Nuclear Power and The Tragedy of the Commons – theme for June
There’s not much “commons” left, in this so much privatised world. “Common land” is disappearing fast, and they haven’t yet found out how to privatise the air, the clouds, and the oceans. So, the air, the rain and the oceans are fair game- for exploiting, and for using as endless rubbish dumps.
image from http://kirbyandfriends.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/underwater_light_and_bubbles_by_della_stock.jpg
With the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster the focus at present is on the radioactive pollution of the seas.
How Japan buys the people on nuclear power
How Japan Buys Support For Nuclear Power By Sam Biddle on June 1, 2011 There are 54 nuclear reactors in Japan. That’s about half the number in the US – for a country 1/25th the size. So how did nuclear become massive on a tiny island? Money, the NYT reports. Buying the people. Continue reading
Latest on Fukushima, and USA nuclear waste worries
Additional concerns in the U.S. this week include the safety of spent fuel pools and reactor venting systems. A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies charges that we are at greater risk than Japan of an accident occurring in fuel pools due to overcrowding beyond design capacity. It has also surfaced that engineers warned the NRC of design flaws in venting systems 5 years ago, with little action taken.
Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 2 June Clean Energy.org. France’s Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety recommends that an additional 70,000 people be evacuated from areas outside the already established 20 km zone, which includes 10,000 children. These figures are based on radiation data collected by U.S. and Japanese radiation monitors. Continue reading
Japanese parents sceptical over lack of action on radiation levels in schools
School radiation cleanup slammed, The Japan Times Online, 3 June 11 Parents flunk ministry over soil-removal policy shift Kyodo Despite the education ministry’s recent move to set a new nonbinding target to reduce the radiation children in Fukushima Prefecture are exposed to at schools, experts, local educators and parents don’t feel reassured. Continue reading
Radiation worries keep opera stars out of Japan tour
Met Opera Stars Drop Out of Japan Tour On Radiation Fears — WSJ* May 31, 2011, “…….“She (Ms. Netrebko) explained that she lived in Russia during Chernobyl and that many of her friends and relatives had contracted cancer and that she felt this was leaning very heavily on her,” said Mr. Gelb about the soprano’s reasoning at a news conference in Japan on Tuesday, referencing the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. “When she actually thought about coming here, when it came down to the wire of getting on a plane she just couldn’t face making that decision.”
Met Opera Stars Drop Out of Japan Tour On Raditation Fears – Speakeasy – WSJ
Problems in France’s plan for 100,000 years of nuclear waste storage
“No geologist can guarantee that there will never be water infiltration in the places intended for storage,”
Europeans Pursue Labyrinths of Nuclear Waste, NYTimes.com, By SUE LANDAU, June 2, 2011 BURE, FRANCE —”…….Gérald Ouzounian, the international director at Andra, said that research had found that this hard clay had a water content of just 15 percent, and that water remained in the clay rather than moving through it. This is critical for the repository, because it must prevent radioactivity seeping out into groundwater and contaminating soil, plants, animals, and ultimately, human beings. Continue reading
Images of Fukushima – fatigue of nuclear workers
PhotoBlog – Doctor describes fatigue of workers at Fukushima nuclear plan, PhotoBlog, David R Arnott 3 June 11, Newly released photographs taken by a doctor who has examined workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant show the difficult living conditions they have endured while battling to bring the situation under control.
ased June 2 by industrial medical doctor Takeshi Tanigawa, who examined the workers. The Japan Times reported that Ehime University professor Takeshi Tanigawa had visited the workers twice since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a series of meltdowns at the plant. He warned that there was an increased risk of accidents because the workers had suffered from chronic sleep deprivation and fatigue, the paper said.
Tanigawa also warned that workers were at risk of developing PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) due to what they had been through in the early days of the disaster, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. See more images of the disaster in our slideshow and more pictures related to Fukushima on PhotoBlog. PhotoBlog – Doctor describes fatigue of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant
IAEA ‘s focus is on commercial benefit of rare earth plant, not on safety
‘There’s no safe radiation level’, FreeMalaysia Today Tashny Sukumaran, June 2, 2011 The IAEA standards are not based on what is safe but how great the benefit, said CAP after a meeting with the panel. PUTRAJAYA: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today admitted there is no such thing as “safe” levels of radiation.
However , it told the Consumer Association of Penang that some radiation levels could be justified.
The nine-member IAEA panel is here to gauge the safety of the Lynas rare earth refinery in Kuantan. Continue reading
Confidence building in USA’s anti nuclear movement
“If Germany can do it, the US can do it. We have much better renewable energy resources than Germany,”
US anti-nuclear campaign buoyed by German opt-out Expatica.com 2 June 11, US anti-nuclear campaigners are hoping German Chancellor Angela Merkel will try to persuade President Barack Obama to follow in Berlin’s footsteps and drop plans for new atomic power stations.
The German proposals, hammered out by Merkel’s ruling coalition, will see the country shutter all 17 of its nuclear reactors, eight of which are currently off the electricity grid, by 2022.
Merkel, who will hold White House talks here next week, said Monday that Germany could prove to “be a trailblazer for a new age of renewable energy sources.” Continue reading
Uranium producers face a very uncertain future
investors may wonder whether Germany could be the first of many to pull the plug on nuclear projects. John Meyer, a commodities analyst at Fairfax, said: ‘The German pronouncement over the weekend was surprising and extraordinary and is a huge blow to the nuclear industry.’ He added: ‘If other countries follow Germany then the nuclear expansion forecast by uranium producers may be largely limited to the US and China
Geiger Counter: nuclear power vs nuclear peril, CityWire Money — by Rob Mackinlay Jun 02, 2011 Germany’s plans to ditch nuclear power this week failed to unnerve uranium investors but uranium focused investment trust Geiger Counter may become a power or a peril in an investor’s portfolio. Continue reading
France’s nuclear wastes must be secured for over 100,000 years
The repositories are supposed to remain hermetically sealed for at least 100,000 years — roughly the length of time human beings have existed on Earth
Europeans Pursue Labyrinths of Nuclear Waste, NYTimes.com, By SUE LANDAU : June 2, 2011 BURE, FRANCE — Reached by narrow roads that meander through picturesque villages, a high-tech laboratory sits in a corner of France so remote that until construction started on it a decade ago, the local inn was not connected to the electricity grid.
Beneath a plateau surrounded by fields of colza and wheat, the underground laboratory, located near the village of Bure, in the eastern French region of Lorraine, is run by the Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs, or Andra, the national authority charged with the safe disposal of nuclear waste. Continue reading
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