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Nuclear tests by French on Mururoa still rankle - 16 May 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:23:31 -0000

Nearly 35 years after France thumbed its nose at world opinion and held a series of nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific, David Barber's view has not changed.

It was a fundamentally wrong thing for France to do and nothing since had altered that opinion, Barber said.

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Event to honor fallen industry workers | chillicothegazette.com | Chillicothe Gazette

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:17:27 -0000

Former workers at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon will host a memorial to deceased nuclear industry workers on Memorial Day this year.
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Vina Colley, a former worker at the plant will host the memorial starting at 10:30 a.m. at Campy Oyo in Portsmouth.

Organizers in Piketon will join other workers at 14 nuclear sites throughout the country to remember former workers who have died due to illnesses they may have contracted while working at nuclear facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Atomic testing burned its mark - Las Vegas Sun

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:10:50 -0000

Predawn atomic fireballs and billowing mushroom clouds — plus the radioactive and political fallout accompanying them — are all part of Nevada's long-time association with nuclear weapons testing.

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Russia tallies 730 worldwide nuclear tests - UPI.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:56:52 -0000

MOSCOW, May 13 (UPI) -- Russia has pegged the number of nuclear tests conducted worldwide in the past 50 years at as many as 730, not including blasts set off by the Kremlin.

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The Handy Reference Guide to Bush Disasters, Incompetencies, and Lies - CommonDreams.org

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:14:32 -0000

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News & Star: The hero who put out a nuclear reactor fire with waterdies at 90

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:44:07 -0000

When the phone rang, Tom Tuohy was at home, nursing his wife and two children who were sick with flu. It was the evening of October 10 1957, and 39-year-old Tom was deputy general manager at the Windscale and Calder works, which in later years became known worldwide as Sellafield.

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The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:07:05 -0000

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Atomic Tragedy -- Photos

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:04:12 -0000

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BBC NEWS | UK | Nuclear threat sparked tea worry

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:56:12 -0000

The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal.

Government officials planning food supplies said the tea situation would be "very serious" after a nuclear war.

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Wikipedia distorts nuclear history: Rutland Herald Online

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:04:48 -0000

There are only seven Web sites that more people use than Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that lets anyone edit most of its articles. None of the sites that are more popular than Wikipedia have as their main purpose producing information about the world. The top sites, Google and Yahoo, mainly function as links to other sites. Facebook and Myspace, which people use to keep in touch with their friends, are third and fifth most popular, respectively. The other sites that are more visited than Wikipedia are YouTube (a kind of online TV), eBay (a virtual flea market), and Microsoft's version of Google.

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Chernobyl shows nuclear power danger: MEP - icWales

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:54:30 -0000

TWENTY two years on from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, MEP Jill Evans says the anniversary serves as a timely reminder of why nuclear power must be phased out.

Ms Evans visited the site of the nuclear power plant two years ago with a group of MEPs and met local people whose lives were shattered by the disaster as well as people who are now working to secure the site.

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Chernobyl nuclear accident - World - BrisbaneTimes - brisbanetimes.com.au

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:44:39 -0000

Twenty-two years ago today the Soviet Union announced that a serious nuclear accident had occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Ukraine near the small town of Pripyat 100 kilometres from the capital Kiev.

The explosion in reactor number four, which occurred three days before, is the world's worst reactor meltdown, spewing radioactive material across the then Soviet Union and much of northern Europe.

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The History of Uranium Mining and the Navajo People -- Brugge and Goble 92 (9): 1410 -- American Journal of Public Health

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:14:10 -0000

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National Geographic: Inside Chernobyl, The Long Shadow of Chernobyl

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:29:09 -0000

In the wan light of a snowy spring morning, belongings scattered on the floor of an abandoned kindergarten speak of a time before the children of Pripyat lost their innocence. Musty sandals and ballet slippers for tiny feet. Cardboard pictures of Lenin as a young boy and as a youthful leader—the Soviet equivalent of baseball cards. In the next room, dolls in various states of dress and dismemberment, lolling on metal cots where the children once napped. Finally, on the gymnasium wall, photos of the children themselves—doing calisthenics, climbing monkey bars, balancing on boards.

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Imposing the New World Order

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:16:30 -0000

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Veterans reveal nuclear photos in compo fight | NEWS.com.au

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:57:18 -0000

A GROUP of veterans insist they have been wrongly denied repatriation benefits because the Howard government refused to believe they were involved in a 1952 nuclear test.

Now they have photographs they say prove they were there.

Former national serviceman Mike Rowe, who served aboard the frigate HMAS Murchison, said he and others had spent the past five years trying to set the record straight about their participation in the nuclear test at Monte Bello Island off the West Australian coast in October 1952.

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UnionLeader.com - Thresher disaster recalled -

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:37:53 -0000

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CHRONOLOGY: The ups and downs of bid target British Energy | Reuters

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:53:41 -0000

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The New Nuclear Risks

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:10:28 -0000

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The stoic victims of the nuclear age- smh.com.au

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:00:01 -0000

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