Growing medical concern over radiation and children
Health Study of Children Raises Concerns Over Radiation, New York Times, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 3, 2011 The first large study on the use of medical radiation in children says that the average child will get more than seven radiation scans by age 18. Most of them involve X-rays. But there is growing concern about CT scans, which entail far more radiation and can raise the risk of cancer. More than 3 percent of children got two or more CT scans. “That’s particularly concerning,” said Dr. Adam Dorfman of University of Michigan Medical School, the lead author of the study, which appeared Monday in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Study of Children Raises Concerns Over Radiation – NYTimes.com
Navajo victims of uranium mining
why should they [the Navajo] be victimized from another wave of uranium mining?”
A legacy of uranium, a prayer for healing | The Salt Lake Tribune, by Judy Fahys, 2 Jan 2011, Monument Valley, Utah • The sickness in Elsie Mae Begay’s family troubled her for a long time. So she turned to a Navajo medicine man.The healer took measure of the family settlement here and told her the poison was in the dust kicked up by the wind that sometimes rips through the desert. In years to come, environmental scientists for the tribe and the U.S. government would confirm that diagnosis in their own way, saying the family was at risk from radiation left over from uranium at the Skyline Mine on the mesa above the homes…….. Continue reading
Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future targeting South Carolina for waste dump?
South Carolina might be forced to take on an even larger nuclear waste role than it already has.
Blue Ribbon panel to tour SRS, look for solution, The Augusta Chronicle, 3 Jan 2011, Group tasked with finding answer for waste problem By Rob Pavey.In terms of nuclear issues, the eyes of the nation will be on Augusta this week as the Obama Administration’s Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future visits Savannah River Site and Augusta. Continue reading
USA’s blatant double standards on Israel’s and Iran’s nukes
The rest of the world sees it and any American in the know sees it. Here we are demanding that Iran gives up its peaceful nuclear program, which is in compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel is basically giving the orders through AIPAC and its lobby in America. It is unacceptable. ……
VIDEO PressTV – Israel’s nuclear ambiguity Israel’s nuclear ambiguity, Press TV 2 Jan 2011, Tel Aviv has a position of ambiguity when it comes to its nuclear program, although the UK and former Israeli technician Mordechai Vanunu have made it clear that Israel has a large nuclear arsenal. Continue reading
Together, China and USA could make renewable energy soar
China’s rise offers a new and crucial opportunity. Paired, the countries can float a tremendous clean energy market that could buoy the industry worldwide – or sink it if they fail…….
China & The US: Opportunity or Threat in the Green Revolution?, Renewable Energy World Magazine Article, By Elisa Wood, December 29, 2010 The number of green relationships being established between the US and China is on the increase but does that mean these two giants can see past their differences? Continue reading
2010 year of big potential for renewable energy
other countries have amazing potential as well. One report demonstrated how Australia could be completely powered by renewables — yes, 100 percent — by 2020…….It remains to be seen if 2011 will feature significant progress toward renewable energy goals, or just another year’s worth of reporting on its potential.
2010 Renewable Energy Recap: Big Potential, Slow Progress, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec 10, This year started with good news on the renewable energy front, with reports on impressive 2009 growth in wind power installations. 2010, though, wasn’t quite as great a year in terms of the number of turbines and solar panels installed in the US and around the world. Instead, it was the year of potential: report after report showing just how much power the world really could get if all our renewable energy dreams are realized. Continue reading
Anti Nuclear Movement Successes in 2010
Sometimes victories can be defined as things that didn’t happen. Nuclear Information and Referral Service 30 Dec 10, And, looking back, 2010 was full of such victories. Think about it:
*Once again, the nuclear industry failed to obtain any new taxpayer loans for new nuclear reactor construction–despite, this year, gaining the support of the President of the United States.
*Once again, no new reactors were licensed, and no new reactor designs were certified. The nuclear “renaissance” continues to be a mere mirage in the minds of its backers.
*Once again, no states lifted their existing moratoria against new reactor construction, despite heavy industry lobbying.
Of course, a few things did happen, such as:
*The Vermont legislature voted to close the Vermont Yankee reactor when its license expires in 2012, and Vermont voters added an exclamation point to that when it elected the legislative leader of that fight, Peter Shumlin, to be the state’s new Governor. Continue reading
More jobs for Maryland with new Solar Energy law
New law increases use of solar energy in Maryland – Bloomberg, 30 Dec 10, ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Power suppliers that sell electricity in Maryland will have to buy more energy from solar sources under a law taking effect Saturday.The law moves up the timetable for making solar energy part of the state’s renewables portfolio standard. It also aims to create jobs in the solar power industry while boosting the state’s use of renewable energy to protect the environment….. New law increases use of solar energy in Maryland – Bloomberg
USA renewable energy nearly equal with nuclear – so why keep funding the nuclear black hole?
“Members of the incoming Congress are proposing to slash cost-effective funding for rapidly expanding renewable energy technologies while foolishly plowing ever-more federal dollars into the nuclear power black hole,”
Renewable Energy Almost Equals Nuclear Energy in USA, December 28, 2010, Cleantech News, by John Addison, According to the most recent issue of the “Monthly Energy Review” by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “nuclear electric power accounted for 11% of primary energy production and renewable energy accounted for 11% of primary energy production” during the first nine months of 2010 (the most recent period for which data have been released). Continue reading
Moves by USA to stop international production of weapons grade plutonium and uranium
Assuming the U.S. signed the accord, …..enough political pressure could be put on India and Pakistan to join other nuclear powers in ratifying the treaty…..the U.S. administration planned to work harder to persuade China to exert more pressure on North Korea to end its nuclear and missile programmes
U.S. plans push for nuclear material ban: official, Reuters US Online, by Christiaan Hetzner; Dec 28, BERLIN – The United States plans to revive diplomatic efforts next year to halt production of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium, a special adviser to President Barack Obama told a German newspaper. Continue reading
Third shutdown this year for a Brown’s Ferry nuclear plant
Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit Shut Down Again « Chattanooga Pulseby Gary PooleDecember 28, 2010 – Officials at the Brown’s Ferry nuclear power station in North Alabama were forced to shut down on of their units for the third time this year. TVA workers noticed an unusual vibration in the third unit on Sunday.They immediately lowered the output to the nuclear reactor, and when the vibrations continued proceeded to shutdown the entire unit.The unit will remain offline until it can be completely checked out by TVA and NRC officials.This is the third time units at Browns Ferry have been taken offline this year, first in June and then again in August…. Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit Shut Down Again « Chattanooga Pulse
Showdown at the ole Texas nuclear waste dump
Vermont’s nuclear waste showdown in Texas Burlington free Press, 28 Dec 10, Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin’s inauguration is causing a stir in Texas that’s reverberating back here to Vermont.That’s where a commission will meet two days before Shumlin takes office to vote on whether to allow radioactive waste from states to be dumped in a long-planned Texas site that was going to be strictly for Texas and Vermont. Continue reading
Secret radiation experiments on human patients in USA
More on Human Experimentation Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 28 Dec 10, Atomic Energy Commission Radiation Experiments. In December, 1993, Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary made a disturbing announcement: since the 1940′s, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission had been sponsoring a series of tests on the effects of radiation on the human body.
American citizens who had checked into hospitals for a variety of ailments had been secretly injected with varying amounts of plutonium and other radioactive materials without their knowledge. Most patients thought it was “just another injection,” but the secret studies left enough radioactive material in the patients’ bodies to readily induce cancer………More on Human Experimentation « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog
Depleted uranium weapons: cancer and birth defects toll on American soldiers
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hey too [U.S. troops] have fathered children with stunted arms, and rare abnormalities classically associated with radiation damage. They too seem prone to cancer and leukemia. Tellingly, so are EU soldiers who served as peacekeepers in the Balkans, where DU was also used. Indeed their leukemia rate has been so high that several EU governments have protested at the use of DU.
Depleted Uranium linked to birth defects and cancers among U.S. troops The Canadian , 27 Dec 10, Doctors in Iraq have estimated that birth defects have increased by 2-6 times, and 3-12 times as many children have developed cancer and leukaemia since 1991. Continue reading
Grim reality of what a terrorist attack on nuclear facility would mean
Thinking about the unthinkable — a terrorist nuclear attack, Winnipeg Free Press , 26 Dec 10, The Obama administration is faced with one of those damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t decisions: Should it be giving Americans advice on what to do in case of a nuclear attack by terrorists on an American city?………… Continue reading
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