2012 October 06 « nuclear-news

First case of compensation for cancer in Fukushima worker

Fukushima workers started having cancer
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/fukushima-workers-started-having-cancer/ by Mochizuki October 5th, 2012 In September, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare admitted a Fukushima worker applied for workmen’s compensation insurance. It isfor gastric cancer, esophageal cancer or colon cancer.
This is the first case of the application of workmen’s compensation insurance. The occupational disease department of MHLW is concealing the profile and the integral dose of the worker.

Another nuclear worker commented like this below, Continue reading →

October 6, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, Japan | Leave a comment

Series of company pullbacks puncture UK’s nuclear power dream

There is now a question mark over who will ultimately foot the bill for what are expected to be massively expensive infrastructure projects

How lights dimmed on UK’s nuclear vision, FT.com By Guy Chazan, October 5, 2012 In 2009, Ed Miliband, the then energy secretary, unveiled plans for the most ambitious expansion of nuclear power in Europe.
It was a bold vision. Britain would build up to 12 new reactors, he said, on 10 sites stretching from Somerset to Cumbria. By the late 2020s about 30 per cent of its electricity would come from nuclear power – up from 18 per cent now

That prediction is now looking wildly optimistic

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“The race for new nuclear in this country is at serious risk of unravelling,” says Tony Lodge, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank.
Nuclear is widely seen as one of the great panaceas for Britain’s looming energy problems….

But recent events have conspired to puncture Britain’s nuclear dream. Continue reading →

October 6, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, politics, UK | Leave a comment

AUDIO:The worst scenario: nuclear fuel eating through concrete at Fukushima nuclear

AUDIO Nuclear Engineer: “This is the worst possible scenario” — I think the melted fuel has already eaten through the concrete at Fukushima plant http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-worst-possible-scenario-melted-fuel-eaten-concrete-fukushima-reactor-audio/comment-page-1#comment-293133 October 4th, 2012 Interview with Nuclear Engineer Chris Harris Nutrimedical Report Oct 4, 2012

Chris Harris, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer: Their own word is that Tepco believes that the core is definitely eating through the floor, it’s already gone through the bottom of at least No 1’s reactor vessel, and he said eating its way through the concrete. I probably believe that it’s already eaten through the concrete. I think that’s past tense.

CNN talking heads, that’s what really annoyed me… don’t worry about it there’s containment, there’s this, there’s that. I said no, no, no, no, no this is the worst possible scenario, we’re talking about a core going through [inaudible] We’re finally getting some modicum of truth here, this is a recent as September 10, that’s from Tepco’s engineer’s own words. [Platts: “Tepco believes the uranium fuel […] poured to the floor of the containment structure, eating through a portion of the concrete floor of that area”].

October 6, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

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