Scoop: Compensation hearing for sick workers delayed
French Polynesians who worked on nuclear Pacific test sites are disappointed the Employment Court has again deferred a hearing into compensation for sick workers.
The court has postponed the date at which the French government will respond to allegations by eight former workers and widows that their illnesses were a result of nuclear fallout.
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Fallout From Soviet Atomic Bombs Persists in Kazakstan
Kazakstan's nuclear test zone has lain deserted for the last 20 years largely forgotten by the outside world, but experts say radiation will continue to be a health risk until the huge site is cleaned up thoroughly.
The testing ground was closed for use in 1991. This month, the international Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization is running a series of trials at the Semipalatinsk site to test equipment that can identify and give the location of nuclear explosions
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Newswise Medical News | Researchers Discover Atomic Bomb Effect Results in Adult-onset Thyroid Cancer
Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.
Newswise — Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.
In the September 1, 2008, issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, the scientists report that subjects who lived close to the blast sites, were comparably young at the time, and developed the cancer quickly once they reached adulthood, were likely to have a chromosomal rearrangement known as RET/PTC that is not very frequent in adults who develop the disease.
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Marshall Islanders go to US court of Appeal over nuclear testing
Bikini Islanders in the Marshall Islands hope their case for additional compensation for damage caused US nuclear weapons tests will yield results.
Their quest to be given more money has been revived in a new round of litigation in the US court of appeal
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Living Death: The Eternal Now of Hiroshima | BaltimoreChronicle.com
I once shared an office for a time with a Japanese scientist from Hiroshima. It was a strange setting for such an association: we were working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where the atomic bomb that obliterated my colleague's city -- 63 years ago today -- was fashioned.
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John Pilger: The lessons that should be learnt from Hiroshima | Comment is free | The Guardian
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims' names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East.
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then walked down to the river and met a man called Yukio, whose chest was still etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.
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Atomic blast trips cancer time bomb - Toowoomba Chronicle
WHEN the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 63 years ago today, it paved the way for a cancer time bomb inside Toowoomba man John Collins.
Mr Collins served in the Australian Army as part of the clean-up crew at Hiroshima 23 months after the infamous bomb wiped out the city.
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Final decisions on aid veiled in secrecy : Deadly Denial : The Rocky Mountain News
Criminals have the right to know what evidence is used against them, but sick nuclear weapons workers do not.
If a sick worker fights all the way through the federal program meant to compensate those made ill building atomic bombs, the government gets the last word — in the form of a secret report.
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The Downwinders: Gloria's story | thespectrum.com | The Spectrum
In 1989 Mabel Mitchell published a little book called Gloria. It tells of one woman’s struggle with nuclear fallout. We have been given permission to pass this story along.
Many of you knew her or know of her. Many of you are related to her, went to school with her, laughed and cried with her.
Gloria Leavitt Gregerson was born in Bunkerville in 1941. In 1983, her body lay in a chapel in Bunkerville after a five-year battle with acute myelogenous leukemia. That was the last of many battles with disease she waged.
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Atomic bomb survivor shares her story - Kentucky.com
Miyoko Watanabe had just walked out of her house in Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, when she saw a flash of orange and yellow light.
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Nuclear tests by French on Mururoa still rankle - 16 May 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
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.\n\nIt was a fundamentally wrong thing for France to do and nothing since had altered that opinion, Barber said.
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Bloomberg.com: French Nuclear-Test Veterans Seek State Compensation
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- On May 1, 1962, Lucien Parfait watched the In-Eker Mountain in the southern desert of Algeria tremble and fissure under a black cloud full of dust.\n\nParfait, 68, witnessed one of France's 210 atomic tests from a distance of 800 meters (2,625 feet) with only a white cotton overall for protection.
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Bloomberg.com: French Nuclear-Test Veterans Seek State Compensation
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- On May 1, 1962, Lucien Parfait watched the In-Eker Mountain in the southern desert of Algeria tremble and fissure under a black cloud full of dust.\n\nParfait, 68, witnessed one of France's 210 atomic tests from a distance of 800 meters (2,625 feet) with only a white cotton overall for protection. The former French army draftee, who'd dug tunnels in the mountain to place the bomb, is among thousands of people who say they were exposed to radiation from atomic tests between 1960 and 1996 in France's former Algerian colony and in the Polynesian atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa.
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Pacific Magazine: Bikini Islanders Helped By Guantanamo Detainees' Court Ruling
Bikini Islanders attempting to overturn the recent dismissal of their billion-dollar compensation lawsuit against the United States government have received help from an unexpected source.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week on the rights of terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay could help the Bikini case, which is now pending in a U.S. federal appeals court, Bikini attorney Jonathan Weisgall says.
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Government 'ignoring' atomic veterans, widow says
The widow of an Ottawa veteran of Cold War atomic tests says the federal government has turned a blind eye to the suffering the former soldiers are enduring.
Peter Mitchell, who died on Monday after a 15-year battle with various cancers, is the second area veteran of the atomic bomb tests who has died within the past seven months.
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Chernobyl: nuclear Nightmares
Video images of Chernobyl survivors!
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Canyon Community Center offers historical films | thespectrum.com | The Spectrum
SPRINGDALE -- "Life Was Good," a Claudia Peterson story, and "Hot Wind," narratives of Downwinders' inspiring chronicles, will be featured Friday at 7 p.m. at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale.
The film narratives are particularly cogent for residents of Southwest Utah.
These family histories of survival, illness and eventual deaths are indeed the tales of Parowan families and a St. George resident who felt compelled to record their stories, seek awareness and restitution.
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Radioactive leak at Asco is 750 times more than disclosed - Expatica
MADRID - The amount of radiation emitted by the Ascó nuclear power station in Tarragona during a leak in 2007 reached 176 becquerels, 750 times more that the plant's managers initially acknowledged, Spain's nuclear watchdog has disclosed in a new report.
In responses to questions posed by Greenpeace, the Nuclear Security Council (CSN) said that initial readings at the plant had been based on an "inadequate" measurement model, hence the subsequent revision.
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RIA Novosti - Russia - Strasbourg court rules against Russia in Siberian radiation case
TOMSK, April 30 (RIA Novosti) -- The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay around $95,000 in compensation to residents of a Siberian town over the length of time taken to consider claims connected to a 1990s radiation leak, a local NGO official said on Wednesday.
The applicants had earlier sued the Siberian Chemical Combine over a radioactive leak in April 1993 that affected two towns, Georgiyevka and Naumovka.
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Tears and Anger Over Chernobyl
MINSK — Several thousand supporters of Belarus' opposition marched through Minsk on Saturday to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and protest an alleged government coverup of the disaster's consequences.
Many of the 3,000 marchers expressed particular dismay over the government's policy of assigning recent university graduates to work in areas contaminated by the explosion.
Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl, in what is now northern Ukraine, exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of the former Soviet Union and much of northern Europe in the world's worst nuclear accident.
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