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Obama aiming for action on climate change

Obama reaffirms support for renewable energy, PVTECH, By Felicity Carus – 13 February 2013, The president used his state of the union speech to underline his commitment to renewable energy President Barack Obama last night restated a renewed commitment to clean energy and pledged to return manufacturing jobs to the US in his state of the union address.

America was “finally poised to control our own energy future” and had begun to turn a corner in competing for clean energy capacity with China, he said.

“Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So let’s generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year – so let’s drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.”….. Echoing his passionate comments on climate change in his inaugural address last month, the president also said that more needed to be done to tackle global warming “for the sake of our children and our future”. He added that if Congress did not enact “a market-based solution to climate change”, he would.

“I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.”

Clean energy business groups welcomed the president’s comments last night…… http://www.pv-tech.org/news/obama_reaffirms_support_for_renewable_energy

February 15, 2013 Posted by | politics, USA | Leave a comment

Detection of radioactivity in Fukushima child

Video: Fukushima child has radioactivity of 6,000 disintegrations per second inside body http://enenews.com/video-fukushima-child-has-radioactivity-of-6000-disintegrations-per-second-inside-body
   February 12th, 2013  
 Follow-up to: Top Radiation Expert: 50 Bq/kg in humans leads to irreversible lesions in vital organs (VIDEO)

Title: 福島県伊達市の子供のWBCの結果　6000 Bq/Body 検出
Source: FFTV
Author: matufuji1216 さんのチャンネル

Date: Feb 10, 2013

Video Description (Google Translation)

It is a video of a program meeting to consider the aging Fukushima nuclear power plant on February 10, is doing. (Kai radioactivity measurement project to consider the aging Fukushima nuclear power plant) Mr. Kazumasa Aoki is a result of the child’s WBC Date City, Fukushima Prefecture, 6000 Bq* / body is around 7 minutes and 37 seconds talking to have been detected.
Summary Translation by Fukushima Diary

According to citizen’s organization for Fukushima effect, 6,000 Bq/body was measured from a child in Da-te city. The child has been living in Da-te city since 311.

Da-te city government conducted whole body counter test for children. […]

*1 becquerel [Bq] represents a rate of radioactive decay equal to 1 disintegration per second

February 15, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013 | Leave a comment

North Korea’s secrecy leaves everyone in the dark about its nuclear program

A Secretive Country Gives Experts Few Clues to Judge Its Nuclear Program NYT, By : February 12, 2013 As scientists and world leaders scrambled Tuesday to judge the importance of North Korea’s claim that it had detonated a third nuclear bomb, the main thing that quickly became evident is how little is known about the country’s increasingly advanced atomic and missile programs…………It also remains unclear whether the North used plutonium or enriched uranium to fuel the bomb. ….. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/world/asia/despite-claims-of-third-blast-north-korean-nuclear-program-remains-a-mystery.html?_r=0

February 15, 2013 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Issues of Radioactive Exposure are Considered Taboo on Japanese Media

WorldNetworkChildren
Published on Feb 13, 2013

On December 20, 2012, a multi-professional symposium was held in Tokyo. The specialty of the speakers ranged from freelance journalist, politician to comedian. The symposium was organised by Free Press Association of Japan, a non-profit organisation.

Free Press Association of Japan
http://fpaj.jp/english/

World Network for Saving Children from Radiation
http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/

The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team
http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspot.jp/2011/06/about-fukushima-collective-evacuation.html

February 15, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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