Russian groups challenge Rosatom on radioactive waste dumps
DEMAND FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS
Surrounding homes Seversk located at a distance of less than one kilometer from the place of storage containers. photo google Earth http://earth.google.com/intl/ru/
Open letter on the issue of import to Russia for foreign timeless storage dump uranium hexafluoride Continue reading
Radiation hazard to Mars travellers
Travel to Mars – on a one-way ticket? Some experts believe it’s the only way to explore the red planet and save NASA By ERIC BERGERHOUSTON CHRONICLE Oct. 19, 2009,
“………….The astronauts we’d send would never come home…………. Continue reading
India’s unhealthy nuclear industry
The New nation 19 Oct 09 “……………….In India, health hazards from nuclear power plants have always been swept under the carpet. In 2007, physicist V Pugazhendhi of the Doctors for Safer Environment released a study on the incidence of autoimmune thyroid disease among women in and around Kalpakkam, where the prototype fast reactor is under construction. It showed the disease affected 24 per cent women within a radius of 5 km from the plant. Continue reading
India’s pursuit of nuclear – fraught with obstacles
India’s desperate pursuit of nuclear energy risky the New Nation, bangladesh, Savvy Soumya Misra October 19, 2009 Ever since the Indo-US nuclear deal signed in October last year lifted 34-year-old global sanctions that denied India access to the international atomic energy market, including uranium, Delhi has been on a shopping spree, buying nuclear fuel and reactors.India has signed civil nuclear agreements with France, USA, South Korea and Russia in the past 18 months………………… Continue reading
Utah site might not be safe for depleted uranium wastes
Radioactive waste shipments to Utah site facing year delay State board agrees extra steps must be taken to ensure safety of shipment .By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune 10/14/2009 Drums of radioactive cleanup waste in South Carolina are ready for loading onto rail cars for the journey to a Tooele County disposal site. But now those plans could be delayed more than a year, Continue reading
France making it hard for Polynesian nuclear victims
Nuclear payments blow to French Polynesia
By Geraldine Coutts for Radio Australia
ABC News Oct 15, 2009
Activists fighting for victims of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are stunned by conditions imposed in a compensation bill by France’s upper house………….Roland Oldham, president of the Mororua e Tatou Association representing French Pacific nuclear test workers, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat the actions of the French Senate reflected arrogance in metropolitan France towards its territories. Continue reading
EDF and AREVA send “really dirty” radioactive stuff to Siberia
EDF ‘sends used nuclear material’ to Siberia EDF, the French firm which owns eight of Britain’s nuclear power stations has shipped hundreds of tons of used radioactive material to Russia.
Deception surrounds nuclear waste shipments to Russia
Recycling Atomic WasteNuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Carparks SPIEGEL ONLINE 13 Oct 09 The largest utility company in Europe, Électricité de France, has been accused of storing nuclear waste in an open air car park in Siberia. Continue reading
Uranium pollution in India
The most vulnerable naked nukes of India —more than 80% of India’s nuclear and missile infrastructure based in the insurgency-hit areas or extremists’ dominated region The Daily Mail 14 Oct 09 By Makhdoom Babar in Islamabad & Christina Palmer in New Delhi
“……………………..The Daily Mail’s investigation team learnt that the radiation was a big problem in the area, yet it was unaddressed by the government. Continue reading
A generation crippled by uranium
A generation crippled by uranium China Dialogue Gethin Chamberlain October 12, 2009 Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children whom it appears India would rather the world did not see, Continue reading
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
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
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
Paladin’s uranium mine and Malawi’s water supply
CATHOLIC COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Mzuzu Diocese (Malawi) John Chawinga CCJP Secretary Mzuzu Diocese 6 Oct 09 The People of Karonga Deserve Clean and Safe Water – “……………..The people of Kayelekera have started experiencing such negligence. The people around Kayelekera have seen Paladin Africa drawing water for drinking and domestic use by their employees from Lufilya and Miswanga Rivers, while the people around the mine site continue to drink the contaminated water from Sere River. Continue reading
Safety doubts on Japan’s nuclear industry
Atomic power safety questions still unanswered BY KEISUKE KATORI AND AYAKO SUZUKITHE ASAHI SHIMBUN 5 Oct 09
Ten years after a nuclear accident killed two plant workers and shattered the “safety myth” surrounding atomic power generation, Japan still has much work to do in improving responses to cases of radiation exposure. Continue reading
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