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Did the US abduct Iran’s nuclear scientist?

Iran nuclear scientist ‘abducted by US’ BBC News 8 Dec 09
Iran has accused the US of abducting one of its nuclear scientists who has been missing since June.

Shahram Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia while on a Muslim pilgrimage. Continue reading →

December 11, 2009 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , | Leave a comment

AREVA secretly continuing nuclear waste shipments to Russia

AREVA resumes nuclear waste shipments from France to Russia Nuclear Reaction 10 Dec 09 France has sent 33,000 tonnes of nuclear waste to Russia for reprocessing since 2006?  How much of that has come back to France? A mere 3,090 tonnes. That’s less than 10%. The rest is dumped and abandoned in places like the ‘closed’ city of Seversk, the nuclear waste storage facility in Siberia. Some of it is even stored in open air car parks. This is the fabled nuclear safety we’ve heard all about. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by | 1, France, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

India-Russia deal on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel

India and Russia to sign key nuclear agreement Gulf Times 6 Dec 09  Agencies/Moscow India and Russia will today sign an umbrella agreement for expanding civil nuclear co-operation that will give New Delhi the right to reprocess spent fuel, a deal that will take their pact “far beyond the 123 agreement” inked with the US, a top official said yesterday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here on a three-day visit…………… Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by | 1, India, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , | Leave a comment

Secrecy in India about troubled nuclear industry

India’s atom state The Daily Mail Ramachandra Guha 7 Dec 09 THE most secretive institution in India is the Atomic Energy Commission. Although its power plants profess to produce goods for the benefit of the public, they are not judged by the standards of profitability and accountability that the market imposes on other industries. Continue reading →

December 7, 2009 Posted by | 1, India, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Belated information on nuclear radiation leak

Exelon draws criticism for late notice on TMI incident

istock analyst (Source: The York Dispatch)trackingBy Carl Lindquist, The York Dispatch, Pa.

Nov. 24–-Exelon Corp. is facing criticism for waiting hours to inform local officials about an alarm Saturday signaling increased airborne radiation at its Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

China: No civil rights for nuclear whistleblower

Australian Uranium to China, a Worry for Many Reasons Second shipment of uranium heads to Australia, environmental whistleblowers still in jail By Shar Adams Epoch Times Staff 18 Nov 09 AUSTRALIA—Sun Xiaodi, a warehouse manager at China’s No. 792 uranium mine in Gansu Province, was ignored when he first began to report on corruption and radioactive contamination by mine operatives in 1988. Continue reading →

November 19, 2009 Posted by | 1, China, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , | Leave a comment

2 SoCal nuke plant workers file federal complaints

2 SoCal nuke plant workers file federal complaints Mercury News.com The Associated Press : 11/18/2009  SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—Two supervisors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant have filed federal complaints claiming they suffered retaliation for reporting safety violations. Continue reading →

November 19, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

Iranian public unaware of facts on nuclear program

Iranians wrongly support nuclear program: analyst

Azerbaijan, Baku,   06.11.2009 /Trend News, T.Konyayeva/

The Iranians support the development of the country’s nuclear program and consider the issue to be a matter of pride, but know neither its possible military orientation nor its real price, Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah told Trend News in an e-mail. Continue reading →

November 10, 2009 Posted by | 1, Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Murky history of nuclear waste dumping

Tennessee must stop dumping of nuclear waste here TENNESSEAN.COM November 6, 2009 Shifting a problem from one place to another, rather than solving it, never works. Yet, it keeps happening. Continue reading →

November 7, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australian nuclear agency faked poll results

secret-agentANSTO turn nuclear poll “NO” into “YES  Scott Ludlam  26th October 2009,  The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been caught out blatantly lying over the results of its own survey which showed overwhelming rejection of nuclear power by Australians. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , | Leave a comment

Spanish govt secretive over aging nuclear reactor

Greenpeace takes action over Spanish nuclear panel Oct 19, 2009  ]MADRID (Reuters) – Environmental group Greenpeace says it took legal action on Friday against the government and the nuclear regulator for alleged delays in setting up a panel on nuclear safety with public participation Continue reading →

October 20, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, Spain | , , , | Leave a comment

UK govt will not debate costs of nuclear power

Ministers refuse to attend debate on price of nuclear power  Terry Macalister * The Guardian, 19 October 2009

The government has refused an invitation to attend a public debate on the cost of new nuclear power today, which will be attended by industry figures, academics and many other interested parties. Continue reading →

October 19, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK | , , , | Leave a comment

EDF and AREVA send “really dirty” radioactive stuff to Siberia

EDF ‘sends used nuclear material’ to Siberia EDF, the French firm which owns eight of Britain’s nuclear power stations has shipped hundreds of tons of used radioactive material to Russia.

Telegraph.co.uk By Henry Samuel in Paris
13 Oct 2009 Continue reading →

October 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, France, secrets,lies and civil liberties, wastes | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Deception surrounds nuclear waste shipments to Russia

Recycling Atomic WasteNuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Carparks  SPIEGEL ONLINE 13 Oct 09 The largest utility company in Europe, Électricité de France, has been accused of storing nuclear waste in an open air car park in Siberia. Continue reading →

October 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, France, secrets,lies and civil liberties, wastes | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Secrecy is a worry, with Nuclear Power Operations

Nuclear industry group works behind the scenes AUGUSTA CHRONICLE>COM By Walter C. Jones | Morris News Service October 12, 2009 ATLANTA — Construction of two reactors at Plant Vogtle in Burke County will be overseen not only by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also by a little-known organization that has become a powerful influence in the nuclear power industry. Continue reading →

October 13, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

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