Low level radiation linked to heart problems
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Circulatory Disease From Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Estimates of Potential Population Mortality Risks Abstract
Background: Although high doses of ionizing radiation have long been linked to circulatory disease, evidence for an association at lower exposures remains controversial. However, recent analyses suggest excess relative risks at occupational exposure levels.
Objectives: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize information on circulatory disease risks associated with moderate-and low-level whole-body ionizing radiation exposures. …..
Conclusions: Our review supports an association between circulatory disease mortality and low and moderate doses of ionizing radiation. …. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/773941
Nuclear non Proliferation not working, as North Korea launches missile
N. Korean rocket success a failure of nuclear non-proliferation regime PAUL KORING WASHINGTON — The Globe and Mail , Dec. 12 2012, With a fiery – and finally successful – launch of a satellite into orbit, North Korea’s new leader has boldly defied the international community even as he erased the shame of previous failures and solidified his hold on the
impoverished neo-Stalinist state.
In the face of stark warnings and a UN ban outlawing both nuclear and long-distance missile testing, Pyongyang has done both –underscoring the failure of the international community to make good on vague threats against rogue states or enforce United Nations resolutions…..
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/north-korean-rocket-success-shows-failure-of-nuclear-non-proliferation-regime/article6228596/
UK navy man tried to sell nuclear secrets to Russia
Nuclear submariner tried to pass secrets to Russians to ‘hurt’ Royal Navy A disillusioned Royal Navy submariner betrayed his country by trying to pass nuclear sub secrets to Russian agents because he wanted to “hurt” the Navy. Telegraph UK, By Tom Whitehead, 12 Dec 2012
Petty Officer Edward Devenney was jailed for eight years yesterday for breaching the official secrets act after being caught in an elaborate MI5 sting operation. Continue reading
New book on the heroic “Fukushima 50”
now a recently published book sheds light on dozens of those workers, including their real names and numerous quotes, and an account by the plant’s heroic operations chief, Masao Yoshida, who has largely avoided giving interviews despite intense public interest in
his role in the saga.
Book reveals human drama in Fukushima No. 1 crisis http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121211f2.html#.UMf-ohGksug.twitter By KAZUAKI NAGATA, 12 Dec 12 Experts and journalists have written a number of reports, some even running several hundred pages, about the cause of the triple meltdown crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant and the chain of events that followed.
Behind the scenes: “Shino Fuchi wo Mita Otoko” (“A Man Who Was on the Brink of Death”) interviews the people involved in battling the Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011 and takes the rare step of using their real names. YOSHIAKI MIURA
But little has come to light about the human drama of how the plant workers who came to be dubbed the “Fukushima 50,” fought against incredible odds to avert catastrophic reactor explosions that would have led to the contamination of all eastern Japan. Continue reading
4 non-earthquake reasons to worry about Fukushima nuclear reactor no 4
4 reasons why we must be worried about reactor4 “other than earthquake” http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/column-4-reasons-why-we-must-be-worried-about-reactor4-other-than-earthquake/ by Iori Mochizuki December 11th, 2012 · Now the biggest risk of Japan is reactor4.
However, we are only supposed to be worried about an “earthquake” to seriously damage the SFP of reactor4. Is this true ? No, it is not enough. We are missing 4 important facts.
1. It’s already deteriorating.
About one hour ago, Fukushima Diary reported the coolant system of SFP4 was stopped from 12/8 to 12/11. [Link] It is not known if the M7.4 of 12/7 affected.
Because of the warning, Tepco reinforced SFP4 by building a concrete base to support from the bottom of the pool.
However, if Mr. Murata is all correct, the concrete base is deteriorating, and the damage is on-going somewhere we can’t see. In that case, that would be really difficult to replace the concrete base anymore and all we could do is just to see it become unable to support the pool horizontally.
2. Ground is weakened. Continue reading
USA could get 99.9% of its energy from renewable sources
Renewables Could Provide 99.9% Of Power By 2030
http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3509 by Energy Matters, 13 Dec 12, Scientists state a well-designed combination of wind energy, solar power, battery and fuel cell storage could almost always provide more electricity than required at a cost comparable to today’s electricity expenses.
Research carried out by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College determined renewables could economically fully power a utility scale electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 – and without government subsidies. Continue reading
Israel meddling with bogus reports on Iran’s nuclear weapons plans?
Israel behind bogus Iran nuclear data leak – reports Rt.com 11 December Israel may be behind a series of leaks implicating Iran in nuclear weapons experiments, Western diplomats say, stressing that in doing so Tel Aviv could have compromised the ongoing UN investigation intoTehran’s nuclear activities and ambitions.
In its efforts to raise international pressure on Tehran, Israel supposedly carried out leaks of several documents from an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation, The Guardian reported on Monday citing Western diplomats. Continue reading
AUDIO: Fukushima’s spent nuclear fuel racks likely to be damaged by recent earthquake
Gundersen: M7 quake likely caused damage to spent fuel racks at Fukushima Daiichi AUDIO http://enenews.com/gundersen-m7-quake-caused-damage-spent-fuel-racks-fukushima-daiichi-video December 11th, 2012
Fairewinds Podcast, Dec. 9, 2012:
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: The fuel racks are going to be damaged. What that means is the box of spaghetti is going to be dented.
So when they go in to try to pull the fuel out, they’re not going to be able to, some of that fuel is going to be stuck, like spaghetti stuck in a box.
An earthquake like this most recent one likely caused more damage, or it caused more crap to fall into the pool. And as particles fall into the pool again it’s going to change the friction that’s required to pull out this spaghetti in the box — to pull out the nuclear fuel.
I think what they’re going to see is they’ll go down with this long handle and try to grab the fuel on the top and if the fuel is undamaged and the rack is undamaged it slides out pretty easily. If the fuel is bent or if the rack is bent, it doesn’t. So what they can do is they can crank up the power and pull a little harder. The problem is that this is spent fuel so it’s brittle, and if they pull too hard they’re likely to snap the fuel and what that can mean is a gaseous release of radiation.
So that was a long prelude to answer your question, why are they building these roofs over the fuel pool? Is that they’re afraid that when they come to pull the nuclear fuel, they’re going to snap some of the bundles and they’re going to release radioactive gases.
Sweden’s nuclear waste pools found to have cracks
Cracks found in Swedish nuclear waste pools The Local, 12 Dec 12 The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) has asked nuclear waste contractors at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant to review their security requirements after cracks were found in the pools where nuclear waste is temporarily stored on site. Continue reading
New solar fabric will light up your clothes
Japan researchers invent solar-cell fabric, Herald Sun, From: AAP December 12, 2012 CLOTHES that could literally light up your life were unveiled Tuesday by Japanese researchers who said their solar-cell fabric would eventually let wearers harvest energy on the go. Continue reading
In Japan’s elections, nuclear power is THE issue
Nuclear power ‘major issue’ in Japan poll SBS World News, 11 DEC 2012, SOURCE: KATESTOWELL, SBS Opinion polls have suggested the LDP is on course to return to government as the biggest party, but not with an outright majority.(AAP)
The future of nuclear power is shaping up as the major issue on voters’ minds ahead of national elections in Japan this week. … Continue reading
Greenpeace suing South Korea on its silencing of nuclear power critics
Greenpeace files court case to challenge South Korea’s silencing of nuclear criticshttp://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/Greenpeace-files-court-case-to-challenge-South-Koreas-silencing-of-nuclear-critics/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=121012_1112&utm_campaign=Climate Greenpeace International and Greenpeace East Asia have launched a legal challenge against the South Korean government seeking a declaration that the government’s prohibiting of key international staff from entering the country was unlawful and anattempt to silence criticism of nuclear policies.
Through the lawsuit, lodged on Monday on international Human Rights Day, Greenpeace is seeking compensation of almost 70 million Korean won for disruption of six staff members’ ability to conduct their campaign about the risks of nuclear energy and for other damages. Continue reading
Human Rights and the Marshall Islands victims of atomic bomb testing
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands Asia Pacific Journal, 11 Dec 12, Robert Jacobs & Mick Broderick In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing
program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN.1
This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear testing in the Pacific and the subsequent underplaying of both the health and welfare of the
Marshallese, and the radiological contamination wrought by the 67 nuclear weapon tests (atmospheric and underwater) conducted there between 1946 and 1958. Continue reading
Solar power enables vegetables to be grown in the Sahara
Cucumbers In The Sahara – Thanks To Solar Powerby Energy Matters, 10 Dec 12The first cucumbers produced in the Sahara desert using seawater and solar power were served up to participants at UN Climate Negotiations in Doha.
Cucumber may be a warm-season vegetable, but the Sahara desert is a rather extreme environment even for this sun loving plant as it is also quite thirsty.
The Sahara Forest Project has combined saltwater-cooled greenhouses, concentrated solar power (CSP), solar panels and desalination technologies to produce the crop from what is otherwise barren land. Salt created from the process is on-sold to third parties. Key to the project is not so much any individual technology, but how they work together….. http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3507
Canada CANDU reactors fatal flaw -Michel Duguay: A Message About Nuclear Energy
Published on Dec 12, 2012
Michel Duguay is a Professor and the University of Laval. He speaks to us about the benefits of moving towards a nuclear-free future.
“Industry knows that a meltdown could take place”
The biggest risk with CANDU technology reactors is the positive coefficient of nuclear re activity is if a pipe breaks like the Pikering A plant from 1983. If the water cooling is lost the nuclear reaction can be accelerated within one or two seconds and the Thermal Power can go up a factor of five and start melting down the tubes. The nuclear industry has tried to compensate for this but has not done well.
the CNSC has not been following the acts laid down by the nuclear safety act of 1997. The CNSC has failed to inform the public of the technical issues that might lead to a meltdown.
The CSNC also have not given the numbers concerning the likely probabilities of the consequences of a nuclear accident.
Renewable energies would be effective in Ontario and would be available to the whole province, not just part of the province.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb-wnksTv1I
Mouvement Vert Mauricie
written submission to The Joint Environmental Review Panel for theEnvironmental Assessment of the Darlington New Build Project proposed by Ontario Power Generation
February 22, 2011
“The detailed technical analyses provided by Frank Greening and Michel Duguay in the last two sections of this submission clearly demonstrate that the potential for catastrophic nuclear accidents still remains. Years of effort by nuclear scientists and nuclear engineers have failed to produce reactors
that are inherently safe. As the Select Committee on Ontario Hydro Affairs reported in 1980:
It is not right to say that a catastrophic accident is impossible….
The worst possible accident … could involve the spread of radioactive poisons over large areas, killing thousands immediately, killing others through increasing susceptibility to cancer, risking genetic defects that could affect future generations, and possibly contaminating large land areas for
future habitation or cultivation.
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