USA’s secret Plutonium ‘Bomb Plant’ exposed
Obama’s dirtiest, deadly secret exposed: Plutonium ‘Bomb Plant,’ ‘Green future’ Deborah Dupre, Human Rights ExaminerSeptember 14, 2011 –
Obama’s dirty, deadly nuclear industry secret touted as “green future’ exposed
Joseph Trento, investigative journalist of 35 years and DC Bureau editor has released on Tuesday an introduction to “The Bomb Plant,” a multi-media research report based on two years of probing, that documents America’s most radioactive Superfund site is touted by the Obama administration as the pathway to a green future. The report reveals a MOX plant’s weapons-grade plutonium being built in S. Carolina on top of the region’s most dangerous fault line, and how environmentalists led to be “climate change” protesters joined Big Energy and how critics have been targeted, sidelined or silenced.
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TEPCO hides information from Japan’s govt nuclear agancy
Head of nuclear watchdog criticizes TEPCO over blacked-out documents, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 19 Sept 11 The head of a government nuclear watchdog has criticized Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) for not being transparent enough, after it submitted documents earlier this month that were mostly blacked out. Continue reading
Nuclear proliferation- a profitable crime that goes unpunished
Nuclear proliferation is a crime that pays well. Those involved in the Khan network were made very wealthy for their efforts, and the inability of the international community to effectively punish them has resulted in a missed opportunity to provide a deterrent against future black-market salesmen.
Nuclear Proliferation: The Crime with No Punishment?, TIME,B y Eben Harrell , Sept. 16, 2011 In 2003, the seizure of sensitive nuclear equipment on a ship in an Italian port played a key role in the unraveling of a vast, international smuggling ring led by the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan that supplied nuclear technology to some of the world’s most dangerous regimes. Prosecuting those involved in this proliferation network, however, has proved difficult. Today none of the people associated with the so-called Khan network remain in prison. Continue reading
India: police crack down on Koodankulam anti nuclear protestors
Koodankulam tense, cops step up security, IBN Live 10 Sept 11, TIRUNELVELI: With the announcement of the hunger strike at Idinthakarai near Koodankulam on Sunday, police have initiated preventive measures by detaining a few persons, Continue reading
Virginia uranium pays expensive junket to Canada for politicians and officials
Uranium company flying Va. lawmakers to Canada will spend $3,000 per person, Washington Post, 12 Sept 11, By Anita Kumar The company flying lawmakers and community leaders to Canada this month to see an active uranium mine will spend about $3,000 per person on the trip.
The three-day trip includes a visit to a mine and mill as well as meetings with Canadian officials, including the ministers of energy and natural resources, federal regulators and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, according to an itinerary released Monday in response to a request. Continue reading
Governor of Virginia stacks Energy Commission in interests of polluting industries
McDonnell stacks the deck, Washington Post , 11 Sept 11, By Peter Galuszka, Stacking the deck to boost business interests seems to be the modus operandi of the administration of Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell.
On Sept. 9, McDonnell announced his picks for the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission. It is an important decision because the commission will have significant influence on whether the General Assembly decides to end a decades’ long ban on uranium mining and go forward with a proposed and highly controversial operation near Chatham in Southside.
McDonnell has appointed a group of seven people with heavy ties to the energy industry. Not one is an environmental or civic activist. Not one has a scientific background. The list:……
McDonnell did not choose anyone from the Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council, Union of Concerned Scientists or any of the groups that study the impact of fossil fuel on climate change.
Nor did he select anyone from the activist groups in Southside that are concerned that Virginia Uranium’s plan to mine 119 million pounds of toxic uranium might pollute the area and threaten drinking water supplies, including those of Hampton Roads….. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/post/mcdonnell-stacks-the-deck/2011/03/10/gIQAlkrMNK_blog.html
UK Prime Minister told by Russia to shut up about Litvinenko radiation murder
Kremlin tells Cameron to forget radiation killing of dissident ahead of Moscow state visit, Daily Mail, By JAMES CHAPMAN, 12th September 2011 David Cameron was told to forget Britain’s ‘obsession’ with the radiation killing of a dissident Russian in London last night as he arrived for the first visit by a British prime minister to Moscow in six years.
Mr Cameron wants to focus on Anglo-Russian trade ties, but is under pressure to use the trip to press the Kremlin over the killing of Alexander Litvinenko and broader abuses human rights and state-sponsored corruption.
Four former British foreign secretaries — David Miliband, Jack Straw, Margaret Beckett and Sir Malcolm Rifkind — took the unusual step yesterday of issuing a joint statement urging Mr Cameron to stand up to the Russian regime.
Mr Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in London five years ago in what is alleged to have been a state-sponsored assassination. He died a lingering death. Ever since, Russia has spurned Britain’s demands to extradite Andrei Lugovoy, the former KGB officer who is the chief suspect in the murder.
Mr Lugovoy, now a member of Russia’s parliament, has claimed he was not involved. Mr Cameron will raise the case during extensive talks in Moscow but officials are making clear that the aim is to try to ‘reset’ relations.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking yesterday ahead of Mr Cameron’s arrival, signalled that Russia expects the Prime Minister to abandon the demands for Lugovoy’s extradition. ‘We cannot afford to be guided by politicised and stereotyped approaches inherited from a different era,’ he said. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036288/Kremlin-tells-Cameron-forget-radiation-killing-Alexander-Litvinenko-ahead-Moscow-state-visit.html
Secretive company Glencore now has to come clean, well, a bit, anyway
Secretive Glencore, Swiss- based international company, has a very bad record – connected with fraud, corruption, environmental degradation (- check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore )
Glencore is now more or less forced to reveal some information, seeing that it recently changed from a private company to public. The change was connected to it increasing its share in uranium miner Xstrata . Pretty inportant, as Xstrata is defending an environmental court case run by Friends of the Earth – a FOE win here could be an unwelcome precedent for Glencore’s world-wide activities. – Christina Macpherson
Glencore’s 1st Sustainability Report Shows 18 Deaths, Planet Ark, s 08-Sep-11 Eric Onstad Commodities group Glencore released its first sustainability report on Wednesday showing it paid $780,000 in major environmental fines last year and had 18 fatalities. Continue reading
Virginia Uranium pays politicians for trip to Canada
Local, state lawmakers flying to Canada as part of lobbying push for uranium mining, Washington Post, 6 Sept 11, By Anita Kumar, About 15 local and state lawmakers are flying to Canada this month on all-expenses paid trips as part of an on-going lobbying effort by a company pushing lawmakers to lift a moratorium on uranium mining in the state.
Virginia Uranium invited state legislators and local elected officials from Southside Virginia to visit an active mine in Canada as it looks to mine what is thought to be the largest deposit of uranium in the United States, in south central Virginia.
Larry Campbell, a member of the Danville City Council, said he had planned to go on the two-day trip, but that he changed his mind when some of his constituents told him they thought he was being “bought off.”
Virginia Uranium already sent Sen. Frank W. Wagner (R-Virginia Beach) to Saskatchewan, Canada, this year. The trip is similar to the one about a dozen legislators took this summer to France that came under heavy criticism across the state.
The trips are permissible under Virginia law and must be reported to the state as gifts next year…..
Virginia Uranium hopes to persuade the General Assembly to repeal the nearly three-decade ban on mining at its regular session in January by convincing lawmakers that mining can be done safely. … http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/2011/09/06/gIQAr37P7J_blog.html
Governments’ lies and coverups on nuclear accidents and illnesses
“The government of Japan is lying to its people as well as to the rest of the world about radiation levels at Fukushima. With radiation levels going up, countries like Japan and US have raised the bar on what is considered safe for humans,”
Query on N-accidents stirs up hornet’s nest Anahita Mukherji, TNN | Sep 6, 2011, Times of India MUMBAI: The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), in a reply to a Right To Information (RTI) application, has set the cat among the pigeons.
In response to an RTI query filed by activist Chetan Kothari, asking for details of both major and minor accidents that have occurred at India’s nuclear plants, the nuclear corporation said that there haven’t been any such accidents at India’s nuclear power stations.
Scientists, film-makers and campaigners against the use of nuclear power have rubbished NPCIL’s claim and accused the corporation of lying in its response. Greenpeace India lists 20 accidents at India’s nuclear power plants over the last two decades. Continue reading
How USA’s Department of Energy carefully doesn’t investigate health near nuclear sites
Science can send people to the moon, clone sheep, and genetically engineer tomatoes, but it can’t yet determine if the toxic mix of substances released from the nation’s nuclear weapons production sites made anyone around them sick.
The Isolation of Victims to control the Survey Outcomes – Will they cook the books at Fukushima?, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, A PROTOTYPE FOR CONTROLLING THE HEALTH STATISTICS. 6 Sept 11
The Tennessean Special Report – An Investigation into illnesses around US Nuclear Weapons Sites. DOE Survey and programs frustrate the sick. 2006. Energy Department officials say they have tried to help the ill near the nation’s nuclear weapons and research facilities. But some of those attempts have frustrated and infuriated the ill they’re intended to help. Continue reading
Wikileaks reveals plotting by USA and Australia to remove atomic energy chiefve
US, Australia ‘schemed against IAEA chief’, SBS World News, 31 August 2011 Source: AAP, The United States and Australia schemed unsuccessfully in 2005 to block Mohamed ElBaradei’s election to a third term as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a newly leaked US diplomatic cable shows.
Both countries were unhappy with ElBaradei’s “unhelpful” response to Iran’s nuclear program, but the bid to prevent his re-election to the nuclear regulatory agency’s leadership ultimately failed for lack of international support. Continue reading
China’s former nuclear chief a spy, as well as corrupt?
CHINA’S NUCLEAR-POWER CHIEF: A SPY?, New Yorker, by Evan Osnos August 11 When Kang Rixin, the head of China’s nuclear-power program, was sentenced to life in prison last November for taking bribes, it was a troubling enough piece of news. Given the speed, scale, and ambition of China’s nuclear program—it has more plants in the planning stage than the rest of the world combined—it did not project reassuring evidence that China has shielded this crucial program from the kind of construction-corruption that has dogged the high-speed rail system.
Today brought startling news. Midway through a video leaked on the Chinese Web, a senior military official explains previously unknown details about major spying cases uncovered in recent years, including the fact that bribery was hardly the most serious accusation against Kang. He is accused of selling secrets about China’s nuclear power industry to foreign countries. “Kang’s case can’t be made public because the damage he has done by selling secrets was a lot more devastating than economic losses,” Major General Jin Yinan said in the video. If true, it would make Kang one of China’s highest-ranking figures to be accused of spying… http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/08/chinas-nuclear-power-chief-a-spy.html#ixzz1WZ6kGrJ1
Japan’s crisis of ionising radiation is only just beginning
Slowly, steadily, and often well behind the curve, the government has worsened its prognosis of the disaster. …. sceptics note a consistent pattern of official lying, foot-dragging and concealment. …
areas northwest of the plant have become atomic ghost towns after being ordered to evacuate – too late, say many residents, who believe they absorbed dangerous quantities of radiation in the weeks after the accident…….
many experts warn that the crisis is just beginning
Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl, Japan has been slow to admit the scale of the meltdown. But now the truth is coming out. David McNeill reports from Soma City, The Independent Asia, 29 August 2011
“…….it is the triple meltdown and its aftermath at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 40km down the coast from Soma that has elevated Japan into unknown, and unknowable, terrain. Across the northeast, millions of people are living with its consequences and searching for a consensus on a safe radiation level that does not exist…. Continue reading
New evidence that Fukushima’s reactors were failing BEFORE the tsunami
The explosive truth behind Fukushima’s meltdown, Japan insists its nuclear crisis was caused by an unforeseeable combination of tsunami and earthquake. But new evidence suggests its reactors were doomed to fail, The Independent, By David McNeill in Tokyo and Jake Adelstein, 17 August 201
It is one of the mysteries of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis: How much
damage did the 11 March earthquake inflict on the Fukushima Daiichi
reactors before the tsunami hit?
The stakes are high: if the earthquake structurally compromised the plant
and the safety of its nuclear fuel, then every similar reactor in Japan
may have to be shut down. With almost all of Japan’s 54 reactors either
offline (in the case of 35) or scheduled for shutdown by next April, the
issue of structural safety looms over any discussion about restarting
them. Continue reading
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