19 Jan

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https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.html 92284 Signatures  Target: The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Region: Canada Web site: www.stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.com Petition Background (Preamble): Ontario Power Generation (OPG), a multi-billion dollar power generation company, is seeking approval to build a nuclear waste dump (a Deep Geological Repository or DGR) 1 km from the shores of...

18 Jan

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January 17, 2016 Corbyn wants Brit subs to continue patrolling but without nukes By Rick Moran http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/corbyn_wants_brit_subs_to_continue_patrolling_but_without_nukes.html#ixzz3xcFNi3ff British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has a dilemma. His party is split on the issue of nuclear modernization of their Trident submarine fleet with several Labor MP's threatening to resign if...

18 Jan

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January 18, 2016 “Modernizing” the Opportunities for Nuclear War by Lawrence Wittner http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/18/modernizing-the-opportunities-for-nuclear-war/ A fight now underway over newly-designed U.S. nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment to build a nuclear-free world. The fight, as a recent New York Times article indicates, concerns a...

07 Jan

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http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/7/the_unending_war_could_north_korean North Korea is facing international condemnation after conducting a nuclear test on Wednesday. North Korea claims it successfully tested a hydrogen nuclear device for the first time, but U.S. and international experts have voiced doubts over the claim. North Korean state media described the action...

03 Jan

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defense-ministry-confirms-rail-mobile-icbm-test/ BY: Bill Gertz December 31, 2015 3:40 pm China’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Thursday that its military recently conducted a test of a new rail-mobile ICBM capable of hitting any part of the United States with nuclear warheads. Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Yang Yujun also did not...

03 Jan

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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2015/12/31/radiation-rise-stalls-uranium-mine-permits-near-grand-canyon/78133164/ Radiation rise stalls uranium mine permits near Grand Canyon The levels pose no immediate risk, according to state officials, but reignite calls for a permanent ban on new uranium mines near the Canyon A spike in radioactive soil contamination around a remote uranium mine north of the...

03 Jan

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SD-to-tackle-livestock-operation-permits-power-6731648.php URANIUM MINING The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to move forward in 2016 with extensive new standards to protect groundwater from uranium mining. The EPA proposed the standards in 2015 to account for how nearly all uranium produced in the U.S. nowadays comes from in-situ mining...