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U.S govt in legal battle over nuclear waste

“US Justice Dept Wants More Lawyers For Nuclear-Waste Litigation” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Brent Kendall, (Siobhan Hughes and Ian Talley contributed to this article.) Dow Jones Newswire 2 Feb 2010 -The Obama administration wants a bigger legal team to do battle with utility companies over the federal government’s failure to collect spent nuclear waste as required by legislation from the 1980s.The president’s budget proposal, released Monday, seeks an additional $11.4 million for the Justice Department to devote to nuclear-waste litigation. Continue reading →

February 2, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, reactor | Leave a comment

Russian protests against Areva and Urenco’s nuclear waste dumping

Areva and its counterpart Urenco, headquartered in Britain, have sent close to 140,000 tonnes of nuclear waste to Russia in the past 15 years.

DEPLETED URANIUM IN RUSSIA Protests as French uranium arrives in Russia Javno 2 Feb 2010 A cargo loaded with depleted uranium from France docked in Saint Petersburg, as Russian activists protested at the nuclear waste exports. Continue reading →

February 2, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, Russia | antinuclear, AREVA, cancer, depleted, France, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | 2 Comments

Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is a political issue

If you thought Vermont Yankee was a big election issue before, it just became even more so

Nuclear politics VY vote this year? Maybe, Burlington Free Press 1 Feb 2010 Once upon a time, the Legislature was balking at voting on Vermont Yankee’s future and the governor who was pushing for a vote. Now that tritium is leaking into groundwater at the plant from pipes that company officials said didn’t exist, things appear different. Continue reading →

February 2, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive | Leave a comment

How many nuclear power plants are leaking radioactive tritium?

Many radiological health scientists agree with the Environmental Protection Agency that tritium, like other radioactive isotopes, can cause cancer………..

Vt nuke plant leaks renew debate over aging plants, Business Week, The Associated Press, February 1, 2010, By DAVE GRAM

Radioactive tritium, a carcinogen discovered in potentially dangerous levels in groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, has now tainted at least 27 of the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors — raising concerns about how it is escaping from the aging nuclear plants. Continue reading →

February 2, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive | Leave a comment

European countries want U.S and Russian nuclear arsenals removed from their borders

Sweden, Poland urge sharp cuts in tactical nukes The Washington Post The Associated Press
February 1, 2010 STOCKHOLM — The foreign ministers of Sweden and Poland on Monday urged the U.S. and Russia to sharply reduce their arsenals of tactical nuclear weapons, and said Moscow should withdraw such arms from areas bordering the European Union. Continue reading →

February 2, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Judge rules that utility can withdraw from crumbling nuclear power project

San Antonio utility wins nuclear ruling By TRACY IDELL HAMILTON San Antonio Express-NewsJan. 30, 2010, SAN ANTONIO — In a victory for CPS Energy, District Court Judge Larry Noll’s ruling Friday clears the way for the city-owned utility to withdraw from the proposed expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear plant without fear of losing its entire investment…………. Continue reading →

February 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Non-Africans exploit poor environmental controls in African uranium mines.

it is non-African companies that are exploiting the resource — Chinese, Canadian and French firms. It’s a whole new phase of colonialism.”…..

A recent investigation in Niger uncovered radioactive shovels on sale in the local market in Arlit, a company town next to Areva’s mine there.

The great uranium stampede The Sunday TimesJanuary 31, 2010

“…….The scramble has been set off by the comeback of nuclear power. In the past couple of years countries that for decades had shunned it as an expensive, pariah technology have embraced it anew. Britain is leading the charge. The government envisages a new generation of reactors to replace the rickety old stations that will be retired in the coming years. The renaissance has taken hold elsewhere, from America to the Middle East and China. Continue reading →

February 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Niger, politics international | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | 1 Comment

U.S.A. pressurising Iran with increased missiles in Gulf

US boosts missile presence in Gulf as warning to Iran Pentagon expands. Patriot missile programme across Middle East after Tehran repeatedly spurns hand of diplomacy The Guardian. (UK) James Sturcke, 31 January 2010

The Obama administration is intensifying pressure on Iran by increasing its missile defences in the Middle East to defend against potential missile strikes in the region by Tehran, it emerged today. Continue reading →

February 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

International experts meet, about nuclear terrirism

Experts seek ways to stop nuke terror By Philip Tubeza Philippine Daily Inquirer 02/01/2010 MANILA, Philippines—A radioactive or “dirty bomb” explodes on a crowded train or inside a sports stadium, killing hundreds. Rods of plutonium are dropped into a water reservoir, poisoning millions. Continue reading →

February 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Costly cleanup at notorious Hanford Nuclear Site, Washington

the notorious distinction of being one of the most contaminated nuclear sites in the Western Hemisphere……………

Federal funds aim to clean up nuclear wasteland By Patrick Oppmann, CNN January 29, 2010

— The federal government has set aside nearly $2 billion in stimulus funds to clean up Washington state’s decommissioned Hanford nuclear site, once the center of the country’s Cold War plutonium production. Continue reading →

January 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Time to shut down Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor

Former Yankee co-owner says shut it down: Times Argus Online By DANIEL BARLOW VERMONT PRESS BUREAU January 29, 2010 MONTPELIER – One of the former co-owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant called on lawmakers Thursday to vote this year against continued operation of the troubled Vernon reactor beyond 2012. Continue reading →

January 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Obama understands that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean

Indeed, Obama knows better. Candidate Obama understood that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean. Watch this video taken early in his presidential campaign,

Nuclear Information and Resource Service Michael Mariotte 28 Jan 2010 If you were watching last night’s State of the Union address, I’m sure you were as appalled as I was when President Obama suddenly spoke in support of “safe, clean nuclear power” (not to mention support for offshore oil drilling and “clean” coal).

Politically, Obama likely was simply parroting the effort being led by Sens. John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham to gain support for a climate bill by adding massive subsidies for nuclear power, offshore oil and “clean” coal. But recycling George W. Bush energy talking points is no way to solve the climate crisis or develop a sustainable energy policy.

Indeed, Obama knows better. Candidate Obama understood that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean. Watch this video taken early in his presidential campaign, in which he expresses concern for his daughters growing up in Chicago and surrounded by nuclear reactors. He says he is not a nuclear proponent and speaks out directly against taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power…www.nirs.org

January 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactor | Leave a comment

South Africa’s Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor probably has no future

Times Live Zambia Jan 28, 2010 | By Sapa

Trade union Solidarity has raised the alarm about pending job losses at the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project in Centurion near Pretoria as funding dries up.

“Workers were informed (by PBMR chief executive Jaco Kriek) that government would not make further subsidies available for the project and that there were only sufficient operating funds left until April,” Solidarity spokesman Jaco Kleynhans said in a statement.

PBMR spokesman Tom Ferreira did concede, in a statement, that “the future of the PBMR is currently being reviewed by government, Necsa and Eskom.”…..The minerals and energy department could not be reached for comment….http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/local/article282054.ece

January 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | South Africa | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, reactor, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

AREVA and INB’s false claims on radioactive drinking water wells

Why do nuclear companies always start by denying there is a problem, when there is a problem, only admitting it when there is a lot of pressure hoping the issue is already forgotten? For years AREVA denied the problems in Niger and now in Brazil! With such track record do they really expect us to believe anything they say?

Hot’ drinking water near uranium mine in Brazil Continue reading →

January 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, SOUTH AMERICA | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Doubts about AREVA and the future of France’s nuclear power empire

Areva reshuffles ops to stave off split-up PARIS, Jan 28 (Reuters) – French nuclear reactor maker Areva (CEPFi.PA) announced a reorganisation of its businesses on Thursday, in a move aimed to shore up its credentials as an integrated nuclear power provider that cannot be split apart.

The embattled state-owned company said it was reshuffling operations to improve synergies and customer satisfaction.

Areva has recently come under fire for losing a multi-billion euro contract to build nuclear reactors in Abu Dhabi in part because it did not tailor its offer to meet local needs.

The company has also struggled to finish a project to build next generation nuclear reactors in Finland and is embroiled in legal proceedings with its partner there over delays and cost overruns……….President Nicolas Sarkozy has commissioned Francois Roussely, the former head of EDF (EDF.PA), to produce an analysis on the future of the French nuclear industry. The report is due by the end of April. (Reporting by Nina Sovich; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)…http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE60R0QQ20100128

January 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, politics | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment