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You thought we had BSE problems now the future looks bleak

Kathy

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Since BSE and CWD are the cellular response to low level ionizing radiation in the brain due to contamination by uranium, plutonium, cesium strontium (ie radionuclides) The proposed plans by the Government of Canada (without any consultation with Canadians - jerks) is to join GW Bush's "Global Nuclear Energy Partnership" and turn Canada, ie: Western Canada into a nuclear nightmare, with reactors, enrichment facility, depository (for ALLl our uranium customers' waste) and a radiation spewing REPROCESSOR (these things are the equivalent of hundreds of reactors in one spot).

Canada to reprocess other nations' nuclear waste
SHAWN MCCARTHY

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

September 5, 2007 at 4:41 AM EDT

Canada will eventually get into the business of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said yesterday as the government considers an invitation to join a major international effort to promote nuclear technology worldwide.

As he headed to a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Australia yesterday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was expected to face questions on whether Canada will join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a group of major nuclear powers dedicated to spreading nuclear technology into developing countries.

U.S. President George W. Bush - who is leading the GNEP process - has suggested that, as a price of entry, major uranium-producing countries should agree to accept and dispose of nuclear waste from countries to which they sell the uranium for reactor fuel.

Canada is the world's largest uranium producer, followed closely by Australia, whose government has already indicated an interest in joining the nuclear partnership.

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"We're very seriously looking at our options but a final decision has not been made on it yet," Mr. Lunn said yesterday. "There are some benefits that we would want to be looking for, but I believe there could be some advantages for Canada to be an official member of the GNEP."

He said the newly formed group is reviewing its own principles. He said that it is not practical to require producing countries to accept nuclear waste from their customers, particularly those that have adequate storage facilities of their own. But he would not comment on whether Canada would sign on if it was required to accept nuclear waste from other countries.

The minister recently announced that the government had approved a plan for long-term storage of nuclear waste, in which the spent fuel would be kept at the reactor site for 30 years, then moved to a centralized storage facility for eventual burial deep underground.

Yesterday, he suggested some of that spent fuel will eventually be reprocessed and used again.

"At this point in time, reprocessing spent nuclear waste from a Candu reactor is not something done now, but there is no question that as the technology evolves, it's something we'll see in the years ahead," he said.

The domestic industry is eager to expand its role and get into the business of processing imported reactor waste and enriching domestically produced uranium, Murray Elston, president of the Canadian Nuclear Association, said yesterday.

He said that as a result of rising raw uranium prices, reprocessed reactor waste and enriched uranium will be "the fuel of choice worldwide." To take advantage of that market, Canada needs to join the GNEP group, which is working out standards for the safe handling and processing of spent fuel.

Mr. Elston said nuclear military powers have been reprocessing and transporting nuclear waste for years, and have proven it can be done safely.

But Norm Rubin, a nuclear industry researcher at Toronto-based Energy Probe, said the reprocessed fuel is far more dangerous than the solid spent fuel rods that are now stored at reactor sites around the world. He noted that a nine-year federal assessment of Canada's nuclear waste disposal options never dealt with the proposed importation of high-level waste.

"When you reprocess it, you are taking one of the most stable forms of nuclear waste - it's still nasty, but at least it is stable - and ... you end up with a corrosive liquid that contains all of the nastiness that you were thinking of disposing of in the first place," he said.

The APEC summit

What is APEC?

Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation is an intergovernmental summit to negotiate voluntary trade agreements among Pacific Rim countries. Since it formed in 1989, the group has grown to include 21 members stretching across the Pacific Ocean from the Americas to Australia and Asia. They account for 48 per cent of world trade.

Who belongs to it?

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

Canada's goal

A senior government official told The Globe and Mail that Canada will push for tougher initiatives on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. It is unclear how much influence Canada holds on climate-change issues, given its Kyoto record.


This study on uranium toxicity goes a very long way in proving that uranium causes the oxidative stress and damage to the anti-oxidant system, especially SODII (which is a manganese based antioxidant protein in the cell) and this leads to excess manganese in the brain which replaces the copper on the prion protein and viola! an non-functioning prion protein with a uranium PNC - proteon nucleating center for nucleating these manganese loaded proteins. Prusiner proved it in 1999, the uranyl acetate stain was the only metal based stain capable of creating prion protein crystals.

Arch Toxicol. 2007 Jun;81(6):389-95. Epub 2006 Nov 24. Links
Uranium induces oxidative stress in lung epithelial cells.Periyakaruppan A, Kumar F, Sarkar S, Sharma CS, Ramesh GT.
Molecular Neurotoxicology Laboratory/Proteomics Core, Department of Biology, Texas Southern University, 3100 Cleburne St, Houston, TX, 77004, USA, [email protected]

Uranium compounds are widely used in the nuclear fuel cycle, antitank weapons, tank armor, and also as a pigment to color ceramics and glass. Effective management of waste uranium compounds is necessary to prevent exposure to avoid adverse health effects on the population. Health risks associated with uranium exposure includes kidney disease and respiratory disorders. In addition, several published results have shown uranium or depleted uranium causes DNA damage, mutagenicity, cancer and neurological defects. In the current study, uranium toxicity was evaluated in rat lung epithelial cells. The study shows uranium induces significant oxidative stress in rat lung epithelial cells followed by concomitant decrease in the antioxidant potential of the cells. Treatment with uranium to rat lung epithelial cells also decreased cell proliferation after 72 h in culture. The decrease in cell proliferation was attributed to loss of total glutathione and superoxide dismutase in the presence of uranium. Thus the results indicate the ineffectiveness of antioxidant system's response to the oxidative stress induced by uranium in the cells.

PMID: 17124605

If Harper pulls this off, Canadians can kiss their cattle industry good-bye.
Harper is history, talk about lame ducks.... New Canadian government is on the way, and it will be a government that stops polluting this planet with toxic radioactive uranium (radionuclides).

www.ccnrg.org "Radioactive Legacy" dangers of CANDU reactors and nuclear waste.

BSE is the result of internallized radiation exposure.
 
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