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Terrorism fears for India’s nuclear industry

India puts nuclear facilities on alert over suspected terror threat. Canada.com By David Akin, Canwest News Service November 17, 2009 Continue reading →

November 18, 2009 Posted by | 1, India, safety | , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear power plant causing cancers

Indian Point cancer link seen crains New York Business News By Gale Scott 16 Nov 09 Environmental groups cite statistics showing apparent link between incidence of thyroid cancer and people’s proximity to nuclear power plants. Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by | 1, health, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Increasing nuclear waste troubling Russian authorities

Russian nuclear regulator worried about increasing atomic waste Earth Times 16 Nov 2009 Moscow – Russia is getting buried in nuclear waste – about 550 million tons – and needs to do something about it, Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by | 1, Russia, wastes | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Should taxpayers bail out failing nuclear industry?

Nuclear companies face reactor design problems, ethics questions   FACING SOUTH (USA) 16 Nov 09 Federal regulators have expressed serious safety concerns about the design for 14 of the nation’s 25 proposed new nuclear reactors, Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by | 1, business and costs, USA | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Corrosion flaw shows failure of nuclear waste system

Nuclear disposal put in doubt by recovered Swedish galleon The plan to use copper for sealing nuclear waste underground has being thrown into disarray by corrosion in artefacts from the Vasa The Guardian, Terry Macalister 14 Nov 09 Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by | 1, Sweden, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

UK believes that “God will provide” an answer to nuclear waste?

Nuclear waste moved off the agenda Environmental Research Web (UK) 16 Nov 09 The governments new draft National Policy Statement on nuclear power, indicating which issues the new Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) should take on board, and which it can ignore, contains this remarkable statement: Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by | 1, UK, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium linked to birth defects

Iraq Encounters Huge Rise In Birth Defects Iraq, November 15, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) by Peter Eyre and Sarah Price 15 Nov 09 It is time that the US UK NATO and IDF forces owned up to their use of weapons containing uranium components Continue reading →

November 15, 2009 Posted by | 1, health, Iraq | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Uranium mining to cause devastation, and greenhouse gases

Britain’s nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari Namibian environmentalists warn expansion of uranium mining could devastate spectacular natural landscape guardian.co.uk The Observer, John Vidal 15 Nov 09 “..……. Continue reading →

November 15, 2009 Posted by | 1, environment, Namibia | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

California’s safety law prevents new nukes

Nuclear power not the answer; renewable energy is Sign On San Diego By ACE HOFFMAN   November 15, 2009″…….…….

We have a law in California that prohibits new nuclear power plants until a solution to the problem of nuclear waste is found. Continue reading →

November 15, 2009 Posted by | 1, Legal, USA | , , , , | 1 Comment

Rural movement to stop nuclear power in India

Land trouble may trip N-power in Gujarat Business Standard 14 Nov 09 Maulik Pathak / Jasapara , Vashram Patel, a farmer in the Jasapara village in Gujarat, says it is better to “fight and die” on his land rather than move to another place. Continue reading →

November 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, India, politics | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Need to track X-rays, CT scans –

Radiation risks Experts urge tracking of X-rays, CT scans X-ray technology has been around for decades, but the issue of radiation has been heating up as new research considers the health risks Globe Life Cathy Weeks Nov. 13, 2009  Continue reading →

November 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, Canada, health | , , , , | Leave a comment

Did depleted uranium cause birth defects in Iraq?

Huge rise in birth defects in FallujaIraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities guardian.co.uk,13 November 2009 Doctors in Iraq‘s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting. Continue reading →

November 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, health, Iraq | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear waste disposal like a toilet with no plumbing

We have no space for all of this waste Western Courier Sara Gregory 11/13/09   According to CNN reports in early November, the ‘nuclear renaissance’ so heavily anticipated last year is in fact alive and well; billions more in taxpayer money could soon be employed to revive the movement…….. Continue reading →

November 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, general | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Russia plans nuclear powered, manned, trips to Mars

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Oh those Russians!  Apparently they’re so keen to outdo everyone else in nuclear technology – they’re aiming to send men to Mars.  I guess, being patriotic Russians, those astronauts don’t mind that radiation in space will give them cancer, or even that scientists are agreed – it would be a one-way trip!

Russia goes all out to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-11-13   MOSCOW, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) Continue reading →

November 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, Russia | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear plant needing to improve’ human performance’

Perry Nuclear Plant continuing slide in ‘human performance’ News Herald By Jacob Lammers
November 13, 2009

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials urged the operators of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant to improve human performance Thursday night….. Continue reading →

November 14, 2009 Posted by | 1, safety, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

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