Idaho wildfire roars through former uranium mine site

Idaho wildfire roars through former uranium mine site
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/21/us-usa-wildfires-idINBRE88K06320120921  

VA ENERGY: State aims to clear way for offshore wind projects

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120926/NEWS01/309260085/VA-ENERGY-State-aims-clear-way-offshore-wind-projects?odyssey=nav%7Chead      


Video: John Douglass' Second Ad Hits Hurt on Uranium

by: lowkell
Thu Sep 20, 2012 at 21:17:45 PM EDT We haven't been on TV with our positive ad for much more than a week and our opponent is already on the attack. That's right -- Corporate Congressman Robert Hurt has spent his career in politics, and apparently has nothing good to say for it. Instead, he's reintroducing himself to voters by taking pathetic, cheap shots at General Douglass's advocacy for American aerospace policies that create jobs in states like Virginia.
Now we're ready to show voters why Hurt is running so scared -- he's afraid of us exposing his dangerous ties to uranium mining in the district. Check out our new ad and help keep it on the air with a contribution right away!
http://www.bluevirginia.us/diary/7686/video-john-douglass-second-ad-hits-hurt-on-uranium
   

Uranium Mining

Statement of the Issue

For thirty years, Virginia has maintained a ban prohibiting uranium mining in-state.1 Virginia Uranium, Inc. (VUI) is now attempting to lift that ban. Much of VUI’s efforts have focused on a major uranium deposit in Southside Virginia, known as Coles Hill. The potential for uranium exploration, however, exists statewide.
If uranium is mined and milled in Virginia, the resulting “yellowcake” would have to be shipped out-of-state to an enrichment facility.2 What would be left behind in Virginia is the waste, known as tailings. According to VUI, the Coles Hill deposit has an average grade of 0.06 percent uranium oxide.3 In contrast, the average grade of the McArthur River mine, in northern Saskatchewan, is more than 15 percent — 254 times richer than Coles Hill.4 This means that Coles Hill would produce significantly more waste than the richest Canadian deposits per pound of yellowcake produced.
To date, at least twenty-four governmental organizations—cities, counties, towns, and regional councils of government in Virginia and North Carolina—have passed resolutions in support of keeping the ban. These include the town of Halifax, Virginia, Orange County, Virginia, and the City of Virginia Beach. Joining these communities is a wide range of civil rights and environmental organizations: the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP, Virginia Organizing, American Rivers, and the National Wildlife Federation, among many others. You can learn more about the coalition of groups working to “Keep The Ban on Uranium Mining in Virginia” at www.keeptheban.org.
http://vcnva.org/anx/index.cfm/1,258,1821,0,html/Uranium-Mining?text=xl

The first case of paediatric thyroid cancer was discovered this month in Fukushima Prefecture


Date posted 17 September 2012
Child Rights International Network have posted a mail shot to about 4000 charities relevant to children across the world. Here is a quote from this weeks CRINmail
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/09/27/the-first-case-of-paediatric-thyroid-cancer-was-discovered-this-month-in-fukushima-prefecture/