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March 26, 2007 Nuclear 'not the solution' for global warming "[W]e voice serious concern that nuclear energy is being presented as a solution to climate change... [T]he current debate seeks to downplay the environmental, waste, proliferation, nuclear liability and safety issues and seeks to portray nuclear energy as a clean, safe and problem free response to climate change." This is from a joint statement by the environment ministers from Austria, Iceland, Ireland and Norway, following a meeting in Dublin. The "inherent risks" and problems associated with the nuclear energy option remain, they said and it "can not therefore claim to be a clean alternative to fossil fuel use." [Source: RTE.ie (Ireland), " Nuclear 'not the solution' for global warming", March 26, 2007] June 16, 2006 Norwegian Fireball A spectacular fireball that flew over Norway last week, causing sonic booms and making the ground shake when a meteorite presumably hit the ground, was not quite as spectacular as first reported. Researchers now estimate the kinetic energy of the event as 300 tons of TNT, far short of the Hiroshima-like blast described in some news reports. [Source: SpaceWeather.com daily news by email, June 16, 2006] 1986 Mean individual dose to Norwegians from Chernobyl accident (over 50-year period) is projected to be 770 microSieverts. The collective dose to Norwegians over the same period is projected to be 3,200 person-Sieverts. The projections take into account inhalation from the passing cloud, ingestion through the food chain, and external irradiation from deposited radioactivity, and are based on the MESOS dispersion model developed by Helen ApSimon of Imperial College, as applied by W. Nixon, of the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. [Ref: Nuclear News, "Chernobyl doses across the continent", January 1987, p. 62] |