Future is a gamble for uranium companies
Companies Bet on Rise in Demand for Uranium, By MATTHEW L. WALD NYTimes.com June 18, 2010 WASHINGTON — Uranium enrichment, the market that the Noble Group has entered with its purchase of USEC stock, is a globalized business fraught with uncertainty.
Besides rapidly changing technology and questions about how many new reactors will be built, the market can be affected by vagaries like future arms control agreements……….. Continue reading
Uranium not such a good investment now
Uranium Investors More Cautious , Uranium Investing News Jun 21, 2010 By Dave Brown – Interest in uranium investing has declined, according to a recent survey conducted by Resources Investing News. The results indicate that fewer investors were placing their bets on uranium companies, down to 12 percent from 16.9 percent at the end of 2009. Surprisingly, uranium spot prices have declined almost 20 percent since October 2009,……Since last year, the number of operating nuclear power facilities increased by 1 …….. the lag between price and production and future uranium price due to the challenges and complexities of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Truth emerging on health ill effects of low levels of ionising radiation
Radiation Alert: Niagara Falls , The Palestine Telegraph, June 21, – By Paul Zimmerman and Louis Ricciuti, “…….In the last half century, numerous incidents have testified to the hazard to health from low levels of internal emitters, radionuclides absorbed from nuclear pollution in the environment which undergo radioactive decay while sequestered within the human body’s interior. In many cases, injury was incurred from levels of exposure significantly below what the radiation protection agencies consider the threshold for radiation-induced illness. Continue reading
China to sell nuclear reactors to Pakistan, as U.S. to sell them to India
Having muscled the Indian deal through the NSG in 2008, the US is likely to struggle to forge a consensus against China’s deal with Pakistan.
US defies China on Pakistan reactors Jeremy Page, Islamabad The Australian * June 22, 2010 CHINA and the US are on a collision course over Chinese plans to build two nuclear reactors in Pakistan. Continue reading
The Bunker mentality – U.S. nuclear weapons plans
The Obama administration is making generous concessions to the nuclear industry presumably, as alluded to above, to win votes from Republicans….ways to keep the “nuclear-industrial complex” humming along,
Seed of Destruction: Nuclear ‘Pits’, Foreign Policy In Focus , By Russ Wellen, June 21, 2010 “……The nuclear-weapons industry adopted the word “pit” for the weapon’s core, which is power-packed with the varieties of uranium or plutonium isotopes capable of a warp-speed chain reaction. Yes, it’s a seed for the a chain reaction. ……the pit instead serves as a cache for .. a seed of destruction……
A project for their production is pivotal to the Obama administration’s plans for nuclear modernization. In a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists piece titled Bunker mentality: Is NNSA digging itself into a hole at Los Alamos?, Greg Mello writes that “as part of the New START ratification package, the administration projects $16 billion in new warhead spending over this decade.” Continue reading
Radiation detected after North Korea nuclear fusion test
South Korea Detects Radiation After Nuclear Fusion Test In North Korea
Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer, 20 June 2010,Seoul, South Korea (AHN) – A radiation detection station of South Korea measured increased levels of radioactive xenon in the air two days after North Korea announced a nuclear fusion test on May 12. Continue reading
As nuclear waste mass accumulates, so does the COST of it
There is no national disposal spot for the spent fuel, and for 32 states, no place to send their low-level wastes. Around the country, the inventory of low-level wastes with no place to go is growing by about 10,000 cubic feet a year……...as much as $1,625 per cubic foot of waste. Even with waste reduction technologies, the amount of waste per year amounts to thousands of cubic feet…………
Nuclear Dumps Argue Over Diluting Waste for Burial – NYTimes.com, By MATTHEW L. WALD June 17, 2010 Even low-level radioactive waste is a growing problem, with few licensed repositories to dispose of it. The problem dates from the early 1980s, when Congress said that the federal government would take care of high-level waste, like spent fuel from nuclear power plants, but that the states would have to find sites for low-level material, Continue reading
U.S. Senators trying to greenwash nuclear power
The nuclear power industry has skillfully and successfully painted itself green — an environmentally benign answer to reducing carbon emissions. The industry and many in Washington want us to believe that a new generation of nuclear reactors will solve the problems of climate change and allow us to live happily ever after. That’s a costly fairy tale.
US climate proposal a nuclear bailout By Richard Clapp Shanghai Daily, 2010-6-19 THE long-awaited climate proposal crafted by US Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman has finally landed on Capitol Hill. The proposal, though, is a massive nuclear bailout under the guise of an energy overhaul. Continue reading
Terrorist danger in enriched uranium storage
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Nuke Facility Raid An Inside Job? – 60 Minutes – CBS News Eyewitness Talks To 60 Minutes About Brazen Assault On South African Nuclear Facility CBS) This story was first published on Nov. 28, 2008. It was updated on June 15, 2010.When President Obama invited 47 world leaders to Washington for a nuclear security summit in April, the assault on Pelindaba was exactly the kind of scenario they were working to prevent. Continue reading
Mental retardation in children due to uranium
There’s high-level of uranium in the drinking-water sources..…..Most children are below the age of 13 and all have neurological disabilities.
Uranium in retarded kids’ systems: German lab | Global Sikh News Source: H. Sidhu, 18 Junex 2010, Bathinda, Punjab: Water samples from the region contain a high amount of uranium and other heavy metals. It’s crippling children’s brains. Continue reading
Anti-nuclear protest at APEC
Harsh conditions forced by Israel on nuclear whistleblower
Israeli nuclear whistleblower returned to solitary confinement 21 June 2010, Amnesty International has accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement.The 56-year-old, who spent 18 years in prison for revealing details of the country’s nuclear arsenal to a UK newspaper in 1986, was sent back to jail for three months on 23 May on charges of contact with a foreign national, and almost immediately placed in solitary confinement. Continue reading
New Zealand’s anti-nuclear legislation threatened by shipping decision
NZ’s Proud Nuclear Free History Threatened By Uranium Shipment Voxy.co.nz, 21 June, 2010
Uranium, a radioactive material, should never pass through New Zealand’s nuclear free seas let alone come into port, the Green Party said today. Continue reading
Concern over nuclear workers’ exposure to radiation
Radiation tests ordered at nuclear plant By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun June 19, 2010 Bruce Power will be testing more of its employees for alpha radiation.An internal memo obtained by the Sun was sent to employees at the power station Friday advising them that tests done last year on those closest to the low-level radiation contamination show they may have received a dose. Continue reading
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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petition to oppose the rapid increase of space-military industry threatening Jeju Island and the region.
[Petition by April 19th (KST)] Stop the joint military-Hanwha Systems-Jeju Provincial Government Sea Launch!
World Nuclear Power. Reactors 1951-2026, 75 Years of Nuclear Power.
Interactive Map– https://dv.worldnuclearreport.org/
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
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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