China’s developing solar energy empire
with Beijing heavily supporting its industry, the Chinese companies are forging ahead..Instead of subsidizing the purchase and use of solar power, China has focused on building the competitiveness of the country’s manufacturers. As a result, China exports 95 percent of the solar panels it produces.
China benefits as U.S. solar industry withers, NYT 1 Sept 11, HONG KONG — The bankruptcies of three American solar power companies in the last month, including Solyndra of California on Wednesday, have left China’s industry with a dominant sales position — almost three-fifths of the world’s production capacity — and rapidly declining costs. Continue reading
Solar feed-in tariff law in Japan will stimulate business
new business opportunities within industries that offer products and services related to the generation of electricity using renewable energy sources, ranging from solar panels and wind turbines to equipment and systems for smart grids.
Feed-in tariff law a boon to renewable energy markets , asahi.com2 Sept 11, Japan’s new clean energy bill offers a tantalizing business bonanza and companies are scrambling to find an edge.The so-called feed-in tariff on renewable energy passed by the Diet on Aug. 26 requires utilities to purchase wind, solar and geothermal energy from households and businesses at above-market rates Continue reading
Children given overdose of diagnostic radioactive substance
X-ray technician overdosed children with radioactive agent ,The Yomiuri Shimbun, 1 Sept, KOFU–-A local hospital said Thursday one of its radiographers had deliberately administered higher-than-recommended amounts of a radioactive substance during examinations of 84 children suffering from kidney ailments since 1999. Continue reading
Huge concrete containers of nuclear waste shifted during earthquake
“This indicates that reactors that have these dry casks in these earthquake-prone areas, they’re going to have to do more to protect them from ground motion,”
Quake shifted nuclear storage containers at Virginia plant – The Washington Post, By Brian Vastag, September 1 Last week’s central Virginia earthquake jolted huge concrete containers holding spent nuclear fuel at the North Anna power plant in Louisa County, Continue reading
Radioactive uranium drums found on beach in Namibia
There are a number of reasons why the latest incident is of great concern:
• it puts into question the level of security at Namibian uranium mining operations, with the worry being that radioactive uranium oxide could get into the “wrong hands”….
Drums of radioactive uranium found on beach, Care 2 by Andreas S., August 30, Last week, Namibian authorities discovered four unguarded barrels of radioactive uranium oxide on a beach near the coastal town of Swakopmund.
Floods cause production drop in Namibia’s uranium mines
Namibia Q2 uranium production down | Industrial Fuels and Power August 30th, 2011 NewsroomUranium production in Namibia decreased from 2.35mlb to 2.09mlb in the second quarter of 2011 when compared with the previous quarter.“This was largely due to adverse weather conditions, with some of the mines becoming flooded with the abnormally heavy rains seen this year,” financial group Capricorn Investment Holdings said.Namibia’s uranium is produced by Rio Tinto and Australia’s Paladin Energy.
Namibia Q2 uranium production down | Industrial Fuels and Power
Nuclear physicist recommends permanent relocation for Fukushima area residents
Mamoru Fujiwara, assistant professor of nuclear physics at Osaka University, said the residents from these locations “need to be relocated permanently.”
Japan Finds Radiation Spread Over a Wide Area, WSJ, By MITSURU OBE, 31 Aug 11, TOKYO—The first comprehensive soil survey from areas around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant showed extensive ground contamination and another report warned of the continued threat to Japan’s food chain, underscoring the major challenges the country still faces in its radioactive cleanup efforts…. Continue reading
Evacuate high radiation area North West Japan, says Caldicott
Dr Helen Caldicott says radiation many times in excess of that which led to the evacuation of Chernobyl has been reported in North-West Japan — so the area should be evacuated immediately.
Fukushima Crisis: Caldicott Says Evacuate North-West Japan, 31 August 2011,by: David Donovan, Independent Australia .………The problem is that the reliability of claims from TEPCO, NISA and the Japanese Government are – as we have reported before – highly questionable. All three bodies have a major credibility crisis, with clear evidence that they colluded to cover up evidence that they knew the nuclear reactors melted down within hours of the March 11 tsunami. The reason for this seems to be that Japan is highly dependent on nuclear energy for its power needs, such that NISA has become more or less a branch of TEPCO – with staff perenially shuffling between the two bodies – and with a Japanese Government that is primarily concerned with talking down the extent of the crisis to avoid widespread panic amongst the Japanese population and allay rumblings about the viability of nuclear power…. Continue reading
Risk of active geological faults near 14 Japanese nuclear power plants
14 locations near nuclear plants could become active faults, agency warns, Mainichi Daily News, 1 Sept 11 Some 14 locations near nuclear facilities in Japan have been found to have the possibility of turning into active faults in the future, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has announced.
NISA said on Aug. 30 that it has confirmed a total of 14 faults and other locations whose possibility of turning into active faults in the future cannot be ruled out near the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear power plants and Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tokai No. 2 Power Station in Ibaraki Prefecture.
NISA had instructed plant operators to re-evaluate those locations after aftershocks following the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake triggered the Yunotake fault in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, to slip even though it had been believed to be inactive.
As a result of the re-evaluation, it emerged that five locations near the Fukushima nuclear plant, including the Yunotake fault, have a possibility of moving in the future due to crustal twists and increased seismic activity in the wake of the March 11 quake. A total of nine locations near the Tokai No. 2 Power Station and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Tokai nuclear fuel reprocessing plant were also revaluated….http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110831p2a00m0na024000c.html
New Jersey nuclear plants powered down due to floods
Flooding causes 2 NJ nuke reactors to power down, The Sacramento Bee, 1 Sept 2011, The Associated Press LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, N.J. — Two of the three nuclear reactors in a southern New Jersey county have powered partway down because debris from Hurricane Irene is blocking cooling water intakes.
PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar said Wednesday that the Salem I and Salem II units in Salem County are getting unusual amounts of grass and trash at the screen where water is taken in from the Delaware River. …. Delmar says it’s unclear when the plants will return to full power…….. http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/31/3875617/flooding-causes-2-nj-nuke-reactors.html#ixzz1WjCDaQI8
Wikileaks reveals plotting by USA and Australia to remove atomic energy chiefve
US, Australia ‘schemed against IAEA chief’, SBS World News, 31 August 2011 Source: AAP, The United States and Australia schemed unsuccessfully in 2005 to block Mohamed ElBaradei’s election to a third term as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a newly leaked US diplomatic cable shows.
Both countries were unhappy with ElBaradei’s “unhelpful” response to Iran’s nuclear program, but the bid to prevent his re-election to the nuclear regulatory agency’s leadership ultimately failed for lack of international support. Continue reading
Germany’s nuclear reactors to remain closed
Nuclear reactor not to be kept on stand-by, The Local 31 Aug 11 Germany’s Federal Network Agency has decided not to keep any nuclear power stations operational as back-up in case of electricity shortfalls this winter. Eight reactors were shut down earlier this year after the Fukushima disaster in Japan reignited German fears. Continue reading
Uranium brings lower and lower prices
Uranium transactions fail to raise spot price, Industrial Fuels and Power August 31st, 2011 The uranium spot market reported five transactions totalling 1Mlb in the week ended 26 August, but each transaction was conducted at successively lower prices as sellers dropped offer prices to attract buyers. Consequently, the spot uranium price was cut by US$1.05 WoW to US$48.85/lb by the end of the week, according to TradeTech……
On 29 August, The Ux Consulting Co reported a US$1.50 fall in the uranium spot price to US$49.00/lb of uranium oxide.
Over the past month, uranium oxide prices decreased by US$2.50 while conversion rates at both sides of the Atlantic saw 75 cents shaved of their end-of-July price to US$10.00/kgU. Uranium hexafluoride prices fell by US$7.28 to US$138.03/kgU during this period……
France’s Flamanville nuclear reactors problems downplayed by management
Bouygues CEO Downplays Problems at Flamanville Nuclear Plant, Fox Business, By Inti Landauro, August 31, 2011 PARIS – – Martin Bouygues, chief executive of French construction and telecommunication group Bouygues SA, Wednesday downplayed problems in the construction of a nuclear plant in Flamanville, saying the project is a prototype and as such normally faces difficulties.
Chernobyl’s “liquidators” not compensated for radiation caused cancers
neither governments nor nuclear industries have provided any significant funding for researching more controversial health effects of radiation such as breast cancer and heart disease. Whenever you hear that “there are no studies proving any connection between radiation and [insert medical condition]”, you can be pretty sure it’s because no studies have actually been done……
Nuclear Family Bonds, Open Salon 25 Aug 11, “…..Japan has supported Chernobyl studies and projects in Ukraine for years. Though one people suffered from the Bomb, and the other, a civilian nuclear plant explosion, both were bound by scars of the atomic age. That both, after Fukushima, are now also victims of the “peaceful atom” is almost getting weird. Continue reading
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