials, nuclear safety and response to nuclear accidents beside other issues.
Both sides also reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen bilateral co-operation in the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes to mutually benefit the people in both the countries. The next meeting is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in the first half of next year
Nobel laureate debunks radiation myths – Trust in Nobel Peace Prize holders?
h/t jebus enenews contributer
Contributing Writer
Published: Friday, October 12, 2012
Nobel Prize laureate Professor of Physics Leon Cooper addressed the public perception of radiation’s effect in a discussion sponsored by the Triple Helix publication at the Brown Bookstore yesterday.
“Public response to radiation is one of exaggerated fear,” Cooper said. He pointed out that people do not rationally assess the relative risks that surround them as they go about their daily lives.
“The most dangerous thing we do with cell phones is texting while driving or crossing the street while on the phone,” he said.
Cooper, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1972 for his theory in superconductivity, is currently investigating the amount of gamma radiation that is actually harmful to an organism. In these experiments, conducted using fruit flies, the research team — consisting of Postdoctoral Research Associate Michael Antosh, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Nicola Neretti, David Fox and Cooper — is exposing the flies to varying amounts of gamma radiation and is measuring the gene expression of the fly. In preliminary studies, flies have shown resilience to low levels of radiation with a subsequent drop in the survival rate at higher levels. It is possible that at lower dose levels, the cell responds with mechanisms that can repair itself, thereby ameliorating the effects of radiation. If true, this could have widespread political consequences, Cooper said.
1974 -Iran first country to propose a nuclear free world -CND UK conference 2012 Video
“The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has held an international conference in Britain with the Middle East dominating discussions. The meeting is debating ways to make the region a genuine nuclear weapons free zone.”
None of these countries are in the Middle East. But most of the focus is on this region.
The campaign for nuclear disarmament is holding an international conference “building towards a nuclear weapons-free middle east” – Israel and Iran are inevitably on the agenda. In many ways the two are polar opposites in the debate. One accused of wanting nuclear weapons, and pressurized by the west. the other not admitting to a vast nuclear weapons arsenal, with no pressure from the west at all.
This event was held in preparation for a UN conference on the same issue to be held in Finland at the end of this year.
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
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4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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