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Tony Blair criticised for advocating bombing Iran

However, Dr Rosemary Hollis, a Middle East expert at City University, in London, warned: ‘All the wargaming exercises that have been done by the Americans show that the fallout from a military attack, an air assault on Iran’s nuclear programme – which would inevitably kill civilians – would be worse than Iran having a break-out nuclear weapon capability

‘I’d back an attack on Iran’: Blair insists nuclear plans of rogue state must be stopped,  Mail Online, By Tim Shipman,  2nd September 2010 *  Tony Blair tonight called for military action against Iran to prevent the country developing nuclear weapons. Continue reading →

September 2, 2010 Posted by | general | , , | Leave a comment

The nuclear power option favours American business, not the Indian people

Super profits for American corporations or true concern for the Indian people  — this is the question today. The answer, unfortunately for our people, is in favour of the former……a tragedy exponentially worse than Bhopal is waiting to happen.

A moral meltdown – Hindustan Times, Sitaram Yechury , 1 Sept 10, “……The PM has announced the target of generating 40,000 MW of nuclear power. By using the nuclear option, India would be spending way beyond R3 lakh crore more than by using the available thermal, hydro or other options. Continue reading →

September 1, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , , | Leave a comment

India’s new Nuclear Liability Bill upsetting ambitions of USA’s nuclear salesmen

Flawed’ liability bill threatens Indo-US nuclear deal: Expert, The Times of India Sep 1, 2010, WASHINGTON: Terming passing of the civil nuclear liability bill by the Parliament as “flawed”, an eminent American expert on South Asian affairs has said the US policy makers and industrial leaders have been taken off guard by this and it threatens to cast a pall over the historic Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. Continue reading →

September 1, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

Ionising radiation from Russia’s forest wildfires

“Yet thousands of tons of radioactive deadwood still litter the forest floor, ….The wood could release a cloud of radiation if ignited

Medical: Wind & Radiation from Russian Fires; Times’ article Bryansk : Russia | Aug 30, 2010By Dorothy Marie Kucera RUSSIA: they are reporting fires under control but the excerpt from the first URL below shows thousands of acres are still burning Continue reading →

August 31, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

Germans keen for renewable energy, not nuclear

Merkel faces uphill nuclear energy battle, THE PoliJAM TIMES, BERLIN, Aug. 30 (UPI) –– Opposition is growing to plans announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to extend the life of the nation’s nuclear power plants, protests indicate. Nearly 200 supporters of the environmental group Greenpeace protested Merkel as she toured nuclear power plants across the country last week.

Groups opposing nuclear power plans for the country said they would have large-scale protests Sept. 18 in Berlin, the Platts news service reports……
Merkel last week was met with opposition by lawmakers who said the nuclear plants weren’t needed to expand the renewable energy sector for Germany. Critics say energy efficiency measures could reduce consumption in the country by as much as 2 percent per year, cutting emissions by nearly 100 million tons through 2020……..Merkel faces uphill nuclear energy battle

August 31, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

A new anti-nuclear wave

the increased support for nuclear energy will melt away when utilities announce where they intend to build. No one..wants to live near a nuclear plant.”The groundswell (against nuclear power) will come when they announce the nuclear sites

Older activists, younger crowd team to fight nukes. Google Hosted News, 29 Aug 2010, By MELANIE S. WELTE (AP) – MOINES, Iowa — It’s been 33 years since Raye Fleming’s arrest outside Southern California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, near the height of the anti-nuclear power furor.That was the first arrest of many and, Fleming believed, such actions paid off as a generation of Americans turned against nuclear power. Continue reading →

August 31, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , | Leave a comment

Egypt’s nuclear plant a ‘grave regional threat’

the new plant will be a “grave regional threat.

Greenpeace Blasts Egypt for Nuclear Plans, Israel National News by Hillel Fendel, 30 Aug 2010, The international environmental organization Greenpeace has targeted Egypt for its plan to build a nuclear energy plant off the Mediterranean coast. Continue reading →

August 31, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Obama urged by Nobel Laureates to attend Hiroshima Peace Summit

The 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates is scheduled to be held in Hiroshima from Nov. 12-14. While Obama is not scheduled to attend the event, he does appear set to visit Japan in the same time period.

Nobel Laureates Urge Obama to Renew Nuclear Disarmament Campaign, NTI: Global Security Newswire -, Aug. 26, 2010 Five recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are urging U.S. President Barack Obama to renew efforts toward global nuclear disarmament by making a high-profile trip to Hiroshima, the Japanese city where an atomic weapon was first used in war, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Continue reading →

August 27, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

USA and China seeking to resume N Korea nuclear talks

US declines to rule out resumption of NKorea nuclear talks, Google hosted news, (AFP) – 26 Aug 2010, WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday declined to rule out a resumption of six-party nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea following meetings at the UN General Assembly late next month.”We do have the UN General Assembly coming up. It will be an opportunity for the United States to engage directly with our partners in the six-party process,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters……

Wu Dawei, China’s special envoy on Korean affairs, was due in South Korea from Thursday to Saturday to discuss ways to resume talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Wu visited Pyongyang last week to discuss the resumption of six-party talks aimed at persuading the North to give up its nuclear weapons in return for diplomatic and economic gains.

AFP: US declines to rule out resumption of NKorea nuclear talks

August 27, 2010 Posted by | general | , , | Leave a comment

After the Bhopal gas disaster, who can trust compensation for nuclear accidents?

The tale of two liabilities , Hindustan Times New Delhi, August 24, 2010 Assume: A reactor blows up in India because of a defective component supplied by a foreign company. If the present nuclear liability Bill is passed, says its opponents, victims of this blowout will get compensation only from the Indian government, even though the government is not to blame. The foreign supplier of the component will get away scot-free………….

Johnm Who with a straight face can claim that survivors of a nuclear accident will get ‘appropriate compensation’ as per ‘normal product liability’ from an international supplier of defective reactor components after going through the courts? Please review the outcome of Bhopal, and explain again to us how successful the system has been, if you can. I for one don’t see it happening.

August 27, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

Radioactive impact of Chernobyl still affecting Europe

24 Years After Chernobyl, Radioactive Boars Still Roam Germany |  Discover Magazine, 21 Aug 2010, A quarter-century after the catastrophe, Chernobyl can’t stay out of the news.When fires broke out in Russia this month, people worried that the flames would spread to areas still affected by the radiation, with unknown consequences. And this week, we learned that Chernobyl-related radiation is actually on the rise somewhere else: in German boars. Continue reading →

August 21, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear waste problem has not been solved

the problem of radioactive waste storage has not been solved. Today, some 60,000 tons of high-level waste has accumulated in the United States without a successful waste-disposal program.

U.S. Nuclear Waste Panel Slammed for Ignoring Public Fears, Environment News Service, WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – The Obama administration’s effort to fix the nation’s stalled nuclear waste program is focusing so much on technological issues that it fails to address the public mistrust hampering storage and disposal efforts, say 16 social science researchers from across the country. Continue reading →

August 21, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Time for diplomacy with Iran

Defusing nuclear tension with Tehran.   Behind warlike rhetoric, the signs are that sanctions have been effective: the time is ripe for renewed diplomacy with Iran  Johan Bergenäs guardian.co.uk,   19 August 2010 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said Wednesday that talks about his country’s nuclear programme will not take place “under the shadow” of threats. The United States and other countries should grasp this opportunity, rein in the rhetoric of military action and return to talks with Iran without delay. The time is ripe to take steps towards a negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear conundrum. Continue reading →

August 21, 2010 Posted by | general | , , | Leave a comment

CIA steps up intelligence effort against nuclear threat

New CIA center to address nuclear, WMD threats, The Hill, By Elise Viebeck – 08/19/10 The CIA is launching a new effort devoted to nuclear and other major weapons threats.Agency Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday the effort would aim to confront “nuclear, chemical and biological” WMDs. It will be initiated by the National Counterproliferation Center, which operates beneath the head of the intelligence community……..

New CIA center to address nuclear, WMD threats – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room

August 20, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , | Leave a comment

Japanese urged not to invest in risky new nuclear reactors

Speaking tour of Japan challenges MOX fuel use and financing for new U.S. reactors, Beyond Nuclear Aug 19 2 010 . Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps toured Japan from August 2nd to 12th, visiting Tokyo, Fukushima, Fukui, Kansai and Kyushu. Highlights included meeting with officials from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the Nippon Export and Investment Insurance agency, where a letter signed by 75 U.S. national and grassroots groups was delivered, urging no Japanese financing for risky new reactors in the U.S. Continue reading →

August 20, 2010 Posted by | general | , , , , | Leave a comment

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