Germany’s local electricity companies the losers if old nuclear plants continue
the average 12-year nuclear plant lifespan extension would cost municipal electricity suppliers 4.5 billion euros.
Local utilities want compensation after German nuclear power deal | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 07.09.2010, Gregg Benzow, Municipal electric utility companies have asked for financial compensation to offset losses they say they will incur from a decision to extend the lifespan of Germany’s nuclear power plants. Continue reading
New nuclear power plant plans at Hinkley Point unacceptable to local Councils
– Somerset councils call EDF nuclear plans ‘unacceptable’, BBC News 7 September 2010 Two Somerset councils have called the latest plans for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point “unacceptable” and “completely inadequate”.West Somerset District Council and Somerset County Council have both criticised a lack of detail in EDF Energy’s proposals……BBC News – Somerset councils call EDF nuclear plans ‘unacceptable’
Explosion at Honeywell uranium enrichment plant highlights safety problems
Local community members are claiming that Honeywell is also not properly reporting safety violations at the nuclear facility in Metropolis……The Environmental Protection Agency has also been very critical of the safety record of the uranium enrichment facility.
Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run by Scab Workers, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Mike Elk, September 7, 2010: The Metropolis uranium facility is the only one in the United States that can convert U308 into the extremely deadly UF6. Because the plant is the only conversion facility of its kind in the United States, familiarity with the Metropolis plant, and not just generic experience in the field, is essential to ensuring the plant’s safety……….. Continue reading
Renewable energy in the news, more than nuclear
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Yes – I know this is supposed to be about nuclear news. But I can’t help noticing that all the interesting, forward-looking investment stuff is about clean energy, not dirty old nuclear.
Sure, the nuke lobby tries. They spruik about nuclear fusion (ridiculously costly and unproven), about Thorium (just as good or better, for nuclear weapons), about This New Generation design and That one.
The nuclear news is all about whether or not USA and Israel should bomb Iran. Tony Blair thinks so. But he was wrong before, wasn’t he, on Iraq? The Brits certainly think so. He can’t even market his book, without getting pelted with eggs, in the UK.
Then it’s all about USA, Russia, France, South Korea, desperately competing to sell nuke reactors to the Third World, ones they can’t even sell to their own people. Nuclear is becoming a bore. – Christina Macpherson
USA, Russia desperate to sell nuclear reactors to the Third World
Nuclear power in Vietnam: the US and Russia compete, FT.com, September 6, 2010 by Matt Steinglass “…… today Russia and America are again jockeying for influence in Vietnam, and this time they’re offering reactors.
The head of the Russian state-owned nuclear power monopoly Rosatom, Sergei Kirienko, (at left) was in Hanoi on Friday, shaking hands with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung………
Meanwhile, Hanoi has been working towards a Section 123 Agreement with the US, which would allow it to import American
nuclear technology.
Westinghouse Electric and Japan’s Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, both of which use American technology, are bidding on the contract for Vietnam’s second reactor.
Nuclear power in Vietnam: the US and Russia compete | beyondbrics | FT.com
UK govt’s secret research into dead nuclear test veterans
The UK Government is battling a High Court compensation bid by 1,000 veterans and widows for health problems.
The Ministry of Defense insists almost none was exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and the high rates of cancer, death and birth defects are a coincidence.
Nuke test veterans health files to be probed after they die, mirror.co.uk, By Susie Boniface 5/09/2010 Scientists keep tabs in secret A nuclear test veteran has discovered the Government has ordered secret research into his health – after he dies. Continue reading
Prolonging nuclear power in Germany – damaging to society and investment
“We are further than ever away from a consensus in society, …that is a bad basis for investments,”
German local utilities, renewables slam nuclear plan. (Reuters)(Reporting by Vera Eckert in Munich, Anneli Palmen in Duesseldorf and Christoph Steitz in Frankfurt; editing by Keiron Henderson) 6 Sept 10, – A decision to extend the lifespans of German nuclear plants in a two-tier strategy will create more dissent and discourage investment, associations for the country’s local utilities and renewable industry said. Continue reading
Radioactive pollution from uranium milling can no longer be ignored
Regulators are examining hydrology, seismology, demographic impacts and effects on flora and fauna, as well as demanding complete plans for how ….. the site would be reclaimed.
Toxic legacy of uranium haunts proposed Colorado mill – The Denver Post, Nancy Lofholm, 5 Sept 10, GRAND JUNCTION — “………..More than a billion dollars has been spent cleaning up radioactive tailings piles and lessening toxic leaks into rivers and aquifers at nine defunct mills in Colorado. Nearly 20 million tons of radioactive tailings sit in disposal sites where they must be monitored in perpetuity. Hundreds of acres of unusable water fill contaminated aquifers. Continue reading
Secrecy, even to Kansas City residents, about huge weapons production
Kansas City produces parts for nuclear weapons. We craft huge proportions — 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for these weapons of mass destruction……, Kansas City for the most part has settled into benign ignorance that the plant even exists.
Consider KC’s dark nuclear secret, MARY SANCHEZ, The Kansas City Star , 6 Sept 10, For more than six decades, Kansas City has kept a volatile shrouded secret, even from itself. Continue reading
Not certain that Germany’s nuclear plants will be extended
Merkel’s coalition, however, still needs to get parliamentary approval for the new agreement.
German leaders reach agreement on nuclear energy – BusinessWeek, JUERGEN BAETZ, 5 Sept 10, German leaders reached an agreement to grant the country’s nuclear power plants an average of 12 extra years of production time and to levy new fees on the utility companies’, stripping them of billions of their expected additional profits, a government official said Sunday……. Continue reading
Ionising radiation is especially dangerous for children
Department of Health (DOH ) recommends practices to reduce radiation exposure in pediatric imaging, including using alternative, non-radiation diagnostic imaging procedures such as MRIs and ultrasounds when possible;…The pamphlets and pocket cards are available for download at the state Health Department website.
(USA) Parents can track kids’ radiation exposure, Times Union, By CATHLEEN CROWLEY Staff Writer ccrowley@timesunion.com. September 3, 2010 ALBANY — Doctors track your child’s height, weight and inoculations. Now, add radiation exposure to the list.
The state Department of Health wants your parents and pediatricians to keep a list of your child’s exposure to X-rays and more potent CT scans. Continue reading
Cameco uranium company spins a yarn on ionising radiation
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The Nuclear Industry copies the Tobacco Industry. Same old tactics. You cast around to find a scientist willing to be paid to say that your product is “healthy” and “clean”.
Cameco uranium mining company is running “Community Liaison Forums”. And guess what? They’ve found that low dose ionising radiation is not only healthy – it even prevents illness!
Not a surprise, really, from Cameco. For years they’ve been pitching radiation to kids, as a fun thing. (picture at left from Cameco’s brochure for kids)
Dunno that Indian nuclear worker Rajesh would agree “Rajesh (name changed), a contract worker at the nuclear facility. Rajesh’s three-year-old daughter, Abhi has been diagnosed with retinoblastoma, or cancer of eyes, and doctors have just confirmed the eventuality of her death……
Rajesh’s story is by no means an isolated one. –” from story below Tehelka – India’s Independent Weekly News Magazine
Secrecy over India’s nuclear radiation
30,000 villagers have been asked to leave once the Kudankulam plant is functional.”
Accident Sites – radiation, cancer, blindness, tardiness, cover-ups.The lessons from the Kalpakkam nuclear facility, Tehelka – India’s Independent Weekly News Magazine, BY KUNAL MAJUMDER, 4 Sept 10, Continue reading
USA – nuclear radiation meltdown area to be cleaned up
One of the reactors, which had no containment dome to prevent radiation from leaking into the environment, experienced a partial meltdown in 1959. There were other problems over the years, including two more accidents, burn pits with radioactive contaminants and a rocket fuel explosion that killed two scientists and resulted in a $650 million fine after Rocketdyne illegally disposed of the hazardous waste
Deal to clean up LA-area nuclear accident site, Google hosted news, By NOAKI SCHWARTZ (AP) – 4 Sept 10 LOS ANGELES — State and federal officials announced Friday a potentially historic agreement to remove all radioactive contamination from a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 at a rocket testing site just outside Los Angeles. Continue reading
USA’s dangerous and useless addiction to nuclear weapons
In his book “Dangerous Ground: America’s Failed Arms Control Policy, from FDR to Obama,” Ritter pinpoints the major challenges facing the international community in the post-Bush era and presents a blueprint for confronting them.
‘US addicted to nuclear weapons’, PressTV -Sep 2, 2010, Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the US is addicted to nuclear weapons to use them as deterrence against its imaginary enemies. Continue reading
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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