Ways an Independent Scotland is Better for the Environment- Most Important is to be Nuclear Free
Scotland is at the crossroads for its environment. Waterfall at Campsie Glen, Scotland The UK has reserved for itself policy …
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Scotland Objects to UK Plan to Drill Under Homes without Consent; Probably Unable to Stop the UK without Independence; Even William Wallace Birthplace in Danger of Fracking
“The issues upon which only the UK Parliament can make laws are known as reserved matters“. They include: “nuclear energy, …
UK Gov Offers Central Belt of Scotland to Frackers, as well as Offshore & much of England-Wales
https://www.gov.uk/government/loads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/330774/14R_Offer.pdf https://www.gov.uk/oil-and-gas-licensing-rounds (For offshore parts of Scotland see bottom of page; for offshore England-Wales see link) “The issues upon which …
Wastwater: The Ultimate Ice Bucket Challenge!
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Wastwater- The Ultimate Ice Bucket Challenge While the press and social media is full of the…
Most Fukushima Safety Recommendations Have Not Been Implemented in the USA (Sen. Boxer)
Even for those who have read this, it should take on more meaning and significance, subsequent to the recent large …
Honeywell Creates Potentially Dangerous Conditions by Uranium Conversion Facility Worker Lock-out
http://web.evs.anl. gov/uranium/guide/uf6/index.cfm In an August 18th letter to Honeywell CEO David Cote, the General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union points …
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station: Legal Petition to Intervene-Request for Hearing by Friends of the Earth (Aug. 26, 2014)
Just look at this nuclear power station! It’s astounding that it takes experts to see that it was a lousy …
Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools During Earthquakes in California & Elsewhere? NRC’s Devil May Care Attitude.
Diablo Canyon, California. The name says it all- Devil’s Canyon. Swimming Pools said to be Fresh Water Reservoirs In the …
A 72 Year Old Mountain of Nuclear Waste with No Place to Go
A concise summary of the situation and the problem: Original pdf is here and distribution is encouraged: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/Waste_70YearsHigh_2012.pdf We added …
US NRC: Kicking the Radioactive Waste Can Down the Road for 140 years in the “Short Term” Option for High Level Nuclear Waste (Spent Fuel Rods)
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), to be voted Tuesday, allows continued at site storage …
The French Revolving Door; Radioactive Waste Bed: Nuclear Blown with the Wind? They’ll Think About It Another Day or They Don’t Give a Damn?
Orig. Photo by Russell James Smith via Wikipedia CC-SA-BY-2.0 (cropped, blurred by MA) For all those who, like us, have …
Spraying Radiation on the Land: “Land Application” for proposed ISL Uranium Mining in South Dakota
Fields under irrigation with center-pivot sprinklers of the type Powertech would use to spray radioactive waste water at their project …
34 Groups Urge US NRC to Postpone Key Votes in Order to Avoid “Taint” of Magwood Conflict of Interest
Emphasis added. Original NIRS Press Release here: http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensing/pr082114nrcvotedelay.pdf
Carlisle’s Radioactive Airfreight – What are Councillors told?
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
? Carlisle Airfreight? Dear Councillor. We are writing to you again regarding your decision to pass…
Presley Forwards Anti-Nuclear Waste Resolution to Washington Leaders and Mississippi Delegation
Is a salt dome in a wet climate really the place for US (and World) High Level Nuclear Waste, as …
Will South Dakota Be Delivered from Radioactive Excursions?
NRC Map of Dewey Burdock Uranium Mine Proposal; color added While the property clearly abuts on the Black Hills National …
The Ongoing Saga 33: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
This post ran from 20 August to 31 August 2014. It continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/the-ongoing-saga-34-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/the-ongoing-saga-32-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ …
Nuclear Safety (Failure) Open House re Killona-Waterford Nuclear Reactor in Louisiana
Katrina Approaching Louisiana, US NOAA image Waterford 3 is located in Killona, Louisiana. The open house is this evening in …
Radioactive Risks of Nuclear
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
RADIOACTIVE RISKS OF NUCLEAR WHAT? Powerful Yellow Monster: the toxic and radioactive heavy metal, Uranium 238…
STOP MOORSIDE – Petition
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Stop Moorcide A petition has been set up to STOP MOORSIDE, described by the industry as…
Uranium Mining Endangers Wild Horse Sanctuary; while US Seeks Homes for Wild Horses!
Pinto Wild Horse recently up for adoption, US BLM image Last May the US Bureau of Land Management solicited “multiple …
All the Missing Horses: Federal Gov’t Selling Wild Horses to Western Dealer Linked to Slaughter
From DemocracyNow.org: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 All the Missing Horses: Federal Gov’t Selling Wild Horses to Western Dealer Linked to …
Powertech Pennystock’s Propensity to Withhold Information Re Uranium Mine Property
Map showing Dewey-Burdock property in red; ore body in yellow, from “In Situ Uranium Project Baseline Sampling, Jan. 15, 2008“, …
Great Sioux Reservation at Risk from Uranium Mining in South Dakota; Eastern Sioux Concerned by Nuclear Power Plant and Waste
“Traditional location of Sioux tribes prior to 1770 (dark green) and their current reservations (orange)”, via Wikipedia “Great Sioux Reservation” …
Clean Water or Gold & Yellowcake Uranium?
El Salvador is Trying to Protect its Water from Gold Mining – Who will Protect the Water of the Black …
Neutrons in Nuclear Reactors & Bombs Make Non-Radioactive Materials Radioactive; Accelerate Reactor Degradation
One of the least discussed and bizarre and frightening commonalities between nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors is their ability to …
Lazy, Well Paid US EPA: Always on Holiday? Corrupt? Or Both?
Saturday, 16 Aug. 2014 update: Suddenly, as of Friday, there are 24,067 comments received (not posted) on the radiation rules …
Nuclear Bombing of Nagasaki, Impact-Declassified: September 14, 1945
While from a military strategic perspective, bombing the Mitsubishi works in Nagasaki made sense, it seems clear that use of …
Heysham’s Old Boiler – “Nothing to Worry About” say BBC
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Greenpeace Calls for Shut Down of Old Reactors 5 Metre pole – illustrating future sea surges…
How the US Hid Nuclear Weapons Test in Plain Sight: 1945 Harbinger of Today’s Nuclear Lies
“Los Alamos scientists discussed the possibility that the atmosphere might be ignited and the entire earth annihilated but dismissed this …
Industry says EPA rule needs more nuke support
Originally posted on GreenWorld:
One thing you can always count on from the nuclear power industry: when it comes to…
US EPA Hiding Public Comments re New Radiation Rules or Simply Incompetent? Nuclear Waste Company Energy Solutions’ Comment was Late and Appears On Top!
[Detailed update, as of August 15-16, regarding the status of the comments is found at the top of this post: …
Top Secret Phone Call re Radiation Injuries at Hiroshima-Nagasaki, 25 August 1945
Two US military leaders discuss the repercussions of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and cleanup-reconstruction, and appear engaged in denial and to …
One of World’s Most Endangered Animals at Risk by Proposed Penny Stock Uranium Mining: Will It Be Saved?
Black-footed Ferret, USFWS The US Fisheries and Wildlife Service says that the Black-footed Ferret is one of the most endangered …
10th August – ‘Moorcide’ Walk- Have a look -See
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
? Stop Moorcide Walk : August 10th 2014 PLEASE JOIN US ON 10th AUGUST at 10AM…
Yeti, Yeetso and Yakuza: Monsters, Deforestation and Selling our Birthright
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
We have long wondered how “Tree Hugger” is an insult. We wonder how those people who…
English Court of Appeal Rules Against The National Trust for Ireland in UK New Nuclear Reactor Case
“English Court of Appeal finds against An Taisce in Hinkley Point Case 1st August 2014 Press Release The Court of …
1,000 Japanese Cranes: Sadako Sasaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokoyama_Taikan “Memorial Statue of Sadako Sasaki outside the Noborichō Junior High School in Hiroshima, Japan. Noborichō was her Junior High …
The Ongoing Saga 32: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
This post continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/the-ongoing-saga-33-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/the-ongoing-saga-31-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ Most recent update is on top; order is inverted. …
Global Risk of Major Nuclear Reactor Accidents & Fallout Distribution
From: “Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents” Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 4245–4258, 2012, By J. Lelieveld …
Paddington’s Peru and the Nukiller Plan
Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
? A film about Paddington’s Peru – the real andean bears, the ice cap and the…
The US EPA Asks If Radiation Induced Illness Matters? Or Only Death?
The only easy question that the EPA asks, in their call for comment about nuclear facilities, is if they should …
US EPA Radiation in Air and Water Standards: Effectively Non-existent
The US EPA has a “clean water” water “standard” for drinking water, though it has none for water emissions from …
