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CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS

SAFETY AND SOCIAL ISSUES

from 2003 onwards

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12-19-06	Times Union	Downtown Albany buildings re-opened Radioactive material forced evacuation of county courthouse buildings along Columbia Street but those evacuated to a church probably got a higher dose of radiation than from the event.
9-5-06	Eagle Tribune, MA	Leaner designs fuel race to build next generation of reactors Testing in Corvallis, OR.
9-2-06	Tri-City Herald	Benton commissioner seeks federal grant for Hanford site, FFTF study It’s a nice thought for FFTF but haven’t the fuel and sodium gone?
8-30-06	BBC	Ban for UK anti-nuclear protesters This small group of activists does not represent public opinion.
8-26-06	Ledger-Enquirer	Officials: 3 TVA nuclear plants leak tritium into groundwater It gives activists a chance to speak.
8-8-06	Lendman	Comments on Helen Caldicott's Book “Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer” These comments save reading a flawed book by Caldicott. The flaws not recognized by Lendman
8-6-06	AftenPosten	Safety fears at Swedish nuclear plants This is a diesel generator issue which might apply also in hospitals and other facilities that might need reserve power.
8-1-06	INS News	Pennsylvania Health Department Announces Special Potassium Iodide Distribution Paranoia
8-1-06	The Local (UPI)	Nuclear plant faced possible meltdown The reliability of network power was the prolem in cooling the shut-down plant.
7-31-06	CNW Group	CNSC Approves Renewal of AECL's Chalk River Site Operating Licence Good.- now our medical isotopic suppies are assured.
7-19-06	InterFax News	All nuclear facilities in Russia reliably protected - Rosatom chief Good preparation with better training than the DOE does in this country.
6-27-06	North Denver News	Nuclear reactor has water storage leak This is a small ore-test open pool reactor.
6-25-06	Associated Press	Worker exposed to radiation at Japan nuclear plant -- No health problem, leakage outside Notice the last paragraph characterization of Japan’s worst nuclear accident.
6-15-06	The Sunday Times (Sydney)	Fourth accident at Lucas Heights The nuclear world had better be safer than safe in these next few years, even a paper cut at a nuclear research center is a nuclear accident. Take care Fellows!
5-31-06	Financial Times	Greenpeace warns of nuclear threat to Champagne You have to admire the innovative Greenpeace lies aiming at the drink you love!
5-31-06	Finnish News Agency STT	Finnish president worried as Customs thwart attempts to smuggle Russian fighter spares This story shows ignorance on behalf of the customs.
5-30-06	Associated Press	TMI guard’s video game takes priority That’s the problem with a boring task but it doesn’t excuse it. However a guard is not an operator.
5-30-06	Human Events	Economics of Prices An independent view of nuclear power – see below.
5-9-06	Pioneer Press	Prairie Island workers exposed to radiation The amount that they received was probably beneficial.
5-9-06	The New Standard - an activist sheet	Nuke Waste Site Calamity Reflects Industrial Crisis BEWARE. This is the type of pseudo-news, pseudo-respectable article that the public is likely to see. It is full of half-truths and downright lies attributed to Megan Tady, Susan Gold, Gerry Pollett, Arjun Makhijani, and their respective activist organizations. Each is a paid activist pretending to be respectable. For example, Arjun Makhijani supposedly heads the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, which is simply himself and his wife. They are all charlatans of the first order.
5-5-06	Hawaii Reporter	60 Minutes Does it Again - Rave on Ms. Stahl Debunking the Leslie Stahl’s of the world.
5-5-06	UPI Germany	Analysis: Is nuclear energy a terror risk? Chicken Little analysis.
5-3-06	Herald	Is tritium linked to Cancer? Group to launch probe. It seems to be a real concerned group rather than a bunch of paid activists operating in la-la- land.
5-3-06	Evening Standard	Sellafield faces criminal charges Very visible people with big pockets … or so the opponents think.
4-27-06	Associated Press	Chernobyl effects still felt - Ukraine struggles to heal wounds 20 years after nuclear accident Yushchenko has it right. Chernobyl points to the reliability and safety of this sixty-year-old technology. Greenpeace has killed more people than Chernobyl.
4-27-06	The Wall Street Jounrnal	Measuring Chernobyl's Fallout The article tries to be objective but recognizing pseudo-science and omitting the real information about low-level radiation benefits. Should we count those saved by Chernobyl? This also comments on Greenpeace’s crude arithmetic ratioing analysis.
4-26-06	BBC News	Q&A: Chernobyl 20 years on Only a little Greenpeace disinformation here.
4-24-06	The Washington Post	Green makes case for nuclear energy support Patrick Moore changes his mind
4-23-06	Newsday	Green Party nominates slate for statewide office In Connecticutt Beware these people. They are professional paid agitators. Don’t give them the time of day.
4-21-06	BBC News	Inquiry into nuclear flask fall A routine working incident but nothing to be scared about.
4-18-06	Associated Press	Greenpeace Counters U.N. Chernobyl Report Amid ludicrous claims, Greenpeace the killer continues to spread fear and chaos inn the world. They were responsible for thousands of aborted fetuses for no good reason immediately after the accident when the mothers had received nothing but background levels of radiation.
4-15-06	CBS and a host of others	Few Reassured Over Chernobyl's Impact Immoral organizations like the NRDC and Greenpeace continue to spread disinformation about the only bad nuclear accident while the inhabitants of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, are happy to beg for hard currency on the basis of their supposed ailments.
4-8-06	BBC	FBI probes nuclear reactor hole Sounds like an accident coupled with lack of quality control over non-company workers.
4-2-06	The New York Times	Small Hole in Pipe at Nuclear Plant A disgruntled employee would do this … but how, The pipe could not have been pressurized.
3-24-06	Wshington Post	Japanese Nuclear Reactor Ordered Shut Down The power of ignorance is awesome … especially in the courts
3-22-06	Reuters	Kansas to let nuclear plant guards "shoot to kill" The stupid heartland of America – what can you expect from Kansas. Look at how intelligent the Governor’s office is in the final paragraph.
3-22-06	Times and Guardian on line (South Africa)	Two injured in fire at nuclear power plant in Japan Nothing to do with the nuclear reactors but it gives the reporter the opportunity to review all incidents at nuclear plants: nuclear and non-nuclear.
3-20-06	Bellona	Mayak plant's general director dismissed from his post Rightly so.
3-19-06	The Register-Guard, Oregon	U.S. fails to collect billions in fines Not surprising – one bureaucrat imposes fines and another collects. They probably don’t talk to each other.
3-16-06	EuroActiv	NGOs attack EU nuclear research funding The R&D aspect of energy policy is becoming a hot political topic as EU leaders prepare to agree on a common energy policy later this month.
3-12-06	Chosun Iibo	Beware of the the Travelling Circus (of paid activists.) A lesson in Korean activism … be against anything that smells of progress. This is interesting writing. Who pays for these people?
3-11-06	Cape Argus	Koeberg: South Africas ill-starred nuclear power plant The plant has been plagued by political ANC terrorists and now by professional Greenpeace agitation. One has to ask whether the government is stable enough to support the modern regulatory infrastructure that power generation requires.
3-11-06	The New Mexican	U.N. panel backs Shoshone in dispute over rights to land The Shoshone are in the right in this instance although it is not a matter of racial discrimination. The Federal Government is just trying to steal land. It is theft, plain and simple.
3-8-06	Pacific Magazine, HI	President of Marshall Islands Calls For Full U.S. Settlement He’s correct but it should be subtracted from the Pentagon budget. They are not doing much with their funding.
3-8-06	Wembley and Kingsbury Times and many local newspapers	Trains 'vulnerable to attack' Chicken Littles at work.
3-7-06	Greenpeace.org	Greenpeace playing games with coloured lights Not a smudge on their page of history: Greenpeace does best when it can keep it’s volunteers youngsters occupied with make-shift fun and games. Read “New Worlds,” John Graham, PublishAmerica 2005, for an excellent expose of their methods of protest.
3-6-06	Herald News Daily, Dakota, for example.	US nuclear plant leaks fuel local health concerns A widespread report repeated across the world of activists in Illinois who are hyping their idea of a connection between every irrelevancy like oil spills and the brain cancer of a child to some minor plant releases that probably benefit the health of anyone willing to spend years in the vicinity. Unfortunately most readers don’t have the background to discriminate facts from hype.
3-3-06	Connecticutt News	Radar Didn't Get Her; Radiation Did This demonstrates the extent and epth of the paranoia that affects this country in 2006.
3-3-06	Aljazeera.com	The U.S. radiates civilians and soldiers with depleted uranium This is a good illustration of half-truths, accusations, and yellow journalism. It is fun to read but it has an affect on less educated readers.
3-2-06	The Journal News	Agencies held Indian Point pollution data Paid activist, Lisa Rainwater, is complaining about ‘pollution’ that is less than in her name and much less than in drinking water.
3-1-06	Alert Net (IRIN)	Informal mining of radioactive dumps linked to cancer rise (Kyrgystan) That is a real danger when people haven’t enough to ignore garbage dumps.
3-1-06	Jihad Unspun	Jihad Group Claims Sabotage Of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station In Cape Town A lunatic fringe group claims responsibility … for a bolt. The Nuclear Power Plant was not involved.
3-1-06	China News	S. Africa's nuclear power plant destructed (sic) by an unknown group All politics … the nuclear plant was not involved.
2-26-06	The Jerusalem Post	Iran, Russia have enrichment agreement Centralized enrichment is an economic way to go and it stops politicians making war.
2-22-06	vanguard (Lagos)	Nigeria Not Interested in Becoming Nuclear Power – but read on Obasanjo is entirely correct.
2-20-06	Chicago Tribune	Emergency declared at La Salle power plant Better safe within plant specs.
2-13-06	Infozine	"DOE Research Contradicts Administration Claims of Proliferation-resistant Reprocessing" The title carefully omits the words “Dr. Lyman says, that …”. Dr. Lyman employed by the Union of Concerned Scientists an organization with credentials on a par with Greenpeace and the NRDC … dilettante seekers of publicity.
2-13-06	NewsDay.com (AP)	Nuclear power plant officials contest critics' claims Those who hired the so-called expert should be offered the alternative … 1250 200 foot towers through their town producing power some of the time if the wind blows.
2-5-06	San Francisco Chronicle	Potent firepower for Lawrence Livermore How can you trust these people with guns when they cannot even dte their press release accurately. This is three days ahead of itself!
2-3-06	Guardian Unlimited	Robot unit set up to find source of nuclear attacks Jobs for the boys – the Washington Government is good at that.
2-2-06	Knoxville News Sentinel	Plans change for ORNL nuclear material Short-sightedness again abounds in the Department of Energy … throwing away valuable medical isotopes. We can only hope that some of those policy makers are struck down with cancer.
1-30-06	Nuclear Engineering International	EU statement brings clarity to cross-border claims Nothing like a fair trial from claimants who see deep pockets across borders.
1-29-06	The Washington Post	Al wows 'em at Sundance The bore Gore still points at the unreality of his believes. It is now ART!
1-27-06	The Financial Times	Fission for the future A review of James Lovelock’s change of heart by an environmentalist who tries to discredit their erstwhile guru
1-27-06	The Courier-Mail	Jellyfish threat to nuclear behemoth Starbucks?
1-14-06	The Independent	Greenpeace video of 'terror attack' is condemned The antis, lead by Greenpeace, have no morality. Greenpeace originally killed seals and made a film of their own murders to preach against killings. They also fired mortar shots at the Superphoenix reactor, thus scarring the containment concrete. They are, if anything, the original terrorists in the past century.
1-14-06	Ashbury Park News	Menendez's Senate appointment will be a speedy one despite isotopes Some radioactive things are readily accepted.
1-13-06	Medical News Today	Plants Release Methane, A Greenhouse Gas - Goes Against Previous Assumptions Perhaps greenhouse gases are just that and nothing to do with humans!
1-12-06	Hartford Courant	NRC Studied Possible Contamination From Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Leak The same results would arise from samples of “clean’ soil in a ‘pristine’ environment
1-11-06	Houston Chronicle	Weighing the risks of plutonium power - Threat to public called virtually nil A reasonable article by Mark Carreau
1-4-06	Forbes Magazine	Gold nanoparticles, radiation combo may slow Alzheimer's Again small amounts of radiation are beneficial.
12-21-05	Botswana Daily News	Nuclear technology beneficial says Marriane Nganunu -- Botswana There is no need to be defensive about nuclear science and technology anywhere,
12-21-05	Alter Net	Loving Nuclear Power A relatively objective discussion by a Californian
12-16-05	The Times of London	Chechen factory on brink of radioactive 'catastrophe' (according to environmentalists) You cannot get the truth from environmental activists but lack of control of isotopes is an issue.
12-16-05	Voice of America	Explosion Near Russian Nuclear Power Station Raises Safety Concerns The smelter where the explosion occurred has nothing to do with the Leningrad plant.
12-8-05	Science Daily	Argonne Researchers Confirm Lead In Beethoven's Illness It would be nice to know why he had a lot of lead otherwise everyone would have been deaf then.
11-25-05	CNN (Associated Press)	Radiation leaks announced in Japan These are still “dangerous leaks” in a media sense.
4-28-05	Yahoo News (Associated Press)	U.S. Panel: Open Door to Radiation Claims This is all a huge scam since none have any condition associated with radiation … at best they received beneficial low doses. However, free money is a huge draw to false claims.
3-17-05	The Japan Times	Advocates only at nuke power seminar – opposing views not solicited The antis simply want to obstruct: if they had constructive views it would be different because they could be respected.
3-3-05	The Japan Times	Kepco admits negligence, not fault, in fatal reactor pipe blast This is a non-nuclear industrial accident but it points to KEPCO management lapses.
1-24-05	Yahoo News	Coolant Leak Shuts Down Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant One needs to get used to minor incidents. Plants are designed with huge cooling redundancy.
1-24-05	Slovensko.com	Slovakian Nuclear power station being assessed Thank goodness Austria is not involved.
1-22-05	Weekly Times	A trailblazing woman is taking the reigns at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. When competent women take the reigns it should not be a surprise – we have plenty of men in jobs above their level of competency.
1-21-05	The Hindu	Nuclear power reactors on coastline safe: Kakodkar Not only that … they will supply the power needed for recovery while other plants cannot.
12-7-04	Yahoo Finance (AFX)	Siemens wants to sell China nuclear power plant safety technology The Greens will move into the backwoods through restriction on trade.
11-19-04	Yahoo Health (AFP)	Chernobyl caused slight rise in cancer rates in northern Sweden: study No mention of causality though.
11-12-04	Yahoo Alerts (Reuters)	Radiation Panic Sparks School Closings One is forced to suspect that such a rumor was spread maliciously by the antis.
10-31-04	Yahoo Alert (ic Lanarkshire)	Nuclear scare story dismissed The anti-nuclear activists are now getting desperate.
10-29-04	IOL, Zambia	Swiss nuclear scare prompts medical handout No scare has occurred unless handing out the tablets caused one.
10-28-04	Spacey News -- Nukewars	"Serious Shortcomings" Seen In Security At Russian Nuclear Plants From a real spacey organization … look at the wonderful photograph!
10-1-04	The Japan Times	2,500 in Tokai nuclear evacuation drill It keeps the activists quiet.
9-30-04	The Budapest Sun	Authorities accused of errors It is dangerous to invite Nils to comment!
9-28-04	Lacaster Herald	Report adds to doubts about Davis-Besse This was a very serious condition but not an accident even though it might have become one.
9-18-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	Experts criticize Japan's nuclear safety standards It would be a more convincing statement if the experts were non Japanese
9-12-04	Medical News Today	Impact of nuclear plant accident still strong. And this all for a noon-nuclear accident.
9-8-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	More nuclear reactor flaws found One revelation leads to the next whether they are serious or not.
9-5-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	Police search nuclear plant in Mihama over fatal accident I wonder if anyone has notice that Japan’s “most dangerous accident at a nuclear plant” has nothing to do with the nuclear side of the plant.
8-24-04	The Japan Times	Radioactive material found at university Now 30 years of University mis-management – where is the Quality Management that inspired Japan not so long ago?
8-22-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	MHI used notebooks to keep track of reactor pipes There’s more to it than meets the eye.
8-20-04	The Japan Times	Faulty pipes caused nine other reactor accidents Revelations of more appalling management by both the the safety agency and the industry.
8-19-04	The Japan Times	KEPCO admits more pipe inspections missed The Government perhaps should step in and change the entire management down to the first line supervisors.
8-18-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	Labor offices to send KEPCO case to prosecutors Fall out everywhere and it is far more dangerous than radiation – it is legal.
8-12-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	Reactor workers died of suffocation in plant accident Non-nuclear accidents are much worse than nuclear ones but TEPCO is at fault.
8-12-04	The Japan Time	Government expands scope of nuclear plant inspections Closing the stable door behind poor administration.
8-12-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	Pipes eluded nuclear plant regulations so the faulty section that killed went legally unchecked since '76 TEPCO has no quality assurance program and no management worth their salt.
8-11-04	The Japan Times	MOX FACES THUMBS DOWN - Kepco cost-cuts proved fatal KEPCO’s actions provide a field day for protesters
8-11-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	KEPCO failed to inspect aging reactor pipe despite warning Not a nuclear accident but failure of nuclear firm is just as bad for the industry.
8-10-04	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Four Die in Steam Leak at Japan Nuclear Plant When anything happens at a nuclear plant all nuclear events are remembered.
8-2-04	The Japan Times	1950s-era plutonium showing up near Japan All information is useful unless it is misused – these are trace amounts.
6-22-04	The Japan Times (Kyodo)	Tokai radioactive leak contained A new Japanese openness.
2-22-04	The Japan Times	No radioactivity leak after blaze at nuclear plant All events are nuclear accidents – this one hardly deserves notice.
10-28-03	The Japan Times	Radiation leak could kill 400,000' Researcher bases grave study on Chernobyl disaster Another University professor trying to make a name for himself with more pseudo-science … one needs to ask where he is getting funding for his false alarm. The final sentence provides the Chernobyl reality.
6-8-03	The New York Times	Iraqis near nuclear site took ore barrels home In war's chaos, thirsty villagers drank from contaminated containers An uneducated public and no warning notices?
4-25-03	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Ukraine Says Chernobyl Nuclear Shield Is Safe Still Zlenko wants Western money to solve the Soviet problem.
4-22-03	Yahoo News (Reuters)	Russian Minister Fears Collapse of Chernobyl Shield The writer repeats hackneyed information: the errors are highlighted in the attached file.
4-18-03	Rocky Mountain News	Plutonium might be deadlier than thought - Lung cancer danger occurs even at 'safe' levels, study says Includes misuse of the healthy worker concept.
4-11-03	The Japan Times	Fukui race boils down to reactor factor A pro-nuclear Fukui governor is vital to Monju. I would expect a lot of nuclear enthusiasts to lend assistance.
4-10-03	The Japan Times	Leaks of plutonium, solvents, acids could now trigger removal Pipes at Flats A stupid and expensive idea that panders to the lunatic fringe in Boulder
3-4-03	The New Yorker	How worried should we be about the nuclear plant up the river? Follows a Friends of the Earth advertisement in USA Today.
3-3-03	The Japan Times	Six JCO employees sentenced over fatal '99 nuclear accident – all get suspended terms for negligence that left two dead
1-25-03	The Japan Times	Nuclear safety official jailed for bribes of ¥ 22 million A dishonest conspiracy has been cleaned up.
1-8-03	The Japan Times	Four firms are urged to stop paying off gangsters It doesn’t matter that the payments were for plants, trees and tea. When you are protecting a reputation, this sort of publicity is damaging.