CANE - Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa

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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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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DON’T DRINK THE RADIOACTIVE WATER

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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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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NUKES ARE NASTY
Ref: Letter from Mr Rossouw about Alcan and nuclear 18 Junes 2007

Mr Rossouw seems to believe that comment on nuclear reactors is restricted to scientists only. This is interesting, since scientists were the ones in the 1950s and 60s who thought it was a good idea to conduct live nuclear weapons shows at their defence base in Las Vegas USA. All you had to do was put on your dark glasses and sit in one of the rows to watch the show. What fireworks! Everyone got cancer - and the US after paying out $2 billion dollars…

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