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The week that was, in nuclear news

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Japan: the planned nuclear phaseout is  a tortuous political matter. Nobody wants to take responsibility for the decision on how (or whether) to do it, and on restarting the idle nuclear reactors..  The government wants the new regulatory agency to be the decider – along with local authorities. The regulator wants the government to decide. The public opposes nuclear power. Large manufacturers and business organisations want nuclear power to get going again. And Japan’s notorious “Nuclear Village” (nuclear industry cosy with government) is still intact.

UK government in turmoil on how to pay for new nuclear reactors, as AREVA and Chinese companies pull out. Russia looking to get a slice of the action. And France’s EDF wanting far too much money –   and it’s all supposed to be funded by private investment!   Continuing angst over the location of UK’s desperately needed nuclear waste burial site. Police arrest anti nuclear activists at Hinkley nuclear site.

India‘ s brave People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) continued  their 420-day agitation against Kudankulam atomic power plant in Tamil Nadu by laying siege of the plant. India’s democratic principles gone, in its repression of anti-nuclear action.

South Korea following India’s lead in banning visitors who take an anti nuclear stand. But still, the unsafety of South Korea’s nuclear reactors is becoming known.

Sweden. 70 anti nuclear activists “storm” 2 nuclear power plants, showing how poor is their security.

USA . Climate change – hot weather affecting nuclear reactors – but topics like nuclear power and climate change don’t rate  amention in the Presidential debate  between Obama and Romney, (though they do rate, in the campaigns of the USGreen Party and others.

October 10, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes