Pro-nuclear report ignores waste, safety issues
PricewaterhouseCoopers avoid the details on nuclear power, 
Nuclear Reaction , 16 March 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers have released a report, Resurgence of nuclear power, …It paints an extraordinarily glowing picture of the upcoming nuclear ‘renaissance’.It doesn’t mention nuclear waste once.
The safety concerns around nuclear power have been ‘refuted’. Oh, really? The global movement against nuclear power refutes that refutation. Continue reading
ANSTO Partnering with French Nuclear Agency
Is it not odd t
hat the nuclear powers that be, are going ahead with new nuclear reactor projects, that are not only untested, but, it is openly admitted, for which there is no nuclear waste solution.!
Generation IV reactor systems are also being developed which will require new nuclear waste solutions.
Ansto bolsters research collaboration, World Nuclear News, 15 March 2010 .The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has widened its nuclear research cooperation with the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), as well as signing an agreement with an Australian university to conduct research into the storage of radioactive waste. Continue reading
Biodiversity is for future ages. Uranium mining is short term
When a respected institution known for its measured and considered responses to issues of public importance, such as the Museum, asks the Government to pay attention, it would be foolish to do otherwise.
A time to err on side of conservation, The Advertiser Editorial, March 16, 2010 THERE are certain places in the state and the nation which should be off limits for mining. Continue reading
Muckaty nuke waste site – earthquake risk, missing documents
one key document, an anthropological report, is missing.
Earthquake fears over nuclear dump site, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Jane Bardon and Emma Masters, Mar 12, 2010 Reports into the suitability of the site chosen by the Federal Government for a nuclear waste dump say more scientific investigation is needed into the threat of earthquakes around the Tennant Creek region. Continue reading
Australia’s young doctors ignorant about ionising radiation
Medical students unaware of radiation hazard, IBTHealth -15 Mar, 2010, Over half of medical students and junior doctors underestimate the amounts of radiation involved in regularly ordered scans with 25 per cent wrongly accept that magnetic resonance imaging emits radiation. Continue reading
Martin Ferguson’s hypocrisy about medical radiation
Here’s another example of Martin Ferguson’s duplicity. He’s promoting the planned radioactive waste dump on aboriginal land, as necessary for Australians because it’s for medical waste.
BUT: 1. There’s no scientific reason why the nuke waste dump has to be in the Northern Territory, let alone on aboriginal land.
2. The dump will also take highly radioactive spent fuel rods – conveniently opening the door for a future intake of high level nuclear waste from – well, perhaps the USA, as Howard and Bush had intended.
Review: Nuclear waste dumping, nuclear’s costs and safety
Australia: Others join Maralinga veterans’ court case. Mounting opposition to NT nuclear waste dump, while both major parties push for it. Movement for sustainable energy becoming nationally organised
International: Questions in U.S. Congress about financial risks of Obama’s nukes policy, as States become anxious over costs and safety. Pro nukes enthuise over “clean”, “renewable” nuclear energy Safety risks raised over UK’s planned French nuclear reactors, while France mounts push to sell nuke reactors to 3rd World. Practicality and popularity of renewable energy continues to grow.
Muckaty nuclear waste dump plan threatens groundwater
Muckaty station sits above an ancient aquifer which is used by both the aborigines for drinking water and white station owners to water their cattle. It also experiences large intermittent rainfalls during the year.
A heresy is occurring in Australia, anthropologyworks by Helen Caldicott, 8 March 2010, “….the current abuse and desecration of several aboriginal tribes inhabiting their land in the Northern Territory. This land called Muckaty station is conveniently located adjacent to the railway line, constructed recently by Dick Cheney’s former company Halliburton, which bisects Australia connecting Darwin, a port in the north, to Adelaide a port in the south. Continue reading
“Robust” a wobbly word for discussing nuclear industry?
The forthcoming visit of President Obama is indeed very low key in the Australian media. Amongst the issues to dicuss, we learn that the talk will be “robust”
“Robust” – another one of those Wobbly Words – that serve to obscure meaning – e.g meaning about possible plans for the US to Lease uranium from Australia, thus returning nuclear wastes to ….where?- well, of course – aboriginal land in the Northern Territory
Australia’s energy resources to prosper, except for uranium
export earnings will be driven by 19.8% increase in energy commodities (oil and coal, but not including uranium).
ABARE explains how much Australia can make from selling silver, iron ore and coal The Daily Reckoning Australia, By Dan Denning • March 3rd, 2010 “…Yesterday’s news came from the world’s most akwardly named bureaucracy, the Australian Bureau of Agricultrual and Resource Economics, henceforth to be called ABARE. The group published its quarterly commodity outlook. It tells you how much Australia can expect to make from selling the family: silver, iron ore, and coal. Its conclusions were kind of surprising. The main conclusion was that Australia would see rising export earnings on higher volumes but moderating commodity prices. …ABARE says that in the next 12 months, export earnings will be driven by 19.8% increase in energy commodities (oil and coal, but not including uranium)….http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/abare-explains-how-much-australia-can-make-from-selling-silver-iron-ore-and-coal/2010/03/03/
Deliberate deception about “need” for nuclear waste on aboriginal land
In the item below, we learn that medical radioactive waste is negligible as a long term storage program, compared to nuclear reactor spent fuel waste. The radiologist kindly suggests that Martin Ferguson, (Australia’s Minister For Promoting the Nuclear Industry) is “confused”.
It sounds to me more as if Ferguson is determined to impose nuclear waste dumping on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory – as part of the campaign to open up Australia to international nuclear waste dumping.
Pacific islanders fear radiation at nuclear test islands
Abon sees resettlement of Rongelap Atoll as “impossible” because only a small part of the atoll has had its nuclear contamination cleaned, while the population has grown significantly, meaning they need to use more islands to comfortably resettle.
ISLANDERS LOATH TO RETURN TO NUKED HOME, PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT March 2, 2010,
“….March 1 is a national holiday that recognizes Nuclear Victims Day in the Marshall Islands. This year, which marks the 25th year since Rongelap Islanders’ self-evacuated their radioactive islands, islanders are facing a U.S. ultimatum: move back to Rongelap in 2011 or face cutoff of funding support for the “temporary” community at Mejatto Island in Kwajalein Atoll, where about 400 islanders have lived since their 1985 evacuation….. Continue reading
Gloomy long term trend for uranium prices
Two Death Crosses on price charts for Australia’s two leading producers of uranium. What does this tell investors?FNArena News – March 02 2010 , By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck A recent sector report by Canadian stockbrokers Haywood Securities has revealed that price charts for many international uranium stocks carry the so-called “Cross of Death”. This is when a shorter term trendline moves below the longer term trendline and stays beneath it.
From a technical-market momentum point of view, such occurrence indicates the underlying trend has now become negative (bearish), Continue reading
Nuclear power plant costs likely to treble
paints a very risky picture for nuclear investment.
The State of the Nuclear Industry in Canada and Abroad – Pt 1. Enviralment by: Aizen | March 2, 2010″…while the decision on whether to order new nuclear plants will be taken on a range of considerations, it is important idea of economics behind nuclear power so it can be properly gauged against other options… Continue reading
Review- Australia:nuke waste dump, USA states’ opposition to nuclear industry
Australia: Nuke waste dump for aboriginal land, but opposition is growing.. S.A. govt to subsidise BHP’s Olympic Dam uranium mine, Rudd govt improves (we hope) Renewable Energy legislation.
International: While Obama rewards his corporate backers with $8 billion in nuclear loan guarantees, legislatures in 3 states knock back nuclear power- Vermont to close nuke reactor, West Virginia to retain no new nukes policy, Arizona refuses to include nuclear as “renewable”. Bloody political coup in Niger welcomed by uranium industry.
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