Obama boosts nuke weapons funding, while talking disarmament
“The plan described in this budget is not about maintaining a reliable nuclear stockpile. It is a multi-billion dollar ‘radioactive pork’ construction plan
Administration Budget Plan Contradicts Obama Pledge to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Threat Billions to be spent on new nuclear weapons production facilities WASHINGTON – Common Dreams.org February 1 – The Administration’s budget, released today, contradicts President Obama’s pledge to reduce the nuclear weapons threat by working toward their elimination, according to a national network of groups in communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear sites. Continue reading
Increased cancer risk from low dose ionising radiation
Cancer — Is Low-Dose Radiation Imaging Increasing Your Risk?
EmpowerHER 2 Feb 2010 by Lynette Summerill A trip to your doctor or dentist usually means you will be examined from the inside out. But, low-dose radiation like that used in x-rays, mammograms and other diagnostic tests could be causing some cancers. Continue reading
An idealistic U.S. President Influenced by Nuclear Warriors
I must admit that I have been worried since he appointed Steven Chu from Los Alamos Labs as his Secretary of Energy and John Holdren as science advisor because they are both enthusiastic endorsers of nuclear power
Helen Caldicott: How Did an Idealistic President Become a Champion of Nuclear Power and By Default, Weapons Proliferation? THE HUFFINGTON POST 2 Feb 2010 In 1983, Barack Obama, a senior at Columbia University described his visions of a “nuclear free world” in an article titled “Breaking the War Mentality” in the university newsmagazine, Sundial. He described discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and called for the abolition of the global arsenals of tens of thousands of deadly warheads.As a candidate he acknowledged that he was worried for the safety of his children who lived in Illinois because it has the highest concentration of nuclear reactors in the US – and opposed further nuclear subsidies. “I am not a nuclear proponent,” he said. Continue reading
Strong opposition to importing nuclear waste: opinion poll
Radioactive waste not welcome here: Poll Overwhelming majority says Utah is not the right place for depleted uranium and foreign radioactive waste By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune 02/01/2010 Utahns strongly support a federal ban on importing radioactive waste from foreign nations.
And, even more strongly, they oppose the disposal of thousands of tons of depleted uranium in their state. Continue reading
All sides unhappy with Obama’s nuclear waste panel
Left and Right Pan Obama’s Panel on Nuclear Waste THE WALL STREET JOURNAL , by Stephen Power February 1, 2010, It took the Obama administration nearly a year to appoint a blue-ribbon panel to study what to do with nuclear waste piling up at power plants — and just a few hours for politicians and groups on the left and right to raise questions about the panel’s mandate and credibility. Continue reading
U.S govt in legal battle over nuclear waste
“US Justice Dept Wants More Lawyers For Nuclear-Waste Litigation” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Brent Kendall, (Siobhan Hughes and Ian Talley contributed to this article.) Dow Jones Newswire 2 Feb 2010 -The Obama administration wants a bigger legal team to do battle with utility companies over the federal government’s failure to collect spent nuclear waste as required by legislation from the 1980s.The president’s budget proposal, released Monday, seeks an additional $11.4 million for the Justice Department to devote to nuclear-waste litigation. Continue reading
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is a political issue
If you thought Vermont Yankee was a big election issue before, it just became even more so
Nuclear politics VY vote this year? Maybe, Burlington Free Press 1 Feb 2010 Once upon a time, the Legislature was balking at voting on Vermont Yankee’s future and the governor who was pushing for a vote. Now that tritium is leaking into groundwater at the plant from pipes that company officials said didn’t exist, things appear different. Continue reading
How many nuclear power plants are leaking radioactive tritium?
Many radiological health scientists agree with the Environmental Protection Agency that tritium, like other radioactive isotopes, can cause cancer………..
Vt nuke plant leaks renew debate over aging plants, Business Week, The Associated Press, February 1, 2010, By DAVE GRAM
Radioactive tritium, a carcinogen discovered in potentially dangerous levels in groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, has now tainted at least 27 of the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors — raising concerns about how it is escaping from the aging nuclear plants. Continue reading
Uranium wastewater spill at South Carolina nuclear plant
Federal regulators investigating SC uranium spill The Sun News The Associated Press 1 Feb 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Federal regulators are at a South Carolina nuclear fuel plant investigating a spill of wastewater containing uranium.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday a team had arrived at the Westinghouse Electric Co. plant near Columbia.
The NRC says about 200 gallons of wastewater containing ammonia and uranium spilled Jan. 24 after a pump failed.
Renewable energy employing 7,000 in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley awash with smart grid development Smart Meters 1 Feb 2010 Clean technology, or cleantech, covers a wide array of technologies including construction materials, electric vehicles, renewable power, and smart meters. Silicon Valley – long a hotbed of cutting-edge development – is now becoming a global center for solar power and smart grid innovation. Continue reading
A start is made on monitoring patients’ radiation exposure
NIH will start keeping track of patients’ radiation exposure
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 1 Feb 2010Concerned that Americans may be accumulating too much lifetime radiation exposure from medical tests, doctors at the National Institutes of Health will begin recording how much radiation patients receive from CT scans and other procedures in their electronic medical records. Continue reading
Renewable power for electric cars, but not nuclear!
Nuclear power isn’t clean or safe; it’s a menace HeraldNet By Eric Teegarden 312 Jan 2010 “…………We probably have less than two generations to transition. Right now things are not looking good.We stand at a crossroads concerning how we fuel our vehicles and power our homes. Electric vehicles (EVs) are a good replacement for carbon-fueled cars, but only if we charge them with renewable energy (geothermal, wind, solar, tidal, even biomass). Continue reading
Judge rules that utility can withdraw from crumbling nuclear power project
Some Obama supporters unhappy about tripling of Nuclear Loan Guarantees
the administration’s efforts also could alienate the environmental wing of its base.
Obama To Propose Tripling Of Nuclear Loan Guarantees THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Siobhan Hughes,; Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal and Christine Buurma of Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this article.) * JANUARY 29, 2010 Continue reading
U.S.A. pressurising Iran with increased missiles in Gulf
US boosts missile presence in Gulf as warning to Iran Pentagon expands. Patriot missile programme across Middle East after Tehran repeatedly spurns hand of diplomacy The Guardian. (UK) James Sturcke, 31 January 2010
The Obama administration is intensifying pressure on Iran by increasing its missile defences in the Middle East to defend against potential missile strikes in the region by Tehran, it emerged today. Continue reading
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