The CCNB Action Saint John Fundy Chapter calls on Premier Alward and Energy Minister Leonard to immediately activate a public inquiry into the recent serious safety incidents at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating station.
Public Forums in Saint John on Wednesday, November 30th
Public Forums in Saint John on Wednesday, November 30th Questioning the Restart of Point Lepreau: Lessons Learned from Fukushima and Beyond. The Facts You Won’t Get from NB Power About the Risks of Running a Refurbished Lepreau. Bring your questions and comments for our panel, which includes: Dr. Michel Duguay, Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and [...]
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Al Jazeera: Fukushima radiation alarms doctors
Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy in Japan that mandates the testing of food, soil, water, and the air for radioactivity still being emitted from Fukushima’s heavily damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to B.C.
Across the Pacific Ocean, it took only a few days after the disaster for radioactive fallout to start showing up in drinking water and milk across North America. Governments in both Canada and the U.S. monitored the radioactivity, but their data is reported in such a confusing and irregular way that it’s extremely difficult to [...]
The world’s nuclear reactors as you’ve never seen them…
To get a better idea of the world’s current tally of nuclear reactors, I’ve created a map of the world’s nuclear power plants and reactors using Google Earth – the maps are based on a database kindly supplied to me by staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Power Reactor Information System (PRIS) database, [...]
Radioactivity from Japanese reactor detected in New Brunswick
By Willi Nolan, International Institute of Concern for Public Health The public is being misled about health risks from Point Lepreau. The people of New Brunswick are as concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants as everyone else these days. Aggravating these concerns, their public utility owns a Candu reactor at the Point Lepreau [...]
How is Saskatchewan involved with Japan’s nuclear disaster?
By Jim Harding THE SASKATCHEWAN CONNECTION The Fukushima’s nuclear reactors which are steadily contaminating Japan’s atmosphere, seashore, watersheds, food chains and making millions of Japanese into nuclear refugees are owned and operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. or Tepco. Tepco has Saskatchewan connections. The Globe and Mail describes Tepco as “one of (Cameco’s) largest customers [...]
Doctors express “deep concern” about Fukushima impacts on Canada
How do we know how much radiation is reaching Canada from Fukushima? Physicians for Global Survival asked, in a press release today. They added that physicians for Global Survival “would like more openness from safety regulators and government about all isotopes, honesty about methods of measurement and regular updates about risks to vulnerable populations.” Read [...]
CCNB Supports Call for Royal Commission into the Future of Nuclear Power and Calls for New Mandate for Lepreau Committee
CCNB Action endorses the call made today by the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility for all federal political parties to support the creation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Nuclear Power in Canada in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Read more here…
