China should crack down on nuclear smuggling to North Korea
“China does not place enough of a priority on counter-proliferation intelligence. According to Western intelligence officials, Chinese intelligence agencies do not allocate enough resources to...
View Article$4.3 billion to make new plutonium pits for America
a building project at Los Alamos called the Chemical and Metallurgical Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR). The intended function of this facility is to increase the capacity to produce new...
View ArticleA soldier’s testimony of Christmas Island’s nuclear bomb tests
HMS Cavalier « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, By SIDNEY FANNING :November 28, 2010 In 1963 whilst on HMS Cavalier we was ordered to go to Christmas Island for five days on the way home from...
View ArticleFacts on airport radiation scanners
a quote from Rafi Sala, an Israeli airport security expert who helped design security at Ben Gurion International Airport: “I don”t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless...
View ArticleThe potential for Stuxnet computer worm to attack nuclear centrifuges
Forensic experts dissecting the worm found that it was calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges “wildly out of control.”…..one thing is clear: Stuxnet is a worrying escalation in cyber...
View ArticleCan Wikileaks be prosecuted for telling the truth?
AUDIO Prosecuting WikiLeaks: It’s Not Going To Be Easy : NPR NPR, 1 Dec 10, Law enforcement officials in the United States and around the world are turning up the heat on the website WikiLeaks and its...
View ArticleRussia ramps up nuclear weapons in Europe
True totals of Russian tactical nuclear weapons is a tightly-held secret, but the Federation of American Scientists estimated last year that Moscow has nearly 5,400 of them, with about 2,000 deployed....
View ArticleJulian Assange’s aim of free speech
When governments stop torturing and killing people, and when corporations stop abusing the legal system, then perhaps it will be time to ask if free-speech activists are accountable.” – Julian Assange...
View ArticleNuclear Repression, not Nuclear Renaissance, in Jaitapur, India
Jaitapur’s people are more concerned about being treated as sub-humans by the state, which has unleashed savage repression, including hundreds of arrests, illegal detentions and orders prohibiting...
View ArticleIONISING RADIATION and NUCLEAR MEDICINE – theme for March 2012
The nuclear lobby touts Nuclear Medicine as a justification for nuclear reactors – a sort of “fig leaf” on a dirty and dangerous technology, or a “foot in the door” to introduce nuclear reactors....
View ArticleTwo great charts about Nuclear ☢ that everyone should share!
Two great charts about Nuclear ☢ that everyone should study! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DoEMx-2GXzc/UoF2CfVXqfI/AAAAAAAAHeo/y71numWymTo/s1600/nuclear+power’s+carbon+footprint.jpg … and...
View ArticleJapanese Government Wins in Supreme Court: Tents of Anti-Nuclear Groups Next...
On July 28, Japan’s Supreme Court handed down its ruling in a case filed originally by the national government over tents pitched by anti-nuclear groups outside buildings of the Ministry of Economy,...
View Article‘We know about Fukushima’: Thousands rally in China over nuclear project fears
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Lianyungang, China, to protest against a possible French-Chinese nuclear project, according to local media. Clashes have been reported between police...
View ArticleAnti-nuclear activists’ tents forcibly removed from economy ministry premises...
Police stand guard as Tokyo District Court officials remove tents built by anti-nuclear activists in the Kasumigaseki district of the capital at 3:59 a.m. Sunday Tokyo District Court officials on...
View ArticleAnti-nuclear power protest tents forcibly removed from outside ministry
Yesterday I wrote a long-ish post about last weekend’s attack on the anti-nuclear power protest tents that have occupied a corner of land outside the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in...
View ArticleAnti-nuclear Power Protest Tents in Tokyo Removed
Japanese officials led a predawn raid on August 21st to forcibly remove the protracted anti-nuclear power sit-in protest in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) headquarters...
View ArticleOpposition to nuclear energy grows in Japan
”Opinion polls show the Japanese people oppose nuclear plants going back into operation. It underlines the scale of the problem facing the government in convincing everyone that it’s safe. Julian...
View ArticleMounting evidence of long term harm of depleted uranium weapons
There is increasing worldwide support for a Depleted Uranium ban….There is a growing consensus among civil society groups, scientists and some military organisations that the health risks from DU have...
View ArticleState Repression Against Greenpeace Antinuclear French Activist Yannick...
Ouch … the incredible Yannick Rousselet, the campaigner at Greenpeace against Nukes, Yannick Rousselet, whose ideas and actions of genius are no longer counted, is now a government target. As...
View ArticleNuclear plant construction at center of town’s first mayoral race in 16 years
Atsuko Kumagai, owner of Asako House is one of the candidates! AOMORI – Official campaigning began Tuesday for the first mayoral election in 16 years in the town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, with four...
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