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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 →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium, water | Leave a comment

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 →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Foreign nuclear power salesmen perturbed about radiation concerns in India

Radiation death in India raises nuclear safety concerns, (Reuters) 5 May 2010, – The radiation-related death of a scrap metal worker has raised concerns over nuclear safety in India, at a time when the Asian power is wooing foreign players to its $150 billion civilian nuclear market. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, India | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

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 →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, South Africa | antinuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, uranium | Leave a comment

Permit for new nuclear reactors was illegal, rules judge

Judge rules permitting of new Georgia nuclear reactors illegal FACING SOUTHH, 5 May 2010, The Georgia Public Service Commission violated state law when it granted a permit to build two new nuclear reactors at the Southern Company/Georgia Power Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Ga. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

President Ahmadinejad of Iran points out an unpalatable nuclear truth

He is not alone in seeing the old nuclear powers as an arrogant club who believe they have the right to rule…….As the US presses for sanctions against Iran, President Ahmadinejad has come to stir up charges of hypocrisy and double standards

An unlikely anti-nuclear campaigner? BBC, Mark Mardell , 3 May 2010 President Ahmadinejad of Iran says nuclear weapons are “disgusting and shameful”, a danger to the countries that have them.We have to assume this is an indirect denial that he is on the verge of developing such a weapon. Continue reading →

May 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

UK govt’s Sustainable Development Commission finds that nuclear is not the answer

Is nuclear the answer? · · Sustainable Development Commission 3 May 2010, Nuclear power is not the answer to tackling climate change or security of supply, according tothe Sustainable Development Commission.In response to the Government’s current Energy Review, the SDC nuclear report draws together the most comprehensive evidence base available, to find that there is no justification for bringing forward a new nuclear power programme at present. Continue reading →

May 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK | antinuclear, climate change, energy efficiency, global warming, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear wastes, radiation | 1 Comment

USA’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Nuclear Wastes More of a Nuclear Power Promoter

National Grassroots Summit and Forum
on Radioactive Waste Policy, Chicago, June 4-6

In January, the Obama Administration’s Dept. of Energy announced the creation of its “Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on the Future of Nuclear Power in America“, ostensibly to “study and recommend” what the U.S. should do about its radioactive waste problems, especially in light of the wise cancellation of the dangerous Yucca Mountain, Nevada dumpsite proposal. Many of us watched or attended the first meeting of the Commission in April — and are deeply disturbed by what we saw and heard. The panel seems much more devoted to expanding atomic energy than it is to addressing our nation’s unsolved radioactive waste crisis. Risky “illusions of solutions” for radioactive waste, such as reprocessing, also seem high on the Commission’s agenda.

As a response a number of organizations have come together to create a National Grassroots Summit and Forum on Radioactive Waste Policy — to articulate a national radioactive waste policy for the other 300 million Americans the DOE panel seems intent on ignoring. This event will be held in Chicago from Friday, June 4^th to Sunday, June 6^th.

May 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Conference not likely to get anywhere, really

The administration is likely to be criticized, however, for its failure to see progress on U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

US: Consensus unlikely at nuclear treaty meeting, SunHerald.com, By DESMOND BUTLER – Associated Press Writer 2 May 2010, WASHINGTON –– The United States already is acknowledging that delegates from 189 countries gathering next week to review a treaty designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons are unlikely to reach consensus. Continue reading →

May 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Britsh nuclear submarines at sea despite dangerous safety defects

Nuclear submarines went to sea with potentially disastrous defect. British vessels Turbulent and Tireless allowed to leave port with safety valves sealed off, risking catastrophic explosion, leaked memo reveals mo reveals Severin Carrell and Rob Edwards guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 May 2010
Two British nuclear submarines went to sea with a potentially disastrous safety problem that left both vessels at risk of a catastrophic accident, the Guardian can reveal. Continue reading →

May 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear technology | Leave a comment

Pervasive radioactive risks in India

the death of a single person, through disparate chains of official negligence, serves to show that he was not safe. And neither are we.

The radioactive risk society , Indian Express, by Neha Sinha, 3 May 2010, On April 10, 2007, a uranium pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our nuclear energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on radioactivity in India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008, another uranium pipe burst, spewing houses near the village of Dungridih in Jaduguda with uranium waste. Continue reading →

May 3, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, India | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Dr. Richard Meserve serving pro nuclear interests in USA’s radiation cancer research?

1 May 2010, Beyond Nuclear has requested that the National Academies of Science (NAS) conduct a review for conflict of interest on Dr. Richard Meserve who currently chairs the NAS Nuclear and Radiation Study Board. This is the board tasked to shape and supervise the new cancer study around US nuclear power facilities.

Beyond Nuclear notes that Dr. Meserve also currently serves as Senior to Counsel of DC law firm catering to nuclear industry interests, on the Boards of Directors for two nuclear power companies headquartered in Texas and California, as a member of the Board of Advisors to the French-US nuclear conglomerate looking to construct new reactors in the United States and also recently contributed to a Congressional lobbying effort by the nuclear industry which used a special advertising supplement in the Washington Post asking for increased federal loans for new reactor construction.

May 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Double standards and doublespeak about Nuclear Non Proliferation

Washington maintains a double standard that allows its friends to make key nuclear weapons but prevents its rivals from doing so…..

“…the right of non-nuclear states to the peaceful uses of nuclear weapons” – Egypt’s Abdelaziz

The nuclear caste system , Foreign Policy, by Colum Lynch , 30 April 2010. Next week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet in New York with diplomats from more than 180 countries at the eighth review conference of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (pdf), the Cold War pact that determines who can have nuclear weapons and who can’t. Continue reading →

May 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, peace, peaceful | Leave a comment

Anxiety over U.S. nuclear wastes, as “Blue Ribbon” Commission struggles for a solution

the Department of Energy convened a commission led by former lawmakers and regulators to study what to do next

SRS communities angered by nuclear waste decision | ajc.com By Bob KeefeThe Atlanta Journal, April 28, 2010 -Constitution, WASHINGTON — For decades now, workers and local residents have fully expected that giant canisters of nuclear waste put into temporary storage at the Savannah River Site would eventually be relocated from their backyards to a permanent nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Continue reading →

May 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Like USA, Europe worried about unsolved problem of nuclear waste

EU Health: Vast Majority Of Europeans Want EU Wide Radioactive Waste Management Legislation, eGov monitorSource: European Commission, 29 April, 2010 – The European Commission has published today a Eurobarometer survey showing that an overwhelming majority of Europeans would find it useful to have European legislation on radioactive waste management. The concern for the safety risk related to radioactive waste is shared both in countries with nuclear power plants and those with no nuclear energy.

May 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment