Impacts of dangerous new radioactive waste unassessed: Greenpeace report
The isolation period for waste from new generation reactors will increase to 2.3 million years from one million years before radioactivity approaches that of natural uranium. See http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Impacts-of-dangerous-new-radioactive-waste-unassessed-Greenpeace-report/.
Chris Huhne warns of £4bn black hole in nuclear power budget
Energy secretary blames predecessors for avoiding tough decisions in ‘classic example of short-termism’. Britain is facing a £4bn black hole in unavoidable nuclear decommissioning and waste costs. The revelation will also hand further ammunition to those who say a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain will end up being more expensive than the [...]
Two statements to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development on Indigenous Peoples & uranium
One of the themes of the May 2010 UN Commission on Sustainable Development meeting was mining, and its contribution to so-called sustainable development. There were a number of presentations from multiple stakeholder groups, and two of them (one presented on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples group and another submitted on uranium) are published on the [...]
BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power
BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active in the nuclear sector. These banks include British-based Barclays, HSBC and RBS. BankTrack considers nuclear energy a grave danger for people [...]
Kakadu being poisoned by Rio Tinto mine, group warns
Millions of litres of radioactive water from the Ranger uranium mine have flowed into world heritage-listed wetlands in Kakadu National Park. Aboriginal traditional owners say they will oppose plans for a huge expansion of the 30-year-old mine by Energy Resources of Australia unless the company upgrades its environmental protection procedures. The Rio Tinto-owned company has [...]
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