Drunk Worker at Nuclear Power Station under Construction at Vogtle, Georgia, USA
Might this help solve the mystery of issues with rebar and concrete not at required specifications at nuclear power stations …
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Sellafield: All Trick and No Treat
Sellafield – All Trick and No Treat Sellafield: All Trick and No Treat? (well …the treats are on you –…
Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Leak May Have Escaped Building- Worker Lock-out Ongoing
“On October 26, at 8:24 p.m. EST, Honeywell Metropolis Works experienced a leak of UF6 inside the Feed Materials Building …
Why Sending Nuclear Waste to Space is NOT a Solution – A Reminder
Every few years the stupid idea of shooting nuclear waste into the sun or otherwise sending it into space comes …
US States take NRC to Court over Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Pools – States want Environmental Impact Study
Good news from last Friday, which we missed! The US States of New York, Vermont and Connecticut are challenging the …
Letters to the Austrian Chancellor and other European Leaders – No New Build Subsidies!
The B30 pond in 2006 – with the Windscale Pile reflected In the B29 pond building. The B30 pond in…
Nuclear Expert on the High Frequency and Increasing Severity of Nuclear Accidents and the Truth about Fukushima
Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer, safety expert, whistleblower, spoke at a conference this August, in which he clearly explained the …
Leaked Sellafield photos reveal “massive radioactive release” threat
The B30 pond showing a full loading with fuel rods Radiation Free Lakeland have been given permission to publish in…
Swiss ECOPOP Initiative: An Idea Whose Time is Long Past Due
Little known-little seen Switzerland: Trees cut down and hills destroyed for concrete (beton) for immigrant housing: While not politically correct, …
Swiss Prep for Inevitable Nuclear Accident: Potassium Iodide Isn’t Enough; Reactors Must Be Shut
Well protected in the event of a nuclear emergency? Based on Greenpeace Switzerland News: Stopping the 5 Nuclear Reactors is …
Davis Besse Nuclear Close Call
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Russia, the USA and Canada Unite Against Nuclear Safety Proposal
According to Reuters 23-10-2014 (below), the US, Canada, and Russia oppose a proposal by Switzerland, which would “put pressure on …
New Volcanic Warning Near Japan Nuclear Reactors
Near-crater volcanic warning in Japan: “Warnings around the crater Kirishimayama, 10:00 JST, 24 October 2014” Source: Japan Meteorological Agency website, …
Small Earthquake in Fukushima Prefecture
The Japan Meteorological Agency website reported today that there was a small 3.5 magnitude earthquake in Fukushima Prefecture. We estimate …
Why Does Diamond Rich Area Have No Ebola Clinic? Where is Beny Steinmetz or his brother?
“The diamond-rich district of Kono, which includes the town of Koidu, does not have an Ebola treatment center and cases …
Kono Communities Affected by Mining (Sierra Leone)
Kono Communities Affected by Mining The residents of the Kimberlite township in Kono District, Sierra Leone, have been relocated to …
The Ongoing Saga 38: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
This post continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/the-ongoing-saga-39-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/the-ongoing-saga-37-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ Last update is on top. Earliest is at bottom. …
Japan Needs to Run Away from the Plutonium Monju Hoodoo
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_Monju_nuclear_reactor_leak January 19, 1996: “The official in charge of investigating the cover-up of Japan’s worst nuclear power accident committed suicide …
Will NRC allow more foreign ownership of U.S. reactors?
Originally posted on GreenWorld:
Section 103(d) of the Atomic Energy Act (42 U.S.C. § 2133) states in plain language: “No…
Ebola: High Stakes of Quarantine Jumping
Many governments force various sorts of vaccinations on their populations, because vaccinations are overall protective to the population, although they …
Japan: More & Larger Volcanic Eruptions Expected Over Next Decades – A Ticking Nuclear Time Bomb
108 of Japan’s volcanos. There are 110 active ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan Japan is in the Ring of Fire, the most …
Travelling Highly Enriched Uranium Waste to the Budapest Airport; Flying it to Moscow
(November 2013, Hungary) That the US Secretary of Energy thinks that sending “vulnerable nuclear materials” to Russia is safer than …
Swedish Government Nuclear Shakedown of Germany & Dumping Swedish Nuclear Waste on the USA
Swedish Government Nuclear Shakedown of Germany Sweden taking Germany to international court in what appears a frivolous lawsuit over the …
Stand Up to Cancer – Ban Nuclear Power NOW!
BAN NUCLEAR POWER…
500 Years of Dangerous Nuclear Waste: Fusion Reactors are NOT the Holy Grail; Solar is the Holy Grail!
500 years of radioactive waste generated by fusion nuclear reactors is still a very long time to live with deadly …
Stop Moorside say 95% of people we spoke to at Wasdale Show
Wasdale Show 2014– Stop Moorside – This Saturday Radiation Free Lakeland went to Wasdale Show – arguably the most beautiful…
Why are subsidies OK for the UK-French Nuclear Industry, but Apple and Ireland are being targeted by the EU?
Why has EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia supported forcing the UK’s people to pay alms to the majority French government …
Nuclear France: Permanent Worldwide Danger
We hear much of the importance of nuclear energy in France. What does it look like? France is paying a …
Ebola (ZEBOV) Seems Transmitted by Air & by Pigs According to Research
USDA Pigs Weingartl et. al. (2012) have provided evidence that pigs infected with the Zaire variant of Ebola, aka ZEBOV, …
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates
The European Commission’s nuclear decision threatens our clean energy future
River Parrett. Looking down stream with (current) Hinkley Power Stations in the background.[1] Notice the High Voltage Power Lines. Night …
57 years ago today in 1957: The Windscale Fire
STOP MOORSIDE- The Land is OURS A write up about todays Windscale anniversary and a reminder that Radiation Free Lakeland…
Scottish Radioactive Waste Ship Fire & the High Fashion-Service Sector “Baroness” Verma
Meet the New UK Aristocracy: “Baroness” Verma at the Mock Council of the European Union, 17 November 2011 Foreign and …
Nuclear Cracks Reveal Ministers’ Weak Position
“NUCLEAR CRACKS REVEAL MINISTERS’ WEAK POSITION: JOHNSTONE. By Edinburgh Greens – October 7, 2014 Posted in: News Alison Johnstone, Green …
State Aid for New Nuclear – Privatised Profit – Socialised Risk is the ONLY Way for Nuclear!
EDF’s Adorable Toxic Turd Mascot Many Thanks to Everyone who Wrote to the EU commissioners – the Vote was only…
The Ongoing Saga 37: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
This is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/the-ongoing-saga-36-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/the-ongoing-saga-38-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ Most recent update on top. Earliest on bottom. This post …
Leaked paper shows EU Commission could grant unprecedented taxpayer funding for Hinkley Nuclear Power Station
UK subsidies for new nuclear reactors constitute unfair subsidies, anti-competitive unfair business practices, which probably have international repercussions under various …
Stop Hinkley Letter to the European Competition Commissioner
“The Stop Hinkley campaign has written to the European Competition Commissioner to ask him to urgently reconsider his decision on …
URGENT – BEFORE 8am Stop Dodgy Deal between UK govnt and Nuclear Developers
Dodgy Nuclear Deal We need help to email various European Commissioners’ offices between now and 8am (UK time) tomorrow morning?…
Tell EU Commissioners to Stop Dodgy Nuclear Deal- tell them before 8am BST, 9 am CEST, 3 am EDT, 4 pm JST
– please feel free to cut and paste and write in your own words the letter below to ‘undecided’ EU…
Ebola Outbreak: Ecology Meets Economy
Historic LAMCO Mine in Liberia, reopened by ArcelorMittal Currently ArcelorMittal exports 5 million tonnes per year of iron ore from …
Public Money for New Nuclear – Write to the EU and Say NO
Nuclear joker burning public Money The UK is pushing for huge state subsidies for new nuclear, Hinkley C in Somerset…
Forestry & Malaria Control in Italy
From: Unasylva 224, Vol. 57, 2006 Forestry and malaria control in Italy In the early twentieth century, reforestation was among …
The Fight for Justice Continues in Haiti after the Death of the Ex-Dictator Jean Claude Duvalier
Courageous Haitian Judges, Image from http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article16030#.VDCMJn8aySM Port-au-Prince, 4 Oct. 2014 [AlterPresse] The death of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier does not …
Haiti: Justice Denied by Duvalier’s Death – Ex-Dictator Under Investigation for Crimes Against Humanity
Haiti: Justice Denied by Duvalier’s Death Ex-Dictator Under Investigation for Crimes Against Humanity OCTOBER 4, 2014, by Human Rights Watch …
Ebola: Mining and Bats without Borders plus People without Borders
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Un-guinea.png Doctors without Borders have worked tirelessly and at great personal risk to try to contain the Ebola virus. The …
Nuclear heartburn: even IEA says solar could become world’s dominant energy source
Originally posted on GreenWorld:
IEA projections for solar PV by region. Sending chills down the spine of nuclear and coal…
French State Owned Scottish EPA? Of Radioactive Arsings and Âneries (SEPA-EDF Consultation)
All operating UK Nuclear Reactors, but Wylfa, belong to 85% French government owned EDF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_Kingdom (NB: Nuclear Power Plants often …
Madness Continues…Another Government Committee to “Implement Geological Disposal”
Radiation Free Lakeland are not the only ones asking: Who are RWM? Following the successful fight against NIREX in the 90s…
