Overexposure to medical radiation brings 100s of lawsuits
Hundreds Of Lawsuits Are Filed As CT_Scan Radiation Overdoses Continue, – Santa Clarita Radio, KHTS News, 6 August 2010 Lawyers representing more than 100 clients suffering from radiation overexposure are having their lawsuits against two Los Angeles hospitals and General Electric Co. consolidated in a California courtroom. A Los Angeles Times report on Wednesday added Los Angeles-USC Medical Center and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital to the list of hospitals where overdoses occurred – this time with scanners manufactured by Toshiba.
Move to help nuclear workers exposed to radiation
Workers exposed to radiation may soon benefit from fund, The Washington Post, By Gerry SmithSunday, August 8, 2010; CHICAGO — Four years ago, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama called them “veterans of the Cold War” and pledged to help them receive compensation.But today, many former workers at Blockson Chemical in Joliet, Ill., and their survivors still have not been paid from a fund created in 2000 to make amends for exposing workers to high levels of radiation without telling them or providing adequate protection. Continue reading
Legal action to stop ‘backscatter’ airport radiation scanning
Backscatter technology emits low-dose X-ray radiation to take images that help detect weapons and explosives hidden under clothing, ……, who is there to calibrate them and make sure they are only given the correct amount of radiation?”
Lawsuit Filed Over Airport Scanner Privacy, Health Concerns, Body-Scan Technology | TechNewsDaily, By Samantha Murphy, 06 August 2010 A public interest group has filed a lawsuit against the federal government demanding the suspension of the full-body scanners increasingly being used in airports nationwide. Continue reading
Court action to stop uranium drilling
The groups say the government improperly excluded the vent project from federal regulations, deeming it a “special use” rather than a traditional mining operation.
“The agency thus illegally bypassed the strict permitting and environmental protection requirements of its special use regulations,” the groups claim.
Groups Sue to Block Uranium Drilling in Utah, Courthouse News Service,By SUZANNE ASHE 2 Aug 2010, SALT LAKE CITY (CN) – Three conservation groups want to stop the U.S. Forest Service from allowing a private mining company to drill 16 uranium exploration holes and two 6-foot-diameter vent holes on national forest land in southeast Utah. Continue reading
Legal action against uranium exploration
Conservation groups sue to block uranium exploration | The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2010, A trio of Moab conservation groups has filed suit challenging a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow uranium exploration in the Manti-La Sal National Forest.The organizations — Uranium Watch, Center for Water Advocacy and Living Rivers — say the Forest Service gave Denison Mines Corp. permission to drill 16 exploration holes and two radon vent holes as part of an expansion of the Pandora Uranium Mine without doing a full environmental analysis.Their suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, seeks to overturn the decision to allow the drilling.The U.S. Attorney’s Office had no comment on the lawsuit.Pamela Manson
Conservation groups sue to block uranium exploration | The Salt Lake Tribune
Nuclear technology seller gaoled in Canada
Canadian jailed in Iran ‘nuclear export’ case, BBC News, 30 July 2010 A Canadian court has sentenced a Toronto resident to over four years in prison for violating a United Nations resolution by attempting to export nuclear-related goods to Iran.The items, called pressure transducers, are subject to a UN embargo on nuclear-related exports.Mahmoud Yadegari was arrested after a two-month investigation in 2009.Yadegari is the first person convicted of violating UN anti-nuclearproliferation resolutions against Iran.
US govt embroiled in lawsuits over nuclear wastes
The litigation itself has been expensive for the government. DOJ has spent $29 million in attorney costs, $111 million on experts and $52 million in litigation support costs, with no end in sight.
DOJ in Settlement Talks for Nuclear Waste Cases, The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, David Ingram. July 27, 2010 After more than a decade of litigation with nuclear utilities nationwide, the U.S. Department of Justice is interested in settling claims related to the storage of spent nuclear fuel. Continue reading
Continued battle to save Colorado Valley from uranium mining
Geologists have warned that mining could deplete and contaminate aquifers that discharge into Grand Canyon and that cleaning them up would be next to impossible.
Appeal Filed in Lawsuit to Protect Grand Canyon From Uranium Mining, Center For Biological Diversity, July 12, 2010, GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— Conservation groups and Native American tribes today appealed a federal court decision that denied a request to halt uranium mining just six miles north of Grand Canyon National Park. Continue reading
Atomic veterans die as UK govt uses delaying tractics on compensation
A legal battle is now ensuing while the Ministry of Defence attempts to avoid paying out to the veterans, who are thought to be dying at the rate of three a month.
Newspaper in compensation bid for nuclear veterans, Holdthefrontpage.co.uk 12 July 2010, by Helen LambourneA regional daily newspaper has launched a campaign calling for compensation for veterans of nuclear testing.The Derby Telegraph is urging the Ministry of Defence to compensate those affected by the tests, which took place during the Cold War. Continue reading
Nuclear test veterans die as the law delays
(UK) Test vets may be forced to wait another four years, Burton News , by ROB SMYTH, 9 July 2010, NUCLEAR test veterans may have to wait more than four years for their case to be heard, even if an appeal by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) fails……….. Continue reading
Conviction on transporting nuclear materials to Iran
Canadian convicted of shipping nuclear materials to Iran, Need to know – Macleans.ca, Mahmoud Yadegari tried to send transducers to native Iran , July 6, 2010 A Canadian man was found guilty in a Toronto court on Tuesday of shipping materials to Iran that could be used in nuclear technology. Mahmoud Yadegari is the first person convicted of violating U.N. regulations that restrict the export of certain goods to Iran. Yadegari’s arrest last April followed several unsuccessful attempts to ship transducers to his native Iran. The Toronto man faces a maximum of five years in prison for his offences, which also include convictions on eight other counts, including forgery and violations of the Customs Act.National Post
Canadian convicted of shipping nuclear materials to Iran – Need to know – Macleans.ca
Move to compensate women made ill by nuclear work
women who worked in the Grand Junction offices of the former Atomic Energy Commission have been diagnosed with diseases that would be compensable under the radiation exposure compensation law and related legislation, except for the fact they were employed by the federal government,
Feds not handling women’s uranium claims, GJSentinel.com, By Gary Harmon, July 5, 2010 The clerks and secretaries who worked in the Atomic Energy Commission offices in Grand Junction during World War II and later during the Cold War handled ore samples and were frequently in and around milling products.One of them, Patie Claypoole of Grand Junction, has developed a pulmonary fibrosis, a condition for which she could receive a compassionate payment from the federal government and medical care, except for one thing. She wasn’t a miner, miller or ore hauler, three occupations compensated in the 1991 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Continue reading
Anti Nuclear Protestors Fined in Sweden
Sweden fines activists for nuclear plant break-in The Associated Press:– 2 July 2020 , STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court has ordered 29 Greenpeace activists to pay fines of up to 17,000 kronor ($2,200) each for breaking into the grounds of a nuclear energy plant.
The Uppsala District Court on Thursday convicted the demonstrators of trespassing for climbing a fence of the Forsmark power station in central Sweden last month.The Greenpeace activists included 13 Germans and eight Poles, as well as demonstrators from Britain, France and Nordic countries.
The organization said they had been protesting Sweden’s plan to allow old reactors to be replaced with new ones.In 1980, Swedes voted to phase out the use of nuclear energy, but the current center-right coalition has overturned the decision.
The Associated Press: Sweden fines activists for nuclear plant break-in
Court ruling in facour of anti uranium protestors
Anti-uranium protesters win legal costs from SA Government , ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 30 June 2010, A court has ordered the South Australian Government to pay the legal bills of nine people who were assaulted and unlawfully detained during an anti-uranium protest. Continue reading
India’s Chambers of Commerce call for Nuclear Suppliers to be liable for accidents and delays
The Chamber is also of the view that that there should be a provision in the Bill which allows and entitles victims for higher compensation from Higher Courts. It also proposes that the Government may consider provision for cost over runs due to regulatory delays.
ASSOCHAM seeks clause in civil nuclear liability for precaution against tragedy India Infoline News Service, Jun 17, 2010 Nuclear Supplier may include anybody and everybody who supplies equipments, instruments, spare parts, contractual labor accounting for 5% or above of the total project cost.The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has proposed that all nuclear supplier(s) as well operators subjected to a clause as per which compensation is ensured in an equitable manner Continue reading
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