Countries will cheat, with nuclear energy to nuclear weapons
‘The history of the nuclear era adds to the ability of cheaters to get their way…’
Farewell to Nuclear Nonproliferation Khaleej Times Bennett Ramberg 22 December 2009 On November 26 in his final report to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors before retiring after a long distinguished career, Director General Mohamed ElBaradei dared to utter what no other senior public figure would about Iran’s nuclear portfolio:“We have effectively reached a dead end.” Continue reading
Religious and medical anti-nuclear drive
Q&A : ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’ – Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions MELBOURNE, Dec 9 (IPS)
IPS: What can religious and spiritual communities do to meet the challenge of abolishing these weapons of mass annihilation?
SW: We see the issue of nuclear weapons as one of the great ethical issues of our time. Continue reading
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
Opposition in Indian govt to West Bengal nuclear power plant
No To Haripur Nuclear Power Plant, Says Sisir Adhikar indiaserver.com 2009-12-09
Sisir Adhikari the Union Minister of State for Rural Development said that his party was against the setup of nuclear Power Plant in West Bengal’s Haripur in East Midnapore district. The area is thickly populated and also a fertile region for agriculture. Continue reading
$225 billion could be the cost of U.S. nuke waste storage
Report: Spent fuel storage costs may run $225B By BOB AUDETTE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER 9 Dec 09 — If no federal repository for spent nuclear fuel is opened in the next 100 years, the nation’s taxpayers could be on the hook to pay for on-site storage, such as the dry casks at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Continue reading
Nuclear plant must pay up for workers’ radiation exposure
December 9, 2009 Nuclear plant owners fined after contractors suffer radiation exposure in Ireland Daily Commercial News BELFAST, Ireland Operators of the Sellafield nuclear plant were fined $135,000 in court and ordered to pay $46,000 in costs after two contractors suffered radiation exposure.The contractors were drilling through a concrete floor contaminated with plutonium in a waste facility when the incident happened at the Cumbrian reprocessing plant.The men were exposed to higher-than-anticipated levels of radiation in the incident in July 2007,
Angst in Canada over nuclear waste dumping
No one will be forced to accept nuke waste: group By Angela Hall, Leader-Post December 8, 2009 No community will be forced into becoming the site for a nuclear waste repository, Continue reading
Radioactive Import Deterrence Act will stop foreign nuclear wastes
Waste solution Senate must ban radioactive imports Salt Lake Tribune Editorial : 12/04/2009 The U.S. House sent a message to Italy, to Utah-based EnergySolutions, and to the world Wednesday —
the United States will not be a dumping ground for other nations’ radioactive waste. By a vote of 309-112, members wisely approved the Radioactive Import Deterrence Act, which bans radioactive waste imports.
Where to put 15,000 drums of depleted uranium?
DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A U.S. Department of Energy spokeswoman says Nevada has been ruled out as an alternative disposal site for nearly 15,000 drums of depleted uranium from South Carolina currently scheduled to come to Utah.
DOE spokeswoman Lauren Milone says the Nevada Test Site is being excluded from discussions about the waste because the DOE has agreed to conduct a statewide environmental impact statement before accepting any new waste there.
Milone says doing that would probably take at least a year.
Doctors threaten to resign over uranium mining
North Shore doctors threaten to resign en masse over uranium exploration The Montreal Gazette December 4, 2009
MONTREAL Quebec’s Liberal government must stop uranium exploration near Sept Îles and declare a moratorium on uranium mining activities across the province to avoid the mass resignation of 20 doctors in the North Shore town, a Sept Îles doctor said Friday. Continue reading
Earthquakes in Malawi uranium mining area
Malawi shaken by new tremors in uranium mine area Dec 7, 2009 BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Earth tremors hit Malawi for a second day on Monday and police said at least six people had been injured, two seriously, and buildings damaged in the uranium-rich northern Karonga district………… Continue reading
Opposition growing across India to land taken for nuclear plants
Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country Agitations over land acquisitions are spreading like wild fire in the country. merinews CJ: Rupam Banerjee Wed, Dec 09, 2009 PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has expressed serious concern over growing problems of land acquisition for industrial and infrastructural projects in different parts of the country. Continue reading
Over-exposure to medical radiation
FDA says 50 more patients exposed to dangerous radiation at Los Angeles hospital
Health News 8 Dec 09 WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators have identified 50 more patients exposed to dangerous radiation levels from brain scans at a hospital in Los Angeles. Continue reading
Americans complacent about depleted uranium in Iraq
The United States, its abandonment of law and worse Redress Information & Analysis By Christopher King 8 December 2009 – “………….America has surpassed the Nazis, however, in its use of depleted uranium munitions which have spread radioactivity that will last hundreds of thousands of years over wide areas of Iraq.
Cancers and birth defects directly attributable to this are now being seen in Iraq and will continue indefinitely, so it is likely that over time the Iraqi civilian death toll will exceed that of the Nazis. Continue reading
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
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