EdF finally admit that operational nuclear power station discharges of Sulfur hexafluoride gas make massive contributions to Global warming/Climate change Flamanville nuclear power plant has exceeded the threshold for discharging SF6. In nine months, the quantity of SF6, the most powerful greenhouse gas, released by the Flamanville nuclear power plant in La Manche, has already …
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What Does Building A Nuclear Power Station Mean for CO2 Emissions As We Near COP26 ?
The Following Extract is from The Ecologist's Nuclear Dossier of 2006 - What Has CONveniently Been Unlearnt About Nuclear New Build Since Then? Quite a Lot! Many thanks to The Ecologist for their 2006 Nuclear Dossier written by Jon Hughes - the following extract relates to CO2 emissions from construction - which although mind numbingly …
Diné groups seek justice
“Clean Energy”?? It starts here with human rights abuses of indigenous people.
Appeal ruled “admissible” by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
By Valerie Rangel
History of the Diné Territory
Both the Crown Point and Church Rock communities lie within the area of northwestern New Mexico traditionally used and occupied by the Diné. According to Navajo cosmology, the Diné emerged from a series of worlds into the current world. When First Man and First Woman emerged, they formed the four sacred mountains with soil from the previous world. This area is considered the cradle of Diné civilization and the birthplace of several important Diné deities.
Water is Life
Water is the lifeblood of the planet. Access to a clean environment is vital to the continuation of language and culture for Indigenous communities. The Diné have distinct cultural and spiritual ties to the land, and the environment provides subsistence within their traditional homeland. The Diné worldview is that all things are interrelated and interdependent…
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First George Monbiot Award for Nukiller Greenwash to Springfields Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Plant in Cumbria – On Anniversary of the Windscale Fire
PRESS RELEASE Springfields Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Plant Wins the first George Monbiot Nukiller Greenwash award. To mark the anniversary of the 1957 Windscale [ Sellafield ] fire in Cumbria, the Close Capenhurst Campaign and Radiation Free Lakeland have awarded the first George Monbiot Award to the Springfields Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing plant in Lancashire. George Monbiot …
Nuclear for climate? – DON’T MENTION RADIATION! – theme for October 21.
Radiation and the Big Silence
Recommending nuclear power as a a cure for climate change is like recommending cigarette-smoking as a cure for obesity – Helen Caldicott
Well, it’s just not nice to talk about ionising radiation right now – when we’re all gearing up for the COP26 Glascow climate change talkfest . I mean, by now the nuclear lobby has probably bribed its way into the conference, along with other corporations.
You’re allowed to mention – costs , safety, even time delay – in assessing the relationship of the nuclear industry to global heating.
Strangely – you can talk about the rapid health effects of tiny invisible viruses. BUT NOT the slow drawn out effects of tiny particles of low-level ionising radiation. Health impacts of unseen dangers
Especially ignored are thg effects of Internal exposure – radioactive particles taken in by breathing or swallowing:
The dangers are probably still small for most foods, but…
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POWERTECH URANIUM DENIED! WATER MANAGEMENT BOARD’S VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS.
Good News ! “Yesterday was a good day in South Dakota, where Powertech/Azarga Uranium wants to do in situ leach uranium mining in the southwestern Black Hills. Due to federal lawsuits filed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, federal permitting for the project is in limbo. “
Yesterday was a good day in South Dakota, where Powertech/Azarga Uranium wants to do in situ leach uranium mining in the southwestern Black Hills. Due to federal lawsuits filed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, federal permitting for the project is in limbo. There has not been a cultural resources survey on the 12,000+ acres of the proposed project, and the area is sacred to Lakota and other indigenous peoples — as are the entire Black Hills.
BHCWA’s Counsel, Mr. Bruce Ellison, gives a brief update about what transpired at the Water Management Board meeting – Powertech must wait until for Federal Permits.
Nonetheless, the company has been trying to restart the process for its state water permits, which was put on hold in 2013. Yesterday, this effort ran into determined resistanceat a meeting of the SD Water Management Board. State Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources water staff opposed the…
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Letter to Guardian on Renewed Push for Nuclear off the Back of Rising Gas Prices
The following letter has been sent to the Guardian - unpublished. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/04/surging-gas-prices-and-fuel-bills-focus-tory-minds-on-the-nuclear-option Dear Editor, The article "Surging gas prices and fuel bills focus Tory minds on the nuclear option" (Rob Davies 4th Oct 2021) fails to mention: 1. Sellafield is a big user of gas to the tune of tens of £Millions a year …
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Norwegian TV Highlights Coal Mine’s Close Proximity to Sellafield
Broadcast yesterday https://tv.nrk.no/se?v=NNFA03100321&t=1111s Many thanks to Norway for highlighting the elephant (many headed hydra in the room) which is the Coal Mine's Proximity to Sellafield. There is a shot in the video taken on the fells above the world's riskiest nuclear waste site which shows Sellafield's very close proximity to St Bees head. St Bees …
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NEW -British Scientist discovers the cause of cancer in the Hiroshima Black Rain survivors -2021
“The true risks from internal exposures to Uranium, as in Depleted Uranium weapons, are more than a hundred times or more than current legal limits are based on. The implications of this discovery are clearly massive and far-reaching for all things involving nuclear.”
British Scientist discovers the cause of cancer in the Hiroshima Black Rain survivors
Massive errors in the basis of legal controls on radiation exposures
In a peer-reviewed paper published by the respectable journal Cancer Investigations ,British Scientist Dr Christopher Busby reveals the results of his investigative research into the Hiroshima A-Bomb Black Rain, torrential rain that fell on Hiroshima after the detonation of the US atomic bomb.
The issue of cancer risks in people who lived in the area of the back rain was headlined recently when the Japanese government lost a court case taken by Hibakusha groups who believed that their cancers were a result of the A-Bomb, but who lived in the black rain areas too far from the detonation to have received any external radiation dose. One problem for these people is that there has been no scientific explanation. The black rain was believed to be insufficiently…
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Allowed Earth Shocks from Coal Mine Five Miles From Sellafield Would Be As Great as That from Continous Blasting….Unless….
In amongst the vast acres of NGO and press focus on climate/steel/jobs we managed to get the Inspector's attention on seismicity near Sellafield. No mean feat considering the Secretary of State has not asked to be informed on seismic impacts or subsidence just five miles from the world's riskiest nuclear waste site, Sellafield and the …
