As Ontario, Canada moves to ramp-up nuclear, second leak at nuclear reactor in a month. Has 50% of world medical istopes
Toronto --June 8, 2009. Most mainstream media not running the story, but there are new leaks at the Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario, Canada. Chalk River is responsible for over 50% of the world's supply of medical isotopes, that are used in such critical tests as MRI's, and cancer treatments.
Yet, the Ontario and Canadian governments are moving forward with plans to rampup nuclear reactors in Ontario and Canada.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Confidential Government Memos: Chalk River reactor cost overruns hidden from public!!
Confidential Government Memos: Chalk River nuclear reactor cost overruns hidden from public!!
2009 June 3 --It was revealed yesterday, that secret Canadian Government memos were found, showing huge cost overrunns at the infamous Chalk River nuclear reactor, which supplies over half of the world's medical isotopes --for various important medical tests!
The memo shows the government trying to hide $66 Million Cdn, in additional repairs to the 56-year-old nuclear reactor --now closed because of a leak. The repairs were annouced by the government to take only about one month, but there are sources suggesting Chalk River could be closed for the rest of the year, endangering medical treatment around the world!
2009 June 3 --It was revealed yesterday, that secret Canadian Government memos were found, showing huge cost overrunns at the infamous Chalk River nuclear reactor, which supplies over half of the world's medical isotopes --for various important medical tests!
The memo shows the government trying to hide $66 Million Cdn, in additional repairs to the 56-year-old nuclear reactor --now closed because of a leak. The repairs were annouced by the government to take only about one month, but there are sources suggesting Chalk River could be closed for the rest of the year, endangering medical treatment around the world!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Nuclear safe?! Chalk River nuclear reactor leak to close reactor for months...
Nuclear safe?! Chalk River nuclear reactor leak to close reactor for months...
2009 June 2: 1.28pm ET
On May 19, 2009 CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation):
'Patients will suffer' from Chalk River shutdown: medical imaging industry
4 out of 5 medical isotope reactors in the world currently out of service
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) announced Monday that its Chalk River reactor, located about 185 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, will remain out of service for more than a month due to a leak at the base of the reactor vessel.
As Ontario, Canada, and the world considers ramping up to new nuclear era, signs of concern appear!! A nuclear reactor leak is going to close "Chalk River" nuclear reactor for over a month. Some sources say the reactor shall be shut for the rest of the year, 2009!!
This is safe nuclear technology and safe energy?!
2009 June 2: 1.28pm ET
On May 19, 2009 CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation):
'Patients will suffer' from Chalk River shutdown: medical imaging industry
4 out of 5 medical isotope reactors in the world currently out of service
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) announced Monday that its Chalk River reactor, located about 185 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, will remain out of service for more than a month due to a leak at the base of the reactor vessel.
As Ontario, Canada, and the world considers ramping up to new nuclear era, signs of concern appear!! A nuclear reactor leak is going to close "Chalk River" nuclear reactor for over a month. Some sources say the reactor shall be shut for the rest of the year, 2009!!
This is safe nuclear technology and safe energy?!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
"Peaceful" North Korean nuclear energy illustrates dangers of nuclear energy
2009 May 26: 5.37pm ET --"Peaceful" North Korean nuclear energy program shows that the world cannot throw open the door on new nuclear energy programs.
North Korea detonated a nuclear explosion --a blast that equalled the blasts that killed hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan, in 1945... Then for fun, North Korea lobbed a few more short-range missles, to show that they can!
To think that other nations won't follow this route?
North Korea detonated a nuclear explosion --a blast that equalled the blasts that killed hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan, in 1945... Then for fun, North Korea lobbed a few more short-range missles, to show that they can!
To think that other nations won't follow this route?
Monday, May 25, 2009
Small big victory: Ontario Government delays nuclear decision
Small big victory: Ontario Government delays nuclear decision
2009 May 25. 3:16pm ET
Ontario Government delays nuclear decision. Congratulations to the concerned citizens and activists of Ontario, Canada and the world, whose political and public awareness campaign pressured the Government of Ontario, to delay --again!-- its commitment to spend $26 Billion on new nuclear energy power in Ontario, Canada!
The Ontario Government gives no explanation of their decision to delay.
We need to keep the pressure on! Nuclear is NOT green, is NOT safe, is not even cost-effective!
Since 2006, Ontario's energy needs have been dropping! Thus, many people say, that Ontario doesn't even need costly, dangerous nuclear power!
2009 May 25. 3:16pm ET
Ontario Government delays nuclear decision. Congratulations to the concerned citizens and activists of Ontario, Canada and the world, whose political and public awareness campaign pressured the Government of Ontario, to delay --again!-- its commitment to spend $26 Billion on new nuclear energy power in Ontario, Canada!
The Ontario Government gives no explanation of their decision to delay.
We need to keep the pressure on! Nuclear is NOT green, is NOT safe, is not even cost-effective!
Since 2006, Ontario's energy needs have been dropping! Thus, many people say, that Ontario doesn't even need costly, dangerous nuclear power!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
National Waste Management Organization has plan for safe nuclear fuel storage?! NWMO ad sounds like series of oxymorons that could destroy humanity?!
NoNuclearNow.blogspot.com
2009 May 19: 2.37 am ET
The National Waste Management Organization has plan for SAFE nuclear fuel storage?! NWMO ads in media sound like series of oxymorons that could destroy humanity --"safe" nuclear storage?!
With the threat of natural disasters and terrorism, where and what is a "safe" storage location and structure for nuclear fuel, and nuclear waste fuel? How can we safeguard radioactive "nuclear waste" for hundreds and thousands of years?! A single nuclear leak could enter the global air, and/or national ground water... Exaggeration, paranoia of anti-nuclear nuts...?! Government officials have admitted to these two very possibilities in the cases of Three-Mile Island, and Chernobyl. In fact, recent UK "leaks" of studies, show that many Brit UK farms and sheeps are today still scanned and rejected for sale, because of dangerous levels of radiation, caused by Chernobyl --in 1986!!!
These are some of the very issues that Mr Greg Allen and Ms Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu articulated in March 2009, that inspired our NoNuclearNow efforts, such as this very blog, and our history-making rally, to highlight anti-nuclear issues that are being suppressed by nuclear industry actions as this one by the "Nuclear Waste Management Organization." A half-page ad in today's Toronto Star, to seek a "fair process" to find a "community to host... safe containment and isolation of Canada's used nulcear feul for the long term..."
And what is the true costs of such facilities? How many billions of scarce, dwindling taxpayer dollars would have to be spent to design, build, maintain, safeguard these storge sites, against earthquake, terrorists... for centuries... ?! Is there really a plan?
Some anti-nuclear activists believe such "safe" nuclear waste sites cannot be achieved.
Look at the nuclear waste leaks we have today. Look at the very real fear by the governments of the USA and Britain, Germany, etc. that terrorists shall get nuclear weapons grade material from nuclear waste storage?!
One of the big concerns about nuclear energy power, of course, is the storage of the fuel, after it thas been used. This " fuel waste" may be radioactive for hundreds or thousands of years.
The nuclear industry is holding a series of information sessions to supposedly initiate dialogue, to create a fair process to identify a community to host such a "safe containment" area for Canada's nuclear waste...
We just discovered this "consultation process" in the newspaper. There are 6 such meetings in Ontario through May 2009. Toronto is May 21, Marriott Toronto Downtown.
Concerned citizens should attend. Is there time to organize anti-nuclear position and action around these meetings?
By the way, anti-nuclear activists are just exaggerating, paranoid?! Today's news, includes announcements that Canada's Chalk River nuclear reactors may have to be shut down again, due to problems. Last year, the reactors were shut down so long that the world's nuclear medicine supplies were so depleted, that tests and treatments needing nuclear isotopes were cancelled! So let's have a nuclear moratorium, before we build hundreds of new "SAFE" nuclear reactors; that have "safe" sites for nuclear waste --that is radioactive for hundreds of years...
We can NOT trust nuclear industry officials without true citizen and government review and cooperation. Concerned citizens must outreach now to the good people in government, public and media!
2009 May 19: 2.37 am ET
The National Waste Management Organization has plan for SAFE nuclear fuel storage?! NWMO ads in media sound like series of oxymorons that could destroy humanity --"safe" nuclear storage?!
With the threat of natural disasters and terrorism, where and what is a "safe" storage location and structure for nuclear fuel, and nuclear waste fuel? How can we safeguard radioactive "nuclear waste" for hundreds and thousands of years?! A single nuclear leak could enter the global air, and/or national ground water... Exaggeration, paranoia of anti-nuclear nuts...?! Government officials have admitted to these two very possibilities in the cases of Three-Mile Island, and Chernobyl. In fact, recent UK "leaks" of studies, show that many Brit UK farms and sheeps are today still scanned and rejected for sale, because of dangerous levels of radiation, caused by Chernobyl --in 1986!!!
These are some of the very issues that Mr Greg Allen and Ms Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu articulated in March 2009, that inspired our NoNuclearNow efforts, such as this very blog, and our history-making rally, to highlight anti-nuclear issues that are being suppressed by nuclear industry actions as this one by the "Nuclear Waste Management Organization." A half-page ad in today's Toronto Star, to seek a "fair process" to find a "community to host... safe containment and isolation of Canada's used nulcear feul for the long term..."
And what is the true costs of such facilities? How many billions of scarce, dwindling taxpayer dollars would have to be spent to design, build, maintain, safeguard these storge sites, against earthquake, terrorists... for centuries... ?! Is there really a plan?
Some anti-nuclear activists believe such "safe" nuclear waste sites cannot be achieved.
Look at the nuclear waste leaks we have today. Look at the very real fear by the governments of the USA and Britain, Germany, etc. that terrorists shall get nuclear weapons grade material from nuclear waste storage?!
One of the big concerns about nuclear energy power, of course, is the storage of the fuel, after it thas been used. This " fuel waste" may be radioactive for hundreds or thousands of years.
The nuclear industry is holding a series of information sessions to supposedly initiate dialogue, to create a fair process to identify a community to host such a "safe containment" area for Canada's nuclear waste...
We just discovered this "consultation process" in the newspaper. There are 6 such meetings in Ontario through May 2009. Toronto is May 21, Marriott Toronto Downtown.
Concerned citizens should attend. Is there time to organize anti-nuclear position and action around these meetings?
By the way, anti-nuclear activists are just exaggerating, paranoid?! Today's news, includes announcements that Canada's Chalk River nuclear reactors may have to be shut down again, due to problems. Last year, the reactors were shut down so long that the world's nuclear medicine supplies were so depleted, that tests and treatments needing nuclear isotopes were cancelled! So let's have a nuclear moratorium, before we build hundreds of new "SAFE" nuclear reactors; that have "safe" sites for nuclear waste --that is radioactive for hundreds of years...
We can NOT trust nuclear industry officials without true citizen and government review and cooperation. Concerned citizens must outreach now to the good people in government, public and media!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
global scramble stop dangerous, unnecessary nuclear energy
NoNuclearNow.blogspot.com
May 16, 2009, 2.38am ET
Global scramble stop dangerous, unnecessary nuclear energy
On April 2, 2009, with the great inspiration and efforts of people like Greg Allen, Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, and Amy L, we organized a history-making rally, NoNuclearNow.
The rally was the first public rally in the world to ever take place in a pedestrian traffic intersection, "a scramble" intersection, that allowed rally supporters to occupy the centre of the intersection, and offer messages about the dangers and problems of nuclear energy. That nuclear is NOT green, NOT necessary, NOT safe...
Well, Ontario, Canada, and other political leaders, continue onto a new potentially deadly nuclear energy age. To get the attention of the people, media and political leaders of the world, NoNuclearNow is urging a global day against nuclear energy, a new nuclear moratorium, that resulted after the almost catatrophic nuclear disasters at Three-Mile Island, and Chernobyl!
Please join us, with your thoughts and support. More details to follow, in a global scramble to stop nuclear and save the world!
organized a rally, to highlight the dangers and anti-nuclear energy issues, as Ontario, Canada, ramps up to new nuclear age and $26 Billion nuclear spending program,
May 16, 2009, 2.38am ET
Global scramble stop dangerous, unnecessary nuclear energy
On April 2, 2009, with the great inspiration and efforts of people like Greg Allen, Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, and Amy L, we organized a history-making rally, NoNuclearNow.
The rally was the first public rally in the world to ever take place in a pedestrian traffic intersection, "a scramble" intersection, that allowed rally supporters to occupy the centre of the intersection, and offer messages about the dangers and problems of nuclear energy. That nuclear is NOT green, NOT necessary, NOT safe...
Well, Ontario, Canada, and other political leaders, continue onto a new potentially deadly nuclear energy age. To get the attention of the people, media and political leaders of the world, NoNuclearNow is urging a global day against nuclear energy, a new nuclear moratorium, that resulted after the almost catatrophic nuclear disasters at Three-Mile Island, and Chernobyl!
Please join us, with your thoughts and support. More details to follow, in a global scramble to stop nuclear and save the world!
organized a rally, to highlight the dangers and anti-nuclear energy issues, as Ontario, Canada, ramps up to new nuclear age and $26 Billion nuclear spending program,
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