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Military propagandists used to promote fracking industry

Fracking Industry Hires ‘Psychological Warfare’ Military Officers To Combat Peaceful Opposition Mint Press News, December 7, 2012 • Trisha Marczak  – A year after Range Resources, a leading hydraulic fracturing company, claimed it had hired former officers with experience in psychological warfare to combat anti- , it seems as though they’re losing ground in the battle to win hearts and minds of Americans — and are turning to politicians instead…..

Activists or ‘insurgents’

The movement toward a militarized method of minimizing opposition began when industry leaders gathered last year in Houston for an annual conference. Continue reading →

December 8, 2012 Posted by | general | 1 Comment

Data on Fukushima workers’ radiation exposure

TEPCO releases worker radiation exposure data to WHO, Enformable.com. 6 Dec 12 TEPCO released data related to the radiation exposure doses documented for Fukushima Daiichi emergency workers which it had submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The data showed the youngest workers were in their teens, while the oldest was 84 years old.  One of the teenagers was exposed to 56.89 mSv.  Most of the workers are in their 40s.  26 workers are over the age of 70.
TEPCO Worker Ages……
The highest radiation dose recorded was 678.8 mSv.  The highest dose recorded by a worker in their 20s was 477.01 mSv…..
Distribution of Thyroid Doses based on measured value of I-131 (Thyroid equivalent dose from Cs not included in data)……
There are still over 600 workers unaccounted for in the most recent data, TEPCO did not release any details as to why they were unable to track down the missing workers……..

Source: TEPCO

Source: JiJi Press

Read more at http://enformable.com/2012/12/tepco-releases-worker-radiation-exposure-data-to-who/#les31YbP4ZC0Kk2S.99

December 8, 2012 Posted by | employment, Fukushima 2012, Japan | Leave a comment

Role of scientists paid to minimise risks of nuclear radiation

Outrage as AP exposes Japan scientists taking money from nuke industry — But we usually only fly coach so it’s OK — Radiation standards ‘twisted’ after 3/11 to limit evacuations http://enenews.com/just-in-outrage-as-ap-exposes-japan-scientists-taking-money-from-nuclear-industry-doctor-radiation-standards-were-twisted-to-limit-evacuations-after-311-the-excuse-we-usually-only-fly-coDecember 6th, 2012 
Title: AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money – The Denver Post
Source: AP
Author: YURI KAGEYAMA
Date: Dec 6, 2012

Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators […]

The potential conflict of interest is revealed in one sentence buried in a 600-page parliamentary investigation into last year’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant disaster and pointed out to The Associated Press by a medical doctor on the 10-person investigation panel. […]

Some of these same scientists have consistently given optimistic assessments about the health risks of radiation, interviews with the scientists and government documents show. Continue reading →

December 8, 2012 Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

New England Coalition’s legal bid to shut down Vermont Yankee nuclear plant

Anti-nuclear group asks Vt. high court to close Yankee
http://www.wcax.com/story/20288399/anti-nuclear-group-asks-vt-supreme-court-to-close-yankee Dec 07, 2012 By Susie Steimle – VERNON, Vt. – A new legal tactic by opponents of Vermont Yankee to get the nuclear plant closed down. This one comes from an anti-nuclear group known as the New England Coalition. The group asked the Vermont Supreme Court
to shut down the plant, saying the reactor’s owners agreed in 2002 to stop operating if they didn’t have a new certificate of public good by last March. Vermont Yankee still hasn’t received a new CPG.

The Shumlin administration says they’re watching this development closely, but choosing not to get involved at this point in time. Continue reading →

December 8, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Reluctant whistleblowers charge NRC with secrecy about safety

Nuclear Power Whistleblowers Charge Federal Regulators With Favoring Secrecy Over Safety HUFFINGTON POST,  12/04/2012 Richard H. Perkins and Larry Criscione are precise and formal men with more than 20 years of combined government and military service. Perkins held posts at the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration before joining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Division of Risk Analysis in 2008. Criscione landed at the agency a year later, after five years aboard the USS Georgia as a submarine warfare officer.

Now both men are also reluctant whistleblowers, stepping out publicly to accuse the NRC of being both disconcertingly sluggish and inappropriately secretive about severe — and in one case, potentially catastrophic — flood risks at nuclear plants that sit downstream from large dams. Continue reading →

December 8, 2012 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

In France, wind energy is now cheaper than nuclear

wind in France is paid only €0.08 per kWh ($0.10 per kWh) and clearly competitive with new nuclear.

Wind energy now cheaper than nuclear in France http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/wind-energy-now-cheaper-than-nuclear-in-france-92181 REneweconomy, By Paul Gipe on 5 December 2012
Liberation reports that for the second time in a little more than a year the cost of a new reactor under construction at Flamanville, France has risen dramatically. Continue reading →

December 8, 2012 Posted by | France, renewable | Leave a comment

EDF keeping aged nuclear plants running in UK

Ageing nuclear plants to stay open till 2023 Morning Star,  04 December 2012 by Alex Ballard   Anti-nuclear campaigners attacked the “hazardous” decision by EDF Energy today to keep two of Britain’s oldest nuclear power stations in use until at least 2023. Continue reading →

December 8, 2012 Posted by | safety, UK | Leave a comment

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