Trident
EARLIER this week, at a meeting held in Glasgow, MSPs and councillors, anti-nuclear weapons campaigners and church leaders gathered to plan resistance to the development of son of Trident.Article by Rob Gibson MSP.
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Nationalists have called on councils to seek ways of blocking nuclear weapon convoys from their roads, despite a complaint by one councillor of “gesture” politics.
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Alex Salmond, Scotland’s nationalist first minister, is making the dialect/language and nation/nation state difference visible by attacking government plans to renew the UK’s ability to deploy nuclear weapons – by replacing the submarine-launched Trident missile system when the four Vanguard-class nuclear submarines reach the end of their working life in the 2020s. Trident is based at two deep sea lochs that stretch north from the Firth of Clyde.
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US Weapons
The Pentagon was reeling last night from the American military’s second major nuclear weapons blunder in a month. Congress is demanding a full scale investigation and serious questions are being asked about the competence of the officers in charge of the world’s mightiest arsenal. The latest outrage came as Commander Michael Portland, the officer in charge of the USS Hampton, the most advanced nuclear attack submarine in the world, was fired after it was discovered that he had neglected to make basic daily safety checks.
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Iran
Iran is only two years away from obtaining nuclear weapons according to an exiled Iranian opposition group.
EU Business 26th Oct 2007 more >>
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is worried about Iran’s nuclear programme but hopes a stand-off with the international community can be resolved through dialogue, he said in comments published in Italy on Friday.
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A senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani has urged that Iran be bombed using cruise missiles and “bunker busters” to set back Teheran’s nuclear programme by at least five years.
Telegraph 27th Oct 2007 more >>
British Energy
British Energy Group Plc, the U.K.’s biggest power generator, said worse-than-expected deterioration of graphite-brick structures in the reactor core at its Hinkley Point B nuclear plant may affect operations only in the “long term.”
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Hinkley
Campaigners have called for the immediate closure of Hinkley following a report from the regulators that the reactor core support system was potentially unsafe.
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NDA
Union leaders are seeking talks with the Government over reports that clean-up work at defunct nuclear reactors in the south of England is to be halted as funding is moved to similar operations at Sellafield.
Nelson Leader 26th Oct 2007 more >>
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The GMB says seeking a private sector solution is delaying the clean up of old sites and the building of new stations needed for energy security and to lower carbon emissions.
GMB Press Release 26th Oct 2007 more >>
Korea
The U.S. envoy to North Korean nuclear talks told Congress on Thursday the North’s uranium enrichment program no longer will be a threat by year’s end, and said the diplomatic normalization Pyongyang expects will happen only after full denuclearization.
Christian Today 26th Oct 2007 more >>
France
Electricite de France’s three nuclear plants in the southwest have an “overall satisfactory” security level but EDF must improve operating controls, French nuclear security authorities said.
Interactive Investor 26th Oct 2007 more >>
Sellafield
There was sharp division in the Assembly yesterday as the DUP and Sinn Fein took opposing views on the contentious issue of nuclear power.
4NI 26th Oct 2007 more >>
Syria
New satellite images of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site bombed by Israeli jets appear to show it has now been bulldozed.
Sky News 26th Oct 2007 more >>
Syria has removed all traces of a building targeted by a mysterious Israeli air attack last month, fuelling speculation that the structure may have concealed a partially-completed nuclear installation.
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Japan
Japan’s nuclear industry is struggling to win the public’s trust after years of accidents and cover-ups. Tepco temporarily shut all 17 of its nuclear reactors in 2003 after it was caught doctoring safety reports. Since the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was switched off indefinitely in July, two other plants operated by different utilities have shut down after suffering technical failures – in one case resulting in an internal radiation leak. The problems have forced the government to bolster its traditional means of securing public approval for power plants and other nuclear facilities: paying rural municipalities to host them.
FT 27th Oct 2007 more >>
India
India’s progress is being halted by opponents of a landmark nuclear deal with the US that could significantly boost a sector vital to the country’s future, according to the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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