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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

19 legal challenges against relicensing of nuclear reactors

The contentions filed with the NRC address reactors at nuclear facilities nationwide, including 11 plants in the South: the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar plant in Rhea County, Tenn. and its Bellefonte plant in Hollywood, Ala.; SCE&G’s Summer plant near Jenkinsville, S.C.; NRG’s South Texas plant near Bay City; Luminant’s Comanche Peak plant southwest of Dallas; Southern Co./Georgia Power’s Vogtle plant in Burke County, Ga.; FP&L’s Turkey Point plant south of Miami; Progress Energy’s Levy County plant in Florida and its Shearon Harris plant in Wake County, N.C.; Dominion’s North Anna plant in Louisa County, Va.; and Duke Energy’s Lee plant in Cherokee County, S.C

Concerns grow over risk of U.S. nuclear projects post-Fukushima, Facing South, By Sue Sturgis on August 11, 2011  The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan is still unfolding five months later, with multiple meltdowns and significant radiation releases contaminating communities and farms downwind from the facility. Some nuclear experts are calling it “the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.”

The Fukushima accident is also raising questions about the U.S. nuclear industry’s current plans to build new reactors and re-license old ones.
Today, environmental and public-interest advocacy groups filed 19 legal challenges that ask the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to put the brakes on reactor licensing until it fully incorporates into its regulatory process the lessons learned from Fukushima. Continue reading →

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

UK Supreme Court backs atomic veterans right to appeal

UK nuclear test veterans win leave to appeal, LONDON  Jul 28, 2011 (Reuters) – Ex-servicemen who say they were made ill as a result of being exposed to radiation during British nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s won the latest stage of their battle for compensation on Thursday.

The Supreme Court gave the 1,011 veterans permission to further argue their right to seek damages, the Press Association reported.Veterans blame ill health — including cancer, skin defects and fertility problems — on their involvement in British nuclear tests in Australia, on Christmas Island and in the Pacific Ocean between 1952 and 1958.

The Ministry of Defense acknowledges a “debt of gratitude” but denies negligence. On Thursday, the Supreme Court gave the veterans the go-ahead to appeal against a lower court ruling that the cases were brought too long after the events to be heard…..http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/us-nuclear-test-veterans-idUSTRE76R7LL20110728

July 29, 2011 Posted by | Legal, UK | 1 Comment

UK legal fight continues for nuclear test veterans

Chronic health problems cited by them include cancers, skin defects, fertility problems and birth defects in their children…..In 1998, research from Durham University suggested that one-in-three servicemen died from bone cancers or leukaemia linked to the atomic and hydrogen bomb tests ….”Britain’s nuclear veterans are dying at a rate of around three every month but those who remain say they are determined to continue this battle.”

Nuclear test veterans set for Supreme Court appeal bid, BBC News 28 July 11,Veterans involved in Britain’s nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s are taking their case for compensation to the Supreme Court. More than 1,000 ex-servicemen say exposure to radiation during tests conducted between 1952 and 1958 left them with ill-health. Continue reading →

July 28, 2011 Posted by | Legal, UK | Leave a comment

Vermont Nuclear Plant to close while lawsuit continues

Judge denies Entergy’s injunction request; trial set to begin on Sept. 12, By Randolph T. Holhut/The Commons,18 july 11,BRATTLEBORO—Entergy Corp. has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction to keep the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant open while a lawsuit about its long-term future winds its way through the federal court system. Continue reading →

July 19, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

USA Nuclear Regulatory Commission might be forced to get out of bed with the nuclear industry

 the days of uncontested, rubber-stamp relicensing may be drawing to an end. A new generation of legal warriors, armed with scheduled appeals and hotly debated contentions, have slowed some relicensing procedures to a glacial pace.   Today, relicensing applicants may encounter committed opposition in high places they didn’t bargain for…..

The End of the NRC Rubber Stamp?   OpEd News, By Abby Luby  16 July 11 On Friday, a major victory by New York State upset the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission’s rubber stamp process to relicense the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The historical decision by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruled in favor of a petition served by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that argued the NRC’s environmental review violated the law.

This was the first successful motion of its kind and it heralds the growing trend to battle “business as usual’ when it comes to relicensing aging nuclear power plants who want to stay in business past their 40-year life expectancy. Continue reading →

July 16, 2011 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

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