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Australian shareholders protest BHP’s uranium mining

BHP chief takes on shareholder activists ABC Radio PM Annie Guest reported this story on November 26, 2009

The protestors outside and shareholder activists inside raised concerns about uranium mining and storage… Continue reading →

November 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear lobby hiring “green” spruikers

Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine OpEd News by Harvey Wasserman 25 Nov 09 “…….the hype about alleged green support for new reactors. Latest is a carefully contrived piece of industry fluff from one Anthony Faiola, whose “Nuclear Power Regains Support” has just been featured atop the Washington Post. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Radiation over-exposure – another hospital incident

Another hospital reports over exposure KHTS News by Jeremiah McDaniel November 24 2009 In what is beginning to seem like a recurring scene, another hospital has come forward and reported that some of its patients were exposed to high doses of radiation during CT scans.The overdoses happened at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, where ten patients accidentally received three to four times higher doses of radiation during their procedures………….. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

French nuclear company marketing a dirty old solution

Accident casts fresh doubt on nuclear safety, Baltimore Sun 25 Nov 09 In the current issue of Scientific American, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi propose a technically feasible, clean and efficient energy future from wind, water and sun. They note that wind – at 7 cents per kwh and projected to drop to 4 cents by 2020 – is getting cheaper than new nuclear, which is growing more expensive. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, safety | antinuclear, EDF, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, renewableenergy, renewables | Leave a comment

Climate change answer is sustainability, not nuclear

Nuclear power as the solution to our carbon emissions problem? Biocitizen By Kurt Heidinger on Nov 24, 2009 Today we learn, courtesy of the Washington Post, that “nuclear power is the “new” solution to humanity’s carbon emissions problem”. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, renewables | Leave a comment

New nukes just a pipe-dream – old nukes are the problem

What To Do With Zombie Nuke Plants CBS News November 24, 2009 by Christian Parenti: Thirty Years Affter The Three Mile Island Partial Meltdown, Old Plants Pose The Real Nuclear Power Threat. Oyster Creek Generating Station, .. the oldest in the country, was slated to close in 2009 when its original forty-year license was ending. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear pollution in Russia

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The Hays Daily News By ARTHUR MAX Associated Press Writer

DNIPRODZERZHYNSK, Ukraine (AP) — Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial machine. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Belated information on nuclear radiation leak

Exelon draws criticism for late notice on TMI incident

istock analyst (Source: The York Dispatch)By Carl Lindquist, The York Dispatch, Pa.

Nov. 24–-Exelon Corp. is facing criticism for waiting hours to inform local officials about an alarm Saturday signaling increased airborne radiation at its Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Non radiation methods are safer than mammograms

Mammogram controversy and using safer alternatives for breast exams, Creative loafing November 24, 2009 by Carol Roberts
So what’s this about mammograms? The iconic breast screening exam has been called into question by a stellar panel from Harvard, Stanford and other such institutions who were tasked by the federal government to determine the efficacy and safety of the test. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Danger of nuclear terrorism

Top spy fears nuclear terror attack news.com.au By Nick Tabakoff The Daily Telegraph November 21, 2009 ONE of the world’s top spies has warned major world cities are at risk of a fresh September 11-style terrorist attack within the next decade.And he feared a scenario in which a nuclear device was triggered.

Efraim Halevy, former head of Israel’s top-secret national intelligence group Mossad, also warned Western societies like Australia were fighting international terrorism “with one arm tied behind their backs”.

Top spy fears nuclear terror attack | World News | News.com.au

November 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

USA would be wise not to follow France’s nuclear path

French Nuclear Energy Policy – a cake the US may do well not to consume too much of Treehugger, by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 11.22.09 “………………. US politicians now cite the French energy policy example with excitement; claiming that nation’s high reliance on nuclear power is exemplary. Continue reading →

November 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, France | antinuclear, AREVA, EDF, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear technology, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Soldiers’ cancer toll rising, from depleted uranium

How to get out of Afghanistan

History News Netwrk By William Polk22 Nov 09 “……Casualties we can count, but the number of seriously wounded keeps growing because many of the effects of exposure to modern weapons do not show up until later…… Cancer, from exposure to depleted uranium is, only now coming into full effect. 11 It is sobering that 40 percent of the soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf war – which lasted only a hundred hours – are receiving disability payments. 12 Inevitably, more “boots on the ground” will lead to more beds in hospitals……………http://hnn.us/articles/120371.htm

November 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

MUSLIMS UNITE WITH CHRISTIANS AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS | ISNA

ISNA UNITES WITH CHRISTIANS AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS – The Islamic Society of North America Muslims, Christians United Against Nuclear Weapons Zainab Cheema Muslim Link Staff Writer Nuclear weapons pose one of the most contentious issues on today’s political stage. Continue reading →

November 22, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, Religion and ethics | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation | Leave a comment

Doctors to walk out in protest over uranium mine

Doctors threaten to leave over uranium mine – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) By Eric Tlozek Nov 20, 2009 group of Alice Springs doctors say they will leave the town if a uranium mine goes ahead in the area. Uranium company Cameco is exploring a uranium deposit 25 kilometres south of Alice Springs. Continue reading →

November 20, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear lobby positioning itself as “green”

Beyond Nuclear 20 Nov 09 Climate change and its impacts are now undeniable. Leaders from around the world will have to reach a new climate agreement during the December 2009 Copenhagen Summit. Urgent measures must be taken to achieve a massive reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the current Kyoto Protocol, nuclear energy is rightly excluded from the possible solutions available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the nuclear industry, in collaboration with certain countries, is pushing for this dangerous and polluting technology to be included in the next climate agreement as a “clean” technology.

The nuclear industry would then be able to take advantage of significant public investments at the expense of real solutions! Such a disingenuous strategy would mean losing the fight against climate change and promoting the global expansion of the nuclear industry, with its associated risks. Please sign the petition today asking decision-makers at Copenhagen to reject nuclear energy as a “clean” technology and to oppose its inclusion in the mechanisms to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Please sign today.

November 20, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, climate change | antinuclear, climate change, Copenhagen, nuclear, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive, renewables | Leave a comment