Japanese parents sceptical over lack of action on radiation levels in schools
School radiation cleanup slammed, The Japan Times Online, 3 June 11 Parents flunk ministry over soil-removal policy shift Kyodo Despite the education ministry’s recent move to set a new nonbinding target to reduce the radiation children in Fukushima Prefecture are exposed to at schools, experts, local educators and parents don’t feel reassured. Continue reading
Radiation worries keep opera stars out of Japan tour
Met Opera Stars Drop Out of Japan Tour On Radiation Fears — WSJ* May 31, 2011, “…….“She (Ms. Netrebko) explained that she lived in Russia during Chernobyl and that many of her friends and relatives had contracted cancer and that she felt this was leaning very heavily on her,” said Mr. Gelb about the soprano’s reasoning at a news conference in Japan on Tuesday, referencing the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. “When she actually thought about coming here, when it came down to the wire of getting on a plane she just couldn’t face making that decision.”
Met Opera Stars Drop Out of Japan Tour On Raditation Fears – Speakeasy – WSJ
Problems in France’s plan for 100,000 years of nuclear waste storage
“No geologist can guarantee that there will never be water infiltration in the places intended for storage,”
Europeans Pursue Labyrinths of Nuclear Waste, NYTimes.com, By SUE LANDAU, June 2, 2011 BURE, FRANCE —”…….Gérald Ouzounian, the international director at Andra, said that research had found that this hard clay had a water content of just 15 percent, and that water remained in the clay rather than moving through it. This is critical for the repository, because it must prevent radioactivity seeping out into groundwater and contaminating soil, plants, animals, and ultimately, human beings. Continue reading
Images of Fukushima – fatigue of nuclear workers
PhotoBlog – Doctor describes fatigue of workers at Fukushima nuclear plan, PhotoBlog, David R Arnott 3 June 11, Newly released photographs taken by a doctor who has examined workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant show the difficult living conditions they have endured while battling to bring the situation under control.
ased June 2 by industrial medical doctor Takeshi Tanigawa, who examined the workers. The Japan Times reported that Ehime University professor Takeshi Tanigawa had visited the workers twice since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a series of meltdowns at the plant. He warned that there was an increased risk of accidents because the workers had suffered from chronic sleep deprivation and fatigue, the paper said.
Tanigawa also warned that workers were at risk of developing PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) due to what they had been through in the early days of the disaster, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. See more images of the disaster in our slideshow and more pictures related to Fukushima on PhotoBlog. PhotoBlog – Doctor describes fatigue of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant
IAEA ‘s focus is on commercial benefit of rare earth plant, not on safety
‘There’s no safe radiation level’, FreeMalaysia Today Tashny Sukumaran, June 2, 2011 The IAEA standards are not based on what is safe but how great the benefit, said CAP after a meeting with the panel. PUTRAJAYA: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today admitted there is no such thing as “safe” levels of radiation.
However , it told the Consumer Association of Penang that some radiation levels could be justified.
The nine-member IAEA panel is here to gauge the safety of the Lynas rare earth refinery in Kuantan. Continue reading
Confidence building in USA’s anti nuclear movement
“If Germany can do it, the US can do it. We have much better renewable energy resources than Germany,”
US anti-nuclear campaign buoyed by German opt-out Expatica.com 2 June 11, US anti-nuclear campaigners are hoping German Chancellor Angela Merkel will try to persuade President Barack Obama to follow in Berlin’s footsteps and drop plans for new atomic power stations.
The German proposals, hammered out by Merkel’s ruling coalition, will see the country shutter all 17 of its nuclear reactors, eight of which are currently off the electricity grid, by 2022.
Merkel, who will hold White House talks here next week, said Monday that Germany could prove to “be a trailblazer for a new age of renewable energy sources.” Continue reading
Uranium producers face a very uncertain future
investors may wonder whether Germany could be the first of many to pull the plug on nuclear projects. John Meyer, a commodities analyst at Fairfax, said: ‘The German pronouncement over the weekend was surprising and extraordinary and is a huge blow to the nuclear industry.’ He added: ‘If other countries follow Germany then the nuclear expansion forecast by uranium producers may be largely limited to the US and China
Geiger Counter: nuclear power vs nuclear peril, CityWire Money — by Rob Mackinlay Jun 02, 2011 Germany’s plans to ditch nuclear power this week failed to unnerve uranium investors but uranium focused investment trust Geiger Counter may become a power or a peril in an investor’s portfolio. Continue reading
France’s nuclear wastes must be secured for over 100,000 years
The repositories are supposed to remain hermetically sealed for at least 100,000 years — roughly the length of time human beings have existed on Earth
Europeans Pursue Labyrinths of Nuclear Waste, NYTimes.com, By SUE LANDAU : June 2, 2011 BURE, FRANCE — Reached by narrow roads that meander through picturesque villages, a high-tech laboratory sits in a corner of France so remote that until construction started on it a decade ago, the local inn was not connected to the electricity grid.
Beneath a plateau surrounded by fields of colza and wheat, the underground laboratory, located near the village of Bure, in the eastern French region of Lorraine, is run by the Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs, or Andra, the national authority charged with the safe disposal of nuclear waste. Continue reading
Cloud of deception over Australian company’s plan for thorium wastes in Malaysia
Radiation gradually accumulating in marine life beyond Fukushima
More radiation worries for Japan’s fishing industry – Fishupdate.com, 31 may 11, MORE trouble appears to be on the horizon for Japan’s beleaguered fishing industry, following the country’s disastrous earthquake two months ago.
Greenpeace has said that the radioactive leaks are continuing to seriously affect fish and other marine life. According to fresh information released by the environmental group high levels of contamination have been found in fish, shellfish, and seaweed from samples taken 12 miles off the coast of the Fukushima plant.
Analysis by laboratories in France and Belgium found high levels of radioactive iodine and radioactive cesium in seafood, according to Greenpeace. Contamination levels were highest in seaweed samples, which contained radiation 50 times higher than official limits…..Greenpeace Radiation spokesman Jan Van Putte said: “Our data shows that significant amounts of contamination continue to spread over great distances from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life.”… More radiation worries for Japan’s fishing industry – Fishupdate.com
How Japanese communities have become nuclear addicts
In a process that critics have likened to drug addiction, the flow of easy money and higher-paying jobs quickly replaces the communities’ original economic basis, usually farming or fishing….the subsidies encourage not only acceptance of a plant but also, over time, its expansion. That is because subsidies ….the system of subsidies and dependency Japan created to expand nuclear power makes it difficult for the country to reverse course.
In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency – NYTimes.com,By MARTIN FACKLER and NORIMITSU ONISHIMay 30, 2011 “…….Tokyo has been able to essentially buy the support, or at least the silent acquiescence, of local communities by showering them with generous subsidies, payouts and higher-paying jobs. In 2009 alone, Tokyo gave $1.15 billion for public works projects to communities that have electric plants, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Experts say the majority of that money goes to communities near nuclear plants. Continue reading
Experts at Gulf energy forum enthusiastic about renewable energy, not nuclear
Observations and questions from the floor indicated that the case for developing nuclear power had not been to the satisfaction of delegates and other options, solar and geothermal energy in particular, had much to offer and should be explored first.
Solar, not nuclear, power gets the vote of delegates at environment forum By ROGER HARRISON | ARAB NEWS May 31, 2011 JEDDAH: Expert delegates at the Gulf Environment Forum’s opening session on nuclear power have suggested solar energy is the way forward. Continue reading
Japanese actor punished for his anti nuclear stance
“I received an email from my manager today. ‘Your planned role in a July 8 drama has gone away because of your statements regarding nuclear power plants.’”…
It’s Not Easy Being Antinuclear – Japan Real Time – WSJ* May 30, 2011, By Yoree Koh It’s a difficult time to trumpet the virtues of nuclear energy in Japan, but it appears naysayers are finding that speaking out can have negative consequences. Continue reading
Farmers in India resolute against Bhavnagar nuclear power plant
Gujarat: Farmers oppose nuclear power plant in Bhavnagar, West: India Today, D. P. Bhattachary | Mithi Virdi Village (Bhavnagar), May 30, 2011 A storm of resistance is brewing in the mango orchards of coastal Bhavnagar district.
As the Union government proposes to set up a 6,000 Mw nuclear plant at Mithi Virdi village, farmers from the five villages of Jaspara, Mithi Virdi, Khadarpar, Mandva and Sosiya have come together to pledge that they would die rather than give their fertile farmland for the power plant……. Continue reading
Works suspended at Fukushima because of stormy weather
Storm suspends work at Japan Fukushima nuclear plant BBC News 30 May 2011 The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has suspended some of its outdoor work due to a tropical storm, just days after it admitted it was not prepared for harsh weather.
Heavy rain and strong winds are hitting north-east Japan, which was devastated in the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading
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