Climate Change Increases Nuclear Danger
In the coming months, you’re going to hear presidential candidates talk about climate change. You probably won’t hear them say much about nuclear safety. But the two are inextricably linked. A warmer climate leads to more severe storms, which increases the chances of a Japan-style nuclear meltdown…..Either we need to get out of the nuclear energy business or reduce our greenhouse gas emissions — or both.-
Climate change, nuclear power risks linked, Sun Sentinel August 05, 2011|By Anthony Orlando
The Japanese tsunami was a freak occurrence. Once in a thousand years. It can’t happen to our nuclear power plants.
But freak occurrences are happening more often nowadays. Continue reading
Indigenous peoples cop the uranium pollution by rich corporations
“The biggest problem of uranium mining is slow and constant emission of radiation which leads people to suffer from cancer, kidney problems, and other respiratory diseases.Future generations would be the worst sufferers,” she said. Due to uranium mining, groundwater level goes down, while water, used for agriculture and drinking, is polluted.
”Rich countries encourage uranium mining in poor nations”, IBN Live,,Aug 07,2011, Kadapa(AP), Aug 7 (PTI) Developed nations are taking up uranium mining in third world countries despite themselves being endowed with rich deposits of the mineral to avoid possible environmental pollution, Continue reading
Radioactive leakage causes shutdown of nuclear plant
Nine Mile Point nuclear plant shuts down, WSJ 8 Aug 11, SCRIBA, N.Y. — Officials at Constellation Energy are investigating a leakage in a containment structure that caused the shutdown of the Nine Mile Point Unit 2 reactor on Lake Ontario over the weekend.
The Oswego Palladium-Times reports that the reactor remained shut down Sunday after a “higher-than-normal leakage” was discovered inside the facility’s drywell (http://bit.ly/qVJmf3 ). The incident was classified as an “unusual event,” the lowest level of nuclear power plant emergencies.
Constellation Energy Nuclear Group spokeswoman Jill Lyon said the drywell is the containment structure surrounding the reactor vessel and associated piping. She said the reactor will remain shut down until the necessary repairs and post maintenance testing are finished.
Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it appears the source of the leakage is a valve on a recirculation pump…http://online.wsj.com/article/AP9933d2a7fcba4ef0b37c9e1384b212de.html
$196 million in advance for nukes that might never be built!
FPL to ask customers to pay $196 million to plan nukes, Sun Sentinel By Julie PatelAugust 8, 2011 Florida Power & Light wants to charge customers $196 million next year for costs to plan nuclear projects that may not be built…. FPL has proposed expanding four existing reactors and building two new ones. The proposed expansions still require approvals from federal and state agencies.
“I think it’s the paying in advance that I resent without something concrete in the making,” said Emily Doucette, a retiree in Pompano Beach…..
Critics plan to raise several key issues:
Cost-overruns. FPL should not have abandoned getting bids “with price-assured contracts” and other traditional construction practices meant to control costs for construction work related to the proposed expansions of four existing reactors, according to the Office of Public Counsel, the state’s advocate for utility customers. FPL implemented this “fast-tracked” approach to meet it goals for completion but the consumer advocate’s office argues that the move is leading to “rapidly increasing estimates of the cost to complete the…the projects” and they may end up costing more than FPL’s alternative plan, not to do them.
Transparency. The consumer advocate’s office also recommends that the PSC fine FPL a penalty for allegedly violating a rule that requires utilities to report estimated nuclear planning costs if they want to charge customers for them.
An investigator hired by FPL found last year that the utility provided “inaccurate and incomplete” information to regulators about the growing costs of its nuclear expansions. The consumer advocate’s office examined the issue itself and found that FPL’s cost estimates increased by $444 million in the months before it testified on costs but it did not report the changes….
Uncertainty. Both FPL and Progress Energy Florida are allegedly violating a rule that requires utilities that want to charge customers for nuclear planning costs to have a clear intent to build them, according to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Last year, both utilities announced “delaying major capital expenditures” to build new reactors last year – and instead, said they would focus on the getting the required licenses – because of the uncertainty involved, SACE wrote to the PSC.
The Florida Industrial Power Users Group, a group that represents consumers that are businesses, said utilities should prove the projects are the most reasonable and cost-effective way to serve customers…..http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/business/realestate/housekeys/blog/2011/08/fpl_to_ask_customers_to_pay_19.html
India’s National Green Tribunal wants study of nuclear radiation’s effects
The occurrence of adioactive substances from the sites of Thermal Power Plants in India have been been reported widely. A recent study by National Geophysical Laboratory found high quantity of nuclear radiation in Chandraapur Thermal power plant in Maharashtra. …..
The tribunal has also asked the ministry to study the impact of radiaton on local population who live in close vicinit of the thermal plant. “We have been informed that there is large population residing within 2 to 3 KM from the project site,” the bench said….http://www.hindustantimes.com/Green-tribunal-asks-govt-to-study-nuclear-radiation/Article1-730553.aspx
For the first time, atomic bomb survivors oppose nuclear power, as well as nuclear weapons
“They convinced us that nuclear power was different from nuclear bombs,” said Mr. Yamada, 80, who was in junior high school when Nagasaki was bombed. “Fukushima showed us that they are not so different.”
Atomic Bomb Survivors Join Opposition to Nuclear Power, New York Times, By MARTIN FACKLER, August 6, 2011, NAGASAKI, Japan — In 1945, Masahito Hirose saw the white mushroom cloud rise from the atomic bomb that incinerated this city and that left his aunt to die a slow, painful death, bleeding from her nose and gums. Still, like other survivors of the attacks here and in Hiroshima, he quietly accepted Japan’s postwar embrace of nuclear-generated power, believing government assurances that it was both safe and necessary for the nation’s economic rise.
That was before this year’s disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan confronted the survivors once again with their old nightmare: thousands of civilians exposed to radiation. Aghast at the catastrophic failure of nuclear technology, and outraged by recent revelations that the government and power industry had planted nuclear proponents at town hall-style meetings, the elderly atomic bomb survivors, dwindling in numbers, have begun stepping forward for the first time to oppose nuclear power. Continue reading
The lies that produced the atomic bombing of hiroshima
Truman referred in his diary to “the telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace.”………The United States Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that, “… certainly prior to 31 December, 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November, 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped
Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died, The Real News. David Swanson, 6 Aug 11, On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British ‘Grand Slam’ which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.”
When Truman lied to America that Hiroshima was a military base rather than a city full of civilians, people no doubt wanted to believe him. Continue reading
Fukushima radiation too high to be measured
VIDEO Fukushima radiation so high geiger counter can’t register it PlanetSave 6 Aug 11, The Fukushima nuclear power plant, the epicenter of the earthquake-tsunami disaster, according to TEPCO, the company that owns the plant, now has radiation levels six times higher than the highest level they have ever record before.
TEPCO reported that radiation levels are over 10,000 millisieverts per hour on the second floor of reactor one. The problem with that report is that Geiger counters can’t measure past 10,000 millisieverts per hour.
So, how high is the radiation level on the second floor of reactor one? With radiation levels over 10,ooo millisieverts it could possibly kill a man in a matter seconds, if directly exposed to the radiation. With levels off the Geiger counter chart, TEPCO is basically unable to resolve the disaster.
This could be why they recently updated their recovery plan. They removed the idea of plugging the holes and cracks in the containment vessels of the reactors. Some analysis claims it may take over 30 years for any progress to be made at Fukushima. Question is, do we have 30 years to wait? There seems to be no solution brought forth on how to stop the radiation or how bad it is actually affecting the earth.
It seems no one wants to address the seriousness of this global problem. Levels this high cannot be good and it is more than likely spreading farther than is being reported.
So, what’s at risk? The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and, most of all, our overall health. http://planetsave.com/2011/08/06/fukushima-radiation-so-high-geiger-counter-cant-register-it-video/
Fukushima’s children and radiation
Hiroshi Ueki, 40, a former kindergarten worker, moved his wife and two sons, aged one and four, to Matsumoto in the mountainous prefecture of Nagano, 280 kilometres away.
Remembering family life in their home town, he said, “everyday I used to tell my sons: ‘Don’t touch this. Don’t eat that. Don’t take your mask off’.”
“When we got to Nagano, my son was still asking me: ‘Dad, can I touch this flower? Can I touch that car? Can I play in the rain?’ When I heard him say that, I was almost crying.”
International interest in Montreal’s anti nuclear protest walk
Anti-nuclear walk gains international support, Montreal Gazette By Jeanette Stewart, The StarPhoenix August 3, 2011 The group walking across the province to protest a proposed nuclear waste storage site in Saskatchewan says it has received encouragement from as far away as Japan and Germany. Continue reading
A Hiroshima Day Apology
We inherit from the past our own conditions of living. We inherit the burdens, responsibilities and sacrifices, as well as the opportunities. Whether I like it or not, I am part of the rationale against you, that led to the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All this I owe to you, Japan, when I apologise. ..
Apologising for the bomb: a letter on our anniversary, The Drum, Luke Stickels, 5 August 11 Dear Japan, Today marks 66 years since your city, Hiroshima, faced the world’s first ever nuclear attack, and I thought I would write to apologise……..
at approximately 8.15am on 6 August, 1945, the United States dropped a gun-type atomic bomb called Little Boy on Hiroshima. Between 70,000-80,000 people, or approximately 30 per cent of Hiroshima’s population, were killed instantly by what the subsequent US Bombing Survey termed “inefficient” nuclear fission, which nevertheless cleared 12 square kilometers of the city and 69 per cent of its buildings. Continue reading
Hiroshima Day plea to stop expensive Trident nuclear weapons project
Hiroshima Day, an apt time to question Trident, Cathy Jamieson, guardian.co.uk, 6 August 2011, While the government slashes public services and conventional military forces, billions are being poured into nuclear projects
Defence experts have spoken out publicly and former ministers, includingLord Browne of Ladyton, are now actively involved in top level groups on disarmament…………
Trident was excluded from the defence review, its funding guaranteed, when many other public spending commitments were cut back…..
Draft report from USA’s Blue Ribbon Commission on nuclear wastes
U.S. nuclear waste: where to now?, Smart Planet 5 Aug 11, By Melissa Mahony | August 1, 2011, Radioactive waste has been accumulating at sites across the United States for decades. The 75,000-metric-ton problem isn’t going away (well, not for a million years or so). And as of now, it’s not going to Nevada’s Yucca Mountain either. Tasked with finding long-term solutions to this disposal issue, the Blue Ribbon Commission released a draft report on Friday. Continue reading
Huge cost to humanity of nuclear weapons and nuclear power
Hiroshima Day, Ban all nuclear weapons,The Guardian, CPA Australia, Anna Pha, 6 August 11, On August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber dropped a uranium bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the first nuclear weapon tested on a civilian population. On August 9 a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The immediate death toll of the two bombings was over 200,000 with many thousands injured and thousands more experiencing slow and painful deaths over the years to come.
The 66th anniversary is a time to remember the victims and raise awareness of the current dangers posed by the proliferation and build-up of far more powerful and sophisticated nuclear weapons. The nuclear meltdown at Fukashima is also a grim reminder of the dangers of the nuclear industry. Continue reading
Uranium industry heading for collapse
The disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant following the March earthquake and tsunami has essentially killed investor enthusiasm for uranium stocks…… The other uranium stocks are all miners, but if there is no support for new nuclear development, then the value of these stocks will drop as well. Aside from early comments supporting nuclear power, the US has been non-committal, whereas Germany and Italy have both indicated that no new nuclear plants will be built and, in Germany, existing plants will be closed over the next decade or so.
USEC Shares Collapse on Loan Worries (USEC, URRE, UEC, URG, URZ, URA),August 5, 2011, 247Wst.com Paul Ausick, The sole US provider of low-enriched uranium fuel for nuclear power plants is in serious trouble. USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) shares have fallen more than -12% this morning and posted another new 52-week low on concern that the company’s loan guarantee from the federal government will not be approved in time to prevent USEC from running into liquidity problems.
Every US company involved in the nuclear fuel business is getting beaten up this morning. Continue reading
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