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por Juan Gelman
18 de febrero, 2010

Hay de todo últimamente en el reino del armamento nuclear. El presidente Obama acaba de dar vía libre a la construcción de dos reactores centrales, los primeros desde que un accidente la cesó en 1979. Su finalidad es pacífica: proporcionar un tipo de energía que no agrave y tal vez solucione el problema del calentamiento global. Irán se ufana de tener capacidad para elevar el enriquecimiento de su uranio del 4 al 20 por ciento y dice que lo hará también con fines pacíficos. A Washington le creen, a Teherán, no. Hillary Clinton ha declarado la intención estadounidense de imponer sanciones duras al régimen represivo que preside Mahmud Ahmadinejad. En tanto, por gracia y obra del Pentágono, varios países de Europa tienen un arsenal nuclear no declarado. Read the full story

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by Harvey Wasserman

As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss.

In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not—pledge billions of taxpayer dollars for a relapse of the 20th Century’s most expensive technological failure.

Obama has announced some $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for two new reactors planned for Georgia. Their Westinghouse AP-1000 designs have been rejected by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as being unable to withstand natural cataclysms like hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. Read the full story

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by Harvey Wasserman

Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically.

The long-stalled, much-hyped “Renaissance” in atomic power has failed to find private financing. New construction projects are opposed for financial reasons by fiscal conservatives such as the Heritage Foundation and National Taxpayers Union, and by a national grassroots safe energy campaign that has already beaten such loan guarantees three times. Read the full story

Adapted by Ionia Kershaw for Truthout.org

by Moushumi Basu
October 7, 2009

“I have had three miscarriages and lost five children within a week of their births,” says Hira Hansda, a miner’s wife. “Even after 20 years of marriage we have no children today.” Now in her late forties, she sits outside her mud hut in Jadugoda Township, site of one of the oldest uranium mines in India.

The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) operates that mine, part of a cluster of four underground and one open cast mines and two processing plants, in East Singbhum district in the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The deepest plunges almost one kilometer into the earth. Read the full story

The U.S., Iran, and Nuclear Terror

by Anthony DiMaggio
September 26, 2009

Iran’s admission that it is enriching uranium at a second nuclear site was greeted with alarm in the halls of Washington and in American newsrooms on Friday.  Obama has long warned about the “existential threat” that Iran poses to the U.S. and its allies.  Concern over a nuclear Iran is understandable for those who are committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, and for those who worry about the danger that nuclear proliferation poses for human survival.  It should be noted, however, that the Obama administration does not share those concerns.  U.S. officials have always been preoccupied with how to prohibit enemy states from developing these weapons, while ensuring maximum U.S. and allied maneuverability in keeping such weapons, and even in using them when deemed necessary. Read the full story

por Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, 25 sep (IPS) – Al acusar a Irán de construir una central nuclear subterránea para enriquecer uranio en secreto, Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña y Francia elevaron la tensión pocos días antes de una reunión programada entre representantes de esos países, Alemania, China y Rusia.

La denuncia pública fue formulada por el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama este viernes, en una conferencia de prensa no programada en ocasión de la cumbre del Grupo de los 20 (G-20) en Pittsburg, Estados Unidos. Read the full story

Ahmadinjed rejected US criticism as a political game in the run-up to nuclear talks in October (AFP)

Ahmadineyad rechaza crítica de EE.UU. como juego político

por Al Jazeera y agencias
26 de septiembre, 2009

El presidente de Irán ha negado que su gobierno haya violado las reglas del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) después de revelar la existencia de una nueva instalación de enriquecimiento de uranio al organismo de control de la ONU.

Hablando en Teherán el sábado, Mahmud Ahmadineyad dijo que de hecho su país había informado al OIEA todo un año antes del plazo fijado por el Tratado de No Proliferación (TNP). Read the full story

By Phyllis Bennis
June 4, 2009

Obama’s approach toward the Muslim world may be diplomatic but there needs to be more action. Read the full story

Warns Iran He Wants Results by Year’s End

by Jason Ditz
June 02, 2009

While the United States continues to make some efforts toward reconciliation with the Iranian government it has treated as a mortal enemy, President Barack Obama has made comments which may serve to dramatically alter US policy toward the nation’s nuclear program. Read the full story