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Lethal Legacy? Abandoned uranium mines bring health worries

Lethal Legacy? Abandoned uranium mines bring health worries The Alliance September 28, 2009 BUFFALO — In a series of bluffs and buttes near the Montana and South Dakota border are the leavings of the atomic age. Continue reading →

September 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

France’s nuclear industry not safe or clean

European Expert: U.S. Policymakers Are “As Wrong As They Can Be” About the French Experience With Nuclear Power
The Alliance 27 Sept 09 “…………French nuclear power is not “safer” … and the nation does not have a long term solution to waste storage. Continue reading →

September 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, wastes | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reprocessing, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear power seeks govt funds, despite unsolved problems

Nuclear power revisited: The elephant in the roomThere’s still nowhere to put that toxic waste Star Tribune By BILL GRANT : September 26, 2009 Recently announced effort seeks to end a ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants within Minnesota Continue reading →

September 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, reprocessing, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear sites fear becoming permanent waste dumps

Nuclear sites fear being the alternative to Yucca

The Richmond Times Despatch , LES BLUMENTHAL MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPER September 26, 2009

WASHINGTON — It is among the nastiest substances on earth: more than 14,000 tons of highly radioactive waste left over from the building of the nation’s nuclear-weapons arsenal. Continue reading →

September 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, reprocessing, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Australia’s dust storms raise concern over radioactivity from uranium mining

FILMMAKER DAVID BRADBURY: RED DUST DUMP ORIGINATING AT WOOMERA IS GRAVE CONCERN FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
September 25, 2009 by Coober Pedy Regional Times“…….70 million tonnes of radioactive tailings to be dumped at the Roxby mine site each year without evidence of dust control is cause for concern”, says David Bradbury.. Continue reading →

September 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Malawi water supply threatened by Paladin uranium mine

Catholic Commission wary of uranium contaminated water in Karonga
By Nyasa Times September 25, 2009 Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) have expressed concern that people around Kayelekera mine and processing plant in Karonga, northern Malawi are drinking uranium contaminated water which is life threatening. Continue reading →

September 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, AFRICA, indigenous issues | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Warning on uranium milling causing “yellowcake death”

Canon City Uranium Contamination Looms over Montrose mill battle
The Colorado Independent By David O. Williams 9/25/09 “…..for residents of Cañon City area, some of whom made the long trip to a special-use permit hearing in Montrose earlier this month, declaring “not in my back yard” could have spared them decades of health problems associated with the metal the Navajo Indians call “yellow death.” Continue reading →

September 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, environment, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | 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

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

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

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