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Flat outlook for uranium price

Half-hearted uranium price response to Olympic Dam incident

Mining Weekly By: Liezel Hill

12th December 2009

TORONTO – The uranium spot price firmed in October, after BHP Billiton reported an accident at its Olympic Dam copper/uranium mine mine, in Australia, but has failed to find support at the higher level, Australian equity research firm Resource Capital Research (RCR) commented on Friday. Continue reading →

December 11, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, uranium | Leave a comment

Why don’t they count radioactive wastes in nuclear costing?

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In today’s news we learn that the USA’s existing nuclear wastes could cost $225 billion. Of course, the government is up for these costs, not the nuclear industry. So somehow – well, then, the pretty well eternal waste storage and security is not part of the costing for nuclear power!

That’s a pretty nice bit of sleight of hand, isn’t it? But the non-democracies do it even better. Nobody has any idea what are the real costs of France, Russia, China’s nuclear wastes, nor who actually ends up paying for them.

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Christina's notes | antinuclear, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Religious and medical anti-nuclear drive

Q&A : ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’ – Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions MELBOURNE, Dec 9 (IPS)

IPS: What can religious and spiritual communities do to meet the challenge of abolishing these weapons of mass annihilation?

SW: We see the issue of nuclear weapons as one of the great ethical issues of our time. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, Religion and ethics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Where to put 15,000 drums of depleted uranium?

DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A U.S. Department of Energy spokeswoman says Nevada has been ruled out as an alternative disposal site for nearly 15,000 drums of depleted uranium from South Carolina currently scheduled to come to Utah.

DOE spokeswoman Lauren Milone says the Nevada Test Site is being excluded from discussions about the waste because the DOE has agreed to conduct a statewide environmental impact statement before accepting any new waste there.

Milone says doing that would probably take at least a year.

DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium – WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, USA, wastes | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Doctors threaten to resign over uranium mining

North Shore doctors threaten to resign en masse over uranium exploration The Montreal Gazette December 4, 2009

MONTREAL Quebec’s Liberal government must stop uranium exploration near Sept Îles and declare a moratorium on uranium mining activities across the province to avoid the mass resignation of 20 doctors in the North Shore town, a Sept Îles doctor said Friday. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Canada, health | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Earthquakes in Malawi uranium mining area

Malawi shaken by new tremors in uranium mine area Dec 7, 2009 BLANTYRE (Reuters) – Earth tremors hit Malawi for a second day on Monday and police said at least six people had been injured, two seriously, and buildings damaged in the uranium-rich northern Karonga district………… Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Malawi, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Opposition growing across India to land taken for nuclear plants

Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country Agitations over land acquisitions are spreading like wild fire in the country. merinews CJ: Rupam Banerjee Wed, Dec 09, 2009 PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has expressed serious concern over growing problems of land acquisition for industrial and infrastructural projects in different parts of the country. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, India, politics | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | 1 Comment

USA and depleted uranium – damaging their own troops

Depleted uranium is nuclear war The Most Ignored & Covered Up by Mass Media News Story …

“…………Hundreds of thousands of American troops contaminated, dying, and disabled from DepletedUranium by American arms….as well as Afghan civilians with acute symptoms of radiation poisoning along with chronic symptoms of internal uranium contamination, including congenital problems in newborns, and these birth defects are not limited to Afghans- or American troops- or this generation…. Continue reading →

December 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, cancer, depleted, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Theft of uranium in Mumbai

Mumbai police arrest three with yellowcake news TRAK In

Mumbai, Dec 8 (ANI): The Mumbai Crime Branch Police have arrested three persons with five kilograms of uranium in Panvel, Navi Mumbai here.

According to the information received from the Police sources, the three people have been arrested with Yellowcake that is used in the preparation of uranium for nuclear fuel.

The seized uranium has been sent to the Bhava Atomic Research Center for testing.

The officials at the Department of Atomic Energy said the Mumbai Police has sent the sample of the uranium for testing…..http://trak.in/news/mumbai-police-arrests-three-with-yellowcake/32805/

December 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Americans complacent about depleted uranium in Iraq

The United States, its abandonment of law and worse Redress Information & Analysis By Christopher King 8 December 2009 – “………….America has surpassed the Nazis, however, in its use of depleted uranium munitions which have spread radioactivity that will last hundreds of thousands of years over wide areas of Iraq.
Cancers and birth defects directly attributable to this are now being seen in Iraq and will continue indefinitely, so it is likely that over time the Iraqi civilian death toll will exceed that of the Nazis. Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, Iraq | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Native American tribes concerned about climate, uranium, nuclear

U.S.: “We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water”By Kyra Ryan SANTA ANA, New Mexico, Dec 5 (IPS) – Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities – problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries. Continue reading →

December 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, climate change, indigenous issues, USA | antinuclear, cancer, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Secrecy in India about troubled nuclear industry

India’s atom state The Daily Mail Ramachandra Guha 7 Dec 09 THE most secretive institution in India is the Atomic Energy Commission. Although its power plants profess to produce goods for the benefit of the public, they are not judged by the standards of profitability and accountability that the market imposes on other industries. Continue reading →

December 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, India, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, uranium | Leave a comment

Armenians will fight against uranium mining

Controversy Surrounds Plans for Uranium Mine in Armenis Asbarez.com By Asbarez Staff on Dec 3rd, 2009

GHAPAN, Armenia (Eurasianet)–A protest movement against a planned Russian-Armenian uranium mine in southern Armenia appears to be picking up steam, with
discussions underway with three political parties about a partnership. Continue reading →

December 4, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Armenia: opposition to uranium mining grows

ARMENIA: CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS URANIUM MINE EURASIANET.org Marianna Grigoryan 12/01/09 A protest movement against a planned Russian-Armenian uranium mine in southern Armenia appears to be picking up steam, with discussions underway with three political parties about a partnership……… Continue reading →

December 2, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium causing child cancers

Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies

The Washington Post By Suadad al-Salhy

Reuters
December 1, 2009 Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply, Iraqi officials say, and many suspect contamination from weapons used in years of war and accompanying unchecked pollution as a cause. Continue reading →

December 1, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, Iraq | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment