BHP Billiton may delay expansion of Olympic Dam mine
“There hasn’t been a [nuclear] plant in the world built without the relevant government assuming much of the construction, operating and financing risk. There is not …
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Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to British Columbia
“There have been massive radiation spikes in Canada because of Fukushima,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. “The authorities don’t …
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Fukushima is Worse than Chernobyl – on Global Contamination http://japanfocus.org/-Chris-Busby/3563
Radioactive tea from Japan detained in France http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/18/52031497.html
Radioactive contamination of beef in Japan worsens http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radiation-health-whats-new/2011/7/22/radioactive-contamination-of-beef-in-japan-worsens.html
Suicide Plague: Japan swept by Fukushima depression 4 …
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Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima
Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to …
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Slide show on nuclear power and uranium mining
London Mining Network believes that the use of uranium produces a radioactive legacy which threatens the wellbeing of thousands of generations to come.
Concern about climate change has led some commentators to support nuclear energy …
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Germany to Halt Nuclear Power Production by 2022
“The exit is necessary, and is recommended, in order to rule out the risks of nuclear power,” the commission said. “It is possible, because there are less …
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Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path
The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for her country. …
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Banking on the next Fukushima
Despite the nuclear disaster at Fukushima witnessed by the world, there are plans to build a major nuclear power station in a highly earthquake-prone region on the west coast of India. The Jaitapur nuclear plant …
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Chernobyl Catastrophe: 25th Anniversary of World’s Worst Nuclear Accident
Fukushima, Chernobyl Raise Questions about WHO’s Role
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan and the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have thrown into relief contradictions in the …
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How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation
By Helen Caldicott in response to George Monbiot’s public attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/11/nuclear-apologists-radiation
Japan Plant Emits More Radiation After Cooling Lapse
http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20110414_5466.php
Japan’s radiation contamination spread across Northern Hemisphere…
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Rio Tinto sidesteps questions on Jabiluka uranium
One of the highlights of protests at last week’s Rio Tinto Annual General Meeting was the presentation of an appeal to the UN from Australian Aboriginal elder, Yvonne Margarula – raised by a British colleague …
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Activists from around the world attack British mining giant
On 14 April 2011, London-based Rio Tinto plc held its AGM (annual shareholders’ meeting) in London.
14 April also marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first concerted intervention by “dissident shareholders” in what is now …
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