Nuclear Accidents

Canada to increase liability limit for nuclear accidents

OTTAWA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Canada will raise the limit on damages that victims claim for nuclear accidents to 650 million Canadian dollars (617 million U. S. dollars), a large increase from the original amount of 75 million,...

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Cannings wins award for Crisis Campaign

Cannings Corporate Communications, Australia's leading financial and corporate communications consultancy, has scooped the 2009 Asia Pacific Award for best crisis/issues management PR campaign. Cannings won the award for its...

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Mohamed ElBaradei: Nuclear Power in the Balance

The future of nuclear power will be one of the key issues on the table at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, with 30 countries already using it and 60 more planning to introduce it. But, if...

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The end shouldn't be the beginning

Apparently few things are as entertaining as watching the Earth shake itself to pieces. In that movie Mother Nature does a job on humanity and just about everything else on the planet. When the lights come back on only a few...

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Nuclear Waste trains and the Camden Bio Hazard Lab. The ultimate dirty accident.

There are plans to build a high level virus containment facility in Camden. MI5 have voiced fears over safety around the lab [Evening Standard] and scientists from the NIMR have voiced security fears. Residents have also voiced...

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Australian Uranium to China, a Worry for Many Reasons

Second shipment of uranium heads to Australia, environmental whistleblowers still in jail By Shar Adams Epoch Times Staff Nov 18, 2009 AUSTRALIA—Sun Xiaodi, a warehouse manager at China’s No. 792 uranium mine in Gansu Province,...

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Sacrificing A National Treasure For Atomic Fuel?

Before we pursue Senator Lamar Alexander's policy of doubling the size of our nation's nuclear energy industry, we had better ensure that the legal system designed to prevent a nuclear disaster is in prime working condition.

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Walla Walla disaster hospital auction provides glimpse of Cold War

By Sheila Hagar, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin WALLA WALLA -- He's never seen anything like it in 35 years of business, said Doug Macon of Macon Brothers Auctioneers. The auctioneer is referring to a Packaged Disaster Hospital, a...

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Smile and the world smiles with you

Hospitals do not have to be cold and impersonal, rather, they can be turned into quirky, colourful worlds that catch the imagination of young patients to aid their recovery. Recovering from physical pain and emotional trauma...

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China's first nuclear emergency drill held successfully

China held the first national nuclear emergency rehearsal, Aegis-2009 from 2:20 pm to 5 pm Nov. 10, 2009. The rehearsal was a joint exercise between central government, local government and nuclear facility operating units....

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