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Russi keeping right of pre-emptive nuclear strike

Russia’s right for a preventive nuclear strike the key provision of the new doctrine.

Weak Russian Military Suggestive of Nuclear First Strike Doctrine The Market Oracle by Pravda, 27 Dec 09 In October 2009, Nicolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council Secretary, announced that the new military doctrine was on its way. The old one was dated back in 2000 and written even earlier, under Yeltsin. Patrushev named the announcement of Russia’s right for a preventive nuclear strike the key provision of the new doctrine. He kept his word, and this provision does exist in the text of the doctrine approved by the Security Council. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Arrested American men may have plotted nuclear terrorist attack

Detained Americans had nuclear power site map, say Pakistan police Guardian.co.uk 27 Dec 09
Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities.

The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory claims about the men’s intentions. US officials have been far more cautious, but they, too, are looking at charging the men. Continue reading →

December 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Pakistan, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Russia planning lucrative uranium deals with USA

Russia sees 2010 uranium deals with U.S. utilities
MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Mike Nesbit– Russia’s state uranium trader Techsnabexport (Tenex) will sign next year at least three deals worth around $1 billion to supply uranium directly to U.S. utilities, Russia’s state nuclear firm Rosatom said on Friday. Continue reading →

December 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, uranium | Leave a comment

Russia’s secret history of nuclear radiation testing

Thousands died. These people were used as guinea pigs, tested, and then left to die slowly of cancer

Soviet Human Nuclear Experiments Reported Global changes ruining the world, September 25, 2009 According to recently released reports, some 45,000 people, mainly Soviet soldiers, were deliberately exposed in 1954 to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima just nine years before. Continue reading →

December 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

USA researching (?preparing for ) radiological attacks

Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures OHS Occupational Health and Safety 25 Dec 09 “…… Nine contracts worth up to $400 million have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop more effective tests and devices to measure how much radiation people absorb after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts’ first phase will be worth $35 million; the $400 million covers five years.

Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures — Occupational Health & Safety

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Allegations of atrocities in UK, USA nuclear radiation tests

Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

Babies and Stillborns Used in Nuclear Experiments British newspapers reported that some 6,000 stillborn babies and dead infants were sent from hospitals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South America, the UK and the US between the 1950s and 1970s without the permission of parents for use in nuclear experiments. According to the reports, the US Department of Energy used the bodies and some body parts for tests to monitor radioactivity levels of the element Strotium 90 in humans. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive | 2 Comments

India secretive about its poor nuclear safety record

the United States which singed a nuclear deal with New Delhi last year has been praising India as a responsible atomic actor

INDIA’S NUCLEAR SAFETY A GRAVE THREAT Pakistan Daily Dec 25, 2009 WHY WORLD IS OBLIVIOUS OF INDIAN NUCLEAR DANGERS Although responsible nuclear states have adopted strict measures at their nuclear plants so as to save the lives of their employees and the nearby population, yet India’s record of poor nuclear safety has surprised the international community in the era of ongoing nuclear age. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium tested on soldiers in Australia

An Australian royal commission first discovered the use of depleted uranium in atomic tests at Maralinga

Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action

UK Admits Soldiers Used in Radiation Experiments The UK Ministry of Defense admitted on 12 May that it exposed British, Australian and New Zealand servicemen to radiation in tests during the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading →

December 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear power being rejected from grassroots

A Quiet but HUGE No Nukes Triumph, by Harvey Wasserman 24 Dec 09

In the wake of Copenhagen, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory has moved us closer to a green-powered Earth.

It has happened in upstate New York, where the Unistar Nuclear Energy front group asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay its application to build a reactor at Oswego, near Syracuse. Meanwhile, in Texas, the San Antonio city council’s deliberations over building two new reactors has disintegrated into recriminations, resignations and firings over a multi-billion-dollar price jump in projected cost estimates, a furor that could doom reactor construction there as well. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Undemocratric nature of Canadian nuclear push

The Sask Party Uranium Response: “We Don’t Care What You Think Accidental Deliberations December 21, 2009 “I’ve posted previously about the Sask Party’s latest declaration of its intention to push nuclear development regardless of what Saskatchewan’s citizens might think. But it’s worth looking in somewhat more detail at just how thoroughly the Wall government has rejected the public’s input into nuclear policy. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

Nuclear energy – a continuing blowout in costs

Nuclear economics just don’t add up Sydney Morning Herald MICHAEL R. JAMES December 24, 2009 -“………………..the first-build of the most evolved advanced model in production, Areva’s EPR, which was supposed to be simpler, more efficient, cheaper and faster to build. In Finland’s Olkiluotu a 50 per cent blowout in costs (to $US6.4 billion so far, lawsuits pending) and doubling in construction time (from 3.5 years to at least seven years) is typical of nuclear projects over the decades. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Radioactive leak into Lake Ontario

Toronto-area nuclear plant spills water TORONTO, Dec. 23 (UPI) — Nuclear officials were monitoring water supplies east of Toronto Wednesday after a nuclear plant leaked 52,000 gallons of tritium-laced water into Lake Ontario.

Toronto-area nuclear plant spills water – UPI.com

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, environment | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Nuclear resurgence just not really happening

Nuclear economics just don’t add up Sydney Morning Herald MICHAEL R. JAMES December 24, 2009 -……………………..Contrary to the claims of a nuclear resurgence in Europe and the world, it is far from certain how much of Europe will actually implement their plans. Most nuclear plants under construction are in Asia, principally China (15 plants), India (six), South Korea (five) and Russia (nine). Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs | Leave a comment

USA’s nuclear deal rejected by Iran

Iran rejects nuclear swap deadline set by U.S.http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-24 Iran rejected the December deadline for Iran to accept uranium swap deal.

·Iran is still waiting for response to its nuclear fuel swap proposal.

·U.S. has threatened another UN sanctions if Iran does not abide by the year-end deadline.

TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Wednesday rejected a nuclear swap deadline set by the United States, the state-run IRNA news agency reported……….. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

USA’s nuclear energy prospects are uncertain, despit govt boost

the forthcoming loan guarantees amount to only $18.5 billion, and the nuclear industry says it needs tens of billions more.

Nuclear Power, Long Dormant, Gets Wake-Up Call

The New York Times By MATTHEW L. WALD

December 23, 2009

WASHINGTON — When experts on power grid reliability asked themselves recently how a cleaner energy future would look, seven of eight regional councils imagined how their systems would work with 10 percent wind power.

Only one, representing the southeastern United States, chose a radically different option: doubling nuclear power capacity. Continue reading →

December 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment