Search Results for: France

Japan has plutonium, rockets and rivals. Will it ever build a nuke? via PRI’s The World

Posted on 2019/03/14 by nfield

Patrick Winn There are few substances more freakish than plutonium. Seldom found in nature, the metal is pewter gray, absurdly heavy and so radioactive that, if you held a lump on a cold day, it would gently warm your hands. … Continue reading →

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Update old definitions about nuclear waste to speed safe cleanup via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2019/02/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

How can we expect to effectively address this problem if we aren’t even willing to accurately define it? The U.S. Department of Energy recently released new estimates for the cost of cleaning up the Hanford nuclear site in central Washington … Continue reading →

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Storage of nuclear waste a ‘global crisis’ as stockpile reaches 250,000 tons, Greenpeace warns via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/02/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

PARIS – Nuclear waste is piling up around the world even as countries struggle to dispose of spent fuel that will remain highly toxic for many thousands of years, Greenpeace detailed in a report Wednesday. An analysis of waste storage … Continue reading →

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Discrimination under the radioactive plume via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2019/01/31 by nfield

Potassium iodide distributed in Canada is denied Americans By Keith Gunter In the wake of the still ongoing March 2011 Fukushima disaster, governments in Europe and Canada began implementing more pro-active radiological disaster plans — including pre-distribution of potassium iodide … Continue reading →

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US to Offer Nuclear Waste Technology to Other Countries via Voice of America

Posted on 2019/01/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear security office is developing a project to help other countries deal with nuclear waste. The information comes from two sources who spoke to the Reuters news agency. They asked not to be named because … Continue reading →

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Brown’s retirement project: avoiding nuclear holocaust via San Francisco Chronicle

Posted on 2019/01/14 by nfield

In his parting interview with The Chronicle, Jerry Brown ticked off a list of projects he will take on now that he’s left the governor’s office.  […] After a decades when nonproliferation dominated global nuclear weapon discussions, we are now … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power Will Not Save Us From Climate Change via Yes! Magazine

Posted on 2018/11/03 by nfield

By M.V. Ramana and Robert Jensen How the IPCC’s solutions for reversing the Earth’s warming encourage business as usual. […] Underlying the IPCC report’s claims is the belief that technological solutions can fix the climate problem. Yet these fixes don’t address … Continue reading →

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Algerians still suffering from French atomic legacy decades later　via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2018/10/22 by nfield

Compensation scheme has aided very few people, as Saharan residents experience cancers, blindness and birth defects By Johnny Magdaleno Ahmed el-Hadj Hamadi was huddled into a building with the rest of his community by French soldiers early in the morning. … Continue reading →

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Does living near a nuclear plant give children cancer? via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2018/10/02 by nfield

By Cindy Folkers   Nuclear regulators don’t want you to know More than 60 studies have shown increases of childhood leukemia around nuclear facilities worldwide. Despite this finding, there has never been independent analysis in the US examining connections between childhood cancer … Continue reading →

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The effects of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are still reverberating via Noted

Posted on 2018/09/30 by nfield

Bill Ralston talks to military man who spent time in the Pacific where France tested nuclear weapons. Denis had a problem. We were sitting talking in a cafe in Collioure, a gorgeous coastal village on the Mediterranean’s Côte Vermeille, about … Continue reading →

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