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 Imagine your average nuclear power operator was a cat breeder. You want a cat so you go to see him. Yes, he says, I can offer you the finest pedigree cat. The best youâve ever seen from a long line of fine cats. I can provide with you one for just $100 and itâll be ready for collection in a month.
You go along in a month to collect your cat. Very sorry, says the cat breeder, itâs going to be another couple of weeks before you can take your cat. Oh, and by the way, the price is now $150. It can be an...
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Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo. Full update on the Carrotmob site. The little 'rain on the parade' voice inside my head said, "Yeah, but that's a bunch of work to change one store out of 20." Then I thought... What if instead of rewarding the one store that actually does something, you make it more of a competition. Reward them after they take action, and the one that does the most - gets the most. Lot's of business will act because they won't know exactly how much their competitors are doing. Maybe this is even already your plan?
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Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: New York Times: Donât Loosen Nuclear Rules for India
âIN the next day or so, an obscure organization will meet to decide the fate of an Indian nuclear deal that threatens to rapidly accelerate New Delhiâs arms race with Pakistan â a rivalry made all the more precarious by the resignation on Tuesday of the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf. Nonetheless, President Bush is lobbying the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which governs international nuclear commerce, to waive its most crucial rules in order to allow the trade of reactors, fuel and technology to India. If the president gets his way, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty â for 50 years,...
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Take a look at the photograph on the front page of the website belonging to STUK, Finlandâs nuclear watchdog. Lovely, isnât it? We donât know about you, but the first thing that comes into our minds when we think about nuclear power isnât⦠ Chernobyl
(© Greenpeace/Steve Morgan) ...or⦠ The Olkiluoto 3 reactor, Finland
(© Greenpeace/Nick Cobbing) â¦it is, of course, pretty flowers, green fields and blue skies. Isnât that nice? And all thanks to the so-called independent STUK.
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Greenpeace rapport om elektroniskt skrot som dumpas i Ghana får fortfarande en hel del uppmärksamhet. Continue reading Skrot...
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Foto © Greenpeace / Osvaldo Gago - O Arctic Sunrise está ao largo de Lisboa. Avistámos terra às 6h30.
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Foto © Greenpeace / Osvaldo Gago - Tripulante do Arctic Sunrise toma sumo de laranja no convés do navio.
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Following last weekâs news of serious doubts about safety and inspection standards at the construction of Finlandâs âstate of the artâ Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, another scandal has emerged involving threats to potential whistleblowers on the site. As reported by Finnish broadcasting company YLE, Reactor builders Areva and sub-contractor Bouygues have banned employees from speaking out about the ongoing construction. The rules about confidentiality that bind workers cover workersâ rights and safety issues. Bouygues employees have been specifically and repeatedly warned about report safety concerns about the reactorâs construction to Areva or inspectors from TVO, Finlandâs electricity generator. This all this makes us want to ask one big question: if everything is fine with...
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Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: The Boston Globe: Georgia chaos halts nuclear security effort
âThe chaos in Georgia has forced the United States to halt a high-priority program that was helping the former Soviet republic to identify possible smugglers of nuclear bomb components across its borders, long considered a transit point for terrorists seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to US officials.â Yahoo! News: Japan signals approval of India-US nuclear deal
âJapan on Tuesday signalled it would approve a nuclear energy deal between India and the United States, raising the chances that the controversial pact will come into force. The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls...
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Here's an update from Richard Page, one of our oceans campaigners, on what's going on in the North Sea. This week work to protect the Sylt Outer Reef resumed so that now over 100 stones have been strategically placed in order to deter what is nominally a protected area from bottom trawling and sand and gravel extraction. The method is one which has been effectively used to protect important seagrass habitats in the Mediterranean from being trawled. Our goal is to establish a fully-protected marine reserve that will deliver real conservation and fisheries benefits and do what the German Government has failed to do - despite its international...
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Bil "IPCC" Swedens vd Bertil Moldén klagar i dag på den svenska regeringen. Han drar en sportmetafor för att förklara läget: Continue reading Bilindustrins sportmetaforer...
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Foto © Greenpeace/Osvaldo Gago 20/08/2008 Amanhecer no convés do Arctic Sunrise. - Já estamos a caminho de Lisboa e toda a equipa acordou entusiasmada, apesar do navio balançar constantemente com a agitação do mar. Para muitos de nós esta é a primeira vez que viajamos a bordo deste navio.
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Kanske inte alla som minns kylskÃ¥pet Greenfreeze. Själv var jag bara 15 Ã¥r när den kom. Ã
ret var 1993. Jurassic Park hade kommit upp på biograferna. På radion spelades inte bara storheter som Stone Temple Pilots utan även Haddaway, Take That och East 17.. Continue reading Greenfreeze...
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Yesterday, after commenting on the state of US nuclear weapons waste storage on the Marshall Islands, we said, âone would expect that nuclear waste dumps built in the US will be to a better standardâ. We take it back â we were wrong: In the arid land of southeastern Washington State lies a remote area along the Columbia River that serves as a reminder of the Cold War standoff between the US and the Soviet Union. This 586-square foot relic is the Hanford siteâa retired plutonium production complex that the Department of Energy (DOE) considers to be âthe worldâs largest environmental cleanup project.â Some 525 million gallons of radioactive waste were generated by Hanford between 1944...
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Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: Reuters: Vattenfall sees ease in German nuclear opposition
âGerman opposition to nuclear energy is starting to ease but the debate is still too emotional, the chief executive of Swedish power company Vattenfall said in an interview published on Monday.â Associated Press: Spain seeks big fines over leak at nuclear plant
âSpain's nuclear watchdog agency proposed a fine of up to 22.5 million euros ($33 million) over a leak at a power plant, accusing operators Monday of waiting three weeks to report it and downplaying the amount of contamination released.â News.com.au: Liberals still powered by nuclear ambition
âAUSTRALIA must embrace nuclear...
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