Review of “Countdown to Zero”
…Nuclear weapons are supposed to be a deterrent. They are supposed to keep us safe. But that’s crap.
Take a Friend to the Movies — Before It’s Too Late, Steven Crandell, 23 July 2010, “………. They are designed to kill civilians in cities, to wipe out families, neighborhoods and communities. Continue reading
No U.S. waste dump in sight, as Yucca stays sghut
Hanford’s high level radioactive waste has been expected to go to Yucca Mountain, but the Obama administration is shutting the project down…..
HANFORD: Yucca Mountain funding voted down, Tri-City Herald, 22 July 2010, Annette Cary, An amendment to restore money to license the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear repository failed in the Senate Appropriations Committee today. Continue reading
Greed and stupidity in uranium investment world
You would think that investors would wake up to the hype! The so-called “nuclear renaissance” is just not happening.
Even the market for nuclear weapons is now looking dodgy – these being no protection whatever from terrorists, (in fact a target for them)
China is looking to slow down its economy.- China’s supposed great uranium binge is a BHP executives’ fantasy
There is a glut of uranium supply, made worse by the weapons reduction program, which now supplies uranium (mining not needed)
From today’s CTV News: “Despite the low spot and term prices, uranium producers have shown almost no discipline by reducing current or planned output,”…Despite falling uranium prices, worldwide spending on exploration and mine development grew 133 per cent to $1.6-billion in 2008 from 2006″
In sunny Australia, passing up the chance to develop 21st Century renewables, we are mindlessly letting banks, super funds etc, put our money into this gaping hole of impending loss – the almost certainly doomed uranium industry.
Keep Fremantle nuclear and uranium free!
“Fremantle has been a nuclear-free city since 2000, and we are against any form of transportation of uranium through Fremantle.”
Uranium protesters rally in Fremantle, Sydney Morning Herald, ANGIE RAPHAEL, July 21, 2010 – Protesters have rallied against uranium mining ahead of a conference with major mining companies in Western Australia. Continue reading
Schoolkids try to convince Mayor on nuclear-free movement
Cr Neoh has refused to sign the symbolic agreement saying it was not for local government to make a decision on.
School targets Neoh in anti-nuclear campaign, The Warrnambool Standard, PETER COLLINS. 22 Jul, 2010 Hawkesdale schoolchildren are keen to persuade Warrnambool’s mayor Cr Michael Neoh to change his mind and support their push for a world free of nuclear weapons. Continue reading
What Australia’s nuclear company Silex Systems doesn’t tell you
Silex Systems jumps on the Climate Change bandwagon – presumably to draw in investors. In fact, solar energy is but a small fraction of their basically nuclear business. But – as the nuclear power industry languishes – well – a bit of solar can make you look good, for the moment.
What they don’t tell you is that while their nuclear laser technology awaits licensing, there are serious safety concerns about this technology. It will make the uranium enrichment process a lot faster and easier, but also easier to convert, without detection into nuclear weapons material. hence the Silex Systems laser uranium enrichment process is seen a s a nuclear weapons proliferation danger.
Iranian nuclear scientist might have been double agent
Was Iranian Nuclear Scientist a Double Agent? | The Atlantic Wire, By Max Fisher July 15, 2010, Alleged Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri has returned to Iran after 13 months in the U.S. It’s still unclear what happened during his stay and why he returned home. We may never know the full truth, but several new reports point to the possibility that he was an Iranian double agent all along. Under this theory, Amiri would have faked his defection to the U.S. (or allowed himself to be abducted, depending on whose story you believe), where he either fed the U.S. false information or acquired information to send back to Iran or both. Here’s what we know……. Was Iranian Nuclear Scientist a Double Agent? | The Atlantic Wire
65 years ago – the start of the nuclear radiation cover-up
When reports of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki afflicted with a strange and horrible new disease emerged, General Groves, at first, called it all a “hoax” and “propaganda” and speculated that the Japanese had different “blood.”
Secrecy, Cover-ups & Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago Greg MitchellJuly 14, 2010 While most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, with the top-secret Trinity test. Its sixty-fifth anniversary will be marked—or mourned, if you will—this Friday, July 16. . Continue reading
Row over nuclear compensation intended for Australian veterans
Last night, the Ministry of Defence accepted that the payment made by the British Government could have been used to pay off Australian servicemen but argued that Australian ministers had used it to decontaminate test sites.
£20m ‘betrayal’ of UK’s nuclear bomb test veterans Veterans are betrayed by double standards, This Is Derbyshire, 14 July 2010, BRITISH ex-servicemen have reacted angrily to news that ministers paid out £20 million to Australia to settle compensation claims arising from UK nuclear bomb tests – while continuing to deny them payouts for illnesses they say were caused by the same blasts. Continue reading
Did radiation from nuclear testing spread from Icelandic volcano?
VIDEO Iceland Volcano A-Bomb! Toxic Nuclear Fallout on Europe to Australia! 4/17/10 | eyescoops.ca July 13, 2010 Warning to stay inside – 3 layers of nuclear fallout in the ICE CORES ……… the news is not reporting on this. that’s sadder then sad.
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Recognising an Australian anti-nuclear hero
Dr. Caldicott gives lectures and hosts a weekly radio show called If You Love This Planet, which covers issues such as global warming, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, toxic pollution, hunger and poverty, and species extinction in an hour-long, in-depth format.
Heroes of Sustainability: Dr. Helen Caldicott and The Ultimate Form of Preventive Medicine Dolphinblueinc’s Blog, 12 July 2010 “She showed me what one set-on-fire human being can do to shift the consciousness of the world.” –Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking Continue reading
Convergence of black and white to fight for Aboriginal rights
Aboriginal people fighting to protect their land from mining companies and the government described uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping in detail. “Breaking the nuclear chain” was a forum that included Diane Stokes from Muckaty, whose community is fighting to stop the government from dumping nuclear waste on their land…….
“The students are really passionate, and they’re up with what’s happening, through the internet and networks. The Aboriginal people are more isolated and we haven’t got all the technologies to campaign on the same scale.
“But we’re directly affected. So that’s why we need to fight for change together.”
Alice Springs convergence condemns NT intervention , Green Left, July 10, 2010, By Jay Fletcher, Alice Springs
“…….The convergence brought together Aboriginal communities affected by the Northern Territory intervention to speak and coordinate with anti-intervention and Aboriginal rights groups from around the country. Continue reading
The world remembers how France blew up anti nuclear protest ship
The tragedy reinforced powerfully New Zealand’s sense that it had been right to ban nuclear-powered or armed ships,
Rainbow Warrior fallout still felt, 25 years on * Rowan Callick, The Australian * July 10, 2010 “…….Around the world, the blowing up of the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, 25 years ago today, still reverberates Continue reading
See online films of New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stand
Today (Saturday 10 July) is the 15th anniversary of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior bombing by French agents. To mark the date, New Zealand On Screen has launched four titles exploring anti-nuclear protest and the politics of New Zealand’s ‘no nukes’ stand.
The movies can be watched online, for free.
When a Warrior Dies – a documentary on the aftermath of the bombing and the efforts by Greenpeace and sculptor Chris Booth to create a remembrance monument.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/when-a-warrior-dies-1991
Fallout – excerpts from award-winning Tom Scott and Greg McGee-scripted mini series dramatising events leading to NZ’s 80s ‘No Nukes’ stand
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/fallout-1994/series
Mururoa 1973 – a landmark Alister Barry doco about protest flotilla who risked their lives travelling to French nuclear testing zone at Mururoa.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/mururoa-1973
A Nuclear Free Pasific – documentary on the long struggle for a treaty to declare the South Pacific free of nuclear arms.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-nuclear-free-pacific–niuklia-fri-pasifik-1988
VIDEO – a Nuclear Free Pacific
NZ On Screen – A Nuclear Free Pacific (Niuklia Fri Pasifik)
A Nuclear Free Pacific (Niuklia Fri Pasifik), NZ On Screen – 10 July, This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone. Interviews with politicians, activists, radiation victims and American and French admirals are counterpointed. When hopes of a treaty are dashed at a South Pacific Forum meet, it is pointed out that the David Lange-trumpeted independence of NZ’s nuclear free policy is evidently “not for export”. Local music scores the doco, including Australia’s Midnight Oil, whose lead singer (future MP Peter Garrett) is interviewed.
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