Why don’t they count radioactive wastes in nuclear costing?
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In today’s news we learn that the USA’s existing nuclear wastes could cost $225 billion. Of course, the government is up for these costs, not the nuclear industry. So somehow – well, then, the pretty well eternal waste storage and security is not part of the costing for nuclear power!
That’s a pretty nice bit of sleight of hand, isn’t it? But the non-democracies do it even better. Nobody has any idea what are the real costs of France, Russia, China’s nuclear wastes, nor who actually ends up paying for them.
Religious and medical anti-nuclear drive
Q&A : ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’ – Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions MELBOURNE, Dec 9 (IPS)
IPS: What can religious and spiritual communities do to meet the challenge of abolishing these weapons of mass annihilation?
SW: We see the issue of nuclear weapons as one of the great ethical issues of our time. Continue reading
AREVA secretly continuing nuclear waste shipments to Russia
AREVA resumes nuclear waste shipments from France to Russia Nuclear Reaction 10 Dec 09 France has sent 33,000 tonnes of nuclear waste to Russia for reprocessing since 2006? How much of that has come back to France? A mere 3,090 tonnes. That’s less than 10%. The rest is dumped and abandoned in places like the ‘closed’ city of Seversk, the nuclear waste storage facility in Siberia. Some of it is even stored in open air car parks. This is the fabled nuclear safety we’ve heard all about. Continue reading
Opposition in Indian govt to West Bengal nuclear power plant
No To Haripur Nuclear Power Plant, Says Sisir Adhikar indiaserver.com 2009-12-09
Sisir Adhikari the Union Minister of State for Rural Development said that his party was against the setup of nuclear Power Plant in West Bengal’s Haripur in East Midnapore district. The area is thickly populated and also a fertile region for agriculture. Continue reading
$225 billion could be the cost of U.S. nuke waste storage
Report: Spent fuel storage costs may run $225B By BOB AUDETTE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER 9 Dec 09 — If no federal repository for spent nuclear fuel is opened in the next 100 years, the nation’s taxpayers could be on the hook to pay for on-site storage, such as the dry casks at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Continue reading
Nuclear plant must pay up for workers’ radiation exposure
December 9, 2009 Nuclear plant owners fined after contractors suffer radiation exposure in Ireland Daily Commercial News BELFAST, Ireland Operators of the Sellafield nuclear plant were fined $135,000 in court and ordered to pay $46,000 in costs after two contractors suffered radiation exposure.The contractors were drilling through a concrete floor contaminated with plutonium in a waste facility when the incident happened at the Cumbrian reprocessing plant.The men were exposed to higher-than-anticipated levels of radiation in the incident in July 2007,
Angst in Canada over nuclear waste dumping
No one will be forced to accept nuke waste: group By Angela Hall, Leader-Post December 8, 2009 No community will be forced into becoming the site for a nuclear waste repository, Continue reading
Radioactive Import Deterrence Act will stop foreign nuclear wastes
Waste solution Senate must ban radioactive imports Salt Lake Tribune Editorial : 12/04/2009 The U.S. House sent a message to Italy, to Utah-based EnergySolutions, and to the world Wednesday —
the United States will not be a dumping ground for other nations’ radioactive waste. By a vote of 309-112, members wisely approved the Radioactive Import Deterrence Act, which bans radioactive waste imports.
Where to put 15,000 drums of depleted uranium?
DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A U.S. Department of Energy spokeswoman says Nevada has been ruled out as an alternative disposal site for nearly 15,000 drums of depleted uranium from South Carolina currently scheduled to come to Utah.
DOE spokeswoman Lauren Milone says the Nevada Test Site is being excluded from discussions about the waste because the DOE has agreed to conduct a statewide environmental impact statement before accepting any new waste there.
Milone says doing that would probably take at least a year.
Doctors threaten to resign over uranium mining
North Shore doctors threaten to resign en masse over uranium exploration The Montreal Gazette December 4, 2009
MONTREAL Quebec’s Liberal government must stop uranium exploration near Sept Îles and declare a moratorium on uranium mining activities across the province to avoid the mass resignation of 20 doctors in the North Shore town, a Sept Îles doctor said Friday. Continue reading
Earthquakes in Malawi uranium mining area
Malawi shaken by new tremors in uranium mine area Dec 7, 2009 BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Earth tremors hit Malawi for a second day on Monday and police said at least six people had been injured, two seriously, and buildings damaged in the uranium-rich northern Karonga district………… Continue reading
Opposition growing across India to land taken for nuclear plants
Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country Agitations over land acquisitions are spreading like wild fire in the country. merinews CJ: Rupam Banerjee Wed, Dec 09, 2009 PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has expressed serious concern over growing problems of land acquisition for industrial and infrastructural projects in different parts of the country. Continue reading
Time we all woke up to the pro-nuclear con!
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On today’s page I include an article on India and the planned nuclear reactors there. I was struck by the fact that it will be a “multi-billion dollar market to American firms” . But, at the same time, those firms want to make sure that the Indian government (i.e the Indian taxpayer) will pay for any “industrial accident”. (Quote ‘ India’s multi-billion-dollar nuclear market to American firms. US firms already worry over delays such as writing a new Indian law to limit US firms’ liability in case of an industrial accident’)
The nuclear industry wants the money – but not the responsibility. They must think that the danger is important, to be concerning themselves so much about such liability. Yet at the same time, they’ll tell us all that the industry is so very safe.
Do we take note of these contradictions? Is this a new and so much more sophisticated version of Western colonial oppression?
Indian villagers oppose US nuclear industry taking their land
News Centrer 8 Dec 2009
US nuclear firms said on Monday they were worried land scarcity in India could further delay a joint atomic deal already hobbled by policy holdups over issues such as accident liability protection.
A 50-member US business delegation this week is seeking to push the implementation of the deal, which promises to open up India’s multi-billion-dollar nuclear market to American firms.US firms already worry over delays such as writing a new Indian law to limit US firms’ liability in case of an industrial accident Continue reading
Nuclear too slow, too late, too dirty, to stop climate change
By Dan Endreson“………..nuclear power cannot stop global warming. Although nuclear power emits less carbon dioxide than coal, it is impossible to build enough nuclear plants to slow the effects of global warming. To make a difference, hundreds of new nuclear plants would need to be built over the next 20 years. Currently, construction of a new plant takes 10-15 years and costs over $6 billion.
We do not have the time or the money to rely on nuclear reactors to stop global warming………… If one wants to champion nuclear power in this country, they must also be willing to accept the possibility that Minnesota may one day be a permanent nuclear waste dump.
I would urge our policymakers to use our taxpayer dollars to further the development of true clean energy sources, such as wind and solar, rather than nuclear power, which leaves a legacy of radioactive waste and increased costs to ratepayers….http://www.mndaily.com/2009/12/07/nuclear-wrong-warming-reaction
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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
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Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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