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Observing Shahid Bhagat Singh Divas on 23 March, more than 250 survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster sat on a day-long fast in support of the Koodankulam struggle against the nuclear power plant. Condemning Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s act of charging Koodankulam protestors with “Sedition,” Bhopal survivors said that Bhagat Singh’s…

What fate for survivors of an Indian nuclear disaster?

May 4, 2010

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ICJB press release of 4 May, 2010 here Bhopal gas survivors gathered outside the Prime Minister of India’s office in New Delhi to file Right-to-Information (RTI) requests regarding the civil nuclear liability bill and its relationship with the lessons of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. “We want to know whether the lingering concerns of…

Nuclear mess has Tri-Cities cleaning up financially

Nov 3, 2006

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RICHLAND, Wash. – Out on the Hanford nuclear reservation, a fantastically poisoned plateau where the federal government brewed up most of the plutonium for its nuclear arsenal, the cleanup is going rather badly. Now in its 17th year, the nation’s largest and most complex environmental remediation project is costing many billions of dollars more than…

Addition of vitrification plant stacks changes Hanford’s skyline

Oct 29, 2006

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Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, October 28th, 2006 Hanford vitrification plant workers secure 130-foot stack The skyline at Hanford’s vitrification plant changed Friday. Bechtel National spent about four hours slowing lifting 125 tons of emission stacks 70 feet into the air to place them on top of the plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility. “This is the…

Chernobyl haunts the Norwegian uplands

Oct 27, 2006

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New Scientist, October 28, 2006 Tougher controls on the slaughter of sheep have been imposed in Norway after they were found to be contaminated with unusually high levels of radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) says the problem has arisen because the sheep have feasted on an unusually…

In the grip of nuclear power

Oct 22, 2006

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Rebekah Kendal, iAfrica.com, October 19 2006 There’s something vaguely scary about the notion of nuclear power. Images of Chernobyl, nuclear weapons and all the horror that they convey all too often spring to mind when we talk about nuclear energy. But with an energy crisis looming in South Africa — and the possibility of blackouts…

A Floating Chernobyl?

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Bjorn Carey, Popular Science, October 15, 2006 The first reactor-on-a-barge will bring power to Russia’s electricity-starved Arctic Photo: Bob Sauls While the U.S. hems and haws over reviving nuclear energy as a less expensive alternative to oil, Russia has dug back 30 years in our nuclear history to find a solution for some of its…

A Russian floating nuclear plant?

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Roland Piquepaille, ZDNet, October 15, 2006 In A Floating Chernobyl?, Popular Science reports that two Russian companies plan to build the world’s first floating nuclear power plant to deliver cheap electricity to northern territories. The construction should start next year for a deployment in 2010. The huge barge will be home for two 60-megawatt nuclear…

Началось строительство первой в мире плавучей АЭСНачалось строительство первой в мире плавучей АЭС

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EUROARCTIC.COM, STORY FIRST BROKE, MARCH 2006 Floating nuclear plant under construction Строительство идет на военном заводе «Севмашстрой» в Архангельске. Впервые реактор будет установлен на баржу, которая будет спущена на воду предположительно через 3 года. По словам Станислава Антипова, главы «Росэнергоатом», работа уже началась. Власти Норвегии и некоторые неправительственные организации России выражают озабоченность влиянием новой АЭС…

Controversial nuclear plant under construction

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EUROARCTIC.COM, STORY BROKE MARCH 2006 Floating nuclear plant under construction The construction of the world’s first floating nuclear power plant has started. The power station is to be constructed at the military yard Sevmash in Archangelsk. The first reactor mounted on a barge is expected to be launched in three year. The work has already…

Thyroditis linked to fallout

Oct 13, 2006

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PATRICE ST. GERMAIN, THE SPECTRUM, UTAH, OCTOBER 14, 2006 “Grable”, 15 kilotons, explodes at the Nevada Test Site, May 25, 1953. For pictures of other tests see below. PHOTO SOURCE: TRINITY ATOMIC WEBSITE HURRICANE – A study conducted by several agencies and researchers, including University of Utah professor Joseph L. Lyon, indicates a much stronger…

Energy Department drops appeal of fine for Hanford waste handling

Oct 10, 2006

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From Mike McGavick, Monday, October 9, 2006 RICHLAND, Wash. — The federal government has dropped its appeal of a $270,000 fine over the handling of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation, two years after the fine was first imposed. The issue arose in 2004 when the Department of Energy shipped 83 drums of laboratory…

N-tragedy affects generations says expert

Sep 25, 2006

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SANJOG MISHRA, HINDUSTAN TIMES, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006 “A NUCLEAR tragedy leaves its impact on several generations,” said Prof. Geza L. Lukacs of the University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center in Hungary. Prof Lukacs, who was in BHU to participate in an International Integrated Meet of Cancer Societies, said reports of people affected by…

N-waste? Madonna has a solution

Aug 21, 2006

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