Medical radiation screening – too lucrative to manage sensibly?
Screen test FT By Dr. Margaret McCartney November 9 2009 News from the US, I can scarcely believe it: The New York Times reports that the American Cancer Society now accepts that screening for breast and prostate cancer is not only inefficient, but frequently inaccurate and alarmist. Continue reading
UK facing huge bill for nuclear waste storage
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Note – in the article below, that the UK’sNational Policy
Statements are part of a strategy to strip local authorities of the power of approving big energy projects.
£18 billion nuclear waste storage facility to be built underground TimesOnLine (UK) November 9, 2009 Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor Continue reading
Scotland’s problem of radioactive old nuclear submarines
Argyll, redundant submarines and nuclear waste disposal forargyll.com 2nd November, 2009 Much of the Scottish Media has spent the last two days headlining the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) intention to dump nuclear waste from redundant nuclear submarines in up to 5 locations in Scotland……. Continue reading
Exorbitant cost of nuclear power
The wider lessons from nuclear power cost inflation SCITIZEN (UK) 26 Oct, 2009 “……………. the full costs of nuclear technology are probably well above today’s wholesale electricity prices. We may well need nuclear power but we are going to pay heavily for it. The government’s optimistic noises from 2006 to the middle of this year about the commercial viability of nuclear power have turned out to be wrong…………………. Continue reading
UK govt promoting new nukes despite waste report
Energy fear over nuclear waste dumps Former senior advisers say ministers ‘cherry-picked’ reports to bolster case for new power plants Guaradian.co.uk Alok Jha 25 Oct 09
Former senior government advisers on nuclear power have accused ministers of being “cavalier” and “cherry-picking” their advice to bolster the case for a new generation of nuclear power stations. 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
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
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
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
Secret deal for Scotland to take foreign nuclear waste
SNP turning country into Europe’s ‘nuclear dustbin’
11 Oct 2009
Environmental campaigners have accused the SNP of turning Scotland into the world’s “nuclear dustbin”. Continue reading
Gordon Brown is no environmentalist
UK: A Green Response to Gordon Brown’s Speech Green Christina September 29, 2009 “………Gordon Brown’s environmental credentials were further undermined Continue reading
Gordon Brown touts “atoms for peace” in New York
In Quotes: UN General Assembly
BBC News 23 September 2009
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN
“……………Britain will insist that the onus on non-nuclear states is that, in future, it is for them to prove they are not developing nuclear weapons.Second, Britain will offer civil nuclear power to non nuclear states ready to renounce any plans for nuclear weapons: helping non-nuclear states acquire what President Eisenhower so memorably called “atoms for peace.”
Nuclear power station leaked radioactive waste
Nuclear plant put on final warning after leak
A nuclear power station has been sent a final warning letter after radioactive waste leaked into the sea. Continue reading
Court finds depleted uranium caused soldier’s cancer
Soldier’s cancer linked to Gulf War, inquest
A report is to be sent to the Defence Secretary after an inquest jury found a former soldier’s cancer was caused by service during the 1991 Gulf War.
Telegraph.co.uk By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
10 Sep 2009 The death of Stuart Dyson, a 39-year-old former soldier, from a rare from of cancer was caused by his exposure to depleted uranium used in military munitions, an inquest jury ruled.
The jury heard that Mr Dyson, a lance corporal in the Royal Pioneer Corps, cleaned tanks after the first Gulf War during a five-month deployment to the war zone.
His widow Elaine told the hearing that her husband’s health had deteriorated after he left the Army in 1992 and that he was diagnosed with colon cancer, which spread to his liver and spleen, in 2007.
Mrs Dysion, 41, said her husband, from Brownhills, West Midlands, had been “convinced” before his death that his cancer was linked to his service in the Gulf.
After the verdict was returned at Smethwick Council House, Black Country Coroner Robin Balmain said he intended to send a report on the death to the Secretary of State for Defence.
UK Nuclear power is the last straw
Nuclear power is the last straw
The Guardian, Professor David Elliott 9 September 2009
Nuclear power s not the answer to climate change (Guilty greens admit they could do more, 2 September). Indeed it could well undermine the development of the real solutions – energy efficiency and renewable energy. And yet the Labour government has moved from a position of supporting a programme of replacing older nuclear plants to one of a radical expansion, with talk of a UK nuclear contribution of 35-40% “beyond 2030″…………………..The new policies on nuclear will, I believe, lead to major long-term global security problems. The policies could also undermine energy security and environmental sustainability, since money, manpower and other resources will be diverted away from renewables and energy efficiency.
Letters: Nuclear power is the last straw | Environment | The Guardian
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