Uranium mill in Colorado will not help local unemployment
A new report estimates that the employment impact of the mill near Paradox, Colo., will be small and its socioeconomic impacts more bad than good.
Weeks out from uranium decision, new negative report, Telluride Daily Planet ’By Matthew Beaudin , December 26, 2010 “…….A uranium mill is planned smack in the middle of the Paradox Valley, about 60 miles west of Telluride. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment will decide by mid-January if the mill is permitted. Continue reading
USA’s Tea Party targeting renewable energy
Today, with the price of solar panels dropping and demand increasing, the state grants are generally less than half of what they were. Federal grants for 30 percent of a solar project remain available………..For decades, businesses that have extracted, combusted and delivered traditional fuels have received subsidies, and their prices have excluded societal impacts like air pollution in their price
Tea party activists seeing red over Delaware’s green initiatives System discouraging waste and pollution criticized as meddling with subsidized fossil fuels By AARON NATHANS • The News Journal • December 26, 2010 DOVER — They’re not exactly money, and they’re not a direct government handout.
But they are seen as the state-backed boost that solar and wind energy need to compete with power generated from fossil fuels in the coming decade. Continue reading
Evidence of radiation effects in humans from atomic tests and nuclear reactors
Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), a case-control study, is the first evidence that bomb tests harmed Americans using actual levels of fallout in human bodies………..has much current relevance……….The RPHP study of baby teeth showed that Sr-90 levels in children near reactors were 30-50 percent greater than children in distant areas, and that levels were rising sharply over time, as aging reactors corrode.
Did the Atom Bomb Test Fallout Cause Cancer?, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Samuel S. Epstein, 23 Dec 10, The huge mushroom clouds from atom bomb tests of the 1950s and 1960s are an unforgettable part of the American saga. The tests were cloaked in rhetoric typical of the Cold War, i.e. they were needed to achieve “superiority” over the Soviets in the event of a nuclear war.But all the patriotic nuclear talk couldn’t prevent widespread concern that nuclear war would kill tens of millions. But many were also troubled by fallout in the mushroom clouds, which contained huge amounts of over 100 deadly radioactive chemicals that traveled through the air across the continental U.S. Precipitation brought this fallout back to earth — and into the food chain and human bodies……. Continue reading
Public danger in trucking nuclear wastes across U.S. States
“Truck crashes occur all the time on our highways,” Smith said. “This plan would dramatically increase the amount of radioactive waste traveling through our communities. We believe that if people know what is at stake, they will contact state officials and demand that the compact commission drop the proposal.”
Sure, Simmons May Bury Nuclear Waste in West Texas. But It Has To Get There Somehow. – Dallas News By Robert Wilonsky, Dec. 23 2010 “………While routes are not yet designated, potential routes would take waste from the Gulf Coast area on Interstate 10 through Houston and San Antonio; waste from southern states would be trucked on I-20 and I-30 though Dallas and Forth Worth; Midwestern and Northeastern waste would be driven on I-40 and I-27 though Lubbock and Amarillo; and waste from Western states would be driven though the cities of El Paso and Odessa taking I-10 and I-20, according to Martin Resnikoff of Radioactive Waste Management Associates. … Continue reading
An agreeable START to new international politics
This level of support reaffirmed the broad consensus that our national interests are better served through global engagement, not global arrogance. International agreements, disparaged by the previous administration, are again seen as viable tools of security policy. A comprehensive approach to reducing nuclear threats has replaced nuclear whack-a-mole……….
Fresh Security Consensus Trounces Cold War Politics in New START Victory, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Joe Cirincione, 24 Dec 10, The New START treaty has obvious benefits for national security. But the overwhelming vote in favor of the treaty (71-26) has much broader significance. And the still sizable vote against it, a troubling dark side. Continue reading
An evil Christmas present for Texas – nuclear waste importing
“This is an evil Christmas present from WCS and Harold Simmons,” said Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of the liberal environmental group Public Citizen of Texas. After a news conference blasting the plan, Smith and other environmentalists rolled a black barrel, with a radioactive symbol on the outside, under the state Christmas tree outside the Texas Capitol
Activists protest nuke waste plan for West Texas Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec 2010 The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Warning that Texas could soon become the dumping grounds for nuclear waste from around the nation, environmentalists accused state regulators and a politically connected company Thursday of rushing a dump expansion proposal past Texans who are too focused on the holidays to even notice. Continue reading
USA Republicans break ranks to support nuclear treaty
Underscoring the schism among Republicans, the party’s No. 3 leader, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, announced his support for the treaty, saying it would make Americans safer and more secure. Other Republicans followed suit.
Senate poised to pass nuclear treaty, giving Obama a major victory, latimes.com, By Paul Richter and Lisa Mascaro,, 22 Dec 10, Republican senators break ranks to end debate on the New START nuclear pact with Russia. Adoption is expected Wednesday Washington — A new arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia seemed headed for certain Senate ratification after Republican opposition crumbled Tuesday beneath a torrid campaign of White House pressure. Continue reading
What the new Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty says
- December 21, 2010 Back from the brink of annihilation, the Obama administration’s treaty with Russia on reducing nuclear weapons is looking like it’ll pass the Senate after all, possibly as early as Wednesday. The only thing that everyone’s overlooked in the past several months’ political theater over the treaty is what it actually does — and doesn’t do. So we’re here to help. Continue reading
Nuclear lobbyists will have to twist and turn to resuscitate nuclear industry
…. Nothing but a massive new infusion of subsidies from taxpayers and customers can get the renaissance back on track…………..
Subsidizing new reactors will also come disguised as job creation. It takes a lot of people to build a nuclear plant. However, it also takes a lot of people to build other types of power plants or to install energy-efficiency measures. And these other technologies really are shovel-ready. They don’t require licenses that take years to acquire. And—because they are cheaper than new reactors—they don’t impose job-killing rate increases on industries with big electric bills….
Nuclear Power’s Search For the Taxpayer’s Wallet, Epoch Times, By Peter Bradford, 2 Dec 10, As the new Congress convenes in Washington next year, nuclear power’s apparently limitless quest for federal subsidies will test the resolve of representatives elected to end Washington’s culture of entitlement and the costs it imposes on American taxpayers. Continue reading
US Energy Department’s dilemma over depleted uranium disposal
This type of low-level radioactive waste, though it meets state standards now, presents a special problem for regulators because it gets increasingly hazardous for around 1 million years and large quantities could potentially exceed state hazard allowances. Separate from the Savannah River waste, the company already has buried 49,000 tons of DU from past disposal contracts…..
Energy Department cancels search for interim depleted uranium storage | The Salt Lake TribuneBy Judy fahys Dec 21, 2010 The U.S. Energy Department has scrapped its search for temporary storage for two shipments of depleted uranium and is now looking for another place to bury the low-level radioactive waste permanently. Continue reading
California’s boost for distributed solar power
“This program is a great step forward in facilitating the expansion of distributed solar power generation,”
Commission votes to expand mid-sized renewable energy development, California’s feed-in tariff program: Clean Energy, Allie Gardner, 22 Dec 10, Smaller scale solar energy development just got a significant leg-up in California. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted unanimously to approve a new program designed to drive small to mid-sized renewable energy development. Continue reading
Why use X ray airport screening, and why no checking of the system?
Or better yet, why not just use an alternative passenger screener that doesn’t use x-rays at all? As we discussed on Science Friday on November, 2010 these scanners are certainly available and would be a viable, easy option and not expose passengers, pilots, crew, or TSA employees to x-rays
Airport X-ray Screeners: Who’s Checking The Machines? Science Friday December 21, 2010 by Ira Flatow A few weeks ago, I blogged about my experiences with airport luggage screeners who wanted to wear radiation badges but were discouraged from doing so. It’s really the only way of knowing just how much cumulative radiation a person is exposed to during a day, a week, a month. Continue reading
Illegal shipment to Pakistan nuclear plant, by U.S.-China firm
The company was accused of “illegal export, re-export and/or transshipment of high-performance coatings from the United States to the Chashma 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan via a third-party distributor (in China),”
US-China firm fined for Pakistan nuclear exports, Google hosted news, (AFP) – 22 Dec 10, WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday fined the Chinese subsidiary of a US firm nearly four million dollars for exporting coatings to a Pakistan nuclear site. Continue reading
Naturally occurring radioactivity affecting Houston water
Houston, which continues to depend in part on groundwater for 20 percent of its water, obtains water from wells that drill into underground aquifers surrounded by naturally occurring forms of uranium, radium and other radioactive contaminants…..Multiple toxicologists and radiation experts KHOU spoke with agree with the EPA and Bradford, that any amount of radiation exposure in drinking water increases your risk for cancer.
Draft of federal report finds radiation widespread in Houston water | khou.com by Mark Greenblatt / December 21, 2010 HOUSTON—A draft of a soon-to-be-released federal report shows radiation in Houston’s drinking water is much more widespread than city leaders previously disclosed to the public. Continue reading
Big campaign donations likely to get nuclear waste dump approved
The radioactive waste to be dumped near West Texas aquifers will be hot for tens of thousands of years.6 Waste Control’s license extends a mere 15 years. Thereafter that gullible sap–the Texas taxpayer–will be left holding the bag.
Rick Perry’s nuclear money machine dallasnews.com, Wayne Slater, Dec 20, 2010, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons is the focus of a new study that says his $1.1 million investment in Gov. Rick Perry this year could pay many millions in return. The issue is the West Texas nuclear waste dump that Simmons controls. Continue reading
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