Antinuclear

Australian news, and some related international items

How the USA exploded a hydrogen bomb in space

VIDEO A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space 1962 | Before It’s News, 3 July 2010, “…..Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will. Here it is:

A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space 1962 | Before It’s News

A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space,  NPR, by Robert Krulwich, 1 July 2010 :A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space : NPR

July 6, 2010 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | Leave a comment

Devastation of indigenous land by uranium mining

VIDEO Another Green World: McCain declares (nuclear) war on Navajo & Sioux McCain declares (nuclear) war on Navajo & Sioux, Another Green World, by Derek Wall, 1 July 2010Our Mother is suffering….’Radiation levels rising, uranium mining for ‘clean’ nuclear power is killing indigenous land in Arizona and McCain wants more, bet it would be different if his house was next to a radioactive mine.


July 2, 2010 Posted by | uranium | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Call to Australians to dump Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump plan

The Government must stop pushing the Muckaty dump plan and establish an independent and public review of nuclear waste management options based on best science, transparent process and community inclusion and consent, as it committed to do in 2007.”


ACF is seeking community support and donations to run newspaper and billboard advertising in Melbourne, asking for him and the Government to ‘Dump the Dump’.Concerned Australians can find out more and donate at www.dumpthedump.org.au

AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 2 July 2010 The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched a major new campaign to end Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s plan for a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek. Continue reading

July 2, 2010 Posted by | General News, uranium | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

South Australian govt ordered to pay legal costs of anti uranium protestors

Anti-uranium protesters win legal costs from SA Government , ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 30 June 2010, A court has ordered the South Australian Government to pay the legal bills of nine people who were assaulted and unlawfully detained during an anti-uranium protest. Continue reading

June 30, 2010 Posted by | legal, South Australia, uranium | , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

No nuclear waste dump for uranium baron South Australia

with past scientific assessment declaring Woomera in South Australia as the best option, Premier Mike Rann was quickly on the defensive, saying a nuclear waste dump would jeopardise his state’s clean, green reputation.

“We took the Howard government to the High Court to stop the nation’s nuclear waste dump being set up in this state.

Arguments flare again over nuke waste dump,  David Nason , The Australian ,  June 29, 2010 JULIA Gillard’s rise to Prime Minister has sparked a new debate over where to locate a nuclear waste dump. Continue reading

June 29, 2010 Posted by | South Australia, uranium, wastes | , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Zane Alcorn speaks out: the uranium industry must go

Zane Alcorn, candidate for Newcastle , Green Left Weekly, 26 June 2010, We need to stand behind the first people of this country and fight for their land and cultural rights. The government’s so-called concern for Aboriginal welfare and living conditions is nothing but a cloak for a blatant land grab.The uranium-rich land of central Australia is coveted by government and private mining corporations alike. Aboriginal land rights are a direct threat to this potential source of huge wealth. Continue reading

June 28, 2010 Posted by | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Compensation for uranium industry workers and communities

the health impacts on families of uranium workers and residents of uranium-development communities.

Senators want uranium compensation on fast track, GJSentinel.com, June 26, 2010 Colorado’s two U.S. senators are seeking a hearing on a bill that would expand the compensation program for the nation’s nuclear-weapons industry workers. Continue reading

June 28, 2010 Posted by | uranium | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A little primer on ionising radiation

Radiation Poisoning, Sickness (Radioactivity) Symptoms | Health Articles, 28 June 2010, Radiation can simply be divided into ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Radioactive materials are a source of ionizing radiation because they emit particles (particulate radiation) and waves that can penetrate certain substances. There are three types of ionizing radiation that are of concern in terms of a person’s health : Continue reading

June 28, 2010 Posted by | uranium | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Will Gillard toe Ferguson’s line on Muckaty nuclear waste dump?

“In no way can we allow any state or Territory government to get in the way of establishing a repository,”  said Martin Ferguson

Hendo urges Gillard to dump Muckaty, Northern Territory News, NICK CALACOURAS June 26th, 2010 AUSTRALIA’S new Prime Minister Julia Gillard should rethink her predecessor’s decision to build a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory, Chief Minister Paul Henderson said. Continue reading

June 26, 2010 Posted by | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics, uranium | , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Plutonium powered nuclear facilities in space?

We have been seeing — for two months now — the damage of technology run amok in the Gulf of Mexico. Consider the consequences of dangerous, expensive, unnecessary nuclear-powered technology running amok above our heads.

Obama Seeks to Revive Space Nuclear Power, Karl Grossman, June 25, 2010 Despite its huge dangers, the Obama administration is seeking to revive the use of nuclear power in space. Continue reading

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Australia’s nuclear waste danger

Obama’s visit later this year may well lead to Australia becoming an international nuclear waste dump – THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY and RADIOACTIVE WASTESour theme for June 2010 With the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill, the Australian government is  setting Australia up for a possible later step in the sorry story of nuclear wastes.

The decision to impose a nuclear waste dump on Northern Territory Aboriginal land has been followed quickly by an agreement between the Australian government and President Obama, on sharing nuclear technology. And this will now be followed by Obama’s visit to Australia – just at the time when Obama is in deep trouble over the USA’s growing mass of nuclear wastes.

At the same time, Obama has set up a (somewhat pro-nuclear industry) “Blue Ribbon Panel” to find out what on earth to do with USA’s nuclear wastes

Australia is still signed up to the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation , (that’s the new name for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership), by which uranium -selling countries agree to take back nuclear wastes from overseas countries

June 25, 2010 Posted by | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews, uranium, wastes | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Veterans die as UK govt delays nuclear compensation case

“The Ministry of Defense  is spending lots of money to fight this as it now realises that it will not only have to apologise and admit what happened, but will also have to compensate a lot more people than they originally expected.

(UK) Nuclear test veteran fears he may not live to see final decision, Burton News & Staffordshire Newspaper by ROB SMYTH, 24 June 2010, A NUCLEAR test veteran has described how he believes his battle for compensation from the Government may not be won in his lifetime. Continue reading

June 25, 2010 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | Leave a comment

Surfers against nuclear power

The message is clear from the surf community in Jeffreys Bay and is supported by surfers from all over the world. Don’t build a Nuke at Thuyspunt.

(South Africa) 23 June 2010, The Jeffreys Bay surf community came out in full support of the Supertubes Surfing Foundation’s call to prevent the building of a nuclear power station at nearby Thuyspunt. Continue reading

June 24, 2010 Posted by | uranium, water | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australian govt’s new trick to benefit nuclear industry

The NT intervention is clearly racist and is not motivated by concern for Aboriginal children but to enable government control of Aboriginal land…..Many Aboriginal communities have been forced to sign over their land on five-year leases to the federal government — land that contains gold, iron ore, uranium as well as areas that have been slated as potential nuclear waste dumps.


We are all in this together, Green Left Weekly, Ruth Ratcliffe June 20, 2010…….The Rudd government plans to extend the paternalistic policy of welfare quarantining, which the Howard government initiated in remote Aboriginal communities, to other areas of disadvantage. Continue reading

June 23, 2010 Posted by | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, uranium | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radioactive waste problem at London’s Olympic Games site

Tonnes of radioactive waste casts doubt over London’s Olympic stadium legacy• Presence of waste on site could complicate redevelopment after 2012 Games | UK news | The Guardian, Ian Griffiths 20 June 2010,
The development of the Olympic site in east London after the Games have finished could be in jeopardy because of radioactive waste buried beneath the site, experts have warned. Continue reading

June 23, 2010 Posted by | uranium | , , , , , | Leave a comment