Australia’s heritage secret old nuclear target: how many secret new ones?
“Many Territorians would not even be aware of this priceless nugget of Cold War history right in their backyards.”
‘Top secret’ Cold War seismic vault heritage-listed “…….. ABC News by James Glenday May 18, 2010
The Spencer Hill Seismic Vault has been heritage listed…… A seismic vault, which was used to detect nuclear tests during the Cold War, has been heritage-listed……………Michael Wells from the Northern Territory Government’s heritage branch says the equipment was used to detect nuclear tests in the former Soviet Union.…. Between 20 to 30 US soldiers worked at the facility but many of their activities were kept secret from the Australian people…. ‘Top secret’ Cold War seismic vault heritage-listed – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Legal action by Indian radiation victims
“Their bone marrows were terribly suppressed….”
Radiation victims plan legal action against Delhi University , The Times of India, May 19, 2010, “…. Deepak and Ajay Jain, the two scrap dealers who were battling for life at Army hospital till a month ago, now plan to take legal action against Delhi University (DU), Continue reading
Murky history of Australia’s exposure to radiation from French nuclear tests
Prime Minister Whitlam sent HMAS Supply to witness the French Tests. A Royal New Zealand Naval vessel also took position and watched. Thus more ANZAC nuke vets were created by the exposures they suffered…….The same mistakes which caused the Black Mist incident and all other incidents in Australia to go unreported in the 1950s were still in play in the 1970s…………
Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 19 May, 2010, On 22 July 1973 French atmospheric nuclear testing recommenced at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. Continue reading
Scientists doubt safety of full body airport radiation scanning
“There really is no other technology around where we’re planning to X-ray such an enormous number of individuals. It’s really unprecedented in the radiation world”..
Scientists question safety of airport full body scanners, Gadling.com, by Scott Carmichael May 18th 2010 “…..Since the first of these machines made it to an airport, the TSA has been very vocal about telling the traveling public that they are 100% safe, and that we have nothing to worry about.
Except for the risk of too much exposure to ionizing radiation that is.. Continue reading
Millions of jobs in carbon cuts and green technologies
”The report shows regional areas, even those which produce coal and generate electricity will have more jobs if we take strong action to cut pollution, but only if we act now,”
Carbon scheme ‘will create millions of jobs’ The Age, TOM ARUP, May 19, 2010, BIG cuts to carbon emissions and heavy investment in green technologies will create 3.7 million jobs across Australia by 2030, economic modelling commissioned for unions and green groups shows. Continue reading
UK renewable energy feed in tariff now available for community
the financial support for small scale renewable energy generation is twofold, in that people producing green electricity receive a generation tariff (paid by an electricity company) for everything they generate plus an export tariff for everything they feed back to the grid.
(UK) How feed in tariffs could ‘democratise’ renewable energy generation, Engineer Live, 18 May 2010, Suddenly, the rewards for generating electricity from low carbon sources are within the reach of far more people than ever before. Continue reading
Quiet beginning to clean up dead nuclear reactor
Little fallout from nuclear clean-up (they hope) PS News 19 May 2010,
Obsolete facilities to be decommissioned, Work is due to commence soon on decommissioning obsolete nuclear facilities at the Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre and the National Medical Cyclotron… Continue reading
Pro nuclear indoctrination needed in Indonesia?
‘near-fraudulent accounting practices endemic within the
nuclear industry that continue to blind people to the true economic costs and penalties involved in nuclear power’? If nuclear power was really as safe, clean, cheap and reliable as its supporters insist, there’d be no need to ‘socialize’ anybody.
Socializing the dangers of nuclear power Greenpeace International, by jmckeati – May 18, 2010
Indonesia is committed to have a nuclear power plant soon as new source of energy, officials said here on Monday. For the purpose, Indonesia has allocated 7 billion rupiah (about 769,633 U.S. dollars) for nuclear power plant socialization to curb fear among people. Continue reading
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