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European countries beating their renewable energy targets

EU Countries Already Exceeding 2020 Renewable Energy Target, Inhabitat – by Timon Singh, 01/06/11, It seems that despite the Copenhagen Climate Conference’s failure to make a dent in global environmental policy, the EU is still doing everything possible to make sure they meet the goal of receiving 20% of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. In fact, many European countries have already begun to exceed this target! Continue reading →

January 7, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Intrigue, Western involvement in nuclear proliferation network

Nuclear proliferation: No AQ Khan network, only western suppliers – The Express Tribune, Shahidure Rehman 6 Jan 2011,

ISLAMABAD: There was no AQ Khan nuclear proliferation network, there were only Western suppliers of nuclear wares, said a report submitted recently by a Swiss Magistrate inquiring  into the affairs of three members of the Tinner family. Continue reading →

January 7, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Security risks and Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal

the Punjab governor’s killing was a reminder that  one shouldn’t be too dismissive of the possibility of a breach in the nuclear security systems by an insider, however remote.

Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and the enemy within | , Reuters, 7 Jan 2011, Steve Coll, the president of the New America Foundation and a South Asia expert, has raised the issue of the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in the wake of the assassination of the governor of most populous Punjab state by one of his bodyguards. Continue reading →

January 7, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Nuclear Information and Resource Service faces up to nuclear lobby in 2011

(USA) Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Michael Mariotte, 1 Jan 2011 This year we’ll be facing new attempts to make taxpayers take the financial risks of new reactor construction; new efforts to put dirty and dangerous nuclear power into a “Clean Energy Standard” that would be a disincentive for investment into renewable energy; new efforts–especially by new House Energy Committee chairman (and nuclear ideologue) Fred Upton (R-MI)–to weaken EPA clean water standards so reactors like Oyster Creek and other (and potentially even new reactors) wouldn’t be forced to build expensive cooling towers or close. Continue reading →

January 1, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Judge postpones Texas nuclear waste dump hearing until January 13

The groups also argued the final date for receiving public comment, the day after Christmas, was a postal holiday and the deadline should have been the next business day. Wisser agreed and issued the restraining order, calling for another hearing Jan. 13.

Texas judge halts nuclear waste plan – UPI.com AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31–– A Texas judge says he is temporarily halting plans to allow a West Texas radioactive waste disposal site to accept waste from an additional three-dozen states. Continue reading →

January 1, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

North Korea wants nuclear free Korean peninsula, but is building up military

NKorea promises denuclearization, better relations, Google hosted news, – 1 Jan 2011, SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it is committed to a Korean peninsula without nuclear weapons and wants to improve relations with rival South Korea. But the country also is vowing to boost its military strength.The North’s annual New Year’s message comes in the wake of its deadly artillery attack on a front-line South Korean island near the Koreas’ disputed western sea border.The message in the official state press on Saturday said confrontation between the two Koreas should be defused as early as possible…….The Associated Press: NKorea promises denuclearization, better relations

January 1, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Pregnant mothers especially harmed by depleted uranium

The report focused on metals as potential contaminating agents afflicting the city, especially among pregnant mothers.

Link between defects, weaponry possible? FALLUJAH, Iraq, Dec. 31 (UPI) –– A rise in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Falluja could have been caused by weaponry used in U.S. assaults that took place six years ago, a report says.The report, to be published next week in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, highlights a major rise in cancers and chronic neurological, cardiac and skeletal defects in newborns at close to 11 times higher than normal rates, Continue reading →

January 1, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Adults just as vulnerable to ionising radiation as children are

RADIATION RISKY AT ALL AGES, Community Magazine, By: Dave Gordon, 1 Jan 2011, Contradicting previous studies which found that vulnerability to radiation-induced cancer diminished with age, new research now shows that the risk of developing cancer from radiation exposure among adults may be as high as the risk among younger adults and children. Research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute was based on data concerning Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb, and was used to predict cancer risk by age of radiation exposure among Americans. Cancer risk increases following radiation exposure for some types of tumors, a finding that could impact the use of X-rays and jobs requiring radiation exposure. Community Magazine

January 1, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

India’s planned Jaitapur nuclear plant in earthquake zone

local people are worried that the government is hiding and misrepresenting facts since the region falls in a moderate to high severity earthquake zone as per a government notification.

Jaitapur nuclear plant in seismic zone A Tata Institute of Social Sciences report has criticised the location of the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, Gulf News,   By Pamela Raghunath,   December 31, 2010 Mumbai: A Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) report has criticised the location of the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra as sitting on an earthquake zone Continue reading →

December 31, 2010 Posted by | general | 2 Comments

Jan 4 the day for critical nuclear waste dump vote, Vermont and Texas

A Last-Minute Choice by Texas and Vermont,  NYTimes.com,  December 30, 2010, By MATTHEW L. WALD Vermont and Texas, the odd couple of nuclear waste disposal, are proceeding with a plan to allow 36 other states to use a dump site under development in west Texas, despite the misgivings of Vermont’s incoming governor, Peter Shumlin, about the move. Continue reading →

December 30, 2010 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Don’t let Pittsylvania County become ‘sacrifice zone’ for uranium

Don’t let county become ‘sacrifice zone’ for uranium Star Tribune, ,December 29, 2010, Bill Winn“……Now that it has been suggested that the only economic, viable location in Virginia for mining is at nearby Coles Hill, it becomes relatively easy for representatives of other areas to allow such mining here – especially when uranium supporters and their many lobbyists have essentially unlimited funds to give away to the General Assembly. Continue reading →

December 30, 2010 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Long term effects of uranium mining not worth the few jobs

the long-term damage and ill effects, which inevitably result from uranium mining and milling, are not worth the few local jobs, if any, and the temporary boom-bust economy that would result.

Davis opposes uranium mining in Pittsylvania, Alta Vista Journal, Jesse Pyrant Andrews, December 29, 2010 It is most important that Henry Davis be elected to the Senate seat recently vacated by Mr. Hurt. Hank Davis is the only politician who has had the courage and good sense to say that uranium mining would not be a viable course of action for Pittsylvania County or for the commonwealth. Continue reading →

December 30, 2010 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Trouble looming for AREVA’s planned nuclear plant in India

the TISS report indicating that facts have been suppressed and twisted to get clearance, …The Jaitapur nuclear power complex is located in the ecologically sensitive coastal Maharashtra region which includes Raigad, Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts…..

Indo-French Nuclear plant in trouble,  TruthDive, By Ayyappa Prasad December 29, 2010 Earlier this month, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India inked deals with the French nuclear designing firm Areva to set up the nuclear plant in Jaitapur in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. The plant site would render population in five villages homeless. The Nuclear plant which would produce 9,900 megawatt power has now come into focus with the Tata backed TISS report stating that the plant would be a social disaster. Continue reading →

December 30, 2010 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Russia in process of approving Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

Russia’s lower house of parliament on Dec. 24 began ratifying the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, passing the first of three readings, two days after the U.S. Senate approved the accord. Russian lawmakers are expected to complete ratification after the New Year’s holidays end on Jan. 10

Putin Says U.S. Nuclear-Treaty Approval Good for Russia Economy – Bloomberg, By Ilya Arkhipov – Dec 30, 2010, The U.S. ratification of a new nuclear-arms reduction treaty with Russia is good news for the economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. Continue reading →

December 30, 2010 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Japanese fishermen affected by 1954 Bikini atomic bomb test

Diary of fisherman evidently affected by 1954 H-bomb test found Japan Today:  28th December, JSTKOCHI —A diary of a fisherman from Kochi Prefecture, who operated at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific following a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test, has been found, indicating he probably suffered acute symptoms caused by the test, which also hit a Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Fukuryu. Continue reading →

December 28, 2010 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

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