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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt'> <span style='color:blue'>Nukes</span> <span
style='color:red'>News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Feb. 8, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>No degree of prosperity could justify the
accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how
to make "safe" and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole
of creation for historical or even geological ages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-E.F. Schumacher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'>Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water!</span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'>- Albert Einstein</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#943634'>My Nuclear Neighbour</span></b></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#943634'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-weight:normal'>The Nature of
Things with David Suzuki<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:black'>Premieres: Thursday, February 11, at 8 p.m. on </span></span><span
lang=EN-GB>CBC Television<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Repeating: Thursday Feb. 18, 10 p.m. ET/PT
in CBC News Network</span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'>Imagine
that one morning you wake up to find out your nearest neighbour may be a
nuclear power plant. This is the story about two women who travel from
their </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:black'>farms in Peace River, Alberta to Kincardine, Ontario searching
for answers to questions that are devastating their families and threatening
their once harmonious community.</span></span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2010/mynuclearneighbour/">http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2010/mynuclearneighbour/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:teal'>Dim
outlook for nuke industry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#152539;
font-style:normal'>Think-tank says worldwide demand for nuclear energy unlikely
to grow much before 2030, if at all<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US>"Most promoters and
critics agree that the economics of nuclear power is the single most
important constraint on nuclear expansion. The economics are worsening
rather than improving, especially as a result of the recent
global financial and economic turmoil."</span></span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US>Fréchette said nuclear power
is also facing stiffer competition from alternatives such as wind, solar,
energy efficiency and conservation, and the move to build smart grids that
allow smaller sources of power to be located closer to consumers.</span></span><span
lang=EN-US> <span class=apple-style-span>"New approaches to distributing
electricity are not going to be very favourable to nuclear," she
said.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/760858--dim-outlook-for-nuke-industry">http://www.thestar.com/business/article/760858--dim-outlook-for-nuke-industry</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#FF6600'>No Major Nuclear Revival by 2030, Says
CIGI Report, Ottawa</span></b></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:#FF6600'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US>A significant
expansion of nuclear energy worldwide is unlikely to occur before 2030.</span></span><span
lang=EN-US> <span class=apple-style-span>This provides a window of opportunity
to urgently fix the currently inadequate system for governing nuclear energy to
avoid accidents,</span> n<span class=apple-style-span>uclear terrorism and
weapons proliferation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US>These are the
key findings of the three-and-a-half year Nuclear Energy</span></span><span
lang=EN-US> <span class=apple-style-span>Futures project released today by The
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Ottawa. </span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://au.sys-con.com/node/1273879"
title="http://au.sys-con.com/node/1273879">http://au.sys-con.com/node/1273879</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#CC99FF'><br>
</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#33CCCC'>Nuclear's CO2
cost 'will climb'</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#33CCCC'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#464646;font-weight:normal'>The
case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels
has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics.</span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#464646;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<h2><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#464646'>It suggests greenhouse
emissions from the mining of uranium - on which nuclear power relies - are on
the rise.</span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#464646'> </span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:#464646'>Availability of high-grade uranium ore
is set to decline with time, it says, making the fuel less environmentally
friendly and more costly to extract.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#464646'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<h2><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#464646'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span
lang=EN-US style='color:#464646'>A significant proportion of greenhouse
emissions from nuclear power stem from the fuel supply stage, which includes
uranium mining, milling, enrichment and fuel manufacturing. </span></span><span
lang=EN-US>Others sources of carbon include construction of the plant -
including the manufacturing of steel and concrete materials - and decomissioning.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7371645.stm"
target="_blank" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7371645.stm"><span
style='font-weight:normal'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7371645.stm</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:teal;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#3366FF'>A Complementary
Solution for Production of Medical Isotopes <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#3366FF'>Researchers from
Sherbrooke succeed in producing technetium 99m with a cyclotron<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='color:#999999'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='color:#111111'>Researchers at the CHUS's Centre de recherche clinique
Étienne-Le Bel (CRCELB) and the Université de Sherbrooke, in collaboration with
Advanced Cyclotron Systems Inc. in Richmond, have just demonstrated that
technetium 99m can be produced using a cyclotron. Diagnostic testing indicates
that cyclotron-produced technetium 99m is fully equivalent to that obtained
from nuclear reactor, such as the Chalk River facility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://www.advancedcyclotron.com/news/complementary-solution-production-medical-isotopes-researchers-sherbrooke-succeed-producing-tec">http://www.advancedcyclotron.com/news/complementary-solution-production-medical-isotopes-researchers-sherbrooke-succeed-producing-tec</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span class=apple-style-span><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Background</span></i></b></span><span
class=apple-style-span><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>:</span></i></span><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <span class=apple-style-span><i>Nuclear
proponents often point to nuclear medicine as an area</i></span> <span
class=apple-style-span><i>where nuclear reactors fuelled with uranium are
needed to produce</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>medical isotopes.
But the use of isotopes in nuclear medicine preceeded the
first nuclear reactors by many decades. Furthermore, medical
isotopes can be produced without reactors by using "particle
accelerators"</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>which do not have
the safety, radioactive waste and weapons-proliferation problems
associated with nuclear reactors.</i></span> - <span
class=apple-style-span><i>Gordon Edwards</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:purple'>Why Is Obama Trying to Prop Up a Doomed 'Nuclear Renaissance'?<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black'>Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested
nuclear loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both
financially and politically.</span></span><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/145493/why_is_obama_trying_to_prop_up_a_doomed_'nuclear_renaissance'">http://www.alternet.org/environment/145493/why_is_obama_trying_to_prop_up_a_doomed_'nuclear_renaissance'</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:olive'>Obama's new climate card: nuclear power<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US>President Barack Obama is
endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and
moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.<span style='color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/msnbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23369654">http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/msnbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23369654</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:fuchsia'>Obama’s
Nuclear Generation Gap?</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:fuchsia;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal'>Amory Lovins, a leading sustainable energy expert with the</span></span><span
class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal'> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#222222;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://www.rmi.org/rmi/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#004276'>Rocky
Mountain Institute</span></a></span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#222222;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'> </span></span><span
class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>in
Colorado, argues that there is no economic, environmental or security rationale
for the kinds of Gen IV reactors most often promoted, including fast reactors.
In a recent analysis titled “<a
href="http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#004276'>‘New’ Nuclear Reactors,
Same Old Story,”</span></a></span></span><span
class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal'> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#222222;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>Lovins points out that
these reactors are touted for their ability to burn plutonium, a radioactive
waste product created in currently operating nuclear power plants. However,
that would require plutonium reprocessing facilities, which creates a whole
other bunch of thorny problems</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#222222'>.</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><a
href="http://afdportland.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/the-greening-of-nuclear-fact-or-fiction/">http://afdportland.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/the-greening-of-nuclear-fact-or-fiction/</a></span><span
style='font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#3366FF'>Leaks imperil nuclear industry<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style='line-height:15.75pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The nuclear
industry, once an environmental pariah, is recasting itself as green as it
attempts to extend the life of many power plants and build new ones. But a leak
of radioactive water at Vermont Yankee, along with similar incidents at more
than 20 other US nuclear plants in recent years, has kindled doubts about the
reliability, durability, and maintenance of the nation’s aging nuclear
installations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a
href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2010/01/31/leaks_imperil_nuclear_industry/?page=1">http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2010/01/31/leaks_imperil_nuclear_industry/?page=1</a>
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margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:purple'>The nuclear option is hardly a viable one<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=outlook-edittexthoustontext style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Nuclear power is heavily subsidized by taxpayers
and ratepayers, is prone to delay and cost overruns, and incurs radioactive
risks, including the apparent impossibility of safely storing radioactive
waste. Nuclear reactors consume vast quantities of precious water. Investing
billions of dollars in more nuclear power would divert funding that would be
better spent on energy efficiency and safer, cleaner renewable energy such as
solar, wind and geothermal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=outlook-edittexthoustontext style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;border-style:
initial;border-color:initial' id=id2438258><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>In
terms of climate, even if nuclear power were a good idea, it would be
impossible to build enough reactors in time to make a significant reduction in
carbon emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=outlook-edittexthoustontext style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
lang=EN-US><a
href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6843645.html">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6843645.html</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;color:#993300'>Chernobyl: Leaking radiation and sucking up
Canadian money</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#993300'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span>Thirteen years after Canada
and other nations pledged $768-million to render the
destroyed nuclear reactor safe, the cost has ballooned to $2-billion
and the job still isn't done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/chernobyl-leaking-radiation-and-sucking-up-canadian-money/article1454040/"
title="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/chernobyl-leaking-radiation-and-sucking-up-canadian-money/article1454040/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/chernobyl-leaking-radiation-and-sucking-up-canadian-money/article1454040/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:teal'>Ontario
Mandates ‘Drying For Freedom’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Ontario residents can now hang their clothes and linens
outside to dry after the Premier lifted the ban on outdoor clotheslines.
Previously there were restrictions in many Ontario subdivisions because
clotheslines were considered unsightly. The province's new regulation will
overrule neighbourhood or lease rules.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Premier Dalton McGuinty said the move is aimed at curbing use of <b>energy-sucking
dryers, which burn up to six per cent of Ontario's power</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This recent change is one of many in a movement pushing for less
restrictions in the use of clothes lines. A new documentary, Drying For
Freedom, highlights the banning of clothes lines in over 50 million homes in
the United States, translating 5 billion dollars a year in electricity bills.
The documentary follows the battle for the right to dry clothes asking why
drying clothes became an environmental and social catastrophe and questions
clotheslines being banned.<br>
Visit<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://www.letshangoutcanada.com/" target="_blank">Let's Hang Out
Canada website</a><br>
Visit<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://www.dryingforfreedom.com/" target="_blank">Drying For Freedom
website</a><br>
View<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca/quick-links/publications/publications/sierra-life-e-newsletter/Issue%2069%2C%20January%202010%20-%20Endangered%20Caribou%2C%20Transition%20Towns%20and%20Laundry%20Lines.pdf"
target="_blank">January 2010 The Sierra Club News Letter</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:green'>Obama
pulls plug on Yucca <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Decision may end two decades of national
debate over nuclear waste disposal in Nevada<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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href="http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2010/Feb-03-Wed-2010/news/34092986.html">http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2010/Feb-03-Wed-2010/news/34092986.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Ban the bomb spirit lives on</span></b></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US>The Ban the
Bomb movement isn't dead. It strutted its stuff in Paris this week at a
conference of nuclear activists, under the banner of the Global Zero campaign.
Delegates recalled the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and made the case for a
world rid of nuclear weapons. They also won friends in high places.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US
style='color:#00669A'><a
href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/760235--ban-the-bomb-spirit-lives-on"
title="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/760235--ban-the-bomb-spirit-lives-on">http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/760235--ban-the-bomb-spirit-lives-on</a></span></span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>It's time to set course for global zero</span></b></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US>A bold
initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons merits more than a chilly French
politeness</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00669A'><a
href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-time-to-set-the-course-for-global-zero/article1455374/"
title="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-time-to-set-the-course-for-global-zero/article1455374/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/its-time-to-set-the-course-for-global-zero/article1455374/</a></span></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ontario Clean Air Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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