Japan’s nuclear crisis making young Japanese more thoughtful
young people in Japan have significantly shifted their focus from material gain to altruism….
Previously, the key purpose for finding a career had been to earn money …..respondents said that their views had also changed about nuclear power
Nuclear incidents cause shift in values among young Japanese, Inside Japan Tours, 15th September 2011 A new survey reveals that the earthquake and nuclear disaster that beset Japan earlier this year has led to a shift in attitudes among the country’s young citizens. Continue reading
Low demand for uranium: AREVA limits production
Areva suspends some uranium production after Japan quake Google News, 16 Sept 11, PARIS — French nuclear giant Areva is suspending uranium production at two plants because of low demand from Japanese power stations in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a spokeswoman said Thursday. Continue reading Big conference on financing renewable energy
Leaders of Renewable Energy Sector Convene for Fourth Annual REFF-West Conference Event Features Google’s Rick Needham, Project Director of Green Business Operations & Strategy Finance, and Top Sources of Capital for Clean Energy Projects Market Watch, SAN FRANCISCO, September 14, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –– The top financiers of renewable energy in the U.S. will once again be gathering at the fourth annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF)-West, on Sept. 26-27, 2011 at The Four Seasons in San Francisco. Continue reading
Northeastern coast of Japan gets strong earthquake
6.2 earthquake strikes off Japan coast, NZ Herald, 16 Sept 11, A strong earthquake registering magnitude 6.2 has struck off Japan’s northeastern coast, but there was no risk of a tsunami. There were no immediate report of injuries or damage from the temblor.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency says the quake was centered off the coast of Ibaraki, about (220 kilometers east of Tokyo. It had a depth of 10 kilometers.The agency says there is no danger of a tsunami from the quake…….http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10752075
Caution needed with dental x-raying
there’s no such thing as a completely safe exposure, and radiation is cumulative over your lifetime. Children are particularly vulnerable,
Are dental X-rays dangerous?, CNN Health, By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent, September 15, 2011 “……..Worries about children, thyroid cancer Like many medical procedures, dental X-rays have an upside and a downside. The upside is that an X-ray allows your dentist to see bones, tissue, and hidden surfaces of your teeth that he or she can’t see with the naked eye.
The downside is that X-rays expose you to radiation. Four bitewing X-rays, which is what many people get in a routine exam, give about .005 millisieverts of radiation, according to the American College of Radiology. That’s about the same amount of radiation you get in a normal day from the sun and other sources. A panoramic dental X-ray, which goes around your head, has about twice that amount of radiation. Continue reading
Roundup of news on severity of Fukushima radiation fallout
VIDEO http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26546: New Radiation Releases: Governments Underreported Severity of Fukushima Massive New Radiation Releases Possible from Fukushima … Especially If Melted Core Governor Rick Perry fiddles with Climate Change denialism as Texas burns
It’s time to get real about green policy, Thomas Friedman, The Age, September 15, 2011, EVERY time I listen to Texas Governor Rick Perry and Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann describe climate change as some fraud perpetrated by scientists trying to gin up money for research, I’m reminded of the line that actor Jack Nicholson delivers to the needy neighbour who knocks on his door in the film As Good As It Gets. ”Where do they teach you to talk like this?” asks Nicholson. ”Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.”
Thanks, Perry and Bachmann, but we really are all stocked up on crazy right now. I mean, the Texas Governor rejects the science of climate change while his own state burns after the worst droughts on record propelled wildfires to devour an area the size of Connecticut. As a statement by the Texas Forest Service said last week: ”No one on the face of this earth has ever fought fires in these extreme conditions.” Continue reading
Time to get rid of climate anti science in USA politics
scientific leaders have a responsibility to expose the bunkum.
Stamp out anti-science in US politics New Scientist, 14 September 2011 by Paul Nurse It is time to reject political movements that turn their backs on science, says Nobel prizewinner and Royal Society president Paul NurseIF YOU respect science you will probably be disturbed by the following opinions……”On climate change: variations are “natural, cyclical environmental trends”. That “we can’t say with assurance that human activities cause weather changes” and thatclimate problems in Texas are best solved through “days of prayer for rain”
You would probably be even more disturbed to be told that these are the opinions expressed by potential Republican candidates for the US presidential nomination (see “Science rears its head in Republican debates“). It’s alarming that a country which leads the world in science – the home of Benjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman and Jim Watson – might be turning its back on science. How can this be happening? What can be done? Continue reading
Over 20,000 people in relay fast against nuclear power
have extended their support to the protest
Govt calls for talks with anti-Nuclear Plant protestors, Hndustan Times, Press Trust Of India, Tirunelveli, September 14, 2011 As the protest against Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in the district continued to gather momentum with over 20,000 people staging a relay fast on Wednesday, the Tamil Nadu Government invited representatives of the core group spearheading the stir for talks. Continue reading Catholics, Hindus, Muslims against nuclear energy in Kudankulam
The Catholic Church and the Church of South India have joined the Hindu and Muslim communities in the protest fast being undertaken by 127 people over the past four days, giving a new turn to the protest. Religious leaders who have formally pledged their support to the protest include Kottar bishop Peter Remigus, Palayamkottai bishop Jude Paulraj, Tuticorin Nazareth bishop Jebachandran, CSI bishop Christudas, Swami Balaprajapathi and Mohammed Elias.
“This has nothing to do with the Catholic Church in particular. We are supporting the cause in our individual capacities. We see this as a fight between good and evil”, said bishop Ambrose,
After caste, south Tamil Nadu on the boil over nuclear power, ECONOMIC TIMES, 4 SEP, 2011, JOE A SCARIA, CHENNAI: On Sunday, seven lives were lost in Paramakudi in south Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district when a gathering to pay homage to Dalit leader Immanuel Sekaran turned violent, triggering police firing. Just as the last of the victims are being cremated, three other districts in south Tamil Nadu are up in revolt, demanding closure of the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district.
Once a barren landscape, Kudankulam village is on the verge of being the latest nuclear power location on the world map, but just weeks away from the commissioning of the first of its two1,000 mw nuclear reactors, villagers in Kanyakumari, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli districts are massing to demand that the Rs 13,000-crore, ready-to-commission plant be scrapped. ….
The Catholic Church and the Church of South India have joined the Hindu and Muslim communities in the protest fast being undertaken by 127 people over the past four days, giving a new turn to the protest. Religious leaders who have formally pledged their support to the protest include Kottar bishop Peter Remigus, Palayamkottai bishop Jude Paulraj, Tuticorin Nazareth bishop Jebachandran, CSI bishop Christudas, Swami Balaprajapathi and Mohammed Elias.
“This has nothing to do with the Catholic Church in particular. We are supporting the cause in our individual capacities. We see this as a fight between good and evil”, said bishop Ambrose, demanding that the Indian government also take a line like the Germans, to steer clear of nuclear power in the interest of people’s safety.
SP Udayakumar, co-ordinator of the People’s Movement against Nuclear Power, said the organisation’s demand was to have a resolution passed in the Tamil Nadu assembly against commissioning the plant. He said the project had given false hopes of thousands of jobs, while the reality was different. “When the plant was under construction, there were many north Indian labourers, to whom local people rented out houses or rooms, but now even that income has stopped”, says Udayakumar.
Experts say that a plant as sophisticated as the one at Kudankulam typically does not employ people in the hundreds, and that the Kudankulam unit’s employee strength is in the region of 1,000.
Catholic priest gaoled with other anti-nuclear protestors
Jean Gump and Jesuit Fr. Bill Bichsel, were sentenced by Guyton yesterday to time served and three months in jail, respectively…..
Anti-nuke activist gets eight months, National Catholic Reporter, by Joshua J. McElwee on Sep. 14, 2011 In the third of eleven sentencing hearings expected in coming days for a group of anti-nuclear activists opposing a $7.5 billion new nuclear weapons manufacturing facility, a veteran of the peace movement was sentenced to eight months in jail this afternoon. Continue reading
International Atomic Energy Agency gears up to preach spin to public
IAEA Vows to Restore Faith in Nuclear Power and Sees Further Growth in China, India, Nuclear Street, Sep 14 2011 The United Nations’ nuclear agency announced it will work to restore faith in nuclear power following the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan, ….
As it does, a UN release dated Monday also indicated the IAEA will put its weight behind efforts to reassure the public that the world’s 432 operating civilian reactors are safe. The release also announced the IAEA will trim its estimates for growth in the nuclear field…
Getting rid of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors a tortuous and dangerous task
Tepco also needs to find ways to prevent any new nuclear reaction, which could happen if the fuel is not adequately cooled during the entire process…
Japan Atomic Energy Body Sees Technical Hurdles Ahead, WSJ, By MITSURU OBE, 14 Sept 11, TOKYO—Japan’s efforts to safely dismantle the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is expected to be fraught with technical challenges and take more than a decade to complete, the government’s Atomic Energy Commission said Wednesday.
Removing the fuel from the spent-fuel pools and the reactors is vital to ensuring there will be no radiation leakage from the quake-ravaged facility. Experts fear that their structures might have been weakened by the heat and radiation from the damaged fuel and the large amount of seawater that was poured into them as an emergency measure to cool down the fuel. Continue reading
Iran’s nuclear reactor starts
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On 12 September Iran brought its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr online, connecting it to the country’s electrical grid. Iranian officials at the opening ceremony said that the 1,000 megawatt plant has begun generating electricity at 40 percent of its capacity and will reach full capacity by the year’s end following further testing.
Quite aside from demonstrating Iran’s touching post-Fukushima faith in nuclear energy despite being a seismically active country, Bushehr represents a Rorschach test of sorts for all the fears and anxieties in the Middle East, in which everyone looking at the facility has his preconceptions reaffirmed. Continue reading
India’s nuclear regulators to study France’s nuclear accident
| AERB to study French nuclear accident, Business Standard |
| Sanjay Jog / Mumbai September 15, 2011, 0:22 IST |
| India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) would conduct a comprehensive study on the accident in a nuclear waste recycling plant in southern France which killed one man and injured four others. |
At the Centre for Treatment and Conditioning of Low-level Radioactive Waste, or Centraco, in Codolet, an oven dedicated to melt low radioactive metallic waste exploded inside the building on Monday. The radioactivity was contained inside the building. AERB would also look anew at safety measures on nuclear waste disposal and treatment facilities at nuclear power plants….http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/aerb-to-study-french-nuclear-accident/449216/
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