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Nuclear industry resuscitation threatened by European politics

Uranium threatened by political shake-ups FP Trading DeskMay 12, 2010, by Peter Koven It has been a week of political overhaul in Europe, and one of the victims in the fallout could be the continent’s nuclear renaissance. Continue reading →

May 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear renaissance, nuclear technology, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Medical radiation increases breast cancer risk: President’s Cancer Panel

PCP:Medical radiation ups breast cancer risk, foofconsumer.org, 08/05/2010

The President’s CancerPanel released this week an annual report on the cancer risks from the environment warning that medical radiation raises breast cancer risk. Continue reading →

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, reactors | Leave a comment

Cancer from nuclear radiation: references in President’s Cancer Panel report

President’s Cancer Panel report, Frank Munger, 9 May 2010, Oak Ridge is mentioned at least three times in the President’s Cancer Panel report, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk — What We Can Do Now.” I haven’t had a chance to read the report yet but a couple of folks have sent me copies. When I return to the office (been gone for a few days) and get my mailbox unclogged, I’ll post it here. There are references to earlier studies of nuclear fallout and iodine-131 exposures, including those in Oak Ridge, and also higher rates of multiple myeloma among construction workers at nuclear weapons sites.

President’s Cancer Panel report | Frank Munger’s Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, reactors | Leave a comment

Radioactive water reaches aquifer

Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer, Google hosted news, By WAYNE PARRY (AP) –9 May, 2010, LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday.The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station to halt the spread of contaminated water underground,……….. Continue reading →

May 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, water | antinuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, reactors, water | Leave a comment

Cancer risks of ionising radiation

Your cells are unable to repair the very complex genetic damage done by x-rays.…………….overuse of diagnostic CT scans may cause up to 3 million cancers over the next 20 to 30 years.

FDA Scientist Terminated After Raising Risks of Radiation Exposure, Healthier Talk, By Dr. Joseph Mercola on 05/07/2010 “……….a host of epidemiological studies over the years have strongly suggested that x-rays and other forms of ionizing radiation are a cause of most types of human cancer.X-rays may even be responsible for most of the deaths from cancer and ischemic heart disease, Continue reading →

May 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, reactors | Leave a comment

Opposition in Indian Parliament to Liability Bill that would protect foreign nuclear companies

“What kind of a joke is this? If we are the victims of an accident, our tax money will be used to pay us compensation. Why should we shield the foreign suppliers of equipment?”…. “This is not America, this is not Russia. In India, the density of population is very high. The impact of a nuclear accident would be enormous.”

Indian parliament introduces liability bill that would allow U.S. companies to set up reactors By Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Foreign Service May 7, 2010;

NEW DELHI — A controversial law to establish a compensation system for nuclear accidents — a key step to allowing American companies to set up reactors in India — was introduced in parliament Friday, as opposition lawmakers accused the government of favoring U.S. and business interests over the rights of the people. Continue reading →

May 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics | antinuclear, nuclear costs, radiation, reactors | Leave a comment

Nuclear power increases the chances for more nuclear weapons

parties to the NPT need to be considering the ”strong relationship” between nuclear proliferation and nuclear disarmament because the existence of nuclear material for ”peaceful” purposes could still pose the threat of weaponisation.

Nuclear Power Nearly as Dangerous as Weapons, Critics Say, Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Haider Rizvi, UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (IPS) – The quest for nuclear disarmament is likely to fail if governments and corporations continue to promote nuclear technologies as a solution to the world’s energy needs, say independent experts.Their warning comes as international talks on the future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) continue here at U.N. headquarters in New York. The review meeting on the 1970 treaty is due to conclude by the end of this month……. Continue reading →

May 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear weapons, reactors | Leave a comment

Cancer caused by ionising radiation and toxins “grossly underestimated”

President’s Cancer Panel claims cancers due to environmental toxins grossly underestimated – – TIME.com, President’s panel analyzes environmental cancer impact by Tiffany O’Callaghan 6 May 2010, “……what evidence there is suggests that the “true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated,” the authors write……In hospitals and doctor’s offices, the authors emphasize the need to minimize radiation exposure, Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear costs, radiation, reactors | 2 Comments

Obama to visit Australia: gets nuclear agreement first

Australian-U.S. Nuclear Trade Deal Sent to Congress, NTI: Global Security Newswire May 6, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday submitted for congressional approval a deal that would permit Australia and the United States to trade in nonmilitary nuclear materials and technology (see GSN, March 19)………….the deal would enable “the transfer of information, material, equipment (including reactors), and components for nuclear research and nuclear power production………..The pending “123” agreement could only be canceled after it has been in force for 30 years, he said. The deal would take effect following 90 days of “continuous session” of Congress unless lawmakers move to block it within that period…………The United States is also moving ahead with a similar deal with Russia and is finalizing terms of its nuclear trade pact with India (see GSN, May 5; White House release, May 5).

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Australian-U.S. Nuclear Trade Deal Sent to Congress

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear power a financially risky option for developing countries

Nuclear power in developing countries: radioactive waste, proliferation and debt « Charles Santiago 6 May 2010, For developing countries, nuclear power is a high cost option -environmentally, socially and economically…….
A history of failure in developing countries Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | ASIA, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, reactors | Leave a comment

Footprints for Peace speakers in U.S. talk about Australia’s uranium mining

“Australians feel a deep responsibility,” said Atkinson. “We are sending this poison around the world.” ………. The uranium mining has destroyed sites sacred to the aborigines, polluted their water and food supplies and endangered their hunter/gatherer way of life, said Atkinson…………..

Uranium: The Australia-Vt. connection, Brattleboro Reformer, By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer StaffThursday May 6, 2010 BRATTLEBORO — Australia and Vermont are connected in a way not many people think about — through uranium.”We are pretty sure that some of the uranium mined in Australia is being used in the fuel rods at Vermont Yankee,” Continue reading →

May 7, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, reactors, uranium, water | Leave a comment

Worldwide nuclear energy diminishing

Another drop in nuclear generation, World Nuclear News, 05 May 2010 …Annual generation of nuclear power has continued on a slight downward trend, decreasing 2% last year to 2558 TWh, according to the latest estimates……One factor in nuclear power’s perfomance since 2007 has been the prolonged shutdown of large reactors at Kashiwazaki Kariwa in Japan following the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki earthquake. …….Two reactors came back into service during 2009 with five still under repair.

Last year saw the shutdown of four reactors but the start-up of only two. Closures included France’s Phenix, a prototype fast reactor which produced 233 MWe, and Lithuania’s Ignalina 2 which produced 1185 MWe but has been closed early as a condition of EU entry. This was the last of the EU-motivated shutdowns that have taken away a total of 4806 MWe since 2002.

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, reactors | Leave a comment

USA nuclear industry stalled momentum, despite govt $billions,

Some States Push For New Nuclear Reactors, With Little Success | SolveClimate.com, by Dave Levitan – May 5th, 2010 “…..Stalled Momentum

Many other states do not have moratoria in place —only about 12 do—but even those that have the legal greenlight are seeing the nuclear momentum get held up recently. In Georgia, the first two reactors to be singled out for multi-billion dollar federal loan guarantees hit a bump in the road last week, when a judge ruled the certification process was illegal. Skyrocketing costs of other plants have put them on hold in the past, and environmentalists like Kraft and Metropulos think there is ample reason to simply stop trying…..

The billions of dollars potentially coming from Washington to help build nuclear reactors may be enticing, said Metropulos, but the pushback on the state level might indicate a lack of real motivation.

“Although the federal government seems to want to put out a lot of subsidies, I don’t think the people will buy it,” he said. “I think there are other ways that people will go about energy production rather than looking at nuclear.” Some States Push For New Nuclear Reactors, With Little Success | SolveClimate.com

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, nuclear wastes, reactors, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear radiation leaks are invisible, unlike oil spills

If only radiation — which leaks every day at the 104 nuclear reactors in the US — was as visible as the growing BP oil slick in the Gulf Coast

Wake up and smell the oil THE HUFFINGTON POST, John Rosenthal, May 3, 2010 “………..Close your eyes and imagine for a minute that instead of BP’s deepwater offshore well exploding 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, spreading millions of gallons of toxic and visible oil across the Gulf Coast, that one of the 104 nuclear reactors operating in the US, exploded Continue reading →

May 6, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear renaissance, nuclear secrecy, nuclear technology, radioactive, reactors, uranium | 1 Comment

Environmental racism in siting yet more nuclear reactors in Burke County, GA

why there are no laws requiring, and no funds to pay for, testing the air, soil, water, fish, wildlife, or the people of mostly black Burke County, who are experiencing an unexplained epidemic of cancer?

(USA) Siting Nukes in a Poor Black Town If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism? THE HUFFINGTON POST, Bruce Dixon, May 4, 2010 In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, GA, the inconvenient questions, unanswered and mostly unasked, continue to pile up. Continue reading →

May 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reactors, uranium, water | Leave a comment