Alexandrov Red Army Choir – Kalinka (SUBTITLES) With respect for Russian loss
Concert at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, 2009
Andrey Fomin added 3 new photos.
Horrific tragedy took place off the Sochi coast this morning. The legendary #Alexandrov Red Army Chorus was crashed in an air accident on the way to #Hmeimim air base in #Syria minutes after departing from Sochi. The TU-154 belonging to the Russian MoD collapsed in the air for yet unknown reason and fell in the sea. The rescue teams are currently searching for possible survivors, but the chances are minimal…
There were all but three soloists of the Chorus, headed by the director Lieutenant General Valeriy Khalilov, as well as several instrumentalists, on board (64 in total). They were about to give the New Year concert to the Russian contractors in Syria.
A press team of 9 men from the First Channel and Zvezda Channel accompanied the Chorus.
As a final shocking detail, it was reported that Elizaveta Glinka, the famous “Doctor Liza”, who became internationally known for providing critical humanitarian assistance in #Donbass since 2014 and chair of the humanitarian foundation “Fair Help”, was present on the same board attending the humanitarian cargo designated for the university hospital in Tishrin, Latakia.
UK Nuclear Test Veterans scrooged at Christmas by MOD and courts 2016
UK Nuclear Test Veterans scrooged at Christmas by MOD and courts 2016
Well, the verdict is in on the British Nuclear Test Veterans case after some 6 months of waiting and the final judgement was released, without any fanfare publicly but quietly as a PDF linked to a closed [to the public] Judiciary server on the web on the 19th December 2016. So much for the Governments Transparency obligations to the UK public.
The court case has a long history of problems over the past 2 decades that has been well documented by Chris Busby and many other scientists, reporters and groups aligned to the test veterans themselves.
The final tactic on the behalf of the test veterans was to challenge the obvious health issues and the governmental experts claims that these health effects could not be because of radiation with the exception of 1 test veteran they accepted had a cataract that was caused by the radiation but no other health effects.
The cataract in question was originally denied but after a recent change in the “dose levels received” by this single test veteran (out of 20,000) meant that they had to accept causation due to radiation (some 20milisievert single dose at the time of the nuclear tests)
The rest of the report reads like something out of a black comedy.
The argument against the Ministry of Defenses (MOD) position was challenged by 4 radiation health specialists with years of work and peer reviewed articles under their belts. Whilst the 2 health experts from the MOD kept to the arguments set out many decades ago and which stem from the original Atoms for Peace Treaty (Euratom) signed in 1957 during the paranoid and now proven false Cold War with Russia.
Much of the veterans case against the MOD was based on various evidence from the peer reviewed literature that casts doubt to the ICRP dose model as interpreted by the MOD experts.
The evidence of just how bad and inaccurate this view on radiation health can be seen on the Fissionline (Edition 45 released early this summer before the conclusion of the court case) interviews and exchange between Prof Keith Baverstock (who discovered linkage between radiation and Thyroid Cancers after Chernobyl in the west) and Prof Geraldine Thomas (Who runs the Chernobyl Tissue Bank in the UK went to japan for funding from the Japanese after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 and every year since). It must be said that Prof Geraldine Thomas did not come off well in this exchange of expert advice for the victims of the Japanese nuclear tragedy and indeed the BBC had to quietly take down the video she had done claiming that there was no risk after many nuclear experts challenged her presumptions and expertise. Never the less, the case carried on and her advice was taken as the only “true” science acceptable to the court alongside her colleagues blinkered views, working for the MOD.
It seems that in the judgement that very little of the extensive peer reviewed and experienced experts input for the test veterans was accepted at all! In fact in the judgment it would seem that they were hardly in the court and that any cross examination had taken place. But I suspect a statement from Chris Busby and the team will clarify these points when they have assessed the judgement fully.
This being the case the 8 page judgment still took 6 months and was released nearly on Christmas day when people were distracted by the festive spirit. It seemed almost managed to a precision worthy of Goebbels. No main stream media have reported on it yet. And in the background to this is the new laws being sought to stem investigative journalism in the UK along side draconian laws recently being brought to bare against the public as a whole such as the Criminal Justice Bill etc. In fact the EU has condemned much of the security legislation past as breaking fundamental Human Rights Legislation in a recent report. And the National Union of Journalists UK are very unhappy with further restrictions on their rights of a free press as well as the unwarranted spying and harassment of UK based journalists, Politicians and activiists.
Maybe some of the above changes in UK law had stayed the Judges hand until the government pressures (Seen some years earlier when the then Editor of the Guardian was threatened with the infamous newspaper closure on reporting the Snowden affair) had been too great to make any other choice but to ignore the panel of international experts fighting on behalf on the British Nuclear Tests Veterans and only accept the governments and MODs position and pseudo science.
I have written extensively concerning the manipulation of science based facts in a recent article concerning the Japanese victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 and will link that article here for you to see the evidence and sources on how Geraldine Thomas has been the cover girl for the darker side of the nuclear industry.
Behind every good woman is bad man I could say in this case but in the convolute world of Geraldine Thomas there is a whole global military industrial complex supported by the largest PR companies on the planet to manage the perception of many citizens in many western countries.
These powerful corporations and governmental bodies target the so called “Post Truth” Independent Journalists and scientists who are underfunded and unprepared for such a huge onslaught of resources and pressures never seen before in human history. And now it seems that the Judiciary are being pressured as well. 2016 will go down as the saddest year for democracy, free speech and the death knell for a legal systems that has operated in a reasonably fair way for hundreds of years.
However, the fight still goes on and the BNTV victims and their families are not forgotten and I am sure as the judgement is analysed the people behind the challenge to the MOD case will move forward and I will be reporting on that, as will other fair minded and common sense approach journalists and bloggers forming the “Fifth Estate”
Shaun McGee aka Arclight 2011 etc
Link to PDF on the Judgement here; https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/abdale-v-sosftd-summary-1.pdf
Link to an interesting petition to the Fukushima Mayor concerning obfuscation by Geraldine Thomas and colleagues concerning the Thyroid cancer cover up in Japan with many source links and evidence;
Article extract from 1999 by a journalist who did an in depth investigation into the nuclear test victims here;
“The background [radiation] dose received by civilians and members of HM Forces serving at or off Christmas Island in the years 1956 to 1964 was only about 35 per cent of that which they would have received on average had they remained, for that period of their lives, in the United Kingdom.”
I have studied and talked with 2,500 veterans of these tests. They don’t accept this patently ridiculous statement. About one in seven of the men in the sample of 1,014 who responded to a questionnaire I circulated in late 1997 did not father any children after they returned from the weapons tests. Those who did are convinced that the high incidence of birth defects that they have noticed, and I have documented, in their children – and their grandchildren – was caused by their exposure to radiation as young servicemen. Among the nearly 5,000 children and grandchildren on whom I have information from this group of veterans, there are 26 cases of spina bifida alone – more than five times the usual rate for the UK.
Radiation-induced infertility and impaired fertility have been identified for well over 50 years in animals. Following the Chernobyl disaster, a range of fertility and sexual function problems in 12 men with chronic radiation dermatitis was reported.
http://www.newstatesman.com/dark-side-nuclear-family
Image source for Scrooge also courtesy of the New Statesman
Image source showing some of the BNTV together courtesy of Sue Boniface, Journalist at the UK Daily Mirror article from 2015
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-abandon-descendants-nuclear-bomb-5461250
Campaign to stop bad nuclear health practice in Fukushima concerning thyroid cancer epidemic 2016/2017
The usual suspects are trying to cover up the health effects in Fukushima aided by the Japanese Secrets Law of 2013 that makes it illegal to talk about health effects caused by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster under pain of imprisonment. 
170 cancers found because of new “screening”techniques.. thats the excuse to reduce the testing in Fukushima for thyroid cancers. In spite of the data from Chernobyl (see below) and the ongoing thyroid cases and other health effects being reported by Chernobyl Children International concerning the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, their work is still ongoing.
I wait in anticipation of Prof Keith Baverstocks response to this outrage .. here is his previous rebuttal and condemnation of Geraldine Thomas`s “dangerous advice” and ergo her colleague Prof Yamashita who left the Fukushima Medical University because of his outrageous and narcissistic claims that were widely publicised and condemned …. .. Thomas versus Baverstock debate in summer of 2016 in full published here; https://issuu.com/fission/docs/fissionline_45
About the Campaign loosely translated from japan
Regarding the Thyroid inspection regime that currently is in place in Fukushima Prefecture, The Nippon Foundation (Chairman Yohei Sasagawa) held a meeting that was chaired by Niwa Tanuki of the Radiation Effects Institute on December 9th 2016. In attendance were Prof Shunichi Yamashita (who famously claimed that “radiation is good for you” and made many more unscientificly proven comments) who is currently the executive vice president of Nagasaki University, Jacques Lochard vice chairman International Radiation Protection committee (ICRP) and Prof Geraldine Anne Thomas from the Imperial College University department of the Chernobyl Thyroid Tissue bank. The name of the conference is the “Fifth Fukushima International Expert Council Organising Committee December 2016”. Also in attendance was the Fukushima Prefectures and with the main members of the conference asked that the Thyroid testing of children should be changed to a voluntary basis and that this would mean that the testing regime was being reduced in spite of the the increase found after Chernobyl after 5 years by Prof Keith Baverstock who was in charge of the World Health Organisations radiological department during this time (this department was closed down and the workload was amazingly deferred to the more pro nuclear biased IAEA some years later).
The thyroid examination in Fukushima Prefecture actually require further enhancement and expansion because of the increase in the number of “cancer patients or suspects” on each successive report thus far. The “Thyroid inspection” in neighboring polluted prefectures that that have not been included are also necessary and should be incorporated as well. If this proposal is executed, the victims in Fukushima, neighboring prefectures and indeed the whole country will be in “rejected” from the future statistics concerning health monitoring data.
“We call on scientists and citizens nationwide,
We decided to do a “proposal to the Fukushima prefectural governor” to oppose the contraction of the Fukushima prefecture thyroid examination and indeed seek further improvement such as seek its expansion into effected nearby prefectures. (Attached document).”
Contact point for academics and NGOs to join the campaign
Those who can approve please contact me to the following e-mail.
Masa 03to@gmail.com To Masato Tashiro
Copy of Letter
“….The thyroid screening should not be reduced by “voluntary participation” but should be expanded and enhanced
December 20, 2016
Toshihide Masukawa Nagoya University Institute for Elementary and Nuclear Sphere Origin Research Organization
Ikeuchi graduated Professor Emeritus, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Shoji Sawada Emeritus Professor, Nagoya University
Susumu Shimazono Professor, Sophia University
Katsuma Yagasaki Emeritus Professor, University of the Ryukyus
Michiaki Matsuzaki Dohoku Jobo Cooperative Director Asahikawa North Medical School
Masato Miyaji Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo
Masato Tashiro Low dose exposure and health project representative (secretariat)
Yasuhiro Sasagawa Chairman of the Nippon Foundation (Chairperson), Etsuko Kita, Chairman of the Sasakawa Memorial Health Cooperation Foundation, Chairman of Niwa Takei Radiation Impact Research Institute, Shunichi Yamashita, Executive Vice President, Nagasaki University, Vice Chairman of the International Radiological Protection Committee, Geraldine Anne Thomas Professors Imperial College London etc are the name of the Fukushima International Expert Council on the 5th radiation and health on December 9, 2016,
To solve the thyroid problem in Fukushima ~ The lesson of Chernobyl 30th anniversary “Utilize the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in 5 years ~” to the Governor of Fukushima Prefecture.
Over 170 thyroid cancer cases and suspected cases have been discovered in children at thyroid screening conducted to investigate the relationship between the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and childhood thyroid cancer.
The point of the committees “Recommendation” is that “Thyroid inspection program should be voluntary participation” from the viewpoint of “risk and benefit about the screening program, and cost effectiveness”. “Recommendation” states that “The increase in thyroid abnormality is not the influence of radiation exposure due to nuclear accident, but due to the screening effect” this is the reason.
Based on the results of examination of the points shown below, we conclude that children’s thyroid cancer found in the Fukushima prefectural health-care survey, although there are various opinions among experts, denied the possibility of being caused by radiation exposure It is important to see what you can not and to watch for the future trends, and I think that it is necessary to continue thorough screening of thyroid cases more firmly than before.
The screening started from October 2011. A preliminary survey was started in advance to grasp the prevalence of naturally occurring thyroid cancer on the premise that it takes several years until carcinogenic symptoms make themselves known. As a result, thyroid cancer-affected people were discovered at a higher rate than expected, but in future the examination should be continued in order to investigate whether there will be an increase in thyroid cancer due to the effects of the accident which was its original purpose. There is no medical basis to reduce these inspections. One of the principles of screening is to target high risk groups. Exposure by radioactive iodine due to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident this time has produced children in the high-risk group to be examined, and the examination should be continued.
The occurrence of radiation-induced malignant neoplasms is considered medically long-lasting, and it is hoped that we will continue the long-term testing system in the future. Though 6 years have passed since the accident, those who are over the age of 18 who graduate from high school, get a job, go on to university and go out of the Fukushima prefecture should also be treated with thyroid examinations outside the prefecture, this practice is necessary. Including these problems, in order to promote health management by minimizing the health effects of radiation exposure from the nuclear accident which is the responsibility of the nuclear power plant owner, we should be offering the health administration notebook to the nation and to the residents of Fukushima with its surrounding prefectures. …..”
How bad is Prof. Geraldines advice anyway? And why do the BBC support her so much? See this link (And the other links below as source for this article and its claims) debunking her claims using the ICRP dose model 2016 (short video)
link to original post in Japanese; https://www.facebook.com/fukushima311watchdog/posts/1146706135427683
A link to a detailed report on the committees arguments are here and some overview from an health worker who has been studying this issues for some years can be found here;
ISIS and nuclear Armageddon? – Exclusive to nuclear-news.net
ISIS and nuclear Armageddon? – Exclusive to nuclear-news.net
“…However we look at it, as we hear the PR call for more and/or better nuclear weapons, the issue of nuclear weapons grade materials escaping from countries like the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Pakistan etc and also the possibility of theft from large nuclear reprocessing complexes in the west like Sellafield, La Hague, Hanford, Negev Nuclear Research Center etc means that huge resources will have to be spent defending these places that will not be accounted for in costing nuclear power and reprocessing to the tax payer with no guarantee that corrupt practices now or in the future will not circumvent them…..”
Following the article (Link ref 1 below) I picked up from India and posted to nuclear-news.net, I shared it to Fukushima 311 Watchdogs (F311W) . As an Admin on F311 W I later checked the statistics and found a small number of posts not getting any hits. Its as though they were being blocked. I had discovered in 2013 that this was possible and did a video (Link ref 2 below) showing that evidence.
I then did a video (Link ref 3 below) showing the issue of the blocked posts on the Uranium story and also showed that the Uranium story was being ignored by all the western Main Stream Media and that Google was blocking the nuclear-news.net story About 5 hours after posting the video the Google block to the nuclear-news.net story became unblocked.
I then checked out the stats on the video (Screenshot ref 4 below) and saw that some parties in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were interested in that post. Also i noted that Pakistan came up on the stats earlier but with no observable clicks (maybe Pakistan Secret Service computer whizz kids were trying to cover their tracks?). It looks like ISIS are seeking and succeeding in their efforts to acquire nuclear materials
So, what did I conclude with on all this? Firstly a non story about Donald Trump was beginning to go “viral” and in this Post Truth world I wondered why? The USA and Russia had already said they would be renewing and expanding their nuclear weapons arsenal and also with “safer” mini nukes earlier on in the year.
The fact that many outlets in India were posting articles on the story led me to think that the western Trump Tweet story was being manufactured to hide the Indian story that was going viral there.
Also, Mordechai Vannunu was having his latest court case in Israel and the judgment is going to be made in the next few weeks. So, there are two good reasons for the swamping of the internet on “other” nuclear stories to hide these two important facts. In Fact i had just done an article that described how large PR companies managed to manufacture narrative in a Post Truth world.
So, what is so important on the Thane Uranium Black market story? Firstly, the details of the purity of the Uranium. The Indian Police had done some homework and had the purity and the cost of the Uranium and this was in the article i posted. But the costs was in RS Core and the conversion from that to US Dollars was not easy.
So I did the conversion and also checked the upper level of purity (which was “85 percent” pure) and compared that to the purity of US nuclear weapons grade Uranium 235 (which is 93 percent). Now it has to be said that the Indian article did not specify U235 or U238 but when judging purity of Uranium it is valued at the amount of U235 with the rest being the more common U238. So it was looking likely we were talking nuclear weapons grade uranium but with a slightly lower value than the US standard.
So was this rejected weapons grade uranium or was it a lower standard of uranium for nuclear weapons? I do not think we will see the actual tests to confirm the particular isotope of uranium but it does beg the question, How safe are all the hundreds of thousands of tons of high and intermediate level waste and the millions of tons on low level waste and how easy it is for terrorists to get hold of it? Why make more when we have such a problem already? We need to secure this material and shut down the sprawling sites that already exist! Someone please tell the IAEA to stop promoting nuclear as it is just too dangerous!
Enriched uranium is a critical component for both civil nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to monitor and control enriched uranium supplies and processes in its efforts to ensure nuclear power generation safety and curb nuclear weapons proliferation. From Wiki
“…However we look at it, as we hear the PR call for more and/or better nuclear weapons, the issue of nuclear weapons grade materials escaping from countries like the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Pakistan etc and also the possibility of theft from large nuclear reprocessing complexes in the west like Sellafield, La Hague, Hanford, Negev Nuclear Research Center etc means that huge resources will have to be spent defending these places that will not be accounted for in costing nuclear power and reprocessing to the tax payer with no guarantee that corrupt practices now or in the future will not circumvent them…..”
Wind, Solar, Hydro electricity are looking like much saner options with all the above in mind.
There is also the issue of transparency and Human Rights as we see countries with nuclear weapons currently criminalising activists (as we see in France) and energy developers and innovators (as we see in the UK).
In a recent Atlantic Alliance meeting (from March 2016), I heard them say that European left leaning peace and social justice citizens would need to be reigned in as they were “doing the work of Putin whether they knew it or not” We are living in dangerous times and the left and right peace activists need to come together to make a change. Some food for thought for the coming year perhaps?
Have a great Christmas and a good nuclear free New Year
Namaste
Shaun McGee
Sources for article
French Human Rights abuses regarding nuclear energy
France, Areva and the case of the Uranium book burning!
This internal investigation which makes the management of EDF tremble!
Greenpeace France reacts to EDF/Government threats with a threat!
My article on Post Truth and Science Media Journalism here;
Lonnie Clark and Shaun McGee on nuclear media reporting in a Post Truth society
Ref 1
Thane police (India) seize 9 kg of radioactive depleted uranium
Ref 2
Over 4 million Dollars of Depleted Uranium being sold on Black market #UNSCEAR #IAEA -Censored
Ref 3
Naomi Wolf Facebook blocked in Europe, The Guardian article of Lee Rigby censored
Ref 4
Trump announces new #NuclearArmsRace & T May threatens to kill 100k innocent people 2016 remembered!
UK blogger is not happy about USA and UK nuclear threats from our elected leaders!
Lonnie Clark and Shaun McGee on nuclear media reporting in a Post Truth society
I was interviewed by Lonnie Clark from UCTV, Age of Fission on Science media Journalism in a post truth society of click-bait and emotive science based news. I explain how bloggers and amateur journalists, using well sourced data can make a change to the narrative often given out in a PR guided news cycle and make a difference.
We discuss tactics for activists and I comment on how and what caused me to get into Science based Journalism after the BP Gulf oil and Fukushima disasters.
In the Interview I explain how 2 nuclear related stories that the Main Stream “Post Truth” Media have failed to report on correctly. In fact the reportage of these stories is the complete opposite of the facts!
Interview on this You tube channel 56.00 mins;
Misunderstanding science papers and corporate spin
The first article we discussed was from ScienceDaily.com who reported on an anniversary of Chernobyl that wildlife was thriving and in fact that wildlife was adapting to radiation (often called the Hormesis). In my report we showed how wrong they were by just simply contacting the author of the science paper (Prof T. Mousseau ) and posting his reply that clarified his study that was so badly reported on ScienceDaily and their story was picked up by many news outlets;
How to Spin a radioactive bird during Chernobyl remembrance day using Google and Sciencedaily.com
SNIP
“Hopefully there will be some more comprehensive coverage of this latest
paper that includes some discussion of the broader picture that includes
the context for how such “positive” responses have evolved and how they
are not unexpected given the intensity of “unnatural” selection (i.e.
Negative effects) imposed by the radioactive contaminants in the area.”
END SNIP
How to Spin a radioactive bird during Chernobyl rememberance day using Google and Sciencedaily.com
And indeed, a couple of years later Prof T. Mousseau clarified this further by explaining that the antioxidants that were utilised by the small group of birds would stop them evolving in such a scenario as Global warming here in this audio interview and article;
Life after Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters with Prof. T. Mousseau
SNIP
His earlier study on birds with Black pigment showed that some resilience in a small amount of bird species was due to them using antioxidants to protect from genetic damage but at some cost. This might limit the lower antioxidant levels left in these birds might cause problems for them to find mates and deal with environmental changes (such as climate change)
“Organisms can use these antioxidants to the mutational load OR use it to advertise to a mate or defend itself against some other diseases but there is this ultimate trade off that limits the success in one way or another”
Thermal regulation might be another factor due to this imbalance he said.
END SNIP
Link to the 2016 interview with Prof Mousseau here;
Life after Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters with Prof. T. Mousseau
Professor Tsude and his thyroid study attacked but facts clarified
The second article I discussed was concerning the issue of Thyroid Cancers in Fukushima Prefecture.This came about as I was arguing in the comments section of Japan today with three Nuclear Health Physicists whether or not radiation was causing the increasing and statistically significant increases in Childrens Thyroid cancers. Eventually they came up with a number of problems with the meta-analysis done by Prof. Tsude, so I contacted the Professor with an email and the points they had made and he quickly contacted me back to refute their claims of innacuracys. In the interview I describe how this occurred and also how such questioning would shorten the peer review process, thus, helping the victims of the disaster from biased viewpoints that would delay the nuclear accident victims getting the proper support and compensation they deserves. Here is the article I did documenting that;
SNIP
[EDITORS NOTE; Prof. G Thomas did not contact Prof Toshihide Tsude
but made her claim that she cast doubt on the study? [Sam McGill said on Japan Times comments (link below) “…In any case, Gerry Thomas – who doesn’t work for the Science Media Centre – isn’t a nuclear engineer anyway. She focuses on health and radiation. So you’ve got that criticism wrong too. And it’s not just Gerry Thomas who’s cast doubt on Tsuda’s study…..]]
END SNIP
Confirming the Toshihide Tsuda Thyroid study findings in Fukushima – Answering the nuclear lobby’s questions!
The video clips are from my interview with Lonnie on the you tube video are from the first Sherlock Holmes 1920`s silent movie and part of a Babe Ruth 1920`s silent movie.
Thane police (India) seize 9 kg of radioactive depleted uranium
In a major haul, the Thane Police have seized almost 9 kg of radioactive depleted uranium (Approx 4,300,000 US Dollars worth), a top official said here on Wednesday.
“We have confirmed that the substance seized is depleted uranium. It is radioactive and extremely dangerous… DU is used in weapons and armaments all over the world,” Thane Police Commissioner Parambir Singh told IANS of the unexpected haul.
Following a tip-off, Anti-Chain Snatching Squad Senior Police Inspector Ravindra Doiphode and his team recently laid a trap at a location on the desolate Ghodbunder Road connecting Mumbai and Thane.
As expected, two persons arrived there near a hotel on motorcycles carrying dark blue pouches, a box and other material — both were detained.
The police recovered 8.9 kg of some uranium-type substance and also laboratory test report indicating it was uranium.
According to initial investigations, it was brought from abroad and was intended for sale to some unknown parties here.
The two lab reports of different samples recovered along with the seizure said the substance was depleted uranium, one having 87.70 per cent uranium and other 79.50 per cent uranium content.
“Since this is a banned item and not something available in the open market, we are not able to determine its exact value,” Doiphode told media persons.
However, some independent media reports claimed its value to be around Rs 3 crore 9 (Approx 480,000 US Dollars) per kg.
Joint Police Commissioner Ashutosh Thombre said they are filing a case under the Atomic Energy Act and sending samples of the substance for additional reports after which further action would be taken.
The police have arrested the two persons and further investigation is on.
http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/thane-police-seize-9-kg-radioactive-depleted-uranium-54620
France, Areva and the case of the Uranium book burning!
Areva: a book on the Uranium case threatened with a ban
Image source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
Anne Lauvergeon is a romantic character who does not like to be talked about. According to our information, the former president of Areva, now a consultant, is trying to forbid the publication of a book concerning the Uranium issue – the name of this mining company bought by Areva in 2007 – to have read.
Anne Lauvergeon, the fall of an icon
The book, entitled “An atomic matter, Uramin / Areva, the hallucinating saga of a state scandal“, is due to appear on 19 January at Robert Laffont.
It was written by Vincent Crouzet, the same author who helped publicize this case in 2014 with his novel “Radioactif” (edited by Belfond). This publication had earned him to be heard by the policemen of the financial brigade, made unpublished for a writer.
At the beginning of December, one of Lauvergeon’s lawyers, Jean-Marc Fedida, sent a letter to Robert Laffont, president of the publishing house, asking him to “refrain from publishing” the new book by Vincent Crouzet. He invokes “the deficiencies of the investigation” and the supposed “megalomania” of the writer to claim this exceptional measure.
Areva, a 10 billion euro state scandal
According to the extract that “the Obs” has been able to consult, the book does not present itself however as an investigation. Nor is it a novel. It is rather a testimony. That of an author, whom one guesses close to the services, who found himself mixed up, without really seeking it, in the Uranium affair.
This is not the first time that Anne Lauvergeon has tried to prevent the publication of a book not authorized by her. Two years ago, Jean-Louis Perez, author of a biography, “The Power at Any Price” (ed. Seuil), had also received a comminatory letter from Master Fedida threatening him with legal proceedings. His book was not the subject of any complaint.
On the other hand, Mrs. Lauvergeon’s husband, Olivier Fric, seized comments made by Jean-Louis Perez during a radio program to attack him for defamation. The case is still ongoing.
Two judicial instructions
The Uranium case is now the subject of two investigations. The first, for “publication of inaccurate accounts” and “dissemination of false and misleading information“, has already earned Anne Lauvergeon and her former chief financial officer, Alain-Pierre Raynaud, to be indicted.
Uranium scandal: the testimony that overwhelms Anne Lauvergeon
On the other hand, Anne Lauvergeon’s husband, Olivier Fric, was charged with “insider trading” in a second open investigation for “fraud”, “abuse of social good” and “corruption of Foreign official “.
New revelations about Olivier Fric, husband of Anne Lauvergeon
This aspect of education is still in its infancy. Will Areva ever know why Areva paid 1.8 billion euros for three uranium mines that proved to be unusable?
Source article; http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/justice/20161221.OBS2956/areva-un-livre-sur-l-affaire-uramin-menace-d-interdiction.htmlhttp://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/justice/20161221.OBS2956/areva-un-livre-sur-l-affaire-uramin-menace-d-interdiction.html
Petition – Australia, nuclear dumping playground? Or not?
Petition – Australia, nuclear dumping playground? Or not?
I was proud to walk into the South Australian Premier’s office with Traditional Owners and environmental allies to deliver over 35,000 signatures, letters and postcards.
Image source ; https://nuclear-news.net/2016/05/13/citizens-juries-if-fair-and-transparent-could-help-solve-south-australias-nuclear-waste-dilemma/https://nuclear-news.net/2016/05/13/citizens-juries-if-fair-and-transparent-could-help-solve-south-australias-nuclear-waste-dilemma/
Your voice is part of a huge groundswell of community opposition to the plan to ship, store and bury a third of the world’s radioactive waste in South Australia.
Watch the video of the petition handover with Premier Jay Weatherill to see how your voice reaches decision makers.
First, over two-thirds of the Citizen’s Jury asked to deliberate on the plan unequivocally rejected it ‘under any circumstances.’
Then, you and tens of thousands of people signed our petition to Premier Jay Weatherill.
You put this issue front and centre. Thanks so much.
But this zombie waste is not dead, nor is the push to dump it. Premier Weatherill listened to us but he’s still pursuing this plan and keeping the ‘conversation’ open.
Until Jay Weatherill finally closes the door on this risky radioactive plan, we will be keeping our eyes and this petition open. You can still share the petition with friends.
We’ve made huge momentum but we still have further to go.
Thanks for your tireless efforts for our shared future.
This internal investigation which makes the management of EDF tremble!
This internal investigation which makes the management of EDF tremble
EDF CEO Jean-Bernard “the unwanted” Lévy
Between 2012 and 2016, the share of EDF employees who have confidence in the future of their company has increased from 81% to 53%. The results of this internal investigation have sounded the direction. They have never been made public. BFMBusiness unveils them exclusively.
EDF employees no longer have confidence in their company. This is the shock of an internal investigation, commissioned by the group management, of which BFM Business has procured a copy. Every year, since 2012, this life-size survey takes the pulse of the group’s 143,000 employees around the world. This year, it was carried out between 20 September and 21 October. And its results are without appeal.
While the normal rate of participation in this survey called “myEDF” is limited to two out of three employees, this year 78% took care to answer the questions asked. Evidence that the social body of the company needs to express its doubts. 53% of employees still have confidence in EDF’s future, compared with 74% in 2015 and 81% in 2012 … An earthquake. The pride of the social body has always been the cement of this enterprise.
Concern is palpable in all categories of employees and in all subsidiaries. “Unheard of” cowardly, desperate, a leader of EDF. First, the supervisors who are only 48% to remain optimistic for the future of the group. But even executives, traditionally faithful to the direction of the group, are in the grip of doubt. Just 53% of them still believe in the future of EDF against 78% last year. A rise in anxiety that even affects senior managers.
Break between the CEO and its executives
This survey is a disgust for the CEO of the Jean-Bernard Levy Group, highly criticized internally by both the grassroots and senior executives. Last spring, they expressed their opposition to the project of the two British EPRs of Hinkley Point. It is also said internally that between the CEO and its executives, the rupture is consummated.
The conclusions of the survey are clear: “All components of trust are affected with the exception of the hierarchical relationship,” reads French group entities are mainly affected. The shock is the heaviest in the French nuclear fleet, the heart of EDF, which suffered the shutdown of nearly 20 reactors this fall. Less than half (48%) of the 20,000 employees in this division still have confidence in EDF, up from nearly 80% last year. The result even drops to 42% among the employees of Enedis, the former ERDF, in direct contact with customers in the field.
Matthieu Pechbert http://bfmbusiness.bfmtv.com/entreprise/cette-enquete-interne-qui-fait-trembler-la-direction-d-edf-1073262.html
BBC starts to realise what a mess the UK nuclear industry is in! – by Paul Dorfman
Image source; https://www.theguardian.com/profile/paul-dorfman
Does nuclear energy have a future or is it a technology of the past? Theo Leggett visits a power station in the UK, the first country to commercialise nuclear power in the 1950s and 60s, and counts the cost of decommissioning old nuclear reactors – a jobs that is now just beginning. Dr Paul Dorfman from the Energy Institute at University College London tells us why the vast costs involved in nuclear power make talk of a revival in the industry premature, both in the UK and in Europe. And Professor Lucas Davis from the University of California, Berkeley, explains why the election of Donald Trump is unlikely to provide a boost to a flagging nuclear industry in the US.
Dr Paul Dorfman of the Energy Institute at University College London, founded the Nuclear Consulting Group and is Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Nuclear Policy Research fellow
Financial destruction of the nuclear industry. will effect safety at Sellafield? http://tinyurl.com/zm5dhfd
Greenpeace France reacts to EDF/Government threats with a threat!
#EDF #EUHRC Greenpeace reacts to EDF/Government threats with a threat!
Last week, our activists were arrested because of EDF and its CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy who caused our Breenpeace activists to be held in custody for 3 consecutive days. The aim of the Police and security services operation: is to hide the disastrous management of this French nuclear group and shed light on his situation of bankruptcy both financial and technical.
The leak by a whistleblower, concerning the disastrous situation concerning the failing French nuclear industry shows the dangerous and outrageous situation and poses a risk that is hidden to the public because of the safety and the impact to their WALLETS.! While there’s still time, EDF must change course! Only this change of track would give some sort of a future to the group and its employees.
We welcome once again the courage and the determination of our activists. 4 of them were still in detention on Friday, they were finally released Saturday, after a police custody of some 45 hours!
We haven’t finished talking about the bankruptcy of the French nuclear industry. See you very soon, EDF. See you very soon Mr Jean-Bernard Lévy. Love from Greenpeace and all anti nuclear activists from around the world!
In other French Stasi like news;
After the search / seizure at my home and the symbols of my, our, fight are always on the shelf just above the location of the computer. With especially “the” truck, the one who represents for the nuclear lobby what it takes absolutely hidden. It must not be that the French to know that at the beginning of each week they are going through France with the equivalent of 20 nuclear bombs on board each of them.
We will not be to impressed, the fight continues against this madness. Yannick Rousselet
UPDATE on Yannick Rousselet ; Any person who becomes aware of “a process, object, document, information, computer network, computerized data or file which has the character of a secret of national defense” is guilty of this offense, destroys it, subtracts it, reproduces it and / Or bring it to the attention of the public. He is then punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros, in accordance with article 413-11 of the Criminal Code. But even if information classified as secret defense was discovered in Mr. Rousselet’s computer equipment, he would not automatically be guilty.
“We have to know that information is classified,” says Alexandre Faro, Greenpeace’s lawyer. Admittedly, the documents can be stamped “secret defense”, but the other supports are not necessarily. Since 2000, trucks carrying plutonium between La Hague and Marcoule have been classified and can not be photographed. But how to distinguish a secret transport truck of plutonium from a truck transporting oranges? There is no crime without intent to commit an offense. ”
For M. Rousselet, the incomprehension is total. ” Why now ? Why at home and not at my office in Cherbourg or at the Greenpeace headquarters in Paris? In my career, I experienced very hot moments, especially when we were interested in transporting radioactive materials. This is less the case today, where we work more on the accounts of EDF and the site of the EPR of Flamanville. “The anti-nuclear activist suspects a” way to intimidate him “:” We regularly receive news in our mailbox about what happens in power stations. There is a real risk that we will try to frighten the whistleblowers. ”
This fear is shared by Mr Faro. “We have the impression that they have nothing specific to blame. This looks like a lying poker: they would try to find, in the searched material, what to fill a file still empty. “More generally, the lawyer notes that” since COP21, there has been a tendency to stigmatize environmental movements, to take them as targets of gag procedures, to use the slightest pretext to search their businesses and terrorize them. We quickly pull the heavy weapons to kill the flies, it’s pretty unhealthy. ” For example, during the blockade of EDF’s headquarters by Greenpeace activists on Friday 16 December, “four activists who had written messages in chalk and painting on the building’s facade were detained for 48 hours in police custody For “serious degradation in the meeting”, while the messages could be erased with a blow of cloth, “denounced Me Faro. They will be tried in a few weeks.
Yannick Rousselet should be summoned to the offices of the DGSI in Leval
Link to French article concerning the matter;
https://reporterre.net/La-DGSI-a-saisi-le-materiel-informatique-d-un-militant-antinucleaire-de
A dialogue with A. Nitkin from Bellona versus nuclear-news.net
My response to Alexander Nitkin`s interesting and provocative article from Bellona http://tinyurl.com/zscma85 on Russian anti nuclear activists strategies and engagement with the Russian nuclear industry (Found n the comments section.)
Hi Charles and Alexander.. Just thought I would wade in with some thoughts.
As an anti nuclear activist and blogger of one of the biggest anti nuke sites in the west nuclear-news.net (about 30 percent of our readers are nuclear workers), I can see where you are coming from. However, this article does not really look into the issues of how might an anti nuclear group or individual might challenge the “voluminous response” that comes from a well organised and well funded nuclear industry.
First, their is a need for education that can sometimes be complex and time consuming. This can be achieved by the dissemination of thoughts and ideas via the blogs and internet forums.
However, in my experience on a global outlook there are many pressures that stop discourse because nuclear industry workers are not allowed to challenge the status quo and activists are targeted by security services. That means it is up to a hand full of individuals (mostly or entirely non paid) to look into the technical issues and find a way of talking plainly to all.
For instance, at the moment there are some real challenges to the nuclear industry such as the financial and safety issues. The industry covers many of these issues up using groups like the IAEA, ICRP, WPP LLC (The Japanese subsidiary is DENTSU) and a host of Nuclear Health Physicists (well paid and organised) and then there is UNSCEAR where these groups meet and challenge one another n a technical basis (CRIIRAD, ACRO, SAFECAST etc on the soft anti nuclear side) .
Civil societies anti nuclear movement in some countries have Greenpeace on their side (France and Germany) and many others do not (Norway, UK, Ireland etc) . And then there are people like me with quite a reasonable knowledge.
Amongst the voluminous material are some points that get overlooked such as the ICRP dose model that does not explain the effects health effects thoroughly in Chernobyl, Semipalantisk, Fukushima etc ..
You might be aware of Watanabes etc study that trashes the ICRP dose models basic science but there is no real discussion on these anomalies and that is why people like John Simpson have disregarded the NHP from the pentagon that had the “voluminous” material thing happen on his report on Fallujah but he decided to forward with the evidence he could see in front of him instead of all that statistical modeling. If I lived in Mayak and was getting all the reassurances that come from the likes of Richard Wakeford and Geraldine Thomas I would be flipping furious as well btw.
When the nuclear industry decides to admit that the real on the ground evidence should be taken into account with the statistical modelling and not ignored because of unknown “viruses” etc then I think we all can sit down and have that love in that would achieve results for all concerned. It is not good enough to have an industry that allows damage that we see in Flint Michigan with lead Pb because of the need for profit and whilst the nuclear industry uses the founding ideals of Euratom (1957 unchanged) as a basis for todays nuclear industry that allows cancers (whilst ignoring all other effects) because of potential net social and profit orientated benefits based on the 1950`s situation. In fact all potentially polluting industries worldwide should take note!
My fingers are bleeding and I await your request for evidence of my position on the nuclear industry (Russia works closely with the western industry on health effects at least ie the flawed ICRP dose model)
Merry Christmas Shaun 
This comment is on the comments section at our long time friends at Bellona.org
Who’s to blame and what to do? Rosatom and the No Nukes movement
The relationship between Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and environmental groups has never been stable: Opposition, mistrust, non-transparency and antagonism – the mutual accusations have rained down from both sides. But Rosatom’s transparency has led to schism – a crisis – within Russian environmental organizations themselves. More here;
http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2016-12-22569http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2016-12-22569
Mordechai Vannunu in court today in Israel – Best wishes from us all here at nuclear-news.net
We here at nuclear-news.net thank the Israeli Government for the recent privileges given to Mordechai over these past years but call for his release, It is time. All the information he whistle-blew on is in the public domain and in fact, so much more exists out there. We ask the courts to take all this into mitigation and release him from his semi bondage in Israel. His court case is later today (22/December/2016) and the thoughts and prayers of the anti nuclear activists who wish that nuclear weapons will never be used might be heard by the authorities in Israel.
#EUHRC #UNHRC In Court Tomorrow Vanunu Mordechai continues to be persecuted for being one of the greatest whistleblowers of all time – he spilled the beans on the open secret of the Israeli N-weapons program. His 2016 prosecution is NOT being actively reported by the main stream press and Vanunu is facing trial again this week – please extend him your personal support on his FB page : Vanunu Mordechai
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Petition to revoke the licensing of the Near Surface Nuclear Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7247
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