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China suggests:finance nuclear for poor countries, to beat global warming

Nuclear issues on the table in New York
World Nuclear News 23 September 2009
China wants to use nuclear power vigorously to fight climate change – with financial support from wealthier nations, according to a speech delivered to the UN yesterday. Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, China, spinbuster | antinuclear, Copenhagen, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

Gordon Brown touts “atoms for peace” in New York

In Quotes: UN General Assembly
BBC News 23 September 2009
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN
“……………Britain will insist that the onus on non-nuclear states is that, in future, it is for them to prove they are not developing nuclear weapons.

Second, Britain will offer civil nuclear power to non nuclear states ready to renounce any plans for nuclear weapons: helping non-nuclear states acquire what President Eisenhower so memorably called “atoms for peace.”

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | In quotes: UN General Assembly

September 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, spinbuster, UK | antinuclear, Copenhagen, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive | Leave a comment

New Russian nuclear plant not welcome in Kaliningrad

New Russian nuclear plant worries residents’
Greenpeace 24 Sept 09 Russia’s plans to build a nuclear power plant in its Baltic territory of Kaliningrad, hemmed in between Poland and Lithuania, has local residents and environmentalists worried. Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear power has 7 serious problems

7 Drawbacks To Using Nuclear Power
THE TECH EDITION by Brett Stephens on September 23, 2009by Tim McDonald People may argue that 25% of the world’s energy is produced through nuclear power, but what they do not understand is all the problems it brings: Continue reading →

September 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 1 NUCLEAR ISSUES, 2 WORLD | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, renewables, uranium | Leave a comment

Corporate blind eye to nuclear waste dumping in oceans

Toxic Assets
Share The World’s resources 22nd September 2009 – George Monbiot “……………a shipwreck discovered in 480 metres of water off the Italian coast. Detectives found the ship after a tip-off from a mafioso. It appears to have been carrying drums of nuclear waste when the mafia used explosives to scuttle it. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Kyrgyzstan: Soviet-Era Boom Town – radioactive pollution

EURASIA INSIGHT

KYRGYZSTAN: SOVIET-ERA BOOM TOWN LITERALLY BEING SOLD FOR SCRAP
EURASIANET David Trilling 9/22/09

“…………The town Min Kush bore another, more troubled, legacy: it was one of the Soviet Union’s leading sources of uranium. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, Kyrgyzstan | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | 1 Comment

German Nuclear Plants’ Future Hangs On Election

German Nuclear Plants’ Future at Stake in Merkel Election Fight
By Brian Parkin and Nicholas Comfort Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) — Angela Seidler, a 41-year-old tour guide at E.ON AG’s Grafenrheinfeld nuclear-power plant in southern Germany, may have to find a new career before she retires. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Germany, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Uranium harm in Afghanistan and Iraq ket secret

‘Hush’ over Afghan mission must end
Rainbow Warrior September 20, 2009 Liberal Senator Colin Kenny says politicians are too afraid of offending soldiers and their families by questioning Canada’s role in Afghanistan, but it’s important to have an honest debate about the mission…… Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Afghanistan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | 1 Comment

In-situ uranium mining hazards for Colorado

Hope won’t protect us from Powertech’s in situ uranium mining near Nunn
coloradean.com Sue Ramsay, September 22, 2009 “………. the documented facts of the history of contamination from in situ leach uranium mining such as that proposed by Powertech Uranium Corp. in Weld County. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

France’s failing atomic energy industry

Tom Friedman’s Idiocy Atomique
COUNTER PUNCH By HARVEY WASSERMAN 23 Sept 09 France’s atomic power industry is a failed radioactive flame. Its 58 reactors are unpopular, unsafe, uneconomical, dirty, direct agents of global warming, weapons proliferators and major generators of atomic waste for which there is no management solution. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, France | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Background on France’s uranium mining contamination

The Alliance 23 Sept 09 Why we are publishing such an old article? Well, there will be a series of articles about the past uranium mining in France and Canada. Continue reading →

September 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, environment | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

France’s nuclear waste disposal methods – costly and unsafe

No easy way to dispose of nuclear waste
TheDay.comBy Los Angeles Times 9/21/2009 By Frank Von HippelThe Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project is now comatose, if not dead. And that puts us back at square one on a crucial question: What are we going to do with all the radioactive waste being discharged by U.S. nuclear power reactors?

Many conservatives on Capitol Hill favor the French “solution”: spent-fuel reprocessing. But reprocessing isn’t a solution at all: It’s a very expensive and dangerous detour. Continue reading →

September 22, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, wastes | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, wastes | 1 Comment

medical radiation ups risks for cancer

New study suggests medical testing ups risks for radiation
The Durango Herald 21 Sept 09 by Alicia Chang
AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES – As many as two-thirds of adults underwent a medical test in the last few years that exposed them to radiation and, in some cases, a potentially higher risk of cancer, a study in five areas of the U.S. suggests. Continue reading →

September 22, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Tests – legacy of disease and birth defects

Effects Of ‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Tests Felt Decades Later

Radio Free Europe By Antoine Blua 21 Sept 09

During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union each explored the possibility of using nuclear explosions for “peaceful” purposes.

Their programs yielded little real benefit, but left behind radioactive footprints and trails of contamination from the nearly 150 tests from the projects — “Plowshare” in the United States and, more cryptically, “Program No. 7” in the Soviet Union. Continue reading →

September 22, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, Russia, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Misleading report on Belarus nuclear power plant

Environmental activist slams report on Belarusian nuclear power plant’s impact as sloppy, misleading
Belarus News 21 Sept 09 The Belarusian government’s report on the possible environmental impact of its future nuclear power plant does not address key issues, Russian environmental activist Andrei Ozharovsky said in an interview with BelaPAN. Continue reading →

September 21, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Belarus, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment