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Australian pro nuclear expert explains how Fukushima nuclear plant is safe

The plant is safe now and will stay safe……If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets [Does he include  the International Atomic Energy Agency as an “usual media outlet” , I wonder?]

Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a Simple and Accurate Explanation, Brave New Climate, Barry Brook, 13 March 2011, [Barry Brook quotes Josef Oehmen, a PhD Scientist, whose father has extensive experience in Germany’s nuclear industry.] Continue reading →

March 15, 2011 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, marketing | Leave a comment

Mayor of London says don’t worry: nuclear power is safe, clean and green

Disaster as divine retribution The Age Boris Johnson March 15, 2011 To take Japan’s quake and tsunami as a sign we should abandon nuclear power would be a further catastrophe……

First off the blocks, I see, is the anti-nuke lobby. These are the atomkraft-nein-danke brigade, ……….They will now do everything they can to exploit the Fukushima explosions and the difficulties being experienced in bringing a couple of nuclear plants under control……
. I just doubt that there is any real read-across between the difficulties of nuclear reactors in a well-known earthquake zone, and the proposed nuclear programs elsewhere…..WE don’t have to make amends by sacrificing a hetacomb to Poseidon. We don’t hAZve to lead a hundred garlanded men and maidens to the top of the pyramid and then cut out their beating hearts. ….. we don’t have to sacrifice our efforts to provide safe clean and green nuclear power....http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/

March 15, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, spinbuster | Leave a comment

Scramble to prevent nuclear meltdowns in 3 Japanese reactors

Authorities are now scrambling to prevent meltdowns in three of the plant’s four nuclear reactors…..

Third blast at Japanese nuclear plant, ABC Radio, The World Today with Eleanor Hall, Hayden Cooper, 15 March 11-– This morning, there’s been another explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant, which was badly damaged in last Friday’s powerful earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading →

March 15, 2011 Posted by | Japan, safety | Leave a comment

Nuclear accident does not worry General Electric nuclear company

The chief executive of General Electric Co, which has built a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, said there was no change in his company’s plans for India....He said it was premature to say that safety issues would cloud the outlook of the nuclear energy business.

India’s N-plan may take a hit; equipment suppliers not worried Economic Times 15 march 11, Japan’s nuclear crisis will create obstacles for India’s atomic energy programme, but this has not dented the optimism of equipment suppliers such as GE and India’s Larsen and Toubro Continue reading →

March 15, 2011 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Nuclear marketing going ahead in China and India, anyway

in China, which has the world’s most ambitious nuclear expansion plans, a vice minister of environment, Zhang Lijun, said on Saturday that Japan’s difficulties would not deter his nation’s nuclear rollout…..The United States has lobbied extensively to open India’s nuclear power market to American industry. Indian and American officials spent more than five years negotiating a nuclear energy agreement that was blessed by both governments and international nuclear agencies.

Emerging economies move ahead with nuclear plans, New York Times, by Heather Timmons and Vikas Bajaj, 15 March 11, NEW DELHI — Despite Japan’s crisis, India and China and some other energy-ravenous countries say they plan to keep using their nuclear power plants and building new ones. Continue reading →

March 15, 2011 Posted by | China, India, marketing | Leave a comment

Dangerous radiation levels from TEPCO’s no 2 nuclear reactor

With radiation levels around the facility up, TEPCO suspects the core of the No.2 reactor has partially melted, a critical nuclear safety situation..

Stay indoors: Japanese PM’s order to residents beyond nuclear reactor evacuation zone after blast, Sydney Morning Herald, Glenda Kwek, March 15, 2011

Radiation levels near a quake-stricken nuclear plant are now harmful to human health, Japan’s government says after explosions and a fire at the facility. Continue reading →

March 15, 2011 Posted by | Japan, safety | Leave a comment

Japan’s history of nuclear power troubles

Japan’s history of civilian nuclear power generation is also littered with problems, … Since 1999 there have been several accidents that have marred what was perceived as a safe industry.

Japan’s Nuclear Half-Century, New Matilda,   15 march 11, All eyes are on Fukushima but this is not an isolated crisis. Mark Pendleton looks at how nuclear accidents have shaped contemporary Japan Continue reading →

March 15, 2011 Posted by | history, Japan | Leave a comment

Australia will get nuclear power, top nuclear scientist confident

“We will learn from the tragic Japanese experience how to build more robust reactors, how to ensure multiple layers of protection work properly, how to better contain radioactive gases.” – Ziggy

Ziggy Switkowski,   nuclear physicist, and chief of Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, is confident that there will be only a short term halt in the nuclear renaissance.

Ziggy’s been explaining on Australian TV (Channel 10 News 14/3/11) and print media (THE AUSTRALIAN, 14/3/11), how Australia doesn’t need to worry about earthquakes and nuclear power, and does need nuclear energy. Indeed, Ziggy looks forward to the boost that nuclear power development will get, from studying the defects in the Japanese nuclear reactors. In this way, the nuclear renaissance will thrive again. Though I dunno that it was thriving even before the Japan disaster, now that I come to think of it. – Christina Macpherson

 

March 14, 2011 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, marketing | Leave a comment

Effects of Japan’s nuclear damage will be either serious or catastrophic

In the best case,……….the immense anxiety triggered by the incident and the toll of the subsequent evacuation on nearby residents.

The consequences of the most dire scenarios are much harder to estimate. They include the loss of the facility, an expensive local cleanup — a foregone conclusion — and a wide-scale disaster that renders the countryside around the plant uninhabitable for decades.

Ultimate impact of damage to Japan nuclear reactors still unknown, Washington Post, By Brian Vastag, March 13,

The detection of the highly radioactive elements cesium-137 and iodine-131 outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant heralds the beginning of an ecological and human tragedy. The open question is whether it will be limited, serious or catastrophic Continue reading →

March 14, 2011 Posted by | environment, Japan | Leave a comment

Nuclear plants likely to be shut in Germany, cancelled in Switzerland

Germany May Shut Nuclear Plants

WSJ, 14 March, By ANDREAS KISSLER And JAN HROMADKO

FRANKFURT—German Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor Guido Westerwelle said Monday that individual nuclear power plants could be shut down on safety grounds after accidents at Japanese reactors that followed a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami Friday.

If German reactors were found to have inadequate cooling systems the facilities need to be shut down and upgraded, Mr. Westerwelle told reporters at a press conference in Berlin.

His statement came as Switzerland suspended plans for new nuclear plants, pending a review of the emergency in Japan………http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200122562101848.html

March 14, 2011 Posted by | Germany, safety | Leave a comment

Possible meltdown of fuel rods inside the Fukushima Daiichi complex’s No.2 reactor

Water level near empty at Japan nuclear reactor

Reuters 03/14/2011 Water levels inside a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear reactor were almost empty on Monday night, said the power plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. The Yomiuri newspaper was reporting that the cooling system at the reactor has stopped, and additional reports said fuel rods were exposed.

News agency Jiji said a meltdown of fuel rods inside the Fukushima Daiichi complex’s No.2 reactor could not be ruled out.

March 14, 2011 Posted by | Japan, safety | Leave a comment

Nuclear industry at a standstill: this could be the end

“The nuclear renaissance was on the rocks in any case,” said Peter Bradford, a former commissioner on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He served on the commission in 1979 during the Three Mile Island accident in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the U.S. Senate’s homeland security panel, said on Sunday the United States should “put the brakes on” new nuclear power plants until the impact of the incident in Japan became clear.

Analysis: Nuclear renaissance could fizzle after Japan quake

(Reuters) 14 March 11, – Japan‘s battle to avert a full-scale meltdown could damage the global nuclear energy industry, derailing plans to build dozens of new power plants and forestalling any surge in demand for uranium to fuel them. Continue reading →

March 14, 2011 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

Uranium stocks in meltdown

Uranium stocks dumped after Japan crisis

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8223706

Uranium miners hit by nuclear crisis | Japan

March 14, 2011 Posted by | business and costs, Uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear Energy Institute confident that Japan explosion will ‘reassure’ Americans

All told, the industry expects up to eight new reactors to be churning out power by 2020, according to Mitch Singer, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry trade group.

Mr. Singer said he doesn’t think the accident in Japan will derail the U.S. nuclear boom. In fact, he said the explosion should reassure Americans that their own plants will be prepared for any emergency, because the industry will disseminate lessons learned in Japan around the globe, helping other reactors shore up their defenses against even devastating natural disasters, like the quake and the tsunami that followed.

“At this point,” Mr. Singer said, “I don’t think we’re going to see a major impact on the U.S. nuclear industry.”….   – WSJ.com By STEPHANIE SIMON, 13 March 11,.

March 13, 2011 Posted by | marketing, USA | Leave a comment

Nuclear crisis continues in Japan

there has been no word so far on the spent fuel at the site which would be kept in pools at the reactor. Any breakdown in the cooling system could cause the spent fuel to melt, with the risk of a significant release of radioactivity.

There is widespread uneasiness despite the reassuring noises coming from the authorities over the situation, in part because of the industry’s history of ignoring warnings and covering up safety problems.

Japan earthquake: the nuclear crisis is not over yet.  guardian.co.uk, Julian Borger5, 13 March 11, Japan says disaster has been averted at the Fukushima nuclear plant but serious questions remain. Continue reading →

March 13, 2011 Posted by | Japan, safety | Leave a comment

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