UK pledges disarmament while upgrading nuclear weapons
It is shameful that both main political parties, far from phasing out our our so-called deterrent, insist on upgrading a weapons system that is as anachronistic as it is unaffordable.
The world unites against nuclear danger: so why is Gordon Brown upgrading Trident? Telegraph UK By Mary Riddell World April 14th, 2010 “…….While Mr Netanyahu is a prime obstacle to global security, Britain cannot claim nearly as much credit as it would like. Gordon Brown, who is pledged, like Obama, to creating a nuclear free world, is going an odd way about it. Continue reading
Review: Nuclear Security Summit, India’s radiation contamination
Review: Australia. A puzzling week as Australia pretty much ignored the Nuclear Security Summit. Uranium prices plummet with Obama’s plan to use old nuke weapons for commercial fuel. Traditional Muckaty owners front Senate Inquiry. BHP’s Olympic Dam still severely disabled. Legal victory for S.A. uranium protestors.
International. Nuclear summit – some progress, but not on disarmament. USEC company gets a boost with ‘Megatons to Megawatts’ (dead nuke weapons fuel for reactors). India has two incidents of radiation leaks and poisoning.
Continued downward spiral in uranium prices hits ERA shares
Uranium production falls at Ranger mine, Sydney Morning Herald, BARRY FITZGERALDApril 14, 2010 SHARES in Rio Tinto’s listed uranium subsidiary, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), have suffered a beating on the back of the company’s sharply lower production effort at the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory. Market sentiment towards the stock was not helped by a downbeat assessment of the likelihood that uranium prices would pull out out of a spiral,.…ERA shares dropped $1.17 or 5.9 per cent to close at $18.52. Its forecast of near-term moves in the uranium price rubbed off on other uranium stocks, with Paladin Energy shares falling 3.45 per cent……. there had been no progress in ERA’s plan to develop the $20 billion Jabiluka uranium deposit near Ranger.ERA has undertaken not to develop the deposit without the consent of the traditional owners. Uranium production falls at Ranger mine
Local govts would have to deal with catastrophic nuclear blast
Nuclear blast victims would have to wait , By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY 14 April 2010. The White House has warned state and local governments not to expect a “significant federal response” at the scene of a terrorist nuclear attack for 24 to 72 hours after the blast, according to a planning guide. Continue reading 1 This month
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