Atomic bomb tests harmed animals, but “no evidence” of harm done to Aborigines!
In 1953 the USA’s Atomic Energy Commission documented that sheep and cattle at that range suffered Beta radiation burn to their hides. The matter was secret at the time and an important one for the AEC to control. While the AEC admitted internally that beta burns were being found on livestock, no document mentioning the same condition in humans has been released to the public. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The US position admits to harming animals, but it denies any harm to humans. Even though Warm Spring children suffered skin rashes, sickness and other symptoms..
Britain must show proof of dose at distance in relation to Totem 1′s Black Mist, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 21 Jan 13 The legal action on behalf affected Australian Aboriginal people has been halted by the British view that no proof of harm exists in relation to bomb fallout.
Specifically in relation to the test blast named Totem 1 of October 1953, Australian and British authorities state no harm could possibly come to anyone. This has been stated to me in a letter by the CEO of ARPANSA. The assertion is based upon British calculations of dose estimates from the cloud.
Disagreement still exists over the very existence of the Black Mist ground level atomic cloud which caused so much harm and suffering particularly to Aboriginal people at distances of 100 miles and more. Continue reading
15% fall in uranium price in 2013 – a problem for Rio Tinto
While Rio thought it was buying the asset at the bottom of the uranium
market – which had been badly depressed after the Fukushima nuclear
disaster in March 2011 – it was soon proved wrong when prices for
sales of uranium fell by close to 15 per cent in 2013.
Rio’s uranium foray faces write-down, The Age January 21, 2013 PeterKer RIO Tinto’s most recent acquisition could be among those written
down next month when the miner reveals full details of the $US14
billion in impairments that cost chief executive Tom Albanese his job.
Australian analysts believe one of those smaller write-downs could be
against the Canadian uranium deposits acquired by Rio just over one
year ago in its $638 million acquisition of Canadian junior Hathor
Exploration.
That deal gave Rio a prospective uranium deposit called Roughrider,
but only after a bidding war with uranium major Cameco that saw the
two rivals swap improved bids several times. Continue reading
Rundown on latest nuclear news in Japan
“…In addition, utilities used advertising budgets—also covered by utility fees paid for by consumers—on expensive dinners and drinks for media executives. They sponsored television shows and bought advertising in publications run by Prime Minister Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which currently holds control of the Lower House of the Diet.
Spending doubled after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, when many began to seriously question nuclear power’s safety. “It is easy to see that by spending a large sum on ads, utilities tried to keep a close eye on media organizations’ negative reporting on nuclear power plants,” noted Hiroyoshi Sunakawa, an associate professor of media theory at Rikkyo University. Tatsuo Hatta, a visiting professor of economics at Gakushuin University, agreed:
“With advertising money, media organizations became dependent on utilities for revenue and found it hard to criticize nuclear power.”….”
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Blogpost by Christine McCann – January 18, 2013 Continue reading
Indian audiences see films on Australian Aborigines and uranium mining
The story of the aborigines’ struggle against uranium mining is told in Dirt Cheap: 30 Years On, an updated version of the 1980 Dirt Cheap, which reported how uranium mining was imposed on the aborigines of Kakadu in northern Australia, as the government subverted the will of the traditional owners of the land by buying off the body that was supposed to protect their rights to the land.
in Dirt Cheap. After the council votes to say no to uranium mining in their lands, the government strong-arms the council to sign away their rights, as the heartbroken president watches from his car.
Uranium Film Festival: Capturing Fallout Tehelka Blog, 17 Jan 13 “….. the fear that Madsen taps into in this film is that of communicating to future civilisations that the contents of this cavern they would find are very toxic.“What if a future generation thinks there’s something nice in that hole?” asks Norbert Sucharek, a German environmental journalist working in Brazil, who is the director of the Travelling International Uranium Film Festival, at whose Delhi leg the film was shown. “You could put up a sign, but what if there’s someone who says, ‘It’s all lies. There’s gold buried in there.’? The best way is to keep the knowledge about radioactivity alive. To save future generations, we should not forget it.
The ancient societies, such as the aboriginals in Australia, they have their legends which say ‘do not touch this stone. A rainbow snake lives here, and if you touch it, it will destroy the world.’ That was a way of transporting information to future generations that something is wrong there; we should not touch it.” Continue reading
Blood tests instead of mammograms – avoid radiation problem
Mammogram problems A recent study in the British Medical Journal suggested mammograms may actually increase the risk of breast cancer in young women with a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene due to the radiation exposure. False positives (where the test incorrectly shows breast cancer) and false negatives (where it fails to detect breast cancer) are also not uncommon
Blood tests may replace mammograms Telegraph (Sydney) Leanne Hudson January 19, 2013
SCIENTISTS are investigating a more accurate, less invasive test for breast cancer. Baring your breasts in front of strangers and having your flesh uncomfortably pressed between two pieces of plastic – a procedure commonly known as a mammogram – is the standard test for breast cancer In future, all you may need to do is have a simple blood test. Continue reading
Uranium and other resources the real reason for the west’s war in Africa
RT: Africa has plenty of untapped natural resources. Which countries appear most interested in securing and possibly expanding their interests there? And how could those interests clash?
NC: Very possibly, because I think obviously France from Mr. Hollande’s point of view – their economy is in a very bad state in France – and I think that he is hoping that a successful intervention in Mali would boost his popularity ratings back home. So, it’s a uranium issue and how France needs uranium there. And Mali is a big producer of uranium.
the west wants resources, the west wants to get control of resources in this region
‘Al-Qaeda threat used by NATO as smoke screen for re-colonization of Northern Africa’, RT 21 Jan 13, The UK is providing logistical air assistance, while the United States is providing surveillance and other intelligence help.
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