UK govt’s secret research into dead nuclear test veterans
The UK Government is battling a High Court compensation bid by 1,000 veterans and widows for health problems.
The Ministry of Defense insists almost none was exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and the high rates of cancer, death and birth defects are a coincidence.
Nuke test veterans health files to be probed after they die, mirror.co.uk, By Susie Boniface 5/09/2010 Scientists keep tabs in secret A nuclear test veteran has discovered the Government has ordered secret research into his health – after he dies. Continue reading
British govt gags debate: delaying tactics as nuclear veterans die
More than 1,000 former servicemen and their families are fighting to win £20million compensation from the Ministry of Defence after being made ‘guinea pigs’ for postwar nuclear tests in the South Pacific and Australia….On average, three survivors are dying each week.
MPs gagged over atom bomb test veterans: 1,000 former servicemen fighting £20m compensation battle, Daily Mail UK, By Ian Drury 31st August 2010 The Commons Speaker is under fire after MPs were barred from asking questions about the treatment of Britain’s nuclear test veterans……… MPs and veterans have accused Mr Bercow’s officials of stifling freedom of speech to avoid embarrassing the Government. Continue reading
Safety lapses at UK’s Trident nuclear weapons facility
Health and safety practices at the UK’s main nuclear weapons base are under intense scrutiny just weeks before it is expected to be granted permission for a multibillion-pound facility to conduct a new generation of radioactive tests.
Nuclear arsenals under scrutiny for safety lapses, fires and flood Group calls for planners to think twice about a major new facility at Trident warhead base at Aldermaston in Berkshire Jamie Doward The Observer, Sunday 22 August 2010 Continue reading
Cold war replay as nuclear boys play with their underwater toys
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War – Telegraph UK, 28 Aug 2010, Russian submarines are hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics not seen for 25 years, Navy chiefs have warned. By Thomas Harding, 27 Aug 2010 Continue reading
Britain can’t really afford its billions pounds nuclear missile system
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Treasury are in a spat over who should foot the 20 billion pound ($31 billion) bill to renew the Trident submarine-based nuclear missile system.
UK defence industry asks who will pay for nuclear deterrent , LONDON Aug 27 (Reuters) – Continue reading
Way behind schedule – UK’s planned nuclear reactors
the companies behind the designs – French consortium Areva, EDF and US firm Westinghouse – had been repeatedly submitting information which was incomplete and late………we could be faced with the farcical situation where the government is letting utilities press ahead with building work for reactors that haven’t been given safety approval.”
UK’s nuclear reactor programme falls behind schedule. Regulator and builders blame each other for construction hold-up as designs await approval Tim Webb , guardian.co.uk, , 25 August 2010 Continue reading
Legal action over UK radiation leak
Prosecution possible over radiation leak at Dounreay, BBC News , 25 Aug 2010, The operators of the Dounreay nuclear site in Caithness could face prosecution over a radiation leak last year which affected a group of workers.Up to nine were understood to have been exposed to higher than expected levels of radioactivity while working with an intermediate level waste container……
BBC News – Prosecution possible over radiation leak at Dounreay
UK’s French built nuclear plants to cost $9 billion
EDF, RWE May Spend $9.3 Billion Per New Nuclear Plant in U.K., Hendry SaysBy Fred Pals and Kari Lundgren – Aug 26, 2010 Utilities building new nuclear power plants in the U.K. may have to spend as much as 6 billion pounds ($9.3 billion) on each plant, according to Charles Hendry, the country’s minister of state for energy…………
EDF, RWE May Spend $9.3 Billion Per New Nuclear Plant in U.K., Hendry Says – Bloomberg
UK nuclear whistleblower silenced, then sacked
Mr Amin claimed that he told MI5 and the CIA of his concerns but, he said, they ignored his evidence and told him to drop his inquiries
Fired, but no charges: man accused of being nuclear whistleblower, The Independent, By Mark Hughes, 24 August 2010, A British customs investigator who was accused of leaking classified information about an international nuclear smuggling ring to two US journalists has been dismissed from his job, despite being told that he will not face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act, it was announced yesterday. Continue reading
Documents reveal poor safety history of Britain’s nuclear arsenal
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the Defence Environment and Safety Board believes budget cuts will make it “increasingly difficult to maintain that the defence nuclear programmes are being managed with due regard for the protection of the workforce, the public and the environment.
Nuclear arsenals under scrutiny for safety lapses, fires and floodGroup calls for planners to think twice about a major new facility at Trident warhead base at Aldermaston in Berkshire Jamie Doward * The Observer, Sunday 22 August 2010
Health and safety practices at the UK’s main nuclear weapons base are under intense scrutiny just weeks before it is expected to be granted permission for a multibillion-pound facility to conduct a new generation of radioactive tests. Continue reading
Military expert declares UK’s Trident nuclear weapons are unnecessary
My personal view is that there is a future without the deterrent.”
(UK) MoD cuts: ‘no need for nuclear deterrent’ Channel 4 News 13 August 2010 As Defence Secretary Liam Fox pledges cuts for the Ministry of Defence, a former Royal Navy commander tells Channel 4 News that Britain does not need its Trident nuclear deterrent. Continue reading
Scotland goes for tidal energy in a big way
“We are at the start of a new industrial boom, akin to the development of the North Sea oil and gas fields,” said Cornelius. “If we receive the same support from all levels of government that the oil and gas industry received to make the North Sea the success that it is, then the future is very bright for marine power and even brighter for Scotland.”
World’s largest tidal turbine unveiledNew 1MW marine energy system by Atlantis to be deployed later this summer guardian.co.uk, Rachel Fielding Friday 13 August 2010 The world’s largest tidal turbine was yesterday unveiled at a facility in Invergordon, Scotland, marking the culmination of a decade of development activity and moving tidal power one step closer to commercial viability. Continue reading
UK nuclear reactors require massive public subsidy
Greenpeace’s Ben Ayliffe said there was no way facilities like the ones at Sellafield in Cumbria and Sizewell in Suffolk could be built without cash from taxpayers. He added: “Chris Huhne can do policy U-turns until he’s dizzy but he won’t be getting any new reactors without a massive public subsidy, which he has repeatedly and publicly ruled out.”
Meltdown: Anti-nuclear activist Chris Huhne forced into humiliating about-face as he promises string of power stations Mirror UK, By Bob Roberts 10/08/2010 Energy Secretary Chris Huhne was accused last night of an astonishing U-turn after promising new nuclear power stations – despite being an anti-nuclear campaigner. Continue reading
How very quickly a politician can reverse his principles!
How could we possibly have thought Chris Huhne was anti-nuclear? By David Hughes Telegraph UK, August 9th, 2010 Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, has been the victim of a terrible misunderstanding, he claimed on BBC’s Today programme this morning. We all believe he’s anti-nuclear power – but he’s not. Dear me, no. His previous position, he insisted, had been “misunderstood” and he is actually in favour of nuclear being part of the UK’s energy mix….
Could this post from his very own web-site on November 5, 2007, offer a clue?…………Ministers must stop the side-show of new nuclear power stations now. Nuclear is a tried, tested and failed technology and the Government must stop putting time, effort and subsidies into reviving this outdated industry. The nuclear industry’s key skill over the past half-century has not been generating electricity, but extracting lashings of taxpayers’ money……
How could we possibly have thought Chris Huhne was anti-nuclear? – Telegraph Blogs
Remembering Nagasaki: British nuclear veterans
Speaking ahead of Monday’s 65th anniversary of the US dropping a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, the servicemen talked about their experience of living through 20 test blasts carried out between 1952 and 1958.
Nagasaki 65 years on: British nuclear test vets push for MoD compensation, Metro.co.uk John Higginson – 8th August, 2010, Britain’s nuclear test veterans who are battling to secure £20million in compensation are urging the government to pay up before any more of them die. Continue reading
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