Secret deal for Scotland to take foreign nuclear waste

SNP turning country into Europe’s ‘nuclear dustbin’

Herald Scotland By Rob Edwards

11 Oct 2009

Environmental campaigners have accused the SNP of turning Scotland into the world’s “nuclear dustbin”. Continue reading →

October 11, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, UK, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive | Leave a comment

Nuclear industry causing a “tsunami” of debt

The many financial failure tsunamis of nuclear power Ace Hoffmann October 7th, 2009 “…………………Seismologists, geologists, and other experts say our coastal nuclear reactors are NOT properly protected (and can’t be) against reasonably foreseeable — even expected — tsunamis…………

Real tsunamis aside, a financial crisis is often called a tsunami as well. Continue reading →

October 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Missile sites leave costly pollution

Pollution an enduring legacy at old missile sites Google News By MEAD GRUVER (AP) – 11 Oct 09 CHEYENNE, Wyo. — As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy — groundwater pollution Continue reading →

October 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Nuclear “deterrence” makes Japan a target

Japan would be safer without extended deterrence

The Mainichi Daily News, by Dr Tilman Ruff (Mainichi Japan) October 10, 2009 The role Japan can play in achieving that critical goal cannot be overestimated. Continue reading →

October 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Japan, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

How AREVA and EDF of France sell the nuclear industry

The many financial failure tsunamis of nuclear power Ace Hoffmann October 7th, 2009 “………No country has ever “solved” its nuclear waste problem. France grinds stuff up, releases much of it directly into the North Sea, and stores the rest with no idea of what to do with it. Continue reading →

October 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Solar plants ready in 6 months, nuclear in 20 years

Reportlinker Adds Utilities Go Green: Worldwide Utility Solar Market Shares, Forecasts, and Strategies, 2008-2014

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.

http://www.reportlinker.com/p0153925/Reportlinker-Adds-Utilities-Go-Green-Worldwide-Utility-Solar-Market-Shares-Forecasts-and-Strategies-2008-2014.html

As coal, gas, and oil usage are taxed to help prevent pollution and stimulate use of renewable energy sources, solar energy becomes more attractive to the utility grid electricity providers. The environmental impact of energy use choices promises to be an ongoing factor in energy grid supply. Continue reading →

October 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, ENERGY | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, renewables, solar | Leave a comment

$25 million penalty resulting from shutdown of nuclear plants

Florida Utlity Company to Pay $25 Million for Blackout New York Times By MATTHEW L. WALD

Published: October 8, 2009

WASHINGTON — A Florida utility has agreed to pay a record $25 million penalty for causing a blackout that left nearly a million customers in the dark in February 2008. Continue reading →

October 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear | Leave a comment

Seabrook nuclear plant has recurring problems

NRC cites`problems at Seabrook nuke plant By Shir Haberman

seacoastonline.com October 08, 2009 “………..One of those recurring issues has to do with the diesel generators used to operate plant safety systems in the event of an off-site power outage…… NRC Region I spokesman Neil Sheehan said this most recent diesel generator problem had more to do with failures in following procedures by the company than equipment problems. Continue reading →

October 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs | Leave a comment

Energy efficiency and renewables beat nuclear on costs

Nuclear Power – Climate Fix or Folly –Treehugger, Rebecca Cole, Rocky Mountain Institute 7 Oct 09

“………….Lovins points out nuclear drawbacks and a better path forward.
Lovins, who for years has argued that nuclear power is an “uncompetitive, unneeded and obsolete” way to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, again reiterated that efficiency, distributed generation and renewable energy is a better path. Continue reading →

October 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs, climate change | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a comment

Utah bill to stop import of foreign radioactive wastes

Hearing set on foreign nuke waste ban bill

By BROCK VERGAKIS (AP) – 8 Oct 09

SALT LAKE CITY — An effort to ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste has been given new life with a hearing set for next week in Washington, D.C. Continue reading →

October 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

uranium mining degradation of tribal lands, India

Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands

by Moushumi Basu, Special to CorpWatch
October 7th, 2009 – “………..The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) operates that mine, part of a cluster of four underground and one open cast mines and two processing plants, in East Singbhum district in the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The deepest plunges almost one kilometer into the earth. Continue reading →

October 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, indigenous issues | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

France’s pro-nuke President dismisses human rights concerns

France, Kazakhs ink military transit, energy deals By PETER LEONARD (AP) –Associated Press Writer Angela Charlton contributed to this report from Paris., Kazakhstan 6 Oct 09 French President Nicolas Sarkozy scored a diplomatic coup Tuesday during a visit to energy-rich Kazakhstan, overseeing an agreement to allow military hardware for French forces fighting in Afghanistan to pass through Kazakh territory and clinching a raft of lucrative energy deals.Facing criticism over its human rights record, Kazakhstan won a measure of support from Sarkozy…………. Continue reading →

October 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Kazakhstan, secrets,lies and civil liberties, spinbuster | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, Sarkozy, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear energy is not Renewable – an engineer’s view

Nuclear Power is not Renewable Energy Round 2 Techdiplomacy 28 Sept 09 – “……………..Now the Nuclear Power industry is actually challenging Solar and Wind power, they are claiming that they are far more ‘green’, than is the traditionaly accepted renewables, solar and wind. This is almost criminal and I cannot see where this information has its basis in fact…………….. Continue reading →

October 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, climate change, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, renewables | Leave a comment

Harvey Wasserman on the nuclear “renaissance”

Interview with Harvey Wasserman OpEd News Joan Brunwasser 6/10/09 “………….Skyrocketing costs and fierce resistance led to the cancellation of scores of reactors across the US in the 1970s and ’80s. Continue reading →

October 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radioactive | Leave a comment

Corporate controlled media silent on Somalia and nuclear wastes

OCTOBER 5, 2009 Project Censored The top stories not brought to you by mainstream news media in 2008 and 2009 BY REBECCA BOWE – “……..”I really think we’re beyond reforming corporate media,” says Phillips, a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and the director of Project Censored. “We’re not going to break up these huge conglomerates. We’re just going to make them irrelevant.”……… Continue reading →

October 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, Somalia, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment