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Australian govt ignored true indigenous owners in planning nuclear waste dump

“We find it quite astonishing when we compare their determination against the land commissioner’s report which clearly identifies the traditional owners we’re speaking to as owners of the land.”

Lawyers step in as waste dump gets nod, ABC Alice Springs – Australian Broadcasting Corporation, By Alex Johnson 11 May 2010, A team of solicitors will travel to Tennant Creek today to prepare their case against the Federal Government’s plan to build a nuclear waste dump north of the town. Continue reading →

May 11, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, indigenous issues | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Younger patients more at risk from radiation caused cancer

Radiation Risks Nearly Double for Younger CT Scan Patients, Doctors should consider age when evaluating risks, study suggests. Bloomberg Business Week,May 3 (HealthDay News) –– Radiation risks associated with abdominal and pelvic CT scans are twice as high for younger patients as older patients, a new study finds.”Estimating the risks associated with ionizing radiation is complex,” study author Dr. James Koonce, of the Medical University of South Carolina, said in a news release. “Many variables such as patient size, age, and the region of the body being imaged all affect the total risk. Our study looked at how the overall risks associated with abdominal/pelvic CT scans depend on patient sex and age.”

Radiation Risks Nearly Double for Younger CT Scan Patients

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear technology, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

CT scans as a cause of cancer

Avoiding cancer, The Star, By Dr ALBERT LIM KOK HOOI, 9 May 2010, “..Radiation doses from common CT procedures are higher and more variable than previously thought…….In the first article, researchers found out that radiation doses from common CT procedures are higher (about 66%) and more variable than previously thought. Radiation is a known cause of cancer. In the second study, researchers estimated future cancer risk from current CT use in the United States and projected that 29,000 future cancers will be directly attributable to CT scans that were performed in 2007 alone. It is expected that the majority of these projected cancers will be caused by scans of the abdomen and pelvis (n = 14,000), chest (n = 4,100) and head (n = 4,000) and by CT angiography (n = 2,700)…….
The irony of it all is that 80% of our population are having their cancer diagnosed late and inadequately treated. The other 20% are overserviced whether by overtreatment or unnecessary CT scans. Avoiding cancer

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | AUSTRALIA, cancer, nuclear, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Cancer from nuclear radiation: references in President’s Cancer Panel report

President’s Cancer Panel report, Frank Munger, 9 May 2010, Oak Ridge is mentioned at least three times in the President’s Cancer Panel report, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk — What We Can Do Now.” I haven’t had a chance to read the report yet but a couple of folks have sent me copies. When I return to the office (been gone for a few days) and get my mailbox unclogged, I’ll post it here. There are references to earlier studies of nuclear fallout and iodine-131 exposures, including those in Oak Ridge, and also higher rates of multiple myeloma among construction workers at nuclear weapons sites.

President’s Cancer Panel report | Frank Munger’s Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Radioactive water reaches aquifer

Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer, Google hosted news, By WAYNE PARRY (AP) –9 May, 2010, LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday.The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station to halt the spread of contaminated water underground,……….. Continue reading →

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, water | antinuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, reactors, water | Leave a comment

Cancer legacy for a uranium milling town

A town under siege from Cancer, – Salt Lake City, Utah Newsby: Brent Hunsaker MONTICELLO, Utah (ABC 4 News) 7 May 2010, – The Uranium mill was big for little Monticello. Still, not everyone worked there. So why would people who never set foot on mill property still get cancer? Continue reading →

May 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

UK govt tries to stall atomic compensation case as veterans aging and dying

Many are terminally ill and seven – including five of the test case claimants – have died since the litigation began.

MoD appeals against atomic test veteran claims ruling, – Telegraph UK , The Ministry of Defence has launched an appeal against a court ruling which allowed Britain’s atomic test veterans to claim damages. 7 May 2010 Last June, High Court judge Mr Justice Foskett ruled that 10 test cases out of 1,011 claims could proceed to full trial. Continue reading →

May 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, UK | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, plutonium, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Australia: controversial report on nuclear waste arouses suspicion and opposition

ts “heavy handed” overriding of Territory and Aboriginal heritage protection laws, and the reliance on secret documents

Inquiry dumps on Northern Territory, Northern Territory News, TBEN LANGFORD, May 7th, 2010 T HE Senate inquiry into laws which could put a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory has recommended the new legislation be passed.But the inquiry’s report was immediately criticised as “an unbalanced and closed-minded justification for a foregone conclusion” by one of the committee members. Continue reading →

May 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, politics | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Obama to visit Australia: gets nuclear agreement first

Australian-U.S. Nuclear Trade Deal Sent to Congress, NTI: Global Security Newswire May 6, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday submitted for congressional approval a deal that would permit Australia and the United States to trade in nonmilitary nuclear materials and technology (see GSN, March 19)………….the deal would enable “the transfer of information, material, equipment (including reactors), and components for nuclear research and nuclear power production………..The pending “123” agreement could only be canceled after it has been in force for 30 years, he said. The deal would take effect following 90 days of “continuous session” of Congress unless lawmakers move to block it within that period…………The United States is also moving ahead with a similar deal with Russia and is finalizing terms of its nuclear trade pact with India (see GSN, May 5; White House release, May 5).

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Australian-U.S. Nuclear Trade Deal Sent to Congress

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Niger’s enviroment contaminated by AREVA’s radioactive uranium wastes

VIDEO Left in the Dust – Areva’s uranium mining in Niger | Greenpeace International

Left in the Dust – Areva’s uranium mining in Niger | Greenpeace International 6 May 2010, Operations of Nuclear giant AREVA put lives at risk in Niger. Uranium mines in Niger operated by the state-owned French nuclear giant AREVA continue to create a radioactive hazard for the people living nearby. Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Niger, wastes | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, water | Leave a comment

Nuclear radiation leaks are invisible, unlike oil spills

If only radiation — which leaks every day at the 104 nuclear reactors in the US — was as visible as the growing BP oil slick in the Gulf Coast

Wake up and smell the oil THE HUFFINGTON POST, John Rosenthal, May 3, 2010 “………..Close your eyes and imagine for a minute that instead of BP’s deepwater offshore well exploding 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, spreading millions of gallons of toxic and visible oil across the Gulf Coast, that one of the 104 nuclear reactors operating in the US, exploded Continue reading →

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear renaissance, nuclear secrecy, nuclear technology, radioactive, reactors, uranium | 1 Comment

Environmental racism in siting yet more nuclear reactors in Burke County, GA

why there are no laws requiring, and no funds to pay for, testing the air, soil, water, fish, wildlife, or the people of mostly black Burke County, who are experiencing an unexplained epidemic of cancer?

(USA) Siting Nukes in a Poor Black Town If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism? THE HUFFINGTON POST, Bruce Dixon, May 4, 2010 In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, GA, the inconvenient questions, unanswered and mostly unasked, continue to pile up. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium, water | Leave a comment

Foreign nuclear power salesmen perturbed about radiation concerns in India

Radiation death in India raises nuclear safety concerns, (Reuters) 5 May 2010, – The radiation-related death of a scrap metal worker has raised concerns over nuclear safety in India, at a time when the Asian power is wooing foreign players to its $150 billion civilian nuclear market. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, India | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Ignorance of many Indian institutions about radioactive waste

A professor from a college on Palace Road said, “Maybe we can tie it in a bag, put it in a garbage bin or throw them in some remote place.”…

Is city sitting on radiation keg? Jayashree Nandi & Sruthy Susan Ullas, TNN, May 5, 2010, BANGALORE: Post-radioactive leak in Delhi recently, a reality check in Bangalore showed that the city was sitting on a live bomb with many colleges and other institutions having no clue as to what to do with the radioactive waste in their labs.. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Mammogram screening unwise for healthy young women

The American Cancer Society ..this study strongly supports their recommendation that screening mammography should begin at age 40 and not earlier.

Mammograms in your 30s: – Paging Dr. Gupta – CNN.com Blogs ‘A needle in a haystack’ By Sabriya Rice CNN Medical Producer May 3, 201 0An estimated 29 percent of U.S. women in their 30s undergo mammograms each year, but false-positives and callbacks for additional screenings are frequent, and few breast cancers are detected in women of this age group, a new study finds. Continue reading →

May 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment