NUCLEAR MONITOR | Wise International
The Nuclear Monitor is an excellent international newsletter that reveals the nuclear hotpsots around the world.
This publication is perhaps the best of its kind in the country. They do such a great job of informing the public about nuclear issues that will NEVER show up in the MSM.
Here’s there own description for those who may want to subscribe. It is followed by a pdf of their August 24, 2106 newsletter—#829.
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General information:
The WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor is a unique international newsletter serving the worldwide movement against nuclear power. Produced 20 times per year, it gives an anti-nuclear perspective on what is happening in the nuclear power industry and the resistance against it. The English version of the WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor is produced in paper and e-mail versions (PDF format). The newsletter is posted on this website two months after publication – check out our archive. In order to receive it when published, you need to subscribe.
The WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor concentrates on grassroots movements and media, featuring articles in which activists all over the world report on their local campaigns. Other articles are written in-house, using information in several languages from news agency, NGO, industry and governmental sources. Quality is the main focus. Experienced NIRS and WISE staff, backed up by one of the world’s largest archives on nuclear power check the information in the articles. All the articles we publish mention sources so that others can double-check the information.
The current Nuclear Monitor arose from the merger, in January 2002, of the WISE News Communique, which WISE Amsterdam had produced for over 21 years, and the Nuclear Monitor, published by NIRS in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. NIRS sends the Nuclear Monitor from Washington, D.C. to subscribers in the USA and Canada; WISE internatoional sends them to all other subscribers. The version sent out by NIRS is largely the same as the version sent out from Amsterdam, but occasionally contains more U.S. news.
(Source: WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor)
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NUCLEAR MONITOR
Dear readers of the WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor,
In this issue of the Monitor:
- Dr Bill Williams writes about the planned uranium and rare earths mine in Greenland.
- Vladimir Slivyak writes about Moscow’s latest plans for new reactors, plans that will almost certainly not be realized.
- We write about anti-nuclear protests in China, and plans for a large reprocessing plant.
- Former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Peter Bradford writes about the subsidization of nuclear power.The Nuclear News section has reports on the Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World; legal action initiated to attempt to keep liquid radioactive waste off Canadian and US highways; and problems facing the nuclear power program in Belarus.Feel free to contact us if you have feedback on this issue of the Monitor, or if there are topics you would like to see covered in future issues.Regards from the editorial team. Email: monitor@wiseinternational.org
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An open-pit uranium mine on an Arctic mountain-top
Author: Bill Williams ‒ Medical Association for Prevention of War; International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
NM829.4579 As a doctor I routinely get asked for a second opinion, but it is not often that I travel halfway around the world to deliver it. Recently I was invited to assess an old Danish uranium exploration site in Kvanefjeld in southern Greenland. Inuit Ataqatigiit – the opposition party in the national parliament ‒ had asked me to talk to local people about the health implications of re-opening the defunct mine. An Australian rm called Greenland Minerals and Energy (GME) has big plans to extract uranium and rare earth minerals here. It would be a world rst: an open-pit uranium mine on an Arctic mountain-top.
From the top of the range above the minesite I looked down across rolling green farmland to the small shing village of Narsaq. Colourful timber houses rested at the edge of a deep blue strait that the Viking Eric the Red navigated a thousand years ago. Hundreds of icebergs
bobbed on its mirror-like surface. To the east, half way up the valley, a small creek tumbled into a deep rock pool. Behind that saddle lies Lake Tesaq, a pristine Arctic lake that GME plans to ll with nearly a billion tonnes of waste rock. This part of the mine waste would not be the most radioactive, because the company plans to dump this material in a nearby natural basin, with the promise that an ‘impervious’ layer would prevent leaching into the surrounding habitat.
These mine tailings would contain the majority of the original radioactivity – about 85% in fact – because the miners only want the uranium and the rare earth elements. They would mine and then leave the now highly mobile radioactive contaminants, the progeny from the uranium decay behind: thorium, radium, radon gas, polonium and a horde of other toxins.
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