Utah – depleted uranium to be tested for radioactivity
environmental group says it reviewed shipping manifests for some of the waste and found the barrels contain waste in concentrations higher than state law allows EnergySolutions to accept.
Utah governor orders depleted uranium testing The Associated Press
TheSunNews.com Jan. 13, 2010 SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has ordered the testing of barrels of depleted uranium from South Carolina to see how radioactive it is. Continue reading
Another fine for nuclear plant for safety lapses
NRC imposes $35,000 fine for Babcock & Wilcox The News and Advance 12 Jan 2010 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has imposed a $35,000 fine on Babcock & Wilcox because, the government agency said, employees waited too long to declare an emergency in July after finding uranium in a container of oil. Continue reading
Airport scanning and radiation
Radiation and whole-body scanners Budget Travel by: Sean O’Neill, Jan 12,” …………….. a short Q&A on the topic of cancer risk and whole-body scanning machines.
The Transportation Security Administration TSA has deployed two types of scanners. One type uses X-rays and emits some ionizing radiation. These machines are called “backscatter” scanners. The other type of machine uses radio waves, does not emit ionizing radiation, and produces fuzzier images. Continue reading
The two types of airport scanners
Imaging Technology Transportation Security Administration (TSA) 13 Jan 2010
“………Use of advanced imaging technology is optional to all passengers.
Millimeter Wave
- Millimeter wave technology beams millimeter wave radio frequency (RF) energy in the advanced imaging spectrum over the body’s surface at high speed from two antennas simultaneously as they rotate around the body.
- The energy reflected back from the body or other objects on the body is used to construct a three-dimensional image.
- The three-dimensional image, with facial features blurred for privacy, is displayed on a remote monitor for analysis.
Backscatter
- Backscatter technology uses low level X-ray to create a two-sided image.
- TSA is testing backscatter with an algorithm applied to the entire image to further protect passenger privacy.
Wisconsin’s Clean Energy Jobs Act would sneak in a bonus for nuclear
Unfortunately, one of the most important environmental measures ever to come before our state Legislature – the Clean Energy Jobs Act, or Assembly Bill 649 – contains a provision that would weaken our nuclear safeguards. The provision would completely remove the requirement for a nuclear waste repository.
Diane Farsetta: Remove nuclear provisions from Clean Energy Jobs Act LaCrosse Tribune By Diane Farsetta / Madison January 11, 2010 Continue reading
Obama recognising nuclear terrorism as the greatest risk
Shifting Nuclear Strategy To Focus On Nuclear Terrorism The Wonk Room, National Secvurity By Max Bergmann 13 Jan 2010 In a reported shift that has the nuclear bureaucracy in the Pentagon up in arms, the President wants the new Nuclear Posture Review – the document that lays out US nuclear strategy to actually focus on the gravest security threat to this country: nuclear terrorism. Continue reading
Opposition to uranium mining in Virginia
Virginia Against Uranium Mining By Deirdre Fernandes The Virginian-PilotJ anuary 12, 2010VIRGINIA BEACH The state is considering lifting its 28-year ban on uranium mining, a move that has so alarmed Virginia Beach officials that they are spending $437,000 to study the worst-case scenario for the city’s water supply .Virginia Beach has hired engineering firm Michael Baker Corp. to look into what could happen to Lake Gaston if there were a catastrophic accident at a possible uranium mining site upstream in south-central Virginia………….
USA and Russia in the grip of useless nuclear weapons industry
…led Reagan to embrace nuclear abolition, but not even he could break the transcendent combine of industry-Congress-Pentagon. Those three define the sides of the iron triangle within which America still finds itself imprisoned.
US nuclear arsenal a dangerous remnant The Boston Globe, James Carroll, January 11, 2010 AT MORE than a dozen “missile alert facilities’’ in caverns below the exquisite landscape of the northern Rockies, teams of young men and women spend 24-hour shifts in steel-and-concrete bunkers. Continue reading
Renewable energy companies don’t have to be Big
one of the goals — and strengths — of renewable energy is its diversity and the ability to distribute its production, Adler said. “The nature of the technology doesn’t require the kind of scale and vertical integration [of oil companies],”
When Will Renewable Energy Companies Overtake Traditional Energy Companies? Renewable Energy World by Jennifer Kho, 9 Jan 2010 California, United States Renewable energy has got buzz, growth and growing government support. But it’s no secret that it still makes up a small portion of the overall energy mix. As interest in renewables increases, the question has begun coming up more and more often: When will renewable energy companies catch up to conventional energy companies? That is, when will we see an Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. or ConocoPhilips of renewables?………. Continue reading
USA’s renewable energy future
Perhaps the biggest impediment for the US – and indeed for Australia – comes in reversing many of the subsidies for fossil fuels that are infused throughout the tax system and getting politicians to impose a cost on carbon emissions.
In the wind: America’s drive towards clean technology Sydney Morning Herald ANNE DAVIES, WASHINGTONJ anuary 9, 2010 “…..Barack Obama, facing the steepest downturn since FDR’s time, wants to transform America into a green machine, a nation that leads the world in technology and manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars, technologies to make the electricity grid more efficient and long-life batteries Continue reading
Connecticut River gets radioactive leak from nuclear plant
Test suggests radioactive leak at Yankee Rutland Herald
By Susan Smallheer Staff Writer January 8, 2010
BRATTLEBORO — Entergy Nuclear announced late Thursday one of its monitoring wells on the banks of the Connecticut River had detected radioactive tritium contamination, the first time such contamination has shown up at the plant. Continue reading
Indian Point nuke plant’s release of radioactive steam
Nuclear steam leak intentional: Response to Indian Point plant shutdown BY Abby Luby NY DAILY NEWS January 8th 2010,
The recent shutdown at the Indian Point Nuclear power plant and release of contaminated steam into the atmosphere was intentional, the federal agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear power plants insisted Thursday. Continue reading
Court to hear Hawaiian challenge against depleted uranium storage
Hearing next week on challenge to Army license for depleted uranium I Lind.net, Ian Lind, January 6th, 2010
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an agency of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will hold a hearing next week on challenges filed by four Hawaii residents to an Army license to possess depleted uranium at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island. Continue reading
Investigation of radiation-caused cancer among Ground Zero workers
Radiation had contaminated the World Trade Center Towers – 9/11 Sicknesses consistent with environmental radiation contamination
The Canadian National Newspaper Expolitics Headlines by David Jones 7 Jan 2010
A group of 9/11 responders has contracted blood cancers at an unusually young age, and top doctors suspect the disease was triggered by an unprecedented “synergistic mix” of toxins at the World Trade Center site. These growth of these cancers among Ground Zero workers, and others, are consistent with exposure to environmental radiation contamination associated with the destruction of the “9/11 targets”. Continue reading
Prohibitive costs of new nuclear reactors
no nuclear reactors started in the last ten years were up and running and two of the plants currently under construction in France and Finland were experiencing problems. Over 3,000 problems have been found at the Finnish construction site causing delays and huge cost overruns.
The scary side of nuclear power revealed, Green.Blorge
After thirty years, the nuclear power industry is making a come back. What caused the hiatus and why does the thought of new nuclear reactors frighten so many people? Well, there’s Vogtle’s cost overruns and the nightmares from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Continue reading
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