The Renaissance of the Anti-Nuclear Movement
This weekend
over 15,000 people turned out to disrupt a delivery of nuclear waste across
They were the
biggest and most violent anti-nuclear protests in
The 10,000
police at the scene were ordered to clear the road before the trucks departed
from a railway freight yard carrying the 11 containers. They were bound for the
storage site at Gorleben where tons of similar waste are already guarded round
the clock
About 1,000 protesters who blocked the entrance to
the warehouse were carried away one by one by riot police.
http://www.spiegel.
http://www.nytimes.
No matter
how much longer reactors remain in operation, the German Government faces an
urgent decision over the permanent storage of radioactive waste. Current
problems at the Asse nuclear waste dump in the northern state of
Leaking radioactive waste pool at Indian Point drained
500,000 gallons of radioactive water and spent
fuel rods, has been drained and cleaned.
http://www.recordon
Radioactive materials getting recycled into goods - Los Angeles Times
French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets
of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators throughout
Obama on Nuclear power
See video
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Something to ponder
The Associated Press: Syria blames Israeli bombs for uranium traces
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
The nuclear power industry is in a state of global decline--a situation that isn't going to change in the foreseeable future.