France making it hard for Polynesian nuclear victims
Nuclear payments blow to French Polynesia
By Geraldine Coutts for Radio Australia
ABC News Oct 15, 2009
Activists fighting for victims of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are stunned by conditions imposed in a compensation bill by France’s upper house………….Roland Oldham, president of the Mororua e Tatou Association representing French Pacific nuclear test workers, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat the actions of the French Senate reflected arrogance in metropolitan France towards its territories. Continue reading
Germany, also, sent nuke wastes to Siberia
Recycling Atomic WasteNuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Carparks SPIEGEL ONLINE 13 Oct 09 “…………From 1996 to 2001, Germany sent a lot of its recyclable radioactive material to Seversk as well — around an average of 1,500 tons a year, anti-nuclear lobby groups claim — and one of the issues the new coalition government-to-be has in common is a desire to expand the lifespan of Germany’s nuclear power plants…….
EDF and AREVA send “really dirty” radioactive stuff to Siberia
EDF ‘sends used nuclear material’ to Siberia EDF, the French firm which owns eight of Britain’s nuclear power stations has shipped hundreds of tons of used radioactive material to Russia.
Deception surrounds nuclear waste shipments to Russia
Recycling Atomic WasteNuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Carparks SPIEGEL ONLINE 13 Oct 09 The largest utility company in Europe, Électricité de France, has been accused of storing nuclear waste in an open air car park in Siberia. Continue reading
Uranium pollution in India
The most vulnerable naked nukes of India —more than 80% of India’s nuclear and missile infrastructure based in the insurgency-hit areas or extremists’ dominated region The Daily Mail 14 Oct 09 By Makhdoom Babar in Islamabad & Christina Palmer in New Delhi
“……………………..The Daily Mail’s investigation team learnt that the radiation was a big problem in the area, yet it was unaddressed by the government. Continue reading
China’s nuclear waste problem
BBC World have your say Donald 12 Oct 09 I am worried about China and nuclear power. Continue reading
Kyrgyzstan suffering from uranium tailings pollution
Kyrgyzstan makes progress on toxic dumps but needs to do much more – UN expert Web Newswire October 12, 2009
Kyrgyzstan has made progress in addressing the significant problems of radioactive and toxic waste dumps and in raising international awareness of the serious trans-boundary threats of contamination of groundwater and rivers, but much more remains to be done, a United Nations expert reported today. Continue reading
Secret deal for Scotland to take foreign nuclear waste
SNP turning country into Europe’s ‘nuclear dustbin’
11 Oct 2009
Environmental campaigners have accused the SNP of turning Scotland into the world’s “nuclear dustbin”. Continue reading
How AREVA and EDF of France sell the nuclear industry
The many financial failure tsunamis of nuclear power Ace Hoffmann October 7th, 2009 “………No country has ever “solved” its nuclear waste problem. France grinds stuff up, releases much of it directly into the North Sea, and stores the rest with no idea of what to do with it. Continue reading
Utah bill to stop import of foreign radioactive wastes
Hearing set on foreign nuke waste ban bill
By BROCK VERGAKIS (AP) – 8 Oct 09
SALT LAKE CITY — An effort to ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste has been given new life with a hearing set for next week in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
uranium mining degradation of tribal lands, India
Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
by Moushumi Basu, Special to CorpWatch
October 7th, 2009 – “………..The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) operates that mine, part of a cluster of four underground and one open cast mines and two processing plants, in East Singbhum district in the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The deepest plunges almost one kilometer into the earth. Continue reading
France’s pro-nuke President dismisses human rights concerns
France, Kazakhs ink military transit, energy deals By PETER LEONARD (AP) –Associated Press Writer Angela Charlton contributed to this report from Paris., Kazakhstan 6 Oct 09 French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup Tuesday during a visit to energy-rich Kazakhstan, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory and clinching a raft of lucrative energy deals.Facing criticism over its human rights record, Kazakhstan won a measure of support from Sarkozy…………. Continue reading
Corporate controlled media silent on Somalia and nuclear wastes
OCTOBER 5, 2009 Project Censored The top stories not brought to you by mainstream news media in 2008 and 2009 BY REBECCA BOWE – “……..”I really think we’re beyond reforming corporate media,” says Phillips, a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and the director of Project Censored. “We’re not going to break up these huge conglomerates. We’re just going to make them irrelevant.”……… Continue reading
Paladin’s uranium mine and Malawi’s water supply
CATHOLIC COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Mzuzu Diocese (Malawi) John Chawinga CCJP Secretary Mzuzu Diocese 6 Oct 09 The People of Karonga Deserve Clean and Safe Water – “……………..The people of Kayelekera have started experiencing such negligence. The people around Kayelekera have seen Paladin Africa drawing water for drinking and domestic use by their employees from Lufilya and Miswanga Rivers, while the people around the mine site continue to drink the contaminated water from Sere River. Continue reading
China suppresses anti-nuclear activists
Uranium policy a hypocrisy The Age David Noonan 5 Oct 09 “……..In July, a well-known environmental activist and recipient in 2006 of the prestigious Nuclear-Free Future Award, Sun Xiaodi, and his daughter Sun Dunbai were jailed and sent to a ”re-education through labour” camp for their efforts to expose corruption and contamination in China’s nuclear industry. Continue reading
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