Virginian group organising to keep ban on uranium mining
Everywhere they mine uranium they have had health problems within about a 50-mile radius,” he said. A Floyd resident commented that cancer and birth defects are up by 81% in Fallujah, Iraq, because of U.S. weapons made with depleted uranium.
Uranium mining: Virginians band together to keep moratorium in place, South West Virginia Today ,By Wanda Combs February 3, 2011 About 40 people attended an informational meeting Thursday night at the Floyd Country Store to learn more about an organized campaign to mine uranium in Virginia. Continue reading
Protestors highlight storm dangers to nuclear plant
“One storm and the beach in front of Sizewell can be gone and the waves will be lapping at the foundations of the nuclear plant.”
Protest blocks Sizewell nuclear power station entrance, BBC News, 2 February 2011, Protesters dressed as fish locked themselves together and blocked the entrance to Sizewell nuclear station in Suffolk for three hours on Wednesday. Continue reading
Transport of plutonium meets huge opposition in Germany
By using MOX, Grohnde will become even more dangerous than other nukes.
The protest was supported by 10 civic action groups across the region
2,200 protest at plutonium shipments from UK to Germany | Indymedia Australia, Diet Simon, 18 Jan 2011, About 2,200 nuclear opponents demonstrated outside the Grohnde power station in central north Germany on Sunday 16 January. The protesters, from very young to quite elderly, squatted outside the nuke in a symbolic action. They demanded that the federal and state governments scrap nuclear transport plans. Continue reading
Jaitapur nuclear plant – protested by 2500 Indian schoolchildren
Last week, district officials visited schools and asked teachers to promote the project among pupils.
Indian
schoolchildren ‘boycott’ over nuclear plan, Google hosted news, (AFP) –12 Jan 2011, MUMBAI — Pupils from 70 schools in the Indian state of Maharashtra have boycotted classes after teachers tried to persuade them to support plans for a local nuclear power station, media reported on Tuesday. Continue reading
Wisconsin doesn’t need expanded nuclear power
Groups question need for nuclear plant power boost By Thomas Content , Journal Sentine, Jan. 8, 2011 Wisconsin doesn’t need expanded power output from the Point Beach nuclear plant because the state has more than enough electricity to meet its needs, Continue reading
Anti Nuclear Movement Successes in 2010
Sometimes victories can be defined as things that didn’t happen. Nuclear Information and Referral Service 30 Dec 10, And, looking back, 2010 was full of such victories. Think about it:
*Once again, the nuclear industry failed to obtain any new taxpayer loans for new nuclear reactor construction–despite, this year, gaining the support of the President of the United States.
*Once again, no new reactors were licensed, and no new reactor designs were certified. The nuclear “renaissance” continues to be a mere mirage in the minds of its backers.
*Once again, no states lifted their existing moratoria against new reactor construction, despite heavy industry lobbying.
Of course, a few things did happen, such as:
*The Vermont legislature voted to close the Vermont Yankee reactor when its license expires in 2012, and Vermont voters added an exclamation point to that when it elected the legislative leader of that fight, Peter Shumlin, to be the state’s new Governor. Continue reading
Nuclear energy a bad idea for Kenya
“The government can explore alternative sources of energy but the last place we want to go as Kenyans is towards nuclear energy,”
Kenya not ready for nuclear energy project: lobby, Daily Nation, 29 Dec 10, An environmental lobby has faulted the quest for nuclear energy. We do not have the capacity to secure nuclear energy plants… Our country does not even have the capacity to secure its borders leave alone engaging in such a toxic and a lethal enterprise,” said Prof Karanja Njoroge, the executive director of the Green Belt Movement.
The group was founded by the 2004 Nobel Peace laureate. Prof Wangari Maathai. Continue reading
Anti nuclear protest at Russian Consulate in India
Activists protest outside Russian Consulate against proposed nuclear plant, Sify News, 22 Dec 10, Scores of activists belonging to the ‘Committee Against Nuclear Plant and To Save Homes, Life and Livelihood’ staged a sit-in protest outside the Russian Consulate here on Wednesday against the setting up of a proposed nuclear power plant. Continue reading
France’s questionable record on nuclear reliability and safety
In August 2008, Sortir du nucléaire described Areva’s radioactive emissions as “very dangerous” and demanded an official safety inspection of its factories. The French nuclear establishment cannot claim to set public fears on this and similar other counts at rest….
Sarkozy’s India Visit: The Nuclear Fallout, 22 December 2010, by: J. Sri Raman, t r u t h o u t“….What, however, is the French record in this particular field [nuclear public acceptance,reliability and safety] ? Continue reading
Over 90% of Australians want renewable energy, with women strongly against nuclear
More power to the people, even if they cannot agree Ross Neilson The Daily Telegraph * December 22, 2010 AUSTRALIAN women hate nuclear power. Men don’t mind it, but women would rather use candles. This is the startling finding of Auspoll’s latest research, a poll of 1500 Australians’ attitudes on energy generation. Australians were often divided along gender lines. Continue reading
Despite 10,000 police, protestors again halt German nuclear waste train
The authorities were estimated to have fielded 10,000 police to thwart the protests. The anti-nuclear movement argues that nuclear power is unsafe because there is no certain way of storing the waste for centuries and ensuring it does not pollute the environment.
“NO” to Germany as a “toilet for nuclear wastes”
They warned against Germany becoming a “nuclear toilet” or dumping ground for atomic waste.
Anti-nuclear protesters call Germany ‘nuclear toilet’ Deutsche Welle by Joanna Impey 11.12.2010 Demonstrators have gathered in the north-eastern German town of Greifswald to protest against the government’s nuclear policy ahead of another transport of nuclear waste from German and French research facilities.
Around 2,000 demonstrators gathered in the German town of Greifswald on Saturday ahead of next week’s planned nuclear-waste transport to the nearby storage facility in Lubmin. Continue reading
Little Goliad takes on uranium mining Goliath
Goliad citizens to protest TCEQ hearing on uranium drilling, Victoria Advocate, 12 Dec 10, GOLIAD – A bus full of concerned citizens will travel to the state capitol on Tuesday to protest Uranium Energy Corporation’s proposed permit to drill for uranium in the county. Continue reading
Flagstaff City Council against uranium mining near Grand Canyon
AZ city opposes uranium mining near Grand Canyon, Bloomberg. Dec 11, 2010 By The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The City of Flagstaff has joined in opposing uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.The City Council passed a resolution this week supporting Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision to ban any new hard-rock mining claims in a 1 million-acre area outside the national park’s boundaries.
His administration is studying whether mining on those lands should be permanently prohibited.The city’s resolution says that mining will almost certainly have a detrimental effect on the economic well-being of Flagstaff.Northern Arizona’s American Indian tribes oppose uranium mining on their reservations and in the area….AZ city opposes uranium mining near Grand Canyon – Bloomberg
50,000 anti-nuclear protestors in Germany having a global impact
the growing scope and international success of CASTOR protests proves that the problem of nuclear waste, and nuclear energy as a whole, is global in its nature….
Thousands attend unprecedented anti-nuclear protests in Germany: Local action achieves global impact. Bellona, 19 Nov 10, GORBLEN, Germany – The largest and longest in a series of direct anti-nuclear protest actions, CASTOR 2010 started on November 5 in France and ended five days later in Gorleben, Germany Continue reading
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