USA’s heat wave – but they’re wasting that solar energy!
America sizzles in heat, but remains unclear on tapping into it | BrighterEnergy.org, 8 July 2010, As much of the East Coast wilts in a heat wave at the moment, there seems to be a lot of solar energy going to waste.In Washington DC, the heat may be making it even more difficult for the nation’s politicians to work on an agreement that might make the most of all this free energy. Continue reading
Swapping of spy – nuclear expert – Moscow to USA
U.S., Russia Discussing Spy Swap – IBD – Investors.com, 8 July 2010, Moscow wants to exchange a jailed nuclear expert convicted of espionage for one of 10 alleged Russian spies held in the U.S., said a lawyer for Igor Sutyagin, who was convicted of passing secrets to a British firm. U.S. officials visited Sutyagin in prison Mon., his brother said. The U.S. declined comment, but a Va. hearing for 3 suspects was canceled and the trio transferred to N.Y.
USA’s new nuclear loans at risk because of impasse on nuclear wastes?
Nuclear Power Going To Waste? -By Amy Harder, NationalJournal.comJuly 6, 2010 How does a federal ruling finding that the Obama administration does not have the legal authority to abandon Nevada’s Yucca Mountain waste site affect U.S. nuclear energy policy?……What should the federal government do to safely dispose of nuclear waste? Should a nuclear waste plan be included in any climate and energy bill? How does this decision by NRC affect the administration’s ability to approve nuclear loans?….
Stupid nuclear weapons by USA and USSR
VIDEO The Five Stupidest Nuclear Weapons – Weird Worm – Weird Worm, 6 July 2010, As long as man has been able to mix together chemicals, he’s been blowing the heck out of anything that moves. About seventy years ago, he hit the apotheosis of “blowing the heck out of stuff” power: the nuclear bomb. But apparently dropping it from planes wasn’t enough. Oh no, we had to put that kind of power into backpacks, stick it in grenade launchers, and fire it out of cannons. Here are five weapons that prove that not only was the Cold War pointless, both sides were completely insane.
2053 nuclear bomb tests mapped
Petition to save squirrel monkeys from radiation experiments
NASA Plans to Expose Monkeys to Radiation – The Petition Site 2 July 2010 NASA has recently announced a shocking plan to spend $1.75 million of taxpayer money to fund an experiment in which up to 30 squirrel monkeys will be blasted with a massive dose of radiation equivalent to what a human would experience during three years in outer space. These monkeys will then live the rest of their lives in cages and be forced to endure years of behavioral tests to measure the inevitable devastation that the radiation causes to their brains and bodies, which would likely include brain damage, skin inflammation, blindness, various types of cancer, including brain tumors, and premature death.
PLEASE SIGN PETITION!
NASA Plans to Expose Monkeys to Radiation – The Petition Site
Time to stop U.S. Congress from ’emergency’ payout to nuclear industry
Wall Street investment firms are still too burned by atomic defaults from the 1970s and 1980s — the largest managerial disaster in business history according to Forbes magazine — to risk their own funds on new reactors, despite the federal loan guarantees!
As Taxpayers for Common Sense argues, such an emergency supplemental war funding and disaster relief bill is no place for energy loan guarantees to be attached in the first place
“Declare your independence” from risky nuclear loan guarantees before the 4th of July!, Beyond Nuclear, 2 July 2010, -There is still time to act against expanded nuclear power loan guarantees before the U.S. House finalizes its supplemental war funding and disaster relief bill by its Independence Day recess.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee, chaired by Dave Obey (Democrat-Wisconsin), is considering an emergency supplemental war funding and disaster relief bill. The Obama administration has pushed for $9 billion in additional nuclear power loan guarantees to be attached as a rider onto this bill, thus attempting to rush part of a $36 billion expansion request to the nuclear power loan guarantee program, originally requested for next year’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget, onto this fiscal year’s budget. Continue reading
USA Congress to fund nuclear industry, cut education funding
Congress brazenly puts the interests of corporations above the needs of regular Americans, including teachers and children. This is further proof our political system has been corrupted by corporate influence and special interests.
Nuke Industry Bullies Students, Demands Lunch Money. House Democrats choose pre-emptive bailout for nuclear industry over preventing teacher layoffs. Common Dreams WASHINGTON – July 1
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on supplemental appropriations for the war in Afghanistan and several domestic programs. The domestic program funding preserves $9 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear reactors, while cutting $13 billion in funds to prevent teacher layoffs. Continue reading
G20 and Aboriginal Land Rights
This Land is Still Stolen: The G20 and Aboriginal Rights The Bermuda Radiacal, 2 July 2010, “No G20 on stolen Native land,” was chanted by demonstrators throughout the week of protests leading up to G8/G20 meetings and warrior flags were flying at all the marches, whether led by environmental justice advocates or anti-poverty organizers.
And on June 24, over one thousand people flooded the streets of downtown Toronto for the Canada Can’t Hide Genocide march and rally. Continue reading
September start for Iran’s nuclear power plant
Iran’s first nuclear power plant to run in September: atomic chief. TEHRAN, June 30 (Xinhua) — Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi said Wednesday that the country’s first nuclear power plant will run in September, the local ISNA news agency reported.”Bushehr nuclear plant is due to run by mid September,” Salehi told reporters.”We are satisfied with cooperating with Russians and now 3,000 experts from the country (Russia) are working in the plant,” he was quoted as saying……
Earlier in May, Head of Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom Sergei Kiriyenko said that the nuclear power plant in the Iranian southern city of Bushehr would be launched by August……Iran and Russia, after reaching an agreement on nuclear cooperation in 1992, signed a contract in January 1995 to finish the construction of the plant, the completion of which has been repeatedly delayed
Iran’s first nuclear power plant to run in September: atomic chief
International Atomic Energy Agency still hopes for deal with Iran
IRAN: Nuclear watchdog still hopeful of a deal between Tehran and the West, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2010, The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, flatly stated in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times that a once much-touted deal between Iran and the international community on Tehran’s nuclear program wasn’t going to happen without big change.
The dormant deal, dubbed the TRR (short for Tehran research reactor), involved exchanging a chunk of Iran’s low-enriched uranium stockpile for fuel to power a medical reactor.
But that’s not to say there’s no possibility of some kind of compromise between Iran and the West on the controversial nuclear program, Amano said……….
nternational Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND)
Japan – Fifth Meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) ISRIA 29 June 2010, 1. The fifth and final meeting of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, co-chaired by the Hon. Yoriko Kawaguchi, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the Hon. Gareth Evans AO, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, will be held in Vienna, Austria from July 3 (Sat) to 4 (Sun)……..
Anti-nuclear protest at APEC
Enriched uranium market all a bit of a gamble
Companies Bet on Market for Enriched Uranium, Online Casino Guide, Changes in technology and vagaries like future arms control agreements can affect companies like Urenco and USEC.
Companies Bet on Market for Enriched Uranium | Online Casino Guide
Iowa’s potential for carbon free, nuclear free, power
Iowa Could Be Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free, Blog for Iowa, 21 June 2020, by Paul Deaton Frequent visitor to Iowa, Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has determined a way to meet our energy needs without the use of carbon-based or nuclear fuels and technology. In his book, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for US Energy Policy, he outlines the process of what we can do to reduce and eliminate our reliance on carbon and nuclear fuels to produce our energy.
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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