Review: nuke news of the past week
By Christina Macpherson
Australia: ERA hypes up its image, by flying a Melbourne Age reporter to the Ranger uranium mine, to report on Rio Tinto’s drive to employ aboriginal uranium miners.
International: US residents near nuclear plants to get anti-radiation pills. France’s nuclear company AREVA in dire financial straits due to troubles of its ‘new generation’ reactors in Finland and France. America and China to push for nuclear to be part of Copenhagen climate program
Marathon uranium exploration waste dump was radioactive
Waste, not bags, the problem: Greens
ABC News 8 Sept 09
Greens MP Mark Parnell has challenged a claim by Marathon Resources that waste it dumped illegally at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary was not radioactive……. Continue reading
Ionising radiation a risk in cancer screens
Cancer fear over early screens
The Australian Sean Parnell | September 08, 2009
MEDIA coverage of the cancer diagnoses of celebrities Belinda Emmett and Kylie Minogue convinced more younger women to have a mammogram but experts are recommending against its use as a screening tool. Continue reading
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