Nuclear capable missiles tested by Pakistan
Pakistan Tests Nuclear-Capable Missiles, NTI: 10 May 2010, Pakistan on Saturday carried out a successful test launches of two nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, March 12).The Ghaznavi missile has a range of 180 miles and the Shaheen 1 missile can travel as far as 400 miles, enabling it to strike New Delhi, the capital of Pakistan’s nuclear-armed rival India. Both missiles can be loaded with conventional and nuclear warheads.
NTI: Global Security Newswire – Pakistan Tests Nuclear-Capable Missiles
Finland’s 100,000-Year Plan to Banish Its Nuclear Waste
There are somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste already in the world, much of it in pools on the sites of nuclear power plants where the rods have to cool for years before they can be put into containers.
Films on ScienceFinland’s 100,000-Year Plan to Banish Its Nuclear Waste – NYTimes.com, 11 May 2010, Continue reading
Europeans want NATO’s dangerous old nuclear weapons OUT!
how safe and secure they are. For one thing, al-Qaida terrorists have already targeted this Belgian air base, 84km northeast of Brussels.
US nuclear garbage « Niqnaq Outdated, unwanted, US nukes hang on in Europe Charles J Hanley, AP, May 9 2010 Unseen beyond the grazing Holsteins and rolling pastures of Kleine Brogel, eastern Belgium, the 12ft-long tapered metal cylinders sit in their underground vaults, waiting for the doomsday call that never came. Each packs the power of many Hiroshimas. Continue reading
UK govt tries to stall atomic compensation case as veterans aging and dying
Many are terminally ill and seven – including five of the test case claimants – have died since the litigation began.
MoD appeals against atomic test veteran claims ruling, – Telegraph UK , The Ministry of Defence has launched an appeal against a court ruling which allowed Britain’s atomic test veterans to claim damages. 7 May 2010 Last June, High Court judge Mr Justice Foskett ruled that 10 test cases out of 1,011 claims could proceed to full trial. Continue reading
Strong protests in Japan against re-starting fast breeder nuclear reactor
Protests over re-opening of Japanese nuclear reactor, Greenpeace International, 8 May 2010, (Buddhika Weerasinghe-Japan) Japanese peace and human right activists together protest against to Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)has reactive controversial “fast-breeder” Monju nuclear reactor14 years after the plant was shut down following a liquid of sodium leaked and fire in 1995. Continue reading
Australia: controversial report on nuclear waste arouses suspicion and opposition
ts “heavy handed” overriding of Territory and Aboriginal heritage protection laws, and the reliance on secret documents
Inquiry dumps on Northern Territory, Northern Territory News, TBEN LANGFORD, May 7th, 2010 T HE Senate inquiry into laws which could put a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory has recommended the new legislation be passed.But the inquiry’s report was immediately criticised as “an unbalanced and closed-minded justification for a foregone conclusion” by one of the committee members. Continue reading
Obama to visit Australia: gets nuclear agreement first
Australian-U.S. Nuclear Trade Deal Sent to Congress, NTI: Global Security Newswire May 6, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday submitted for congressional approval a deal that would permit Australia and the United States to trade in nonmilitary nuclear materials and technology (see GSN, March 19)………….the deal would enable “the transfer of information, material, equipment (including reactors), and components for nuclear research and nuclear power production………..The pending “123” agreement could only be canceled after it has been in force for 30 years, he said. The deal would take effect following 90 days of “continuous session” of Congress unless lawmakers move to block it within that period…………The United States is also moving ahead with a similar deal with Russia and is finalizing terms of its nuclear trade pact with India (see GSN, May 5; White House release, May 5).
NTI: Global Security Newswire – Australian-U.S. Nuclear Trade Deal Sent to Congress
Niger’s enviroment contaminated by AREVA’s radioactive uranium wastes
VIDEO Left in the Dust – Areva’s uranium mining in Niger | Greenpeace International
Left in the Dust – Areva’s uranium mining in Niger | Greenpeace International 6 May 2010, Operations of Nuclear giant AREVA put lives at risk in Niger. Uranium mines in Niger operated by the state-owned French nuclear giant AREVA continue to create a radioactive hazard for the people living nearby. Continue reading
Footprints for Peace speakers in U.S. talk about Australia’s uranium mining
“Australians feel a deep responsibility,” said Atkinson. “We are sending this poison around the world.” ………. The uranium mining has destroyed sites sacred to the aborigines, polluted their water and food supplies and endangered their hunter/gatherer way of life, said Atkinson…………..
Uranium: The Australia-Vt. connection, Brattleboro Reformer, By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer StaffThursday May 6, 2010 BRATTLEBORO — Australia and Vermont are connected in a way not many people think about — through uranium.”We are pretty sure that some of the uranium mined in Australia is being used in the fuel rods at Vermont Yankee,” Continue reading
Iran would do nuclear fuel swap with Brazil
Iran Accepts Brazilian Mediation for Nuclear-fuel Deal, New American,
Warren Mass Wednesday, 05 May 2010 The Voice of America reported on May 5 that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed “in principle” to accept Brazilian mediation in a United Nations-backed nuclear fuel swap deal. The UN deal calls for Iran to send its uranium to Russia for enrichment. Continue reading
IAEA pressure on Israel to admit is nukes
UN watchdog wants Israel to join NPT, Palestine Note, 5 May 2010, IAEA seeks international input on persuading Israel to join treaty Washington – The UN’s nuclear watchdog is seeking international support in persuading Israel to join the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in a step that will likely put pressure on Israel to publicly confirm the existence of its unacknowledged nuclear arsenal, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Continue reading
Nuclear radiation leaks are invisible, unlike oil spills
If only radiation — which leaks every day at the 104 nuclear reactors in the US — was as visible as the growing BP oil slick in the Gulf Coast
Wake up and smell the oil THE HUFFINGTON POST, John Rosenthal, May 3, 2010 “………..Close your eyes and imagine for a minute that instead of BP’s deepwater offshore well exploding 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, spreading millions of gallons of toxic and visible oil across the Gulf Coast, that one of the 104 nuclear reactors operating in the US, exploded Continue reading
Environmental racism in siting yet more nuclear reactors in Burke County, GA
why there are no laws requiring, and no funds to pay for, testing the air, soil,
water, fish, wildlife, or the people of mostly black Burke County, who are experiencing an unexplained epidemic of cancer?
(USA) Siting Nukes in a Poor Black Town If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism? THE HUFFINGTON POST, Bruce Dixon, May 4, 2010 In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, GA, the inconvenient questions, unanswered and mostly unasked, continue to pile up. Continue reading
Israel’s nuclear weapons a problem for Nuclear Non Proliferation Conference
they directed their focus to Israel, whose “unacknowledged” nuclear arsenal gets
a free pass thanks to US protection in IAEA and the UN Security Council…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commented over the weekend that more progress must be made world-wide in nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear conference: Arab states say Israel destabilizes the region, Palestine Note 4 May 2010, “………..Jordan’s foreign minister says the world must work harder for a “nuclear-free” Middle East, the Associate Press reports from the second day of the UN nuclear summit. Continue reading
Community opposing nuclear power in South Africa’s Eastern Cape
The Fight Against Nuclear Power: suite101.com, by Christian Theron, 4 May 2010, The Community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape is currently facing Construction of a Nuclear Power Plant even though no guarantees of safety are provided. “… Continue reading
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