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Quick wrap of the week’s nuclear news

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India. Police used tear gas, and opened fire on some of the 20,000 anti nuclear protestors opposing Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) – one man killed and many injured.

Japan. So much news seeping out of Japan: the difficulties in removing highly radioactive debris from around Fukushima reactor No.3: the coming shortage of cleanup workers, as radiation monitors eliminate many workers due to dosage level received: it will take at least 40 years to decommission Fukushima reactors:increasing levels of cesium in subsea mud along Japan’s West coast.   Worst of all – news that fukushima schoolkids lunches continue to contain radioactive food, and the Authorities don’t take this seriously!

USA. Nuclear Regulatory Commission produces a new proposal that will ease the safety regulations for new nuclear reactors.  USA gets a Green Party!

Russia forging on with new nuclear plans – huge nuclear-powered ice-breaker – so they can control Arctic areas, and very hasty development of a dangerous MOX nuclear reprocessing plant at Beloyarsk

Canada: As Quebec shuts down its nuclear reactor, Canada joins the unseemly frenzy of nuclear countries keen to flog off their nuclear technology to India.

September 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes