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The future: non-proliferation or a cascade of nuclear weapons?

.………the next 12 months “could be pivotal” in determining whether the entire edifice of non-proliferation can be held together, or whether it will dissolve into “the nuclear cascade” in which nations around the world seek their own weapons of mass destruction, making the world a decidedly more dangerous place.

Will the edifice of non-proliferation hold. The next 12 months could be pivotal in determining the answer. By HDS Greenway – GlobalPost : January 14, 2010 Continue reading →

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

New anti-uranium movement in Canada

Oppose Uranium Exploration and Mining in West Quebe, WQ-CAMU / COQCEU, 14 Jan 2010

We are a community group that works to protect our human, environmental, and economic health from the risks associated with uranium. Our goal is to obtain a permanent moratorium on uranium exploration, mining, and processing in MRC du Pontiac and MRC des Collines de l’Outaouais. To meet this goal our group advocates, educates, and builds coalitions.

Nous sommes un groupe communautaire travaillant à la protection de la santé humaine, environnementale et économique des risques associés à l’uranium. Notre objectif principal est d’obtenir un moratoire à long terme sur l’exploration et l’exploitation d’uranium dans la MRC du Pontiac et dans la MRC des Collines de l’Outaouais. Afin d’y parvenir, notre groupe défend, éduque et bâtit des coalitions.

More information: wq-camu@know-uranium.org http://no-uranium.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-details-on-stelmine-claims-near.html

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, uranium | Leave a comment

South Korea aims to be the big nuclear supplier

South Korea Targets $400 Billion Nuclear Plant Orders January 13, 2010,
Business Week By Shinhye Kang

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — South Korea, which won its first overseas order to build a nuclear power plant in December, aims to secure $400 billion of contracts by 2030…………..State-run Korea Electric Power Corp. led a group that beat Areva SA, the world’s biggest nuclear power plant builder, and General Electric Co. in winning an order from the United Arab Emirates, the first awarded by a Gulf Arab nation. France, the U.S., Canada, Japan and Russia are currently the biggest exporters of atomic generators.

South Korea Targets $400 Billion Nuclear Plant Orders (Update2) – BusinessWeek

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, South Korea | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Obama recognising nuclear terrorism as the greatest risk

Shifting Nuclear Strategy To Focus On Nuclear Terrorism The Wonk Room, National Secvurity By Max Bergmann 13 Jan 2010 In a reported shift that has the nuclear bureaucracy in the Pentagon up in arms, the President wants the new Nuclear Posture Review – the document that lays out US nuclear strategy to actually focus on the gravest security threat to this country: nuclear terrorism. Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

IAEA’s Chernobyl cancer data – Dracula keeping Blood Bank records?

Controversy rages over the agendas of the IAEA, which has promoted civil nuclear power over the past 30 years,

Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute•The Guardian UK John Vidal 10 Jan 2010 Suspected infant mortality rise difficult to prove• Predicted deaths range from 4,000 to half a million

At the children’s cancer hospital in Minsk, Belarus, and at the Vilne hospital for radiological protection in the east of Ukraine, specialist doctors are in no doubt they are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases linked to the Chernobyl nuclear accident Continue reading →

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radioactive | Leave a comment

UN chief optimistic on nuclear weapons free world

Ban vows to work for nuclear-free world India Today United Nations, January 11, 2010 UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday vowed to work towards a world free of weapons of mass destruction noting that there is a “new window of opportunity for disarmament and non-proliferation”.”I pledge to continue to do everything in my power to advance the goal of a world free of weapons of mass destruction,” Continue reading →

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Corruption in China includes the nuclear industry

The head of the China National Nuclear Corporation – overseeing the country’s nuclear industry – was dismissed and is under investigation over allegations of bid rigging in nuclear power plant construction worth $260m.

Corruption up among China government officials BBC News 9 Jan 2010

China’s anti-corruption watchdog has said that 106,000 officials were found guilty of corruption in 2009, an increase of 2.5% on the year before. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | China, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Prohibitive costs of new nuclear reactors

no nuclear reactors started in the last ten years were up and running and two of the plants currently under construction in France and Finland were experiencing problems. Over 3,000 problems have been found at the Finnish construction site causing delays and huge cost overruns.

The scary side of nuclear power revealed, Green.Blorge

January 6, 2010

by Susan Wilson

After thirty years, the nuclear power industry is making a come back. What caused the hiatus and why does the thought of new nuclear reactors frighten so many people? Well, there’s Vogtle’s cost overruns and the nightmares from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Design of AREVA’s EPR reactors not shown to be safe

Nuclear Reactors of Unproven Design Planned for California’s Central Valley Environment News Service FRESNO, California, January 6, 2010 (ENS) – At least one nuclear reactor is being planned for California’s agricultural Central Valley but it is already running into grassroots opposition and technical problems. Continue reading →

January 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, safety | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | 1 Comment

Nuclear posturing by small states like North Korea

The Delicate Art of Nuclear Jujutsu University of North Carolina Press Shane J. Maddock, 7 Jan 2010 The second decade of the twenty-first century looms as the age of nuclear jujutsu. Second- and third-tier powers are increasingly poised to use small nuclear arsenals or the threat of nuclear weapons development to force larger powers to submit to their demands. Continue reading →

January 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

India’s nuclear safety is a myth

Myth of Indian nukes safety Pakistan Observer Mohammad Jamil 5 Jan 2010 There have been many accidents and thefts of uranium in India’s atomic research centres and other facilities giving rise to doubts about the security of Indian nukes. Risks related to India nuclear proliferation are many while their security arrangements are far from satisfactory. The world must take note of it before it is too late. On 29th December 2009, two research students died in the fire in laboratory of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) caused by an explosion, Continue reading →

January 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Bury depleted uranium first, check safety later?

Utah Burying Depleted Uranium Before Safety Review « Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 3 (UPI) — Three trainloads of depleted uranium will be buried at a storage site in Utah before experts complete a safety review concerning the issue, experts say. Continue reading →

January 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

illegality of nuclear weapons

After 23 years of suffering, let Mordechai Vanunu become a free man. War should cease to be an admissible social act. Under international law war is still legal, and indiscriminate killing of women, children and non-combatants are illegal. Rather than taking “false” nationalistic pride in nuclear weapons, let us nurture the sense of belonging to the mankind and unequivocally oppose the nuclear weapons of mass destruction which is a threat to the age old human civilization.

Nuclear weapons of mass destruction – an end of everything truth Dive, by Ram Prasad 1 Jan 2010 |The nuclear club consists of nine nations out of which 5 (USA, Russia, UK, France and China) are internationally recognized nuclear weapons states conferred by nuclear non proliferation treaty. India, Pakistan and Israel have declined to sign the treaty and have tested their nuclear weapons. North Korea withdrew from the treaty in 2003. Continue reading →

January 1, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Despite building delays in Finland, AREVA seeks EPR nuclear contract in California

Areva eyes California’s Central Valley for nuclear reactors San Francisco Business Times – by Steven E.F. Brown December 29, 2009

French nuclear power giant AREVA is talking to a group of investors about putting one or two atomic power plants in California’s Central Valley.

Paris-based Areva said Tuesday it’s signed a letter of intent with Fresno Nuclear Eneegy Group LLC, which it calls “a group of investors,” about early work necessary to bring the company’s advanced EPR technology to California…………

Areva has been working on the EPR project in Finland for four years, a third reactor on an island at Olkiluoto, on the country’s southwestern coast. That 1,600 megawatt project was set to start generating power this year, but has been delayed.

December 30, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, AREVA, EDF, energy efficiency, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | 1 Comment

Some anxiety in the French nuclear industry

French nuclear sector re-thinks strategy after UAE setback Sydney Morning Herald December 30, 2009 The French nuclear power sector is to re-focus its strategy, notably in Britain and the United States, after losing out to a South Korean consortium on a $US20.4 billion ($A22.99 billion) project in the United Arab Emirates……….. Continue reading →

December 30, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, France | antinuclear, AREVA, EDF, France, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin | Leave a comment