WASHINGTON, DC – Today the U.S. Department of Energy commended Canada’s announcement that it will join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). This voluntary partnership seeks to expand the use of clean and affordable nuclear energy for peaceful purposes worldwide in a safe and secure manner through a closed nuclear fuel cycle that increases energy security, while promoting non-proliferation. Canada’s announcement will bring the total number of GNEP partners to 18.

There’s a ton of data about this on the Internet for the skeptics: from sources such as the 1999 report of the International Atomic Energy Commission to oncologist members of England’s Royal Society of Physicians to VA hospital nuclear medicine doctors to officials at the Basra maternity and pediatric hospital to reporter Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor. Peterson used a Geiger counter in August, 2003 to find radiation readings between 1,000 and 1,900 times normal where bunker buster bombs and munitions had exploded near Baghdad. After all, a typical bunker bomb is said to contain more than a ton of depleted uranium.

There has never been a more important time for Canada's voice to be heard in support of nuclear disarmament, but if recent votes at the United Nations last month are any indication, Canada is slowly shifting toward embracing nuclear weapons.

“I was horrified,” he said. “I was a soldier, but above all I am a doctor.” By 1997, it was estimated that ninety thousand U.S. veterans were suffering from Persian Gulf War Syndrome.

Today few people here in the U.S. realize that the United States
Government conducted over 1000 nuclear "tests" beginning at the end
of WWII. These "tests", primarily conducted in Nevada and the South
Pacific, exposed millions of U.S. citizens and millions more innocent
people worldwide to varying levels of a wide variety of radioactive
fallout. It is without a doubt that this "testing" brought about
untold levels of cancer and slow painful deaths.

Five years after the Iraq war started: an international action weekend at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
22 March 2008: NATO Game Over-action
23-24 March 2008: Conference Military globalisation and nonviolent resistance in Europe

In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars.

From Australia to Canada, people are taking a stand against corporations that mine uranium and in particular against their mining on Native land. Today, the Ardoch and Shabot blockade brings attention to the potential uranium mine opening between Kingston and Ottawa. To make it clearer why so many are objecting to the mining of uranium, I have decided to investigate why so many are mining it in the first place.

Since reporting the discovery of uranium and evidence of other production-associated chemicals in the soil and groundwater beneath its Port Hope uranium hexafluoride (UF6) plant in July, Cameco Corporation has now extended the facility's closure until at least the early part of November.

And it can't say how employees may be affected.

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.