Desperate spinning by nuclear lobby to resuscitate the industry
proponents of reactors have spent some $645 million in the last decade lobbying Congress for more subsidies. ….A critical moment is coming soon, when Obama goes to Congress to request an additional $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nukes in his 2012 budget.With them, America’s atomic industry has a chance to build a few more reactors. Without them, a green-powered Earth is within our grasp Chernobyl’s radiation tragedy continues to this day
since the explosion 93 000 have died from radiation-linked cancer in the Ukraine, Belarus and Russia; hundreds of thousands of cancers have been diagnosed; and there have been major effects on children, then unborn and now in their 20s.
Cold and desolate in the dead zone, Mail & Guardian, ILHAM RAWOOT – Apr 29 2011 “……Twenty-five years after the disaster those living near the station are still feeling the effects on their bodies, finances and livelihoods. Continue reading
Canada’s New Democrats gaining support for opposing nuclear subsidies
Canada’s New Democrats – Jack Layton and New Democrats advocate ending public subsidies for nuclear energy industry.
Jack Layton on nuclear power in Canada, Gordon Edwards, 27 April 
2011 Canadians go to the polls on Monday May 2 to elect new representativesfor the House of Commons, Canada’s elected Parliament
Jack Layton is the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), which has received a very dramatic surge in popular support in recent days, a surge which is mainly felt in the province of Quebec but which is also being noticed across Canada. Continue reading
Dissatisfied, Japanese Nuclear Adviser quits
Japanese Nuclear Adviser Quits, Wall Street Journal, By WILLIAM SPOSATO, 30 April 11, TOKYO—A special advisor to the Japanese government on radiation safety resigned Friday, saying that he was dissatisfied with the handling of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Continue reading
Call for a global end to nuclear power
To achieve these goals we demand an initiative to terminate the EURATOM agreement, ending the privileged position of nuclear power in the EU
World Council For Renewable Energy Demands A Global Ban On New Nuclear Power, Voxy.co 30 April 11, “……The WCRE demands from the Parliaments and Governments to:
– initiate a broad introduction of renewable energies in a consequent manner and to increase their use
– empower the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA with adequate financial and human resources to enable their vision for a world where renewable energy is accessible in all countries and becomes the primary source of energy
– underline the end of the atomic power pathway through the cancellation of the remaining privileges for nuclear power
– counter the threat of a nuclear renaissance in Europe and globally Continue reading
Fukushima shows government and industry’s breach of trust
Around this shrinking globe, like it or not, our fates are tied more and more closely together…….. what about the responsibility we all share to inform and protect one another? We expect our leaders and institutions to protect us when disaster hits. We expect nuclear plant operators to warn us when a reactor has breached. We expect them not to hide, not to lie, and not to procrastinate the delivery of bad news. We trust them. And they breach our trust.
BREACH…of Trust, Forbes, Davia Temin , 30 April, ‘…… as time went by, we found that the [Fukushima] situation was really far more dire than we had been told. Nuclear reactor rods had become exposed, and radioactive material had been flowing into the ocean, possibly from the start. There had been a nuclear BREACH, but few inside or outside of Japan had been informed. Continue reading
USA’s leading 10 solar energy States
The Top 10 Solar States, New York Times, By MIREYA NAVARRO April 29, 2011, New Jersey is the nation’s second largest solar market behind California thanks to the state government’s commitment to increase the amount of electricity derived from renewable energy sources over the next decade.
But where are the other leaders in solar energy?
Here, courtesy of the Solar Energy Industries Association, is a Top 10 list for cumulative installed solar capacity in the United States.
1. California: 47 percent with 971 megawatts
2. New Jersey: 14 percent with 293 MW
3. Colorado: 5 percent with 108 MW
4. Arizona: 5 percent with 101 MW
5. Nevada: 5 percent with 97 MW
6. Florida: 4 percent with 73 MW
7. New York: 3 percent with 54 MW
8. Pennsylvania: 3 percent with 54 MW
9. New Mexico: 2 percent with 45 MW
10. North Carolina: 2 percent with 42 MW
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/the-top-10-solar-states/?partner=rss&emc=rss
At last, attention to the irradiated animals at Fukushima
“We can’t turn a blind eye to Japan’s abandoned animals that have not received adequate food or water for more than a month and continue to receive dangerous levels of radiation.”…
Animal Attraction: IFAW convenes nuclear radiation experts for landmark animal rescue summit in Japan, by Stacy Fox, khou.com, April 29, 2011, The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) is organizing a gathering of radiation and animal rescue experts from the United States and Japan to discuss the current crisis and develop steps to provide aid to animals inside the evacuation zone. The team of experts will meet from May 2 -3 at the International House of Japan in Tokyo. Continue reading
Nuclear energy impractical as climate change solution
Renewable energy sources and systems become cheaper all the time, through the mass production of equipment and technical optimizations. Atomic and fossil energy by contrast are becoming constantly more expensive,
World Council For Renewable Energy Demands A Global Ban On New Nuclear Power, Voxy.co 30 April 11“……..A future based on nuclear energy is impossible. Globally, around 400 atomic power reactors are active. To meet the indispensable goal of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to a level of 40 percent below what they are today, and to rely on nuclear power for achieving that goal, would mean that 2500 additional 1000 MW atomic reactors would be needed. That is equivalent to more than one new reactor each week for the next fifty years! Continue reading
New nukes not viable for Exelon, old nukes a “cash cow”
“They can buy them much more cheaply than they can build them,” …….[Exelon] is also expected to seek 20-year operating license renewals on the remaining reactors that have not yet been cleared for the license extension
Why Older Nuclear Power Plants Remain ‘Cash Cows’ Despite Fukushima, NEW York Times, By PETER BEHR , April 29, 2011 There are no new nuclear plants in the foreseeable future for Exelon Corp., the largest U.S. reactor operator. Old plants, though, are a different story Continue reading
Another nuclear capable missile test by Pakistan
Pakistan military says it has test fired another nuclear-capable cruise missile, Google News, 30 April 11, ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military says it has successfully test fired a cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. An army statement says the air-launched missile was fired on Friday.
It says the missile, named Hatf-8, has been developed in Pakistan and has a range of 220 miles (350 kilometres).
Pakistan routinely tests nuclear-capable missiles that are designed to match those of nuclear-armed neighbouring archrival India. The two nations have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947…http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iBK602GZVqYKuSa6TJFGxtOd3NWQ?docId=6701612
South African government irresponsibly promoting nuclear energy
Greenpeace Africa, who accuses the government of being irresponsible in approving plans for nuclear expansion. ….South Africa is ill-equipped to handle nuclear power generation. “We have a very weak nuclear regulator, little nuclear expertise in the country and a dependency on foreign nuclear expertise and technology,”
Cold and desolate in the dead zone, Mail & Guardian, ILHAM RAWOOT – Apr 29 2011, “……….In the wake of the disaster South Africa’s Cabinet approved the Integrated Resources Plan, or IRP2010, which aims to expand nuclear power capacity Continue reading
How USA’s nuclear industry stalled, despite government propping it up
There are many reasons those 896 reactors went missing. Number one is the fact that the No Nukes movement stopped the industry from gouging from the government the trillion or more dollars it would have taken to build that fleet. Continue reading
Unhealthy employment – the nuclear industry – theme for April 2012
Renewable energy and energy efficiency provide a huge variety of jobs. On the whole, these are pretty safe and healthy jobs. Still the construction of wind turbines, solar power facilities, hydro power and so on do carry the risks associated with all construction jobs. And there are other hazards, too, for example, chemical hazards in some areas of work.
But these risks pale into insignificance when compared to the risks involved in the nuclear fuel cycle.
Workers also have the mental stress caused by their knowledge of underlying hazard to themselves and the community. There is the mental stress of their necessary strict surveillance and secrecy
Soviet Russia’s radiation experiments on people
The sad story of Nim, – Documentary films, MACLEANS CA, by Brian D. Johnson , April 29, 2011 “…….After the Apocalypse takes us to a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, where residents were deliberately exposed to radiation as human guinea pigs, …… After the Apocalypse, from British director Antony Butts, explores the fallout from 456 nuclear blasts detonated by the Soviets from 1949 to 1989 at the Semipalatinsk test site on the steppes of Kazakhstan. So scientists could study the effects of radiation, residents were not evacuated; some 200,000 were exposed, suffering genetic damage that ricocheted through three generations. Today, one in 20 children in the zone is born with birth defects, and sheep graze in radioactive bomb craters, where herders “protect” themselves with vodka.
Dr. Toleukhan Nurmagambetov, head of the local maternity clinic, takes us to a museum of bottled fetuses with monstrous deformities (such as a cyclops eye), then to an orphanage of children with Down’s syndrome and missing limbs…….. http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/29/the-sad-story-of-nim/
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