tagged w/ Depleted Uranium
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Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the waterWestern Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the... more
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The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II. DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because of its high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It has been fired by the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and in Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the Israeli military in Lebanon and Palestine.
Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been classified as an illegal weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations
The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death... more
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As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises
WASHINGTON — Forgotten but not gone, the waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still at the reactor sites, at least 20 years behind schedule. But it is making itself felt in the federal budget.
Each reactor typically creates about 20 tons of waste a year, which is approximately two new casks, at roughly $1 million each. If a repository or interim site opened, clearing the backlog would take decades, experts say. At present, waste is in temporary storage at 122 sites in 39 states.
"Accelerating Hanford Cleanup"
http://www.archive.org/details/acc300
The first two minutes of "Accelerating Hanford Cleanup" are eye opening and the amount of radioactive waste and work needed there is staggering.
NO NEW NUKES.
As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises
WASHINGTON — Forgotten... more
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 - For the first time in three decades, companies are getting ready to build nuclear reactors in the United States. They intend to do so under streamlined procedures meant to avoid the long delays and cost overruns that crippled the industry last time around.
But with early jockeying under way to win government approval for this new generation of plants, ominous signs are emerging that the plans may not go smoothly.
And if the industry succeeds in winning approval for as many new reactors as it wants, 31 and counting, the capacity of nuclear suppliers is likely to be strained. By most estimates, they can fabricate enough parts for only three or four reactors a year, and the United States will be competing with other countries that want to build nuclear plants.
Some of the most important parts can be cast only by a single foundry, Japan Steel Works. "The global supply chain is going to be the pacing item," Mr. Wallace said.WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 - For the first time in three decades, companies are getting ready... more
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If confirmed, this is the most successful scheme I've heard of to smuggle radioactives into the West for sale, presumably to terrorists. It's worrying to me, because I think it raises the chances that a dirty bomb attack will be one of the big attacks we could see in the next few years. On the theory that where there is one network, there will be others, and we can't stop them all.
I don't think however that this means that a backpack nuke is likely. Build-in-place could maybe have been done with this quantity, I don't know the minimum required, but why go to that degree when you can just powder the stuff and spread it around?If confirmed, this is the most successful scheme I've heard of to smuggle... more
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PARIS, Nov. 26 Areva, the French nuclear power giant, signed the largest deal in the industrys history Monday, with Chinas leading nuclear power company.
A nuclear renaissance is now gearing up everywhere in the world, said John B. Ritch III , a former American diplomat and director general of the World Nuclear Association, an industry group. It is occurring parallel to an enormous expansion in energy consumption.
Some governments heed their antinuclear constituencies. Germany, once a leader in nuclear energy, is committed to exiting nuclear energy by 2020; Sweden is similarly committed to phase out its nuclear plants by 2010.
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No Nukes, period!PARIS, Nov. 26 Areva, the French nuclear power giant, signed the largest deal in... more
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A Deeply Green City Confronts Its Energy Needs and Nuclear Worries
FORT COLLINS, Colo. This city takes pride in being green, from its official motto, Where renewal is a way of life, to its Climate Wise energy program, which helps local businesses reduce the carbon emissions that scientists say can contribute to global warming.
But now two proposed energy projects are exposing the hard place that communities like this across the country are likely to confront in years to come as the tangled nuances of thinking globally come back to bite.
Both projects would do exactly what the city proclaims it wants, helping to produce zero-carbon energy. But one involves crowd-pleasing, feel-good solar power, and the other is a uranium mine, which has a base of support here about as big as a pinkie. Environmentalism and local politics have collided with a broader ethical and moral debate about the good of the planet, and whether some places could or should be called upon to sacrifice for their high-minded goals.
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If the NYT is so interested in science, why do the preface global warming with a statement like this: "...that scientists say can contribute to"????????/
Is global warming still up for debate? Are we headed to hell in a hand basket?
Am I reading to much into this, or are subtleties like this important. After Iraq, the NYT should be on its best, and most objective behavior, don't you think?
I say let's error on the side of survival.
A Deeply Green City Confronts Its Energy Needs and Nuclear Worries
FORT COLLINS,... more
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Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear
Technology in the 21st Century
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When I Came Home is a documentary film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight to receive their benefits from the Veterans Administration.
Through the story of Herold Noel, a homeless Iraq war veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living out of his car in Brooklyn, the film reveals a failing system and the veterans struggle to survive after returning from the war. When I Came Home follows Herolds battle with homelessness and PTSD as he tries to get help from the VA, city agencies, and various veterans organizations.
With temperatures dropping in New York, Herold meets fellow vet Paul Rieckhoff, founder of the countrys largest Iraq veteran advocacy organization. What follows is a media blitz that transforms the young, homeless veteran into the leader of a new movement.When I Came Home is a documentary film about homeless veterans in America: from those... more
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Deputy Director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre, working with Dr. Asaf Durakovic, Tedd Weyman organized and led field studies in Afghanistan and Iraq to measure and analyse uranium contamination of radiotoxic and chemotoxic heavy metals from battlefield weapons. The use of uranium in non fissile-penetrating weapons and bunker busters are effectively nuclear weapons, Weyman reports. It is known world wide, he says, that DU weapons have long-term implications that, right now corporations and governments are hiding. But Weyman cautions,"If you don't have a moral objection [to using DU on another nation], you might have a pragmatic objection which might be the liabilities that a nation faces for permanently contaminating another nation's environment...Uranium contamination in Iraq will last for millions of years. So the liabilities are very significant when you have every nation that was on the receiving end and every soldier on the sending end is contaminated." Weyman spoke in Rochester, June 26, 2005 at an event hosted by a coalition of Rochester peace groups.Deputy Director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre, working with Dr. Asaf... more
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STRONG CONTENT!
MORE INFO ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUM:
http://www.cadu.org.uk/intro.htm
(Campaign Against Depleted Uranium)
The photos are by Takashi Morizumi.
Takashi Morizumi is a photojournalist who covers topics in Japan and overseas such as the effects of US military bases and environmental problems. In particular, since the later half of the 90s, he has covered the damages caused by nuclear mining, testing, power plants, and the use of depleteted uranium and other nuclear weapons.
Takashi has been documenting the children of Iraq since 1998. He has observed the effects of the U.S. government blockade: no medical supplies, malnourished children, weakened children dying in large numbers, and the alarming increase in leukemia, cancer, and physical deformities.
Takashi has combined approximately 50 of his photos of Iraq into an exhibition that is being shown around the world.
"I hope to show to many people a view of the things happening around the world that I have been investigating. In the 21st century, where is the world heading? Can mankind's intelligence lead us to a bright future? I want you to keep thinking positively."
Animation made by Eric BlumrichSTRONG CONTENT!
MORE INFO ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUM:... more
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Anti-nuclear protesters confronted CLP candidate for Lingiari, Adam Giles, outside his Alice Springs office at 8:30 this morning.Anti-nuclear protesters confronted CLP candidate for Lingiari, Adam Giles, outside his... more
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The National Day of Action by to highlight the dangerous nature of federal government plans to impose a nuclear dump in the Northern Territory and the Coalition's continued refusal to disclose its nuclear agenda to the Australian community ahead of the federal election.The National Day of Action by to highlight the dangerous nature of federal government... more
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Helen Caldicott talks about nuclear workers and how the US wages our own nuclear war in Iraq via depleted uranium.Helen Caldicott talks about nuclear workers and how the US wages our own nuclear war... more
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Here are a few articles on the resurgence, or attempted resurgence on Nuclear power. Useful for knowing some of the pro-N-power arguments that are being used.
Here are a few articles on the resurgence, or attempted resurgence on Nuclear power.... more
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I certainly hope so. It has a half-life of four and a half billion years - which means it takes four and a half billion years for its radioactivity to decrease by half, after which it will take another four and a half billion years to decrease it by half again, and so on, and on, and on...
The truth is coming out via a neighborhood in Colonie, a suburb of Albany, New York.I certainly hope so. It has a half-life of four and a half billion years - which means... more
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Do you think NUCLEAR POWER is the solution to GLOBAL WARMING?
--Currently the US has 104 Nuclear Reactors, providing only 20% of our electricity.
--On September 11th, 2001, American Airlines flight 11 flew over Indian Point nuclear reactor, en route to the World Trade Center.
--20 million people could have been contaminated with deadly radiation and thousands of square miles lost forever.
--MIT concluded that a minimum of 1,500 new reactors would be needed globally to offset coal carbon emissions.
--"The next Chernobyl may be Chernobyl itself"
--Even now, Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor is leaking lethal doses of radiation,
--------------and there is no safe way to dispose of nuclear waste.
Now, consider that a 100 square mile solar farm could power the entire United States.
And then........
THINK AGAIN ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER!Do you think NUCLEAR POWER is the solution to GLOBAL WARMING?
--Currently the US... more
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So, prices will go down and there will be some black available on the market, but I'd be wary of smoking it - a huge amount of Depleted Uranium has been dropped onto Afghanistan these past six years.
See: http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view1801762.htmlSo, prices will go down and there will be some black available on the market, but... more
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The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction.The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the... more
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