Los Angeles gets radioactive rain
(includes video) Radioactive Rain Detected in Los Angeles, LA Weekly , 
.http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/04/radiation_rain_los_angeles_fukushima.php 5 April 12, Rain and mist that fell in Los Angeles last weekend was five times as radioactive as normal, environmental journalist and LA Weekly contributor Michael Collins reported on his website this week.
Collins tests samples with his own equipment and says that, on Saturday, he measured the highest proportion of radioactivity in the local environment since he began monitoring the local fallout from the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in March of 2011:
One misty rain sample collected in downtown Santa Monica was over five times normal background radiation, the highest level in Los Angeles Basin rain since this reporter began sampling and testing different media March 15, 2011, four days after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns begin.
He called the findings “shocking” and said his readings would qualify that sample as a hazardous material under the California Highway Patrol’s protocols.
Even background radiation Saturday night, which had apparently diminished significantly since his earlier sample, was 30 percent “hotter” than normal, he says. Time for a good umbrella? Read more here.
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Under pressure from TEPCO, Japan’s nuclear agency raised the radiation limit for Fukushima workers
NISA demanded the change to the radiation exposure limit after receiving a request from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)
Gov agency sought to raise Fukushima radiation exposure limit http://www.houseofjapan.com/local/gov-agency-sought-to-raise-fukushima-radiation-exposure-limit House of Japan, 5 April 12, The government’s Nuclear and Industrial
Safety Agency (NISA) demanded the health ministry raise the allowable radiation exposure limit to 350 millisieverts effectively for emergency workers trying to bring the crippled Fukushima nuclear power station under control shortly after the ministry lifted the legal
exposure limit to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts on March 14, 2011, it has been learned. Continue reading
Environmental, security, location, incentives – all add up to a big future for renewable energy
Alternative Energy Stock Outlook – April 2012, By: Zacks Equity Research April 03, 2012 “……A worldwide industry association for solar photovoltaic electricity market, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) forecasts that the power generated from solar modules in Europe could be competitive in relation to conventional forms of energy by the end of the current decade. The major solar markets under survey were Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Britain…..
A major growth area in this space is Solar Energy…… Continue reading
Windstalk – the answer to opponents of wind energy
The symbolic power of bladeless wind turbines http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/the-symbolic-power-of-bladeless-wind-turbines Critics of renewable energy are obsessed with the costs and practicalities of cleantech right this instant. Visitors to Silicon Valley in the 1970s didn’t see the iPhone coming, either. There are countless innovative new ideas blowing in the wind. Mother Nature Network, Chris Turner 6 April 12,
…….3: “Bladeless Wind Power.” The wind energy plant in question is Windstalk, a wind turbine design without spinning blades that was created as part of a competition to help provide clean energy to Masdar, the sci-fi city being built in the desert outside Abu Dhabi……
Wind power’s future – exciting innovations
The Future of Wind Power: 9 Cool Innovations http://www.treehugger.com/wind-technology/future-wind-power-9-cool-innovations.html Treehugger, 6 April 12, Derek Markham Wind power is a great way to
generate clean renewable energy, and the innovations in wind technology being pursued over the last year or so are a reminder that with the right tools, we can turn the movement of the air above us into fuel for our energy-hungry lifestyles.
1. Airborne Wind Turbines………
2. Power from Low Speed Winds:…..
3. Bladeless Wind Power:……
4. Wind Turbine Lenses:…….
5. Vertical Axis Turbines:…..
6. Quiet Wind Turbines:…..
7. Wind Power Storage:…..
8. Community-Owned Wind Power:….
9. Multipurpose Offshore Wind Turbines:….
Small Modular Reactors – the latest desperate effort to revive the nuclear idustry
Small Modular Reactors, [SMRs] the latest “rabbit out the nuclear hat,” are generally based on scaled down BWR or PWR technology and illustrate the nuclear industry’s schizophrenic attitude to reactor size…. it was clear that the AP600 [small nuclear reactor] was hopelessly uneconomic… SMRs may turn out to be the latest in a long line of nuclear designs that looked good on paper, but could not make the transition to commercial technology
Prospects for Nuclear Power in 2012, The Energy Report 2 April 12, ”…….Technological Cul-de-Sac If plant life extensions can be achieved in France and the U.S. and Gen III+ does prove a blind alley, it raises the question of what options are open to the nuclear sector. Ten years ago, the industry answer would have been Generation IV designs. Unlike Gen III+, which evolved from existing Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs), these would be based on radical new technologies. Six technologies were selected by the major nuclear countries as the most promising.
However, 10 years on, they seem no closer to commercial deployment. Continue reading
Wrong assumptions from the Fukushima nuclear disaster
World is ignoring most important lesson from Fukushima nuclear disaster
Fukushima’s most important lesson is this: Probability theory (that disaster is unlikely) failed us. If you have made assumptions, you are not prepared. Nuclear power plants should have multiple, reliable ways to cool reactors. Any nuclear plant that doesn’t heed this lesson is inviting disaster. Christian Science Monitor By Kenichi Ohmae / April 5, 2012 TOKYO
A year has now passed since the complete core meltdown of three boiling water reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No.1 plant. Because of the limited information issued by the Japanese government – and its insistence that the disaster was only a result of the unanticipated magnitude of the earthquake and tsunami – the world does not know what really happened and will thus draw the wrong lessons. Continue reading
Business leaders welcome Los Angeles CLEAN LA Solar program
The CLEAN LA Solar program will allow local property owners to sell solar power generated from rooftops and parking lots back to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), using a mechanism called a feed-in tariff, or, in plain language, a solar cash-back program.
Major New Clean Energy Projects Lauded by Business, Labor, Environmental Organizations, HUFFINGTON POST, 5 April 12, This week, there were two big clean energy projects announced in California that are remarkable for a couple of reasons. Together, these two projects will power hundreds of thousands of homes with clean, affordable solar energy. Continue reading
Safety worries continue at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant
“It’s unsettling to live just a few miles from the plant,” ….. Regulators also found flaws in the utility’s analysis of how the plant would withstand different accident conditions such as earthquakes, tornadoes or loss of coolant.
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Unlikely To Restart Before Fall (includes video) HUFFINGTON POST 04/ 4/2012 BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators said Wednesday it’s unlikely the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant will restart before fall because of the extensive inspections and repairs needed. Continue reading
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission perturbed about troubled San Onofre nuclear station
US nuclear agency head to visit troubled Calif reactors HOUSTON, Apr 5, 2012 (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and several California lawmakers are scheduled to tour the troubled San Onofre nuclear station in the state on Friday, the agency said.
NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko will visit Southern California Edison’s 2,150-megawatt San Onofre nuclear station near San Diego, where both reactors have been shut since January due to the discovery of premature wear on tubes inside giant steam generators. Continue reading
Delays, cost overruns at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
TVA’s nuclear reactor in the works will cost more and take longer to finish than estimated THE TENNESSEAN, 5 April 12, Construction of a second reactor at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will cost an additional $1.5 billion to $2 billion to complete and won’t befinished until 2015, officials disclosed today……. Continue reading
France’s nuclear plant leaks after 2 small fires
Leak Found in French Nuclear Plant http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304072004577326322716346232.html?mod=googlenews_wsj By NADYA MASIDLOVER WSJ, 6 April 12, PARIS—French state-controlled utility Electricité de France SA said late Thursday that a leak was detected at one of its nuclear reactors in northwestern France, after two small fires were extinguished at the site earlier in the day.
France’s nuclear regulator said it had provisionally ranked the leak as a low-level incident and had returned to normal management of the situation after shifting to crisis mode earlier in the day. In a statement, EDF said that a faulty joint on a pump used to cool the reactor had caused a leak inside the reactor building of its nuclear power station in Penly, Normandy. The water from the leak is currently collected in circuits which exist for this use, the company said.
The reactor, which automatically halted after the fire, continues to be cooled normally and the plant teams are working to reduce the pressure and the temperature of the water in the circuit, according to EDF.
Even after a reactor is halted, the nuclear fuel continues to generate heat and must be cooled continuously.
French nuclear safety body, Autorité de Sureté Nucléaire, said it continues to analyze the situation and follow its evolution. The regulator said the incidents had no consequence on the environment.
Earlier in the evening, a spokeswoman for EDF said that lubricant from one of the reactor’s cooling pumps had leaked on the floor, generating smoke and small flames inside the reactor building. The two small fires were extinguished Thursday afternoon.
Electromagnetic radiation guns – Russia’s latest fiendish invention
Russia working on electromagnetic radiation guns, Herald Sun April 04, 2012 Guns will use electromagnetic radiation Rays will attack victims’ central nervous system WHILE many believed it to be an April Fool’s Day joke, Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia has been testing mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies.
The futuristic weapons – which attack their victims’ central nervous system – are being developed by scientists and could be used against Russia’s enemies and even its own dissidents by the end of the decade. Continue reading
60 years later, radiation from Mayak nuclear plant still taking its toll
Many people we spoke to say they are being used as human guinea pigs. They talk of a secret government experiment looking at the effects of radiation exposure on humans.
They say they have to go to a hospital in Chelyabinsk, the regional capital around 50km away, for treatment of the various radiation related illnesses they suffer.
Living in a nuclear hell, Aljazeera, By Charles Stratford in Europe , 2012-04-04 The town of Muslymovo has to be one of the saddest places on earth. The thousands of people who have little choice but to live here, on the banks of the Techa river not far from Russia’s
southern border with Kazakhstan, are the victims of a nuclear disaster that began more than six decades ago.
They are still suffering with the consequences of life next door to the Mayak nuclear plant – still dying from the radiation-related illnesses that have claimed the lives of so many before them. Continue reading
Health risks of cattle grazing on radioactively contaminated land
Uranium, Cattle Grazing and Risks Unknown NYT. By LESLIE MACMILLAN 4 April 12, As I reported last weekend in The Times, a cattle rancher stumbled upon an abandoned uranium mine in the summer of 2010 on his grazing land, about 60 miles east of the Grand Canyon on the Navajo reservation, and notified federal officials. They came in with Geiger counters and found levels of radioactivity that were alarmingly high.
A year and a half later, the former mine in Cameron, Ariz., is not fenced off to either humans or animals, and cattle continue to roam through the site and eat grass that might be tainted with uranium and other toxic substances.
“Those cattle go to auction in Sun Valley and are sold on the open market,” said Ronald Tohannie, a project manager with the Navajo advocacy groupForgotten People. “Then people eat the meat.” Continue reading
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