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Renewable Energy World Africa gearing up for Exhibition 2012

Renewable Energy World Africa 2012 launches Website and announces new Sponsor Renewable Energy World Africa Conference and Exhibition 2012, taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 6-8 November 2012, have launched their eagerly anticipated website at www.renewableenergyworldafrica.com.

Environmental Expert.com. 24 feb12, The Renewable Energy World Africa website contains important information with regards to exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, travel and accommodation for the event, registration prices and will in time contain the preliminary conference programme, as well as the latest industry news and information on Renewable Energy World Africa as a whole.

Renewable Energy World Africa is co-located with the inaugural POWER-GEN Africa and will include a dedicated conference stream featuring three days of presentations and debate about the strategic challenges and technical solutions for expanding renewable energy power generation across sub-Saharan Africa. Exhibitors will also have a dedicated Renewable Energy World Africa pavilion on the show floor which will be a focus of expertise and global technological excellence in the green energy sector…..  http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/renewable-energy-world-africa-2012-launches-website-and-announces-new-sponsor-282593

February 25, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Obama promised to renew Renewable Energy Tax Credits

If the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit is renewed, the renewable energy investments in the U.S. will continue to grow – and promote green jobs growth as well.

Green Jobs: Obama to Renew Renewable Energy Tax Credits  Green Buildings. com Advice provided by: Claire Moloney, LEED Green Associate, Cornell University 24 Feb 12,  As I reported in my most recent article, “Green Jobs: Renewable Energy Stocks, Investments“, renewable energy stocks showed rapid growth in early 2012. This growth followed a major renewable energy milestone – a total of $1 trillion in global clean energy investments to date in late 2012. Continue reading →

February 25, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Japan’s nuclear recycling plant, a probable failure

“an 80 to 90 percent chance of the [nuclear recycling] plant being a failure”

even if Rokkasho gets up and running, two problems remain: it alone cannot recycle enough fuel to stop the waste mounting up, and there is still the issue of burying the vitrified waste permanently in a crowded, quake-prone country.

Beyond Fukushima Japan faces deeper nuclear concerns, Vancouver Sun, By RISA MAEDA, Reuters February 24, 2012 TOKYO – On a hillside in northern Japan, wind turbines slice through the cold air, mocking efforts at a nearby industrial complex to shore up the future of the demoralised nuclear power industry.

The wind-power farm at Rokkasho has sprung up close to Japan’s first nuclear reprocessing plant, a Lego-like complex of windowless buildings and steel towers, which was supposed to have started up 15 years ago but is only now nearing completion.

Dogged by persistent technical problems, it is designed to recycle spent nuclear fuel and partly address a glaring weakness in Japan’s bid to restore confidence in the industry, shredded last year when a quake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi power station to the south, triggering radioactive leaks and mass evacuations.
But the Rokkasho project is too little, too late, according to critics who say Japan is running so short of nuclear-waste storage that the entire industry risks shutdown within the next two decades unless a solution is found.

“You don’t build a house without a toilet,” said Jitsuro Terashima, president of the Japan Research Institute think tank and member of an expert panel advising the national government on energy policy after the Fukushima disaster….
Long-term storage of highly radioactive waste is a problem common to all nuclear-powered nations, including the United States, but experts say Japan’s unstable geology and densely populated terrain mean that its challenges are far bigger. Continue reading →

February 25, 2012 Posted by | Japan, reprocessing | Leave a comment

Concern in UK over nuclear regulator paid through private company

Nuclear regulator paid through private firm will not have contract renewed Paul Brown’s friends accuse ministers of panicking after revelations about Student Loans boss’s tax arrangements Rajeev Syal guardian.co.uk,  24 February 2012  One of Britain’s leading nuclear regulators will not have his contract renewed after he was identified as receiving payment through a private company rather than the staff payroll.

Paul Brown is the chief operating officer of the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and was a senior director at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)…. The ONR, an agency of the HSE, is responsible for the regulation of the UK’s nuclear sector. It must also oversee new safeguards being drawn up after the Fukushima meltdown triggered by the earthquake in
Japan last year. Continue reading →

February 25, 2012 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK | Leave a comment

Exposure to radiation by workers in Finalnd

Outokumpu workers exposed to radiation   http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFL5E8DO6SX20120224

 * Four Outokumpu workers exposed to radiation

* One worker’s exposure “material safety risk”

* Radiation should not have adverse health effects

* Recycled steel had contained americium (Adds detail) Continue reading →

February 25, 2012 Posted by | Finland, incidents | Leave a comment

Kazakhstan says Japan will continue to buy its uranium

Japan to Purchase Contracted Kazakh Uranium, Kazatomprom Says Bloomberg,  By Nariman Gizitdinov and Yuriy Humber – Feb 23, 2012 Kazatomprom (KZAP), the state nuclear company in the world’s biggest uranium-producing nation, said its Japanese customers will take delivery of the fuel they agreed to buy even as the country idles its atomic stations.

The supply contracts with Japan haven’t changed, Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Shkolnik told reporters in Almaty, Kazakhstan, today without identifying the buyers…..
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-24/japan-to-purchase-contracted-kazakh-uranium-kazatomprom-says.html

February 25, 2012 Posted by | business and costs, Kazakhstan, Uranium | Leave a comment

Dick Smith calls the bluff on new nuclear technology scheme

“I predict that Mr Rossi will delay and delay in producing machines or in getting a proper scientific test done, while behind the scenes more and more people will be investing. “

Dick Smith: “Rossi E-CAT … too fantastic to be true” Forbes, Mark Gibbs, 24 Feb 12, Recently Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith offerred Andrea Rossi $1,000,000 if he could prove that Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) cold fusion (or Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) system actually works as claimed. Rossi immediately turned down the challenge. Continue reading →

February 25, 2012 Posted by | spinbuster | Leave a comment

Japan’s intractable nuclear waste problem, and recycling is not the answer

Japan’s recycling policy is not only behind schedule, it is very expensive: according to official estimates, it would cost a staggering 19 trillion yen ($245 billion) to re-use waste reprocessed at Rokkasho over 40 years.

Beyond Fukushima Japan faces deeper nuclear concerns Vancouver Sun, By RISA MAEDA, Reuters February 24, 2012 TOKYO – On a hillside in northern Japan, wind turbines slice through the cold air, mocking efforts at a nearby industrial complex to shore up the future of the demoralised nuclear power industry.

The wind-power farm at Rokkasho has sprung up close to Japan’s first nuclear reprocessing plant, a Lego-like complex of windowless buildings and steel towers, which was supposed to have started up 15 years ago but is only now nearing completion.

Dogged by persistent technical problems, it is designed to recycle spent nuclear fuel and partly address a glaring weakness in Japan’s bid to restore confidence in the industry, shredded last year when a quake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi power station to the south, triggering radioactive leaks and mass evacuations.

But the Rokkasho project is too little, too late, according to critics who say Japan is running so short of nuclear-waste storage that the entire industry risks shutdown within the next two decades unless a solution is found.

“You don’t build a house without a toilet,” said Jitsuro Terashima, president of the Japan Research Institute think tank and member of an expert panel advising the national government on energy policy after the Fukushima disaster…. Continue reading →

February 25, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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