The Second Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Free World took place in Montreal from August 8 to 14 (the First was held in Fukushima and Tokyo, Japan last April). The Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World already has 168 or…
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Illustration [artist’s rendition] of Hinkley Point C nuclear station. Photograph: EDF Energy/PA An article by Graham Ruddick in the Guardian, entitled “From feast to farce: how the big Hinkley Point C party was put on ice,” reported that “the UK go…
Continue readingWE HAVE THIS weekend to pre-sell just 6 seats to make this screening happen in San Diego! No excuses on the weekend, just DO it: You will NOT be charged until the event is confirmed. ($12 per ticket)http://www.tugg.com/titles/311-surviving-japan?lo…
Continue readingBy Biswajit Roy / via The Telegraph (India) / February 7, 2013 / Separated by over 7,000 kilometres, Fukushima is a household name in Kudankulam. For mothers, young seamen and schoolgoing children, the Japanese prefecture has come to embody the fears s…
Continue readingBy Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / January 19, 2013 / More forgotten history that hides in plain sight: It’s not a stop for the Japanese tourists who visit Niagara, but they might be interested to know. The shores of Lake Ontario and the Ni…
Continue readingby Alex Roslin / straight.com / July 19, 2012 / Are fish from the Pacific Ocean and Japanese coastal and inland waters safe to eat 16 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Governments and many scientists say they are. But the largest collection …
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The Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
Continue readingvia sloth.gr.jp / March 9, 2012 [Editor’s Note: The following was presented to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo today in a protest linking the uranium from Fukushima to indigenous homelands in Australia in solidarity with upcoming actions all over Austr…
Continue readingNuclear contamination – a year after Fukushima, why does Brussels still back nuclear power? March 7, 2012 – 12:45 Climate and Energy One year after the Fukushima disaster hit Japan, nuclear power remains very firmly on the agenda … Continue reading
by Ian Macleod / The Ottawa Citizen / February 23, 2012 / OTTAWA — With the approaching anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a backdrop, Ontario’s top energy executive is urging Canada’s nuclear industry not to retreat in the face of …
Continue readingJapan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge / Toronto Sun / February 18, 2012 / A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was ro…
Continue reading29 Fetuses Found at Uranium Site | News | The Moscow Times 29 Fetuses Found at Uranium Site26 January 2012The Moscow Times Workers uncovered three large jugs filled with the bodies of 29 fetuses as well as other assorted body … Continue reading
by Michael Platt / Calgary Sun / January 22, 2012 / There’s no need to panic — probably. But not knowing whether to shrug or cower over radioactive iodine falling on Calgary as a result of a meltdown in Japan last year has Canada’s top nuclear cr…
Continue readingTaiwan’s TPCo (TaiPower co) has been attempting to build a 4th nuclear facility in Taiwan for nearly two decades. The battle over nuclear power in Taiwan has been a national issue for nearly 20 years and has all but been … Continue reading
No CANDU Would a Canadian reactor have staved off the Fukushima nuclear disaster? by Andrew Horvat / Literary Review of Canada / September 1, 2011 / On March 14, 2011, three days after a 16 metre tsunami knocked out the cooling systems of four of six …
Continue readingReuters / November 17, 2011 / France needs to upgrade the protection of vital functions in all its nuclear reactors to avoid a disaster in the event of a natural calamity, the head of its nuclear safety agency said, adding there was no need to close an…
Continue readingExperts on iodine in Europe: Something very unpleasant has happened — Either serious accident or reactor emergency required venting radioactive substances / via ENEnews.com / November 17, 2011 / ANALYSIS: European radiation safety agencies detect tra…
Continue readingCanadian Collaborative for Radiation Awareness & Monitoring “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead) What is the Canadian Collaborative…
Continue readingby Tamil Nadu / IBNLive.In.com / October 31, 2011 / CHENNAI: The protest fast against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) continued for the 14th day Monday in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, an activist said. “Around 400 people from …
Continue readingHealth Physicist & Nuclear Consultant Questions the Role of ICRP, IAEA & WHO at Fukushima Symposium … Continue reading
Anti-nuclear activists from across India Met on August 10th to call for the closure of that country’s nuclear infrastructure. As the nature and extent of Fukushima continue to be censored by the global media, the back story out of Japan has ignited a global campaign with the recent meetings and organizing are just getting underway
In the Fifties and Sixties the movement against Nuclear Death focused mainly on the military use of Nuclear energy. It was promoted mainly by the German Communist party and its allies, and a layer of left trade-unionists and Social Democrats. … Continue reading
Introduction The present survey was conducted in 47 countries across all continents by leading polling companies associated with WIN?Gallup International. Over 34,000 adult men and women representing various sections of society were interviewed across the globe. In the context of … Continue reading
The weekly Radiation Bulletin has been published since 1985 by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse (SF California USA).
Every week up 1,000 nuclear news stories are published around the world. The Mainstream media just doesn’t want you know that there are battles over nuclear power and the nuclear fuel taking place around the world. The regular Radiation Bulletin is on vacation, however, here’s a modified weekly review of Global Coverage on the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl.
Continue readingJapanese workers braved radiation for temp job
KAZO, Japan — The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and
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Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato has expressed anger at the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., saying both “betrayed” the people of Fukushima Prefecture with repeated assurances about the safety of nuclear
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By Chris Busby
3-29-11
Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don’t believe them. I myself have
Continue readingFrom: Philippe Brousse – Directeur du Réseau Sortir du nucléaire Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire” French Nuclear Phaseout Network Press release – Urgent Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident … Continue reading
The hidden cost of Britain’s new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= The desert, with its towering … Continue reading
Welcome to the Nuclear-Free Future Award. 28SEPT’09–The Germans went to the polls in record lows and voted more than ever for special interest parties. The big winners were the pro-pocketbook Free Democrat Party (FDP), the reformed communist The Left party, … Continue reading
Marignac Says “Far From Being a Model, France Should be a Powerful Cautionary Tale for the U.S. about the Folly of a Headlong Rush into More Nuclear Power”. WASHINGTON, D.C.///September 15, 2009///U.S. policy makers are in the grips of “dangerous … Continue reading
FACTBOX: European nuclear plant life extensions | Green Business | Reuters Most nuclear power plants have a nominal design lifetime of up to 40 years but many have been approved to operate for longer. The possibility of component replacement and … Continue reading
Joseph J. Mangano MPH MBA We hear it all the time. Nuclear reactors produce 80% of the electricity in France. Their reactors are “safe” and that means the U.S. should build new reactors. This is the sound byte. But … Continue reading
a href=”http://www.counterpunch.org/wasserman03192009.html”Harvey Wasserman: The Crash of France’s Nuclear Poster Child/abr /blockquoteThe myth of a successful nuclear power industry in France has melted into financial chaos.br /br /With it dies the corporate-hyped poster child for a “nuclear renaissance” of new reactor … Continue reading
Automated Translation of the french article (machines suck!) by Sortir Du Nucleaire – March 3rd, 2009 – EDF lost 9% on the Paris stock market yesterday, and has lost over 70% in the last few months; – Areva lost more … Continue reading
This is a presentation of Japan’s nuclear state of affairs during following the July 2007 Earthquake that shook the country’s nuclear industry down to its core. Japan and France have remained as the world’s two heavy nuclear promoters after the … Continue reading
This is a good time to do a special on our wonderful nuclear French Connection. Here you will find the best english wire stories that have come out about France over the last year and a half. As an introduction … Continue reading
FT.com / Companies / Energy Utilities Mining – Areva warns of soaring reactor costs Areva warns of soaring reactor costs By Peggy Hollinger in Paris Published: August 29 2008 19:00 | Last updated: August 29 2008 19:00 Areva, France’s nuclear … Continue reading
Confidential documents reveal Finnish nuclear reactor cannot be guaranteed safe WEBWIRE – Wednesday, August 13, 2008 International — Finland, August 2008 — Confidential documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that basic safety procedures have not been followed in the construction of … Continue reading
Missourians for Safe Energy There are few nuclear critics who haven’t been asked this question: Sure, we’ve had problems with nuclear power, but haven’t the French got it down? Isn’t their nuclear program a success story that we should … Continue reading
Department of Energy – U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition WASHINGTON, DC –U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Director Sergey Kiriyenko have signed a joint statement outlining a plan … Continue reading
WA moves to ban nuclear power plants – Australia Energy Minister Francis Logan said the legislation would ensure the state remained "forever free" of nuclear power. "State parliament has already passed legislation to ban the storage and transport of … Continue reading
Military vehicle carrying nuclear warheads got lost on way from Scotland to Reading | the Daily Mail A high-security delivery of nuclear warheads to the south of England turned to farce when vehicles in the MOD convoy got lost … Continue reading
Italy becomes 17th member of GNEP Platts Italy became the 17th member of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership,the US DOE announced November 13. In addition to signing the GNEP statement ofprinciples, Italian Minister of Economic Development Pier Luigi Bersani signeda … Continue reading
TheStar.com | sciencetech | Port Hope radiation tests ‘alarming’ New tests that show radiation contamination in a few Port Hope residents should compel the federal government to put the town under a health microscope, local advocates say. The results, … Continue reading
alJazeera Magazine Israel is estimated to have 200 atomic bombs. Yet it doesn’t want Iran to have a peaceful nuclear program. Israel, which is estimated to have an arsenal of 200 nuclear weapons, has two options: The first is to … Continue reading
Sunday Independent On the same night last week that four robbers shot an emergency officer at Pelindaba, west of Pretoria, another attempt was made to bypass the nuclear site’s security. Intruders breached security at the Western Section of the SA … Continue reading
BBC NEWS | Business | Reactor woes hurt British Energy British Energy has warned that profits will take a knock after problems at four of its nuclear reactors. The UK’s biggest power provider posted a small increase in half-year … Continue reading
globeandmail.com: Town’s residents test positive for uranium contamination The result of testing conducted on a small group of residents of Port Hope has found contamination by uranium of military or industrial origin. Four of nine people tested had unusual … Continue reading