Entries Tagged as 'Pollution'
France orders tests on all nuclear power stations after leak
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last updated: 8:18 PM BST 17/07/2008
Fears over France’s nuclear reactors have been raised as the government orders ground water tests at its 58 power stations, after a uranium leak at one polluted local water supplies.
The safety lapse at a plant in Provence run by French nuclear giant Areva has raised questions over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s drive to roll out reactors around the world – in Britain but also in states with less stringent safety norms.
“I don’t want people to feel that we…
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Tags: Radiation · Pollution · Nuclear Waste · Nuclear Energy
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSL1475395820080414?sp=true
Spain’s recently re-elected Socialist government has pledged to phase out the country’s eight nuclear plants and step up electricity generation from renewable energy sources.Up to 800 people are being examined for contamination after a leak of radioactive material at a nuclear plant in northeast Spain last November, the nuclear watchdog said on Monday. By Martin Roberts
MADRID (Reuters) - Up to 800 people are being examined for contamination after a leak of radioactive material at a nuclear plant in northeast Spain last November, the nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said it had…
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Tags: Radiation · Pollution · Alternative Energy · Nuclear Energy
September 11th, 2007 · No Comments
Press Release: CANE highlights nuclear Necsa’s duplicitous need for coal
10 September 2007
Nuclear is not the clean, safe power that nuclear proponents would so dearly like the public to believe. Problem is that unlike burning fossil fuels where even as laymen we can see and smell the pollution, nuclear is a silent and sometimes a slow killer, it is invisible, it has no taste or smell – we only know we are being poisoned by radioactive emissions when it is too late.
Nuclear will not aid global warming either. It is not a lot better than the carbon footprint…
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Tags: Pollution · Press Releases · NECSA - Nuclear Corporation of SA · Uranium · Nuclear Energy
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
DON’T DRINK THE RADIOACTIVE WATER
In South Africa, CEO Neal Froneman has boasted that his uranium mine in Klerksdorp could rival BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine in Australia. Does he mean “rival” Olympic Dam as a water waster? Or poisoner? Since uranium mines are highly effective at both. This is unfortunate for the people of Klerksdorp and for the people of Beaufort West, since Brinkley Mining acquired rights to five farms with uranium prospects there.
Beaufort West is only 40km away from Brinkley’s uranium mining project and this company says: “There is plenty of water if you drill for it,…
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Tags: Mining · Pollution · DME - Minerals and Energy · Uranium
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
THE RADIOACTIVE MERRY-GO-ROUND
There is no such thing as nuclear waste disposal. Instead, nations around the world having been putting nuclear waste on a constant radioactive merry-go-round - transporting it from country to country to be met with outrage from their people at the suffering, death and environmental havoc the waste has wrought. And now the merry-go-round has come to Cape Town, South Africa as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) host a nuclear waste “workshop” in Cape Town over a cup of coffee.
It is interesting to take a look at the representatives…
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Tags: Pollution · Eskom · NECSA - Nuclear Corporation of SA · PBMR - Pebble Bed · Uranium · Nuclear Waste · Nuclear Energy
