India’s coastline at risk from its nuclear power programme
‘N-power plan will turn coastline into disaster zone’ The Times of India, Apr 4, 2011 NEW DELHI: Former Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) chairman A Gopalakrishnan has raised alarm over the government’s nuclear power programme based on imported reactors, saying it would turn India’s entire coastline into a disaster zone in waiting.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Gopalakrishnan argued that Department of Atomic Energy’s projection of 6,55,000 MW nuclear power generation capacity by 2050 — with additional fast-breeder reactors that would use plutonium from the imported plants — would mean 655 nuclear power reactors each of 1,000 MW capacity.
Gopalakrishnan said, “These would be stringed along a total coastline of about 6,000 km the country has — about 109 six-reactor nuclear parks, spaced along the coast every 55 km apart”.
He said the reactors being imported were new types, which foreigners had no experience of…
‘N-power plan will turn coastline into disaster zone’ – The Times of India
The anger of evacuated Japanese citizens against nuclear company
In Japan, evacuees direct anger at nuclear-plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. The Washington Post By Andrew Higgins, April 3, TAMURA, JAPAN — When the boss of Tokyo Electric Power Co. checked into a Tokyo hospital last week with high blood pressure, he didn’t get any sympathy from Tomishige Maruzoi. “High blood pressure? We’ve all got high blood pressure,” said Maruzoi, a 57-year-old construction worker who now sleeps on a piece of cardboard in a gymnasium. “I feel nothing but anger.”
Maruzoi fled his home, less than two miles from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, on March 12. In a fit of fury and despair, he decided last week to return and see for himself the havoc wrought by Tokyo Electric, known as Tepco….He stayed for less than an hour, just long enough to inspect his property, grab some clothes — and dig up some soil from his garden.He wrapped the earth in plastic and set off back to Tamura,….Back in the gymnasium, Maruzoi had the soil tested at a radiation screening center. The Geiger counter flashed an alarm. Maruzoi quickly got rid of his contaminated sod. He also ditched all hope of returning to Okuma to live anytime soon.“I wish I could go back, but realistically it will not be possible for 20 or 30 years,”….. In Japan, evacuees direct anger at nuclear-plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. – The Washington Post
France’s nuclear plant owners not liable for accident costs
Whereas nuclear power plants are liable under German regulations for damages of up to 2.5 billion euros, for example, those in France can be found only liable for just 91.5 million.
“It is unfair that a nuclear power plant only needs to insure itself against a fraction of its risks.” Green European MP Claude Turmes told the business magazine.
Pressure rising on Europe’s nuclear plant owners Reuters Apr 3, 2011 “….. FATAL EXPANSION Separately, WirtschaftsWoche reported Oettinger plans to talk to nuclear power plant operators and insurers in Brussels on Tuesday about harmonising liabilities across the EU, seen as an implicit subsidy for operators in certain countries. Continue reading
Earthquake danger to Iran’s nuclear plant
Iran is one of the most seismic countries in the word. The Islamic Republic experiences at least one slight earthquake every day and even moderate earthquakes have killed thousands of people in more remote areas. Iran is surrounded by tectonically active zones and has experienced several heavy earthquakes in the recent years striking all sides of the country…..Surprisingly little attention is paid by scholars and the media to how earthquakes could possibly affect Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Earthquakes: Iran not Safe for Nuclear Energy, Global Arab Network |Gerlinde Gerber, 4 April 11, “………As the world anxiously looks to the nuclear reactors in Japan, with a broken down cooling system following an earthquake and tsunami, the dangers and vulnerabilities of nuclear energy production once again come to mind. A country, which is equally prone to earthquakes like Japan, is Iran……. Continue reading
50 prominent Indians call for moratorium on nuclear projects
Are India and Germany beginning to show the way for other democracies around the world? The nuclear moratorium issue appears to be fast becoming the clarion call of our times.
“I” for India comes after “G” for Germany. Energy Collective 4 April 11, A top Indian scientist and government advisor, backed by more than 50 prominent figures, has called for a moratorium on all future nuclear projects following the nuclear crisis in tsunami-hit Japan. Continue reading
At UN meeting, call for renewable energy
Activists call for renewable energy at UN meeting (AP) Google news, 4 April 11, BANGKOK — Citing the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, environmental activists at a U.N. meeting Sunday urged bolder steps to tap renewable energy so the world doesn’t have to choose between the dangers of nuclear power and the ravages of climate change. The call came at the opening of the six-day meeting aimed at implementing resolutions tabled at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December.
Senior officials from governments and international organizations will already be playing some catch-up as deadlines — including one for the formation of a multibillion fund to help developing nations obtain clean-energy technology — have been missed along a roadmap leading to another climate summit at the end of the year in Durban, South Africa…….
One of the issues taken up in Bangkok will be the formation of the Green Climate Fund, which is to aid developing nations obtain clean-energy technology. Governments have agreed to mobilize $100 billion a year, starting in 2020, but a “transition committee” to design the fund, which was to have been formed last month, is still being discussed along with exactly how the money will be raised…….The Associated Press: Activists call for renewable energy at UN meeting
People power can once again stop the nuclear industry
Society’s energy “needs” (“wants” being the more operative word) exist on one side of the scales, and society’s concern for preventing the fouling of the only nest we have is on the other. It is up to us, the people, to educate ourselves and ensure rational protections. If we leave it to the money people, the profiteers — well, we’ve seen what Wall Street’s greed can do to our economy. Short-sighted greed and arrogance will also wreck our living planet, if left to run free……..The energy-consuming public will continue to hear from industry promoters and the scientists and engineers whose work is funded by them that the latest designs are foolproof
Right back on the nuclear fool cycle Stay informed about nuclear dangers because the lessons are always lost on politicians and the industry By Vip Short The Register-Guard 4 Aprl 11 Ah, lesson learned — until repeated. Here we are again at the next climactic moment of what may someday be called the nuclear fool cycle. While President Obama has recently renewed his call for more nuclear power plants, The Register-Guard wisely points to the many inherent and unsolved dangers in a March 15 editorial, “Nuclear failure in Japan.” Continue reading
Will the Nuclear Regulatory Commission relicense dangerous Pilgrim Nuclear Plant?
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) considers the Pilgrim plant the second most dangerous of America’s 104 ancient reactors…..Pilgrim has been cited for violations numerous times by the NRC, but usually just gets a slap on the wrist…….The NRC has relicensed over 50 old nuclear plants, and turned none down. So is Pilgrim’s application just a pro forma exercise
The Plymoushima Nuclear Plant, Cape Cod Today, Richard C. Bartlett, 3 April 11, The Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station in Plymouth will be up for license renewal next year, 40 years after its 1972 start-up. It’s the same GE Mark I design as two of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nukes we have been reading about for nearly a month. Japan is far more vulnerable to earthquakes than we are, but Chernobyl and Three Mile Island remind us disasters are not dependent on shifting tectonic plates. Continue reading
India’s Parliament and people kept in the dark, as USA sells nuclear to India
Among the US objectives were the desire ……to revive the moribund US nuclear industry by selling US-design nuclear reactors to India……US and Indian corporate sectors and their federations interested in profiteering from the Indian nuclear power business,….This collective also successfully kept Parliament and the people of India deliberately in the dark throughout this decision-making process. And all this is still continuing under cover of the Official Secrets Act, which is unnecessarily being applied to this civilian nuclear power sector, mainly to hush up the irrational policy decisions and the questionable financial deals between the government and corporate business houses.
Abandon the import of nuclear reactors: DNA , Dr A Gopalakrishnan Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board , Apr 4, 2011, Mumbai : The decision taken by the government to import about 40,000 MWe of Light Water Reactors (LWRs) within the next two decades, has no justifiable technical or economic basis. Continue reading
The taxpayers’ bill for nuclear wastes continues to rise
Regional plants have a bleak history of underestimating plant decommissioning costs by hundreds of millions, sometimes loading those unanticipated costs onto taxpayers and ratepayers far into the future……
“If a nuclear renaissance were to take place — if it were not just a figment or wishful thinking — we would need another Yucca Mountain every few years,”….”Independent analysis suggests that new nuclear power is more expensive than nearly every other energy source, including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal energy,” …… “Given that reality, I cannot understand why we would continue to pour massive taxpayer subsidies into nuclear power.”.
Taxpayers, utility ratepayers face mounting nuclear bills, Maggie Mulvihill, Shay Totten and Matt Porter, New England Center for Investigative Reporting, April 2, 2011Over three decades, New England’s electricity consumers and nuclear plant owners have poured close to $1 billion into a federal nuclear-waste storage fund, holding up their end of a 1982 deal with the federal government to finance the permanent storage of thousands of tons of spent fuel from the region’s reactors. Continue reading
Chernobyl’s radioactive poisoning continuing in Ukraine
Cs-137 “represents a long-term threat to the public’s health particularly for people who consume this food on a daily basis,” Greenpeace scientist Iryna Labunska told a briefing.
The Greenpeace report was especially critical of the Ukrainian government for suspending regular monitoring of food contamination from Chernobyl two years ago.
Greenpeace finds milk, berries still contaminated from Chernobyl , Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News Reuters, Kiev April 3, 2011 Greenpeace finds milk, berries still contaminated from Chernobyl Milk and other staples like mushrooms and berries are still contaminated in parts of Ukraine by radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, 25 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Greenpeace said on Sunday. Continue reading
Europe’s nuclear plant owners face big obstacles
Pressure rising on Europe’s nuclear plant owners Reuters Apr 3, 2011
Some reactors likely to fail stress test – EU’s Oettinger
* EU plans crackdown on low insurance costs – magazine
* Germany can do without nuclear power before 2020 -Greens
By Christiaan Hetzner BERLIN, April 3 (Reuters) – Some of Europe’s 143 nuclear reactors are likely to fail a test simulating terrorist attacks, an EU Commissioner said, and others will likely see insurance bills soar as politicians try to tighten regulations. Continue reading
Kenyan Adnan Z. Ameen first Director General of IRENA
Irena elects Kenyan as first director general, gulfnews , 4 April 11, Adnan Z. Ameen won two thirds of the votes in an election at a meeting Dubai: Adnan Z. Ameen will become the first permanent director-general of International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena),Ihas learnt.
Ameen, a Kenyan national, won two thirds of the votes in an election at a meeting held on Sunday night in the capital, the diplomats who attended the meeting told Gulf News….. gulfnews : Irena elects Kenyan as first director general
New York protest for closure of Indian Point Nuclear plant
NYC protest over Indian Point Nuclear Plant | 7online.com, 3 April 11 UNION SQUARE (WABC) –– In a show of solidarity with the victims in Japan, dozens of people rallied on Saturday in Union Square.In the wake of the problems with Japan’s nuclear power plants, anti-nuclear protestors are calling for the closure of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant here. New York City is just 24 miles downwind of Indian Point and in the event of a nuclear accident protestors say it is impossible to evacuate 10 million people. The demonstrators believe nuclear power is inherently unsafe and should be replaced with renewable sources of energy.
NYC protest over Indian Point Nuclear Plant | 7online.com
Fukushima facility “awash with radioactive saltwater”
The battle to cool overheated reactors and avoid dangerous meltdowns of the highly radioactive fuel rods has seen workers hose saltwater into reactors, but this has left the facility awash with contaminated saltwater, preventing workers getting closer to the reactors……
Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks, Daily Times, 4 April 11, TOKYO: Japan’s government warned on Sunday it may take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami, three weeks ago, as more bodies were recovered in devastated areas of northeast Japan. Continue reading
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