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Niger’s enviroment contaminated by AREVA’s radioactive uranium wastes

VIDEO Left in the Dust – Areva’s uranium mining in Niger | Greenpeace International

Left in the Dust – Areva’s uranium mining in Niger | Greenpeace International 6 May 2010, Operations of Nuclear giant AREVA put lives at risk in Niger. Uranium mines in Niger operated by the state-owned French nuclear giant AREVA continue to create a radioactive hazard for the people living nearby. Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Niger, wastes | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, water | Leave a comment

Footprints for Peace speakers in U.S. talk about Australia’s uranium mining

“Australians feel a deep responsibility,” said Atkinson. “We are sending this poison around the world.” ………. The uranium mining has destroyed sites sacred to the aborigines, polluted their water and food supplies and endangered their hunter/gatherer way of life, said Atkinson…………..

Uranium: The Australia-Vt. connection, Brattleboro Reformer, By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer StaffThursday May 6, 2010 BRATTLEBORO — Australia and Vermont are connected in a way not many people think about — through uranium.”We are pretty sure that some of the uranium mined in Australia is being used in the fuel rods at Vermont Yankee,” Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, reactors, uranium, water | Leave a comment

World Council of Churches pushes for Nuclear Weapons Convention

Churches push for nuclear treaty at NPT Review conference, | Ekklesia, 7 May 2010, “…….after years of work – mostly by civil society groups including churches – a majority of the governments represented in New York are now in favour of starting work on a nuclear weapons convention. While the NPT was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and someday to reverse it, the proposed convention would ban them completely. Continue reading →

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, Religion and ethics | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

UN Secretary General welcomes Nagasaki Archbishop at Nuclear Non Proliferation Conference

Nagasaki prelate takes anti-nuclear plea to UN, CathNews Asia May 6, 2010 Nagasaki Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami has met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the opening day of the UN 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons.Welcoming the archbishop, Ban said that such an appeal from a religious leader, a Catholic bishop, is of great importance, UCA News reports.

The archbishop handed the secretary general a copy of a joint statement that he and Bishop Atsumi Misue of Hiroshima issued last February calling on world leaders “to take a courageous step toward the total abolition of nuclear weapons and the realization of a world without wars.”

Nagasaki prelate takes anti-nuclear plea to UN | CathNews Asia

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Is the West ready to talk peace with North Korea?

Pyongyang has said that it is ready to talk peace. Now the question is: Are we?

North Korea’s Bomb and the Road to Peace, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Andy Marra, May 4, 2010 I was born in Seoul. … I am left feeling more concerned about potential United States military actions against North Korea instead of North Korea attacking us. This past January, the world witnessed an unprecedented gesture by Pyongyang stating they will permanently dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for a formal treaty with the U.S. to finally end the Korean War. Washington, however, dismissed this historic offer and refused to engage in any meaningful dialogue. Continue reading →

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, peace | Leave a comment

Dissent in Malaysia over nuclear power

it will involve toxic waste disposal and a radioactive system that can harm the environment,”

Selangor against nuclear power plant newstraitstimes 2010/05/05 SHAH ALAM: Selangor has refused to support and allow the construction of a nuclear power plant in the state as it believes other energy sources are available. Continue reading →

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | ASIA, politics | antinuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

IAEA pressure on Israel to admit is nukes

UN watchdog wants Israel to join NPT, Palestine Note, 5 May 2010, IAEA seeks international input on persuading Israel to join treaty Washington – The UN’s nuclear watchdog is seeking international support in persuading Israel to join the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in a step that will likely put pressure on Israel to publicly confirm the existence of its unacknowledged nuclear arsenal, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Continue reading →

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

The Russian idea for fixing oil leaks- nuclear bomb the oil well!

Should we drop a nuclear bomb on the leaky oil well? Washington Examiner, By: Mark Hemingway, 05/04/10 Apparently that’s what the Russians have done in similar circumstances:Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily, reports that in Soviet times such leaks were plugged with controlled nuclear blasts underground. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | 3 Comments

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

USA shows commitment to transparency, at Nuclear Non Proliferation Conference

Coming clean on nuclear weapons, Julian Borger 4 May 2010 guardian.co.uk Day one of the non-proliferation conference in New York brought a small but significant breakthrough for nuclear transparency
The Obama administration took the view that numbers would trump words on the opening day of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York. The decision to reveal the size of the US nuclear stockpile both demonstrated a long-delayed commitment to transparency, and provided a graphic illustration that at least some of the weapons states have been doing something about disarmament. Coming clean on nuclear weapons | World news | guardian.co.uk

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Ignorance of many Indian institutions about radioactive waste

A professor from a college on Palace Road said, “Maybe we can tie it in a bag, put it in a garbage bin or throw them in some remote place.”…

Is city sitting on radiation keg? Jayashree Nandi & Sruthy Susan Ullas, TNN, May 5, 2010, BANGALORE: Post-radioactive leak in Delhi recently, a reality check in Bangalore showed that the city was sitting on a live bomb with many colleges and other institutions having no clue as to what to do with the radioactive waste in their labs.. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | 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

USA’s nuclear weapons stockpile – huge, but still greatly reduced

When the Bush administration took office in 2001, the stockpile included 10,526 warheads.

United States Discloses Size of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile , FAS Strategic Security Blog, By Hans M. Kristensen, 3 May 2010,

The Obama administration has formally disclosed the size of the Defense Department’s stockpile of nuclear weapons: 5,113 warheads as of September 30, 2009. Continue reading →

May 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons | Leave a 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