No Nuclear is Safe Nuclear
World is learning: No nuclear is safe nuclear, The Spec.com , Ray Cunnington , Aug 03 2011 Saturday observance of Hiroshima bombing reflects on atomic weapons and atomic power Suddenly, old dangers become new again. As South African activist and retired Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu says: “The nuclear power crisis in Japan’s Fukushima power plant has served as a dreadful reminder that events thought unlikely can and do happen. But it must not take another Hiroshima or Nagasaki … before (some leaders) finally wake up and recognize the urgent necessity of nuclear disarmament.”
Worldwide, many powerful movements are calling for the total abolition of nuclear weapons. But it would seem that nuclear catastrophes, through accident, miscalculation or terrorism, cannot be eliminated without recognizing that nuclear power reactors have a close connection to atomic weapons. Continue reading
Highest radiation reading possible now stops workers entering Fukushima nuclear reactor 1
The latest reading was taken on the second floor of the No. 1 reactor building and will stop workers entering the area… the highest the Geiger counters used were capable of reading, indicating the level could have been higher,
…….Radioactive soil in pockets of areas outside the exclusion zone around the plant have reached the same level as in Chernobyl following a reactor explosion in the former Soviet Union, the report said….
Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Bloomberg By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Kari Lundgren – Aug 2, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported its second deadly radiation reading in as many days at its wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo.
The utility known as Tepco said yesterday it detected 5 sieverts of radiation per hour in the No. 1 reactor building. On Aug. 1 in another area it recorded radiation of 10 sieverts per hour, enough to kill a person “within a few weeks” after a single exposure, according to theWorld Nuclear Association. Continue reading
Japan’s elderly retired nuclear workers volunteer to clean up nuclear radiation
“Older people taking the risk is much less damaging to our society than asking the younger generation following us to take it,” Dr. Shiotani says, adding bluntly, because we are nearer the end of our lives anyway…..
Some 3,000 people are working at the Fukushima site at the moment, but most of them are unskilled laborers, and all have to be regularly relieved in order to avoid excessive exposure to radiation. Several are reported to have absorbed more than the legal limit already. And about 9,000 workers have been involved in the four-month operation to stabilize the plant…..
Fukushima’s nuclear cauldron: Retirees who want to go in, Christian Science Monitor, By Peter Ford, Staff writer / August 3, 2011, Tokyo Fukushima’s radiation has hit deadly levels for the second day, according to Tepco, making efforts to bring the nuclear plant under control difficult. Japan’s retired skilled laborers say they are ready to relieve younger workers.
Nothing makes Nobuhiro Shiotani angrier than to be called a “kamikaze.” Continue reading
USA Air Force to discontinue religious justification for nuclear war
In addition to using Jesus to justify nuclear war, the course also referenced German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun as an authority on the morality of nuclear war. A questionable reference since Von Braun was once a member of the Nazi Party and used Jews imprisoned in concentration camps to build V-2 rockets for Hitler’s Third Reich.
Secular victory: Air Force ends Bible study for nuclear launch officers, Michael Stone, Humanist Examiner, August 3, 2011 In a victory for secular America and the U.S. Constitution, the United States Air Force has suspended a Bible based, Christian themed course mandated for all nuclear launch officers. Continue reading
No more MOX plutonium fuel to be processed at Sellafield
UK Plutonium-Processing Plant to Close, 9 News. 4 Aug 11, A British nuclear agency says the country’s only plutonium-processing plant will be closed in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said on Wednesday the “risk profile” of its Sellafield mixed oxide fuel plant had changed following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant….environmental campaigners say the plant’s closure highlights what they describe as the folly of the country’s nuclear industry. The recycled nuclear fuel, referred to as MOX, was also used at the Fukushima plant.http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8281227/uk-plutonium-processing-plant-to-close
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Setsuden – Japan finds an nuclear power replacement that might change the world
setsuden – the Japanese word for power conservation…..As setsuni continues to pare back the power requirements of the Japanese economy, maybe the country won’t need the power from the 54 reactors that it might mothball by next year.
If so, setsuden isn’t just an energy solution for Japan..
Setsuden poised to replace nuclear power in Japan, JEFF RUBIN. Globe and Mail, August 3, 2011 Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was recently quoted as seeing the country as a nuclear-free nation. But unlike similar pronouncements from Germany, which pledges to be nuclear-free by 2022, Japan may become nuclear free literally within a year. Continue reading
Nuclear reprocessing plant closes down
Globally, the shutdown leaves just one other commercial MOX facility operating globally: the French MELOX plant located in Gard.
UK closes key nuclear reprocessing plant – Nature News Blog August 03, 2011 Today the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced the closure of the Mixed Oxide fuel fabrication facility at Sellafield. “The reason for this is directly related to the tragic events in Japan and its ongoing impact on the power markets,” Tony Fountain, the decommissioning authority’s CEO, said in a prepared statement. Continue reading
Uranium company abandons acid leach plan mining in Australian National Park
Bad news for uranium sector, good news for Kakadu National Park, Scott Ludlam, August 4th, 2011. The Australian Greens today welcomed the news Energy Resources Australia have abandoned plans to introduce acid heap leaching at the Ranger Uranium Mine within Kakadu National Park.
Senator Scott Ludlam said the decision by ERA – majority owned by Rio Tinto – to ditch the plan at their board meeting yesterday was welcome news, and casts a long shadow over the viability of the controversial mine.
“The plan to build a heap leach plant on the Ranger lease was opposed by\Traditional Owners, shareholders, business analysts, environmental advocates and mining experts. This is a win for good sense. “Ranger Uranium Mine has been an ongoing debacle with water seepage ana history of accidents. The Mirarr people – Traditional Owners of the site – and the broader Australian community want Kakadu protected. Ultimately the best way to do that will be the orderly shut-down of the uranium industry,” said Senator Ludlam.
Last year the Office of the Supervising Scientist told a Senate estimates hearing that contaminated water seeping from the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park had a uranium concentration about 5,400 times the normal level. The environmental regulator told the hearing that about 100,000 litres of water was seeping from the tailings dam every day.
Fears of radioactive rice in Japan
Japanese rice crops threatened by radiation. Smart Planet, By David Worthington | August 1, 2011, Local authorities in Japan are working to determine whether the country’s traditional staple crop is contaminated with unsafe levels of radioactive cesium. Continue reading
Ontario political party promising energy efficiency, ending funds for nuclear power
NDP Look Past Nuclear In Energy Plan. Radio 1010 Newstalk By: Katie Franzios · 8/3/2011 The Ontario NDP plan on laying down $980 million over four years for retrofit programs, if elected.
She says they won’t be spending any extra money to provide these programs but will use the money set aside for Darlington nuclear projects. Horwath says they would be put on hold if elected, so the NDP could review them…
Japanese govt passes law to prop up TEPCO company
Japan Passes Law Supporting Stricken Nuclear Plant’s Operator, NYT 3 Aug 11, By HIROKO TABUCHI, TOKYO — Japan’s Parliament passed a law on Wednesday that will allow the use of public funds to shore up the company operating thecrippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and help it pay what is expected to amount to billions of dollars in compensation claims.
The law creates a state-backed fund that will pay damages to victims of the disaster at the plant, where three reactors melted down and spewed radiation after cooling systems were lost in the March tsunami and quake. The government will initially pay nearly $26 billion into the fund, Banri Kaieda, the trade minister, told lawmakers on Tuesday….http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/world/asia/04japan.html
Nuclear waste company fined for violation, but can leave the waste there anyway
EnergySolutions identifies violation and pays fine, Examiner.com. Shad Engkilterra , August 3, 2011 -“……EnergySolutions has paid an $80,000 fine, which meets the statutory limit that can be imposed according to Rusty Lundberg, DRC director.
EnergySolutions will not be required to remove the non-Class A waste…. http://www.examiner.com/community-activism-in-salt-lake-city/energysolutions-identifies-violation-and-pays-fine
How to hide highly radioactive waste – “down blending”
“Blenced nuclear wastes” – a way to get around restrictions on toxic wastes
But HEAL said the prospect of more blended waste should be the subject of a more focused study of the Tooele County site to address the long-term safety and health questions raised by federal regulators and the state Radiation Control Board. In addition, said Thomas, blending will allow the company and its customers, in effect, to bury waste more hazardous than the Class A waste currently allowed in the state.
“It circumvents the state’s ban on Class B and C waste, which has been in place for years,” said Thomas.
He added that one analysis estimated the radioactivity at the EnergySolutions site would increase eight-fold if blended waste is permitted… http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52305223-90/waste-blended-radiation-state.html.csp
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