By John Laforge | CounterPunch | August 31, 2018 The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.” The WNA and other nuclear power supporters acknowledge […]
RT | August 24, 2018 The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has included US NGO Pacific Environment (PERC) on a list of undesirable foreign organizations after determining the group’s work can threaten Russia’s security and constitutional order. “After studying some materials it had received the Prosecutor General’s Office on August 24 decided to recognize as undesirable […]
Sputnik – 03.08.2018 The US Navy has yet to choose a way forward for dismantling the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. The delay has been motivated in part by the fact that disposing of the nuclear-powered craft could cost more than $1 billion ‒ a pill the Navy is loathe to swallow. The Government Accountability Office […]
Sputnik – 31.07.2018 The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee of the UK House of Commons supported the government’s proposal to permanently bury highly radioactive nuclear waste under national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs), the committee said in a report on Tuesday. “We decided against adding an exclusionary criterion for National Parks […]
By John Loretz | IPPNW | July 13, 2018 The US conducted 105 atmospheric and underwater tests at its Pacific Ocean proving ground from 1946-1962. Massive amounts of radioactive fallout from those tests spread across the Pacific, causing severe health effects that have continued to this day. One of the best-known incidents from this reckless […]
By Victor Thorn | American Free Press | November 4, 2011 Without realizing it, Diane Macmillan may have stumbled upon one of the biggest conspiracies currently taking place in America: A quiet war being waged over natural resources that could be behind heavy rains and huge snowfalls in some areas and droughts and wildfires in […]
By Tim Channon | Tallbloke’s Talkshop | June 28, 2018 Talkshop readers may remember a damning report by UBS about the billions of public money lost in the ETS carbon trading system. It calculated that if the money had been invested in modernising the European power generation fleet, CO2 could have been cut by 40% […]
By Maggie Koerth-Baker | FiveThirtyEight | June 14, 2018 Once upon a time, if you were an American who didn’t like nuclear energy, you had to stage sit-ins and marches and chain yourself to various inanimate objects in hopes of closing the nation’s nuclear power plants. Today … all you have to do is sit […]
Sputnik – June 14, 2018 Radioactive microparticles were detected in the homes of six workers in central Washington state’s Tri-City area who are associated with the Hanford nuclear site, a major Cold War-era plutonium manufacturing facility, scientists have reported. A study published this month in the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science reported that small but still dangerous amounts […]
George Monbiot NOT shilling for corporate interests By Catte | OffGuardian | June 8, 2018 The neoliberals of today specialise in using concepts of concern and inclusiveness as a cover for their frankly fascist agenda. Censorship is being repackaged as “anti-hate”. The destruction of the core idea of “innocent until proven guilty” is being repackaged […]
