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Where Occupy & No Nukes merge & win!!!,

In the United States, the key is to deny the nuclear industry the federal funding without which it can’t build new reactors. …

Atomic energy is, after all, a means of centralizing power in corporate hands. But there is only so far the one-percenters can ride a dead horse, especially if it’s radioactive. ..

 we want to guarantee our energy supply—even if it’s driven by the wind and sun—is controlled by the community, not the corporations. 

And here is where Occupy/No Nukes can jump the power of democracy to a whole new level. 

Where Occupy & No Nukes merge & win!!!, Harvey Wasserman October 23, 2011
The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing—and saving—the world.  Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed.

A long-term agenda seems to be emerging: social justice, racial and gender equality, ecological survival, true democracy, an end to war, and so much more. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power,” said Jimi Hendrix, “the world will know peace.”

Such a moment must come now in the nick of time, as the corporate ways of greed and violence pitch us to the precipice of self-extinction.  At that edge sits a sinister technology, a poisoned cancerous power that continues to harm us all even as 3 of its cores melt and spew at Fukushima.

Atomic energy, the so-called “Peaceful Atom”, has failed on all fronts.  Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | politics, USA | Leave a comment

Empowering Japanese people with knowledge about nuclear radiation

Journalists must empower those who have to stay near Fukushima plant (Part 4), Mainichi Daily News, 25 Oct 11  Eight days after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant began to unfold, samples of spinach and raw milk were found to be contaminated with radioactive iodine in amounts exceeding the provisional permissible amount set by the Food Sanitation Act.

Government officials have tried to underplay the dangers with messages such as, “It’s all right as long as you’re not eating 4,200 servings of spinach,” and “Even drinking 1 liter of milk every day will not cause any problems.”

However, the problem boils down to how much radiation we’re exposed to at the dinner table. Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | environment, Japan | Leave a comment

Tokai village – the first to get nuclear power, the first to renounce it?

“Nuclear power plants bring in money before they’re even built,” he says, noting their financial lure. “We can’t allow a government policy that mocks the countryside (by trying to win them over with money.) It’s an evil policy, the same as colonialism.

Mayor of Japan’s home of nuclear power hoping to make village a different kind of ‘first’, Mainichi Daily News, Japan October 23, 2011 Amid the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, the mayor of the Ibaraki Prefecture village of Tokai, the birthplace of Japanese nuclear power, is calling for the village’s nuclear reactors to be decommissioned. Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | incidents | Leave a comment

Florida residents will fund nuclear power’s future, or lack of future!

 

 

the users pay upfront, make the investment and yet somehow the shareholders end up getting the profits   

 FPL rates will rise to pay for nuclear projects, State utility regulators rejected arguments from consumer advocates and agreed to allow utility companies to charge customers so they can invest in plans for nuclear power. MIAMI HERALD, BY MARY ELLEN KLAS, TALLAHASSEE , 24 oct 11, — Florida Power & Light got the go-ahead Monday to tack a new charge to the average household electric bill that will go towards investing in nuclear energy — even if the utility never ends up building any new nuclear power plants. Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | business and costs, politics, USA | Leave a comment

Duqu – a new computer worm hacking into classified nuclear information

 

 

 The Duqu worm was designed primarily to steal technical documents, especially to those relating to nuclear power plants and industrial controls systems by masquerading as an image file. Security experts have warned of a similar “Stuxnet 2” attack since Duqu was discovered.      

 Japanese military contractor hacked, Foreign Policy,  By Kedar Pavgi , October 24, 2011  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a Japanese military contractor, confirmed today that a hacking incident from this past August released confidential information regarding classified warplanes and nuclear power plants. Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties, technology | Leave a comment

Concern for workers exposed to radioactive uranium

Answers sought on uranium at Bethlehem site, Buffalo Business First, October 19, 2011 Three federal lawmakers are calling on health officials to continue investigating working conditions that existed for nearly a quarter century at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna. The concern of Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo and New York Sens. Senator Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand is that workers risked their health because of the presence of radioactive uranium at the plant

The lawmakers have written to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Director John Howard to further investigate and report on the clean-up at Bethlehem Steel. The highly radioactive uranium was processed at the Lackawanna site during the Cold War. Former Bethlehem Steel workers attest that the facility where uranium was rolled was not adequately decontaminated until 1976, despite earlier company reports claiming that the plant was cleaned up in 1952, meaning hundreds of additional workers may have been exposed to dangerous residual radiation…. http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/morning_roundup/2011/10/answers-sought-on-uranium-at-bethlehem.html

October 25, 2011 Posted by | health, USA | Leave a comment

The end of one nasty nuclear relic of the cold war

The America’s nuclear arsenal remains enormous; the U.S. will still have 1,500 atomic weapons, by the time the latest U.S.-Russia nuke treaty runs its course. But with the end of the B-53 comes a belated end to a Cold War relic.

Last Nuclear ‘Monster Weapon’ Gets Dismantled, Wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman , October 24, 2011   In the 1960s, the skies above the United States were patrolled by agents of the apocalypse. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses circled the North American continent, 24 hours a day, cradling two megabombs in their bellies. Those B-53 bombs each weighed 10,000 pounds. Were one to drop on the White House, a nine-megaton yield would destroy all life out into suburban Maryland and Virginia.

It was the ultimate Cold War weapon, the one that Major Kong would have ridden into Armageddon at the end of Dr. Strangelove. And on Tuesday, it will no longer exist. Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Germany putting serious money into renewable energy

Germany sets aside $130 billion for renewable energy, Online Opinion, By John Daly -, 24 October 2011 German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May that Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy and Europe’s biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they currently produce about 28 percent of the country’s electricity.

Underlining the government’s seriousness in changing the country’s energy matrix, Germany’s Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (German Development Bank) is to underwrite renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in Germany with $137.3 billion over the next five years, Germany Trade and Invest reported. Overall, the German government’s 6th Energy Research Program has made an extraordinary $274.6 billion available for joint funding initiatives in energy storage research over the next three years. Continue reading →

October 25, 2011 Posted by | Germany, politics, renewable | Leave a comment