WHAT Nuclear Power Renaissance?
Nuclear Power Renaissance? Thirty years after Three Mile Island, nuclear is still too risky. But now the risks have shifted from physical to financial. Technology Review Nov/Dec 2009 By Matthew L. Wald “………………the nuclear industry faces tremendous risks, though their nature has changed since 1979. As the possibility of an accident that panics or injures the neighbors has diminished, the likelihood has grown that even a properly functioning new reactor will be unable to pay for itself. Continue reading
Taxpayers slugged for UK’s nuclear cost blowout
Nuclear power plants to increase debt problems?- Debt Fixers (UK) 20 October 2009 The government has drawn up plans to introduce a new tax on electricity bills in order to subsidise the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
Scandalous legacy of depleted uranium
America’s Poison Legacy Pacific Free Press by Dave Lindorff 19 October 2009 Depleted Uranium Weapons:
The Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors caused by the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it has used much more extensively–and in more urban, populated areas–in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War. Continue reading
UK: expensive problem of aging nuclear industry
Nuclear industry: Crumbling stores, leaky plants and the dangers of old age Guardian, by Terry Macalister 20 October 2009
Dealing with the problems of old age lies at the heart of the nuclear industry’s challenge to convince the public of its safety: leaky power plants, crumbling waste stores nearing the end of their lives and overworked inspectors who do not have the time to assess properly the next generation of power stations. Continue reading
Mammography can lead to overdiagnosis
Does Mammography Sometimes Detect Too Much Breast Cancer? National Cancer Institute 20 Oct 09 The argument for screening women for breast cancer with mammography sounds simple: Continue reading
UK Defence Ministry opposing nuclear test veterans
Ministry of Defence bid to dodge nuclear test veterans trial MoD Oracle (UK) 18 Oct 09 Defence chiefs are appealing against a legal ruling in favour of Britain’s nuclear test veterans.They are trying to overturn a judgement in June allowing vets to sue the MoD for negligence.A thousand survivors of the blasts argued the Pacific tests’ fallout left them with cancers and rare disorders, and their children and grandchildren with birth defects. Continue reading
100 percent clean renewable energy soon possible worldwide
Shifting The World To 100 Percent Clean, Renewable Energy As Early As 2030: Here Are The Numbers Science Daily (Oct. 19, 2009) — Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Continue reading
Safety , cost, problems, as nuclear reactors age
Special Report: Energy The Dilemma of Aging Nuclear Plants The New York Times by PATRICIA BRETT October 19, 2009 “……….
A large part of the world’s installed nuclear power capacity is now coming to the end of that designed life span. Continue reading
Olkiluoto III nuclear plant delayed indefinitely
Date of completion for Olkiluoto III nuclear plant still anybody’s guess HELSINGIN SANOMAT 20 Oct 09
This latest announcement moves once again the completion date for the Olkiluoto III project to the unforeseen future. Continue reading
Documentary exposes scandal of France’s nuclear waste
Unclean Energy Truth Out 10 October 2009by: | Libération “Waste, the Nuclear Nightmare,” a documentary by Eric Guéret and Laure Noualhat, produced by Arte France and Bonne pioche. Demain, 20h45, Arte. Continue reading
Dispelling the myth of uranium mining as “clean”
Uranium Mining and the Governor’s Race Appomattox News By Jack Dunavant 19 October 2009 The Richmond Times-Dispatch published a letter last month titled “Mined Uranium Is Harmless Mineral” written by William Schmidt a long-time power company employee. Continue reading
Radiation hazard to Mars travellers
Travel to Mars – on a one-way ticket? Some experts believe it’s the only way to explore the red planet and save NASA By ERIC BERGERHOUSTON CHRONICLE Oct. 19, 2009,
“………….The astronauts we’d send would never come home…………. Continue reading
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
Anti-uranium mining, anti-nuclear movement in India
Mounting pressure against new uranium mining and nuclear power plants NewsPost Online by admin i 19 Oct 09 There is a growing civil society movement against the new uranium mining and nuclear power plants in India. Continue reading
French Polynesians: almost impossible to get nuclear compensation
Nuclear payments blow to French Polynesia ABC News By Geraldine Coutts for Radio Australia Oct 15, 2009 Activists fighting for victims of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are stunned by conditions imposed in a compensation bill by France’s upper house. Continue reading
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