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Britain’s nuclear U-turn puts us in a very lonely club via The Guardian

Posted on 2018/06/08 by nfield

Fred Pearce Pumping £5bn into a new plant in north Wales as a way to fight climate change is a solution at odds with the rest of the world For once, ministers have put their money where their mouth is … Continue reading →

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Guarded nuclear shipment to secretly depart Sydney via SBS News

Posted on 2018/06/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Any day now a decade’s worth of heavily guarded nuclear cargo will be secretly transported through Sydney’s streets and sent to France for reprocessing. […] The radioactive cargo is set to be shipped to La Hague, in France, but details … Continue reading →

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Hitachi’s U.K. nuclear project to get guarantees from government via Reuters

Posted on 2018/05/09 by nfield

TOKYO, May 9 (Reuters) – Hitachi Ltd’sHorizon Nuclear Power unit has received an assurance from the British government that it will guarantee loans for the construction of two reactors in Wales, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Wednesday. […] The British … Continue reading →

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Leave uranium in the ground via Beyond Nuclear

Posted on 2018/05/08 by nfield

By Günter Wippel Just over 30 years ago — on April 10, 1988 — seven indigenous activists from different parts of the world set out on a three-week public awareness tour through Germany. They called their tour “Leave Uranium in … Continue reading →

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Half Life in Fukushima documents life in the “red zone” via International Examiner

Posted on 2018/05/05 by nfield

Playing this weekend at the Northwest Film Forum, Mark Olexa and Francesca Scalisi’s haunting 2016 documentary Half Life in Fukushima follows Naoto Matsumura, a middle-aged former rice farmer who tends to the animals left behind in the exclusion zone surrounding … Continue reading →

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For veterans of British nuclear tests, a 60 year fight for recognition goes on via Radio New Zealand

Posted on 2018/04/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jamie Tahana, RNZ Pacific Journalist @JamieTahana jamie.tahana@radionz.co.nz On the beach of a remote Kiribati atoll 60 years ago, Paul Ah Poy and hundreds of others were ordered to turn around, crouch and cover their eyes. Huddled together on the beach … Continue reading →

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UK ‘yet to properly assess’ nuclear plan’s impact on Ireland via The Irish Times

Posted on 2018/04/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Activists criticise Government’s failure to engage with public over Hinkley Point C There are “alarming deficiencies” in the UK’s approach to assessing impacts of plans to expand its nuclear power programme on Ireland, according to the Irish Environmental Pillar (EP). … Continue reading →

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Quiet no more, French village becomes center of anti-nuclear protest via On News Today

Posted on 2018/04/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BURE, France (OnNewsToday) – The 82 residents of the French village of Bure lived a quiet life until the government began testing the feasibility of storing nuclear waste there. Now Bure is rocked by protests as a final decision on … Continue reading →

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Experts fail to find origin of nuclear pollution cloud over Europe via Reuters

Posted on 2018/04/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

OSLO (Reuters) – International experts have not been able to find what caused a cloud of radioactive pollution that spread over Europe last year  […] Monitoring stations recorded high levels of a radioactive isotope in the air over most European … Continue reading →

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How Fukushima turned a nuclear advocate into an antinuclear champion　via Christian Science Monitor

Posted on 2018/04/11 by nfield

APRIL 11, 2018  FLAMANVILLE, FRANCE—Trading “le nucléaire” for renewables is a tough sell in the planet’s most nuclear-dependent nation. Naoto Kan came to France anyway. The once pro-nuclear former prime minister who led Japan through the Fukushima nuclear disaster recently made … Continue reading →

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