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Court action in Canada over approval for nuclear reactors

 federal environmental assessment (EA) of the new reactors is flawed for several reasons, including:

  • it failed to examine a specific reactor or cooling water technology;
  • it failed to consider the long-term environmental effects of radioactive waste; and
  • it failed to look at alternatives to the project, such as green energy…..

 Environmentalists go to court to halt new Ontario nuclear reactors, Northumberland View, Sep 29, 2011  Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Greenpeace Canada, and Ecojustice, Waterkeeper.ca Weekly

Risks to Lake Ontario and surrounding communities unclear after flawed assessment

— Environmental groups have asked a federal court to stop government agencies from approving construction of new nuclear reactors at Darlington until an environmental assessment is fully completed and shows the project won’t negatively impact the environment or human health as required by law. Continue reading →

October 1, 2011 Posted by | Canada, Legal | Leave a comment

Darlington nuclear review unsatisfactory, – more study needed

Court asked to order Darlington nuclear review, The Star.com John Spears, 29 Swept 11,  A federal panel failed to complete the job of reviewing the environmental impact of new reactors at the Darlington nuclear station, four environmental groups have told a court.

As a result, no further permission should be granted toward letting the project continue until the panel finishes its job, the groups ask. They’ve filed an application with federal court, seeking an order sending the issue back to the review panel. Continue reading →

September 30, 2011 Posted by | Canada, Legal | Leave a comment

Lengthy, expensive wrangle over uranium spill ship

as a heavy metal, uranium is also toxic in the same way as lead or mercury. The compound is certainly not safe to be ingested or inhaled, and cleaning it up requires specialized knowledge and equipment, 

Uranium spill ship moored in limbo off North Vancouver, Empty ship for sale by bankrupt owners while cargo’s costs subject of civil suit, By James Weldon, North Shore News September 25, 2011 A ship that made headlines this year when a large amount of radioactive cargo spilled in its hold has wound up in limbo off North Vancouver while the owners duke it out in court….. Continue reading →

September 26, 2011 Posted by | Canada, Legal | Leave a comment

USA’s endless wrangle over its mounting nuclear waste

Yucca Nuclear Waste Wars, Aol Energy, By , September 19, 2011“………Utility commissioners renewed their request to an appeals court to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make a decision on whether spent nuclear fuel can be safely stored at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Continue reading →

September 21, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Entergy company argues that nuclear safety less important than Atomic Energy Act rules

Local resistance to the plant hardened after leaky pipes seeped radioactive material into the groundwater in 2010. If Vermont succeeds, it would be the first U.S. state to shut a nuclear power plant that had received an extended operating permit from the NRC….

“The Atomic Energy Act preempts any effort to shutdown Vermont Yankee for reasons of nuclear safety,” Entergy lawyer Kathleen Sullivan said.

Entergy, Vermont battle over nuclear plant’s fate, Sep 12, 2011, Trial to decide fate of 39-yr-old plant By Zach Howard BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Sept 12 (Reuters) – Power company Entergy faced off against the state of Vermont in U.S. court on Monday to fight a landmark effort to force the closure of its aging nuclear power plant. Continue reading →

September 13, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Nuclear company Exelon sued over child’s brain cancer

The demand came about after the parents of a girl sued Exelon claiming their daughter developed brain cancer as a result of living close to the nuclear plant,  Dresden Generating Station in northern Illinois.

Judge Orders Exelon to Divulge Radiation Data in Child Brain Cancer Lawsuit, AllGov – News, -Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky, September 03, 2011, Energy company Exelon has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over data regarding radiation leakage from one of its power plants. Continue reading →

September 5, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | 1 Comment

Nuclear power company Exelon in court over child’s cancer

Plant Must Disclose Data to Fight Cancer Lawsuit, Courthouse News serBy JACK BOUBOUSHIAN CHICAGO (CN), 3 Sept 11 – The parents of a girl who developed brain cancer can access over a decade of data on an Exelon power plant they claim discharged harmful radiation, a federal judge ruled, but the energy giant can withhold certain other information.
Joseph and Cynthia Sauer say their daughter, Sarah, was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma, a highly malignant brain tumor, roughly three years after the family moved to Grundy County, where Exelon operates the Dresden Generating Station and Unitech Services Group has a nuclear facility.
They claim that radioactive discharges from the plants traveled through the groundwater, causing Sarah’s cancer……..
Courthouse News Service

September 5, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Radiation carelessness – 6 Indian professors charged

6 Delhi University teachers face charges. The Asian Age, Sep 03, 2011 |  The Delhi police on Friday filed a charge sheet in a city court against six Delhi University professors in the 2010 Mayapuri radiation case for endangering lives by auctioning an radioactive gamma irradiator without following mandatory precautions.

The chargesheet, filed before metropolitan magistrate Lovleen, covers Delhi University teachers including the then head of chemistry department V.S. Parmar and the then dean of sciences Roop Lal.
Besides them, Rakesh Kumar, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Prasad and Rita Kakkar have also been chargesheeted under various penal provisions dealing with causing death by rash and negligent acts and causing grievous hurt.
The court is likely to take cognisance of the probe report on September 21. http://www.asianage.com/delhi/6-du-teachers-face-charges-919

September 3, 2011 Posted by | India, Legal | Leave a comment

Death sentence for man convicted of killing Iranian nuclear scientist

‘Mossad assassin handed death penalty’ PRESS TV 28 Aug 11, Iran’s judiciary spokesman says the man convicted of assassinating Iranian nuclear physicist Masoud Ali-Mohammadi in 2010 has been handed the death sentence.

“According to the verdict of the Islamic Revolution Court the death verdict of terrorist Majid Jamali Fashi, who assassinated martyr Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, has been announced,” IRNA quoted Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei as saying on Sunday.  He said that Jamali Fashi has been found guilty of Moharebeh (waging war against god) and Fesad fel Arz (spread of corruption on earth).

The prosecution session of the defendant was held on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 in Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolution Court during which the defendant confessed to having been funded and supported by Israeli agents in assassinating the Iranian professor.

Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, was killed when an explosive-laden motorbike was detonated with a remote-controlled device near his home in the Qeytariyeh neighborhood of northern Tehran on January 12, 2010.

Upon comprehensive investigations, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said it had dismantled an Israeli network comprising of Israeli-trained spies and terrorists, and arrested the main perpetrators in connection with the assassination of Ali-Mohammadi. …….

http://www.presstv.com/detail/196203.html

August 29, 2011 Posted by | Iran, Legal | Leave a comment

Real or show trial? – guilty plea in assassination of Iran nuclear scientist

Man pleads guilty to assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran accused Majid Jamali-Fashi in suspected show trial of ‘Israeli sponsored’ murder of Masoud Ali-Mohammad, , guardian.co.uk,  23 August 2011 A man accused by Iran of carrying out an assassination “sponsored and designed by Israel” has pleaded guilty to the murder of an Iranian “nuclear scientist”. Continue reading →

August 25, 2011 Posted by | Iran, Legal | Leave a comment

Vermont Yankee – nuclear plant’s lawyers trying to suppress witnesses in court action

Entergy tries to block Vt. witnesses in nuke trial  Houston Chronicle, August 22, 2011, BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Lawyers for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s owners are trying to block three witnesses for the state of Vermont from testifying at the upcoming trial that could determine the fate of the plant.

Entergy Corp. is suing Vermont to block the state’s efforts to shut Vermont Yankee down when the plant’s initial 40-year license expires next March. The plant has won federal approval for a 20-year license extension, but Vermont is moving to shut the reactor down.

The Brattleboro Reformer (http://bit.ly/nHL97P ) says Entergy has asked Judge J. Garvan Murtha to bar former federal regulator Peter Bradford, consultant Bruce Hinkley and former Vermont regulator William Steinhurst from offering testimony about the preemptive scope of the Atomic Energy Act, the federal law governing nuclear power….Entergy tries to block Vt. witnesses in nuke trial – Houston Chronicle

August 23, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Legal action planned against uranium mining in Tanzania

LHRC’s warning over uranium  
The Citizen, , 15 August 2011 23:13
By Bernard Lugongo, The Citizen Reporter, Dar es Salaam. The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) is planning to take the government to court should it go ahead with uranium mining projects in Bahi and Manyoni districts in Dodoma and regions respectively.

The LHRC cautioned yesterday that it was against the projects because they would lead to serious health and environmental impacts on the people living in the area…….

LHRC also asked the government to learn from other nations, such as Niger, that have already experienced negative effects of uranium mining…..thecitizen.co.tz/news/4-national-news/13781-lhrcs-warning-over-uranium.html

August 16, 2011 Posted by | AFRICA, Legal, Uranium | Leave a comment

Court rules compensation for soldier exposed to depleted uranium

DEPLETED URANIUM CONTINUES TO CLAIM VICTIMS, 14 AUGUST 2011  VOICE OF RUSIA  Kosovo, (Pal Telegraph) – A court in Cagliari in Italy has ruled that the Ministry of Defence must pay a half million euros in compensation to the family of a soldier who died from exposure to depleted uranium in NATO bombs that were dropped on Kosovo.

Depleted uranium is used in rockets and bombs for increasing their piercing capacity. It is slightly radioactive and highly toxic. The first Italian death from exposure to it was reported in 2001.

NATO widely used DU munitions during its 1990s campaigns in Kosovo and Bosnia.http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/world-news/9844-depleted-uranium-continues-to-claim-victims.html

August 15, 2011 Posted by | depleted uranium, Italy, Legal | Leave a comment

Legal challenges to Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval for new reactor

On Thursday, 26 public interest and environmental groups filed challenges to the NRC safety evaluation report. 

NRC clears AP1000 nuclear reactor design; environmental groups balk, Tampa bay.com By Ivan Penn,   Aug 11, 2011 A Nuclear Regulatory Commission report cleared the AP1000 reactor Progress Energy plans to use for its new plant, but environmentalists want further public review before the agency gives the unit final approval. Continue reading →

August 12, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Parents bring lawsuit to challenge Japan’s handling of nuclear radiation crisis

Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril, NYT, Norimitsu Onishi reported from Fukushima, and Martin Fackler from Tokyo. Ken Belson and Kantaro Suzuki contributed reporting from Tokyo. 9 Aug 11, FUKUSHIMA, Japan —”……..In Koriyama, a city about 40 miles west of the nuclear plant, a group of parents said they had stopped believing in government reassurances and recently did something unthinkable in a conservative, rural area: they sued. Though their suit seeks to force Koriyama to relocate their children to a safer area, their real aim is to challenge the nation’s handling of evacuations and the public health crisis.

After the nuclear disaster, the government raised the legal exposure limit to radiation from one to 20 millisieverts a year for people, including children — effectively allowing them to continue living in communities from which they would have been barred under the old standard. The limit was later scaled back to one millisievert per year, but applied only to children while they were inside school buildings.

The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Toshio Yanagihara, said the authorities were withholding information to deflect attention from the nuclear accident’s health consequences, which will become clear only years later.

“Because the effects don’t emerge immediately, they can claim later on that cigarettes or coffee caused the cancer,” he said…..http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/asia/09japan.html?_r=1&hp

August 12, 2011 Posted by | Japan, Legal | Leave a comment

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