Nuclear blunder -Halliburton finally finds lost radioactive rod in Texas
Rod containing americium-241/beryllium had been lost a month ago during a 130-mile journey between oil wells
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 October
The US oilfield services company Halliburton has found a seven-inch radioactive rod it lost in the Texas desert almost a month ago.
The company lost the rod, which contains americium-241/beryllium, during a 130-mile journey between oil well sites in Pecos and Odessa on 11 September.
A spokesman for Halliburton said the device was found late on Thursday night on a road about seven miles from the well site in Pecos, where the rod was last used.
Midland County sheriff Gary Painter said an oilfield pumper recognised the device from fliers that had been handed out in the area.
Halliburton workers, police officers and the national guard had been involved in searching for the rod, which is stamped with a radiation symbol and the words “Danger Radioactive: Do not handle. Notify civil authorities if found.”
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had warned that the radioactive materials “could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them”.
Haryana farmers to visit Narora nuclear plant -Nuclear PR
Chandigarh, Oct 8 (IANS) To allay fears of farmers in Haryana’s Fatehabad district about a proposed nuclear plant, a group of 40 farmers of Gorakhpur village left for Narora Atomic Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh Monday.
While flagging off the trip, additional deputy commissioner, Fatehabad, Rajiv Ratan said that the farmers will be informed about the benefits of the nuclear plant in their district.
Officers of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), Haryana Police, revenue and other departments accompanied the delegation of farmers.
Ratan said that farmers of Gorakhpur, Kajalheri and Badopal had provided land for the nuclear power plant planned for Fatehabad district, 300 km from Chandigarh.
Ratan said that the farmers had wanted to see how a nuclear plant operates.
New -The siege of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant from the sea front went off peacefully
J Arockiaraj, TNN | Oct 9, 2012, 02.22AM IST
“Why should I be afraid of the sea? I am fighting for my people and my children,”
“The sea is our livelihood and we will not give up our struggle even if we have to die in this protest”
IDINTHAKARAI: The siege of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant from the sea front went off peacefully as the protesters called off the demonstration by 4pm and the boats returned to the shore in the evening. Tight security arrangements were made as 5,000 security personnel from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Rapid Action Force of the CRPF and the District Armed Reserved Police were deployed in the plant. Three boats from the coastal security group monitored the sea front while coast guard vessels were anchored away from the protest site.
The siege started at around 9.30 am as PMANE co-ordinator, S P Udayakumar along with other activists, Pushparayan, M P Jesurajan, Milton and others started in a fibre boat to the siege site 500 meters away from nuclear power plant. The struggle committee had made special arrangements to differentiate boats used for the siege. Boats with a white flag patrolled the boundary to keep away fishermen straying into the boundary line while boats with green flags provided food and water to the protesters. The protesters were onboard boats with black flags while media persons were taken in boats having red flags. After two hours of the siege, the demonstration was further reinstated as hundreds of fishing boats from Kanyakumari also sailed to the spot. “The sea is our livelihood and we will not give up our struggle even if we have to die in this protest”, said V Santacruz from Koothankuli.
Kudankulam’s neighbours weigh nuclear power fears against living standards
At the end of my visit, Rani took me back to the St. Lourdes church from her house. Hundreds of wind turbines dotting the area around Idinthakari, twinkled and twirled. Seeing the natural power of the wind the sun and the tides while talking about an energy crisis invited observations about irony. Behind her, the plant formed a hazy silhouette in the setting sun.
Rani enters her home for the first time in more than a week. She switches on the light, but it doesn’t work. Tsunami Colony, where she lives in the village of Idinthakari, has been deserted for months, and the electricity supply has been patchy.
The people who were living in the development fear that the police will return and ransack houses – as they reportedly have done to several places in the village. The residents prefer to sleep on the sand outside St. Lourdes church here in Idinthakari in Tamil Nadu, alongside people who have spent more than a year protesting the planned opening of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, which sits about 2 kilometres away.
There have been nearly 400 days of protests in the village. A plastic board outside the church tallies this number, every day. Villagers claim that their power supply has been irregular with long power cuts ever since they started protesting.
“The day we started protesting, our power began to be cut,” said Vinsula, a woman who lives in the village. “Our electricity is being cut, and then this backs up their claim of ‘power shortage’ which validates the nuclear plant.”
Australia -Fight against Muckaty Nuclear Dump Continues (Audio)
Posted on 09/10/2012
Those protesting against a nuclear waste dump being located at Muckaty Station in the Territory gathered over the weekend for a big meeting.
Nat Wasley, Beyond Nuclear Initiative Co-ordinator joined Nerida Currey on Strong Voices to tell us more…
http://caama.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/8.10.12-Nat-Wasley-Edited.mp3
Lengthy review possible at damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant
MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press | Monday, October 8, 2012
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) — Federal regulators disclosed Monday that the proposed restart of the long-shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California could lead to an exhaustive review that might last months or even years.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering if the complex proposal submitted by operator Southern California Edison last week to repair and start the damaged Unit 2 reactor will require an amendment to San Onofre’s operating license, Regional Administrator Elmo Collins told reporters.
uch reviews can involve a thicket of hearings, appeals and other steps on safety and design issues that can take as long as two years to complete.
UK Hinkley -Anti-nuclear activists claims major victory in mass trespass
8.10.12
At least eight protesters have been arrested during a mass trespass at the Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset.
More than 50 people swooped on the perimeter fence of the land earmarked for two new EPR mega-reactors next to the existing power plant just after dawn.
Dozens fanned out around the 5-miles long fence while others held banners and placards outside the main security gate. A 14-foot banner reading, “Nuclear disaster zone. Boycott EDF” was hung across the gate.
Japan authorities passing the buck on decision-making about nuclear restart
Government tries to duck reactor-restart decisions Fujimura hints decision rests with new body, Japan Times By MASAMI ITO, 7 October 12, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura suggested Thursday that the central government does not have the ultimate say, or responsibility, in reactivating nuclear reactors, triggering confusion over who is in charge of making the decision.
At a news conference, Fujimura repeatedly stressed that the new Nuclear Regulation Authority is in charge of assessing the safety of reactors and that power companies are only tasked with explaining reactor restarts to host municipalities and seeking their consent. Continue reading
An irreversible ripoff of the British public – new nuclear reactors
the numbers now being talked about in terms of price guarantees for the energy giants are astronomical.
who will wave a flag and scream ‘rip off’ before the Government signs an irrevocable deal.
Nuclear deal is likely to leave a toxic legacy This Is Money, By LISA BUCKINGHAM, 6 October 2012 “…….Now, though, comes a set of negotiations that have the ability to swipe tens of billions out of the public purse and into private coffers. Chinese investors may be about to pick up part of the tab for building some of our new nuclear power stations, but this is not out of the goodness of their hearts.
French energy group EDF, in partnership with British Gas owner Centrica, has been embroiled in long negotiations with the Government over what will effectively be a subsidy to help them cover the huge building costs of these new generators. Continue reading
Japan’s new nuclear regulation agency- a nuclear promotion agency?
New nuclear regulation agency lined with nuclear promoters http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=4147 September 25, 2012
The nuclear regulation agency will serve a clerical function for the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA). It will be essential for the people to strictly watch the agency along with the NRA led by Tanaka Shun’ichi, former dweller of the “nuclear power village”.
The agency’s top officials are Ikeda Katsuhiko (former superintendent general at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), Morimoto Hideka (former senior official of the Environment Ministry), Yasui Masaya (former atomic policy chief of the Resources and Energy Agency), Kuroki Yoshihide (former official of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), Nayuki Tetsuo (former official of the Nuclear Safety Bureau of the Science and Technology Agency), Sakurada Michio (former director of the nuclear fuel cycle industry division of the Resources and Energy Agency), and Yamamoto Tetsuya (former official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency – NISA).
Yasui is a person who once ordered the cover-up of estimated costs for disposal of nuclear spent fuel in order “to prevent public scrutiny.”
Kuroki, though he apologized later for his unfounded assertion, stated that “it makes no sense in Japan to include nuclear opponents” as nuclear regulators.
Akahata described the nuclear regulation agency as a nuclear promotion agency.
Mass anti nuclear trespass planned at Hinkley nuclear site
Anti-nuclear activists trespass Hinckley http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/124750 07 October 2012 by Rory Mackinnon Anti-nuclear activists will attempt a mass trespass tomorrow to stop construction of a new nuclear power plant in Somerset. Continue reading
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Drone may have been heading for Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor
Route of Drone Hints It May Have Been Aimed at Nuclear Reactor The strange route of the enemy drone downed by the IAF indicates Israel may have diverted it from flying over the Dimona nuclear reactor. Arutz Sheva By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu 10/7/2012,
The enemy drone downed by the Air Force, Saturday, took a strange route that did not cover strategic sites, indicating Israel may have diverted it from a route over the nuclear reactor in Dimona, located due east of Gaza.
The UAV entered Israeli air space from the Mediterranean Sea along the Gaza Coast and then made a U-turn, flying over the southern Hevron Hills before an F-16 plane destroyed it over a non-populated area.
The route raises questions because there are no army or air force bases or any other strategic sites along the route.
Officials estimate that it was guided by a pre-programmed GPS inside the drone and not from a control center at its origin, apparently Hizbullah-dominated southern Lebanon, DEBKA File reported. Israel may have carried out a cyber attack to scramble the GPS and change its route….. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/160604#.UHMZH5jA9dM
Halifax County Chamber opposes uranium mining in Southern Virginia
Chamber adopts anti-uranium resolution Halifax County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has gone on record adamantly opposing uranium mining in the commonwealth. Gazette Virginian 7 Oct 12, Continue reading
Fukushima nurses leaving, to protect their own children from radiation
Nurses evacuate Fukushima to save their children from the potential risk of radiation http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/nurses-evacuate-fukushima-to-save-their-children-from-the-potential-risk-of-radiation/ by Mochizuki October 6th, 2012 Fukushima prefecture is facing a serious shortage of nurses and health workers.
The biggest reason is nurses have evacuated to save their children from the potential radiation risk because of Fukushima accident. On the other hand, the number of patients are increasing as evacuation period is prolonged.
According to Fukushima prefectural government, 14,556 nurses and other workers were at hospitals in the prefecture on 3/1/2011, shortly before 311, but it dropped to 14,089 on 3/1/2012.
Fukushima nursing association comments in 2/2011, there were 216 applications for 366 jobs, the job opening-to-application ratio was 1.69. However, at the end of this August, there were 174 applications for 768 jobs. The job-opening-to-application ratio was 4.41, which made a huge increase since before 311.
The number of young people receiving checkups is expected to increase in line with the Oct. 1 launch of a system providing free medical care to people aged 18 or under, and the association remains concerned about the situation, which could hinder health checks, saying a shortage of people in the medical profession could impede local restoration efforts.
In other disaster areas, Iwate and Miyagi are also having shortages of medical workers, but the situation has been particularly serious in Fukushima Prefecture due to the nuclear disaster, and it is expected to continue for a long time.
Midori Suzuki, a senior director of the Fukushima Nursing Association comments, “The shortage of regular nurses and health nurses was an issue even before the disaster, but since the nuclear disaster, the situation has gotten unusually serious, I want the government to widen its awareness of what is hindering restoration.”
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