Balpakram National Park saved from uranium mining
Uranium mining blocked,The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata), New Delhi, May 14: A national panel of wildlife experts today rejected a proposal from the department of atomic energy for uranium exploration on the Rongcheng plateau in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills.The standing committee of the National Board of Wildlife decided to reject the proposal for exploratory drilling in view of the sentiments of the local people and representations from civil society groups, the environment ministry said.The Rongcheng plateau falls in the Balpakram National Park, home to elephants, black bear, leopards, deer and the red panda, one of the rarest animals in the world.Several green groups and NGOs have campaigned against a proposal for exploratory drilling, arguing that it would harm the bio-diversity in the park.
The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) | Nation | Uranium mining blocked
Nuclear power radiation shown to cause damaging insect mutations
“Such a low but long-lasting dose of radiation can be far more damaging than a short-term high dose,”
Nuclear Power Critter Mutations, 13 May 2010, Natural Resonance Revolution Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power stations don’t leak enough radiation to create malformed organisms. But in some locations, Hesse-Honegger discovered mutations — curtailed feelers, misshapen legs, asymmetrical wings — in as many as 30 percent of the bugs she gathered. That’s 10 times the overall rate of about 3 percent for insects found in the wild. Continue reading
Medical radiation increases breast cancer risk: President’s Cancer Panel
PCP:Medical radiation ups breast cancer risk, foofconsumer.org, 08/05/2010
The President’s CancerPanel released this week an annual report on the cancer risks from the environment warning that medical radiation raises breast cancer risk. Continue reading
Radioactive water reaches aquifer
Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer, Google hosted news, By WAYNE PARRY (AP) –9 May, 2010, LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday.The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station to halt the spread of contaminated water underground,……….. Continue reading
Radioactive dust from Australia’s uranium mines found in Antarctica
Australian uranium dust found in Antarctic ice ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 3 May, 2010, An ice core from the Antarctic bears traces of uranium that may have been carried by the wind from Australian mines in 1995, a glacier expert has told a Chilean newspaper.The minuscule amounts of the radioactive element “correspond to a year (1995) when Australia increased its uranium production,” Ricardo Jana, who participates in an international research effort in the frozen continent, told El Mercurio daily.He said scientists theorise the uranium particles were carried by the wind from Australia and deposited in the northern part of the Antarctic’s Detroit peninsula. Australian uranium dust found in Antarctic ice – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporati
Pervasive radioactive risks in India
the death of a single person, through disparate chains of official negligence, serves to show that he was not safe. And neither are we.
The radioactive risk society , Indian Express, by Neha Sinha, 3 May 2010, On April 10, 2007, a uranium pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our nuclear energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on radioactivity in India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008, another uranium pipe burst, spewing houses near the village of Dungridih in Jaduguda with uranium waste. Continue reading
Impact of uranium mining on Grand Canyon’s watersheds
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Aerial view of uranium mines threatening Grand Canyon watersheds, Grand Canyon Trust News, April 29, 2010 by gctrust Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Trust’s Air and Energy program director, recently flew with EcoFlight over uranium mining sites situated around the Grand Canyon and its watersheds that supply water for 25 million people. This bird’s eye view will allow you to understand the potential impact of uranium mining on the water supply for Arizona, southern California and Nevada. Click here to view the video. Aerial view of uranium mines threatening Grand Canyon watersheds « Grand Canyon Trust News
Don’t add radioactive tailings to already polluted streams
What would the mining activities of two huge open-pit uranium mines, with a reported possible third mine at Coles Hill, do to the streams and rivers of Southside Virginia over the proposed mining span of 30 years?
Study links stream pollution to higher cancer rates, Star Tribune, , April 27, 2010 Researchers at West Virginia University and Virginia Tech now have the study findings to show a causal link between West Virginia streams, those polluted by coal mining activities, and premature cancer deaths in the humans who live near them. Continue reading
Virginia Beach uranium mining could contaminate drinking water
The city is concerned about uranium mining and milling because Lake Gaston, a major source of its drinking water, is located downstream from Coles Hill, site of the proposed uranium mine and mill.
Lawmaker: Spending more for uranium socioeconomic study ‘not wise’ GoDanRiver, By John Crane April 27, 2010 If a Virginia Beach study finds uranium mining and milling detrimental to Lake Gaston, then a socioeconomic study of the industry would be pointless, said a member of the Virginia Tobacco Commission’s executive committee. Continue reading
Chernobyl nuclear reactor still a serious threat to Europe
Ukraine leader says Chernobyl reactor a threat, THE HUFFINGTON POST, ANNA MELNICHUK | April 26, 2010 KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president warned Monday on the 24th anniversary of the world’s worst atomic accident that the Chernobyl nuclear reactor remains a serious threat to Europe. Continue reading
In absence of radiation safeguards, India’s contamination could be wider
Experts fear presence of more radioactive sources in Mayapuri, The Hindu, Mumbai, April 25, 2010 “…….So far eight victims have suffered in this month after exposure of radioactive material in Mayapuri. All of them are still in a critical condition with dangerously low platelet counts and depleted bone marrows.Besides this, thousands of people in the area now live in fear. Continue reading
The resource curse of uranium in African countries
A word of advice to our happy-go-lucky leaders: Keep that uranium underground, Jenerali Ulimwengu, Tanzania , 26 April 2010 The East African: “………..we have plenty of evidence of the “resource curse” all the way from Angola to Sudan to Nigeria to Sierra Leone.A typical country afflicted by this curse can count itself lucky if all that it’s left with are gaping holes in the ground and a scorched-earth ecology. Continue reading
A somewhat limited study on uranium mining and groundwater
CU study looks at impact of proposed uranium mine on groundwater, The Coloradoan, BY BOBBY MAGILL • BobbyMagill@coloradoan.com • April 25, 2010 A University of Colorado study may soon shine more light on how Powertech’s proposed uranium mining northeast of Fort Collins might affect groundwater and the aquifers beneath the mine. Continue reading
Impact of radioactive waste on remote communities in Russia
Russian atomic waste endangers the people and environment of far north, EnerPub – Energy Publisher, April 25, 2010by Paul A. Goble The dying off of the numerically small peoples of the Russian north, already taking place because of economic development and climate change, is being accelerated by the mishandling of nuclear materials at power stations and military bases in that region and especially by the lack of secure storage facilities for nuclear wastes there. Continue reading
Groundwater threatened by nuclear plants: public justifiably suspicious
while nuclear plants have permits that allow them to emit material into surface water and the air, they do not have permits that let them release material to groundwater, which is where the tritium is going……………
Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium? NYTimes.com, By MATTHEW L. WALD, April 20, 2010, A panel of experts convened on Tuesday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to discuss how the agency should approach tritium leaks at reactors suggested that the biggest risk that nuclear operators faced was the erosion of public trust…… Continue reading
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