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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 color=blue face=Elephant><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Elephant;color:blue'>No</span></font><span
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style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Elephant;color:black'> </span></font></span><font
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color:teal'>Nukes</span></font><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=5
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face=Elephant><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Elephant;color:#FF6600'>News<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Dec. 4/09<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>To read past No Nukes News, or if this
newsletter gets cut off before the signature, go to: <a
href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/nonukesnews.php">http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/nonukesnews.php</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=default><i><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>“Fission energy is
safe only if a number of critical devices work as they should, if a number of
people in key positions follow all their instructions, if there is no sabotage,
no hijacking of transports, if no reactor fuel processing plant or repository
anywhere in the world is situated in a region of riots or guerrilla activity,
and no revolution or war – even a “conventional” one –
takes place in these regions. The e<st1:PersonName w:st="on">norm</st1:PersonName>ous
quantities of dangerous material must not get into the hands of ignorant people
or desperados. No acts of God may be permitted.”</span></font></i><font
size=1><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>- </span></font>Hannes Alfvén, Nobel
Laureate in Physics <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:green;font-weight:bold'>Ontario can </span></font></b><b><font
size=5 color=fuchsia><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:fuchsia;font-weight:
bold'>shine</span></font></b><b><font size=5 color=green><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:green;font-weight:bold'> in Copenhagen<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:State w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ontario</span></font></st1:State>’s coal
phase-out is <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>’s single
largest greenhouse gas reduction initiative. But there’s no reason to
wait till December 2014 to phase out coal. According to <st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State>’s
Independent Electricity System Operator, <st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State>’s
coal-free generation capacity is now 23% greater than <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State></st1:place>’s forecast peak demand for
electricity in 2010. <font color=blue><span style='color:blue'>[<a
href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/copenhagen"
title="blocked::http://www.cleanairalliance.org/copenhagen">click here for more
facts</a>]</span></font> As a result, Premier McGuinty can achieve
a virtually complete <b><font color=green><span style='color:green;font-weight:
bold'>coal phase-out now</span></font></b>, without jeopardizing our security
of supply, by directing Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to put its dirty coal
plants on standby reserve. That is, only operate them if, due to an
extreme event, they are necessary to keep the lights on.<o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><b><font size=3
color="#ff6600" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#FF6600;font-weight:bold'>1-Minute Action:</span></font></b> <b><font
color=fuchsia><span style='color:fuchsia;font-weight:bold'>Contact Premier
Dalton McGuinty</span></font></b> at <a
href="https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp?Lang=EN"
title="blocked::https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp?Lang=EN
https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp?Lang=EN">https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp?Lang=EN</a>
Tell him that there’s no reason to wait till December 2014 to phase out
coal. Let’s go to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:City></st1:place>
with a message that something can be done about climate change right now!
Direct OPG to put its dirty coal plants on standby reserve today.<o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>OK so this isn’t about nukes,
but it’s related! If you’re Canadian, please read it!<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>-angela<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<h3><b><font size=5 color="#ff6600" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#FF6600'>The Urgent
Threat to World Peace is … <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The harm
this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has
done in a century. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=stand-first-alone><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>By George Monbiot<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/01/the-urgent-threat-to-world-peace-is-%e2%80%a6-canada/">http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/01/the-urgent-threat-to-world-peace-is-%e2%80%a6-canada/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:purple;font-weight:bold'>How much would a nuclear
meltdown cost?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:15.75pt;
line-height:15.75pt;background:white'><font size=3 color="#343434"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#343434'>The Harper
government believes $650 million should cover it off, even in the event of a
catastrophic, however improbable, accident at a nuclear plant such as the aging
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Pickering</st1:City></st1:place>
generating station.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#343434" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#343434'>In the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region>, liability for nuclear accidents is set at $10
billion (<st1:country-region w:st="on">U.<st1:PersonName w:st="on">S.</st1:PersonName></st1:country-region>),
while in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
the cap will be doubled next year to roughly $1.47 billion (Canadian). In <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
there is no cap on nuclear liability but an operator must be able to cover at
least $4 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a
href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/732384--how-much-would-a-meltdown-cost">http://www.thestar.com/business/article/732384--how-much-would-a-meltdown-cost</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Join this google group and help make nuclear plants pay the true costs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://groups.google.com/group/stop-nuclear-subsidies?hl=en&pli=1"
title="http://groups.google.com/group/stop-nuclear-subsidies?hl=en&pli=1">http://groups.google.com/group/stop-nuclear-subsidies?hl=en&pli=1</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h1><b><font size=5 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>Taxpayers on the
Hook for Nuclear Liability?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.greenparty.ca/media-release/2009-12-01/taxpayers-hook-nuclear-liability"
title="http://www.greenparty.ca/media-release/2009-12-01/taxpayers-hook-nuclear-liability"><span
style='text-decoration:none'>http://www.greenparty.ca/media-release/2009-12-01/taxpayers-hook-nuclear-liability</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=5 color=purple
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:purple;font-weight:
bold'>Nuclear Study Raises Estimates of Accident Tolls<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></span></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The most
detailed government study (1982) of potential consequences of accidents at
atomic power plants has concluded that the worst-case death toll could exceed
100,000 persons and damages could top $300 billion at certain locations. For
more info: <a href="http://www.ccnr.org/crac.html"
title="http://www.ccnr.org/crac.html">http://www.ccnr.org/crac.html</a></span></font></span><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=5 color=fuchsia
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:fuchsia'>Nuclear fleet shows its age</span></font></b></span><font
size=5 color=fuchsia face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";color:fuchsia'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><b><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>A three-decade life
extension might make economic sense, but is it too risky for residents?</span></font></i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>… But risks related to safety are what most
concern the former head of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s
nuclear safety regulator. Linda Keen, president of the Canadian Nuclear
Safety Commission between 2001 and 2007, told the Star during an exclusive
series of interviews that the rate of population growth around <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Pickering</st1:City></st1:place> isn't being
taken seriously enough.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/731959--nuclear-fleet-shows-its-age"
title="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/731959--nuclear-fleet-shows-its-age">http://www.thestar.com/business/article/731959--nuclear-fleet-shows-its-age</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.75pt'><b><font size=5 color=teal
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:teal;font-weight:
bold'>Radiation leakage in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
nuclear power plant act of sabotage: official <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The radiation leakage in a state-run
nuclear power plant in southern <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
is an "act of sabotage" possibly by a disgruntled employee at the
plant, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s
Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar said on Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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line-height:15.0pt'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a
href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/29/content_12560690.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/29/content_12560690.htm</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font size=5 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:teal'>Water-cooler
moment of horror as disgruntled worker poisons colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'><a
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6937394.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6937394.ece</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:1.5pt;background:#FAFAFA'><b><font size=5
color="#ff6600" face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:#FF6600;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/global-green/091126/germany-nuclear-energy"><font
color="#ff6600"><span style='color:#FF6600;text-decoration:none'>Revived German
movement protests nuclear energy</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt;background:#FAFAFA'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chancellor Angela
Merkel's support for nuclear power has sparked demonstrations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/global-green/091126/germany-nuclear-energy">http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/global-green/091126/germany-nuclear-energy</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Helvetica'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><strong><b><i><font size=5 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue;font-style:normal'>The Coming Nuclear Crisis</span></font></i></b></strong><font
size=5 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The world is running out of uranium and nobody seems to have noticed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h2><b><i><font size=3 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:teal;font-weight:
normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414/"><span
style='text-decoration:none'>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414/</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
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<h2><b><i><font size=5 color="#993366" face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#993366;font-style:
normal'><a href="http://www.truthout.org/1129091"><font color="#993366"><span
style='color:#993366;text-decoration:none'>Will Nuclear Power Blow Up Obama's
Climate Goals for Copenhagen?</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>"It's an incredible amount of expense to bring
online and pour hundreds of billions into a slow industry that endangers the
public with waste, radioactivity and chemical releases… Renewables and energy
efficiency will be completely strangled by investing in nuclear power, and will
eliminate those opportunities."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.truthout.org/1129091">http://www.truthout.org/1129091</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
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<h2><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b><i><font size=5 color=fuchsia
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:fuchsia;font-style:normal'>Canada</span></font></i></b></st1:country-region><font
size=5 color=fuchsia face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";color:fuchsia;font-style:normal'>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
reach nuclear deal<o:p></o:p></span></font></h2>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><span class=first-letter><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>O</span></font></span><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>ttawa</span></font></st1:City><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> and <st1:City w:st="on">Delhi</st1:City>
have concluded negotiations on a deal allowing Canadian companies to resume
sales of uranium and nuclear technology to <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
for the first time since it used <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s know-how to develop
warheads 35 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:country-region w:st="on"><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Australia</span></font></st1:country-region><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>, another major supplier of uranium, is
resisting selling uranium to <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
unless it signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement, which is unlikely,
given that both <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and
its rival <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
are nuclear powers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-india-ink-nuclear-deal/article1381488/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-india-ink-nuclear-deal/article1381488/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=5 color=green
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:green;font-style:normal'>Who Wants to Buy CANDU's Risky Business?<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<p class=tagline style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><font size=3 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'>Canada</span></font></st1:country-region></st1:place><font
color="#333333"><span lang=EN style='color:#333333'> is moving towards privatizing
its federally owned reactor maker. Who might want in, and why? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/11/26/RiskyBusiness/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=301109">http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/11/26/RiskyBusiness/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=301109</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Helvetica'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><i><font size=5 color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#3366FF;font-style:
normal'>Nuclear regulator's impartiality questioned<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<h2><b><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/732811"
title="http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/732811">http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/732811</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0in;line-height:29.25pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><b><font
size=5 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:red;font-weight:bold'>Nunavut</span></font></b></st1:State></st1:place><b><font
size=5 color=red><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>
group launches uranium mining petition<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;
margin-left:0in;line-height:13.5pt'><font size=3 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'>A new
citizen's group in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Nunavut</st1:State></st1:place>
wants the territorial government to hold a public inquiry into uranium
exploration and mining.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#0000ee"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0000EE'><a
href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/11/30/nunavut-uranium-petition.html"
title="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/11/30/nunavut-uranium-petition.html">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/11/30/nunavut-uranium-petition.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><span
class=apple-style-span><b><font size=5 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Nunavut</span></font></b></span></st1:State></st1:place><span
class=apple-style-span><b><font size=5 color=red><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:red;font-weight:bold'> MLAs pressed for public inquiry on uranium
mining</span></font></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><font size=5
color=red><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/nunavut_mlas_pressed_for_public_inquiry_on_uranium_mining/"
title="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/nunavut_mlas_pressed_for_public_inquiry_on_uranium_mining/">http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/nunavut_mlas_pressed_for_public_inquiry_on_uranium_mining/</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=5 color=green
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:green;font-weight:
bold'>Solar panel costs 'set to fall'</span></font></b></span><font
color=green><span style='color:green'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#464646;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 color="#464646"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#464646;font-weight:
bold'>The cost of installing and owning solar panels will fall even faster than
expected according to new research.</span></font></b></span><b><font size=3
color="#464646"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#464646;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color="#464646" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#464646;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#464646"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#464646'>The fall in
cost is due to the increased lifetime,</span></font></span><font size=3
color="#464646"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#464646'> </span></font><span
class=apple-style-span><font color="#464646"><span style='color:#464646'>the
institute says.</span></font></span><font size=3 color="#464646"><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#464646'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 color="#464646"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#464646'><a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8386460.stm"
title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8386460.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8386460.stm</a></span></font></span><b><font
size=2 color="#464646"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#464646;font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color="#ff6600" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#FF6600;font-weight:bold'>The Siamese Twins<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are Siamese
twins. A nuclear reactor designed for electricity production or for use
in research is fuelled by uranium. Its operation leaves spent fuel containing plutonium.
This plutonium by-product can be recovered and used to make nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>A 1951 AEC study concluded that “commercial
nuclear reactors would not be economically feasible if they were used solely to
produce electricity; they would be, however, if they also produced plutonium
which could be sold” for military purposes. “It was this fact which
interested utilities in getting involved with nuclear reactors”…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>As Helen Caldicott acidly notes: “Nuclear power
plants are essentially atomic bomb factories.” They offer the
perfect cover. The nuclear technology associated with them, and their
by-products can be diverted for use in nuclear weapons. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><a
href="http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1074#more-1074">http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1074#more-1074</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>For more on the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons
see: <a href="http://paulmckay.com/">http://paulmckay.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b><font
size=5 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
18.0pt;color:purple;font-weight:bold'>Iraq</span></font></b></st1:country-region></st1:place><b><font
size=5 color=purple><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;color:purple;
font-weight:bold'> Sees Alarming Rise In Cancers, Deformed Babies<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The use of depleted uranium in U.<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">S.</st1:PersonName> and coalition weaponry in the 1991 war to
liberate Kuwait and the 2003 Iraq invasion is well documented, but establishing
a link between the radioactive metal and health problems among Iraqis is hard,
officials say.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Depleted uranium, a dense metal, is used in weaponry
to pierce heavy armour such as on tanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:fuchsia;font-weight:
bold'>Exelon to Shut Down Four Power Units, Cut 280 Jobs </span></font></b><font
size=5 color=fuchsia><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:fuchsia'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt;background:white'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=EXC%3AUS"><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Exelon Corp.</span></font></a>,<font
color=black><span style='color:black'> the biggest <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">S.</st1:PersonName></st1:country-region> nuclear power producer,
plans to retire four <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:State></st1:place>
generation units because they’re no longer profitable to operate amid
shrinking electricity demand in the region. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=apCPigg89sek">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=apCPigg89sek</a>
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size=5 color="#ff6600" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:#FF6600;font-weight:bold'>Yucca</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font
size=5 color="#ff6600"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#FF6600;font-weight:
bold'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
size=5 color="#ff6600"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#FF6600;font-weight:
bold'> Nuclear Disposal Site Is Dead<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"The truth of the matter is, the world has passed by the idea of
putting spent fuel rods -- as hot as they come out of the reactor -- underground
in perpetuity."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/12/02/02climatewire-yucca-mountain-nuclear-disposal-site-is-dead-59660.html">http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/12/02/02climatewire-yucca-mountain-nuclear-disposal-site-is-dead-59660.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><i><font size=5 color=teal face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:teal;font-style:
normal'>Workers exposed to radiation at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Shizuoka</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place> nuclear
plant<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:normal'>Twenty-three people were exposed to radiation after radioactive
water leaked from a waste solution system at a nuclear power plant in Omaezaki.
</span></font></b></strong><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://news4u.co.in/?p=45524">http://news4u.co.in/?p=45524</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h3><b><font size=5 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>Nuclear Power: The
Renaissance That Wasn't<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The group
Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a short timeline outlining
the many failures, cancellations and setbacks for the supposed
“renaissance” of nuclear power in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/resources/the-renaissance-that-wasnt.pdf">http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/resources/the-renaissance-that-wasnt.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=5 color=fuchsia face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:fuchsia;font-weight:
bold'>Who is the Nuclear Waste Management Organization?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Thanks to Gordon
Edwards:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Nuclear Waste
Management Organization is wholly owned by the Canadian nuclear industry. Its
Board of Directors consists of appointees from <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Ontario Power
Generation, Hydro-Quebec, and New Brunswick Power – the three
utilities that produce almost all of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s high-level <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>radioactive waste
(otherwise known as irradiated fuel). Most of the Board members are
executives of these utilities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>For a critique of the
NWMO approach, see <a href="http://www.ccnr.org/follow_path_back.pdf">http://www.ccnr.org/follow_path_back.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>For more info: Sierra
Club: http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/atmosphere-energy/nuclear-free/reactors/high-level-waste.shtml
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Nuclear Waste Management
Organization: http://www.nwmo.ca <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>20 Medical Doctors in Sept-Iles, <st1:State w:st="on">Quebec</st1:State>
have threatened to leave town unless the government of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Quebec</st1:State></st1:place> bans uranium
mining in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 color="#da0b00" face="Bank Gothic"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Bank Gothic";color:#DA0B00'>Sept-Îles</span></font>
<font size=5 color="#e3c012" face="Bank Gothic"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Bank Gothic";color:#E3C012'>sans</span></font> <font size=5
color="#da0b00" face="Bank Gothic"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Bank Gothic";color:#DA0B00'>URANIUM</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=5 color="#993366"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#993366'>Les
Médecins ou le nucléaire?</span></font></span><font color="#993366"><span
style='color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Porte-parole de Sept-Îles
sans URANIUM</span></font></span>, <span class=apple-style-span><font
color="#00009a"><span style='color:#00009A'><a href="mailto:sisur2009@yahoo.ca"
title="mailto:sisur2009@yahoo.ca">sisur2009@yahoo.ca</a></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#339966;font-weight:bold'>Climate News, Views and
Action</span></font></b><font color="#339966"><span style='color:#339966'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Over the next three weeks you’ll be able to find
the latest news on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Copenhagen</span></b></st1:City></st1:place> at the
link<font color="#1f497d"><span style='color:#1F497D'> below</span></font>. We
will be updating it constantly:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/cop-15/index.php"
title="blocked::http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/cop-15/index.php">http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/cop-15/index.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you have not already looked at the growing <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Global Weekend of Action</span></b> (December 11 to
14), please check out this page:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
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title="blocked::http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/action/events/real-deal.php">http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/action/events/real-deal.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Scientists press PM on climate change <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scientists-press-pm-on-climate-change/article1386545/"
title="blocked::http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scientists-press-pm-on-climate-change/article1386545/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scientists-press-pm-on-climate-change/article1386545/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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