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When is it OK to get workers to drink uranium?

a recommendation that new and clear procedures stipulating when and how it is permissible to carry out medical experiments on workers be established. You read that right. The scientists at Dimona need to be told when and how it’s ok to make workers drink uranium.

More Atomic Tales: Uranium with juice. Nuclear Reaction – 16 Jan 2010
Here’s a story . Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the [Israel’s] Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice¦ Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Sheikha Fatima speaks for women, on renewable energy

“If we do not take care to identify and to use alternative, renewable sources of energy, then the future for our long term development will be bleak indeed.”

Women are committed to development of renewable energy WAM Emirates News Agency :Sheikha Fatima symposium on ”Women and Renewable Energy: Future Alternatives ” in Abu Dhabi 16 Jan 2010
The event was hosted by the GWU under the patronage of Sheikha Fatima.
”The development of renewable energy is something that concerns us all. I believe that it is an issue to which all women, concerned about the future of their children, should be firmly committed”, Sheikha Fatima added. Continue reading →

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, renewable | antinuclear, energy efficiency, renewable energy, renewables | Leave a comment

Nuclear workers had to drink uranium mixture

..the special committee decided only to reprimand verbally the two researchers who initiated the study…

Inside Intel / Uranium, down the hatch Haaretz.com By Yossi Melman 14 Jan 2010 Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice. Continue reading →

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

Allegations fly over Iranian scientist’s assassinationTehran claims west was behind killing of nuclear physicist who was a supporter of Iranian opposition Julian Borger Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, 12 January 2010 and “………He was a particle physicist and a supporter of the Iranian opposition movement, raising the possibility he had become the latest victim in a covert war over Iran‘s nuclear aspirations. It is a war in which scientists find themselves potential soft targets. Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Big five to meet over Iran’s uranium enrichment

Six to meet this week on Iran sanctions: Clinton Google News By Lachlan Carmichael (AFP) – 12 Jan 2010 TRAVIS AIR BASE, California — The United States, Russia, China, Britain France and Germany will meet late this week to discuss sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday. Continue reading →

January 12, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Iraq demanding explanation on Iran’s nuclear plant

Iraq wants ‘explanations’ on Iran’s planned nuclear plant near border Daily Times (Pakistan) 12 Jan 2010 BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government on Monday called for “explanations” from the UN nuclear watchdog on a reported plan for Iran to build a nuclear reactor near the border between the two countries. Continue reading →

January 12, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iraq, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Iraq demanding nuclear compensation from Israel

Iraq to demand Israel compensation over 1981 nuclear reactor strike – Haaretz – Israel News06/01/2010 Iraq to demand Israel compensation over 1981 nuclear reactor strikeBy Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent The Iraqi government will demand compensation from Israel for the 1981 bombing of the nuclear reactor at Osirak, according to an Iraqi newspaper.

A member of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed Naji Mohammed, was quoted as saying in newspaper Al-Sabah that the Iraqi prime minister and Foreign Ministry have approached the United Nations with a demand for compensation….Iraq to demand Israel compensation over 1981 nuclear reactor strike – Haaretz – Israel News

January 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iraq | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

How much of Iran’s nuclear program is hidden in tunnels?

Iran hides nuclear secrets in web of tunnels The Australian January 07, 2010 ?WASHINGTON: Iran has hidden a large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country, shielding its infrastructure from military attack in warrens of dense rock while obscuring the scale of its nuclear effort, according to reports yesterday. Continue reading →

January 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

No answer received to Iran’s proposal for swapping uranium

‘Iran has received no response to its nuclear proposal so far’ Tehran Times Political Desk anuary 7, 2010 TEHRAN – So far Iran has not received any response to its proposal for swapping its low-enriched uranium with 20 percent nuclear fuel in Japan, Brazil, Turkey, or on the Iranian island of Kish, MP Hossein Ebrahimi said on Wednesday. Continue reading →

January 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

Story on Iran’s ‘nuclear trigger’ – a forgery

US. intelligence judges the “nuclear trigger” document to be a forgery,

IRAN: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story truthout 05 January 2010 by: Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service Washington – New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a “nuclear trigger” mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme. Continue reading →

January 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Grave danger if USA strikes Iran’s nuclear sites

EU should steer US away from air strike on Iran IRISH TIMES OPINION : January 5, 2010 The regime in Iran is close to collapse and an attack by the West would only rally support behind it, writes SANDEEP GOPALAN “…….. Recent events in Iran have given a fillip to US hawks and there is talk of military action. This would be a terrible mistake. Continue reading →

January 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

United Arab Emirates could spark off nuclear arms race

UAE Joins The Nuclear Club. Who’s Next? Energy Tribune Dec. 30, 2009 By Andres Cala This week, the United Arab Emirates awarded a $20 billion contract to South Korea’s state power company to build four 1,400 megawatt nuclear reactors by 2020.The UAE’s will be the first Arab country with nuclear power. Continue reading →

December 31, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, weapons and war | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Israel pondering about nuking Iran’s nuke sites?

Israel says regular bomb cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facility http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-28 JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran’s newly-disclosed nuclear facility near Qom can withstand regular bombs. “The facility in Qom is in a bunker and therefore resistant to regular bombs,” local daily Haaretz quoted Barak as speaking to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee………………. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA’s nuclear deal rejected by Iran

Iran rejects nuclear swap deadline set by U.S.http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-24 Iran rejected the December deadline for Iran to accept uranium swap deal.

·Iran is still waiting for response to its nuclear fuel swap proposal.

·U.S. has threatened another UN sanctions if Iran does not abide by the year-end deadline.

TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Wednesday rejected a nuclear swap deadline set by the United States, the state-run IRNA news agency reported……….. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Danger of attack on Iran’s nuclear plants

Ex-Russian PM warns against attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities Ria Novosti 22 Dec 09
Any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would have “horrible and unpredictable consequences,” a former Russian prime minister said on Monday. Continue reading →

December 22, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment