Rocky Mountain News Federal officials did not systematically deny help for ill nuclear weapons workers such as those at Rocky Flats, a congressional investigation has found. But advocates for the ill workers said that investigators were too quick to accept … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2007
The Coloradoan – www.coloradoan.com – Ft. Collins, CO. Laws would increase public oversight of mining Lawmakers: Restore groundwater and make more information available State lawmakers from Northern Colorado are appropriately seeking to even the playing field for the public when … Continue reading
Industry’s plan for us | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist The many ways big money seeks to avoid reducing fossil fuel use Posted by David Roberts at 10:50 PM on 29 Oct 2007 Read more about: energy | … Continue reading
ReviewJournal.com – News – Downwinders can monitor radiation By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL ON THE WEB Community Environmental Monitoring Program Science teacher Don Curry, left, and Community Environmental Monitoring Program Manager Ted Hartwell discuss the network’s capabilities Oct. 17 at the … Continue reading
Russia says radiation leak at Urals Mayak plant | Environment | Reuters By Natalya Shurmina YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Safety breaches have caused a radiation leak at a major nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural mountains, Russia announced on Monday, … Continue reading
News & Star ‘Nuclear focus on Sellafield’ Published on 29/10/2007 Moveable priorities: Above left, Dungeness Nuclear Power Station in Kent. Above right, Sellafield, where union leaders are concerned work will be transferred from the south amid a funding crisis Moveable … Continue reading
The Calgary Sun – Nuke topic closed to public UPDATED: 2007-10-29 02:17:03 MST By CP OTTAWA — Last January, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn gave a speech to the Economic Club of Toronto in which he touted the virtues of … Continue reading
The Buffalo News: Niagara County: Radioactive cleanup stage called critical By Aaron Besecker – Font LEWISTON — The investigation into contamination at the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works is entering an important phase that will impact cleanup plans that could … Continue reading
The Coloradoan – www.coloradoan.com – Ft. Collins, CO. Those of us who live in Northern Colorado have good reasons to be concerned about the potential for uranium mining in our area. There are now five uranium companies active here. One … Continue reading
The Associated Press: Panel Urges End to Nuke Waste Proposal By H. JOSEF HEBERT – 10 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of the National Academy of Sciences urged President Bush on Monday to abandon an ambitious plan to … Continue reading
Salt Lake Tribune – Deadly dirt: Navajos in fight for their lives Tribune Editorial Article Last Updated: 10/29/2007 07:34:24 AM MDT If a picture speaks a thousand words, a small container of contaminated soil and a Geiger counter speak … Continue reading
5280 Magazine — Out in the Cold They are America’s Cold War veterans, who forged weapons from a fearsome energy source and bravely endured years of radiation for a country that pledged to take care of them. Instead, government loopholes … Continue reading
Seacoastonline.com: Power plants get little-known subsidies By Chris Dornin October 28, 2007 6:00 AM While paper mills close and Cabletron spins off its remnants out of state, power plants from the Seacoast to Whitefield enjoy the perks of a … Continue reading
Independent – October 27-28, 2007: Panel rips into feds; Tells them they’ve had 30 years to cleanup uranium waste and have done nothing By Kathy Helms Diné Bureau WINDOW ROCK — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans … Continue reading
newsobserver.com | Shearon Harris: Train derailed at plant By John Murawski, Staff Writer Rail cars on a train carrying spent radioactive nuclear fuel derailed at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County Thursday at 6:57 p.m. But the nuclear … Continue reading
Independent – October 24, 2007: Uranium legacy outrages Congress; Waxman: ‘The primary responsibility for this tragedy rests with the federal government’ Everytt Begay walks past a row of signs leaning against a fence that keeps people out of the proposed … Continue reading
The Navajo Nation has requested the federal government: * Establish a moratorium on uranium mining and processing in Navajo Indian Country that mirrors the Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005 passed by the Navajo Nation Council banning the same activities; … Continue reading
IT’S GOING TO TAKE ABOUT 3 STORIES TO GET ALL OF THIS HEARING. IT ROCKED! By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau WINDOW ROCK – A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the sound of an instrument used to detect … Continue reading
Uranium Free BC and Uranium Free Kootenay Boundary NEWS RELEASE FROM URANIUM FREE B.C. COALITION (UFBCC) Penticton, B.C. October 04, 2007 Okanagans Support Algonquins on Uranium Blockade Thirty delegates to the Uranium Free B.C. Coalition ( UFBCC.) met September 29th … Continue reading
FT.com / World – Nuclear plans face fresh challenge By Fiona Harvey and Rebecca Bream Published: October 24 2007 20:04 | Last updated: October 24 2007 20:04 Fresh legal challenges are expected to hamper plans to build new nuclear power … Continue reading
Salt Lake Tribune – Navajos: Old uranium tailings leave land radioactive, people sick By Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 10/24/2007 06:52:39 AM MDT WASHINGTON – The Navajo Nation representative waved an instrument over the small pile … Continue reading
Salt Lake Tribune – Utah lawmakers seek faster tailings cleanup By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 10/24/2007 12:58:35 AM MDT Utah lawmakers continue to push in Congress for speedy cleanup of the Atlas uranium tailings pile … Continue reading
Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination – Los Angeles Times Tribal officials ask Congress for $500 million to deal with wastes left by mining for bombs, nuclear power plants. By Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 24, … Continue reading
Contamination From Depleted Uranium Found In Urine 20 Years Later ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2007) — Inhaled depleted uranium (DU) oxide aerosols are recognised as a distinct human health hazard and DU has been suggested to be responsible in part for … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – Senators vow action on aid program for nuke workers S By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News October 24, 2007 WASHINGTON – Members of a power-packed U.S. Senate committee said Tuesday that they would find ways to … Continue reading
Brenda Norrell: Indigenous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining “Leave It in the Ground!” Indigeneous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining By BRENDA NORRELL Indigenous peoples from around the world, victims of uranium mining, nuclear testing, … Continue reading
NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE ANSWER – by Karl Grossman There’s again a move to “revive” nuclear power. Every decade or so those with a vested interest in this deadly dangerous technology have sought to get the public to swallow … Continue reading
Oxford Research Group – Briefing papers – Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power Frank Barnaby and James Kemp, with a foreword by David Howarth MP, July 2007 Report Cover Supporters of nuclear power claim that … Continue reading
Deseret Morning News | Cost of a Utah nuclear plant could reach $3 billion By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News Published: Oct. 19, 2007 12:24 a.m. MDT A nuclear-power plant planned for Utah could be as expensive as $3 billion … Continue reading
TheDay.com – Anti-Nuke Appeal In Millstone Storage Case Heads To State Supreme Court Court By Patricia Daddona , Published on 10/19/2007 The state Supreme Court may hear anti-nuclear activists’ appeal next month of a lower court ruling that found no … Continue reading
The Buffalo News: Niagara County: Testing standards for landfill are faulted Residents group cites flaws in CWM plan By Aaron Besecker – NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU Updated: 10/19/07 7:48 AM LEWISTON — New state testing requirements for CWM Chemical Services fail … Continue reading
NewsOK: Gore uranium facility facing four options Gore uranium facility facing four options Additional information about Gore, OK from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. By The Associated Press GORE — U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials have detailed four options for … Continue reading
Independent – October 19, 2007: A legacy of illness; Post-71 miners don’t want to see a repeat of past errors A legacy of illness Post-71 miners don’t want to see a repeat of past errors Strong winds carry misted water … Continue reading
OFFICE OF U.S. SENATOR SHERROD BROWN For Immediate Release Thursday, October 18, 2007                                                 Contact: Bethany Lesser (202) 224-3978 BROWN INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO CLEAN UP PIKETON URANIUM ENRICHMENT PLANT Bill Would Fund Cleanup Effort – Critical First Step To Redevelopment Of … Continue reading
asahi.com : Control rod stuck at nuclear plant – 10/19/2007 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN A control rod at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture remains stuck, raising concerns that the July 16 earthquake may have distorted the shape of … Continue reading
What to do with nuclear waste? – News What to do with nuclear waste? Institute of Environmental Studies hosts lecture on government waste disposal project Kabir Bedi Deep below the surface of the earth, scientists are researching the best ways … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman Nukes are back and so are we October 18, 2007 The nuclear power industry is back to where it always goes when it wants to build new reactors—the taxpayer trough. … Continue reading
Cost of nuclear clean-up rises to £73bn | | Guardian Unlimited Business Greenpeace puts full cost at £100bn · Eon insists there is moral imperative for new plants Terry Macalister Thursday October 11, 2007 The Guardian The official cost of … Continue reading
The government was equally tight-lipped about the radioactive fallout – although the authorities banned the sale of milk from local farms. A new study by John Garland, formerly of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and Richard Wakeford, a visiting professor … Continue reading
Britain ends consultation on new nuclear power Mon Oct 8, 2007 4:16pm BST By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) – The government’s legally forced public consultation on whether it should give the green light to a new fleet of nuclear power … Continue reading
U.S. Considered Radiological Weapon | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited Monday October 8, 2007 3:46 PM By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – In one of the longest-held secrets of the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the … Continue reading
Federal loan guarantees for nuclear development should help Constellation Energy, investors – Examiner.com BALTIMORE (Map, News) – Constellation Energy has already proved to be quite profitable for investors this year, and a recent decision by the Department of Energy could … Continue reading
Some EU Officials Want to Resist Nuclear Power Renaissance | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 01.10.2007 Germany’s Biblis nuclear power plant Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Politicians questioned the actual benefits nuclear energy would bring the environment High-ranking European … Continue reading
New bill would open San Onofre for another reactor North County Times – North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News By: EDWARD SIFUENTES – Staff Writer A bill introduced earlier this week by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, would allow … Continue reading