GenevaLunch » nuclear http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Tinners finally charged in nuclear secrets case, after 8 years http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/13/tinners-finally-charged-in-nuclear-secrets-case-after-8-years/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/13/tinners-finally-charged-in-nuclear-secrets-case-after-8-years/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:54:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64664 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The news comes as something of an anti-climax after 8 years in the making: the two Tinner brothers and their 74-year-old father are being charged with breaking Swiss arms export laws. They were part of an operation run by Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan, who supplied nuclear parts and secrets to a network [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/13/tinners-finally-charged-in-nuclear-secrets-case-after-8-years/feed/ 0 One dead in explosion at French nuclear site http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/one-dead-in-explosion-at-french-nuclear-site/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/one-dead-in-explosion-at-french-nuclear-site/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:48:26 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61523 GenevaLunch.com One person was killed and four were hurt in an explosion at a French nuclear waste site on Monday 12 September, but officials said there was no radioactive leak and the authorities quickly declared the emergency over. L’Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, France’s nuclear safety agency, says it appears a furnace exploded at the Centraco nuclear [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/13/one-dead-in-explosion-at-french-nuclear-site/feed/ 0 Japan establishes a no-go zone, imposes penalties (video) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/21/japan-establishes-a-no-go-zone-imposes-penalties-video/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/21/japan-establishes-a-no-go-zone-imposes-penalties-video/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:32:55 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=56877 GenevaLunch.com Japan has established a 20km no-go zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant and has announced that it will impose penalties to anyone breaking the rule. According to government sources, the fines of up to US$1,200 are necessary to protect the health and safety of the area’s roughly 70,000 residents. Up to 60 families have returned [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/21/japan-establishes-a-no-go-zone-imposes-penalties-video/feed/ 0 Japan reviewing option of covering nuclear reactors http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/30/japan-reviewing-option-of-covering-nuclear-reactors/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/30/japan-reviewing-option-of-covering-nuclear-reactors/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:08:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55890 GenevaLunch.com Japan is reviewing the possibility of completely covering the three damaged nuclear reactors at the Daiichi plant. It would be the first time anyone has tried to take such a measure. “Seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility’s No.1 reactor contained radioactive iodine at 3,355 times the legal limit and a spokesperson for Japan’s [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/30/japan-reviewing-option-of-covering-nuclear-reactors/feed/ 0 The Japan syndrome (Chappatte cartoon) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/27/the-japan-syndrome-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/27/the-japan-syndrome-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:30:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55800 GenevaLunch.com ©2011 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/27/the-japan-syndrome-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 Switzerland moves its Japanese embassy, flights operating normally http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/switzerland-moves-its-japanese-embassy-flights-operating-normally/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/switzerland-moves-its-japanese-embassy-flights-operating-normally/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:49:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55542 GenevaLunch.com Swiss 6pm flight from Zurich to decide later if landing in Tokyo or Osaka Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss government Sunday 20 March temporarily moved its embassy in Japan from Tokyo to Osaka, after reserving all available seats on Swiss airline flights 18, 19 and 20 March, for Swiss citizens. The moves were part [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/21/switzerland-moves-its-japanese-embassy-flights-operating-normally/feed/ 0 Swiss refuse firearms initiative (update 3) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/13/swiss-refuse-firearms-initiative-update-3/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/13/swiss-refuse-firearms-initiative-update-3/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:09:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=53970 GenevaLunch.com Zurich’s yes makes it an urban vs rural vote Geneva says no to tax amnesty and single state housing body Update 3, 18:00  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss citizens Sunday 13 February at 16:30 were close to resoundingly rejecting (TSR map) a popular initiative that would end the long-standing practice of keeping military arms at [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/13/swiss-refuse-firearms-initiative-update-3/feed/ 5 Brazil’s Lula backs Iran’s nuclear programme http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/24/brazils-lula-backs-irans-nuclear-programme/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/24/brazils-lula-backs-irans-nuclear-programme/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:14:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32175 GenevaLunch.com Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is calling on world leaders to develop new tactics with Iran, to engage the country rather than isolating it. Lula da Silva and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met in Brazil Monday 23 November and Lula, the rare leader to welcome Ahmadinejad, said in a joint press conference at [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/01/iran-talks-put-geneva-in-the-spotlight-some-hope-for-us-iran-bilateral-meeting/feed/ 0 Federal council will not give up Tinner documents http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/08/federal-council-will-not-give-up-tinner-documents/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/08/federal-council-will-not-give-up-tinner-documents/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:20:44 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=21729 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal council refuses to give up documents related to the Tinner affair and intends to go ahead with its decision to destroy them, despite a court order to the contrary, Swiss president Hans-Rudolf Merz told Swiss German radio DRS yesterday. The St Gallen Tinner family, a father and two [...]

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