Warts and all, perhaps USA should be congratulated about nuclear issues?
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Yeah – I know that USA media is full of pro nuclear government and corporate spin .
But – at least the USA talks about nuclear issues. Today, I’m fascinated that Massachusetts is giving citizens a calendar about what to do in a nuclear emergency. Never mind that it all wouldn’t really work – the point is that Americans even bother to raise the subject.
Other countries don’t seem to. China is the biggest worry. Notorious now for its secrecy, bureaucratic corruption, discrimination against ethnic rural minorities – China now propses to reprocess nuclear fuel for a battery of new nuclear reactors. Do they care about the effects of the wastes – wherever they dump them? Do they care about proliferation risks?
At least the USA tries. But they’re going to need to try harder, all the same. This pathetic new Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future – still promoting new nuclear when they’ve no idea what to do with the wastes!
A dream for 2011 – that USA media has the guts to faces up to the reality of the nuclear problem – and move beyond government and corporate media releases.- Christina Macpherson
USA’ Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Wastes – stupid or what?
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You gotta have a little laugh at the way they do the nuclear thing in the USA.
USA has more nuclear reactors than anybody, also more nuclear weapons, and as a result – more radioactive wastes. All over the place. The federal government has been getting sued by States – for not disposing of the old wastes.
Yet – USA keeps on making new nuclear wastes – from its increasingly aging, dangerous and decrepit nuclear terrorism targets (correction – I mean nuclear energy plants).
Blind Freddy could tell that the thing to do is to STOP MAKING THE STUFF. But – what does the USA government do, when setting up a grand panel to find out what to do with its EXISTING mountains of waste?
Do they consider the option of just shutting down the industry, and not making any new radioactive wastes? Oh no – they title the new gee whiz panel – the Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future? Optimism? or just plain stupidity? Or – in the pockets of the nuclear lobby?
US sues BP for $billions, while protecting nuclear corporations from liability in India
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Ethics and justice – out the door, as far as India is concerned, say the Western great powers. Nuclear corporations of USA, France, Russia are all scrambling to flog their nuclear reactors to India. But they want to be sure that they won’t have to pay up, if nuclear disaster happens.
The USA government is busily suing BP for the recent gulf oil spill – for $20 billion. Yeah, if a British-based corporation does harm to USA interests, well, it’s only fair and ethical to make the corporation pay up.
And of course, an American company – Union Carbide, didn’t t have to pay up for the Bhopal gas disaster in India. (After all, it was only Indian people who suffered)
India, having experienced the worst corporation-caused environmental event in history – the Bhopal gas catastrophe, has come up with a law to indemnify nuclear corporations if their reactor is the cause of accident – the Nuclear Liability Law.
USA etc are out to wreck India’s nuclear Liability Law, at the same time as making BP pay up. Doesn’t the world notice these contradictions?
Pro nuclear spin is getting funnier, and more tragic
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It is probably the success of renewable energy and energy conservation, ( a success happening in local areas, rather than centrally, or government directed) that is causing a wave of panic in the global nuclear industry.
The result – a stream of jolly news about how low level radiation is good for you! About how Chernobyl is thriving, and we should all go there for our holidays!
And now – well, even a nuclear bomb attack is not such a worry any more! Older people will remember “Duck and cover” – what fun that was , too! (see the video at Nuclear attack survivable if you stay inside, U.S. government says | Posted | National Post)
But there were narks around then, too, in the 50s. Like Bertrand Russell, who pointed out that “the lucky few” would be those who were hit right in the centre by the nuclear bomb.
And there are narks around today – with scientifically thorough studies showing the long term effects of nuclear radiation, (not to mention the weapons, terrorism, and financially catastrophic risks of the nuclear industry and its mounting toxic wastes.) – Christina Macpherson
What IS wrong with education in America?
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The USA has just elected a majority of Republicans to their House of Representatives. Many were apparently swept up by the Tea Party movement, in a billionaire funded “peoples’ revolt”.
From outside USA, it seems incomprehensible that such a’ revolt’ could take place. With 10% unemployment, and many unable to pay mortgage debts – why on Earth would struggling people want to support policies that mean less taxes for the very wealthy, and less health care cover for the poorer citizens?
Are Americans, by and large, stupid? Or, more likely, is their education system failing very many of them, so that, in general knowledge, many are simply less well informed than citizens of other countries?
This is a worry when it comes to important issues – including global warming, and nuclear power. It seems that Americans are sitting ducks for the well-funded spin of polluting corporations. – Christina Macpherson, 3 Nov 2010
Do you believe that aliens have deactivated US and UK nuclear missiles?
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Well, I don’t. But I wouldn’t rule out unidentified spying objects – could be the USA and UK spying on each other, for all I know.
Aliens have deactivated British and US nuclear missiles, say US military pilots Telegraph By Andy Bloxham 28 Sept, Aliens have landed, infiltrated British nuclear missile sites and deactivated the weapons, according to US military pilots. Continue reading
In (muted) praise of USA
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This website is so often showing the bad side of USA ‘s nuclear history and current affairs. And – it’s such a shame to see USA’s brilliant President Barack Obama kow towing to the nuclear lobby – even to the extent of not having the solar panels back on the White House.
BUT – I am reminded – by today’s news of THREE nuclear plant shut-downs in USA – that at least we get to hear of these incidents in the USA.
Do you think for a moment that Russia, China, France, even Britain – let the media know when there are incidents at nuclear installations?
Amidst the global nuclear lobby’s well funded hype about nuclear power’s “success’ – it’s a 
sobering thought that any negative economic news about nuclear just doesn’t get out, in most countries.
It might take a bit of hunting to find stuff, but at least USA has freedom of speech, freedom of the press. – Christina Macpherson
Germany, India, France, getting uncomfortable for the nuclear industry
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The nuclear resuscitation could be falling apart faster than anticipated.
India has been the big hope for USA’s struggling nuclear salesman, Westinghouse and others. But its new Liability Bill does not give them the certainty from financial accountability – they wanted to never have to pay up, (just like Union Carbide didn’t have to pay up for the Bhopal gas disaster). They might have to pull out!
Germany – Angela Merkel’s government is on the line, as opposition grows within and without Germany, to the continuance of their old nuclear reactors. And the nuclear lobby so desperately wants to stomp on Germany’s success with renewable energy!
France – well, Areva’s and EDF’s the much touted new gee whiz nuclear reactors in Finland and France are becoming an embarrassment with their delays and soaring costs, and the UK is not too keen on their product either. And France was the poster boy for nuclear!
Renewable energy in the news, more than nuclear
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Yes – I know this is supposed to be about nuclear news. But I can’t help noticing that all the interesting, forward-looking investment stuff is about clean energy, not dirty old nuclear.
Sure, the nuke lobby tries. They spruik about nuclear fusion (ridiculously costly and unproven), about Thorium (just as good or better, for nuclear weapons), about This New Generation design and That one.
The nuclear news is all about whether or not USA and Israel should bomb Iran. Tony Blair thinks so. But he was wrong before, wasn’t he, on Iraq? The Brits certainly think so. He can’t even market his book, without getting pelted with eggs, in the UK.
Then it’s all about USA, Russia, France, South Korea, desperately competing to sell nuke reactors to the Third World, ones they can’t even sell to their own people. Nuclear is becoming a bore. – Christina Macpherson
Why the silence about floods and landslides in nuclear areas?
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Climate change is already having its impact in extreme weather conditions.
But nobody’s talking about the impact of these weather events on the nuclear industry.
Except for Russia, where government was forced to admit to (and to play down), the danger to its nuclear facilities, threatened by 400 wildfires.
What about the risks of flooding in nuclear powered Pakistan? What about flooding and mudslides in China’s Sichuan province, home of earthquakes and of nuclear waste dumps?
What about radioactive dust blowing around in the prolonged drought in uranium-mining Niger? Where is the mainstream media in all this?
Oh – I forgot – it’s not polite to talk about such things, not when our betters are trying so hard to sell nuclear power plants to everybody! – Christina Macpherson, 23 August 2010,
Magnificent Nuclear Deception by France’s AREVA corporation
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Are Americans and Canadians really that stupid? Are they going to fall for AREVA’s deceptive sales strategy? The sales pitch is that nuclear power is clean, green and economic. All grand lies.
I suppose that France’s AREVA had to think up such a confidence trick – faced with the ruthless success of South Korea’s KEPCO in selling its wares to the Arabs, and USA’s Westinghouse pitching nuclear to India.
So – AREVA came up with the con trick of the “Clean Energy Park” – combining nuclear reactors with renewable energy generation. Not only does this pretend that nuclear energy is clean, – it also carries a threat – no nuclear, no renewable energy. What a toxic marriage!
Still judging from the actions of the USA 
government in funding AREVA’s uranium enrichment – Americans and perhaps Canadians, too, ARE that stupid.
Coastal nuclear plants endangered by sea level rise, and oil spills
the NUCLEAR INDUSTRY and CLIMATE CHANGE – our focus for July 2010
NUCLEAR POWER and SEA LEVEL RISE – All reactors on sea coasts endangered by sea level rise
They are also endangered by accidents such as OIL SPILLS, which can affect their cooling safety sytems
Climate Change is Real, but Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
Time is running out for the expensive, dangerous, dirty, nuclear power industry. The nuclear lobby’s desperate propaganda is that the industry is clean, and is a solution to global warming. That is a lie.
Radioactive wastes are produced at all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle
The NUCLEAR INDUSTRY and the GLOBAL NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM – our theme for June 2010
At least the USA TALKS about nuclear wastes!
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This website might well give the impression that it is anti-American, anti-British etc, – especially on the subject of nuclear wastes.
But – spare a thought for those two countries. At least the nuclear waste subject is RAISED there. (That’s how we can publish it)
Very hard to get a few lines about Russia’s nuclear wastes.
As for China, France and also a few other countries (India, Korea, European states , Israel...) – well there’s nary a word about their nuclear wastes! What do they do with radioactive wastes? It’s a worry. And it seems to me to be complete lunacy for countries like Australia to piously claim safety policy, while selling uranium to such countries.
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