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USA not letting SouthKorea reprocess nuclear fuel

U.S. ‘Unlikely to Let S.Korea Reprocess Nuclear Fuel’

U.S. ‘Unlikely tolet S. Korea Reprocess Nuclear FuelThe U.S. is unlikely to allow South Korea to reprocess spent nuclear fuel that is piling up in secure storage facilities until a satisfactory solution to the North Korean nuclear problem is found, a report said this week. The matter is a key issue in negotiations between Seoul and Washington on the revision of the Korea-U.S. Atomic Energy Agreement, which expires in 2014. ………….http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/01/14/2010011400401.html

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, South Korea | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, reprocessing | Leave a comment

Nuclear power research- cruel radiation experiments on squirrel monkeys

Bill Maher Urges NASA Not To Blast Monkeys With High Radiation Ecorazzi 14 Jan 2010 — Michael d’Estries In a move that hasn’t occurred for decades, NASA is about to start conducting radiation tests on live squirrel monkeys. The space agency recently approved the $1.75 million experiment as part of their attempts to understand the effects of interplanetary travel. Continue reading →

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

You Tube – Nuclear waste company misleading public

Radiation expert blasts EnergySolutions for misleading public You Tube 14 Jan 2010

YouTube – Radiation expert blasts EnergySolutions for misleading public

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

India’s ‘relentless’ military buildup

Pakistan warns against ‘massive’ Indian arms build-up ( Google News AFP) – 14 Jan 2010 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan voiced concern Wednesday over a “massive” arms build-up by rival India, warning that it could destabilise the regional balance. Continue reading →

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

What time will the nuclear ‘doomsday clock’ show?

Nuclear ‘doomsday clock’ to be reset New Scientist Debora MacKenzie, January 12, 2010 Which way will it go? On Thursday the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will adjust the minute hand on its iconic clock, showing how many minutes we are to midnight.
In ominous Cold War symbolism, it illustrates how close the Bulletin thinks humanity is to ultimate catastrophe.Are we closer to midnight? Or have we moved, shaking but relieved, a little further away?………
After all, the last time the hand moved, in 2007, it was from seven to five, partly because of then-US President George W. Bush’s faith in nukes and dislike of arms control.

Nuclear ‘doomsday clock’ to be reset – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Wisconsin’s Clean Energy Jobs Act would sneak in a bonus for nuclear

Unfortunately, one of the most important environmental measures ever to come before our state Legislature – the Clean Energy Jobs Act, or Assembly Bill 649 – contains a provision that would weaken our nuclear safeguards. The provision would completely remove the requirement for a nuclear waste repository.

Diane Farsetta: Remove nuclear provisions from Clean Energy Jobs Act LaCrosse Tribune By Diane Farsetta / Madison January 11, 2010 Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, energy efficiency, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | 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

Opposition to uranium mining in Virginia

Virginia Against Uranium Mining By Deirdre Fernandes The Virginian-PilotJ anuary 12, 2010VIRGINIA BEACH The state is considering lifting its 28-year ban on uranium mining, a move that has so alarmed Virginia Beach officials that they are spending $437,000 to study the worst-case scenario for the city’s water supply .Virginia Beach has hired engineering firm Michael Baker Corp. to look into what could happen to Lake Gaston if there were a catastrophic accident at a possible uranium mining site upstream in south-central Virginia………….

Virginia Against Uranium Mining: In uranium mining issue, it’s Virgina Beach vs. the state (Virginia)

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Russia renting nuclear submarines to India

India to rent Russian nuclear submarine News.scotsman.com 13 January 2010 RUSSIA is to lease its new Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine to India, officials in the two countries confirmed yesterday.According to Nato, Nerpa is the latest Akula-class attack submarine and is armed with conventional torpedoes and short-range nuclear missiles.The Nerpa project began in 1993, but did not launch or start sea trials until 2008 because of disruptions in funding

India to rent Russian nuclear submarine – Scotsman.com News

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Big five to meet over Iran’s uranium enrichment

Six to meet this week on Iran sanctions: Clinton Google News By Lachlan Carmichael (AFP) – 12 Jan 2010 TRAVIS AIR BASE, California — The United States, Russia, China, Britain France and Germany will meet late this week to discuss sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday. Continue reading →

January 12, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Iraq demanding explanation on Iran’s nuclear plant

Iraq wants ‘explanations’ on Iran’s planned nuclear plant near border Daily Times (Pakistan) 12 Jan 2010 BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government on Monday called for “explanations” from the UN nuclear watchdog on a reported plan for Iran to build a nuclear reactor near the border between the two countries. Continue reading →

January 12, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iraq, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA and Russia in the grip of useless nuclear weapons industry

…led Reagan to embrace nuclear abolition, but not even he could break the transcendent combine of industry-Congress-Pentagon. Those three define the sides of the iron triangle within which America still finds itself imprisoned.

US nuclear arsenal a dangerous remnant The Boston Globe, James Carroll, January 11, 2010 AT MORE than a dozen “missile alert facilities’’ in caverns below the exquisite landscape of the northern Rockies, teams of young men and women spend 24-hour shifts in steel-and-concrete bunkers. Continue reading →

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

IAEA revives”Atoms for Peace” (in the interests of the nuclear industry)

The aim is to convince some 60 developing countries planning to use nuclear power in the near future that they do not need to go down Iran’s path of enriching their own uranium.

International nuclear bank – helping world peace?

By Humphrey Hawksley
BBC News, Kazakhstan 9 Jan 2010

In 1953, eight years after the American nuclear bombing of Japan, President Dwight D Eisenhower laid out a vision that he called Atoms for Peace. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Indian Point nuke plant’s release of radioactive steam

Nuclear steam leak intentional: Response to Indian Point plant shutdown BY Abby Luby NY DAILY NEWS January 8th 2010,
The recent shutdown at the Indian Point Nuclear power plant and release of contaminated steam into the atmosphere was intentional, the federal agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear power plants insisted Thursday. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Suspicion that South Korea has nuclear weapons

Does South Korea have nuclear weapons? Stephen Collins Prophecy Log 8 Jan 2010 In another very important story not covered by the establishment American media, the Asia Times reported that South Korea has been “carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades (emphasis added).” The link reports that South Korea has admitted its nuclear activities and that South Korea was “actually making something close to bomb-grade [fissionable material].” If South Korea has been working with uranium enrichment for over 20 years, it is not hard to visualize that that nation may already secretly have several nuclear bombs in its inventory. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | South Korea, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment