UK govt twists and writhes – trying to give the nuclear industry a subsidy that doesn’t look like a subsidy
The government, which has ruled out any public subsidy for nuclear power, is determined to avoid the perception that it will support new nuclear at any price, even at the risk of the talks collapsing.
hangs in the balance amid increasingly fraught talks between EDF Energy and the Treasury over the price of electricity from EDF’s planned nuclear power station in Somerset.The two sides are negotiating over what price EDF should be awarded for the power it generates at Hinkley Point C, set to become the first new UK atomic plant built in a generation. But the gap between them is much wider than many in the industry were expecting. Continue reading
Czech Republic the latest in nuclear industry death agonies across Europe
Nuclear Revival Dying in Europe as Power Prices Slump: Energy Bloomberg, By Ladka Bauerova – Feb 13, 2013 A Czech atomic-plant expansion planned near the German border had been one of the few prizes left for Europe’s nuclear-power industry after the Fukushima disaster stopped projects from Switzerland to Romania.
Russian and U.S. contractors have prepared to bid for the $10 billion contract to build two new reactors, Europe’s largest competitive tender for a nuclear project. Now a combination of cheaper European power prices and carbon credits, falling demand for electricity and concern government support may falter leaves CEZ AS’s project in doubt, analysts and investors said.
“The future of nuclear energy in Europe looks very dim indeed,” said Mycle Schneider, an independent consultant on energy and nuclear power based in Paris. “Nuclear is too capital intensive, too time-consuming and simply too risky.”Abandoning the Temelin project would deal another blow to the foundering nuclear industry in Europe, and to contractors such as Russia’s Rosatom Corp. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., after the 2011 accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan. Continue reading
Youtube: 70,000 US service personnel exposed to Fukushima radiation
70,000 US Service Personnel Exposed To Radiation: Operation Tomodachi http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kjuWYA4nQko#t=2205s
February 11th, 2013
Title: 70,000 US Service Personnel Exposed To Radiation: Operation Tomodachi 3/11
Source: Nuked Radio with RadChick
Date Published: Feb 9, 2013
Attorney Paul C. Garner, representing U.S. service members who were in Japan after 3/11: They’ve got leukemia, they have growths, they’re undergoing surgery to remove lesions in their brains, a couple of them have had them and have lost the sight in their eye.
One guy has testicular cancer he was aboard the Reagan, he’s 21, he had one of his testicles removed already.
You know what their talking points are, the Tepco people and those in power? It’s all low-level radiation, nothing to worry about. It’s too little to worry about. […] If they get away with this then what did we fight Watergate for?
Watch the program here
AUDIO: Medical issues of US navy sailors affected by Fukushima radiation
AUDIO “I’ve got people who are bleeding from their behinds, who have sores all over their bodies” -Attorney for U.S. Navy sailors exposed to Fukushima radiation (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/ive-people-bleeding-behinds-sores-all-bodies-attorney-navy-sailors-exposed-fukushima-radiation
February 12th, 2013
Title: 70,000 US Service Personnel Exposed To Radiation: Operation Tomodachi 3/11
Source: Nuked Radio with RadChick
Date Published: Feb 9, 2013
Attorney Paul C. Garner, representing U.S. service members who were in Japan after 3/11: Kim Geiseking who was on the Reagan, and she was pregnant at the time and didn’t know it.
Her fetus, her baby is now a couple of years old and doesn’t speak.
I’m not an expert, but experts say the fetus takes up most of the radiation, more than the mother does.
Then I’ve got people who are bleeding from their behinds, who have sores all over their bodies.
More from the U.S. service members:
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Navy Sailors After Fukushima: They’ve got leukemia, testicular cancer, growths… They’ve had surgery to remove brain lesions and lost sight in eye (VIDEO)
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Report: Many U.S. servicemembers’ kids in Japan developed medical issues after 3/11 — “My son went on a vomiting fit of about 3 months… 15-20 times a day” (VIDEO)
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Attorney to Tepco: Please help us, we have troops who are dying, need medical care after 3/11 — Bone marrow transplant at NIH — Another bleeding incessantly (AUDIO)
Youtube: Japan’s media censorship of Fukushima radiation news
Youtube: How Japanese media censors information about Fukushima nuckear radiation Issues of Radioactive Exposure are Considered Taboo on Japanese Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHtbi1Q4aZ8
Watch: Japanese journalists reveal radiation cover-up after Fukushima (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/watch-japanese-journalists-reveal-radiation-cover-up-after-fukushima-video Title: Issues of Radioactive Exposure are Considered Taboo on Japanese Media
Source: World Network for Saving Children from Radiation
Date Recorded: Dec. 20, 2012
Date Published: Feb. 13, 2013
Takashi Uesugi, Journalist: I can only write about the reality of nuclear power […] Anything implying the danger of radiation is not [accepted].
Kazuhiro Haraguchi, former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications: It is still taboo to talk about radiation exposure […] In June 2011 […] we also demanded the government evacuate at least women and children. […] I think it is the Japanese government [that made it a taboo to discuss radiation exposure].
Watch the video here
See this: low cost boadband Internet – solar powered – for rural Africa
Video: Microsoft Providing Low-Cost, Solar-Powered Broadband Access In Africa http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3595 15 Feb 13, Early this month, Microsoft Corp announced the launch of a pilot project delivering low-cost wireless broadband access in parts of Kenya via solar-powered base stations.
A project carried out in collaboration with the government of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communications and Indigo Telecom Ltd., the network utilizes TV white spaces to carry broadband signals to previously unserved locations near Nanyuki and Kalema. The project is the first deployment of TV white space technology in Africa.
TV white spaces are well-suited for delivering low-cost broadband access as radio signals in the TV bands can be transmitted over longer distances and penetrate more obstacles than other types of radio signals. As a result, fewer base stations are required.
Microsoft says that as television has begun to switch from analog to digital around the world, even more of this spectrum can be used to relay broadband.
More than 6,000 people will benefit from the project; which is part of theMicrosoft 4Afrika Initiative. In addition, solar power systems with deep cycle battery energy storage will be installed at local schools to supply electricity to their Information & Communication Technology (ICT) labs. Each system will generate 4.5 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy per day, which should provide a small surplus of power above what is required for each lab.
While 4.5 kilowatt hours doesn’t sound like a great deal, it will be sufficient for students to use tablets and eReaders in the labs.
“Solar power addresses the issue of reliability in developing economies and carries low operating costs since panels last a long time and batteries can function for up to three years,” says a statement from Microsoft.
“That makes solar an increasingly affordable way to deliver power, especially in areas that lack infrastructure for both electricity transmission and broadband access.”
Things are crook when radiation interferes with military exercises
National Guard holds off on training in grasslands amid uranium concerns, The Daily Republic, 14 Feb 13, A key official told the media there’s no indication based on previous air samples that radiation samples at the proposed training area would be above safety standards, but the state will take the necessary precautions. RAPID CITY (AP) — The South Dakota National Guard has postponed plans for training exercises on federal grasslands in the Black Hills after an environmental group warned the military about radiation levels caused by uranium deposits.
Maj. Gen. Tim Reisch, adjutant general of the Guard, said Wednesday the group would hold off until it can be determined that radiation levels in the area do not pose health hazards to soldiers. The Guard was contacted by Defenders of the Black Hills coordinator Charmaine White Face about the possibility of contamination.
“I’m very happy they’re not going to be there for another year,” White Face said. “But that radiation is not going away.”……
Audio: Northern Japan is contaminated
Audio: It’s the reality that Northern Japan is contaminated and radioactive material is constantly being spread elsewhere — “A really creepy, macabre feeling” http://enenews.com/audio-reality-northern-japan-contaminated-radioactive-materials-constantly-being-spread-elsewhere-really-creepy-macabre-feeling
Title: NOT RETURNING TO NORMAL
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: Feb. 11, 2013
Fairewinds board member Chiho Kaneko from Iwate Prefecture discussing her recent trip to northeastern Japan: It’s the reality that Northern Japan, not just in Fukushima, Northern Japan is contaminated. That’s the reality, and people are transporting the contaminants whenever they travel elsewhere. They’re bringing with them. […]
So what’s happening is there’s a gradual and constant dispersing and spreading of radioactive materials, inadvertently. Nobody wants to do it, but we are doing it. That’s a really creepy, macabre feeling I had when I was in Japan.
Full program here
Fukushima: BBC Debunked – Chernobyl: BBC Debunked
“A range of other evidence assessed by the ESC included a report showing there have been 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents as of 2005 – with many more expected over the coming decades.‘”
Uploaded on Sep 22, 2011
Sources cited
The BBC Program
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014s49z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vywZ8…
CNN Report Quoted
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-06/wo…
The Yomiuri Daily Table
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/…
Atomic-Bombing Survivors Study
http://www.dmphp.org/cgi/reprint/5/Su…
In light of that study, it’s worth noting that the Japanese government calculated that the Cesium-137 alone emitted from Fukushima as of late August was 168 times more radioactive than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world…
IAEA Report Quoted
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/meetings…
NYAS Review (Yablokov et al.) Cited
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%…
Extra: detailed complaint submitted to BBC over the program critiqued in this video :
http://www.nfznsc.gn.apc.org/docs/new…
@ 1:53 I cite a false analogy Al Khalili commits, which takes this form:
1. Fukushima and the tsunami are similar in that both were disasters.
2. The tsunami’s harm is measured by its death toll before 9/14/11.
3. Therefore, Fukushima’s harm is measured by its death toll before 9/14/11.
That argument from analogy is assumed implicitly in his comparison aired on Sept 14, 2011. We cannot conclude as he wishes us to that the tsunami was far worse unless we accept that analogy as true. However, it’s a false analogy on account of the fact that the harm of radiation exposure is also measured by the deaths it causes years and decades later.
BBC1 science show ‘downplayed impact’ of Chernobyl nuclear disaster
“The BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee (ESC) received a complaint on behalf of more than 50 co-signatories that the show was “extremely selective” in the figures it quoted about the impact of radiation released following the Chernobyl disaster and minimised the “more significant and contentious issue” of the secondary effects of health problems such as thyroid cancer.”
Bang Goes the Theory was ‘extremely selective’ in figures used about deaths resulting from Ukraine accident, trust rules
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 December 2012 15.45 GMT
BBC1 science show Bang Goes the Theory misleadingly downplayed the likely impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster by stating it has only claimed about 100 lives, the BBC Trust has ruled.
The trust’s editorial standards committee has ruled that a show broadcast on 3 October last year looking at the issue of nuclear power and the impact of radiation gave a “misleading impression” by failing to include research suggesting there could eventually be up to 16,000 premature deaths from the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine.
The trust ruled Bang Goes the Theory failed audiences by not looking at the wider impact of radiation, particularly given its mission to reveal “the truth about the effects of radiation”.
AUDIO: Life is NOT returning to normal after Fukushima nuclear disaster
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/not-returning-normal NOT RETURNING TO NORMAL
What Is Life Like In Northeastern Japan After the Fukushima Daiichi
Disaster? Arnie and Kevin talk with Fairewinds board member, Chiho
Kaneko, to discuss her recent trip to northeastern Japan. Ms. Kaneko
discusses the difficulties of trying to live there surrounded by
radioactive contamination, and the psychological pressure people
experience as the try to reestablish their lives after the accident.
More “no news” from the BBC -Fordo enrichment facility (nearly a week late)
I am bringing you this “breaking report” of reassurance and confirmation (again) of something the IAEA is “reported” to have said (You can read the article for that bit though) .. This is pure propaganda design to reach all the people currently clicking on confirmation of this “breaking” story NOT mentioned by the media and NOT taken seriously in Isreal by any one with a brain or an internet connection.. I believe Christina gave a good balanced account of the “non story”on this website.. this BBC article/propoganda piece does at least give a reason as to why the story might have come out!
“……..Reports in Israeli and Western media……”
“…behaving like capricious little children….”
“…The false news of an explosion at Fordo is Western propaganda ahead of nuclear negotiations to influence their process and outcome,” Saeed Shamseddin Bar Broudi, deputy of the AEOI, was quoted as saying by the state news agency, Irna.
The head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign affairs committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, was also quoted by Irna as strongly denying the reports.
Since Friday, various Western and Israeli media have been quoting Iranian sources as saying that the Fordo enrichment facility was rocked by a massive explosion a few days ago – shortly before Israel’s general elections on 22 January….””
(For “Iranian sources” look at someone from Iran or descended from the Shah of Iran or something like that.. Press TV would have covered it but the staff at the BBC and other mainstream outlets are not aloud to watch Press TV because of the Iranian “TV” embargo imposed by the EU, so the journalists have to kind of … talk to the Iranian neighbor or guess! Funny thing sanctions?)
I really dont know why I pay my TV license???
Heres an interesting video on how the BBC treats proper investigative reporters..
Note
1 week late is good for the BBC, theres alot of red tape to get through before an article is released, so well done the BBC, you are getting quicker!.. but they were 3 months late nearly reporting on Fukushima Daichi Meltdowns.. And lied too the British public all the way along!! Even the press standards commision complained about there coverage of Fukushima.. Now I am not bitter…… but i will be returning to the BBC.. and hoping that some arrests will be made by these liars and tv license pimps sometime in the near future.. imo
The BBC have ignored the plight of nearly 500,000 children in Japan living in contaminated areas!
who would have thought!!??
It has been noticed! It will be avenged! Peacefully….. but painfully i hope!
oh and heres tthe restt of the article!! I nearly forgot..
Savannah Rivers Site’s aging cracked spent nuclear fuel containers
KEY FINDINGS
Here are some key findings from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board’s report on older spent nuclear fuel assemblies:
• Oxide formation can cause handling problems due to sludge formation.
• Hydrogen gas accumulation can form “hydrides” that can spontaneously ignite in air.
• Cladding has ruptured, is missing, or was breached – allowing direct contact with water.
• Sealed cans that hold fuel initially packaged dry have leaked, allowing water inside.
• Fuel is stored in cans whose designs are vulnerable to developing leaks.
Death of Ben Zygier and the failure of Israel’s spy agency Mossad to keep this quiet
Why Israel Couldn’t Contain Prisoner X Story, The Daily Beast, by Dan Goldenblatt Feb 14, 2013 Even with the increased flow of information about Prisoner X—Ben Zygier, aka Ben Alon, aka Ben Allen, aka…—we will probably never really know the truth. What could be the chain of events that led a good Jewish boy from Melbourne, Australia, who, it was confirmed by Israel, worked for the Mossad for 10 years, to end up as an anonymous prisoner in complete isolation in Israel’s most secure and watched prison cell? The fact that under what was supposed to be 24-7-365 observation he also succeeded to hang himself only adds to the mystery. Continue reading
NRC plans for San Onofre nuclear safety report be made public
San Onofre: Mitsubishi told to hand over nuclear plant report LA Times, February 14, 2013 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has asked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to hand over a redacted version of a proprietary report on equipment issues at the now-shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant.
The commission, which has already reviewed the full report, said it intends to make the redacted version public. Continue reading
Cutting down on risk of nuclear weapons that are on alert
The report Reducing Alert Rates of Nuclear Weapons is co-authored by Matthew McKinzie from the Natural Resources of Defense Council and yours truly.
France and Britain also keep some of their nuclear force on alert, although at lower readiness levels than the United States and Russia. No other nuclear weapon state has nuclear weapons on alert. The report concludes that the warning made by opponents of de-alerting, that it could trigger a re-alerting race in a crisis that count undermine stability, is a “straw man” argument that overplays risks, downplays benefits, and ignores that current alert postures already include plans to increase readiness and alert rates in a crisis. Continue reading
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