Russia supplying fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactor
Iran’s Nuclear Power Plant to be Fueled, Fox News, August 13, 2010 – by: Amy Kellogg Moscow has announced that it will start loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on August 21st……according to Mark Fitzpatrick, it can’t even manufacture the fuel for Bushehr. Continue reading
Domini Social Investments will invest in energy, but not nuclear
Before nuclear power can be seriously considered to be an effective answer to climate change, we need to solve the nuclear waste problem and we need to address the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons proliferation.
To date there is no way to distinguish between the uranium enrichment process that is necessary to fuel a nuclear power plant and the enrichment of uranium for use in a nuclear bomb.
Domini does believe that companies with stronger social and environmental profiles should perform better in the long term, and that the use of social and environmental factors can help manage certain types of investment risk.
Social funds: BP, the 1960s, and greed | The Energy Collective, August 16, 2010 by Marc Gunther“.…..I heard from Adam Kanzer, who is managing director and general counsel at Domini Social Investments.….. Continue reading
No ‘nuclear renaissance’ – in fact it’s a decline
The view that the amount of energy derived from nuclear power worldwide will continue its slow decrease during the coming years is further supported by the 2008 annual report of the Euratom Supply Agency, which coordinates the long-term uranium needs of nuclear power plants within the European Union. According to the agency’s forecast, uranium demand in Europe will fall from 21,747 tonnes in 2010 to roughly 16,000 tonnes by 2024.
The reality of nuclear energy is inconsistent with dreams of a renaissanceNuclear energy is not on the rise – the hard facts point to a continuing, slow phase-out around the world Michael Dittmar guardian.co.uk, 16 August 2010 Repeatedly in recent years there have been calls for a revival of nuclear power. Yet that renaissance never seems to come. Continue reading
How come USA will let Vietnam enrich uranium?
The Shotgun: Filibuster: The first nuclear commandment, Western Standard, 15 Aug 2010, In a story that did not get a lot of press this week, the Obama administration has announced that it plans to go ahead with a nuclear technology deal with the Communist nation of Vietnam, despite that country’s refusal to make a pledge to not enrich uranium. Continue reading
Depleted uranium the likely cause of Iraq child cancers
Many are asking whether this spike could be connected to contamination caused by the use of depleted uranium in the bombs and bullets used by American forces.
Iraqi child cancer ‘linked to US weapons’ 16 August 2010 Source: SBS Dateline The number of deformed babies and children with leukaemia is increasing in Iraq, with locals blaming Depleted Uranium weapons used in US attacks, …. Continue reading
USA keeps secret any data on depleted uranium use
one major obstacle is standing in the way of these assessments – the refusal by the US to release data on exactly where the weapons have been used and in what quantities. At present, states that use uranium weapons do not have to disclose quantitative or geographical data about their use – no where, no how much, nothing.
Fallujah birth malformations demand transparency over depleted uranium use By International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, 16 Aug 2010, Recent research and a tide of media coverage are indicating that something is very wrong in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The rates of certain cancers and birth malformations seem to be far higher than those of other countries in the region. Continue reading
USA sends help as fires circle Russian nuclear base
Russia admitted yesterday that fires closing in on its main nuclear centre represent ‘a certain danger’ to the secret town which houses its most sophisticated research laboratories.
U.S. sends help as fires close in on Russian nuclear base. Daily Mail 14th August 2010 The United States is sending firefighting equipment to Russia to help deal with 500 wildfires burning across the country, one of which threatens a nuclear base.The blazes have been sparked by the hottest summer ever recorded in Russia, Continue reading
Public mistrust of nuclear power, anxiety over nuclear wastes
if President Obama is seeking to promote nuclear energy and find a new waste strategy, the waste panel needs to focus on the issue of public mistrust as well as technological solutions
Address Mistrust, Scientists Urge Nuclear Panel – NYTimes.com, August 13, 2010, By LESLIE KAUFMAN “……60,000 tons of radioactive waste are being stored at or near nuclear plants that churned it out, Continue reading
Uranium miner Cameco sees sales and shares slide
Cameco trims sales outlook as second-quarter earnings drop 72 per cent, – Winnipeg Free Press. By: The Canadian Press : 13/08/2010 SASKATOON – Cameco Corp. said Friday it is trimming its 2010 sales outlook as the major uranium producer reported a 72 per cent slide in second-quarter earnings. Continue reading
The ‘friendly atom” and its nuclear doomsday threat
the “new nuclear South” may be content with cheaper, quicker produced DU (Depleted Uranium) weapons, and of course the almost instant Dirty Bomb potential of large civil reactors in the national territories of their regional rivals and enemies.
The friendly atom can never be friendly
The Doomsday Threat Of The “Nuclear Renaissance” : The Market Oracle, 12 Aug 2010“………., the developing South is now the prime focus of nuclear industry hopes for ever bigger contracts. In these countries, the civil-to-military route for developing nuclear weapons using supposedly civil-only nuclear technology has however already been resoundingly proven, up to 20 or 25 years ago by India and Pakistan, South Africa and the “special case” of Israel. Continue reading
Australia’s Labor govt will back Aboriginal landowner against AREVA and uranium mining
if re-elected, Labor would accept the landowner’s offer to incorporate the 1,228 hectares of land he owns into world heritage-listed Kakadu.……AREVA is currently seeking legal advice…..Jeffery Lee is the senior custodian of the land and the sole member of the Djok Clan. He feels that the land would be better off with the National Park than with the uranium mining company
Koongarra May Become ‘Off Limits’ for Uranium Mining AZOMining.com By Joel Scanlon 11 August 2010, French multinational and industrial conglomerate AREVA might want to explore the Koongarra area of Northern Territory in Australia for uranium, but if the sole Aboriginal owner has his way the land would soon be part of the Kakadu National Park.
Uranium mining would then be banned in the wetlands Continue reading
Brazil enriching uranium, and potential for nuclear weapons
Brazil continues to have a program to produce enriched uranium for power plants, and opened its first uranium enrichment plant in 2006.
The Folly of Brazil’s Exceptionalism, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Daniel Wagner: 9 Aug 2010, “……..Brazil first embarked on a nuclear program in the 1930s and pursued a covert nuclear weapons program until the 1970s. It retains the ability to create nuclear weapons but agreed not to do so under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement, and as a signatory to the 1994 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which bans nuclear weapons in Latin America. Continue reading
China accuses USA of double standards in nuclear deal with Vietnam
…The US is used to employing double standards when dealing with different countries … as a global power that has promoted denuclearization, it has challenged its own reputation and disturbed the preset international order,
China shaken by US move to sign nuclear deal with Vietnam The Times of India, 6 Aug 2010, BEIJING: China, which has recently dominated the security situation in North Asia, appeared shaken by a surprise move by the US administration to begin negotiations for a civilian nuclear deal with Vietnam…. Continue reading
Republican Senator against Vietnam being allowed to enrich uranium
Senior Republican Criticizes State on Vietnam Nuclear Deal – Washington Wire – WSJ, By Jay Solomon, 7 Aug 2010, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today criticized an Obama administration plan to forge a nuclear-cooperation agreement with Vietnam.U.S. officials have told the Wall Street Journal in recent days that the State Department is in advanced discussions with Vietnam to share nuclear fuels and technologies in a deal that would preserve Hanoi’s right to enrich uranium indigenously. Continue reading
USA keen to sell nukes to Vietnam – drops non-proliferation standards
An agreement would allow US companies such as General Electric and Bechtel to sell nuclear reactors and other equipment to Vietnam.
US and Vietnam in controversial nuclear negotiations | World news | The Guardian, Chris McGreal, 5 Aug 2010, Nuclear agreement would be without usual restrictions on enriching uranium imposed on other nations …….. Continue reading
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