Russia’s nuke sales to India, as Russia’s control laws not strict
Russia to build 12 nuclear reactors in India Moscow’s ambassador urges increasing nuclear cooperation with India Daily Times By Iftikhar Gilani 15 Dec 09 NEW DELHI: Russia is planning to set up 12 to 14 nuclear reactors in India, with the Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin saying his country had no issues with transferring enrichment and reprocessing technologies (ENR) to New Delhi.”We do not have domestic laws as strict as in some other countries. We do not see many problems in this field,” he said.
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Russia to build 12 nuclear reactors in India
Australian atomic veterans join British class action
Maralinga vets join British class action Pia Akerman , The Australian * December 16, 2009 AUSTRALIANS exposed to deadly radiation in the Maralinga nuclear tests of the 1950s and 60s have abandoned plans to sue at home and will instead join a British class action seeking compensation for damage to their health. Continue reading
Disarmament Commission treats India and Pakistan equally
Disarmament panel puts India, Pak in same category The Economic Times 16 Dec 2009, A report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament has proposed cutting down the world’s nuclear weapons from 23,000 to 2,000 by 2025 and suggested that all nuclear states should have a ‘no first use’ stance. The commission is actually the brainchild of Japan and Australia. Continue reading
USA to prepare for nuclear explosions in cities
Preparing for a ‘nuclear event’ – LA Daily News 14 Dec 09 ……….The federal Homeland Security Council is urging state and local governments to prepare in the event of a nuclear detonation in a major city. Continue reading
Questions on Iran’s nuclear secrets
Leaked ‘memo’ suggests Iran’s nuclear secrets BBC News
By Jonathan Marcus 15 Dec 09
A leaked Iranian memo published by The Times newspaper suggests that Iran was actively working on the components of a nuclear bomb as recently as 2007.Iran has always insisted its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
The BBC is unable to verify the authenticity of the document itself but, if is genuine, it reveals some uncomfortable issues for the Iranians……………If these documents are genuine, then even Moscow and Beijing may be far less willing to give Teheran the benefit of the doubt.
Prospect of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear plants
From The Times December 14, 2009 Binyamin Netanyahu must decide whether to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities
The moment is fast approaching when Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, may have to make the most difficult decision of his career — Continue reading
USA committed to its nuclear arsenal
Guarding the U.S. nuclear arsenal Tehran Times 14 Dec 09 Interviewee: Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz, commander of Air Force Global Strike CommandU.S. President Barack Obama has made nuclear nonproliferation and arms control a centerpiece of his foreign policy. But until the United States gives up on its policy of nuclear deterrence, stewardship of atomic assets will be a centerpiece of Pentagon planning…….. Continue reading
North Korea to ‘co-operate’ in nuclear talks
North Korea agrees nuclear ‘co-operation’ with US BBC News 14 Dec 09
North Korea says it will continue to co-operate with the US on ending its nuclear programme and agrees that stalled talks need to resume.
The country’s foreign ministry said Pyongyang would work with the US to “narrow remaining differences”. Continue reading
India has serious thermo-nuclear bombs
BBC News – North Korea agrees nuclear ‘co-operation’ with US
Kakodkar says India has credible thermo-nuclear bombs in the “plural” NationalNetIndian News Network New Delhi, December 13, 2009 Dr. Anil Kakodkar.Dr. Anil Kakodkar. Former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Anil Kakodkar has asserted that India has credible thermo-nuclear bombs, in the “plural”, with a yield of “much more” than 45 kilotonnes each.”Why are you using singular? Make that plural,” he said when asked if India had a credible thermo-nuclear bomb during an interview with journalist Karan Thapar on the Devil’s Advocate show on television channel CNN-IBN.
Why don’t they count radioactive wastes in nuclear costing?
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In today’s news we learn that the USA’s existing nuclear wastes could cost $225 billion. Of course, the government is up for these costs, not the nuclear industry. So somehow – well, then, the pretty well eternal waste storage and security is not part of the costing for nuclear power!
That’s a pretty nice bit of sleight of hand, isn’t it? But the non-democracies do it even better. Nobody has any idea what are the real costs of France, Russia, China’s nuclear wastes, nor who actually ends up paying for them.
Religious and medical anti-nuclear drive
Q&A : ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’ – Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions MELBOURNE, Dec 9 (IPS)
IPS: What can religious and spiritual communities do to meet the challenge of abolishing these weapons of mass annihilation?
SW: We see the issue of nuclear weapons as one of the great ethical issues of our time. Continue reading
Where to put 15,000 drums of depleted uranium?
DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A U.S. Department of Energy spokeswoman says Nevada has been ruled out as an alternative disposal site for nearly 15,000 drums of depleted uranium from South Carolina currently scheduled to come to Utah.
DOE spokeswoman Lauren Milone says the Nevada Test Site is being excluded from discussions about the waste because the DOE has agreed to conduct a statewide environmental impact statement before accepting any new waste there.
Milone says doing that would probably take at least a year.
World religions want action on abolishing nuclear weapons
Faiths join to stress vital challenge of nuclear abolition, at Melbourne’s Parliament of the World’s Religions
TOKYO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives joined voices during the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia, on December 7, calling for moral leadership by the world’s religions in the effort to abolish nuclear weapons. Continue reading
USA and depleted uranium – damaging their own troops
Depleted uranium is nuclear war The Most Ignored & Covered Up by Mass Media News Story …
Two Israeli opinions on Iran and nuclear weapons
Iran can now produce nuclear bomb The Jerusalem Post By REBECCA ANNA STOIL 8 Dec 09 Israel’s most challenging strategic problem is the Iranian nuclear program, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday, during which he also painted a pessimistic view of the situation along Israel’s northern border. “In the last year, two things have happened: Iran has advanced its military nuclear program, and Iran has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the international community,”
Netanyahu told the committee, adding that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear capabilities was Israel’s “central problem.” “Our highest interest is in preventing Iran’s [nuclear] armament,” he said……..http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260181014244&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Israeli Press: Iran an excuse Arutz Sheva – israel national News by Boaz Haetzni 9 Dec 09 – “………..We would be better off if Netanyahu would give up the idea of attacking Iran, because we need a leader, not a weakling, in order to deal with the international pandemonium that will result……http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9195
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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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