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India’s Bill for nuclear insurance meeting political opposition

Nuclear liability bill hinges on Kolkata municipal elections! LiveMint.com by Liz Mathew on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 The fate of the proposed Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill is closely linked to the municipal elections in Kolkata! Unbelievable? But not impossible…. at least according to some Congress leaders! Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Groundwater threatened by nuclear plants: public justifiably suspicious

while nuclear plants have permits that allow them to emit material into surface water and the air, they do not have permits that let them release material to groundwater, which is where the tritium is going……………

Has Trust Leaked Away With the Tritium? NYTimes.com, By MATTHEW L. WALD, April 20, 2010, A panel of experts convened on Tuesday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to discuss how the agency should approach tritium leaks at reactors suggested that the biggest risk that nuclear operators faced was the erosion of public trust…… Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, water | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear technology | Leave a comment

Fire safety questions at nuclear power plant

Regulators fault fire protection approach at Browns Ferry nuclear plant, al.com, By Brian Lawson, The Huntsville TimesApril 20, 2010 HUNTSVILLE, AL. — Federal regulators will increase inspections at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant after finding fault with the plant’s approach to fire protection. TVA was notified Monday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the physical layout of some parts of the three-reactor plant, including cables and equipment, could be a problem in a fire. The NRC determined the current approach was of “substantial safety significance”

Regulators fault fire protection approach at Browns Ferry nuclear plant | al.com

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, water | Leave a comment

Florida nuclear plant violation of safety regulations

FPL cited for violation at nuclear plant in St. Lucie County SunSentinel.com by Julie Patel on April 20, 2010 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said today that it cited Florida Power & Light for an apparent violation at its nuclear plant in St. Lucie County.After reviewing information from its staff and FPL, the commission said it found there was a “substantial safety significance” related to air leaking into a cooling water system for one of the generators.

FPL cited for violation at nuclear plant in St. Lucie County

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes | Leave a comment

Solar energy could outdo nuclear power

Ontario Solar Power could match US Nuclear Power, Alternative Energy April 20th, 2010 –

Queen’s University Applied Sustainability Research Group located in Kingston, Canada comes out with two studies that claim solar power in southeastern Ontario can be created in abundance. The natural question is how much abundance?. The answer is mind-boggling. Southeastern Ontario has the potential to produce almost as much power as all the nuclear reactors in the United States! Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, renewable | antinuclear, energy efficiency, nuclear, renewable energy, renewables, solar | Leave a comment

AREVA’s nuclear tentacles now embracing Kuwait

France And Kuwait Ink Nuclear Power Agreement, Nuclear Street, 21 April 2010, Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a newreactor design that France considers one of the most advanced in the world – By April Murelio -An agreement “to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy” has been signed in Paris by Kuwait’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Sabah, and French government officials.Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a third-generation reactor design that France considers the most advanced in the world.Sarkozy vaunted the “safety and reliability” of this reactor and “France’s ability to provide a service covering the whole nuclear energy cycle,”

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, politics international | antinuclear, AREVA, EDF, enriched, nuclear, nuclear spin, reactor, uranium | Leave a comment

Kentucky court case over leaked uranium

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled then that the landowners don’t have to prove they were actually harmed to sue past contractors for trespassing by allowing contaminants to spread beyond the plant.

The high court also held that land devaluation by intentional trespassing is a recognized measure of damages once actual injury is determined. There is injury if groundwater is contaminated and it can’t be consumed.

Ky. landowners settle lawsuit over uranium leaks, BusinessWeek, By BRETT BARROUQUERE 21 April 2010, Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, radiation, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Belarus will not send its enriched uranium to the Russia or USA stores

Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko , ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire, 20 April 2010, Belarus has no plans to build a “dirty” nuclear bomb but no one can take its enriched uranium stockpiles away from it, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.”Russia and the United States are telling us – give us your enriched uranium. We will not give anything away. Everything here is under IAEA control. Russia tells America: Calm down, we will take it from there [Belarus]. No one will take anything without our consent. We will not allow that,” he said in a state-of-the-nation address.

Lukashenko added that his strained relations with Russia and the United States were due, among other things, to its reluctance to give away enriched uranium.

Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Belarus, politics international | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear weapons, plutonium, radiation, uranium | Leave a comment

Heavy toll of AREVA’s uranium mining on Niger’s poor

Niger: French State-Owned Company ‘Poisoning’ Poor | Coalition Against Nuclear Energy, Julio Godoy, April 2010, Paris — Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people… Continue reading →

April 22, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Niger | antinuclear, AREVA, France, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

“Countdown to Zero” – Queen Noor’s global campaign against nuclear weapons

“I am one of a million for whom Islam and Western cultures are not incompatible,” she said, reminding the nearly filled auditorium that she is Muslim,….Her Majesty says nuclear weapons have no place in a world striving to achieve international security. Rather terror can be their only purpose.

Queen Noor On Nukes, THE HUFFINGTON POST, April 19, 2010, Cross-Cultural Understanding, at CU Boulder “……..Queen Noor al Hussein of Jordan is the founder of Global Zero, a worldwide movement that seeks to eliminate both actual and potential stockpiles of nuclear weapons across the globe by year 2030. Continue reading →

April 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, peace, peaceful | Leave a comment

Pro nuclear push discredits Nuclear Non Proliferation meeting

The serious proliferation risks associated with peaceful nuclear programs will be studiously ignored at the five-yearly Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York next month…..the task of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not only to carry out safeguards inspections to assess NPT compliance, but also to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It would make as much sense to ask drug enforcement agencies to promote the cultivation of poppy seeds.

The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, Recent nuclear talk-fests have quietly ignored the fact that even so-called ‘peaceful nuclear programs’ — like power generation — can be used for proliferation, writes Jim Green Continue reading →

April 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, reactors | Leave a comment

Global experience shows that reprocessing and breeder reactors are not viable

France has not solved its nuclear waste problems and now needs a repository in face of strong public opposition to the development of such a facility.

Nuclear waste reprocessing not viable for United States: study, Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine, 4/19/2010 Reprocessing of nuclear waste is neither an affordable remedy for future waste disposal in the United States nor will it eliminate the need for a deep geologic repository to replace Yucca Mountain, according to a recent study released by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), a nonprofit and nonpartisan research group. Continue reading →

April 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, technology | antinuclear, AREVA, enriched, fast breeder, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, plutonium, radiation, reactors, recycling, uranium | Leave a comment

U.S. Climate Bill could be stuffed up with pro-nuclear measures

Along the way, the industry has hired a bevvy of flacks with marginal green credentials.

Will Progressives Swallow a Pro-Nuclear Power Energy Bill Stuffed with Nuke Plant Subsidies?, HARVEY WASSERMAN, BUZZFLASH, 20 April 2010, The Climate Bill is due on Earth Day.By all accounts it will be a nuclear bomb. It will be the ultimate challenge of the global grassroots green movement to transform it into something that can actually save the planet. For the atomic power industry, the bill will cap a decade-long $640-million-plus virtual cleansing of its radioactive image. Continue reading →

April 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin | Leave a comment

India’s doctors ignorant of health effects of ionising radiation

“In their reply to the questionnaire developed by us to test their knowledge, most replied that MRI and ultrasound involves radiation exposure which is completely wrong,”

Doctors ignorant of radiation exposure effects: AIIMS, Press Trust of India, , Apr 19, 2010 Doctors who regularly subject patients to X-rays and CT scans are ignorant of the harmful effects of radiation exposure, a study at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has found. Continue reading →

April 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, India | antinuclear, ionising, nuclear, radioactive | Leave a comment

Finland govt wants renewable energy boost, not new nuclear plants

Minister: Finland does not need new nuclear plants, Google News hosting, (AFP) – 20 April 2010, HELSINKI — Finland does not need three new nuclear plants to secure its future energy needs, the minister who is preparing a government proposal on the subject said in an interview published on Monday. Continue reading →

April 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Finland, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, reactors, renewable energy | Leave a comment