“Countdown to Zero” – Queen Noor’s global campaign against nuclear weapons
“I am one of a million for whom Islam and Western cultures are not incompatible,” she said, reminding the nearly filled auditorium that she is Muslim,….Her Majesty says nuclear weapons have no place in a world striving to achieve international security. Rather terror can be their only purpose.
Queen Noor On Nukes, THE HUFFINGTON POST, April 19, 2010, Cross-Cultural Understanding, at CU Boulder “……..Queen Noor al Hussein of Jordan is the founder of Global Zero, a worldwide movement that seeks to eliminate both actual and potential stockpiles of nuclear weapons across the globe by year 2030. Continue reading
Pro nuclear push discredits Nuclear Non Proliferation meeting
The serious proliferation risks associated with peaceful nuclear programs will be studiously ignored at the five-yearly Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York next month…..the task of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not only to carry out safeguards inspections to assess NPT compliance, but also to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It would make as much sense to ask drug enforcement agencies to promote the cultivation of poppy seeds.
The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, Recent nuclear talk-fests have quietly ignored the fact that even so-called ‘peaceful nuclear programs’ — like power generation — can be used for proliferation, writes Jim Green Continue reading
Former official of Nuclear Regulatory Commission urges an end to subsidising nuclear power
Security should come first…At a minimum, that means an end to promoting and subsidising nuclear power all over the world.”
The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, “……..Physicist Victor Gilinsky, previously with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Atomic Energy Commission, noted in the January 2009 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:”In international affairs, nuclear energy trumps just about everything. Even so-called arms controllers fall over themselves trying to establish their bona fides by supporting nuclear energy development and devising painless proposals that grandfather everything that’s already in place. … It’s time to take a more serious view. Security should come first — not as an afterthought.”We should support as much nuclear power as is consistent with international security; not as much security as the spread of nuclear power will allow. At a minimum, that means an end to promoting and subsidising nuclear power all over the world.”The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom | newmatilda.com
U.S. govt has no real policy to counter iran’s development of nuclear capability
Gates Says U.S. Lacks a Policy to Thwart Iran, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKERPublished: April 17, 2010 WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document.
Lots of loopholes in India’s proposed nuclear liabilities bill
Many anomalies in n-liabilities Bill: Lawyers, activists, Business Standard, Kanika Datta / New Delhi April 20, 2010, Getting the requisite numbers to pass the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 in the Lok Sabha may be the least of the United Progressive Alliance’s problems. Lawyers and legal experts, including those who support the legislation, say there are many instances of poor drafting and anomalies that have the potential to generate more controversy if the Bill is passed in its current form. Continue reading
UK could save 100 billion pound sterling by not replacing Trident Nuclear Missiles
Newbury candidates debate nuclear weapons BBC News, 19 April 2010, The government could save £100bn if it does not replace the Trident nuclear missile system, according to the Liberal Democrat candidate for Newbury. BBC News – Newbury candidates debate nuclear weapons
Nuclear Fuel Summit recycling decisions in the interests of AREVA
Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and former U.S. ambassador-at-large Robert Gallucci said that recycling creates stockpiles of dangerous materials at risk for theft
Nuclear-Fuel Recycling Debated , Nuclear Street, by Steve Heiser, 15 April 2010, Bloomberg: As Obama SummitNations voice differing opinions on the recycling of spent fuel at DC summit – Edited by April Murelio –According to a report by Bloomberg, debate over the recycling of nuclear fuel by reactor suppliers such as France’s Areva SA surfaced in Washington as U.S. officials sought to skirt the issue during President Barack Obama’s summit. Continue reading
U.S. Army Video Shows Danger of Depleted Uranium
Hazards of Depleted Uranium Contamination Training DU Video | Engage Today
Engage Today, 18 April 2010, Between October and December 1995, the US Army’s Depleted Uranium (DU) Project completed a series of training videos and manuals about depleted uranium munitions. This training regimen was developed as the result of recommendations made in the January 1993 General Accounting Office (GAO) report, Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination. The training materials were intended to instruct servicemen and women about the use and hazards of depleted uranium munitions. In addition, the training regimen included instructions for soldiers who repair and recover vehicles contaminated by depleted uranium.
The Integral Fast Reactor – no more than a a Nuclear Pipe Dream
Nuclear power: no solution to climate change, Green Left , quoting Mark Diesendorf, 17 April 2010“……….The integral fast reactor [which promises to use existing stockpiles of nuclear waste to make carbon-free energy,] doesn’t exist — it is the archetypal ink-moderated paper reactor. It’s true that a tiny physical version of this concept, called Experimental Breeder Reactor-2, once operated in the US. But experimental energy technologies are just that — experiments, designed to test a concept. Continue reading
Video: depleted uranium’s effects in the Balkans
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A Most Persistent War Crime: Depleted Uranium and the Balkans Eleven Years After The Balkans Bombings:Depleted Uranium in NATO Bombs Remains Deadly by Ljubica Vujadinovic, 18 Aprol 2010, A leading Serbian expert in the field says the NATO’s use of depleted uranium ammunition in it’s aggression on Serbia has caused enormous increase in cancer rates and number of newborn with malformations. Continue reading
UK should not spend 120 billion pounds on Trident nuclear missiles, says Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg 18 April 2010, “Why is it that I find myself as the only leader of a political party asking the obvious question of whether we, as a country, should be spending 120 billion pounds over the next 20 years on the like for like replacement of the Cold War Trident Missile System? I think there is no case for a nuclear deterrent. I certainly think there is no case for the like for like replacement for that system. I believe one of the reasons there is a deafening silence on that issue is because that missile system is cemented by a sense of indebtedness to our American friends.”
Nuclear industry jumps on the Nuclear Security bandwagon
The big pitch to get “nuclear security” (now there’s another oxymoron) is being taken up by the nuclear lobby, with fervour. Let’s get new gee-whiz reactors that can use the old nuclear weapons fuel!
The world still ends up with even more toxic waste from these reactors. And the transport of the enriched uranium and plutonium? Still plenty of scope there for somebody to get hold of it and make a bomb. Even a “dirty bomb” will do. – our theme for April – Nuclear Power and Peace
New York city start for the anti-nuclear renaissance
It’s also the anti-nuclear movement’s opportunity to excite the American people with a vision of what a world free of nuclear weapons looks like and how to get from here to there..
The New Anti-Nuclear Movement, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Frida Berrigan:, 16 April 2010, “………NPT FocusAt the end of April, people will be coming to New York City from all over the world to participate in and monitor the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. They will gather at the “For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World” conference at Riverside Church in Manhattan on April 30 and May 1. Continue reading
Depleted uranium causing infertlity in Israeli soldiers
Research by an Israeli doctor shows a significant drop in sperm count level and sperm motility among young Israeli soldiers in recent years.
New Nuclear Summit prepared by defiant Iran
Iran News – Iran denounces Washington nuclear summit, prepares its own, Global News Blog Headlines, April 16th, 2010 , Iran denounces Washington nuclear summit, prepares its ownIran, not invited to the Washington nuclear security summit that opened on Monday, says it will not be bound by any agreement between the 47 nations represented. Yet Iran will be near the top of the agenda, because Washington and some other Western nations accuse Iran of having a nuclear weapons program……
Iran News – Iran denounces Washington nuclear summit, prepares its own | Global News Blog Headlines
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Petition to revoke the licensing of the Near Surface Nuclear Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7247
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