The Lie of Nuclear Power – best selling Japanese book
His new book, “Genpatsu no uso (The Lie of Nuclear Power),” is a bestseller.1 The “Unofficial Koide Hiroaki Matome,” a blog that collects daily links and video footage of Koide’s talks and appearances, is one of the most important—and popular— Fukushima-related websites.
The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition Koide Hiroaki Introduction and translation by Sakai Yasuyuki and Norimatsu Satoko,1 August 11, IntroductionKoide Hiroaki began his career as a nuclear engineer forty years ago drawn to the promise of nuclear power. Quickly, however, he recognized the flaws in Japan’s nuclear power program and emerged as among the best informed of Japan’s nuclear power critic. Continue reading
Mohamed ElBaradei writes on nuclear weapons proliferation
.So long as nuclear weapons remain a security strategy for a few possessor countries, with umbrella arrangements that extend that security to a secondary circle of “allied” countries; so long as others are left out in the cold, the proliferation risk continues.
The uranium cocktail circuit Tehelka – Arundhati Ghosh, 27 may 11 FOR MOST of the last century, nuclear weapons were held to be the ‘currency of power’; unfortunately, even today, this belief refuses to die. In The Age of Deception, Mohamed ElBaradei, perhaps one of the most outspoken and therefore controversial directors-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has focused on the major nuclear crises during his tenure, the second Gulf War, the challenge to the Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT from North Korea, the Iran question and the discovery of Pakistan’s AQ Khan network.
He has illustrated candidly and in detail how countries with nuclear weapons and power sought to use that power to constrain the ambitions of other countries to acquire those weapons and in this tension, deception has played a role on both sides.
As ElBaradei says with some acerbity, “The (nuclear) threat will persist as long as the international community continues to address only the symptoms of each new nuclear proliferation challenge: waging war against one country, making a deal with a second, issuing sanctions in a third and seeking regime change in still another. So long as nuclear weapons remain a security strategy for a few possessor countries, with umbrella arrangements that extend that security to a secondary circle of “allied” countries; so long as others are left out in the cold, the proliferation risk continues. With the emergence of sophisticated extremist groups, for whom the threat of retaliation is irrelevant, the nuclear deterrent has become no more than a temporary if not delusional security strategy.”
ElBaradei was clearly referring to Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Iran and the contortions in negotiations that took place to achieve political agendas… Tehelka – India’s Independent Weekly News Magazine
Ethical, but very real, dilemma about nuclear power
in a nuclear context, total destruction of the target is assured and so, if one’s own annihilation is certain, is retaliation for its own sake a valid course of action?….is a reaction that wipes out the rest of humanity morally justifiable? Further, if one decides it is, what would the post-holocaust world look like and would it be worth living in for those who were not part of the original conflict?
This is just one of the dilemmas we face when considering the application of nuclear power,…..
Review: How the End Begins by Ron Rosenbaum | CultureMob, 24 Feb 2011, “………………. argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of the highly-acclaimed Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars, in his sensational new book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III . We are, and always have been, perilously close to nuclear war at any given time, and the threats are not just external. Glaring, to the point of grimly comical, flaws exist in our own nuclear response processes that make very real the possibility of a global inferno started by mistake. Continue reading
Job available after the nuclear holocaust
one “perk” of this job was that they would be expected to survive a nuclear attack, which means that the added benefits to this employment would be a special trip to a safe place to wait out the destruction of the world….. You can read these morbid documents in full at Ptak Science Books.
A job application for restarting the human race after the nuclear apocalypse, 109, 21 Feb 2011, In 1956, the US government issued this totally turgid employment application and list of job requirements for the federal position of Chief, Damage Assessment Division. Continue reading
Medical radiation and the development of cancer
ElBaradei’s book reveals manipulations of governments in Nuclear diplomacy
Mohamed ElBaradei Book Rushed to Print – WSJ.com, By JEFFREY A TRACHTENBERG, 2 Feb 2011, As demonstrations in Egypt continue to dominate headlines, a New York publisher is rushing to print the publication of Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei’s book “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times” Continue reading
Why abolition of nuclear weapons should be the top global priority
transforming the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) into a nuclear abolition agreement….Daley suggests that civil society and non-nuclear nations join together to insist that nuclear nations “move the issue to the top of their agendas.”
Building a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, HUFFINGTON POST, Lawrence Wittner, 18 Jan 2011, Apocalypse Never (Rutgers University Press, 2010), by Tad Daley, is a new book that deserves wide circulation, for it is a spirited, ringing call for nuclear weapons abolition — including why it is imperative and how it can be achieved. Continue reading
Radiation poisoning of Navajo due to uranium mining
k flood is only one incident among many in the “slow-motion disaster” investigative journalist Judy Pasternak comprehensively recounts in her chilling new book, “Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed.”
“Yellow Dirt”: Radioactive reservation, The shocking story of how industry and government poisoned and then abandoned the Navajo Nation, Salon.com, Laura Miller, 19 Sept 10,
In the summer of 1979, an earthen dam over the town of Church Rock, Utah, broke, flooding the arroyo below and then the bed of the Rio Puerco (an intermittent stream) on the southern border of the Navajo Nation. It was a small flood, but a dangerous one. It burned the feet of a boy who stepped into it, and caused sheep and crops along the banks to drop dead. That’s because the pond it came from had been used by a nearby uranium mine to store the tailings (residue) of its excavations — the water kept the radioactive dust from blowing away. The 93 million gallons of contaminated water that poured into the Rio Puerco remains the largest accidental release of radioactive material in U.S. history, bigger than the notorious Three Mile Island reactor meltdown that occurred 14 weeks later. Continue reading
Nuclear weapons are no deterrent to war
The myth that has gone nuclear, livemint.com, 5 Sept 10, Nuclear weapons have increased the potential of both conventional war and asymmetrical attacksW Pal SidhuAmong modern myths, perhaps none is more fantastic than the notion that nuclear weapons are solely responsible for the absence of war between nuclear-armed antagonists…… Continue reading
Ionising radiation – areas in Iraq contaminated by depleted uranium
Some of these areas are so irradiated that they will be uninhabitable for millions of years. And this is one of the main issues of the Iraq war, but no one wants to talk about it.
A war on the past, present, and future
tehran times : By Hamid Golpira, 31 Aug 2010, “……..the Iraq war is also a war on the future since the U.S. military has used the mutagenic weapon depleted uranium, which is definitely a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide. Continue reading
Doctors debunk myths about medical radiation
Fact sheet: Nuclear medicine Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) July 2010.This MAPW fact sheet describes how nuclear medicine is used for diagnosis and radiotherapy treatment. It explains what is NOT nuclear medicine (eg x-rays and CT scans). It summarises the dangers of ionising radiation…..
Europe’s Renewable Energy policies in detail
Europe Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010, GlobalData Report Store Jul-2010
GlobalData’s new report “Europe Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010” provides an in-depth analysis of the renewable policy initiatives in the European Union (EU) and the key countries in terms of strength of policy implementation. Continue reading
New book on Canada’s complicity in nuclear arms race
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