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India ready for new nuclear weapons tests

Sri Lanka: Meeting the Western challenge Asian Tribune By Dimuth Gunawardena 10 Nov 09 “…………..The stage is thus set for the next round of nuclear tests by India in spite of Washington’s objections, Continue reading →

November 12, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Legal action looming against UK nuclear plan

Greenpeace threaten legal action over nuclear announcement edie.net 10 Nov 09 Luke Walsh The Government has earmarked ten sites for nuclear power generation by 2025 and moves to speed applications through the planning process. Continue reading →

November 11, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment

Renewables a better energy prospect that nuclear for UK

Call for NPS to prioritise renewables over nuclear New Energy Focus (UK) 10 Nov 09 Opposition politicians and campaign groups have called on the government to prioritise renewable energy ahead of developing nuclear plants after it unveiled plans to fast-track planning applications for as many as 10 new nuclear facilities. ” Continue reading →

November 11, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, renewables | Leave a comment

Unsolved nuclear waste problem is stopping the industry

Nuclear waste blocks growth opportunities The Collegian Philip Reiser, Staff Writer 10 Nov 09 With the growing concerns about the climate problem, the need for renewable energy sources becomes more and more pressing……………. Continue reading →

November 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Art communicates effects of nuclear testin

Green Books Campaign: Art and Upheaval & Giveaway

At home with books November 10, 2009

Review of Art and Upheaval by William Cleveland. “……In Australia theater is used as a means to communicate the effects of nuclear testing on unknowing military men and the aborigines, in hopes that the government will finally take responsibility for their actions…..”

At Home With Books: Green Books Campaign: Art and Upheaval & Giveaway

November 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear power makes no financial sense

11/06/2009 What’s the Allure of Nuclear? SustainableBusiness.com News

Since 2007, there have been applications to license 26 new nuclear reactors in the US. Nine have been canceled or suspended indefinitely in the last 10 months, and 10 have been delayed 1-5 years. Continue reading →

November 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Dangerous burden of nuclear power

Cost of nuclear power is too great a burden THE NATION (Thailand) by GARETH CLAYTON BANGKOK October 30, 2009 “……..danger of accidents from nuclear power stations.
These dangers are real. Continue reading →

November 2, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, climate change, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, renewableenergy | Leave a comment

Canadian anti-nuclear protest

Soggy protest Activists push for nuclear-free future at legislature

GWYNETH DUNSFORD

METRO EDMONTON

October 28, 2009 Banners hoisted high, hundreds of activists invaded the grounds of the legislature yesterday, outraged over potential nuclear energy developments.

“We don’t need nuclear,” said Adele Boucher Rymhs, the president of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Alberta. “Nuclear is one of the problems that is going to come up in the future.

Everyone is worried about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions, but the emissions from a nuclear power plant are far worse than emissions from a coal plant. They go on for thousands of years.”

Metro – Soggy protest

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

President Obama misinformed about France and Japan’s nukes

Beyond Nuclear 23 Oct 09 President Obama is either misinformed or uninformed if he believes that France and Japan have operated their nuclear power programs safely and effectively.

Due to its dependency on nuclear power, France has an immense and unsolved nuclear waste problem including 81 + tonnes of plutonium sitting in canisters – enough for 10,000 bombs. Leukemia clusters have been found along the coast near the huge reprocessing plant and radioactively contaminated sites litter the country due to the 210 now abandoned uranium mines.

Japan has suffered a series of tragic accidents at nuclear facilities in the past two decades including an accidental criticality at the Tokai-Mura uranium enrichment facility that killed two workers and exposed many hundreds of local residents and an earthquake that released radioactivity into the ocean from the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest with seven reactors.

If Obama is serious about addressing climate change he must get off the nuclear bandwagon and make a real commitment to meaningful progress on renewable energy.

October 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment