Soldiers, cancer, and depleted uranium
Our soldiers are offered up for radiological contamination, and possibly death. A byproduct of the greatest weapon of all, an invisible carcinogen,
Democracy and depleted uranium, http://www.uruknet.info R. B. Stuart, April 20, 2010 Soldiers, like my sister, return from Iraq gripped by cancer. The US military says cancer isn’t a war wound…In March 2006, when my sister was 41, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive, stage-IV dysgerminoma cancer, also called “germ cell” cancer,…. Continue reading
Russia accused of involvement in smuggling of enriched uranium
Saakashvili accuses Russia of supplying enriched uranium to Caucasus, News.Az 23 April 2010, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili accused Russia “of creating unstableness”.According to RBK, in the opinion of the Georgian leader, the unstableness enables the smugglers to deliver the highly enriched uranium to the Caucasus………..The Georgian leader underlined that Russia should be responsible for maintaining control of the nuclear weapon distribution in these territories so long as “it has occupied them”. In his opinion, the incidents with the highly enriched uranium threaten Georgia’s safety.
News.Az – Saakashvili accuses Russia of supplying enriched uranium to Caucasus
Opposition to uranium mining in Indian national park
Former Lok Sabha threatens agitation against uranium mining Prokerala.com Shillong, April 22 Former Lok Sabha speaker Purno A. Sangma Thursday threatened to launch an agitation against the central government’s proposal to conduct exploratory drilling for uranium inside the Balpakram National Parkin the South Garo hills of Meghalaya.The 400-sq km BNP is a known habitat for the Asian elephant, tiger and other endangered animals such as, Hoolock Gibbon and Slow Loris, apart from being home to rare and endemic plants. Continue reading
French nuclear corporation AREVA had a big influence on Nuclear Security Summit
The roundtable was hosted by Vice President Biden…..AREVA has led the industry …and continues to demonstrate its leadershipby its participation in conferences,
AREVA CEO Lauvergeon Participates In Nuclear Security Summit, Nuclear Power Industry News, 21 April 2010, As part of the Summit activities, Anne Lauvergeon on April 14 has participated in a panel with industry leaders to discuss the security of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. – By Stephen Heiser – AREVA CEO Anne Lauvergeon participated in Nuclear Security Summit activities taking place this week in Washington, D.C. President Obama and global leaders were meeting to pursue a comprehensive nuclear security agenda to secure vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in four years…… Continue reading
USA’s nuclear waste dilemma – no solution in sight
there is no real federal waste management plan….Energy Secretary Steven Chu has created a “blue ribbon” commission to help create a new long-term waste policy
Nuclear Utilities Sue DOE To Halt Nuclear Waste Fees, Nuclear Street, 22 April 2010, Utilities contend that the DOE has collected over $33 billion since 1983, never came for nuclear waste and has no federal waste management plan – By Stephen Heiser -The Nuclear Energy Institute and over a dozen utilities companies have filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stop paying fees on spent fuel that the government was supposed to collect decades ago. Continue reading
Big uranium mining company involved in corruption
BHP Reveals Possible Corruption, – Australasian Investment Review – (AIR) 22 April 2010, BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company, has joined its smaller rival, Rio Tinto, in being implicated in possible corrupt activities.The news was buried in the company’s first quarter exploration and development report, issued yesterday……
The ASX and or ASIC should ask BHP to provide more details as soon as possible……The disclosure laws here in Australia will have to be applied to see if BHP has provided timely and adequate disclosure to the local (and London) markets……There’s no word on whether the US Justice Department will become involved, but if it involves a breach of America’s bribery laws, it will.If the reports are confirmed then authorities in countries in Europe, especially the European Commission and China could also become involved…..the fact that the allegations have been raised by the SEC shows the lax controls inside BHP, Australasian Investment Review
Australian uranium mining company secretive about radioactive leaks in National Park
water with uranium concentrations 5400 times background and a cocktail of other radionuclides leaking from the tailings dam at Ranger.
ERA fails to come clean on Ranger uranium leak Scott Ludlam 21st April 2010, Ranger Uranium Mine Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has failed to come clean with shareholders and the people of the Northern Territory about the contaminated water leaking from the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park during today’s Annual General Meeting in Darwin. Continue reading
Mining companies impede progress in indigenous rights
‘The mining industries are destroying our lands. That is not development. The colonisers came to our lands because we were rich, not poor.’
Struggle For Native Rights Making Headway: Global Issues by Haider Rizvi (united nations) , April 19, 2010 * Inter Press Service International efforts to protect the rights of the world’s aboriginal communities seem to be gaining strength despite opposition from certain powers that continue to abuse native lands and resources in the name of development. Continue reading
India’s Bill for nuclear insurance meeting political opposition
Nuclear liability bill hinges on Kolkata municipal elections! LiveMint.com by Liz Mathew on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 The fate of the proposed Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill is closely linked to the municipal elections in Kolkata! Unbelievable? But not impossible…. at least according to some Congress leaders! Continue reading
AREVA’s nuclear tentacles now embracing Kuwait
France And Kuwait Ink Nuclear Power Agreement, Nuclear Street, 21 April 2010, Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a newreactor design that France considers one of the most advanced in the world – By April Murelio -An agreement “to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy” has been signed in Paris by Kuwait’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Sabah, and French government officials.Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a third-generation reactor design that France considers the most advanced in the world.Sarkozy vaunted the “safety and reliability” of this reactor and “France’s ability to provide a service covering the whole nuclear energy cycle,”
Kentucky court case over leaked uranium
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled then that the landowners don’t have to prove they were actually harmed to sue past contractors for trespassing by allowing contaminants to spread beyond the plant.
The high court also held that land devaluation by intentional trespassing is a recognized measure of damages once actual injury is determined. There is injury if groundwater is contaminated and it can’t be consumed.
Ky. landowners settle lawsuit over uranium leaks, BusinessWeek, By BRETT BARROUQUERE 21 April 2010, Continue reading
Belarus will not send its enriched uranium to the Russia or USA stores
Minsk to hold on to its arms-grade uranium – Lukashenko , ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire, 20 April 2010, Belarus has no plans to build a “dirty” nuclear bomb but no one can take its enriched uranium stockpiles away from it, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.”Russia and the United States are telling us – give us your enriched uranium. We will not give anything away. Everything here is under IAEA control. Russia tells America: Calm down, we will take it from there [Belarus]. No one will take anything without our consent. We will not allow that,” he said in a state-of-the-nation address.
Lukashenko added that his strained relations with Russia and the United States were due, among other things, to its reluctance to give away enriched uranium.
USA bipartisan effort to get compensation for more victims of nuclear radiation
US senators want to expand radiation compensation, KIVITV.COM | Associated Press – April 20, 2010 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from western states wants to expand federal compensation for people who became ill from working in uranium mines, living near debris left from mining or living near atomic tests from the 1940s to the 1960s.The measure, introduced Monday, would broaden who’s eligible for compensation, expand the downwind exposure area to include seven states and fund a study of health impacts on families of uranium workers and people living near uranium Continue reading
Heavy toll of AREVA’s uranium mining on Niger’s poor
Niger: French State-Owned Company ‘Poisoning’ Poor | Coalition Against Nuclear Energy, Julio Godoy, April 2010, Paris — Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people… Continue reading
Global experience shows that reprocessing and breeder reactors are not viable
France has not solved its nuclear waste problems and now needs a repository in face of strong public opposition to the development of such a facility.
Nuclear waste reprocessing not viable for United States: study, Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine, 4/19/2010 Reprocessing of nuclear waste is neither an affordable remedy for future waste disposal in the United States nor will it eliminate the need for a deep geologic repository to replace Yucca Mountain, according to a recent study released by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), a nonprofit and nonpartisan research group. Continue reading
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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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