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France’s foreign policy: SELL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY

France seeks to pull nuclear champions into line | TopNews Arab Emirates, by Akilah Amiri , 03/18/2010 , The government has been proposing a high level authority or committee for enhancing nuclear program and tapping rising opportunities across the World. The committee will be directly under the Prime Minister and will report to the President.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has been always called for tapping export opportunities available in the World given to France’s expertise in the nuclear energy sector. The country has started to incorporate nuclear energy sector as a leading element in the French foreign policy. However, the country has been experiencing high competition from the rivals due to involvement of some degree of diplomatic pressure by respective governments.The government is concerned over Areva’s failure to get key contract in Abu Dhabi last year. Critics have now started to raise questions on the authority given to the state run firm.

France seeks to pull nuclear champions into line | TopNews Arab Emirates

March 19, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, politics | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Growing campaign to resist nuclear industry in India

Campaigners from around India have now joined the resistance movement set up by farmers and fishermen

India’s government withdraws nuclear power legislation – Nuclear Reaction 14 March, 2010, .”…….’Indian farmers battle against nuclear plant A robust people’s movement against a major nuclear power project has built up in a cluster of small villages on India’s picturesque Konkan coast. Continue reading →

March 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Indian Parliament a snag to Barack Obama’s nuclear push

government is keen to pass the bill before the next meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to US President Barack Obama scheduled in April. According to government, there is need to pass this bill for completing the 123 civil nuclear pact with US as the private companies in the US are not willing to sell any nuclear equipment to India without such a law in place.

Govt. defers tabling of nuke liabilities bill in Lok Sabha, NEWSTRACK India, New Delhi, 15 March, 2010, Continue reading →

March 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, reactors | Leave a comment

Sarkozy pushing unsafe nuclear industry to Italy

The safe French nuclear is a Government joke. Try and put the words France “nuclear accidents” into Google. You get about 28,000 results. Nuclear accidents in France are no longer news.

Beppe Grillo’s Blog: Nuclear dwarves, 17 March 2010, “…….If the nuclear “picciotto” {rank and file mafioso} in Italy is Berlusconi, its instigator is Sarkozy. The greatest pusher of nuclear power stations in the world. And thus it is with joy that I read the news of the electoral collapse of the “Transalpine Carlànano”. One dwarf attracts another…. Sarkozy could lose in the whole of France at the second round…. Continue reading →

March 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, safety | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

India’s “Nuclear Liability Bill” – a subsidy to USA business

“There is no legal liability of the foreign reactor supplier even if it supplies faulty and substandard equipment.”

Nuclear bill is hidden subsidy to US firms, says Left LittleAbout – from Indo-Asian News New Delhi, March 16 : The Left parties Tuesday urged MPs to reject the civil nuclear liability bill, saying it amounted to giving subsidies to US suppliers of proposed nuclear plants while disregarding the interests of the Indian people. Continue reading →

March 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, India | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, radioactive | Leave a comment

Nuclear power is the most pressing global issue

Nuclear Power Decisions Will Determine Much. Climate Progress Craig Severance 15 March 2010, Though nuclear power may seem a limited issue — related only to energy, and only one of several energy sources at that – the decision whether to pursue nuclear power may prove to be the most important decision now before world leaders. Consider the following: Continue reading →

March 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, energy efficiency, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, uranium | Leave a comment

Human error caused nuke submarine to crash

Nuclear submarine crashed after commander misread number Headline Uk News, March 15th, 2010 The commander of a nuclear submarine has admitted his vessel crashed into a rock because he misread a number one for a seven on a chart.

Nuclear submarine crashed after commander misread number

March 16, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

India’s Nuclear Liability Bill aimed at helping U.S. interests

legislation that safeguards the interests of the United States at the expense of the safety of Indian people

Left parties want Nuclear Liability Bill scrapped, THE HINDU, 15 March 2010,

It’s an attempt by the government to safeguard U.S. interests, they say Continue reading →

March 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Video on depleted uranium

Alan Watt: The depleted uranium nightmare

Watch “Alan Watt: The depleted uranium nightmare” Video at 911Revolution

March 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, cancer, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Opposition to re-opening of Germany’s controversial nuclear waste dump

A phase-out of nuclear power has been planned for 2021, and eight of the country’s 17 reactors are currently due to cease output in 2018.

Germany’s Greens protest re-opening of nuclear waste dump, Deutsche Welle | 14.03.2010, After a ten year moratorium, exploration on the future of the Gorleben nuclear waste dump is to resume. The Green party and environmental leaders are protesting the decision.Environmentalists and member of the Green party responded with sharp criticism to reports that the German Environment Ministry would reopen talks on the future of the Gorleben nuclear waste dump. Continue reading →

March 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Germany, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation | Leave a comment

Citizens smell a rat on Entergy’s Nuclear Spin-Off

citizens seem to be saying that they “smell a rat”. Perhaps they figure that when it’s time to shut down and clean up these plants Entergy wants to be sure that their deep corporate pockets are not available to the states in question if the Enexus doesn’t have enough money to do the job. And if that happens, guess who will foot the bills.

Entergy’s Nuclear Spin-Off Hits a Snag in Vermont, Seeking Alpha, by: John Clark March 14, 2010 Entergy (ETR), has been trying to complete a stock spinoff to separate its nuclear power plants for some time. This may be a terrific deal for Entergy and may be even a good one for the owners of the new entity to be called Enexus, but states in which those power plants are situated apparently aren’t so sure. Continue reading →

March 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Russia doing lucrative nuclear deals with India

Big bucks, many irritants, Business Standard, 15 March 2010, The Russia-India relationship, Ajai Shukla / New Delhi, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s 5th visit to India, superficially a success, in fact highlighted the one-way structure of the Russia-India relationship.

The four pillars on which the relationship rests — strategic congruence; defence and space partnership; nuclear power generation; and hydrocarbons — remain biased in favour of Russia. Continue reading →

March 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Russia looking to sell nuclear waste services to India

India keen on Russian help in nuclear waste disposal: Putin

Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, March 14, 2010, Seeking to expand civil nuclear cooperation with India, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday said India was keen on getting Russian help to dispose of nuclear waste.

India keen on Russian help in nuclear waste disposal: Putin- Hindustan Times

March 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Costs of U.S. nuclear weapons – the facts

50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Pak Alert Press, March 12, 2010 The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical.

This article goes on to list the projects and costs – from 1945 – 1998
No. 1. Cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945): $20,000,000,000
No. 50. Estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs: $35,100,000,000

50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons « Pak Alert Press

March 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear power plants employed a terrorism suspect

American terrorism suspect arrested in Yemen worked for nuclear plants- POLITICO.com, by Laura RozenMarch 11, 2010 A Somali-American terrorism suspect arrested in Yemen worked for U.S. nuclear power plants in New Jersey from 2002-2008, the Associated Press reports: A spokesman for a group of nuclear power plants in New Jersey says a U.S. man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida had previously worked at the plants. PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar says Sharif Mobley worked as a laborer for several contractors at its three plants on Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek from 2002 to 2008 carrying supplies and doing maintenance work….. Nuclear reactors remain a tempting target for terrorists, requiring ever vigilant security measures.

Yemeni officials confirmed on Thursday that Mobley is in custody. AP: American terrorism suspect arrested in Yemen worked for nuclear plants – Laura Rozen – POLITICO.com

March 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment