China calls for diplomacy in resolving Iran’s nuclear issue
Room exists for diplomatic effort in Iran nuclear issue: Chinese FM English.news.cn 2010-01-21 19: BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) — Room for diplomatic efforts still exists in resolving the Iran nuclear issue, a Chinese diplomat said Thursday.Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu made the remarks in response to a question on last week’s nuclear talks and China’s stance over sanctions against Iran.Diplomats from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United States made no decisions in their talks on the Iranian nuclear issue in a closed-door meeting in New York.
Room exists for diplomatic effort in Iran nuclear issue: Chinese FM
Call for UN to investigate Israel’s use of depleted uranium in Gaza
Israel Uses Depleted Uranium against Palestinians in Gaza TEHRAN (FNA) 24 Jan 2010 – A London-based Palestinian activist announced that the buildings damaged in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli onslaught last year all showed signs of contamination with depleted uranium. Continue reading
South Korea pre-emptive strike – a declaration for nuclear war?
South Korea Declared War With First Strike Threat, North Says NTI: Global Security Newswire Jan. 25, 2010
South Korea declared war on North Korea last week when it warned that it would launch a first strike if it felt a nuclear assault was imminent, Pyongyang said yesterday in comments denouncing Seoul’s military policy (see GSN, Jan. 22). Continue reading
Waste problem unsolved, but US to pour money into new nukes
Lobbying, global warming portend nuclear comeback
McClatchy By Judy Pasternak | Investigative Reporting Workshop January 24, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration soon may guarantee as much as $18.5 billion in loans to build new nuclear reactors to generate electricity, and Congress is considering whether to add billions more to support an expansion of nuclear power.
These actions come after an extensive decade-long campaign in which companies and unions related to the industry have spent more than $600 million on lobbying and nearly $63 million on campaign contributions, according to an analysis by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University………… Continue reading
UK tax-payer might have to fund new nuclear power
there was no guarantee that government will not have to step in at some point to help pay for the construction and decommissioning costs……..
UK new nuclear build will not get government subsidies The Energy Collective 22 jan 2010 Taxpayers off the hook for cost of new plants The British government will not use taxpayers’ money to subsidize the construction of new nuclear power plants, Philip Hunt, (right) minister of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Jan 21. Continue reading
Risk of radicals getting control of Pakistan’s nukes
Nuclear-armed Pak risks slipping into radical hands: David Miliband DNA January 22, 2010 WASHINGTON: In a rare appearance before a powerful US Congressional committee, British foreign secretary David Miliband today warned that a nuclear-armed Pakistan risked slipping into radical hands as the country was home to al-Qaeda leadership.
Nuclear-armed Pak risks slipping into radical hands: David Miliband – dnaindia.com
Aging Vermont Yankee nuclear plant – a hazard to public health
Beyond Nuclear 22 Jan 2010 Entergy Nuclear has betrayed the trust of the lawmakers, regulators, and citizens of Vermont. Simultaneous with its revelation of radioactivity leaks on site, Vermont Yankee spokespeople engaged in a predictable campaign to downplay the health and safety risks of tritium. However, tritium can impact the human body right down to the DNA level, and can cross the placenta from mother to fragile fetus. At such intimate levels, tritium can and does damage human health, leading to cancer, genetic damage, birth defects, and other maladies. The National Academy of Science has reported consistently over the decades that any exposure to radioactivity, no matter how low the dose, still carries a health risk. As reactors age – and Vermont Yankee is nearly 40 years old – its systems, structures and components degrade, worsening tritium leaks from buried piping. Vermont Yankee’s license should not be extended 20 additional years.
Revival of the nuclear industry too costly
(USA) Fortunately, there are viable alternatives to nuclear power, including efficiency, wind, biomass and geothermal, which are not only more environmentally friendly and cheaper, but could be built much more quickly and at much lower risk to investors and taxpayers. And recent changes in the long-term outlook for U.S. natural gas supplies make nuclear power look even more uneconomical.
Nuclear Power: Too Costly to Revive Is nuclear power a solution we can afford? The short answer is no.
GreenTech Media Elliott Negin 01 21 10
“…..Even discounting nuclear power’s security and safety problems, the cost of construction could be the industry’s Achilles’ heel…….the industry has benefited from considerable federal and state government subsidies that mask the true cost of the technology, including staggering capital costs and the risk of catastrophic accidents, by shifting these burdens onto taxpayers and ratepayers. The industry is now seeking to shift even more costs and risks onto the public as part of pending climate and energy legislation. In 2005, Congress authorized $60 billion in loan guarantees for new energy technologies. Of that amount, the Department of Energy (DOE) allocated $18.5 billion for new nuclear plants. But the industry wants more — a lot more. The Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry’s lobbying arm, says it needs a “permanent financing platform” to provide the industry a minimum of $100 billion in additional loan guarantees on top of the billions it already has been allocated. Continue reading
Anti-nuclear movement grows, with Germany’s unsolved nuclear waste problem
The decision by Britain to send waste to Germany has served as a reminder that the Germans have not solved the problem of how and where to store it. This uncertainty, and news of the mine in Saxony, is stoking the embers of the anti-nuclear movement — demonstrations are planned for this weekend — and reviving it as a political force.
German nuclear programme threatened by old mine housing waste TIMESONLINE By BEN EVANS
Associated Press Writer Roger Boyes in Berlin January 22, 2010
A leaky salt mine used as a radioactive dump is jeopardising Germany’s plans to cling on to nuclear power despite fierce political opposition. Continue reading
Record high levels of Tritium found at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant
Much Higher Tritium Level Found at Nuclear Plant . Tritium search at Vermont Yankee turns up reading 90 times higher than previous record. ABC News/Money By DAVE GRAM Associated Press Writer
MONTPELIER, Vt. January 20, 2010 (AP) State officials said Wednesday more radioactive tritium had been found at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant — at levels more than 90 times higher than found in a test well nearly two weeks ago……………..State and Vermont Yankee officials said Wednesday they hoped the finding of much higher tritium concentration in the concrete trench might mean they had found the source of the contamination………..
Meanwhile, legislative leaders and the Douglas administration’s point person on utility regulation said the state Health Department should conduct its own tests for radioactive leaks at Vermont Yankee and not rely on the plant for information about testing around the Vernon reactor. That call came a week after it was revealed that Vermont Yankee, owned by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., had misled state officials by saying the plant did not have underground piping of the type that could carry radioactive substances like tritium……http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9617971
There’s money in nuclear waste, (never mind the danger)
A French state-controlled company, Areva, is now the world’s largest processor
of nuclear waste and is keen to secure a bigger share as countries such as China and India expand their nuclear activities rapidly.
Where there’s nuclear muck there’s a growing opportunity for brass TIMESONLINE Robin Pagnamenta: January 21, 2010
“…………Only a handful of countries have the expertise and technology for nuclear reprocessing, in which spent nuclear fuel rods from power stations are chopped up and boiled in acid to extract uranium and plutonium for reuse in a reactor. The by-product is a concentrated form of vitrified nuclear waste that is as nasty as it sounds. Continue reading
Secrets of Europe’s nuclear waste trade
How French solves nuclear waste , Jagadee’s English Webblog January 20, 2010 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation “.……….“The European nuclear power industry can’t deal with its waste mountain so it started dumping some of it in Russia. This is illegal and highly dangerous,” said Vladimir Tchouprov of Greenpeace Russia. “The secretive nuclear industry is claiming that this is legitimate nuclear trade – but the reality is that only a small fraction, 10%, of this nuclear material is processed and sent back to Western Europe – almost all of the waste has been dumped in Russia. Continue reading
Iran rejects IAEA’s nuclear plan
Iran rejects core terms of IAEA nuclear deal Global Times January 21 2010] * By Liu Dong Iran has informed the UN nuclear-surveillance authority that it rejects core sections of a draft deal concerning its transmission of enriched uranium, officials said Tuesday.
One Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Iran gave its response at a meeting between the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) new chief, Yukiya Amano, and Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iranian ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog, earlier this month.
The IAEA refused to say whether the meeting took place or discuss its possible content.But, according to the diplomat, Soltanieh reiterated Tehran’s earlier position, including the demand for a simultaneous fuel swap, which the West has persistently ruled out as unacceptable.The Iranians did not give their response in writing, however, the diplomat noted…………………
Under the terms of a plan, hammered out under the IAEA’s auspices in October, Iran was to have shipped abroad most of its stockpile of enriched uranium for processing into fuel for a reactor that makes radio-isotopes for medical use.
Lawsuit on uranium mining, and accountability for wastes
Even as the expansion of uranium mining in Colorado is being challenged, conservation and citizen groups and elected officials are working to ensure that taxpayers do not pay to clean up contamination left behind by the uranium industry in the event of a new boom cycle.
Court Decision Aids Uranium Lawsuit The WATCH by Karen James , Jan 20, 2010 Efforts Also Underway For More Industry Accountability Continue reading
IAEA spruiking nukes to Aranb Nationa
IAEA Holds Nuclear Forum for Arab Nations NTI, Jan. 20, 2010 The International Atomic Energy Agency has organized a conference this week in Jordan on nuclear issues for Arab nations with an interest in atomic energy, the Jordan Times reported (see GSN, Dec. 10, 2009)……………. Continue reading
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