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10/10/2011 NY Times: After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future?
10/10/2011 NY Times: After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future? By STEPHANIE COOKE: A couple of months after the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant March 11, an American nuclear expert posed an interesting question. “The post-Fukushima public sentiment is surprisingly low-key isn’t it? What a difference between this event and TMI or Chernobyl,” he wrote in an e-mail, using an abbreviation for the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. “What do you think is going on? Why so quiet?”... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged Chernobyl, France, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Germany, injury to water, Japan, New York Times, nuclear energy, nuclear power, South Korea, Three Mile Island, United Kingdom, United States, uranium contamination
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10/25/2011 EPA Stakeholder Meeting on Uranium Legacy Contamination Issues featuring EPA Assistant Administrator, Mathy Stanislis
10/25/2011 EPA Stakeholder Meeting on Uranium Legacy Contamination Issues at The Albuquerque Marriott featuring EPA Assistant Administrator, Mathy Stanislis... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged EPA, injury to water, nuclear energy, uranium contamination, uranium legacy, uranium mining, US EPA
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10/8/2011 Gallup Independent: Udall urges continued cleanup of area’s legacy uranium sites
10/8/2011 Udall urges continued cleanup of area’s legacy uranium sites By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., received commitments Thursday from three federal agencies that they will continue to work together to clean up uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission testified on the status of cleanup operations at legacy uranium mining and milling operations. The testimony was presented during a federal oversight hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children’s Health and Environmental Responsibility, which Udall chairs. The senator stressed that each agency continue ongoing cleanup projects and commit to providing necessary funding for the Five-Year Plan for the Navajo Nation begun in 2007 and a Five-Year Plan begun last year for the Grants Mining District.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, Colorado River, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, skyline mine, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged clean up, EPA, Five-Year Plan, Gallup Independent, Grants Mining District, injury to water quality, James Woolford, Kathy Helms, Navajo Nation, nuclear energy, right to water, Superfund, Superfund Remediation, Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation, Udall, uranium contamination, US Department of Energy, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, US Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children's Health and Environmental Responsibility
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9/12/2011 Explosion Rocks French Plutonium – Plant Leak risk after France nuclear site blast
9/12/2011 Explosion Rocks French Plutonium Plant – Leak risk after France nuclear site blast by Agence France-Presse NIMES, France — There is a risk of a radioactive leak after an explosion in an oven Monday at the Marcoule nuclear site near the city of Nimes in the south of France, emergency services said. The southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule. The plant produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons, but does not include reactors. The blast hit the Centraco nuclear waste treatment center belonging to the Socodei subsidiary of national electricity provider EDF, said a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commissariat (CEA). “For the time being nothing has made it outside,” the spokesman said, asking not to be named. A security perimeter has been set up around the installation, firefighters said, without being able to provide further details. © 2011 Agence France-Presse... Read More
Posted in environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining
Tagged Atmoic Energy Commissariat, CEA, EDF, France, French plutonium, Marcoule nuclear site, Nimes, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, plutonium, radioactive leak
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8/22/2011 Guardian UK: Fukushima disaster: residents may never return to radiation-hit homes
8/22/2011 Guardian UK: Fukushima disaster: residents may never return to radiation-hit homes: Japanese government will admit for first time that radiation levels will be too high to allow many evacuees to return home: 
Residents who lived close to the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are to be told their homes may be uninhabitable for decades, according to Japanese media reports. The Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, is expected to visit the area at the weekend to tell evacuees they will not be able to return to their homes, even if the operation to stabilise the plant’s stricken reactors by January is successful.... Read More
Reuters: UN slams Fukushima safety measures before tsunami
France 24: 24/7: REUTERS: UN slams Fukushima safety measures before tsunami: A report from the UN’s atomic energy agency criticised Japanese regulators Sunday for failing to assess and review steps taken at Fukushima after 2002 to protect against tsunamis. The report indicates several shortcomings before the March 11 tsunami. Japanese nuclear regulators failed to review and approve steps taken after 2002 to protect against tsunamis at the Fukushima plant and these proved insufficient to prevent the tidal wave disaster three months ago, a U.N. report showed. A detailed assessment by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency – the first outside review of Japan’s nuclear crisis – suggested several shortcomings both before and after a tidal wave crippled the power station three months ago. 
But it also praised the way workers on the ground dealt with the situation at Fukushima Daiichi after the massive earthquake and huge tsunami devastated its reactors on March 11, triggering the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe in a quarter of a century.... Read More
Posted in environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged Fukushima, IAFA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, nuclear energy, nuclear regulator, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tusnami, United Nations
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France 24 International News 24/7: Protesters rally in Fukushima against nuclear power
France 24 International News 24/7: Protesters rally in Fukushima against nuclear power By News Wires: AFP – An estimated 1,700 people rallied in the capital of Japan’s Fukushima region, home to a crippled atomic power plant, on Sunday, calling for an end to nuclear energy, local media reported. “Abolish all the nuclear power plants!” and “Give radiation-free Fukushima back to us,” the demonstrators chanted as they marched in Fukushima City, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the nuclear plant. The rally, joined by residents evacuated from areas outside the Fukushima Daiichi plant, was organised by the Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs as part of its longtime campaign against nuclear weapons.... Read More
Beyond Reason: The Story of Depleted Uranium
Beyond Reason: The Story of Depleted Uranium... Read More
7/13/2011 Thorium Reactors: Back to the Dream Factory: The Nuclear Dream Factory
Thorium Reactors: Back to the Dream Factory: The Nuclear Dream Factory by Gordon Edwards, July 13, 2011: Every time a nuclear power reactor idea doesn’t work out, and ordinary people get down-hearted and even start to doubt the magnificence and benificence of nuclear energy, the nuclear proponents rush back to their well-stocked dream factory to fetch another idea — one that is sufficiently unfamiliar and sufficiently untested that ordinary people have no idea whether it is good or bad, safe or dangerous, feasible or foolish, or whether the almost miraculous claims made about it are true or false. ... Read More
Posted in environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, core of a nuclear reactor, Finland, Fukushima, Generation 3 reactors, Gordon Edwards, nuclear energy, nuclear power reactor, thorium reactors, Thorium Reactors: Back to the Dream Factory, thorium-232, uranium-238
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