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  • World’s biggest uranium enricher frantic to keep dumping waste in Russia
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    By Diet Simon, collating from German IndyMedia postings
    Russian nuclear opponents say they will defy a ban and demonstrate in St Petersburg tomorrow against the massive import of German, Dutch, British and French uranium waste to Russia.
    The Dutch ship Doggersbank is expected in the port tomorrow, Thursday the 11th, with the latest shipment of depleted uranium from enrichment plants in Gronau (Germany) and Almelo (Holland).
    German supporters of the Russian activists in (…)

  • Depleted uranium, depleted health concerns
    1 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of ’Balkan Syndrome’ and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight.
    By Anes Alic in Sarajevo for ISN Security Watch (29/10/07)
    An increase of the number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans during the 1990s who are falling seriously ill due to depleted uranium exposure is causing a public outrage in Italy, as the government downplays the extent (…)

  • No Evidence Iran Building Nuclear Weapons : Mohamed ElBaradei
    30 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did you get that? NO EVIDENCE=NONE=ZERO=NADA The attack on Iran is ILLEGAL and based on BULLSHIT....again! America, you were warned. By The Associated Press
    10/28/07 "AP" — — WASHINGTON: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.
    "We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization," said (…)

  • Nukes Are Back and So Are We
    18 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Harvey Wasserman
    The nuclear power industry is back to where it always goes when it wants to build new reactors—the taxpayer trough.
    And those of us who’ve been fighting them for decades are doing it again, now with help from the musicians’ community, and a petition drive (at nukefree.org) aimed at stripping the radioactive subsidies from the national Energy Bill now before Congress.
    Time after time over the past half-century, the atomic energy industry has gone to the government to (…)

  • Time to Ban Weaponized Uranium (DU)
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Monday, October 15, 2007 by the Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado)
    by Ron Forthofer, Dick Williams and Gretchen Williams
    ‘There is no safe level of exposure and there is no dose of (ionizing) radiation so low that the risk of a malignancy is zero.”
    “The Veterans Administration seems always on the defensive to make sure the victims are not compensated.”
    These quotes by Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, one of the founders of the field of health physics who also served as radiation safety (…)

  • Much Ado about A Lot: Uranium Mining in Canada
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Lia Tarachansky
    Opposition to uranium mining has once again become a major topic of coverage by the media. From Australia to Canada, people are taking a stand against corporations that mine uranium and in particular against their mining on Native land. Today, the Ardoch and Shabot blockade brings attention to the potential uranium mine opening between Kingston and Ottawa. To make it clearer why so many are objecting to the mining of uranium, I have decided to investigate why so many (…)

  • Nothing depleted about ’depleted uranium’
    13 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi and visiting doctors, and a number of news reports, have reported that birth defects and cancers in Iraqi children have increased five- to 10-fold since the 1991 Gulf War and continue to increase sharply, to over 30-fold in some areas in southern Iraq. Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium.
    The (…)

  • ALBERT GORE : AN ECOLOGIST ??? The Gore-Lieberman Record on Nuclear Energy Issues
    13 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Gore" : an ecologist ??? The Gore-Lieberman Record on Nuclear Energy Issues
    With Vice President Al Gore and Sen. Joseph Lieberman taking center stage at the Democratic National Convention this week in Los Angeles, here is an overview of party platform language along with statements and positions the two have taken on nuclear energy and its role in America’s energy mix.
    THE PLATFORM
    The platform does not specifically discuss nuclear power from the standpoint of supply, but does state, (…)

  • St Petersburg anti-uranium protests banned
    11 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer
    The police on Thursday disrupted an environmental picket outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, detaining more than 10 activists fromlocal and international ecological groups campaigning against theimport of spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium hexafluoride. Thepicket was held in the wake of a hefty cargo of depleted uraniumarriving in the city.
    At 1 p.m., activists from the environmental groups Bellona, Ecodefence andGreenpeace and the (…)

  • The BIG LIE - "Iran is a Threat" by Scott Ritter
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran has never manifested itself as a serious threat to the national security of the United States, or by extension as a security threat to global security. At the height of Iran’s “exportation of the Islamic Revolution” phase, in the mid-1980’s, the Islamic Republic demonstrated a less-than-impressive ability to project its power beyond the immediate borders of Iran, and even then this projection was limited to war-torn Lebanon.
    .....The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), mandated (…)