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par Roger Spautz
Après l’action de lundi, les militants de Greenpeace sont toujours présents sur le chantier de la ligne haute tension. Les travaux n’ont pas été poursuivis mais différentes entreprises sont arrivées pour décharger du matériel.
Mardi matin, Greenpeace a constaté une nouvelle infraction : à l’endroit dans la zone de conservation où les travaux pour la ligne haute tension ont débutés, des déboisements ont eu lieu sur une largeur de 12 mètres.
D’après des informations que Greenpeace a reçues, le bourgmestre de la ville de Differdange devra délivrer l’autorisation de construction à Sotel prochainement. Mardi, Greenpeace a lancé un appel au Bourgmestre Claude Meisch de ne pas accorder...
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We’ve got a lovely, shiny new home. You can now find us at... www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction ...so change your bookmarks and RSS feeds to follow us.
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At the heart of Greenpeace’s report ‘Left in the dust: Areva's radioactive legacy in the desert towns of Niger’ is the human cost of nuclear power. If we are going to embrace nuclear power then, every time you flick a switch and nuclear-powered light bulb comes on, you must accept the suffering of the likes of the people who live around Areva’s uranium mines in Niger (and those people are by no means the only people to suffer at the hands of the nuclear industry). This is what the nuclear industry wants us to forget. According to them, nuclear power is just a matter ‘safe’, ‘clean’ and ‘reliable’ reactors producing ‘low carbon’ electricity. They don’t want...
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Yesterday Greenpeace launched its brand new report, a little bomb of information in the nuclear world, entitled "Left in the dust: Areva's radioactive legacy in the desert towns of Niger".  The press conference took place in in Geneva, Switzerland, city hosting numerous international organizations, and among them the United Nations' World Health Organization. Jean Ziegler, vice-president of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee was the first to speak. He rang the alarm on the dramatic situation in Niger regarding food and health. He also pointed out how international law could be used to trigger pressure on countries like France and Switzerland, and through them on companies like Areva who...
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 Today's big stories from the nuclear industry:
Protests over re-opening of Japanese nuclear reactor
‘(Buddhika Weerasinghe-Japan) Japanese peace and human right activists together protest against to Japan's Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)has reactive controversial "fast-breeder" Monju nuclear reactor14 years after the plant was shut down following a liquid of sodium leaked and fire in 1995. That fast breeder Monju nuclear reactor suspended four months after start-up in August 1995 and today morning 10.30 restarted to operation. Two organizations of right activists separate time morning and afternoon protest against to restarted "fast-breeder" Monju nuclear reactor. Fukui Kenmin Kagi joint right organization about 30 activists held protest rally...
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Uranium mining by French nuclear company AREVA poses a serious threat to the environment and people of northern Niger in West Africa. Operations of Nuclear giant AREVA put lives at risk in Niger Uranium mines in Niger operated by the state-owned French nuclear giant AREVA continue to create a radioactive hazard for the people living nearby. A new report released today by Greenpeace reveals contamination levels in the air, water and soil above internationally accepted limits. “Radioactivity increases poverty because it creates more victims. With each day passes we are exposed to radiation and continue to be surrounded by poisoned air, polluted water and earth – while AREVA makes hundreds of millions...
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As we said yesterday, as he was leaving his post as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last year, Mohamed ElBaradei warned the world about ‘virtual nuclear weapons states’, countries that will develop weapons technology but stop just short of producing an actual bomb [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/elbaradei-nuclear-weapons-states-un]. This would, ElBaradei said, allow countries to ‘remain technically compliant with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while being within a couple of months of deploying and using a nuclear weapon’ It was clear from ElBaradei’s successor Yukiya Amano, in his opening speech to the nuclear Non_proliferation Treaty review at the United Nations, that ElBaradei’s warning is not being heeded… "Nuclear power is enjoying growing acceptance as a stable and...
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Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Bulgaria halts nuclear plant project
‘Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says Bulgaria has put on hold construction of its second nuclear power plant until it finds a new investor and funds to complete the project. "The country has no money for an atomic power plant," the DPA news agency cited Borisov as saying in Tuesday's edition of the 24Casa newspaper. "We will build it when investors come." The Russian company Atomstroiexport had originally been commissioned to build the planned 2,000-megawatt Belene nuclear power plant on the Danube River - 180 kilometers (about 112 miles) northeast of the capital Sofia...
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What’s undeniable about nuclear power is that that it walks hand in hand with nuclear weapons. The first nuclear reactors were built in the early days of the atomic arms race to provide fissile material for nuclear weapons. This led to the nuclear deceit that we still see to this day. As Stephanie Cooke puts it in her excellent book ‘In Mortal Hands: A cautionary history of the nuclear age’… Governments saw that there could be a positive side to nuclear and began to promote it as a way of producing electricity. In the United States this “peaceful uses” aspect not only provided a welcome antidote to the government’s determination to rapidly escalate nuclear weapons production but was part...
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Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: The misguided nuclear revival
‘RALEIGH - Fifty years ago, it was widely believed that nuclear power might provide the answer to all of the world's energy needs by providing a clean, safe, and virtually endless supply of affordable electricity. Two decades or so later, of course, the bloom on the nuclear rose had quickly wilted under the weight of the spiraling costs, worries about weapons proliferation and the storage of waste byproducts, and, of course, the disasters at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. As a result, there has not been a new nuclear power plant ordered in the...
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Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: The radioactive risk society
‘On April 10, 2007, a uranium pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our nuclear energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on radioactivity in India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008, another uranium pipe burst, spewing houses near the village of Dungridih in Jaduguda with uranium waste. The deadly waste circled and flowed into five houses. Impacts on human life are unknown. But while Jaduguda is sadly punished for its proximity to uranium mining and transportation, it is now clear that it is...
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This week the European Commission released its Europeans and Nuclear Safety Eurobarometer report (PDF). The report attempts to measure EU citizen’s attitudes to nuclear power. It makes for very interesting reading indeed. • In the 2006 report, 62% of EU citizens people thought that nuclear power could help combat climate change. That number has plummeted to 46%. The number of people who answered ‘don’t know’ has risen in France, Spain, Finland, UK, Belgium, Luxemburg, Ireland, Estona, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Malta and Cyprus. France, UK and Finland are at the heart of the faltering nuclear ‘renaissance’. • In Bulgaria, Germany, France and Romania the number of people who think nuclear reactors can be run safely has...
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Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Coolant system mishap at Japan's long-stalled Monju fast breeder are "inevitable" in such reactors
‘NEW YORK - The Monju prototype fast breeder nuclear power reactor, which has been gearing up for an early May restart after a 15-year stoppage, suffered a temporary glitch in a coolant leakage detector Tuesday that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency reported had no impact on the environment, Japanese media reported. However, one Japanese nuclear industry source familiar with the Monju project was quoted as saying in Japan Today that malfunctions of this type - and worse – are "inevitable" in such reactors. The...
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