31/8/2008,
-- THE Health Ministry's purchase of three X-ray machines at a cost of RM33 million has raised questions on how the contract was awarded.
Through direct negotiation with the Health Ministry, Syarikat Glotel Sdn Bhd was given the contract to supply two Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography Scan (PET CT Scan) and a Cyclotron machine, and to build the buildings to house these machines at Penang Hospital and Putrajaya Hospital.
.... or licensed to handle radioactive material and X-ray equipment, as required under Section 13(2) of the Atomic Energy Licensing Act.
.....
August 31, 2008,
-- PETALING JAYA: The Government spent more than RM2mil buying radioactive isotopes from Singapore when Putrajaya Hospital had the means to produce it, the 2007 Auditor-General’s Report said.
The component, Flurodeoxiglucose (FDG), is a short-lived radioactive isotope that is injected into patients to allow the imaging machine to detect problems such as cancer, brain damage, heart disease or infections.
....
August 13, 2008,
-- RESIDENTS in Kebun 500 in Jabi, Pokok Sena, Kedah are urging the state government to relocate a telecommunication tower in the area.
The villagers claim that they have never agreed to the construction of the tower, owned by a major telecommunication company, when it was built in 2005
.... We want the tower to be removed from the location as we fear that the radioactive waves generated is a health hazard, Ooi Chun Meng, 41, who acted as the villagers' spokesman, said
..
Sunday August 10, 2008,
-- Between nuclear bombs and nuclear power generation, serious problems remain for ordinary people everywhere.
NAGASAKI yesterday marked the 63rd anniversary of the world’s second nuclear attack, three days after Hiroshima, in an annual commemoration of what some call the worst terror attacks on civilian populations after 260,000 people died from the US bombs.
This year, however, saw some firsts in the twin anniversaries. At the ceremony led by Prime Minister Yasuo
Fukuda in Hiroshima on Wednesday, there were
representatives from a record 55 countries,
including China
....
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 (Bernama) -- The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) Friday said it had not received any report regarding a radioactive leak aboard a United States submarine USS Houston that made a visit to Port Klang in 2006.
Defence Ministry director of public relations Col Fadzlette Othman Merican said no investigation will be made on the matter.
"The incident is said to have taken place in 2006. Why report now? We have not received any report on a leak and no investigation will be done," she said when contacted by Bernama.
....
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 (Bernama)
-- It will take Tenaga Nasional Bhd at least two years to study the possibilities of setting up a nuclear plant before actually realising the plan.
Its president and chief executive officer, Datuk Seri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh, said the utility firm has started with preliminary research and is already training some staff towards nuclear technologies.
"The preliminary investigation work will take a long time, at least two years. Nuclear is not something you can do overnight," he told Bernama at the 13th Civil Servant Conference here, today.
Che Khalib said it was still too early to choose a suitable location for the plant
....
BERNAMA
TOKYO (Reuters), Saturday August 2, 2008 -- A small amount of radiation leaked from a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine that stopped by Japan earlier this year, the Japanese government said on Saturday, prompting calls by civic groups for full disclosure.
The leak, which was too small to have any impact on the environment, was found during an inspection of the nuclear-powered Houston in Hawaii, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said, citing information provided by the U.S. government on Friday ....
GIS@Atomic Energy Licensing Board, MOSTI. All rights
reserved.
