2013 – the struggle for a nuclear free, liveable world
It might be too late to prevent heating of the planet, the upheavals of climate change, and the horrors of nuclear accidents, wars, and the slow spread of ionising radiation.
But it surely is too early to give up on trying.
I am not optimistic. We know that cigarettes and asbestos cause painful, fatal cancers. The Western world is learning to abandon these killers. Yet the tobacco and asbestos companies are thriving, selling these to the “developing” nations – a pernicious form of 21st Century colonialism. So the slow killer of fossil fuel pollution continues. The fast killers of nuclear accident, nuclear war become more likely, as well as the slower killer of spreading ionising radiation. The over-developed world is all too happy also to sell these killer technologies around the world.
2013 is the pivotal year. In the words of Redgum, an old Australian band – “If you don’t fight, you lose”
Plea to Vice Chancellor of The University of Adelaide – stop promoting nuclear power as climate solution
Brett Burnard Stokes, 5 Jan 13, I persist with my challenge to Adelaide University over the ongoing Nuclear Advocacy Fraud.
I am currently fighting against pro nuclear (and anti renewables) lies being told by Adelaide University.
See the Notice of Demand 121212 at
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=497582423606035&set=a.497576736939937.113968.100000628465779&type=3
I plan to make a lot of noise in the days and weeks ahead.
My primary target is Warren Bebbington, the Vice Chancellor of The University of Adelaide.
The Vice Chancellor is a newcomer to the scene and can claim “no blame” while cutting the fraudsters away from the Uni.
But to do so, the VC needs to act within the next few weeks, or he will be seen by history to be part of the problem.
Please feel free to offer advice and support and to spread the word.
I hope you can lend me a hand by:
Please comment on the The Environment Institute FaceBook page
https://www.facebook.com/TheEnvironmentInstitute
Please comment on the 6th December post on The Environment Institute FaceBook page
https://www.facebook.com/TheEnvironmentInstitute/posts/440332289359898
Please email to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Adelaide
vice-chancellor@adelaide.edu.au
Please post public advice and expressions of support on my FaceBook pages, including the Notice of Demand 121212
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=497582423606035&set=a.497576736939937.113968.100000628465779&type=3
Please email me with private advice and expressions of support
brettstokesadelaide-byebyebarrybrook@yahoo.com
Greenhouse gas from uranium enrichment is a large contributor to global warming
CFCs and Nuclear Power “…….Summary Freon release in uranium enrichment, alicious.com So it seems that several methods of uranium enrichment require large amounts of cooling including the most popular current method, centrifugal separation, and that one widely used method of cooling is using Freon (“CFC 114″).
Indeed given the US figures from Coolreferat.com and from Stuckle (of USEC) it seems that Freon released during uranium enrichment amounts to a large proportion of all Freon release in the US and thus that it is likely to contribute significantly to global warming both in the US and in other countries involved in uranium enrichment whether by gaseous diffussion, centrifugal separation or aerodynamic separation or other means requiring Freon for cooling. Freon use in uranium enrichment appears likely not to reduce for at least 10 years at which point current supplies are set to run out.
Heaven help us if Abbott gets into power – listen to his top business advisor Maurice Newman
From Wikipedia – Maurice Newman on Climate change and Wind Energy
In a speech to senior ABC staff on 10 March 2010 he said climate change was an example of “group-think”. According to an ABC PM account of the speech: “Contrary views had not been tolerated, and those who expressed them had been labelled and mocked. Mr Newman has doubts about climate change himself and says he’s waiting for proof either way.”
Interviewed by Brendan Trembath he said: “But climate change is at the moment an emotional issue but it really is the fundamental issue about the need to bring voices that have authority and are relevant to the particular issue to the attention of our audiences so that they themselves can make decisions. So that we are seen to trust and respect them sufficiently that they can make up their own minds about the various points of view that are being expressed through the medium of the ABC.”[7]
In answer to the question of whether he was a climate change denier he replied: “I am an agnostic and I have always been an agnostic and I will remain and agnostic until I’ve found compelling evidence on one side or the other that will move me. I think that what seems fairly clear to me is that the climate science is still being developed. There are a lot question marks about some of the fundamental data which has been used to build models that requires caution.”[8]
Wind farms
In an article published in The Spectator, Newman expresses views in opposition to wind energy. He wrote “I am not a conspiracy theorist, but we have witnessed the birth of an extraordinary, universal and self-reinforcing movement among the political and executive arms of government, their academic consultants, the mainstream media and vested private sector interests (such as investment banks and the renewables industry), held together by the promise of unlimited government money. It may not be a conspiracy, but long-term, government-underwritten annuities have certainly created one gigantic and powerful oligopoly which must coerce taxpayers and penalise energy consumers to survive.” His article concluded “But don’t expect help from academia, mainstream media or the public service. They are members of the same establishment and worship together at the altar of global warming. By ruthlessly perpetuating the illusion that wind farms can somehow save the planet, they keep the money flowing. All the while the poor become poorer, ever more dependent on welfare and colder in winter.” (“Against the wind”, 21 January 2012, http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/7589188/against-the-wind.thtml) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Newman
Fukushima radioactive fallout travelled to USA
Gov’t Map: Fukushima fallout transported directly to U.S. — Canada, Mexico avoided much of contamination after 3/11 (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/map-fukushima-fallout-transported-directly-canada-mexico-avoided-contamination-video
January 3rd, 2013
Title: Measurement of Radioactive Fallout from the March 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Incident
Source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program
h/t Anonymous tip
Atmospheric back trajectories from sites where radioactive fallout was measured in NADP wet deposition samples. NOAA’s HYSPLIT model was used for this analysis
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program in an effort to monitor North American precipitation samples for the presence of nuclear fallout in response to the Japan Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station incident that occurred on March 11, 2011. […] Continue reading
Queensland’s poor uranium market future
Australian Uranium Association’ Michael Angwin fights the science on radioactive waste, even as Queensland’s bid for uranium mining has poor economic prospects.
LNP on fission trip with uranium industry dream
John McCarthy
The Courier-Mail
January 05, 2013 THE promised $18 billion industry from uranium mining
in Queensland is a pipe dream and would never eventuate, according to
environmental group Australian Conservation Foundation.
In its submission to the State Government’s Uranium Implementation
Committee, ACF said Queensland would be gambling on an industry that
would have environmental impacts across generations for a relatively
low economic benefit.
ACF said exports of uranium from Australia totalled only $700 million
last year and that was for about a third of the global market…… Continue reading
Radioactive cesium in dietary intake of Fukushima prefecture residents
Study: Radioactive cesium in 25 of 26 food samples from Fukushima prefecture Title: Dietary Intake of Radiocesium in Adult Residents in Fukushima Prefecture and 
Neighboring Regions after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: 24 hr-Food Duplicate Survey in December 2011 http://enenews.com/japan-study-urgent-estimate-dietary-exposure-fukushima-fallout-cesium-detected-25-26-samples-prefecture
January 3rd, 2013
Title: Dietary Intake of Radiocesium in Adult Residents in Fukushima Prefecture and Neighboring Regions after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: 24 hr-Food Duplicate Survey in December 2011
Source: Environmental Science & Technology (American Chemical Society)
Authors: Kouji H Harada , Yukiko Fujii , Ayumu Adachi , Ayako Tsukidate , Fumikazu Asai , and Akio Koizumi
Publication Date (Web): December 24, 2012
Abstract
[…] This study aimed to provide an urgent estimate of the dietary exposure of adult residents recruited from three areas in Japan to cesium 134 (134Cs), cesium 137 (137Cs), and, for comparison, natural potassium 40 (40K) on December 4, 2011. Fifty-three sets of 24-hr food-duplicate samples were collected in Fukushima Prefecture and neighboring regions. The 134Cs, 137Cs, and 40K levels in the samples were measured using a germanium detector. Items in the food-duplicate samples were recorded and analyzed for radiocesium intake. Radiocesium was detected in 25 of 26 samples from Fukushima. The median dietary intake of radiocesium was 4.0 Bq/day (range <0.26–17 Bq/day). […] The estimated dose level of radiocesium was significantly higher in Fukushima than in the Kanto region and western Japan. Stepwise multiple linear regression analyses demonstrated that the intake of fruits and mushrooms produced in Fukushima were significant factors for the dietary intake of 137Cs in the 26 participants from Fukushima. […]
Court case on Victorian local council rejecting wind farm, despite favourable planning report
Company takes wind farm case to court
BY: PIA AKERMAN : The Australian January 05, 2013
A WIND farm slated for central Victoria will head to court this month
after a local council refused to approve the development, despite a
positive report from planning officers. subscription only
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/company-takes-wind-farm-case-to-court/story-e6frg9df-1226547856671
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