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Nuclear company Entergy’s fall in profits

Entergy 1Q Profit Falls 9% As Nuclear Unit Weighs on Results WSJ.com, DOW JONES NEWSWIRES By Matt Jarzemsky; 30 April 2010, Entergy Corp.’s (ETR) first-quarter profit fell 9% as lower pricing for its nuclear power dragged down revenue and operating margin…… Revenue fell 1.1% to $2.76 billion while operating margin slid to 17.3% from 18.2%…..The company’s utility division profit climbed 24% while its nuclear unit, the second-biggest U.S. generator of such power behind Exelon Corp. (EXC), reported a 48% plunge in earnings as revenue fell on lower pricing. Entergy 1Q Profit Falls 9% As Nuclear Unit Weighs on Results – WSJ.com

May 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear technology | Leave a comment

Nuclear “deterrence” does not make us safer

the claim that a nuclear deterrent makes us feel safer, seems, to put it plainly, bollocks.

(UK) Who’s afraid of the nuclear bomb?The debate over Trident has sparked differing reactions between the cold war and 9/11 generations – but why? Richard Rogers * guardian.co.uk, 28 April 2010 “….Back in the UK, the nation watched as Nick Clegg made the Lib Dems’ case for reviewing the replacement of Trident – arguing for the need to look for a cheaper alternative or possibly, just possibly, even abandon an independent nuclear deterrent for Britain completely………. Continue reading →

April 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear Non Proliferation Meeting May 1-28 – Iran, Egypt face U.S. and its allies

Iran, Egypt ready for battle at U.N. nuclear meeting, news90, April 29, 2010 · By Louis Charbonneau, UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)– Iran and Egypt are gearing up for battle against the United States and its allies over Israel and developing countries’ rights to atomic technology at a major meeting on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Continue reading →

April 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Comparing money for health research to money for useless plutonium weapons facilities

Keeping Fear Alive. BuzzFlash.org, ROBERT C. KOEHLER, 29 April 2010, “…….One of the provisions of Udall’s bill would, according to the senator’s press release, “authorize $3 million for five years for epidemiological research on the impacts of uranium development on communities and families of uranium workers.”I can’t help but notice the insignificance of the dollar amount being sought for this research — or rather, I can’t help but compare it to other sums of money, diverted, without serious comment or thought, elsewhere.

For instance, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has already embarked on an expansion of its plutonium facilities for the construction of warhead cores, or pits. The projected cost of this project over a dozen years, according to Greg Mello of the watchdog Los Alamos Study Group, is at least $5.5 billion.”The facilities to be built are ‘modern,’ but their primary purpose is outmoded,” Mello writes.Their primary purpose is to keep America not so much “safe” as powerful, and to perpetuate an agenda that is only about power and geopolitical interests, which is retrospect always seem small and limited. Their primary purpose, damn the cost, is to keep fear alive .Keeping Fear Alive | BuzzFlash.org

April 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, plutonium | Leave a comment

The nuclear weapons industry gobbles our resources and promotes fear

Keeping Fear Alive. BuzzFlash.org, ROBERT C. KOEHLER, 29 April 2010,, “…….six-and-a-half decades into the nuclear era, our premature “peace” with these weapons — our cultural forgetting, our denial — betokens a psychic helplessness that is enormously dark and dangerous in its own right. At some level we know that our shadow is growing. We watch it happen as spectators.

Does any force seem more impervious to the collective will than that which drives the nuclear weapons industry? Will it take, as Caldicott asks, a horrific accident, an insane act of aggression, to shatter the conspiracy? And by then, will it be too late?The industry continues to thrive and grow, having far outlived its original premise of “mutually assured destruction”; the Cold War is over, but the money we poured into it didn’t become available for non-military spending. Ultimate aggression continues to stalk the planet. We’re in as much danger as we’ve ever been.
And the cost to us over these nuclear decades has not been merely financial — lost money for schools, infrastructure, health care. The nuclear weapons industry has also been paid for in thousands of American lives, though this fact still remains known primarily within the circle of survivors.

Keeping Fear Alive | BuzzFlash.org

April 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Are Middle Eastern dictatorships to be trusted with nuclear technology?

can we really rely on the assurances of an array of Middle Eastern dictators and despots?

WHEN SAUDI ARABIA GOES NUCLEAR, San Francisco Sentinel 29 April 2010“……..Earlier this month, oil-rich Kuwait signed a civilian nuclear cooperation deal with France. And last week, the United Arab Emirates’ Nuclear Energy Corporation announced that it has chosen a site to construct the country’s first nuclear power station, which will go on-line within seven years. Other Arab states, such as Egypt and Qatar, have also declared an interest in developing nuclear technology and infrastructure. Continue reading →

April 30, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear power promotion should not be included in USA’s Climate Bill

“The nuclear power industry stands to benefit tremendously,” said Slocum. “And this is probably the most undeserving industry in the entire American economy.”

5 Green Groups Declare Senate Climate Bill unacceptable, , SolveClimate.com, Stacy Feldman – Apr 28th, 2010 Five national environmental groups declared the stalled Senate climate and energy bill “unacceptable” on Tuesday, saying the nation would be better off in the long run without it. Continue reading →

April 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, USA | antinuclear, climate change, global warming, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

AREVA’s deceitful spin that nuclear power is clean

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AREVA, France’s state-owned nuclear company is aggressively pursuing its world-wide business empire. Despite the recent revelations of the degradation AREVA has caused in Niger, AREVA claims this image of being a good global citizen. AREVA aso claims that nuclear is “clean”, and “carbon free ” ( forget the carbon polluting fuel and waste disposal cycle)

My advice to California about its “Clean” Energy Park – When you sup with the devil, use a long spoon

AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group Move Closer to Clean Energy Park Today AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group announced another important step toward building the nation’s most advanced Clean Energy Park to region near Fresno, California. AREVA and FNEG signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop the country’s most advanced Clean Energy Park in the state’s San Joaquin Valley.As part of the Clean Energy Park concept, both nuclear and renewable energy sources would be used for generating clean, reliable electricity..

..When complete, the park’s nuclear and solar energy sources would produce clean [?], constant, reliable, carbon-free electricity

April 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, reactors, renewable energy, renewables, solar | Leave a comment

VIDEO on India’s radiation victims

At least eight persons involved in the scrap business were exposed to gamma radiation from radioactive cobalt-60 earlier this month after they tried to …

Video: Doctors lose hope on radiation victims NDTV.com

April 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, India | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Resuscitation of nuclear industry in peril with no solution to radioactive wastes

DOE announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission of nuclear experts who will spend the next 18 months working to evaluate policy options for the management of spent nuclear fuel.

Nuclear Waste Issue Persists as New Plants Forge Ahead | ecopolitology, by Timothy B. Hurst on April 28, 2010 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy are preparing for a new era of American nuclear power plants.

The United States electric industry is gearing up to build new nuclear power plants for the first time in decades. Whether and when any of these new plants are actually completed depends on the outcome of many issues, including regulatory, financing and the ultimate disposal of spent nuclear fuel…… Continue reading →

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

International Atomic Energy Agency warns on childrens’ CT scans and cancer

UNIAE Warns: Kids Exposed More to Radiation in CT Scans TopNews, by Jason Ramsey on Wed, 04/28/2010 The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency has forwarded a word of warning by stating that, kids in various nations, are being largely exposed toradiation, when they undergo computed tomography scans, which increases their risk of developing cancer.A latest report submitted by the agency established that even though specialists have cautioned against the practice, for almost a number of years, yet the kids have been getting adult –sized radiation dosages, at the time of scanning. UNIAE Warns: Kids Exposed More to Radiation in CT Scans | TopNews United States

April 29, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Lawsuit by Iraq on depleted uranium’s cancer and birth defects victims

Atomic radiation has increased the number of babies born with defects in the southern provinces of Iraq. Iraqi doctors say they’ have been struggling to cope with the rise in the number of cancer cases

Fallujah babies born with birth defects as a result of Depleted Uranium WMD contaminated dust. | Child Health

Iraq WILL sue US and Britain over depleted uranium bombs Child Health , 28 April 2010, Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says. Continue reading →

April 28, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, Iraq | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, uranium | 2 Comments

Israel supporting diplomacy over Iran – for the time being

Iran looms over Israeli minister’s meetings in U.S. – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs. 28 April 2010, The United States is seeking tough new sanctions “to sharpen the choices that Iran’s leaders face” after weekend talks between the Iranian government and the International Atomic Energy Agency failed to make progress on a deal over Iran’s nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday……
Iran was high on the agenda in talks between Clinton and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Washington on Tuesday. Barak left the State Department for further talks on Iran with Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

In a joint news conference at the Pentagon with Barak, Gates said he was satisfied with the planning process by the United States to prepare for a nuclear Iran. …

“At this stage it is time for sanctions and diplomacy,” Barak told reporters….
Israeli officials say they believe their government will give the sanctions effort about a year to see whether they put sufficient pressure on Iran before debating other options. Iran looms over Israeli minister’s meetings in U.S. – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs

April 28, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Ukraine merging into Russia’s nuclear empire?

Ukraine hooking up on Russian nuclear energy, too? FT Energy Source , April 27, 2010 by Kate Mackenzie”.…..on Monday night, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin made a “large-scale offer” to Ukraine to merge their nuclear power generation businesses. The FT reports:

“At issue is large scale co-operation between our nuclear sectors. We are offering to establish a major holding, which would unite our generation, nuclear engineering and nuclear fuel cycles.”

Ukraine hooking up on Russian nuclear energy, too? | FT Energy Source | FT.com

April 28, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, Ukraine | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear technology | Leave a comment

Moribund U.S. Nuclear Industry Depending on India’s Nuclear Liability Bill

It may also result in contracts worth US$10 billion for the moribund American nuclear industry..

India’s Nuclear Liability Bill, IntelliBriefs, Chaitanya RaviResearch Intern,April 25, 2010 Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill that is essential for American commercial nuclear firms to enter the US$150 billion Indian civil nuclear energy market has sharply polarized India’s political, legal and strategic communities. Continue reading →

April 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, India | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment