Links related to "Nuclear Chain"
US military exposures to radiation and chemicals
Link Added 29/01/2013
US Department of Veteran Affairs site intended to keep US miltary veterans informed on exposure to a range of chemical, physical, and environmental hazards they may have been subject to during military service.
Fukushima disaster: costs and consequences
Link Added 18/12/2012
An article by Steven Starr, an associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and senior scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility. Written in December 2012 it is a useful summary of the Fukushima disaster and its consequences.
Breaking the nuclear chain webinar, November 2012
Link Added 11/12/2012
On 29 November 2012 Ira Helfand, Co-President of IPPNWi, took part in a "webinar" on nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons testing. His contribution Nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons tests - humanitarian consequences and also those of other speakers on nuclear testing can be found on this website. Following sessions were on radiation (6 December 2012) and uranium mining (13 December 2012).
Nuclear waste and wilderness
Link Added 22/08/2012
In this talk Harvard Professor Peter Galison discusses the "strange and often hidden connections between land too pure to be used, and land so defiled with nuclear waste that it must be forbidden, legally, from human use for 10,000 years".
Nuclear waste: warning future generations
Link Added 22/08/2012
How do we warn people 400 generations hence of the danger of buried plutonium? This is one of the questions raisrd in an interview with Harvard Professor Peter Galison, who speaks, writes and researches about nuclear waste and the technical, moral, political etc dilemmas of long lived radioactive waste.
Mutations in butterflies linked to radiation
Link Added 22/08/2012
Japanese scientists have detected mutations such as dented eyes and malformed wings in pale grass blue butterflies collected near Fukushima. A report in Discover Magazine's weekly newsletter says that the study "is a reminder that the disaster’s effects will reverberate for a long time in the natural environment and animal inhabitants of Fukushima".
Fukushima Nuclear Accident Commission Report
Link Added 11/07/2012
The first official report of the Japanese parliament concering the Fukushima catastrophe. The report, by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission "catalogues a multitude of errors and willful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events of March 11. And it examines serious deficiencies in the response to the accident by TEPCO, regulators and the government".
Iran's nuclear impasse: Breaking the deadlock
Link Added 29/05/2012
A new report by Oxford Research Group (ORG) analyses how the deadlock over Iran’s controversial nuclear programme could be overcome. It identifies the key principles for reaching a deal in the upcoming talks on nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
ENENews: Energy news
Link Added 08/05/2012
Energy News is a website which lists links largely concerned with the Fukushima disaster. It is constantly updated.
NT nuclear waste dump debate: Lateline 13 March 2012
Link Added 03/04/2012
Lateline report on the Radioactive Waste Management Bill, passed by the Senate on 13 March 2012.
Support a ban on rare earth exports to Malaysia
Link Added 27/03/2012
Stop Lynus has been organised to support groups in Malaysia campagning against the setting up by an Australian mining company of a rare earth processing plant in Kuantan which will potentially put the health of the people in the surrounding area at risk through toxic wate.
Nuclear power: the dream that failed
Link Added 13/03/2012
One of a number of articles in the 10 March 2012 edition of The economist on the failure of the nuclear power industry.
Fukushima anniversary article by Tilman Ruff, March 2012
Link Added 13/03/2012
Don't hold you breath for Fukushima radiation toll is an article by Tilman Ruff published in The Conversation on 13 March 2012.
Fission rise at Fukushima; New York Times, November 2011
Link Added 08/11/2011
Article by Hiroko Tibuchi from The New York Times, 2 November 2011, relating to recent disclosures by the Fukushima plant's owners that fuel deep inside three stricken reactors is probably continuing to experience bursts of fission.
Energy Science Briefing Paper 2010
Link Added 14/04/2010
Professor Mark Diesendorf's Energy Science briefing paper on baseload energy, refuting the myths spread by the coal and nuclear industries. Revised April 2010.
IAEA International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale
Link Added 02/02/2010
Link to PDF of IAEAi International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale for assessing nuclear accidents, similar to the richter scale for earthquakes; also gives a list of historical nuclear accidents around the world and how they compare on the scale.
The Nuclear Industry: A History of Misleading Claims
Link Added 27/01/2010
2007 Briefing Paper written by Dr Sue Wareham OAM. Documents notable examples of misleading claims made by the nuclear industry: Energy Science Australia website.
Arid Lands Environment Centre
Link Added 08/12/2009
ALEC is a community-based environmental organisation located in Alice Springs, in the heart of the Australia’s arid zone. Since 1980, the organisation (formerly known as the Central Australian Conservation Council) has worked for conservation for the arid zone.
Families for a Nuclear Free Future (Alice Springs)
Link Added 08/12/2009
Families For A Nuclear Free Future (FFANFF) is a community network based in Alice Springs and are opposed to the exploration and mining of uranium at the Angela Pamela site and to the perpetuation of the nuclear fuel cycle around the world.
Anti-Nuclear Alliance of WA
Link Added 08/12/2009
This website is produced by the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia.
This group came into being in 1997 (then known as the Anti-Uranium Coalition, AUCWA), to act as an umbrella group for organisations campaigning against the nuclearisation of Australia.
