secrets,lies and civil liberties

Lawsuit reveals nuclear plant’s poor safety record

In the hush-hush nuclear world, such insider details rarely, if ever, become public, but now a lawsuit has made public 2,000 pages of testimony…

‘That’s not OK in a nuclear plant’: Safety concerns at South Dade’s Turkey Point revealed The Palm Brach Post News. By John Dorschner, Jan. 4, 2010 Continue reading →

January 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment

Bury depleted uranium first, check safety later?

Utah Burying Depleted Uranium Before Safety Review « Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 3 (UPI) — Three trainloads of depleted uranium will be buried at a storage site in Utah before experts complete a safety review concerning the issue, experts say. Continue reading →

January 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

Collusion between government and nuclear industry

many companies anticipate decades of assured industrial growth (along with huge windfall profits from the sale of carbon entitlements). For the same reason, governments expect enormous increases in taxes and royalties. Combined, these normally divergent interests have melded into a single influential pro-nuclear constituency.

Canada’s dirty nuclear secret THE GLOBE AND MAIL , by Neil Reynolds 2 Jan 2010 With Atomic Accomplice: How Canada Deals in Deadly Deceit, Mr. McKay documents the official secrecy that has protected Canada’s nuclear industry from public scrutiny for two generations – and demonstrates why Canadian environmentalists have much more to worry about than global warming.It is a damning and alarming indictment – and thoroughly bipartisan, too. Continue reading →

January 2, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Alleged uranium deal between Kazakhstan and Iran

Russia to probe alleged Iran uranium deal with Kazakhstan

Sources: RIA Novosti, Associated Press

December 31, 2009 Washington, (WashingtonTV)—Russia said on Thursday that it had no knowledge of an alleged uranium deal between Iran and Kazakhstan, but it will look into the allegations. Continue reading →

December 31, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Kazakhstan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, uranium | Leave a comment

Pakistan’s secret help to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program

Khan adds to nuclear intrigue Sydney Morning Herald JEFFREY SMITH AND JOBY WARRICK December 29, 2009 NORTH KOREA has built a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicised account by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb program, Abdul Qadeer Khan.It is a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s.Dr Khan also said North Korea might have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with ”maybe 3000 or even more” centrifuges, and that Pakistan helped the country with vital machinery, drawings and technical advice for at least six years. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear deception by South Korea – ignored by the West

Iran never enriched uranium at a level that could only represent an interest in nuclear weapons – but South Korea did.

South Korea let off for nuclear deceptions Wasatch Economics by Gareth Porter posted by rosethorn on December 26, 2009 In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, South Korea | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Russia’s secret history of nuclear radiation testing

Thousands died. These people were used as guinea pigs, tested, and then left to die slowly of cancer

Soviet Human Nuclear Experiments Reported Global changes ruining the world, September 25, 2009 According to recently released reports, some 45,000 people, mainly Soviet soldiers, were deliberately exposed in 1954 to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima just nine years before. Continue reading →

December 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Allegations of atrocities in UK, USA nuclear radiation tests

Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

Babies and Stillborns Used in Nuclear Experiments British newspapers reported that some 6,000 stillborn babies and dead infants were sent from hospitals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South America, the UK and the US between the 1950s and 1970s without the permission of parents for use in nuclear experiments. According to the reports, the US Department of Energy used the bodies and some body parts for tests to monitor radioactivity levels of the element Strotium 90 in humans. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive | 2 Comments

Depleted uranium tested on soldiers in Australia

An Australian royal commission first discovered the use of depleted uranium in atomic tests at Maralinga

Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

UK Admits Soldiers Used in Radiation Experiments The UK Ministry of Defense admitted on 12 May that it exposed British, Australian and New Zealand servicemen to radiation in tests during the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

US sensitive nuke documents leaked on internet

U.S. agencies responsible for nuclear data leak : GAO WASHINGTON Dec 23, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several federal agencies share responsibility for the inadvertent publishing by a government office of sensitive U.S. nuclear power information on the Web last May, Congressional investigators said on Wednesday. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment

Canadian govt carefully tweaks nuclear information

Nuclear safety HARPER BIZARRO (Canada) December 22, 2009 …On January 15, 2008 – in the dead of the night – Stephen Harper and Gary Lunn fired Canada’s world-respected nuclear regulator, Linda Keen.

They then appointed a career bureaucrat to head up the Nuclear Safety Commission. They wanted to silence the regulatory arm of Canada’s nuclear industry. They have succeeded, apparently. Continue reading →

December 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Poor safety, corruption in China’s nuclear program

Nuclear Power Expansion in China Stirs Concerns The New York Times By KEITH BRADSHER 15 Dec 09 inside and outside the country, the speed of the construction program has raised safety concerns.
The last country to carry out such a rapid nuclear expansion was the United States in the 1970s, in a binge of reactor construction that ended with the Three Mile Island accident Continue reading →

December 17, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | China, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Questions on Iran’s nuclear secrets

Leaked ‘memo’ suggests Iran’s nuclear secrets BBC News

By Jonathan Marcus 15 Dec 09
A leaked Iranian memo published by The Times newspaper suggests that Iran was actively working on the components of a nuclear bomb as recently as 2007.

Iran has always insisted its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.

The BBC is unable to verify the authenticity of the document itself but, if is genuine, it reveals some uncomfortable issues for the Iranians……………If these documents are genuine, then even Moscow and Beijing may be far less willing to give Teheran the benefit of the doubt.

BBC News – Leaked ‘memo’ suggests Iran’s nuclear secrets

December 15, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Weapons smuggled in North Korean plane

North Korean plane carrying smuggled arms seized in Thailand Five held in Bangkok over 35-tonne cargo which included rocket launchers, grenades and missiles missiles Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, 13 December 2009 Continue reading →

December 14, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment

Uranium corruption in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan to take former uranium boss to court over thef tKazakh prosecutors have filed a criminal court case against the former uranium boss Dzhakishev over corruption, they said World Bulletin 10 December 2009.………………Charges of illegally selling uranium deposits that had previously caused concerns among foreign investors have not been included in the case and will be investigated separately, the Kazakh Prosecutor General’s office said.

Kazakhstan to take former uranium boss to court over theft [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ]

December 11, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Kazakhstan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, uranium | Leave a comment