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The two types of airport scanners

Imaging Technology Transportation Security Administration (TSA) 13 Jan 2010
“………Use of advanced imaging technology is optional to all passengers.

Millimeter Wave

Millimeter wave technology beams millimeter wave radio frequency (RF) energy in the advanced imaging spectrum over the body’s surface at high speed from two antennas simultaneously as they rotate around the body.
The energy reflected back from the body or other objects on the body is used to construct a three-dimensional image.
The three-dimensional image, with facial features blurred for privacy, is displayed on a remote monitor for analysis.

Backscatter

Backscatter technology uses low level X-ray to create a two-sided image.
TSA is testing backscatter with an algorithm applied to the entire image to further protect passenger privacy.

TSA: Imaging Technology

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | nuclear, radiation, radioactive | 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

Depleted uranium – the ultimate ‘friendly fire’

POISON BULLETS – depleted uranium munitions – the ultimate friendly fire (Video) Free Planet by Mike Philbin 13 Jan 2010
Many American and British soldiers who have returned from Iraq are complaining about Depleted Uranium-related illnesses. They accuse both the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defense of covering up the problem.

Poison Bullets follows doctors and experts as they voice their opposing views in the DU controversy and travels to the US, Great Britain, Jordan, Iraq and Spain, where we meet many of those who are victims of both DU-related diseases and the indifference of government officials.

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, depleted uranium | antinuclear, cancer, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear’s hidden costs, while renewable energy is feasible

Research that is reviewed in the November issue of Scientific American shows that renewables can meet 100 per cent of the world’s energy needs (not just electricity) and that it is technically feasible to do it by 2030.

(USA) Subsidies disguise the real cost of nuclear power FT.com January 12 2010 Dr Gerry Wolff.The real cost of nuclear power is disguised by several subsidies. Without those subsidies, the price of nuclear electricity would rise to a level that would make it deeply unattractive to investors. Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, climate change, renewable | antinuclear, energy efficiency, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, renewable energy, renewables | Leave a comment

Killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

Allegations fly over Iranian scientist’s assassinationTehran claims west was behind killing of nuclear physicist who was a supporter of Iranian opposition Julian Borger Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, 12 January 2010 and “………He was a particle physicist and a supporter of the Iranian opposition movement, raising the possibility he had become the latest victim in a covert war over Iran‘s nuclear aspirations. It is a war in which scientists find themselves potential soft targets. Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | 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

IAEA’s Chernobyl cancer data – Dracula keeping Blood Bank records?

Controversy rages over the agendas of the IAEA, which has promoted civil nuclear power over the past 30 years,

Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute•The Guardian UK John Vidal 10 Jan 2010 Suspected infant mortality rise difficult to prove• Predicted deaths range from 4,000 to half a million

At the children’s cancer hospital in Minsk, Belarus, and at the Vilne hospital for radiological protection in the east of Ukraine, specialist doctors are in no doubt they are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases linked to the Chernobyl nuclear accident Continue reading →

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radioactive | 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

Generator failure shuts Russian nuclear reactor

Russia nuclear power plant block shut down Jan 10, 2010
MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) – A reactor block at a nuclear power plant in southern Russia has been shut down for maintenance due to a steam generator failure, Russia’s state nuclear energy firm Rosenergoatom said on Sunday.

“At 0920 (local time) on January 10 the first reactor block at Volgodon nuclear power plant has been shut down….

UPDATE 1-Russia nuclear power plant block shut down | Markets | Reuters

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment

Cost blowout in refurbishing Canadian nuclear plant

N.B. premier threatens to sue Ottawa over nuclear power plant refurbishment Google News By Kevin Bissett (CP) 11 Jan 2010 FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham has delivered an ultimatum to the federal government – cover the cost overruns on the refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant or his government will sue Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Continue reading →

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Canada | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs | Leave a comment

UN chief optimistic on nuclear weapons free world

Ban vows to work for nuclear-free world India Today United Nations, January 11, 2010 UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday vowed to work towards a world free of weapons of mass destruction noting that there is a “new window of opportunity for disarmament and non-proliferation”.”I pledge to continue to do everything in my power to advance the goal of a world free of weapons of mass destruction,” Continue reading →

January 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment