Posts Tagged ‘nuclear secrets’
October 7, 2010
We still do not know whether or how key issues – such as workers’ health and safety, tailings rehabilitation, transport and groundwater impacts – will be addressed by the panel. We fear that crucial issues, such as impacts on workers’ health and communities and nuclear weapons proliferation, will not be addressed at all.
The panel excludes experts in relevant areas such as occupational health and safety, transport, Aboriginal heritage and native title, non-proliferation and safeguards.
Uranium industry’s record raises doubts, The West Australian, By Mia Pepper, September 16th, 2010, The Barnett Government recently announced that the Australian Centre for Geomechanics had won a tender to form an “independent panel on uranium mining regulations”. Sitting on the panel are pro-nuclear lobbyists and behind the scenes are corporate sponsors including some that are anything but independent. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, Australia, BHP Billiton, BHPB, nuclear, nuclear secrets, uranium
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February 12, 2010
Business Report – Web: State finds First Uranium broke the law February 8, 2010By Asha Speckman First Uranium’s application for an environmental authorisation licence was withdrawn because it had contravened law and begun development of its minewaste tailings processing facility at its Ezulwini mine near Potchefstroom without proper approval. (more…)
Tags:nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, uranium
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February 12, 2010
the additional government supplies in the market could have depressed prices, making it difficult for producers to expand operations……….
Energy Dept cancels surplus uranium transfers
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department has canceled plans to put into the market during 2011 extra government-owned surplus uranium supplies, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress on Thursday, but the uranium transfers will continue for this year. (more…)
Tags:nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, uranium, USA
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January 29, 2010
Why do nuclear companies always start by denying there is a problem when there is a problem, only admitting it when there is a lot of pressure hoping the issue is already forgotten? For years AREVA denied the problems in Niger and now in Brazil! With such track record do they really expect us to believe anything they say?
Greenpeace, by Rianne Teule, 29 Jan 2010 In October 2008,……Greenpeace published data showing that drinking water around the Caetité uranium mine in the state of Bahia, Brazil was contaminated with uranium levels up to seven times higher than the World Health Organisation’s recommendations. The Bahia Institute of Water Management and Climate (Ingá) opened its own investigation in the matter. In November 2009 they suspended the use of water from six wells preventively, because radioactivity in the wells was found to be above allowed limits. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, radiation, radioactive wastes, secrets and lies, uranium
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January 29, 2010
A credible safeguards regime for Australian uranium exports depends on having a credible safeguards agency. Sadly, the federal government’s Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO) is anything but.
Nuclear Safeguards and Australian Uranium Export Policy — Friends of the Earth Australia, by Jim Green 25 Jan 2010 There is a long history of nuclear power facilitating nuclear weapons programs …….The larger part of the problem is real or feigned interest in nuclear power providing a rationale for the acquisition of enrichment plants, reprocessing plants and research reactors and a rationale for the development of cadres of nuclear scientists and engineers whose skills can be put to use in weapons programs………… (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, Australia, nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, nuclear weapons, weapons and war
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January 21, 2010
“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. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, Australia, BHP Billiton, BHPB, global warming, nuclear, nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, Olympic Dam, uranium
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January 20, 2010
“The burden should be on the Army to prove no harm. The Army says there is no harm because they haven’t looked and don’t want to look,” said Albertini. “A license to possess depleted uranium is a nuclear waste dump.”
Residents accuse Army of covering up contamination. DEPLETED URANIUM By NANCY COOK LAUER
WES T HAWAII TODAY 15 Jan 2010
ncook-lauer@westhawaiitoday.comHILO — Four Hawaii residents charged the U.S. Army with trying to cover up its discovery of depleted uranium and then taking a cavalier attitude about cleaning it up during a five-hour hearing Wednesday before a panel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive wastes, secrets and lies, uranium
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January 20, 2010
Uranium mining resumes near Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Trust News January 14, 2010 by gctrust
Denison Mines, a Canadian company, recently revived operations at the Arizona 1 uranium mine on the Arizona Strip adjacent to Grand Canyon. This industrial activity threatens not only the visitor experience at Grand Canyon National Park, but the water supply for twenty-five million people in Nevada, southern California, and Arizona, as well as seeps and springs in the park. Worse yet is the fact that much of the uranium will be shipped to Korea.
Tags:antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, uranium, water
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January 20, 2010
.the special committee decided only to reprimand verbally the two researchers who initiated the study…
Inside Intel / Uranium, down the hatch Haaretz.com By Yossi Melman 14 Jan 2010 Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice. (more…)
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January 8, 2010
Hearing next week on challenge to Army license for depleted uranium I Lind.net, Ian Lind, January 6th, 2010
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an agency of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will hold a hearing next week on challenges filed by four Hawaii residents to an Army license to possess depleted uranium at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, depleted, Depleted uranium, nuclear, nuclear issues, nuclear secrets, radioactive wastes, uranium
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