Toshiba-Westinghouse – A sinking ship? or sly manipulation?
“If Toshiba curtails or ends their nuclear division and Westinghouse both the US and UK lose one of their approved reactor designs. They would also lose ANY support services for existing Westinghouse units”
October 5th, 2012
This quietly began in July as Toshiba hired JP Morgan to find a buyer for the Westinghouse nuclear company they now own. The Times UK is reporting they do not have any potential buyers.
According to the Times Toshiba wants to quit the nuclear industry. “Toshiba-Westinghouse wants to quit the nuclear industry altogether and is struggling to raise finance for the joint venture.”
UK -Report says power shortages could happen as early as 2015
But Greenpeace policy director Doug Parr said the report “sends out a clear warning that we need to reduce demand” rather than build new power stations.
Published 5 October 2012
Britain is facing the rising risk of an energy shortfall within three years, a watchdog warned.
Energy regulator Ofgem said energy supplies were being hit by tough European Union environmental laws and the closure of ageing coal- and oil-fired power stations.
It predicts the amount of spare capacity in the UK could plunge from current historic high levels of 14% to 4% in 2015/16, leaving the UK at risk of significant shortfalls.
The government welcomed today’s report and said it hoped reforms as part of its forthcoming Energy Bill would ensure supply was secured.
[…]
Today’s report reveals the UK could be left with a shortage equivalent to 1,000 households in 2015/16, or 9,000 households in extreme circumstances.
It estimates the chance of network operator National Grid having to cut power to customers would stand at one in 12 years in 2015/16.
But National Grid would cut power to businesses and industrial customers before households, which significantly reduces the risk of families being left in the dark, according to Ofgem.
It also has contingency plans in place to avoid interrupting supply to customers, by asking power stations to maximise generation and also by importing more power from Europe.
[…]
Closure of Canadian Gentilly-2 Nuclear Generating Station
OCTOBER 6, 2012
[…]
Hydro-Québec has confirmed the Gentilly-2 nuclear power plant which has been operating safely and reliably since 1983, will stop producing electricity on December 28, 2012. This follows the September 20 announcement by the Government of Québec on its decision to shut down Gentilly-2 rather than proceeding with a refurbishment.
[…]
The increase in project costs, combined with falling market prices prompted Hydro-Québec to recommend to the Québec government that the generating station be closed. In light of the feedback it has obtained on the complete refurbishment cycle, the company has reassessed the cost of the project to $4.3 billion.
[…]
The Canadian nuclear industry provides a broad spectrum of products and services that benefit Canadians, generating approximately $6.6 billion per year and contributing $1.5 billion in tax revenue and $1.2 billion in export revenues, and supports over 71,000 direct and indirect jobs.
[…]
Nuclear industry invests in a viable future propaganda campaign -PONI
The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) aims to build and sustain a networked community of young nuclear experts from the military, national laboratories, industry, academia, and policy communities.
[…]
The project has three primary objectives. First, PONI aims to build and sustain a networked community of young nuclear experts from across the nuclear enterprise, including in the laboratories, military, industry, academia, and policy world.
Second, the project seeks to help develop the next generation of leaders with both the necessary subject matter expertise and the professional skills to be effective in shaping and implementing policy.
Third, PONI works to mobilize the wide-ranging nuclear expertise within its membership ranks to generate new ideas and advance the public debate on all issues concerning nuclear weapons.
There are over 1,100 PONI members and affiliated programs in the UK and France. Membership is open to anyone working in the nuclear field or studying nuclear weapons issues
[…]
China’s Ralls Corp. Sues Obama over Wind Farm cancellation
Saturday, 6 October 2012
U.S. Treasury Department spokeswoman Natalie Wyeth Earnest has said pursuing litigation could be an exercise in futility for the Chinese company.
“The CFIUS statute clearly states that the President’s actions are not subject to judicial review,” she said.
China’s Ralls Corporation has sued U.S. President Barack Obama for blocking its wind farm deal, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
In an amended lawsuit filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, Ralls claims Obama exceeded his constitutional rights and acted in “an unlawful and unauthorized manner.”
Don’t let Atos near nuclear, Greens warn -UK
“To trust them with the nuclear operation is foolhardy in the extreme.”
The Green Party attacked the appointment of controversial “fit for work” firm Atos to run nuclear industry IT systems today as “foolhardy in the extreme.”
Atos has been criticised repeatedly for its controversial role policing the government’s back-to-work scheme, with people wrongly having their benefits slashed and being forced into employment despite being too ill to work.
The firm also has a chequered history regarding previous government contracts.
In 2008 Atos was subject to a government inquiry after it lost sensitive data along with passwords and user names for the Department of Work and Pensions computersystems.
And earlier this year the head of the UK Borders Agency said that Atos was responsible for major disruptions in the Agency’s IT systems, causing “significant delays and hardship” for those applying for in-country visas.
But in a press statement the firm announced today that it had secured responsibility for the delivery of “significant aspects of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) IT services.”
The five-year, £140 million contract covers Sellafield, Magnox, National Nuclear Laboratories and Low Level Waste Repository.
Responding to the announcement Green Party environment spokeswoman Penny Kemp told the Star: “We are astounded at this government’s ability to employ companies which have been shown to be incompetant.
“This is the very company which assessed terminally ill people as fit to work and has happily helped the government slash benefits from the most vulnerable in our society.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/content/view/full/124710
Group: Ministry may have manipulated Fukushima radiation readings
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 06, 2012
The Association for Citizens and Scientists Concerned About Internal Radiation Exposures said on Oct. 5 that its survey this year of airborne dose levels found an average 10-30 percent higher than the ministry’s numbers, and in certain areas, the discrepancy was even greater.
The group measured radiation levels at about 100 monitoring posts set up by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology throughout the prefecture, which is home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. It then measured radiation levels about 10 meters away from each of the posts.
The group’s readings at those locations averaged 40-50 percent higher than the figures reported by the ministry at the posts themselves.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201210060041
Mass trespass!! Anti-nuclear campaigners gather for Hinkley Point protest -UK
It will be addressed by ex-nuclear workers, local residents, band Seize The Day, and guests from Fukushima and the anti-nuclear movement in India.
Theo Simon will read a statement prepared from the notes of Crispin Aubrey, the local Stop Hinkley campaign founder who died last week while organising the event.
On Monday, the new leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett will be joining the mass trespass when protesters aim to scale the fence surrounding the land designated for the new power station to plant seeds to symbolise their hope that a third nuclear plant will not be built on the site and the land revert to nature.
Campaigners say they expect arrests.
Anti-nuclear campaigners from all over Britain are converging on Somerset today for a mass rally to be followed on Monday by a ‘mass trespass’ at the proposed site of the Hinkley C nuclear power station.
Today hundreds of protesters are due to help to wheel symbolic barrels of radioactive waste through the streets of nearby Bridgwater.
Asahi Shimbun demands Tepco release ALL footage related to Fukushima disaster (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/asahi-shimbun-demands-tepco-release-all-footage-related-to-fukushima-disaster
Published: October 6th, 2012 at 3:53 am ET
By ENENews
Source: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Date: October 06, 2012
Video of how Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant staff responded to the unfolding disaster is now available for public viewing after the operator posted selected footage on its website.
The six hours of video shows teleconference conversations between staff at the site and their supervisors at Tokyo Electric Power Co. headquarters, and gives a first-hand account of the problems and delays they encountered as three reactors overheated and fuel inside melted.
[…]
But The Asahi Shimbun is demanding that TEPCO do more than that and release all video footage related to the accident.
Must see!! Hiroshima Univ. Historian: Don’t believe Tepco’s lies — Fukushima meltdowns caused by quake not tsunami (Videos)
Published: October 6th, 2012 at 1:15 am ET
By ENENews
Hiroshima University Historian Robert Jacobs
Uploaded: Oct. 2, 2012
h/t SimplyInfo
Breakdown from Mack (enenews poster)
– Earthquake. Not tsunami.
– Particularly Unit 1 released a lot of radiation before tsunami hit.
– Ex-Tepco worker: “I personally saw pipes that came apart…”
– 5 minutes before tsunami flooded the plants, radiation alarm went off.
– Much damage to cooling system before tsunami.
Japan’s proposed nuclear waste dump, close to cultural icon
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 2nd to October 4th, 2012 Greenpeace International, by Christine McCann – October 5, 2012 “…Waste Removal and Storage Joining the chorus of voices opposing the government’s recent decision to build a nuclear waste depository in a national forest in Ibaraki Prefecture, the Tokugawa Museum is protesting the location choice, which is only 3 km from a forest it owns. That forest is home to a mountain villa built in 1886 by the 11th lord of the Mito domain and the brother of the last Tokugawa shogun. The museum plans to have it designated as a national important cultural asset. “We’re worried about all sorts of rumors [about radioactivity] ahead of our plan to have the villa designated an important cultural asset. We’ll strongly oppose construction.” http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-october-2/blog/42456/
UK’s nuclear power project – a dead cat
It’s a great opportunity to add your voice to the growing number of people saying no to new nuclear – and if this week is anything to go by, that list includes most of the nuclear industry itself.
Even blank cheques from government can’t make nuclear power work, Greenpeace UK – 4 October 2012 The government has bent over backwards to accommodate the nuclear industry. Yet despite promising billions of pounds of public subsidy, it seems unable to find anyone willing to build a nuclear reactor.
Last year, the German utilities RWE and E.ON pulled out of new nuclear and put their consortium, Horizon, up for sale. Bidding closed last Friday. There were no credible offers. Continue reading
Japanese government secrecy tightening, over Fukushima health effects
Officials from Fukushima Prefecture have admitted that they conducted secret meetings with 19 health experts and government officials, discussing the impact of radiation on human health, in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. The meetings were held before official meetings, and participants were instructed not to tell anyone that they had
participated. Meeting materials were collected after the meeting so that they could not be removed from the room, and no minutes were kept.
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 2nd to October 4th, 2012 Greenpeace International, by Christine McCann – October 5, 2012 “…..As duties are transferred from the now defunct Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) to the newly-created Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), the Nuclear Energy Library, which gave the public access to over 40,000 documents relating to nuclear power, will close.
The Library was created in 1997 to create transparency after a leak and subsequent cover-up at the Monju fast-breeder. It was heavily visited in the period following the Fukushima nuclear disaster; many documents there are not available online. Experts are criticizing the decision. Continue reading
Japanese government ‘cooking the books’ on Fukushima health effects
Mainichi: Gov’t “choreographed” event on Fukushima health effects http://enenews.com/mainichi-govt-choreographed-event-fukushima-health-effects/comment-page-1#comment-293237 October 5th, 2012 Title: Fukushima Prefecture prepared proceedings for nuke radiation meeting Source: Mainichi Date: Oct 5, 2012 The Fukushima Prefectural Government drew up proceedings for a health research panel prior to a formal July 2011 meeting on nuclear radiation, deciding in advance what members should say, the Mainichi has learned.
The drafted proceedings included concluding remarks about the results of the research on the health of Fukushima Prefecture residents […]
When contacted by the Mainichi Shimbun about the choreographed proceedings, a prefectural government official in charge said the Fukushima government “may have produced” a chart of proceedings but declined to make further comment. […]
[The chart] ended with the prearranged conclusion that internal exposure to cesium 134 and cesium 137 was less than 1 millisievert in total and extremely low […]
A prefectural government official said the chart may have been prepared for the panel chairman, Shunichi Yamashita, vice president of Fukushima Medical University. […]
See also: Gov’t held secret meetings about human health impacts from Fukushima crisis
More on Yamashita: Head of Fukushima health study: 100 mSv/yr OK for pregnant moms — “Effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy… They come to people that are weak-spirited”
New book: Mad Science: the Nuclear Power Experiment
Joseph Mangano’s “Mad Science: the Nuclear Power Experiment” http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/05/nuclear-lies-cover-ups-and-secrecy/ Nuclear Lies, Cover-Ups and Secrecy by JANETTE D. SHERMAN, MD Do Governments and Corporations lie, cover-up and maintain secrecy as they harm our planet and us? Joe Mangano’s new book Mad Science – The Nuclear Power Experiment clearly lays it out that they have done so for more than half a century.
This book is a page-turner, filled with useful information that many of us don’t know or have forgot. His chapter “Tiny Atoms, Big Risks” explains the various forms of nuclear energy in terms that anyone can understand, and details the harm that has come to all life on our planet as a result of nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants. Continue reading
1 This Month.
Let’s keep radioactive waste away from our river!
Nuclear Power? -Never again
(Switzerland –https://www.greenpeace.ch/de/handeln/atomkraft-nie-wieder/+)
PETITION – Close Down the Monticello Nuclear Reactor on the Mississippi River!
Now until to February 10, 2026 Radioactive waste storage in France: the debate is finally open! How to participate?
-
Archives
- December 2025 (223)
- November 2025 (359)
- October 2025 (377)
- September 2025 (258)
- August 2025 (319)
- July 2025 (230)
- June 2025 (348)
- May 2025 (261)
- April 2025 (305)
- March 2025 (319)
- February 2025 (234)
- January 2025 (250)
-
Categories
- 1
- 1 NUCLEAR ISSUES
- business and costs
- climate change
- culture and arts
- ENERGY
- environment
- health
- history
- indigenous issues
- Legal
- marketing of nuclear
- media
- opposition to nuclear
- PERSONAL STORIES
- politics
- politics international
- Religion and ethics
- safety
- secrets,lies and civil liberties
- spinbuster
- technology
- Uranium
- wastes
- weapons and war
- Women
- 2 WORLD
- ACTION
- AFRICA
- Atrocities
- AUSTRALIA
- Christina's notes
- Christina's themes
- culture and arts
- Events
- Fuk 2022
- Fuk 2023
- Fukushima 2017
- Fukushima 2018
- fukushima 2019
- Fukushima 2020
- Fukushima 2021
- general
- global warming
- Humour (God we need it)
- Nuclear
- RARE EARTHS
- Reference
- resources – print
- Resources -audiovicual
- Weekly Newsletter
- World
- World Nuclear
- YouTube
-
RSS
Entries RSS
Comments RSS
nuclear-news 