Environment Department fines Medical Centre for violating ionising radiation controls
Consuming Interests: Pollution violations around Maryland: Naughty Businesses of the Week baltimoresun.com 6 April 2010, The Maryland Department of the Environment issued 28 enforcement actions with penalties totaling more than $637,000 last week…………..Fairfax Cardiac Imaging – Hanover, Anne Arundel County: On March 3, 2010, MDE issued a Complaint and Administrative Penalty for $50,000 for alleged violations of Maryland regulations for the control of ionizing radiation from the use of radioactive materials (radioisotopes).
Ionising radiation “just keeps on giving” toxic danger
DISARMING THE EAGLE BIT BY BIT The Observation Post * By Vicki Crawford April 6, 2010 . “…….We should not discount other nations with nuclear technologies either. A nation that can use nuclear technologies to produce electricity can also use it to make bombs. Don’t ignore the dangers of “dirty bombs” either. They’re another gift that keeps on giving in the form of ionizing radiation…..
No justice for Marshall Islands’ nuclear victims?
“many resultant indignities they suffered, from the loss of their homes and livelihoods to the horrific effects of radiation poisoning.”
Is it the End of the Line for the Bikini Islanders? Law Blog – WSJ, By Ashby Jones 5 Apri; 2010, Well, it could be the end of the road for the indigenous people of the Marshall Islands, who sued the federal government years ago for damages sustained during the government’s nuclear tests on the islands during the 1940s and 1950s. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the plaintiffs’ appeal, letting stand a ruling from the Federal Circuit in 2009 approving the dismissal of the plaintiffs’ suit. Continue reading
Censorship about radiation dangers?
FDA Scientist Loses His Job For Saying Cancer Screenings Might Give
You Cancer – Science – io9, 5 April 2010, There’s been a lot of concern lately about the routine use of radiation-heavy scans to identify early signs of cancer. Could cancer detection actually give you cancer? One Food and Drug Administration researcher said yes… so the FDA fired him. Continue reading
U.S. Energy dept in legal trouble over nuclear wastes, and still no solution
Utilities sue Energy Department to stop nuclear waste management fees, The Hill, By Ben Geman – 04/05/10 Nuclear power companies and state utility regulators are suing the Energy Department.The companies filed the lawsuit to force the suspension of a fee that utility customers pay for federal management of nuclear waste……….The Obama administration has abandoned plans for the long-delayed Yucca Mountain waste site, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu has created a “blue ribbon” commission to help create a new long-term waste policy. Continue reading
International Indigenous Gathering will focus on uranium mining
The gathering will focus on the environmental impacts of mining, proposed uranium dumping
Our Land Our Culture Our Sovereignty Indigenous Self-Determination Gathering Aboriginal News Group by: Ana , 5 April 2010, INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY GATHERING IN ALICE SPRINGS JULY 10, 11
Indigenous communities around the world are supporting the International
Indigneous Gathering in Australia, there will be 6 international
Indigenous leaders visiting Alice Spring during July 10, 11 with the
intention to solidarise with their brothers and sisters in Australia…… Continue reading
Top legal counsel, Cherie Blair, for Australia’s aboriginal nuclear victims
Niger: Tuareg activist speaks out in Germany, against nuclear giant AREVA
Uranium Mining in Niger ‘Tuareg Activist Takes on French Nuclear Company’ 2 April 2010, The Blogger: For the past 40 years, the French state-owned company Areva has been mining uranium for Europe’s nuclear power needs in Niger, one of the poorest countries on Earth. One local activist is taking on the company, claiming that water and dust have been contaminated and workers are dying as a result of its activities…..He said he was the founder of an environmental organization in the city of Arlit in northern Niger. He said that Areva, a French company, is mining uranium there. He also described the alleged dark side of Areva’s operations: millions of tons of radioactive waste, contaminated water and serious illnesses. And Deutsche Bank was partially connected to this, Alhacen said, because it lends a lot of money to Areva….
Mysterious Illnesses Alhacen founded his organization, Aghirin Man, nine years ago, when he noticed that many of his fellow workers were dying of mysterious illnesses. In Alhacen’s Tuareg language, Aghirin Man means “Protection of the Soul” The Blogger: Uranium Mining in Niger ‘Tuareg Activist Takes on French Nuclear Company’
Stimulus spending goes to nuclear waste cleanup states
it’s not clear to me that this has much of a stimulative effect on the American macroeconomy
Gotcha on stimulus spending? Washington Examiner, By: Michael Barone, 2 April 2010, “…………lots of stimulus dollars went to the 4th district of Washington, which is on the other side of the Cascades from Olympia, and which with the South Carolina 3rd is the only non-state capital district among the top 25 districts on de Rugy’s list. What these two districts have in common is the presence of two Energy Department nuclear manufacturing sites—the Hanford Site and the Savannah River Site.
These have had huge pollution problems, and have been part of a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar cleanup process. I gather that the Energy Department was in a position to ramp up this process quickly and got a lot of stimulus funds to do so.
This may be a worthy use of federal dollars; these sites were contaminated because we were sloppy in the development of nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War, and it may very well make sense to clean them up. In effect we’re paying for past wars, as we do when we pay for veterans’ benefits. But it’s not clear to me that this has much of a stimulative effect on the American macroeconomy. Gotcha on stimulus spending? | Washington Examiner
Tuareg and uranium: AREVA’s grip on Niger
“You can’t just fight against nuclear power plants and waste repositories,” he said. “If you want to kill the tree, kill the roots”. He was referring to the uranium mines.
Uranium Mining in Niger ‘Tuareg Activist Takes on French Nuclear Company’ The Blogger: 2 April 2010, “……..A total of 80,000 people live in the two cities Areva created in the desert to service the mines. There are no paved roads, but there is plenty of reddish-brown dust, which penetrates into every crack and pore. Well water is radioactively contaminated, and precious fossil groundwater is used in the uranium ore processing plant. The region’s nomads are finding fewer and fewer pastures for their cattle, and people are affected by fatal illnesses.
Citizens’ organizations critical of Areva claim that the little money the company pays to the Niger state remains in the capital or simply ends up in the pockets of family members of the longstanding president. When Alhacen is asked what the mine has done for people, he says: “Nothing — except radiation, which will be here for thousands of years”. Continue reading
Nuclear Regulatory Commission downplaying radiation risks
the level of cesium 137 contamination at Vermont Yankee was “three to 12 times the levels found at Chernobyl,” the 1986 nuclear accident in Ukraine.…….
Lawmakers take NRC to task: Rutland Herald, by Daniel Barlow, April 2, 2010“……….several lawmakers questioned the NRC’s overall approach to dealing with aging nuclear power plants and wondered if they were downplaying the dangers associated with some of the radiological releases from the 38-year-old Vernon reactor. Continue reading
Mountainous cost of nuclear wastes and still no plan
The DOE now has no place to put the waste and no plan
Seeking a ‘Plan B’ for nuclear waste: With Yucca Mountain site dead, billions paid into project are in limbo By Margaret Newkirk , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 2, 2010 “…….. Georgia electric customers paid the U.S. government more than $701 million over nearly three decades, in exchange for a service now 12 years overdue.Today, the U.S. government is as far away from delivering on its part of the bargain as it has ever been. Continue reading
Scandalous and continuing legacy of uranium mining in Niger
Uranium Mining in Niger ‘Tuareg Activist Takes on French Nuclear Company’, The Blogger, 2 April 2010,“……….Uranium from Niger has served as a fuel for Europe’s energy supply for 40 years. But unlike Saudi Arabia, Niger has arguably reaped little but misery in return.The country in Africa’s Sahel zone is one of the world’s least-developed nations. One in four children dies before the age of five.The conditions in Niger are one of the dirty sides of supposedly clean nuclear energy. The activities there are well hidden from the outside world: Continue reading
The uranium industry – a boon to terrorists
An IAEA database counts scores of thefts, losses and other incidents involving nuclear materials each year.
Uranium-mining nations flout UN on nuclear terror Norwalk News 03/31/2010 By CHARLES J. HANLEYAP NEW YORK (AP) — Years after a six-month deadline passed, dozens of nations, including uranium producers, remain potential weak links in the global defense against nuclear terrorism, ignoring a U.N. mandate on laws and controls to foil this ultimate threat. Continue reading
Uranium mining devastates indigenous communities
According to the EPA , “Approximately 30 percent of the Navajo population does not have access to a public drinking water system and may be using unregulated water sources with uranium contamination.” Uranium exposure is a known cause of cancers, organ damage, miscarriages and birth defects.
Resisting the Nuclear Boom: A new wave of uranium mining threatens Indigenous communities in the Southwest By Klee Benally and Jessica Lee April 2, 2010
GRAND CANYON, Ariz.—The American Southwest has again become ground zero in the debate about nuclear power. Continue reading
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