UN withdrawing some staff from volatile nuclear-powered Pakistan
UN to pull some international staff from Pakistan chron By JOHN HEILPRIN and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press Writers © 2009 The Associated Press Dec. 31, 2009,ISLAMABAD — The United Nations said Thursday it would relocate about a quarter of the U.N.’s international staff in Pakistan, a response to the increasingly volatile security situation in the country…… Continue reading
Chinese company wants nuclear powered ships
Chinese Shipping Company Mulls a Nuclear-Powered Fleet New York Times December 31, 2009, By JAMES KANTER “…..
In a speech reported earlier this month by Lloyd’s List, the London-based maritime newspaper, the chief executive of the Chinese shipping giant Cosco, Wei Jiafu, said his company was co-operating with Chinese nuclear companies to study the idea.According to Lloyd’s, Mr. Wei had called on international industry organizations like Intertanko and the International Chamber of Shipping to support the safe (?) use of nuclear energy to power ships.
Chinese Shipping Company Mulls a Nuclear-Powered Fleet – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com
Media not sufficiently covering CT scans’ radiation risk
Let’s hope the media gives this as much attention as they do with their traditionally disproportionate reporting on a given test’s benefits.
Radiation from CT scans increases the risk of cancer | KevinMD.com 29 Dec 09 The Archives of Internal Medicine recently released a study concluding that “roughly 72 million CT scans performed in the U.S. in 2007 will ultimately cause some 29,000 cases of cancer.” Continue reading
Local community opposes uranium mill
Top Story of 2009. A Uranium Mill in Paradox Valley? Controversial Uranium Mill Makes Strides Toward Approval The WATCH by Karen JamesDec 30, 2009 “………vocal mill opponents cited concern about its potential to negatively impact health, the environment, and any hope of developing a sustainable economy based on agriculture and recreation in Paradox Valley because of the negative perception they believe the mill would create.
The proposed mill has sharply divided the region to highlight a fundamental rift between its rural residents and their more urban counterparts.One sentiment commonly heard during the hearings was that only recent area transplants and, generally speaking, anyone from Telluride, opposed the mill………….
Increasing opposition to UK nuclear plant
New group opposes Hinkley Point nuclear plans BBC News 30 December 2009
A pressure group has been formed to lobby for changes to plans to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Continue reading
Need to discuss radiation risks of airport scanning
I’ve read nothing about the accumulated radiation risk. Will pregnant women be forced to submit? What about women who aren’t certain that they’re pregnant?
Getting X-Rayed at the Airport: Radiation Risk Anyone? Huffington Post Carol Felsenthal December 30, 2009 I read in both Chicago dailies and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal much about the full-body scanners that seem destined for airports around the world– in hopes that they might prevent another near miss like the Christmas Day attempt by the young Nigerian to blow a hole in the side of the Amsterdam to Detroit airplane. Continue reading
Fire kills two at Indian nuclear centre
Two killed in fire at India nuclear research centre BBC News 30 Dec 09 A fire at an Indian nuclear research facility has killed two people….the blaze, which broke out in a laboratory, was brought under control within 45 minutes.Indian police officials told news agencies that the charred bodies of two research students were found on the third floor of the laboratory.
The centre has a number of nuclear research reactors and is one of India’s key research centres for both nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
BBC News – Two killed in fire at India nuclear research centre
Attempt to protect Colorado River from 16 million tons of uranium tailings
16 million tons of uranium mill tailings moving away from Colorado River site By GARY HARMON/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel December 27, 200
“………About 630,000 tons will have been moved from Moab to the disposal cell near Crescent Junction by year’s end, said Wendee Ryan of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Energy Department and its contractor, Energy Solutions Corp., began moving the tailings pile this year. Continue reading
Aging nuclear power plant too costly to clean up
Potential for another meltdown? Nuclear Reaction 29 Dec 09 Debate over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has developed into a complex game of chicken between executives with Entergy Nuclear Vermont and Democratic leaders of the state Legislature. Entergy, which has owned the Vernon facility since 2002, says if it does not win approval for its plan to sell Vermont Yankee and five other nuclear power plants to a spin-off company called Enexus, it will likely close the Vermont nuclear plant as scheduled in 2012. Continue reading
Radiation risk for air travelers, in the name of security?
.It’s unclear how much radiation this would subject people to..
Full Body Scans Only Way To Stop Flight 253-Type Attempts: Expert Huliq News by Michael Santo 29 Dec 09 As the world continues to reel in the aftermath of the flight 253 incident, in which Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, attempted to set off PETN explosive on a Northwest Airlines flight (Delta Airlines is NWA’s parent company), a security expert says there is an answer. The backscatter machine, which provides a full body scan, could have prevented the incident, Continue reading
Arrested American men may have plotted nuclear terrorist attack
Detained Americans had nuclear power site map, say Pakistan police Guardian.co.uk 27 Dec 09
Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities.The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory claims about the men’s intentions. US officials have been far more cautious, but they, too, are looking at charging the men. Continue reading
Russia’s secret history of nuclear radiation testing
Thousands died. These people were used as guinea pigs, tested, and then left to die slowly of cancer
Soviet Human Nuclear Experiments Reported Global changes ruining the world, September 25, 2009 According to recently released reports, some 45,000 people, mainly Soviet soldiers, were deliberately exposed in 1954 to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima just nine years before. Continue reading
USA researching (?preparing for ) radiological attacks
Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures OHS Occupational Health and Safety 25 Dec 09 “…… Nine contracts worth up to $400 million have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop more effective tests and devices to measure how much radiation people absorb after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts’ first phase will be worth $35 million; the $400 million covers five years.
Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures — Occupational Health & Safety
Allegations of atrocities in UK, USA nuclear radiation tests
Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action
Babies and Stillborns Used in Nuclear Experiments British newspapers reported that some 6,000 stillborn babies and dead infants were sent from hospitals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South America, the UK and the US between the 1950s and 1970s without the permission of parents for use in nuclear experiments. According to the reports, the US Department of Energy used the bodies and some body parts for tests to monitor radioactivity levels of the element Strotium 90 in humans. Continue reading
India secretive about its poor nuclear safety record
the United States which singed a nuclear deal with New Delhi last year has been praising India as a responsible atomic actor
INDIA’S NUCLEAR SAFETY A GRAVE THREAT Pakistan Daily Dec 25, 2009 WHY WORLD IS OBLIVIOUS OF INDIAN NUCLEAR DANGERS Although responsible nuclear states have adopted strict measures at their nuclear plants so as to save the lives of their employees and the nearby population, yet India’s record of poor nuclear safety has surprised the international community in the era of ongoing nuclear age. Continue reading
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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