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The nuclear week that was

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Japan Business prioritised above safety: Japan caves in to global nuclear Establishment, and backs away from its zero nuclear power commitment. Japan sets up a new Nuclear Regulation Authority which has  a daunting, years long,  task to develop safety rules.  News on the environmental/health effects of Fukushima continue to filter out. Japan to renew building of two new nuclear reactors.

India’s Kudankulam anti nuclear movement widens to a national movement, despite the government’s continued repression of anti nuclear activists.

NIMBY in Britain  – Not in My Backyard, say UK Councils about nuclear waste burial, (even if it is the least worst way to deal with UK’s pile of plutonium.) New nuclear looking pretty much impossible in UK, as even the Supporters of Nuclear Energy are rejecting the government’s plan.

France shutting down Fessenheim, its oldest nuclear reactor- to cries of rage from EDF.

Choruses of pro nuclear hype from vested interests around the world – promoting continuance of nuclear power in Japan, exalting all the nuclear dream factory’s latest illusions – especially thorium as a nuclear fuel. Meanwhile many sources explain the flaws in thorium reactors – not least of which is their lack of economic viability.

Climate change – reaching  a crisis point, with summer sea ice at its lowest level ever. Nuclear reactors in USA  continue to be affected by heat – e.g Vermont Yankee causing heat pollution in  the Connecticut River .

September 21, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes