Secret Presidential directive – could it permit military action within USA?
EPIC filed a FOIA request to find out if the policy directive could mean military deployment within the United States
it allows the Pentagon to pursue actions against adversaries within a vaguely described terrain known only as “cyberspace.”
Exceptionally grave damage: NSA refuses to declassify Obama’s cybersecurity directive
http://rt.com/usa/news/nsa-directive-epic-foia-192/ 21 November, 2012, Reuters / Adrees Latif The National Security Agency has shot down a Freedom of Information Act request for details about an elusive presidential order that may allow the government to deploy the military within the United States for the supposed sake of cybersecurity.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) reports on Tuesday that their recent FOIA request for information about a top-secret memosigned last month by US President Barack Obama has been rejected
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Palestine getting bombed by Israel
“It is very hard to think about Israel calling what it is doing defending itself when it is occupying Palestinian territory. It’s collective punishment.
The answer is simple, and increases the chances of security on all sides: End the occupation.
In Gaza, It’s the Occupation, Stupid,http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/in_gaza_its_the_occupationg_stupid_20121121/? Nov 21, 2012 By Amy Goodman “The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occupation of the sliver of land wedged between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, where 1.6 million people live under a brutal Israeli blockade that denies them most of the basic necessities of life.
Without the unwavering bipartisan support of the United States for the Israeli military, the occupation of Palestine could not exist. Continue reading
Weapons proliferation concern about laser uranium enrichment technology
U.S. approval for laser enrichment – could spur new clandestine research and construction in other nations that might make bomb-building efforts by nuclear-arms aspirants easier to conceal.
Decision on Proliferation Assessments Pending at Nuclear Agency, Nov. 20, 2012 By Elaine M. Grossman Global Security Newswire
A roadway marker points to nuclear fuel operations at a GE-Hitachi campus in North Carolina. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission might soon decide whether to demand proliferation threat assessments from firms seeking licenses for new fuel-making activities, such as a commercial laser uranium-enrichment approach proposed by the energy conglomerate
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Corporate investors asking hard questions about economics of nuclear power
hard questions have to be put about new nuclear units.
Challenging Ontario’s new nuclear plants By Staff Torstar News Service, 20 Nov 12, A new nuclear debate is starting to percolate in Ontario. At industry conferences and in the corridors of Queen’s Park, energy activists are questioning whether Ontario should invest billions in new nuclear energy units.
But these activists aren’t the long-time foes of the nuclear industry, who based their arguments on moral and environmental grounds.
They’re working for corporate clients, and asking hard questions about the economics of nuclear power, given the alternatives like plentiful natural gas. Continue reading
Avoiding Pilgrim nuclear safety committee- in order to avoid criticism
(gotta keep ourselves nice)
MARSHFIELD Selectmen reject nuclear advisory committee
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/11/21/selectmen-reject-nuclear-advisory-committee/8qqoSYZxLafRDwa1izYrJP/story.html
By Jennette Barnes Globe Correspondent / November 24, 2012 The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 Monday against establishing a nuclear advisory committee.
Anna Baker, a member of the Pilgrim Coalition, which seeks to reduce safety risks related to Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, asked the board to create a committee that would review safety plans for an emergency and work on preventative safety. In April, Town Meeting approved a resolution asking the selectmen to consider creating such a
committee.
But after hearing testimony Monday from police Lieutenant Paul Taber, who is the town’s emergency management director, and from Police Chief Phillip Tavares, the selectmen said they believed the town’s Emergency Management Agency was doing an excellent job, with
professional training that committee members might not have.
Selectman John Hall also expressed concern that the committee might be anti-nuclear, and could create friction with emergency planners. Baker said she was pro-safety, not anti-nuclear.
Hanford radioactive waste plant – safety violations
Safety, health violations under investigation at Hanford nuclear waste plant, Oregon Live, By The Associated Press November 21, 2012 LOS ANGELES — A federal investigation has found that a California company might have committed a wide range of safety and health violations at a plant it is building in Washington state to treat high-level radioactive waste, a published report said Wednesday. Continue reading
High radiation levels on orchid island, Taiwan
Japanese professors detect high radiation on island in Taiwan Japan Times, Kyodo TAIPEI, 20 Nov 12, — Two Japanese scholars say they have detected high levels of radiation on Orchid Island, a temporary underground storage site of low-level radioactive nuclear waste off Taiwan’s southeastern coast.TAIPEI — Continue reading
Swiss nuclear reactor shuts down due to defect -oldest operating nuclear plant in the world
“..The longer without a disaster, he said, the more worries subside…”
GENEVA, Nov 21, 2012 (AFP) – A reactor at a Swiss nuclear plant shut down automatically Wednesday due to a defect, the operator said, stressing that the procedure had been completely safe.
“Block 2 of the Beznau nuclear power plant shut down automatically,” operator Axpo said in a statement.
“This was triggered by a defect in the non-nuclear part of the power plant. All systems functioned perfectly during the rapid shut-down,” it added.
Axpo spokeswoman Daniela Biedermann told AFP that the reactor had not yet returned to the grid and that it could only be recommissioned once the defect had been located and fixed.
“When the power plant was shut down, steam escaped from the non-nuclear part of the plant,” the statement said, adding however that “the safety of the power plant was guaranteed at all times”.
Switzerland reacted swiftly to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima last year, with parliament deciding to phase out nuclear energy.
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Greenpeace blasts Swiss nuclear power over Russian fuel
(AFP) – Oct 5, 2010
GENEVA — Environmental group Greenpeace sharply criticised Swiss power stations Tuesday for using nuclear fuel from a Russian reprocessing centre at Mayak, claiming it was one of the world’s most polluted.
Greenpeace Switzerland said in an open letter to energy firm Axpo that executives had acknowledged “for the first time” that reprocessed nuclear fuel from Mayak was used in two nuclear power stations in central Switzerland.
Mayak in central Russia reprocesses spent nuclear fuel rods from Russian submarines and ice breakers and is regarded as “one of the most radioactive places on the planet,” according to the campaign group.
“The Swiss nuclear industry is complicit in grave harm not only to the environment but also human rights,” Swiss Greenpeace spokesman Nicolas de Roten told AFP.
Tube wear at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station fatal!
” In other words, the Unit 2 RSG’s in the “As Designed and Degraded Configuration” cannot be OPERATED at any “Power Levels” due to the substantial risk of nuclear meltdown described…”
Greenhouse gas volumes reached new high in 2011 – survey
“Is there a connection between these mass releases of isotopes into the atmosphere and the interesting temperature peaks? and how do we get the highest CO releases, lowest temperature globally and highest recorded ever temperatures in some parts of the world including the Arctic?”
GENEVA | Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:41am GMT
(Reuters) – Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on Tuesday.
The volume of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, grew at a similar rate to the previous decade and reached 390.9 parts per million (ppm), 40 percent above the pre-industrial level, the survey said.
It has increased by an average of 2 ppm for the past 10 years.
Fossil fuels
are the primary source of about 375 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere since the industrial era began in 1750, the WMO said.
WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the billions of tonnes of extra carbon dioxide would stay in the atmosphere for centuries, causing the planet to warm further.
“We have already seen that the oceans are becoming more acidic as a result of the carbon dioxide uptake, with potential repercussions for the underwater food chain and coral reefs,” he said in a statement.
Levels of methane, another long-lived greenhouse gas, have risen steadily for the past three years after levelling off for about seven years. The reasons for that evening out are unclear.
Growth in volumes of a third gas, nitrous oxide, quickened in 2011. It has a long-term climate impact that is 298 times greater than carbon dioxide.
Solar power to eclipse nuclear in Romania by 2016
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012
(AFP)
BUCHAREST — Solar power will eclipse nuclear energy in 2016 in Romania if investment in photovoltaic plants continues at the current pace, official figures released on Monday showed.
“We expect the installed capacity of solar plants to reach 50 to 100 MW at the end of 2012, 500 to 1,000 MW at the end of 2013 and to top 1,500 MW in 2016,” an official of the national energy regulator (ANRE), Zoltan Nagy, told a solar power conference.
The two reactors of Romania’s sole nuclear power plant in Cernavoda produce together around 1,400 MW, accounting for 18 percent of the country’s energy needs.
Romania plans to build two more reactors at Cernavoda but has so far failed to find investors willing to come up with the requisite 4.0 billion euros ($5.0 billion).
TVA Working on $7 Million in Siren Upgrades- Sequoyah nuclear plant
Tue, Nov 20 2012 5:2
The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun replacing 108 sirens near the Sequoyah nuclear plant – part of a $7 million program that will also upgrade sirens at TVA’s Browns Ferry and Watts Bar sites.
Sequoyah’s existing sirens are three decades old and can’t function without power from the grid. The new equipment will include battery backups, rotating sirens and steel poles, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported. Their locations and number also will change. Four sirens will be added to the system to accommodate changes in development and wind patterns near the plant.
About 80,000 people live within a ten-mile radius of Sequoyah. It is located about 9.5 miles northeast of Chattanooga, Tenn., according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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