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Sunday, September 05, 2010
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| Department of Health (DOH ) recommends practices to reduce radiation exposure in pediatric imaging, including using alternative, non-radiation diagnostic imaging procedures such as MRIs and ultrasounds when possible;…The pamphlets and pocket cards are available for download at the state Health Department website. (USA) Parents can track kids’ radiation exposure, Times Union, By CATHLEEN CROWLEY Staff [...]  9/4/2010 1:56:15 AM | The Nuclear Industry copies the Tobacco Industry. Same old tactics. You cast around to find a scientist willing to be paid to say that your product is “healthy” and “clean”. Cameco uranium mining company is running “Community Liaison Forums”. And guess what? They’ve found that low dose ionising radiation is not only healthy – it [...]  9/4/2010 1:56:02 AM | a significant nuclear accident that took place on 21 January 2003 at the Kalpakkam Atomic Reprocessing Plant….Since plant operations began in the early 1980s, incidents of cancer and auto-immune thyroid diseases in the surrounding villages have increased…. 30,000 villagers have been asked to leave once the Kudankulam plant is functional.” Accident Sites – radiation, cancer, [...]  9/4/2010 1:50:05 AM | One of the reactors, which had no containment dome to prevent radiation from leaking into the environment, experienced a partial meltdown in 1959. There were other problems over the years, including two more accidents, burn pits with radioactive contaminants and a rocket fuel explosion that killed two scientists and resulted in a $650 million fine [...]  9/4/2010 1:43:33 AM | Nuclear Fuel Services fined for incident at Tenn. facility | The News & Advance Bryan Gentry : September 03, 2010 Federal regulators have proposed a $140,000 fine against Nuclear Fuel Services, a branch of the Babcock & Wilcox Co. in Tennessee.The fine stems from regulatory violations in October 2009, when a chemical reaction unexpectedly accelerated [...]  9/4/2010 1:38:48 AM | In his book “Dangerous Ground: America’s Failed Arms Control Policy, from FDR to Obama,” Ritter pinpoints the major challenges facing the international community in the post-Bush era and presents a blueprint for confronting them. ‘US addicted to nuclear weapons’, PressTV -Sep 2, 2010, Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the US is addicted [...]  9/4/2010 1:35:38 AM | “The world never imagined the appalling use of two nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, but the power of the current existing weapons multiplies their power,” Fidel Castro calls on nations to avoid nuclear warfare, HAVANA, CUBA (BNO NEWS), 4 Sept 10 — Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday made a [...]  9/4/2010 1:32:33 AM | Today : Where nuclear companies are owned by the Government: France, Russia, China, South Korea - the economic risks of nuclear power are taken on by the consumer – the tax-payer. And this has always been the system on the past, in USA, UK, Europe: state-owned or regulated utility monopolies where many of the risks [...]  9/3/2010 8:11:07 AM | “With a floating nuclear plant you have a mechanism to significantly increase the amount of radioactive material going into the environment,” Floating Chernobyls OpEdNews: Karl Grossman 3 Sept 10 Russia has embarked on ascheme to build floating nuclear power plants to be moored off its coasts and sold to nations around the world. “Absolutely safe,” [...]  9/3/2010 8:08:09 AM | the materials also included the military explosive C4, dynamite, and what appeared to be depleted uranium. Depleted uranium found at killing spree suspect’s East Bay home | abc7news.com, 2 Sept 10 VALLEJO, CA (KGO) — In the East Bay, police are still sorting through the grisly details of a killing spree……. Police still will not [...]  9/3/2010 8:01:31 AM |
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