A legal setback, but British nuclear veterans will fight on
“I’m convinced that if we took this to the European Court of Human Rights, we would win our case…..We are fighting for justice – not money. A-bomb vets vow to continue fight Shields Gazette, John...
View ArticleProfessor Ian Lowe counters nuclear spin in Australia
Professor Ian Lowe, the president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, said the report was deeply flawed. ”Given that wind or solar thermal could be providing cheap, low-carbon power within a...
View ArticlePush to call nuclear power ‘RENEWABLE” for Australia
Sawyer suggests the MRET [ mandatory renewable energy target]scheme cover nuclear power to the years out to 2050, rising, for example, to 30 per cent by 2030, 40 per cent by 2040 and 50 per cent by...
View ArticleTHE AUSTRALIAN likely to change its attitude to Climate Change
While a highly qualified science writer, Julie Posetti, gave up on efforts to cover Climate Change properly at THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper, that paper’s view is likely to now do an abrupt u-turn in its...
View ArticleGermany imposes a tax on nuclear fuel
From Jan. 1 2011 through December 2016, a tax on nuclear fuel will bring an estimated EUR2.3 billion to the federal government. German Upper House Passes Nuclear Fuel Tax – WSJ.com, By Beate...
View ArticleAustralia neither needs nor wants nuclear power
That we don’t need nuclear power is obvious: the ”land of the cloudless skies” has cleaner, abundant energy available. The recent report Beyond Zero Emissions demonstrates baseload clean energy can be...
View ArticleFacts on the two types of airport security scanning
there is an undeniable very slight risk, especially with repeated exposure as the effect is cumulative. There is no known risk from millimeter-wave scanning…….. Rafi Sala, an Israeli airport security...
View ArticleAustralian govt in a dilemma over radiation airport scanning
Canberra-based Civil Liberties Australia spokesman Tim Vines said the authority was behaving like a ”government agency mad with power”…… Govt promises X-rays won’t be naked scanners, The Canberra...
View ArticleNuclear power unaffordable for Australia
Faced with overwhelming evidence against nuclear power, vested interests have seized on the climate crisis as a last-gasp attempt to put it back on the agenda. But doing so would squander the resources...
View ArticleLabor MPs speak out against nuclear power for Australia
“We’ve got untapped supplies of wind and solar energy so I think the economics of developing those sorts of energy sources are going to far outweigh the benefits and the costs of developing a nuclear...
View ArticleRepost: Peter Cosgrove spruiks “clean” nuclear for BHP Billiton
Lack of Australian nuclear plant almost immoral: Peter Cosgrove Amanda O’Brien : The Australian * February 04, 2010 “…………….The former Australian of the Year said he anticipated there would be an...
View ArticleSecret history of Maralinga nuclear bomb tests
The half-life of plutonium is 24,000 years. At this rate of decay, the Maralinga lands would be contaminated for the next half-million years.…..A variety of factors underlay the harm to public health,...
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