Antinuclear campaign growing in India
Campaigners from around India have now joined the resistance movement set up by farmers and fishermen
India’s government withdraws nuclear power legislation – Nuclear Reaction 14 March, 2010, .”…….’Indian farmers battle against nuclear plant A robust people’s movement against a major nuclear power project has built up in a cluster of small villages on India’s picturesque Konkan coast. Continue reading
Aboriginals and Uranium Mining – Quiet Deals Going On?
Just who are the Kokatha Mula Land Nations Council Inc and the Kokatha Olympic Dam Agreement Association Inc?
No, they are not the Kokatha people, but a newer and vaguer mob.
Anyway, they’re having their “Annual general Meeting” on March 27th
Do I smell a BHP Billiton front rat?
Obama’s nuclear promotion stalled in India
government is keen to pass the bill before the next meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to US President Barack Obama scheduled in April. According to government, there is need to pass this bill for completing the 123 civil nuclear pact with US as the private companies in the US are not willing to sell any nuclear equipment to India without such a law in place.
Govt. defers tabling of nuke liabilities bill in Lok Sabha, NEWSTRACK India, New Delhi, 15 March, 2010, Continue reading
New Research: Depleted Uranium Causes Cancer
This study shows that both types of uranium may carry a health risk because they both affect DNA in ways that can lead to cancer.
Depleted and enriched uranium affect DNA in different ways. Environmental Health News, 16 March, 20201, Continue reading
Blacks and Whites gather together against Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
Alyawarr, Anungu (APY lands) Warlpiri, Anmatjirra, Arrente, Warramungu, NSW Land Council people – we are now joining together to make a stand at Uluru and will be calling on our Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal friends, unions and churches to stand with us.
Time to make a stand, Tennant & District Times 12 March 2010, – RICHARD DOWNS, SPOKESPERSON FOR THE ALYAWARR WALK-OFF CAMP. Last week Richard Downs, spokesperson for the Alyawarr Walk Off Camp, wrote to the Northern Land Council Chairman, Kim Hill, regarding the consultation process which eventuated in the nomination of Muckaty Station as the site for a nuclear dump. This is what he wrote: Continue reading
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
South Australia’s museum rejects uranium mining in wilderness areas
The museum says the biodiversity evaluation in Seeking a Balance is “greatly flawed”.
South Australian mining plan would potentially kill off species Adelaide Now, Cameron England,
March 15, 2010 A STATE Government plan which would allow mining in sensitive parts of the Northern Flinders Ranges is “greatly flawed” and should be “rejected totally”, the SA Museum says. Continue reading
World Virtual Forum on Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
learn more, please visit the world forum on the future of nuclear weapons, http://eagle.webster.edu/TheGlobalForum/ launched by Webster University students.
Nuclear Nemesis, Civil Religion | By Rosan Yoshida, Post-Dispatch 16 March 2010, The entire earth ecology faces imminent inferno. We may evaporate instantaneously, be burned skinless in the nuclear blast, or be irradiated incessantly, inside and out, succumbing to dust in a nuclear winter.We are at the critical point: either we abolish nukes or nukes abolish us. Continue reading
Senate inquiry in to waste dump will not even go to the area
holding it from Darwin and from Canberra is a good way of staying a long way away from where the people are genuinely the most angry and have the most to lose
Senators urged to visit planned waste dump site – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 15 March 2010, The Greens say a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government’s proposed radioactive waste management legislation will not visit the site of the proposed dump.The only location the Government is now considering is Muckaty Station, near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. 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
Yearly, 400 new cases of cancer caused by CT scans
CT scans overuse causes cancers: report, The West , AAP, March 15, 2010, Senior radiologists have called for doctors to stop the indiscriminate ordering of CT scans, which can cause cancer.Medical research has found that more than 400 new cases of cancer a year in Australia are attributable to diagnostic radiology. Continue reading
Radioactivity is radioactivity, whether from uranium or from nuclear power
Now here’s a new slant on a wobbly word! It’s “NUCLEAR” In the item below, we see the Parks authority reassuring us that the radioactive waste dumped in Kakadu National Park is OK, because, you see, it’s only radioactivity from uranium mining – it’s not from a nuclear reactor! Well, isn’t that reassuring!
Radioactive waste dumped in Kakadu National Park
Toxic waste dump in Kakadu, Northern Territory News , NIGEL ADLAM, March 13th, 2010
THE equivalent of six Olympic-size swimming pools of radioactive soil and mining equipment has been buried in Kakadu National Park.Parks Australia said it was not nuclear waste and the level of radioactivity was low.
The soil and equipment had been stored in shipping containers.
It has now been put in containers with a structural life of 1000 years and buried four metres down.
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.
Planned NT nuclear waste dump will not be just for ‘medical’ waste
What will be stored at Muckaty? – ABC Darwin – Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 March, 2010 By Liz Trevaskis We’ve heard that medical waste will be stored at an Australian radioactive waste dump, either at Muckaty station or wherever else a site is chosen. But spent nuclear fuel rods, which are of a higher level of radioactivity, will also be stored in any waste dump that’s established.
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