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Moroccan nuclear power project approved

01/12/2005

The International Atomic Energy Agency has determined Sidi Boulbra is suitable to become the site of the first Moroccan nuclear power plant. The plant will have an estimated output of 700 megawatts to 1,000 megawatts.
By Hassan Benmehdi for Magharebia in Casablanca -12/01/05

[File] Morocco is turning to nuclear power to meet its future energy needs
As part of its policy of primary energy resource diversification and electricity production capacity development, Morocco has conducted site and feasibility studies for its first nuclear power plant, taking into consideration current economic facts and the need to develop nuclear reactor technology compatible with the size of the national grid by 2016 or 2017.

The feasibility studies were carried out in close partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The studies looked at the technical and economic aspects of the project, as well as safety, environmental protection, the participation of national industry, and public information. The main conclusions were issued in a final report written by IAEA experts. The Sidi Boulbra site is on the Atlantic coast, halfway between the cities of Safi and Essaouira, on the north bank of the mouth of the Mzar River.

The IAEA raised no questions about the qualification of the site. The agency supports technically-proven and commercially-available reactors to be included in the Moroccan nuclear power project. The optimal date for introduction of the first nuclear power generating unit, with an output of 700 megawatts to 1000 megawatts into the national grid, would be by 2017.

the nuclear option is more advantageous
The economic comparison with carbon technology shows that the nuclear option is more advantageous for implementation from this date. The research and selection process for the Sidi Boulbra site and the detailed studies to which it was subjected were conducted by the French company SOFRATOME with the participation of several Moroccan organisations and under the leadership of the IAEA.

The project will require an investment of up to 15 billion dirhams. The American firm General Atomics Corporation will oversee the supply of nuclear reactors for peaceful and scientific uses.

Moroccan personnel, technicians and nuclear energy engineers slated to work at the nuclear power station have received training in the United States, France and Malaysia. While the technical side of the site is finally ready, the political decision-making drags on.

Regulatory considerations have not been finalised. The government is preparing the appropriate legal texts needed to cover the role, mission and operating framework of nuclear reactors. The regulatory documents are expected to be ready before the end of the year.

The introduction of nuclear power-generation to less industrialised countries could form the basis of a solution for replacing fossil fuels to meet future energy supply needs.

How about the nuclear waste produced ?

Personally i am against nuclear project as a citizen, in my town in Italy there is one by the way, but we cannot deny that is part of the so called progress (???) and regarding nuclear waste.... well be sure that they always lie about that, they tell us the we are safe and all that bulls...
but at the end the result is all the same, we as citizen, we will never know not only what we eat but also what we breathe, drink, etc
It is how the world is going nowadays.

Dont forget that usually behind this sort of projects there are a lot of real money going on either for the guesting contry as for the organisers.....

I think nuclear power is one of the cleanest and cheapest when it comes to the overall output of energy. There shuld be obviously environmental safeguards but nuclear energy in my opinion, is ideal for a country like Morocco with no oil and no Gas. In addition, we have dozens of nuclear PHd's working for foreign agencies. This will save the state a great deal of money taht cold be used somewhere else.

That being said, the most reliable source of energy that do not produce any waste is the wind.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2005 04:28 by zaki7.

I agree with Zaki...unfirtunately the wind is a destructive energy that fills the HEADS of the decision makers in Morocco.

I think Morocco is an ideal country for developping photovotaics systems.
Compared to Germany and Japan, we do have enough sun and during all the year.
It is much expensive than nuclear energy, but on the long term it is much safer and environment friendly.......

There really are several options for Morocco's geography. Wind in cities like Essaouira or in the Northern cities, photovoltaics screens for places such as Marrakesh or the south and nuclear in places where nature does not facilitate such solutions. Turbine power from dams are already in place and showed their limits I assume so only a huge investment in other sources can help alleviate the energy bill.

Bonjour !!serait ce possible d'ecrire ou tout au moins traduire ce que vous ecrivez en anglais pour que les non anglophones comprennent ??merci à vous si vous aurez la gentillesse de pallier à cette lacune!Un souiri qui aimerait bien comprendre vers et à quoi tend ce sujet...

I can´t be more than agree with you guys. but as Yani said the wind blow in the ears of the decision maker in Morocco, is so sad we we have solar energie, wind etc all of is wasted.

I was wondring do you think guys that France will allowed that and not sabotage any of this develpement. regarding that electric energy in Morocco specialy in the big city og casablanca in bought by french company Lydec??
I don´t know how much Lydec bought in it or how much power they have in that matter.

cause Lydec have done a nice job, regardless our point of view in foreigne investor Morocco!! cause we "Moroccan" are too gready to do our jobs!?

aziz_dk

erguity_mogador a écrit:
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> Bonjour !!serait ce possible d'ecrire ou tout au
> moins traduire ce que vous ecrivez en anglais pour
> que les non anglophones comprennent ??merci à vous
> si vous aurez la gentillesse de pallier à cette
> lacune!Un souiri qui aimerait bien comprendre vers
> et à quoi tend ce sujet...


salut!!

je peux pas traduire tout les messages, mais je peus te donner une notion sur le sujet,

le sujet est a propos de creation d une source nuclear de creation d energie au maroc, la region de Sidi boulbra etait comme region favorable pour mettre la premiere Usine.

le debat alors est sur quel sont les outre source d energie qu on peut avoir ou maroc, comme energie solaire, et de vent. vue que le soleil et le vent s pas sa qui manque au maroc.

j espere bien que ta compris mon francais.

correct me if i am worng!!
aziz_dk

Salam salut!
Merci,c'est gentil,sans rancune je comprends très bien ton français!et je suis eclairé sur le sujet....je prefer à l'avenir par une enrgie enpuisable.
......très correct!

bonjour

salam everyone,


I hope the nuclear energy project will not turn up to nuclear weapon project in the futur as some of the Arabic countries....however I personally prefer that this money would be invest in education...infrastructure... employment and health system...nuclear energy isn’t a priority for the country at the moment...


Anyway thanks for the article Zaki....

Good point Ilhem2, but it's a "bit" too much for Morocco! Nuc.Energy/ power is one thing that's feasible at considerabll low cost to us, but Nuclear Weapen is a costly project...we might have the raw elements for it, Googgle Morocan phosphates...but to sift those components from phosphotes requires lots of dow that we certainly don't have, or rather that goes to deep pockets of the few!
So, I'm sure and assure you that it's not a possibility or an option for us. After all, who are we going to Nuc?
I say Let's take care of our illiterates and Ignorants and that'll sharpen and hopefully soften the minds.

Yani

salam,

yani,

as some people may say: let's dream.....after all it doen't harm ...

hey! is Morocco gonna have nuclear power projet? kool whooo wah. Morocco is about to become a superpower. Allah O Akbar.

I never saw in my life a nation giving another nation something positive... if Morocco want have nuclear reactors, it should be understood well by the Moroccan not some foreigner gonna build something and go.
I feel sorry for those who will live by this power plant.

Well, nuclear is not really a luxury, its main advantadge is that it is cheaper and a cleaner compared to the energies that are used currently. Other countries are planning on going nuclear to provide their biggest cities of cheaper energy output inlcufing Algeria. The US has recently turned to the French experience in order to build nuclear powerplants. We are not talking nuclear weaponery, it is nuclear energy for civil use..

hi zaki7,

nice to meet you buddy. it is not cleaner! about cheaper, you will know it is not cheaper when something wrong happen.

the solar energy is cheaper and cleaner and Morocco got a bunch of it. In general, the people of the desert, should be the first in solar energy research, not CANADA.

If Moroccan invest in nano technology directed to solar energy use, and be serious about it, it will resolve any future problem of energy.
as you know and I know, research is the last thing to dream about in Morocco, then leave it running as is, better than not running .

I have so much questions to ask about morocco, I wish hear about the future projets of the mamlakat? gully gully

I beg to disagree, solar power is much expensive than nuclear energy and rather harder to deploy.

For the cleaner argument, there are consequences on the environment wether we are using coil, fuel or nuclear energy. However, the use of nuclear waste is manageable and there are zero to none effect on the environment like we have currently emission of gas when we use coil, fuel,..

I think this link is explanatory and makes a good case for the nuclear energy : [www.world-nuclear.org]

solar energy is expensive because the people who are supposed to lead research in solar energy, are the last one to do it. of course if you wait for people living in snow to advance research in solar energy, you will always have it expensive.
the big problem in Morocco is problem of mentality more than anything else. with a mentality that praise and worship Europe, you will never reach to invent transistor(while transister is already invented ) . if the korean and the japanese said I won't make cars cheap because the European can't make cheap cars, we will be driving bikes to this days.

I put in your attention about nuclear energy: none of the countries with nuclear reactors escaped disasters. think about people with scientists in nuclear energy who made everything for them, didn't escape disaster? what about Morocco who will have foreigners building everything and the beautiful Moroccan administration manage it??? small mistakes inside America had towns evacuated and people still suffer from different cancers to this day.

I know those who signed this deal, will always say it is fantastic . that's how it goes... I wish from Allah that nothing wrong happen. Ameen

I give you one example : France, 77% of their energy produced by nuclear power.

I am not arguing if Nuclear energy is the way to go. Most governments have come to this conclusion and it is known and agreed that it is cheaper and cleaner. Tchernobyl happened because the plant was managed in an outrageous way and was not compliant with the minimum international standards.

The foreigners-Moroccan debate is another subject. Obviously, there will be a transfer of technology from the foreigners to the moroccan. It has always been the way in hte last century : cars, planes, computers, etc... It is not fot that reason that we don't have moroccan pilots or moroccan car drivers or moroccan engineers. Actually, There are hundreds of Moroccan nuclear scientists in the major research centers in the world. Why not put them to use for their own country?

A must read reg. Nuclear VS Other sources of power : [www.nuc.berkeley.edu]

I see very good where you shop for informations about nuclear. if I count for you how many nuclear disasters that happened arround the world, I may not be able to finish this post today. Tchernobyl is the worst and also the one that the west amplify to get propaganda against the ex_communism. France had many nuclear problems, many power plants in france were escaping radiations and the workers were working in danger without know. America had a big disasters who can be seen as dangerous as Tchernobyl, just didn't reach the level of big explosion the size of Tchernobyl one. there are nuclear power plants in US that are shut down and no one allowed to come by anymore.

I want just tell you something good about nuclear that you may not know. any science highschool student in Morocco learn at the end of the last year about fission and fusion. I can confirm that good highschool student know about nuclear radiation enough to be able to write good articles in the websites that you post. they just lack english skills. students of the 3rd year University in physics in Morocco had the whole knowledge(in theory) to make a nuclear reactor, they just doesn't know how the materials that they read about, looklike.

the countries arround the world praise the nuclear power for it is relatively(when there is no disasters) cheap and doesn't need too much volume of fuel to get that enorm amount of energy. plus most of the government arround the world, think having nuclear reactor may lead to having nuclear bomb and to freedom of the gov from American dominance.

what is unclean about Nuclear reactors, is not how much sulfure gas it delivers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what is unclean is hard for a simple humanbeing who doesn't have enough knowledge about the nuclear reactions to understand! this is few problems that you face after you build a nuclear reactor:

where are you going to get the fuel? which is the Uranium!!! mining Uranium is an operation which is hard and unclean.
who will enrich that Uranium? doing in it in Morocco, will need a license from the International Atomic Energy Agency AND the scientists who had experience in doing it.

if you will rely on importing enriched Uranium, you are like importing a moving disaster! you raise the risk of having nuclear disaster during transport in or out(that's if we consider: it will be out).
and the last unclean thing remaining for you(other than the remaining of the Uranium used as fuel), is bunch of radioactive materiels with half_life of 5000 years to 50 million years. even if you escape from the danger of this radioactive materiels, there is no warranty that your kids and your grandkids will (that's if you care about them).

I don't know if you already know that we do not use nuclear energy from this process, we only use the heat that comes from a desorder in the movement of particules. the nuclear energy is mainly delivered by the Gamma rays, that the atoms involved, decay. that's why if you go and mesure the degree of radioactivity arround, before building a power plant and after operating one, you will find the degree raised. we just consider that not harmful to humanbeing(because he doesn't kill immediatly). unfortunatly the amount of cancer cases of people living arround Nuclear power plants prove us wrong. saying nuclear power plant are safe or clean is merely politician's propaganda. Humanity jumped in mission suiside to Nuclear, we are very far from the level of using Nuclear energy and control that use.

the last website that you posted is from CA. as you know CA got big problem of energy. what Arnold did to CA? he sponsored the use of solar energy by californian homeowners. what is the result of this step? the research laboratory of solar energy in Canada developed a new enrichment of solar panels using nano_technology devices, who can allow a car powered by solar energy to be charged while he is inside the garage(means no sun). it is the consumer who advanced this kind of research by spending money in solar energy use. but still california gonna be short in energy for along time to come.

about Morocco, I don't think you can compare the problems in Morocco of energy to CA! I believe LA(LosAngelos) alone use more energy than the whole Morocco. in your opinion, why the Governor of CA, Arnold schwarzenegger, is going to sponsord solar energy if he knows that nuclear power plants are heaven like you present them here?

at the end of this subject, what is gonna happen will happen. I'm just sharing some information with you that you don't know yet. but the future will help you test the validity of this informations. if you are from those who fall inlove with internet and love read website links, I'm giving you this link to learn about what happened in Indiana power plant from the people who witnessed. by the way, it is just one case from many in US. you don't hear about this kind of typical incidents because the power plants are under military control of information....

my opinion always goes for nano_technology to help build new generation of solar panels made by the forgotten Moroccan educated people. it needs a plan to do it, and that's what the the governments were made for.
[raddecision.blogspot.com]

Those are technicalities : getting an IEA license etc... Morocco will obviously not start building a Nuclear plant if he doesn't have the proper licencing and does not comply to the IEAE regulations. I think this goes without say.

Then again, I am not talking about nuclear armement but nuclear plant for civilian use only.

The website I posted is not a State or government sponsored web site, it is as you probably know coming from one of the leading universities in the US (Berkeley). As to California, CA does have not 1 but 2 operating nuclear powerplants so I do not get your point. May be Shwarzy is promoting solar energy as a "helping hand" but he sure did not close down the 2 operating nuclear plants (or is it 4?, I don't recall) and that says a lot...

It would obviously be perfect if it was possible with some scientific process to get rid of the nuclear waste disposal, may be that would happen in the future but compared to the harmful millions of metric tons of gases that we are producing every year and that affect already hundreds of thousands of people with cancer and respiratory diseases, and decimates many animal species, the comparison really does not hold. You take all the nuclear disaster (which I really do not believe would take you a day to enumerate!), we take the millions of sick people and animals that died from gas emissions and we compare... That is without talking about the accidents related to oil transportation in the seas...

With all the gas emissions that we are sending today in the atmosphere, our kids and grandkids may actually not be able to repopulate in the next millenia if we continue to heat up the planet the way we do using the current energy sources so it is really a no brainer as to what are the alternatives that we have today. May be tomorrow we will be able to produce reliable, safe energy from water and all this talk would be history but for now...

As I mentionned earlier, it is a known fact that solar energy is hard to deploy and expensive, it is interesting to see that in CA people can power up their cars in their garage using nano-solar energy. I just can't realistically picture this image for a Moroccan household today in the short term (may be because the needs are not the same) knowing all the changes that will need to be implemented in order to achieve such a radical change in people's way of life over there. Moroccans unfortunately do not have strong civic awareness as the californians do, you can just see how they dispose of their waste in the streets etc.. so asking them today to invest in new solar energy or any other alternative that makes them do some self work is just unrealistic. It has to be the state that invest and provides new energy from a cheaper source. It is true my preference goes to nuclear, but if we are looking at other cleaner sources of energy, for a country like Morocco, I believe wind energy more tha solar energy is more suitable to Morocco, it does not involve any change in people's lives and certainely no upfront investment from them and we have very interesting wind corridors that are not yet exploited in Morocco.

For the rest, thanks for sharing some "information I don't know yet" . It is peculiar however how you shy away from a university of berkeley study source and you post a blog for me to read about a nuclear disaster that nobody heard of (as you mention). You cannot be serious.

you are welcome

most of US power plants were built between 60's and 70's. they are about 104 and one is not working. I didn't attack the University website, you hopefully missunderstood me. you are reading the propaganda side of the plan of building new power plants in America. that's why I said I see where you shop for your information from. the American government works very close to the Imperial Moroccan government , the only difference between them is one making money, the other losing money (lately a both losing money ).After the new American administration took the decision of building new power plants, all the propaganda machine began ringing the bells, like Eid Alarsh in Morocco ... there is some similarity there to some extend...

it is clear the IEA will never give the right to Morocco to produce it's own nuclear fuel. we don't need Phd in IEA to confirm that for us. it is clear that Morocco will have to buy the fuel from US otherwise the whole deal will be invalide. it is also clear that the Uranium shipped will be from the old nuclear missiles bought from russia and they will have to shut down Morocco untill the fuel reach it's destination...

actualy the link I posted was a form of humor to say that what you presented can be overthrown by a typical small incident who happen almost each year in a normal Nuclear power plant . if you look for the worst, you can check this one about the TMI (Three Mile Island) Harrisburg, Pa in 1979. [movies2.nytimes.com] <--- this kind of link that you like to read because it is from NewYork times . now read here about the whole story in detail? [www.tmia.com] and later come here to read that this accident was just the worst!!! typical small accidents happened almost every year (before and after 1979)in the same Nuclear power plant [www.tmia.com]. do you remember I said in my last post, if I want count for you how many problems, I won't finish my post? it is true and not joke. since power plants involve heavy or light water, you will not be able to stop licking of such liquide. result: any Nuclear power plant had licking of radioactive water. in France or in Japan, there is no difference: it is the sacrifice inorder the nuclear power plant produce electricity.

the irony is that you said you can't picture what happened in Ca for Moroccan household, while you pictured the Morrocan administration will manage safely a Nuclear power plant than the American, japanese, French, Canadian...,russian one . don't get me wrong? I agree with you about what you said. I just prefer to say I can not picture Moroccan nuclear scientists (or foreigner nuclear scientists in Morocco) will do better than others, before saying "I can not picture the Moroccan house holder can afford what the American house holder afford.

this is the best question to ask: why USA refrain from building enough nuclear power plants after 70's if they know well it is cheap and safe!!!!? my answer: maybe they didn't have enough Moroccan scientists .

let's just say the US government is charitable government and he wants see India having new nuclear reactors so the poor hindu will not sleep in darkness !!!?

shshshsh! I hear somebody talking:

"the game is clear: you use nuclear power plants so we the new Roman Empire will use the oil or most of it. if we know the Nuclear energy is good and safe, we will stop importing oil along time ago."


and thank you very much for this conversation.

have you ever see a nation giving another nation something positive? .

tell the moderator to delete this post after you read it? I'm poor guy and I have kids. I want to survive .

salam

Well yeah, we can all use irony instead of arguments . I gave you numbers, prove me that historically speaking, nuclear energy killed more than gas emissions did over the latest decades and I will be convinced.

For the US/Morocco : you are talking from a political point of view. There is not such think as charity in international interests or international business between nations. In the same way that a business will not survive if deals are made on the ground of friendships just for the sake of friendships. A country will not survive if it chooses the US just because it is the US and likewise, the Us will not build a powerplant for Morocco if there is no interest for Washington to do so. This is common sense. I don't see why I should be shocked to learn that the US will earn money with Morocco if Morocco will earn more money in return in providing cheaper energy to the people. If in the same token, Morocco thinks China has a better offer, they might go with China. There is no such thing as friendships in those kind of deals, only interests, and they have to be reciprocal.

For the example you gave by the way, I actually do not believe that the US is the leading provider of safe nuclear power plants. Frnce is better positionned and the US will actually call on the French to help them re-activate their nuclear power plant strategy. I am not a big fan of the French school of thaught but I do admit that they have more experience and they have dealt with the nuclear in a positive way.

There were actually a lot of talks bac in 1999 about building a nuclear desalination plant in Tan Tan to provide people with drinking water from the sea (that would have been the second plant in the world doing that), but I do not know if that was achieved. And there were talks too where the IAEA gave its approval for Moroco to build a nuclear plant in Maamora near Rabat and another one for research purposes in the same area I believe. Also, I did not follow up on this in the news so I have no idea if this is ongoing or not.

Actually, after googling a bit, it does look like there is a research center using nuclear energy:

"Morocco added isotope hydrology to its tool kit for water management after the IAEA initiated a four-year programme to transfer this technology to nine North African countries. Morocco's centre for nuclear research has now set up its own isotope hydrology laboratory with technical help from the agency. It is the 42nd such laboratory for which the IAEA has provided support in a developing nation, as part of its commitment to building local skills by transferring technology.

Nabil Mosleh of the nuclear centre said that it will support Morocco's water authority, by applying isotope hydrology, to map the country´s water reserves. The isotopic hydrology laboratories will also act as a quality assurance centre for neighboring African countries."

As to the Moroccan scientists, we can make fun of them if we want but we do have indeed very good scientists, when we put them to use for Morocco, we get results like these:

[www.iaea.org]

[www.iaea.org]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/2006 07:28 by zaki7.

matter fact, I didn't try to convinct you at all. you were speaking from what the main news broadcast, I was giving you proofs that they lie, lie, lie about claiming nuclear reactors are safe.

The French that you talk about are about to go for fusion nuclear reactors. it is more expensive but generate almost no radioactivity... in your opinion this advanced nation in nuclear want just spend some more money for fusion reactors while they are satisfy with fission reactors? it is clear something fishy behind the scene that no one want you get without putting your feet in it: once you build Nuclear power plant, there is no return! you have to take it as is untill it is over with it.

about the Moroccan scientists, they are not the problem here. the problem is do you want take big risk with your money in doing something that may turn in disaster for many reasons? or do you want go to some kind of technology which is at least safe and give the freedom to the Moroccan people and scientists to copy and improve or maybe lead in solar or wind energy???

Below is a calendar that shows the threat that humanity faces from the atom bomb and the nuclear fuel cycle. This calendar gives some examples of the everyday nuclear incidents that have occurred all over the world. It demonstrates how technological failures coupled with human error risk public health and the environment on an almost daily basis.
January
1-1992: Four tons of heavy water spilt at Rajasthan nuclear power plant (India)
2-1993: Leak at Kozloduy nuclear power plant, release of radioactive steam (Bulgaria)
3-1961: Explosion in reactor Idaho Falls (USA); three people killed
4-1965: 6.5 kg plutonium sludge released from Savannah River reprocessing plant (USA)
5-1976: Two workers killed by radioactive carbon dioxide at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
6-1981: Accident at La Hague reprocessing plant (France)
7-1974: Explosion at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
8-1975: Release of radioactivity from Mihama nuclear power plant (Japan)
9-1993: Radioactive release from leaking fuel rods at Perry nuclear power plant (USA)
10-1987: Nuclear transport accident in the UK
11-1985: In Heilbronn (Germany), a Pershing-II nuclear missile catches fire, three people killed
12-1960: Technicians trying to restart a reactor at Savannah River reprocessing plant almost send it out of control (USA)
13-1964: A B-52 plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board in Maryland (USA)
14-1969: USS Enterprise, nuclear aircraft-carrier, suffers fires and explosions, killing 28 crew members
15-
16-1990: Loss of offsite power with multiple equipment failures at Dresden nuclear power plant (USA)
17-1966: A B-52 plane crashes in Spain causing plutonium contamination
18-1989: Eight workers are contaminated at Savannah River reprocessing plant (USA)
19-1992: Radioactive leak, reactor shut-down at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
20-1993: Technical failure at Paluel causes subcooling accident (France)
21-1969: Technical failure at Swiss experimental nuclear reactor causes release of radioactive water
22-1992: Technical failure in shut-down system at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
23- 1978: Radioactive helium released from Colorado reactor (USA)
24-1978: Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Cosmos-954 crashes in Canada
25-1982: Steam generator ruptures at R.E. Ginna nuclear power plant (USA)
26-1988: Dangerous temperature rise in a nuclear reactor on board a British submarine
27-1992: Leak causes a shut-down at Darlington nuclear power plant (Canada)
28-1990: Pump failure during a shut-down at Gravelines nuclear power plant (France)
29-1961: A B-52 plane carrying nuclear bombs crashes, the bombs do not explode but three of the eight crew members are killed (USA)
30-
31 -1996: Leakage of radiation due to human error and technical failure at Dimitrovgrad nuclear research centre (Russia)

February
1-1982: Release of 100 cubic metres of radioactive water from Salem nuclear power plant (USA)
2-1993: Breakdown of cooling system for two hours at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
3-1992: Failure of cooling pumps at Kozloduy nuclear power plant (Bulgaria)
4-
5-1986: "Amber alert" (indicating an emergency in one building and a threat to the rest of the plant)" at Sellafield reprocessing plant, UK
6-1974: Explosion and radiation leak at Leningrad nuclear power plant, three people killed (Russia)
7-
8-1991: Release of radioactivity from Fukui nuclear power plant (Japan)
9-1991: Rupture of steam generator pipe causes release of radioactivity at Mihama nuclear power plant (Japan)
10-1992: Technical failure in pump system at Zaporozhe nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
11-1986: Release of 13 tonnes of radioactive carbon dioxide from Transfynydd nuclear power plant (UK)
12-1968: A B-52 plane with nuclear bombs on board crashes near Toronto (Canada)
13-1960: First French nuclear test
14-
15-1993: Spillage of 18,000 litres of heavy water at Darlington nuclear power plant (Canada)
16-1973: Container filled with Cobalt-60 lost in the North Sea
17-1984: Accident at Kozloduy nuclear power plant (Bulgaria)
18-1988: Report of core melt in the nuclear reactor of the Soviet Ice-Breaker "Rossiya"
19-1986: Three workers suffer contamination at the Sellafield reprocessing plant (UK)
20-1990: Eight employees receive radiation exposure at Point Lepreau (Canada)
21-1976: Accident at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
22-1993: High pressure steam accident kills one worker and injures two others at Fukushima nuclear power plant (Japan)
23-1981: Accidental explosion of a Pershing-II missile in Germany
24-1972: Accident on board Soviet nuclear-powered submarine causes vessel to lose all power
25-1983: Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem nuclear power plant (USA)
26-1988: Increased levels of radioactivity at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
27-1983: Nuclear powered satellite falls into the Indian Ocean
28-1992: Software failure in the control computer at Embalse nuclear power plant (Argentina)
March
1-1954: Fall-out of US nuclear weapons test "Bravo" contaminates the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Rongelap.
2-1994: Breakdown of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
3-1992: Technical failure at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
4-1977: Kozloduy nuclear power plant affected by an earthquake (Bulgaria)
5-
6-1985: Emergency cooling system out of order at the Grohnde nuclear power plant (Germany)
7-
8-1972: Radioactive water has to be pumped out of the Indian Point nuclear power plant (USA)
9-1992: Fire at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
10-1956: A B-47 plane disappears with nuclear weapons on board in the Atlantic Ocean
11-1958: A B-47 plane loses nuclear bomb in South Carolina (USA)
12-1981: Tornado washes nuclear waste from Moruroa into the lagoon (Pacific)
13-1986: US nuclear submarine runs aground and suffers damage
14-1961: A B-52 plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board in California (USA)
15-1989: Technical failure of fuel roads at Pickering nuclear power plant (Canada)
16-
17-1984: Emergency cooling system at San Onofere nuclear power plant fails (USA)
18-1987: Fire and release of radioactivity at Australian nuclear research facility
19-
20-1977: Temperature increase at Rancho Seco nuclear power plant (USA)
21-1984: Soviet nuclear submarine collides with US aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk"
22-1975: Fire in reactor at Browns Ferry nuclear power plant (USA)
23-
24-1992: Incident with radiation leakage, shut-down of reactor at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
25-1992: Technical failure at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
26-1991: Refuelling accident at Wuergassen nuclear power plant (Germany)
27-
28-1979: Partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant (USA)
29-1992: Failure of shut-down system at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
30-
31-1992: Automatic shut-down due to failure of pump system at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)

April
1-1989: Control rod failure at Gravelines nuclear power plant (France)
2-1979: Two workers suffer radioactive contamination at Tokaimura nuclear complex (Japan)
3-1960: Melting of fuel elements cause a release of radioactivity at the Test Reactor at Waltz Mills (USA)
4-
5-
6-1993: Explosion at the Tomsk-7 nuclear complex (Russia)
7-1992: Failure of automatic shut-down system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
8-1989: Soviet nuclear submarine "Komsomolets" sinks off Norway
9-1981: US-nuclear submarine "George Washington" crashes against a freighter ship
10-1963: US-nuclear submarine sinks with 123 crew members in the Atlantic
11-1950: A B-29 plane crashes in New Mexico, thirteen people killed.
12-1970: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks in the Atlantic
13-1979: Fire in the generator of the Baersbeck nuclear power plant (Sweden)
14-1970: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks with 52 crew members in Indian ocean
15-1983: Incident at Turkey Point nuclear power plant (USA)
16-1992: Technical failure of reactor shut-down system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
17-1970: Incident involving a vehicle at a French nuclear test site in the South Pacific causes a plutonium spillage into the ocean.
18-1992: Technical failure during refuelling at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
19-1984: Technical failure at Sequoyah nuclear power plant causes spillage of radioactive coolant water. (USA)
20-1973: Thousands of cubic meters of radioactive waste flow out of Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)
21-1964: US-satellite disperses 1.2.kg plutonium into the atmosphere.
22-1983: Reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods at Kursk nuclear power plant (Russia)
23-1991: Lost of offsite power cause technical failure at "Vermont Yankee" nuclear submarine (USA)
24-
25-1990: Flooding of building due to increase of coolant level at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
26-1986: Explosion of reactor 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power plant; the worst civilian nuclear accident to date.
27-
28-1988: Release of 5000 Curies of tritium gas from the Bruyere le Chatel military nuclear complex (France)
29-1986: US-nuclear submarine "Atlanta" hits the ground off Gibralta
30-1992: Breakdown of cooling system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
May
1-1992: Technical failure at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
2-1979: Technical fault at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant triggers emergency shut-down (USA)
3-1974: Leakage at Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)
4-1986: Release of radiation from Hamm-Uentrop nuclear power plant (Germany)
5-1987: Pershing nuclear missile ends up in a ditch after a transport accident at Heilbronn (Germany)
6-1989: Fire of pump equipment at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
7-1992: Failure of emergency system at Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)
8-1964: First Chinese nuclear test
9-1992: Technical failure of cooling system at Hatch nuclear power plant (USA)
10-1965: Release of eight cubic metres of cooling water from Savannah River reprocessing plant (USA)
11-1969: Fire at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant causes plutonium to spontaneously ignite. (USA)
12-1984: Uncontrolled power surge at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
13-1992: Tube leak causes a radioactive release of 12 Curies of radioactivity from Tarapur nuclear power station (India)
14-1986: The power lines to the Palo Verde nuclear power plant are sabotaged (USA)
15-
16-1992: Reactor shut-down at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
17-1984: Fire on board the US-nuclear submarine "Guitarro"
18-1968: Accident during launch of US satellite, radioactive materials fall into ocean near Califiornia coast
19-
20-1974: First Indian nuclear test
21-1968: US-nuclear submarine "Scorpion" sinks off the Acores, 99 people die
22-1957: Human error causes a B-36 plane to release a nuclear bomb in New Mexico
23-1958: Accident and release of radioactivity at the Chalk River experimental reactor (Canada)
24-1968: Incident on board of Soviet nuclear submarine "K- 27", 5 crew members killed by radiation release
25-
26-1990: During refuelling, five cubic meters of radioactive water spilled at the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (France)
27-1993: Reactor shut-down due to breakdown of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-1970: Collision of the US-nuclear submarine "Daniel Boone"
29-
30-
31-
June
1-1991: Failure of core cooling system at Belleville nuclear power plant (France)
2-1992: Total failure of centralised control system at the Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)
3-1980: Computer fault causes full-scale alert for US Military Strategic Command
4-1989: Fire in the cables of the cooling pumps at the Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
5-1989:
6-1994: Fire at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)
7-1960: Fire in a BOMARC-rocket in New Jersey causes plutonium release into the atmosphere (USA)
8-1992: Failure of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
9-1985: Malfunction in the cooling system at Davis Blesse nuclear power plant (USA)
10-1985: Collision of a British nuclear submarine off the coast of Florida (USA)
11-1989: Spent fuel element dropped in the storage pool and damaged at Kruemmel nuclear power plant (Germany)
12-
13-
14-
15-1992: Technical failure at Sizewell nuclear power plant (UK)
16-1988: Technical failure at Zorita nuclear power plant (Spain)
17-1967: First Chinese hydrogen nuclear bomb test
18-1978: Release of two tons of radioactive steam from Brunsbuettel nuclear power plant (Germany)
19-1992: Leak in pipe conducting sea water to cooling system at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
20-1985 Collision of two trucks carrying nuclear bombs in Scotland (UK)
21-
22-
23-1986: Twelve people receive `slight' plutonium contamination while inspecting a store room at Tokaimura nuclear complex (Japan)
24-1992: Technical failure of control system at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
25-
26-1989: Fire and reactor damage in a Soviet submarine
27-1985: Explosion and steam leakage killed 14 workers at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-
29-1991: Power limited due to error between actual and indicated power at Pickering nuclear power plant(Canada).
30-1983: Total loss of coolant at Embalse nuclear power plant (Argentina)
July
1-1983: Technical failure causes release of Iodine-131 from Phillipsburg nuclear power plant (Germany)
2-1966: French nuclear testing in the South Pacific begins 3-1981: Fire at North Anna nuclear power plant (USA)
4-1961: Incident on board of Soviet nuclear submarine "K- 19", radiation release kills 9 crew members
5-
6-1959: US plane carrying nuclear weapons crashes and catches on fire
7-
8-
9-1991: Flaw in cooling system at Wurgassen nuclear power plant (Russia)
10-1991: Leakage of radiation at Bilibino nuclear power plant (Russia)
11-
12-1993: Failure of control system at Susquehanna nuclear power plant (USA)
13-
14-1992: Reactor shut-down due to failure of cooling system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
15-
16-1945: First explosion of a nuclear bomb ("Trinity" in New Mexico (USA)
17-1991: Reactor shut-down due to break of control system at Sendai nuclear power plant (Japan)
18-1991: Steam leakage causes reactor shut-down at Paks nuclear power plant (Hungary)
19-
20-1992: Leakage of radiation due to breakdown of cooling system at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
21-
22-1992: Two workers contaminated at Dampierre nuclear power plant (France)
23-
24-1989: Refuelling accident at Isar nuclear power plant (Germany)
25-1946: US nuclear test "Baker" causes unexpected plutonium contamination on target vessels
26-1992: Temperature rise in storage pool at Gravelines nuclear power plant (France)
27-1956: US plane crashes into nuclear ammunition storage in the UK
28-1957: US plane loses two nuclear bombs in the Atlantic
29-
30-1986: Human error causes the nuclear warhead to be knocked off a Pershing rocket (Germany)
31-1993: Refuelling machine malfunctions at the Wylfa nuclear power plant (UK)
August
1-1983: An engineer receives a fatal radiation dose at a research reactor in Argentina
2-1987: Elevated radiation level after Soviet nuclear test
3-1983: Argentinean engineer dies from radiation dose received two days earlier
4-
5-1950: B-29 plane with nuclear weapons on board crashes; 19 people killed (USA)
6-1945: Nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
7-
8-
9-1945: Nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki
10-1985: Explosion on board a Soviet nuclear submarine
11-1988: Damage detected at Atucha nuclear power plant (Argentina)
12-
13-
14-1989: Instrumentation and control failure at Grand Gulf nuclear power plant (USA)
15-1992:
16-1991: Eight control rods show delays in emergency shut- down insertion time at Millstone Point nuclear power plant (USA)
17-1991: Automatic shut-down due to technical problems at Sendai nuclear power plant (Japan)
18-1953: First explosion of Soviet hydrogen bomb
19-1986: Flooding at the Cattenom nuclear power plant (France)
20-1974 Incident at Beznau nuclear power plant (Switzerland)
21-1980: Accident on board Soviet nuclear submarine, believed to kill at least nine crew members
22-1992: Failure of shut-down system at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
23-
24-
25-1984: French freighter sinks in the English Channel with 375 tonnes of uraniumhexafluoride on board
26-1989: Technical failure at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
27-1990: Cable fire causes loss of control of the position of control rods at Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
28-1992: Fire in electro-generator at St.Alban nuclear power plant (France)
29-1949: First explosion of Soviet atomic bomb
30-1985: Fire in a barrel of radioactive waste at Karlsruhe nuclear complex (Germany)
31-1985: Fire at Fukushima nuclear power plant during routine shut-down (Japan)
September
1-1993: Fire at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
2-
3-1974: Release of radioactive water at Los Alamos nuclear weapons Laboratory (USA)
4-1988: Fire at Perry nuclear power plant (USA)
5-1988: Fire at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania)
6-1991: Incident and steam leak during refueling at Barsebeck nuclear power plant (Sweden)
7-
8-
9-1989: Control rod failure at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant (Finland)
10-
11-1957: 15 kgs of plutonium catch fire at Rocky Flats nuclear weapons complex (USA)
12-1992: Leakage of radioactive water at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
13-1987: 249 people are contaminated in Brazil, due to handling discarded nuclear medical equipment, four people subsequently die
14-1991: Leakage at Kozloduy nuclear power plant (Bulgaria)
15-1986: Fire on board a US plane carrying nuclear weapons
16-1990: Superphenix Fast Breeder Reactor is closed down due to technical failures (France)
17-1988: Nuclear weapons convoy road accident kills one person (UK)
18-1988: Technical failure at Stade nuclear power plant (Germany)
19-1984: Collision of a Soviet nuclear submarine
20-1977: US-nuclear submarine "Ray" hits the sea-bed, three crew members are injured
21-1989: Manual shut-down of WNP nuclear power plant (USA)
22-1980: Pump failure causes accidental release of radioactive water at La Hague reprocessing plant (France)
23-1969: Radioactive contamination of atmosphere during the unsuccessful launch of a Soviet spaceship.
24-1973: 35 workers at the Sellafield reprocessing plant are contaminated following a technical failure (UK)
25-1955: First Soviet underwater nuclear explosion near Novaya Zemlya (Arctic Ocean)
26-
27-1974: Soviet nuclear-capable destroyer sinks in the Black Sea
28-1990: Cables for reactor control and protection system supply overheat at Bohunice nuclear power plant (Slovakia)
29-1957: Thousands of square miles contaminated by accident at the Chelyabinsk nuclear complex (Russia)
30-1990: Failure of reactor core cooling system at Palisades nuclear power plant (USA)

October
1-1983: Technical failure and human error cause accident at Blayas nuclear power plant(France)
2-1968: Leakage at La Hague reprocessing plant (France) 3-1952: First UK nuclear test
4-1981: Release of 300-times the normal discharge level of Iodine-131 at Sellafield reprocessing plant (UK)
5-1966: Partial core meltdown at the Fermi fast breeder reactor (USA)
6-1986: Soviet nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Bermuda
7-1984: Emergency shut-down of Paks nuclear power plant (Hungary)
8-1985: Accidental radioactive release into the sea from Hinkley Point nuclear power station (UK)
9-1991: Technical failure at Yugno-Ukrainskaya nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
10-1957: Three tonnes of uranium catch fire at the Windscale reprocessing plant (now Sellafield UK)
11-1957: US nuclear bomber crashes in Florida and catches fire
12-
13-1977: Sea water runs into the cooling circuit of Hunterston nuclear power plant (UK)
14-1953: Fall-out from British nuclear test "Totem" contaminates Aborigines in the Australian desert
15-1988: French officials carry out an experiment to test the effects of releasing 7000 Curies of radioactivity
16-1964: First Chinese nuclear test
17-1969: Fuel elements melt at St Laurent des Eaux nuclear power plant (France)
18-1991: Technical failure at Zaporozhe nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
19-1991: Offsite power failure at Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)
20-
21-1991: Fire on board "Sceptre" nuclear submarine in Scotland
22-1993: Instrumentation and Control failure at Saint Alban nuclear power plant (France)
23-1989: Failure of core cooling system at Dresdan nuclear power plant (USA)
24-
25-1991: Failure of shut-down system during refuelling at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
26-1991: Incident during refueling at Vogtle nuclear power plant (USA)
27-1991: Technical failure of shut-down system at Zaporozhe nuclear power plant (Ukraine)
28-
29-1991: Technical failure causes automatic shut-down at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
30-1991:
31-1986: US-nuclear submarine "Augusta" involved in collision
November
1-1992: Cracks in cooling system equipment at Brunsbuttel nuclear power plant (Germany)
2-1982: Nuclear missile transporter crashes killing one person and injuring two others (Germany)
3-1990: Failure of core cooling equipment at Doel nuclear power plant (Belgium)
4-1970: Explosion on board a nuclear-capable US-destroyer kills two sailors
5-1967: UK nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine `HMS Repulse' runs aground 30 minutes after its launch
6-
7-1967: Release of radioactivity at Grenoble nuclear power plant (France)
8-
9-1955: Core meltdown at EBR fast breeder reactor (USA)
10-
11-1988: Accident during refueling on board of Soviet nuclear powered ice-breaker "Lenin"
12-1993: London Convention bans the dumping of nuclear waste into the sea
13-1974: Karen Silkwood, a worker at a US nuclear plant, dies mysteriously on her way to hand important documents to a Trade Union Official and a journalist
14-1989: Breakdown of fuel rod control system at Oconee nuclear power plant (USA)
15-1989: Fire on board US-nuclear submarine "Finback"
16-1983: Sellafield reprocessing plant discharges highly radioactive wastes directly into the sea (UK)
17-
18-1991: Reactor shut-down due to technical failure at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
19-1980: US nuclear-missile almost launched during a drill exercise.
20-1989: Fire in turbine equipment at Kozloduy nuclear power plant (Bulgaria)
21-
22-
23-1991: Leak of 190,000 litres of water from cooling system, reactor shut-down at Oconee nuclear power plant (USA)
24-1989: Technical failure nearly causes core meltdown at Greifswald nuclear power plant (Germany)
25-1991: Failure of cooling system causes automatic reactor shut-down at Kursk nuclear power plant (Russia)
26-1958: B-47 plane catches fire, destroying one nuclear weapon (USA)
27-1991: Disfunction of automatic shut-down system at Bilibino nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-1991: Failure of control system causes reactor shut- down at Kursk nuclear power plant (Russia)
29-1982: US nuclear submarine collides with US-destroyer
30-1975: 1.5 million Curies released from Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)

December
1-1991: Technical failure at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)
2-1949: US experiment "Green Run" contaminates communities up to 70 miles away from the Hanford nuclear weapons complex (USA)
3-1988: Explosion at the Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK)
4-1990: 2 workers irradiated during refuelling at Blayais nuclear power plant (France)
5-1965: Plane crashes with nuclear bombs on board off the coast of Japan
6-1991: Failure of control system during refuelling causes reactor shut-down at Smolensk nuclear power plant (Russia)
7-1991: Failure of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
8-1995: Fire due to leakage of sodium coolant from Monju fast breeder reactor, Japanese nuclear industry attempts to cover up full extent of accident, reactor shut-down
9-1986: Explosion at Surry nuclear power plant, four people killed (USA).
10-1991: Failure of turbo-generator causes reactor shut- down at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
11-1991: Human error causes failure of automatic reactor shut-down equipment at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
12-1952: World's first major nuclear reactor disaster, Chalk River experimental reactor (Canada)
13-1988: Four of the eight emergency installations discovered out of order at Brokdorf nuclear power plant (Germany)
14-1991: Technical failure causes automatic shut-down at Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
15-1991: Technical failure at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
16-1991: Technical failure at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia)
17-1987: Severe incident at Biblis nuclear power plant (Germany)
18-1984: Fire at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
19-1980: Plutonium transport accident in the USA
20-1990: Control element discovered damaged at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia)
21-1991: Radiation leakage at Kolskaya nuclear power plant (Russia)
22-1987: Accidental release of 50 tonnes of water from Atucha nuclear power plant (Argentina)
23-1988: Two control rods jammed at Blayais nuclear power plant (France)
24-1991: Reactor shut-down due to technical failure at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia)
25-1992: Radioactive water leakage at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)
26-
27-1991: Automatic shut-down Balakovo nuclear power plant (Russia)
28-1990: Incident and radiation leakage at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia)
29-
30-1988: Reactor shut-down due to failure of control equipment at Pilgrim nuclear power plant (USA)
31-1978: Fire and loss of reactor control, 8 workers irradiated at Beloyarsk nuclear power plant (Russia)

[archive.greenpeace.org]

I feel like I am repeating myself every time but it is ok : I am not talking about the atom bomb but about nuclear energy for civilian use! these are 2 different processes, we will not be nuking power outlets in people's home to produce eletricity..

I frankly do not think the Univ of Berkeley or a serious institute for that matter are "main news broadcasters".

And thanks for listing the technical incidents since 1954, I was looking for the number of dead for each one but couldn't find it, can you post it please if you have it?

I on the other hand have the number for deaths related to gas emissions:


« 6,500 premature deaths

I could stop here and it would be higher than all the deaths resulting from power plants accident to date, but the list goes on...

4,000 hospital admissions for respiratory disease
3,000 hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease
350,000 asthma attacks
2,000 asthma-related emergency room visits

Elevated school absences due to respiratory conditions, including asthma

Reduced lung function growth rate in children

Sensitive groups, including seniors, people with heart or lung disease, children and infants arethe most vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution.

Low-income communities andcommunities of color are also especially vulnerable to pollution-related health impacts due to themultiple pollution sources located in these communities and their often limited access to healthcare. »




Oh, and I forgot to mention this is California only. I let you multiply on a worldwide scale.



In another study made by the World Resource Institute that did a study solely about the Greenhouse effect (study not linked to promoting nuclear energy or alternative energies), we can read:



« Air particles are deadly: Industrial processes that form greenhouse gases also produce a host of other air pollutants, including deadly airborne particles that have immediate public health impacts.

By the year 2020, over *700,000* deaths worldwide will occur *annually* from exposure to particles as a result of fossil-fuel burning that could be avoided by a climate control policy. (The 700,000 figure under-estimates the real value due to limiting assumptions used in analysis. For example, not all sources of particulate air pollution were included.)

From the year 2000 to 2020, the total number of avoidable deaths could reach 8 million worldwide (1.1 million in developed countries, and 6.9 million in developing countries). For the U.S. alone (over this same period), nearly half a million avoidable deaths are projected to occur.

The projected number of annual avoidable deaths in the United States in 2020 (33,000) would be of the same magnitude as occurred in 1995 as a result of HIV infections, and all liver-related diseases; thus, avoidable deaths tied with air pollution from fossil fuels rank among the top ten causes of death today.

New animal and human studies confirm that airborne fine particles can sicken or kill people. For example, laboratory rats with respiratory disorders died after being exposed to air pollution at concentrations found today in Massachusetts. Studies in many countries show that particles increase premature deaths in infants and adults.

Air particles travel globally: Air pollutants from fossil fuels have global impacts are not just a local, national or regional concern because they can be transported thousands of miles. Fine particles, for example, from the Kuwaiti oil fires, have been detected thousands of miles away.

In 1990, respiratory diseases were a leading cause of disabilities and illnesses worldwide. By 2020, respiratory-related diseases are projected to rank among the top ten causes of poor health globally.

Data suggest that air pollution from outdoor and indoor sources (cooking and heating fuels, for example) is responsible for more than 1 million deaths per year in China (that is, about one in every eight deaths nationwide). »






For France, if France is able to produce nuclear energy without waste, that is fabulous! Then all our problems are resolved. Why whould we be reluctant to call on them to implement that new technology for us? Oh wait! "The imperial Moroccan regime" cannot do that with the French because they will both lose money. come on now



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/2006 09:53 by zaki7.

sounds like you think, I have something in my pocket and you have something in your pocket and we a both trying to say I have more . wake up? just wake up? and do not repeat yourself? because there is nothing important in repeating yourself or in what you said here... all your information based on preprogramed deal where the Master America command and the slave Morocco accept. America forced India to accept a deal and you are like living in dark ages if you think Morocco got any choice in this deal.

If you are unable to understand anything from what I said, at least consider the fact that I was speaking about solar energy before jumping to comparisons between energies????


about oil, it is and will be always the best source of energy ever found on this planet. who control oil to the end, will have the fastest, safest and cheapest economy for along to come: the way you get pollution from oil, the way you use the oil to clean your mess. something that doesn't existe in nuclear: once you have a nuclear mess, it is a mess for 10 cneturies to come.

stop jumping from one corner to another? I'm not expected to unswer whatever wrong going on in your mind. I got bored talking to you because you do not read and understand before writing back. let's me help you remember well what I tried to tell you here: solar energy combined with a nano technology can make Morocco independant in energy and can give also a chance for Moroccan scientists who are inside Morocco to research in something that they can afford. and who knows? they may become the leaders in that domaine if the work is planned well. nuclear reactor is a disaster and nothing positive will come to Morocco from nuclear power. it is almost impossible to get any advance in that form of energy from a third world country like Morocco because it's dangerous and disaterous domaine for the whole world not just Morocco.


it is very funny how you started backing yourself with cheap websites and you end it backing it from your own mind . that's better .

about nuclear weapon, you sound never had a clue about nuclear AT ALL. pull the rods out of the Uranium fuel and see what you gonna get? . hey! I wish you are not from those so called Moroccan scientists who will work on the plant . if you will be hired, make sure you will never pull those rods?(that's if you know what kind of rods I'm speaking about ).

I know for sure, all what I said in this thread is completly new for you. but as I said, you think like you are debating something with me but you are making jokes at yourself without know. make sure next time that you understand something before your run your mouth like you know something about it?

I'm not going to introduce myself to you here, I will just put one more puzzle for you: can you find any real Moroccan Nuclear scientist who will accept to leave his job in Europe or America for couple pennies in one of the worst dictatorships remaining on Earth? do you think a Nuclear scientist will accept to live in a country where Marda(read it in moroccan accent? I have to help you understand words too ) gonna give him hard time to get him birthday certificate???

the whole deal is a disaster imported to Morocco and there is no choice about it. Morocco doesn't have the will to say no in it.

this will be my last post in this thread. I have more good things to do other than eating headache pills after I read what you post . it is very nice meeting you, in the modern world: we do not seek to convince somebody with new informations. we call that informing him or her.

fortunatly, you were informed for free and you were not able to say even thank you. that's good motive for me to avoid this kind of dumb conversation(at least dumb for me) in the future.

take care buddy, Moroccan scientists are the best and they will be the one to control the gamma rays and make nuclear power 100% safer .

I don't know if you are moslem or not, we great people in Islam with Salam Alaikom that you can translate to peace unto you.