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.
Uranium conference perpetuating lies about radiation
Losses don’t take shine off silver lining, Sydney Morning Herald, SCOTT ROCHFORT March 2, 2010‘GOOD’ RADIATION Scientific findings were aired at a conference yesterday confirming that radiation can actually be good for you. Continue reading
Ionising radiation: cancer risk much greater for women and children
the differences in susceptibility to radiation-induced cancer, with women facing a risk about 50 percent higher than men while the risk for children is several times higher.
People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 ” ….. Kathleen Krevetski : – The ionizing radiation to which people are exposed as a result of Vermont Yankee’s operations is a known human carcinogen. No dose is without risk, and the best science today tells us that even very low doses of radiation pose a risk over a person’s lifetime. Continue reading
“Gen 3” nuclear reactors are duds, but unproven Gen 4 a “public good”!
Intriguing that even the uranium industry is now being told that the Olkiluoto-3 ‘Generation III+’ nuke reactor is a dud. But never mind, the Australian government should support (?fund) the as yet undeveloped and untested Generation IV nuclear reactors! Continue reading
Nuclear industry decides on Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Radiation Safety Standards
-policing their own industry just like the banking and financial industry did before their massive taxpayer bailout
People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont
Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 “………Kathleen Krevetski – “In the United States, the NRC’s technical and safety regulations governing nuclear power plants are developed by the private nuclear industry using voluntary consensus standards. Continue reading
Nuclear waste dump siting shows Australian govt’s contempt for Aboriginal rights
“Article 29 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Labor says they support, clearly prohibits the imposition of toxic waste onto Indigenous land without consent. I know my family and many others from that country are fighting hard against this. We as Aboriginal people intend to enforce our rights.”
Stop Dumping on Aboriginal Rights Aboriginal News Group 26 Feb 2010, Continue reading
Cancer in U.S. soldiers related to depleted uranium
“I believe in my heart that the cancer is a by-product of when my daughter was exposed to depleted Uranium in Iraq.”
Iraq: An Environmental Cesspool, THE HUFFINGTON POST, R. B. Stuart, 1 March 2010, While the war in Iraq winds down, the cases of soldiers being diagnosed with rare, aggressive forms of cancer post deployment heats up. Not only do soldiers have to contend with side stepping roadside bombs during their tour, but radiological dust from depleted Uranium, Continue reading
South Australian tax-payers will help BHP’s uranium mine to be “viable”
for the Olympic Dam Task Force to assist owner BHP Billiton in proving the viability of this project.
State funding to support Olympic Dam expansion – URANIUM, Mineweb , Ross Louthean, 01 Mar 2010 Continue reading
Liberals will support nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land
Vote closer on Australia’s first nuclear waste dump: minister, ABC News, Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, 2 March 2010
Australia’s Resources and Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, says parliament is set to pass laws that could see Australia’s first nuclear waste dump built in the Northern Territory…”I have had discussions with the coalition and all being well there is now a maturity in the debate which means we will now pass legislation supported by the major political parties in Australia,” he said.
ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:Vote closer on Australia’s first nuclear waste dump: minister
Uranium mining’s damage to Native Americans
Throughout the Diné Nation, Diné families have been subject to decades of radioactive contamination
Uranium Mining Begins Near Grand Canyon: Thousands of Claims Threaten Public Health & Sacred Lands :: Peace, Earth & Justice News Feb 24, 2010 Grand Canyon, AZ — In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Continue reading
Rudd Govt can over-ride Northern Territory
it is too useful to the commonwealth as a zone for decision-making.
Dreams of statehood are buried in a sparsely populated area * NORTHERN TERRITORY: Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian, February 27, 2010 THIS week’s announcement by federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson that the commonwealth’s preferred site for a national radioactive waste depository is Muckaty station in the heart of the central desert foregrounds a bitter truth about Northern Territory politics. Continue reading
Big money push for nuclear power, nuclear waste dumps in Australia
Big money can be made by a few, for Australia to become an international nuclear waste dump. Hence the push for (completely uneconomic) nuclear power in Australia. THE TRUE COSTS OF NUCLEAR POWER – our theme for March
Martin Ferguson’s nuke waste dump on aboriginal land might not succeed
NT nuclear waste dump — traditional owners say no Green Left. Natalie Wasley, Alice Springs, 26 February 2010 “… the minister’s new legislation entrenches another unfair process which began under the former Howard government. Continue reading
Nuclear Waste Dumped on Land of Poverty-stricken Indigenous Americans
Nuclear Waste On Native American Reservations. The Good Human. February 28th, 2010, Native tribes across the American West have been and continue to be subjected to significant amounts of radioactive and otherwise hazardous waste as a result of living near nuclear test sites, uranium mines, power plants and toxic waste dumps. Continue reading
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