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Security violations at facility for testing laser uranium enrichment technology

NRC fines GE-Hitachi $45K over NC nuke test site, October 21, 2011 Bloomberg By EMERY P. DALESIO,  RALEIGH, N.C. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has fined GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy $45,000 for multiple security violations at a North Carolina facility using classified technology to test whether lasers can be used to enrich uranium. Continue reading →

October 24, 2011 Posted by | safety, secrets,lies and civil liberties, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

Florida consumers, led by mayors, oppose nuclear power companies’ bailout

Fla. Mayors Oppose Nuclear “Cost Recovery” Bailout Why the Outrage? Florida Ratepayers Would Have To Pay Additional Hundreds of Millions of Dollars In Advance for New Nuclear Reactors That May Never Be Built  Clean energy.org, Miami, Fla. (October 20, 2011) — The mayors of South Miami and Pinecrest are leading the Florida consumer opposition against the most recent cost recovery request for new nuclear power, which would allow state utilities Florida Power & Light (FPL) and Progress Energy Florida (PEF) to collect more than a third of a billion dollars from Florida families and businesses, including senior citizens, in 2012 for developing new nuclear reactors and expansion of existing nuclear plants.   Continue reading →

October 24, 2011 Posted by | politics, USA | Leave a comment

Work halted at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project as protest hunger strike continues

Anti-nuclear protesters’ relay fast enters day 6 at Kudankulam, Net Indian, United News of India, Tirunelveli, October 23, 2011 The third phase of relay hunger strike being observed by protesters against the Kudankulam Nuclear PowerProject (KKNPP) at Idinthakarai coastal hamlet in this district of Tamil Nadu entered the sixth day today.

Hundreds of people, including women, are observing the relay hunger strike in front of St Lourdes Church, demanding that the Centre scrap the project, fearing possible nuclear radiation leakage once the plant begins power production and their displacement from their native villages.

Due to the peoples’ stir, work on the Indo-Russianproject was affected for the 11th consecutive day as scientists and technocrats were not able to reach the site. http://netindian.in/news/2011/10/23/00016703/anti-nuclear-protesters-relay-fast-enters-day-6-kudankulam

October 24, 2011 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Citizens Forum in Japan challenges nuclear “experts”

 there was widespread criticism after the Fukushima conference — which was organized by Shunichi Yamashita, the vice president of Fukushima Medical University and a “radiological health safety risk management advisor” for Fukushima prefectural government — that its participants assumed from the outset that radioactive contamination from the plant’s wrecked nuclear reactors is minimal.

Citizens’ forum queries nuclear ‘experts’, Japan Times, By TOMOKO OTAKE, 23 Oct 11  To whom does scientific debate belong? That was a central question raised by many of the 200-plus people who attended a citizens’ forum in Tokyo on Oct. 12, as they criticized the ways in which the Japanese government and radiation specialists working for it are assessing and monitoring the health effects of the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Continue reading →

October 24, 2011 Posted by | Japan, spinbuster | Leave a comment

Firecauses shutdown of Swedish nuclear reactor

Nuclear reactor stopped at NPP in Sweden due to fire, Voice of Russia, 23 Oct 11, A nuclear reactor at the nuclear power plant in the Swedish city of Oscarshamn has been temporarily shut down due to a fire, local mass media report Sunday.

The fire broke out on the night from Saturday to Sunday in machine unit of the second reactor but was quickly extinguished. According to preliminary data, the fire was caused by the leakage of lubricant.

It is not clear when the reactor will be relaunched.    http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/23/59211079.html

October 24, 2011 Posted by | incidents, Sweden | Leave a comment