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India’s nuclear plants will be very slow in coming

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Natalie Obiko Pearson / Bloomberg 10 Dec 09

Mumbai: India has deferred by 15 years its target to build 40,000MW of nuclear power capacity amid policy delays, an official at a state-owned utility said. Continue reading →

December 11, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Time we all woke up to the pro-nuclear con!

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On today’s page I include an article on India and the planned nuclear reactors there. I was struck by the fact that it will be a “multi-billion dollar market to American firms” . But, at the same time, those firms want to make sure that the Indian government (i.e the Indian taxpayer) will pay for any “industrial accident”. (Quote ‘ India’s multi-billion-dollar nuclear market to American firms. US firms already worry over delays such as writing a new Indian law to limit US firms’ liability in case of an industrial accident’)

The nuclear industry wants the money – but not the responsibility. They must think that the danger is important, to be concerning themselves so much about such liability. Yet at the same time, they’ll tell us all that the industry is so very safe.

Do we take note of these contradictions? Is this a new and so much more sophisticated version of Western colonial oppression?

December 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes, India, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive | 2 Comments

Nuclear a contributor, not a solution, to global crisis

Can nuclear power be green and safe?

Socialist Worker Online Tony Staunton Dec 09 – the persistent problems with nuclear power

The threat of climate change has led some in the environmental movement to back nuclear power as a green source of energy.

But nuclear power is not part of the solution – it is part of the problem. Continue reading →

December 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, climate change, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Australian economist counters the nuclear fallacies

Get Ready For These Nuclear Fallacies New Matilda By Mark Diesendorf 7 Dec 09 “…. With the election of Tony Abbott as Opposition leader, a renewed burst of pro-nuclear propaganda is being spread by some of his colleagues, building on the existing campaign by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and other vested interests. Many fallacies and lies are being disseminated to the media and the public. Here are refutations of the most common ones. Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation | Leave a comment

UK govt dismisses its own experts’ nuke waste advice

Nuclear “Smoke and Mirrors” in Lancaster virtual-lancaster.net news blog 4 Dec 09 Lancaster Town Hall recently played host to some very clever nuclear smoke and mirrors from the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the form of a slick travelling exhibition promoting extensive new nuclear build at Heysham. But despite government assurances on display that arrangements exist or will exist for the long term management of radioactive waste generated by Britain’s civil nuclear program, those claims have now been challenged by experts on the issue. Continue reading →

December 5, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Doubts about new nuclear push

What nuclear ‘renaissance’? ‘Major concerns’ about new nuclear reactor designs
Greenpeace 28 Nov 09 Do you know many companies like the nuclear industry who have only one product in their catalogue? There was Ford and the Model T, but that was 100 years ago, and they at least knew how to build and sell it. Continue reading →

November 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, spinbuster | antinuclear, AREVA, EDF, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Australian shareholders protest BHP’s uranium mining

BHP chief takes on shareholder activists ABC Radio PM Annie Guest reported this story on November 26, 2009

The protestors outside and shareholder activists inside raised concerns about uranium mining and storage… Continue reading →

November 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear lobby hiring “green” spruikers

Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine OpEd News by Harvey Wasserman 25 Nov 09 “…….the hype about alleged green support for new reactors. Latest is a carefully contrived piece of industry fluff from one Anthony Faiola, whose “Nuclear Power Regains Support” has just been featured atop the Washington Post. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Climate change answer is sustainability, not nuclear

Nuclear power as the solution to our carbon emissions problem? Biocitizen By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 24, 2009 Today we learn, courtesy of the Washington Post, that “nuclear power is the “new” solution to humanity’s carbon emissions problem”. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, renewables | Leave a comment

Grand global hogwash about nuclear power

‘We can lead construction of a new global order’ Public service.co.uk November 17, 2009 The UK can shape the world of the future by leading in global co-operation, the Prime Minister said in his annual speech on foreign policy at the Lord Mayor’s banquet. Gordon Brown – “………..Britain must continue to lead the renewal of a grand global bargain between nuclear weapon and non-nuclear weapon states. A fair and balanced deal in which non nuclear weapons states must accept clear responsibilities to end proliferation by renouncing nuclear weapons in return for the right to access civil nuclear power;…..

‘We can lead construction of a new global order’ – Public Service

November 18, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Christina's notes, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

The myth of France’s ‘nuclear solution’ to climate change

French Nuclear Madness won’t save the climate Baltic Sea, 7th Space International 16 Nov 09 — Today six activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise boarded the cargo ship Happy Ranger in the Fehmarn Belt between Denmark and Germany. The activists are carrying banners reading “Nuclear Madness, made in France”. Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Finland, spinbuster | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Patrick Moore – paid nuclear spruiker, ignores cost isses

Nuclear power industry is plagued by problems the Philadelphia Inquirer Nov. 10, 2009 Patrick Moore’s recent op-ed (“Old foes welcome clean fuel,” Thursday) is long on optimism and short on facts. Continue reading →

November 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive | Leave a comment

Britain’s nuclear future very dubious

A bright nuclear future: true or false? Britain has identified 10 ‘suitable sites’ for next-generation nuclear power plants. Here’s a list of awkward questions Guardian.co.uk, by Jeremy Leggett 10 Nov 09 Continue reading →

November 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, renewables | Leave a comment

Examining the myth of nuclear and ‘baseload power’

Intermittency and you Do we need nuclear and coal plants for baseload power? Grist by David Roberts 9 Nov 09 “….Matt Yglesias made the point that only socialist state control seems capable of creating a robust nuclear power industry. After all, the only countries building nuke plants these days are the ones where governments are making the decisions………… Continue reading →

November 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, renewableenergy, renewables | Leave a comment

Polluting industries muscle in on govt and UN policy

revealed-polluters-fear-tactics-on-climate Brisbane Times MARIAN WILKINSON AND FLINT DUXFIELD

November 6, 2009

BIG greenhouse polluting companies around the world, employing thousands of lobbyists, are exerting heavy pressure on governments to weaken climate change laws at home and slow progress on an international climate agreement in Copenhagen, a global investigation reveals. Continue reading →

November 6, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, climate change, spinbuster | antinuclear, climate change, Copenhagen, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment