Australia blocks shipments to Iran, on nuclear fear
(Of course, Australia sends uranium to China and Russia, where it might well end up in nuclear weapons – C.M. )
Rudd confirms Iran shipments blocked ABC News 4 Feb 2010 Continue reading
Obama’s pro-nuclear push could founder in money problems
experts are predicting a repeat of the experience of the 1980’s,
in which the costs of many projects soared in price until they became prohibitive and the plants were abandoned before completion.
Nuclear Power Gets Strong Push From White House
The New York Times By MATTHEW L. WALDJanuary 29, 2010The Obama administration moved vigorously on two fronts Friday to promote nuclear power, proposing to triple federal loan guarantees for new projects and appointing a high-level panel to study what to do with nuclear waste. Continue reading
Obama parrots pro-nuke policy, but he knows better
Indeed, Obama knows better. Candidate Obama understood that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean. Watch this video taken early in his presidential campaign,
Nuclear Information and Resource Service Michael Mariotte 28 Jan 2010 If you were watching last night’s State of the Union address, I’m sure you were as appalled as I was when President Obama suddenly spoke in support of “safe, clean nuclear power” (not to mention support for offshore oil drilling and “clean” coal). Continue reading
Uranium price continues its downward slide
The term uranium market was even quieter, with no new demand…
Uranium Continues Its Retreat ninemsn Money 27/01/2010 By Andrew Nelson With only a handful of deals reported last week, the uranium spot price continued its new year retreat. Industry consultant TradeTech’s U3O8 Spot Price Indicator showed a decline of US$1.25/lb to US$42.50/lb over the course of last week……………. Continue reading
Govt secrecy over nuclear waste transported to Woomera
Fears of nuclear waste dump site at Woomera KIM WHEATLEY, The Advertiser 27 Jan 2010) “The public needs to know and the traditional owners have a right to be aware.”
CONCERN is mounting that a site near Woomera may become the de facto radioactive waste dump for Australia.
This follows criticism the Defence Department failed to notify the public it was moving radioactive waste 450km from Edinburgh RAAF to a new waste dump at Woomera over the Christmas break. Continue reading
Cherie Blair will represent aboriginal nuclear victims in UK court case
Cherie Blair to work on SA compensation case ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 25 Jan 2010
The wife of the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will represent five Aboriginies seeking compensation for ill health caused by nuclear testing in South Australia’s outback during the 1950s. Continue reading
Facts on Europe’s nuclear waste dumping
How French solves nuclear waste , Jagadee’s English Webblog January 20, 2010 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
- European utilities dumping uranium wastes in Russia include: OKG – Sweden, Vattenfall – Sweden/Europe, EoN and RWE – Germany, Electrabel – Belgium, EPZ – the Netherlands, British Energy – the UK, EDF – France, Iberdola – Spain, and NOK/Swissnuclear – Switzerland.
- The uranium waste dumped in Russia over the last thirty years belongs to nearly every nuclear power company operating nuclear reactors in western Europe from Spain to Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium. The UK and France have shipped the largest amount of uranium waste from their respective enrichment and reprocessing plants.
- Areva spokesman, Charles Hufnagel acknowledged to Nuclear Fuel of December 5th that the uranium shipped back to Eurodif (France) represents only “10% of the total” sent to Russia. An Areva spokesperson also confirmed to Nuclear Fuel that this uranium would remain the property of the Russian enricher, Techsnabexport (Tenex).
- Greenpeace Russia has filed a complaint against the illegal storage and dumping of uranium wastes in Siberia.Art. 48 of the 2002 law on ‘environmental protection’ prohibits storage or dumping of imported nuclear materials. A next session of the Moscow Court is scheduled for Dec. 8th
- 5. Greenpeace letter to to IAEA’s Director-General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei can be found here.
The Real Face of the IAEA’s Multilateral Nuclear Approaches: The proliferation of nuclear weapon material & environmental contamination report.
Greens call upon Rudd to help Australia’s nuclear veterans
“We know the Australian government was complicit in these tests which saw many soldiers used as human guinea pigs..”
Time for Rudd to step in and ensure justice for Maralinga nuclear vets: Scott Ludlam 20th January 2010, The Australian Greens are dismayed by the Rudd Government’s refusal to help Australian veterans of the Maralinga atomic bomb tests of the 1950s and 60s. Continue reading
Roxby Downs uranium mine will blow out greenhouse gases
“All of our efforts to reduce emissions, to conserve energy, will be undone by just one company, one project” The Advertiser DAVID NOONAN, 20 Jan 2010
The science of climate change demands action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. BHP Billiton’s proposed new open-pit mine at Roxby Downs would blow out SA’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 12 per cent. Continue reading
Fremantle Anti Nuclear group (FANG) join international walk to the U.N.
Review- the nuclear week that has been
Australia: Climate denialists Monckton and Plimer touring Australia (wonder who’s paying for this tour?). Maralinga nuclear veterans must take their case to England. Tony Abbott calls for uranium sales to India, as India builds its nuke weapons arsenal. Australian Super decides that uranium is ethical enough. Point Lowly Action group trying to save iconic Great Australian Cuttlefish. ERA uranium shares and production fall. Govt considers airport scanning amid public ignorance on the issue.
International: Huge global renewable energy summit. France’s nuke industry embroiled in strife. Critical talks about Iran’s nukes. Germany in dilemma over mounting nuclear waste. Future very complicated for USA’s nuke industry. Colorado anti-uranium legal bid moves along. Revelations of Israel’s uranium tests on workers. Doomsday clock – slight improvement. USA – anti-uranium protest. Court action over depleted uranium in Hawaii. Protest against NASA’s radiation testing on squirrel monkeys.
Aboriginal’s sacred land versus AREVA’s uranium
Jeffrey just wants to go fishing Live, smile, and breathe 12 Jan 2010 The following article was first written by Lindsay Murdock on July 14, 2007.
Who wants to be a billionaire? I don’t JEFFREY Lee is not interested in the soaring price of uranium, which could make him one of the world’s richest men.”This is my country, look, it’s beautiful and I fear somebody will disturb it,” he said, waving his arm across rocky land surrounded by the Kakadu National Park, where the French mining giant Areva wants to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium worth more than $5 billion. Continue reading
Dangers of radioactive uranium mill tailings
Potential hazards from uranium mill tailings League of individuals for the environment 11 Jan 2010
1994, Feb. 14 Olympic Dam, Roxby Downs, South Australia WMC Ltd. leakage of tailings dam during 2 years or more release of up to 5 million m3 of contaminated water into subsoil ?
Radionuclides contained in uranium tailings emit 20 to 100 times as much gamma-radiation as natural background levels on deposit surfaces. Gamma radiation levels decrease rapidly with distance from the pile.The radium-226 in tailings continuously decays to the radioactive gas radon-222, the decay products of which can cause lung cancer. Some of this radon escapes from the interior of the pile. Radon releases are a major hazard that continues after uranium mines are shut down….. Continue reading
Depleted uranium was tested on soldiers in Australia
An Australian royal commission first discovered the use of depleted uranium in atomic tests at Maralinga some years ago,
Global changes ruining the world, September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action UK Admits Soldiers Used in Radiation Experiments The UK Ministry of Defense admitted on 12 May that it exposed British, Australian and New Zealand servicemen to radiation in tests during the 1950s and 1960s. A spokesperson for the Ministry denied that the soldiers were used as guinea pigs, Continue reading
Russia still ignoring its nuclear guinea pigs
These people were used as guinea pigs, tested, and then left to die slowly of cancer. The state does not want their tragedy recognized, because it would cost money. Nobody wants to know.
Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action Soviet Human Nuclear Experiments Reported According to recently released reports, some 45,000 people, mainly Soviet soldiers, were deliberately exposed in 1954 to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima just nine years before. Continue reading
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