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Channel NewsAsia - Doctors link uranium contamination to disabled Punjab children - channelnewsasia.com
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:50"Traces of uranium have been found in a large number of autistic children in India's northern state of Punjab.
The metal, used for generating nuclear energy and to make nuclear bombs, is thought to be the reason behind their autism.
Five-and-a-half-year-old Dashamveer Singh was born premature. It was one of the reasons behind his slow mental development.
He is being treated at Baba Farid Centre For Special Children.
"A normal kid would be active. He would start sitting up by six months of age and start reacting. My child did no such thing. After one year, he could neither sit nor stand. So, we sought treatment for him at the centre," said Satvinder Kaur, mother of Dashamvee.
There are many children at the centre with similar symptoms - most of them are from a small town in India's northern state of Punjab. " Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/1070058/1/.html
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Channel NewsAsia - Doctors link uranium contamination to disabled Punjab children - channelnewsasia.com
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:50"Traces of uranium have been found in a large number of autistic children in India's northern state of Punjab.
The metal, used for generating nuclear energy and to make nuclear bombs, is thought to be the reason behind their autism.
Five-and-a-half-year-old Dashamveer Singh was born premature. It was one of the reasons behind his slow mental development.
He is being treated at Baba Farid Centre For Special Children.
"A normal kid would be active. He would start sitting up by six months of age and start reacting. My child did no such thing. After one year, he could neither sit nor stand. So, we sought treatment for him at the centre," said Satvinder Kaur, mother of Dashamvee.
There are many children at the centre with similar symptoms - most of them are from a small town in India's northern state of Punjab. " Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/1070058/1/.html
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Ex-UN nuclear inspector says IAEA unworkable
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:48"David Kay, former UN chief inspector of the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), contrasts expectations with results on Iraq and Iran.
As sanctions on Iran rise, so does Iranian rhetoric. Sanctions aim to force Iran to submit to inspections. However, Mr. Kay finds inspection largely ineffective. Inspection cannot prevent a country from developing nuclear weapons, especially if the country is big, determined, and capable, like Iran.
Inspectors would need access to all resources with which Iran could develop nuclear weapons and delivery methods. Iran would have to fully declare its nuclear components, uranium enrichment, plutonium activities, and missile testing, production, and deployment. Iran does not cooperate, it obstructs."
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Ex-UN nuclear inspector says IAEA unworkable
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:48"David Kay, former UN chief inspector of the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), contrasts expectations with results on Iraq and Iran.
As sanctions on Iran rise, so does Iranian rhetoric. Sanctions aim to force Iran to submit to inspections. However, Mr. Kay finds inspection largely ineffective. Inspection cannot prevent a country from developing nuclear weapons, especially if the country is big, determined, and capable, like Iran.
Inspectors would need access to all resources with which Iran could develop nuclear weapons and delivery methods. Iran would have to fully declare its nuclear components, uranium enrichment, plutonium activities, and missile testing, production, and deployment. Iran does not cooperate, it obstructs."
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Atomic waste is wasting taxpayer dollars | lancastereaglegazette.com | Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:47"Thirty years ago, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board selected Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the nation's only permanent storage site for the radioactive waste from our nuclear power plants. Work proceeded during this period to secure walls and ceilings from possible earthquakes, paving interior roads and installing more extensive infrastructure. All of this added up to expenditures of $10 billion.
This past March, the U.S. Energy Department notified the board they intended to abandon the Yucca site because it was "too small."
This must be government at its worst.
An Energy Department spokeswoman said that the president was establishing a blue-ribbon commission to find a "safe, long term solution" within 18 months."
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Atomic waste is wasting taxpayer dollars | lancastereaglegazette.com | Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:47"Thirty years ago, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board selected Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the nation's only permanent storage site for the radioactive waste from our nuclear power plants. Work proceeded during this period to secure walls and ceilings from possible earthquakes, paving interior roads and installing more extensive infrastructure. All of this added up to expenditures of $10 billion.
This past March, the U.S. Energy Department notified the board they intended to abandon the Yucca site because it was "too small."
This must be government at its worst.
An Energy Department spokeswoman said that the president was establishing a blue-ribbon commission to find a "safe, long term solution" within 18 months."
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We must fight the nuclear waste dump in West Tenn. | jacksonsun.com | The Jackson Sun
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:45"One of my happiest memories as a young boy was going duck hunting with Dad. On the way to the hunt, even in the dark, by the moonlight you could see the beauty of the West Tennessee countryside. We would drive by small communities and through towns where business owners soon would be getting ready for a day of commerce.
If you had told me then that the day would come that an outside company and nameless, faceless federal bureaucrats would threaten that beauty and our communities by trying to make West Tennessee a nuclear waste dump I would have thought you were crazy.
Today, that nightmare is on the verge of reality as plans are being laid to move hundreds of jobs from Milan, Tenn., to Middletown, Iowa, and to convert the Milan facility to the demilitarization and storage of depleted uranium."
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We must fight the nuclear waste dump in West Tenn. | jacksonsun.com | The Jackson Sun
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:45"One of my happiest memories as a young boy was going duck hunting with Dad. On the way to the hunt, even in the dark, by the moonlight you could see the beauty of the West Tennessee countryside. We would drive by small communities and through towns where business owners soon would be getting ready for a day of commerce.
If you had told me then that the day would come that an outside company and nameless, faceless federal bureaucrats would threaten that beauty and our communities by trying to make West Tennessee a nuclear waste dump I would have thought you were crazy.
Today, that nightmare is on the verge of reality as plans are being laid to move hundreds of jobs from Milan, Tenn., to Middletown, Iowa, and to convert the Milan facility to the demilitarization and storage of depleted uranium."
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Government pulls plug on PBMR - Times LIVE
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:44"R9bn taxpayer-funded nuclear energy plan finally grinds to halt
The government has pulled the plug on its ambitious nuclear energy programme after pumping more than R9-billion into it over more than 11 years.
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The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Company (PBMR), which was established in 1999 to build small nuclear power reactors, faces imminent closure.
In a letter dated July 5, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan told the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM): "The minister of finance has clearly stated that there will be no further funding for the company, and I would like to reiterate that this position has not changed. "
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Government pulls plug on PBMR - Times LIVE
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:44"R9bn taxpayer-funded nuclear energy plan finally grinds to halt
The government has pulled the plug on its ambitious nuclear energy programme after pumping more than R9-billion into it over more than 11 years.
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The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Company (PBMR), which was established in 1999 to build small nuclear power reactors, faces imminent closure.
In a letter dated July 5, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan told the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM): "The minister of finance has clearly stated that there will be no further funding for the company, and I would like to reiterate that this position has not changed. "
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USA and France Help Poland Go Nuclear
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:42"Backed by the U.S. and France, Poland is set to tread the nuclear path and hopes to start generating atomic power by 2021. Presently, coal accounts for over 93 percent of the eastern European country's electricity, demand for which is expected to double by 2025.
A four-stage plan announced by Hanna Trojanowska, the government's Plenipotentiary for Nuclear Energy, envisages appropriate legislation by the end of 2010
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USA and France Help Poland Go Nuclear
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:42"Backed by the U.S. and France, Poland is set to tread the nuclear path and hopes to start generating atomic power by 2021. Presently, coal accounts for over 93 percent of the eastern European country's electricity, demand for which is expected to double by 2025.
A four-stage plan announced by Hanna Trojanowska, the government's Plenipotentiary for Nuclear Energy, envisages appropriate legislation by the end of 2010
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KPMG says nuclear power 'won't happen' - Telegraph
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:41"Britain's new generation of nuclear power stations will not be built if the Government refuses them any more support, a KPMG report will say this week.
The study, commissioned by RWE npower, says it is still uneconomic for utility companies to invest billions of pounds in nuclear power.
The Government has offered to impose a minimum price on carbon permits – which would raise the cost of fossil fuel generation and make low-carbon nuclear more attractive. It has made a promise not to offer any direct subsidies.
KPMG's report will say a carbon "floor price" is not enough for the big utilities to commit large capital investments to the nuclear sector.
It will suggest that the Government ought to introduce a variable premium tariff for all low-carbon technologies – from nuclear to renewables – to make sure enough new power generation is built before Britain starts to run short on capacity in the second half of this decade. "
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KPMG says nuclear power 'won't happen' - Telegraph
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:41"Britain's new generation of nuclear power stations will not be built if the Government refuses them any more support, a KPMG report will say this week.
The study, commissioned by RWE npower, says it is still uneconomic for utility companies to invest billions of pounds in nuclear power.
The Government has offered to impose a minimum price on carbon permits – which would raise the cost of fossil fuel generation and make low-carbon nuclear more attractive. It has made a promise not to offer any direct subsidies.
KPMG's report will say a carbon "floor price" is not enough for the big utilities to commit large capital investments to the nuclear sector.
It will suggest that the Government ought to introduce a variable premium tariff for all low-carbon technologies – from nuclear to renewables – to make sure enough new power generation is built before Britain starts to run short on capacity in the second half of this decade. "
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Nuclear waste coming this way - Brockville Recorder and Times - Ontario, CA
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:40The 1000 Islands could be at risk when radioactive nuclear waste is shipped through the region in September, says Senator Bob Runciman.
In an interview Friday, Runciman said radioactive metal from the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station will be transported on aging ships on a river that this year has very low water levels.
The shipment could be especially dangerous in the narrow passages of the 1000 Islands region west of Brockville, he added.
"My main concern is essentially that we have had two groundings (of ships) in the past two weeks, one in our area and one in the Quebec area, and the lake fleet is an aging fleet, with an average age of 40," the senator explained.
"Both of the breakdowns in the last couple of weeks have been attributed to mechanical failure."
He also said St. Lawrence River water levels remain low, which creates a greater danger when the 1,800 tonnes of nuclear material from radioactive steam generators is transported through the "
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Nuclear waste coming this way - Brockville Recorder and Times - Ontario, CA
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:40The 1000 Islands could be at risk when radioactive nuclear waste is shipped through the region in September, says Senator Bob Runciman.
In an interview Friday, Runciman said radioactive metal from the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station will be transported on aging ships on a river that this year has very low water levels.
The shipment could be especially dangerous in the narrow passages of the 1000 Islands region west of Brockville, he added.
"My main concern is essentially that we have had two groundings (of ships) in the past two weeks, one in our area and one in the Quebec area, and the lake fleet is an aging fleet, with an average age of 40," the senator explained.
"Both of the breakdowns in the last couple of weeks have been attributed to mechanical failure."
He also said St. Lawrence River water levels remain low, which creates a greater danger when the 1,800 tonnes of nuclear material from radioactive steam generators is transported through the "
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Niigata marks '07 killer temblor | The Japan Times Online
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:30"A memorial service was held Friday in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, to mark the third anniversary of a deadly earthquake that killed 15 people and injured more than 2,300 others in and around the prefecture.
At the ceremony jointly hosted by the prefecture, the city of Niigata and the village of Kariwa, local residents and relatives of the dead observed a moment of silence at 10:13 a.m., the time when the earthquake struck.
In the magnitude 6.8 temblor that originated off the coast, a total of 2,346 people in Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures were injured, some seriously. The quake damaged about 44,000 houses, including 1,331 that were completely destroyed.
A total of 3,044 people were forced to live in temporary housing, but all had returned home by last September."
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Niigata marks '07 killer temblor | The Japan Times Online
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:30"A memorial service was held Friday in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, to mark the third anniversary of a deadly earthquake that killed 15 people and injured more than 2,300 others in and around the prefecture.
At the ceremony jointly hosted by the prefecture, the city of Niigata and the village of Kariwa, local residents and relatives of the dead observed a moment of silence at 10:13 a.m., the time when the earthquake struck.
In the magnitude 6.8 temblor that originated off the coast, a total of 2,346 people in Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures were injured, some seriously. The quake damaged about 44,000 houses, including 1,331 that were completely destroyed.
A total of 3,044 people were forced to live in temporary housing, but all had returned home by last September."
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Riverkeeper petitions to intervene in Indian Point water quality permit proceeding
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:29"Riverkeeper has petitioned the state Department of Environmental Conservation urging the agency to uphold its decision not to grant certification to Entergy on the grounds that its Indian Point nuclear power plant does not meet state water quality standards.
Entergy needs that certification as part of its application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew the plant’s licenses for another 20 years.
Riverkeeper’s petition supports DEC’s decision that continued operation of the power plant would violate state clean water standards and continued use of the once-through cooling system would lead to ongoing harmful impacts to the Hudson River’s ecology and aquatic species, said staff attorney Deborah Brancato."
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Riverkeeper petitions to intervene in Indian Point water quality permit proceeding
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 23:29"Riverkeeper has petitioned the state Department of Environmental Conservation urging the agency to uphold its decision not to grant certification to Entergy on the grounds that its Indian Point nuclear power plant does not meet state water quality standards.
Entergy needs that certification as part of its application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to renew the plant’s licenses for another 20 years.
Riverkeeper’s petition supports DEC’s decision that continued operation of the power plant would violate state clean water standards and continued use of the once-through cooling system would lead to ongoing harmful impacts to the Hudson River’s ecology and aquatic species, said staff attorney Deborah Brancato."
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