UK signs European nuclear communiqué – Nuclears last great hope!
“nothing to do with me!” says Hillary 🙂
13 March 2013
The UK has been joined by 11 other EU countries in signalling their interest in a nuclear future.
A communiqué between the nations sets out a belief that nuclear power can play a part of Europe’s future low-carbon energy mix and outlines a commitment to collaborate on safety and creating greater certainty for investors.
Representatives from Britain, as well as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain signed the document in London yesterday.
The EU member states also agreed that each individual country should be able to freely determine its own energy mix and press ahead with their decarbonisation objectives using “the fullest range” of low carbon technologies.
The UK and French governments also committed £12.5 million of funding to the Jules Horowitz research reactor, being built in southern France.
Energy secretary Ed Davey said: “This communiqué signals a move to a stronger, better and closer working relationship between member states on nuclear energy. By working together to enable low carbon energy projects to come forward we will go some way to reducing the EU’s carbon emissions and ensuring greater energy security.”
Source: Utility Week
Another Door Slams Shut on US Nuclear Expansion Plans – EDF and AREVA lose out!
After the 60 days expired, the NRC put the application on indefinite review. But when no US company stepped up to partner with EdF on the project, the NRC opted on Monday to deny the appeal. EdF could continue to search for a US partner but would need to start a new application for the Calvert Cliffs site.
March 13, 2013 |
On a day when thousands around the world are protesting nuclear power to mark two years since the deadly Fukushima nuclear accident began in Japan, another door has slammed shut on nuclear expansion plans in the US.
Beyond Nuclear hailed Monday’s decision by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to deny an appeal by UniStar, wholly owned by French utility, Électricité de France (EdF), for a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant site on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
“Électricité de France sank into the financial quicksand that is new reactor construction,” said Paul Gunter, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear, an environmental advocacy group based in Takoma Park, MD. “US nuclear corporations are clearly unwilling to join EdF in nuclear energy’s economic quagmire, a pattern that has been only too evident at EdF’s other reactor projects in Europe.”
EdF had hoped to build an Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR), a French Areva design originally targeted for six US nuclear sites. But the EPR, a new, untested design, already has a lamentable history in Europe.
The EPR reactors under construction in Flamanville, France and Olkiluoto, Finland, are years behind schedule and enormously over-budget and the design has been challenged by safety authorities in France, Finland and Britain. Olkiluoto may now not be operational until 2016 — four years later than the original target date — and its price has more than doubled, soaring to $10 billion. Flamanville’s original budget has tripled. EdF’s UK reactor plans have been marked by the departure of a series of business partners.
“This decision could not be more timely, coming on the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident and on the heels of the recent decision of the Maryland State Legislature to adopt and invest in the development of offshore wind energy,” Gunter added.
The NRC Order denied the EdF appeal on two grounds: on the agency’s policy regarding foreign ownership, which is based on longstanding language in the Atomic Energy Act (AEA), which prohibits foreign ownership and control of US nuclear reactors; and that the applicants “continue to look for a U.S. partner, and have not amended their application.”
The applicant for a third Calvert Cliffs reactor was in trouble as soon as EdF’s US partner, Constellation Energy, withdrew. On August 30 2012, the NRC had given UniStar 60 more days to comply with the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) in order to be granted a license for a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs.
After the 60 days expired, the NRC put the application on indefinite review. But when no US company stepped up to partner with EdF on the project, the NRC opted on Monday to deny the appeal. EdF could continue to search for a US partner but would need to start a new application for the Calvert Cliffs site.
Read more.. http://www.beyondnuclear.org
Video: 10 million people in Japan have been abandoned in high radiation areas after Fukushima — Kanto Region extremely contaminated
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Published: March 13th, 2013 at 10:42 am ET
By ENENews
Title: Fukushima Daiichi: A Chronological Account of the Disaster
Event: Helen Caldicott Foundation Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Co-Sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility
Source: ERF2012
Videographed & Edited by: Intertelemedia, Inc
Translated by: Kazko Kawai, Voices for Lively Spring
Subtitled by: East River Films Inc
Date: March 11, 2013
At 8:00 in
Hiroaki Koide, Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering, Assistant Professor at the Kyoto University Research Institute, Nuclear Waste Management & Safety Expert:
The Tohoku and Kanto Regions of Japan were extremely contaminated with radiation. […]
If the laws of Japan were strictly observed, areas with soil contaminated over 40,000 Bq per sq. meter would be designated as radiation controlled areas.
However, the contamination areas was as large as 20,000 sq. km (7,700 sq. miles), which meant a vast zone in the Tohoku and Kanto Regions would have to be evacuated.
Faced with such a reality, the Japanese government decided it would never be able to help the people in these contaminated areas, and that the people would be abandoned and left there.
As of today, about 10 million people have been left in areas that should have been designated radiation controlled areas, and they are exposed to continual radiation every day.
Watch the presentation here
Fukushiama breaking news, Nuclear fallout confirmed in Monetary California fish, keivn d blanch
Advisory, some swearing on this passionate speech about Helen Caldicott`s Symposium
Published on 13 Mar 2013
3/13/13; Herbert Abrams, Stanford University School of Medicine, said yesterday; that without question there is Cesium in the monetary marine biologist’s cage tuna, @
http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?…
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
“Very Eerie”: Reporter finds radiation levels 1,000 times over gov’t limit far from Fukushima plant — “A spot where kids walk to school” (VIDEO)
Image source ; Fukushima City kids should not have to choose between radiation and education
August 29, 2011 at 18:28
Published: March 12th, 2013 at 10:40 pm ET
By ENENews
itle: Fukushima Shadow: Anti-atomic activists angry at nuclear revival plans
Source: RussiaToday
Date: Mar 11, 2013
At 2:15 in
Sean Thomas, Reporter: 80 kilometers from the actual reactor itself and 60 kilometers from the edge of that zone was Fukushima City, we found a spot there in our own personal reporting that was 1,000 times the acceptable limit, or a safe dosage if you will.
This was on a spot where kids walked to school, and here I am not in any particular safety gear, but I’m in an area that the government says it’s safe to be.
So certainly very eerie to be in a place that’s supposed to be safe, but obviously with our radiation detectors, a very dangerous place to be.
Watch the report here
Exhibition on Nuclear Disarmament and Human Security Opens in Bahrain
This exhibition, jointly presented by SGI and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and shown in Arabic for the first time, highlights the devastating effects of nuclear weapons use and examines the need to abolish nuclear weapons from the perspective of human security. “We hope this showing in Manama will contribute to the discussion of establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction,” said Arielle Denis, ICAN Campaign Director.
SOURCE Soka Gakkai International (SGI); International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
TOKYO, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The anti-nuclear weapons exhibition “From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Toward a World Free From Nuclear Weapons,” created by Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International (SGI), opened on March 12 for the first time in the Middle East at the Bahrain National Museum in Manama.
Hanford needs new oversight, for everyone’s safety!
Our drive to produce plutonium created a toxic stew that outpaced our capacity to contain it. Now, Congress must step in: Independent, long-term oversight is needed to stop waste from entering the environment, to contain all of the most dangerous waste and to stop nuclear waste from threatening public health and the Columbia River. Our communities depend on it.
By Guest Columnist
on March 13, 2013 at 5:00 AM, updated March 13, 2013 at 5:07 AM
Oregan Online
By Brett VandenHeuvel
The recent news that nuclear waste is leaking from six of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s single-shell tanks and that the U.S. Department of Energy is investigating additional tanks left me asking yet again: Where is the oversight?
The Energy Department’s mismanagement of Hanford continues to result in a loss of the public’s trust. The leaks raise serious questions about the department’s ability to protect the Columbia River from Hanford’s nuclear legacy. The Energy Department has been guarding the henhouse for too long, and it is time for some independent oversight of Hanford’s cleanup.
Over the decades, Hanford’s single-shell tanks leaked more than 1 million gallons of radioactive waste into the ground, contaminating groundwater and threatening the Columbia River. Then, nearly 10 years ago, the Energy Department told us that it had stabilized the slurry of nuclear waste stored in the 149 single-shell tanks. Now we learn that the tanks are actually leaking and have been for who knows how long.
BBC Propaganda; pitting poor against poorer – UK bloggers view of the UK media!
Advisory! .. some swearing on this video .. mostly four word expletives such as “bank” etc
Published on 13 Mar 2013
The London based artist taxi driver
Russia Plans Nuclear Interception of Meteorites – Video
Using nuclear weapons against a meteorite threat to the planet was discussed in the meeting held by the Russian Federation Council on Tuesday.
Nuked Radio – Comedian Lee Camp helps our Fukushima Hangovers
Published on 12 Mar 2013
Episode 99 air date March 12, 2013
Today is the One Year Anniversary of Nuked Radio…since it’s the day after the 2 year Fuku Disaster — Activist/Comedian Lee Camp said he’d come on to cheer us up 🙂
Find all of Lee’s stuff at: http://leecamp.net/
Don’t miss his awesome “Moments of Clarity”: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeeCamp2
The video we talked about that he made before Fukushima:
“Outsourcing Nuclear Meltdown To Other Countries”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hipOQI…
The video I got in trouble for playing on a radio show, lol:
Radioactive metals to be used in beltbuckles, silverware…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0q0Q…
Nuked Radio Archive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXLQEq…
Czech environmental activists call to scrap limited nuclear damage liability
March 13, 2013 – 6:31am
ČTK |
12 March 2013
http://praguemonitor.com/2013/03/12/activists-call-higher-liability-nuclear-damage
Prague, March 11 (CTK) – Czech environmental activists from associations Calla and South-Bohemian Mothers yesterday called on the State Authority for Nuclear Safety (SUJB) to push through cancellation of limited liability for damage that might be caused by nuclear power plants Temelin and Dukovany.
The activists are considering turning to the European Commission in the matter because the situation in other European countries is similar.
“The goal of the appeal is to start to change the Czech unsatisfactory situation that enables an operator of a nuclear power plant to be liable for nuclear damage only to the amount of Kc8bn,” Edvard Sequens of the Calla association told CTK.
Sequens noted that the amount of damage after the accident in Japanese power plant Fukushima is estimated to reach Kc4,300bn after conversion into Czech crowns.
The amount of liability for nuclear damage is set by the atomic law. Sequens said nuclear damage liability in the Czech Republic is lower than the amount required by international conventions.
Electricity company CEZ which operates both the Czech nuclear power plants told CTK it is liable for its facilities in line with the law.
“The Czech Republic has signed the Vienna convention and Brussels protocol on nuclear damage liability. This means we are operating in a similar mode as any other nuclear power plant in the European Union or Switzerland,” CEZ spokeswoman Barbora Pulpanova said.
Cumbria councillors misunderstood nuclear dump vote – minister
“There was not any single reason for our rejection: it was an accumulation of ten reasons. It’s a huge disappointment that the Government have failed to recognise the depth of feeling in Cumbria.”
By Emily Parsons
Last updated at 12:17, Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Councillors who ruled Cumbria out of the running to host a nuclear repository “misunderstood the process” the Energy Minister claims.
Baroness Verma was responding to a letter from leader of Cumbria County Council Eddie Martin and deputy Stewart Young, in which they outlined the council’s decision and reasons behind it.
The Energy Minister’s response, which has been published online, refutes some of the reasons given by the council for voting against progressing to the next stage of the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) process.
Baroness Verma wrote: “In responding, I also feel it is necessary to note there were a range of errors in your letter and to draw attention to some key points, which I believe betray a misunderstanding of the process and the Government’s position.
“This is all the more surprising given your response to me in which you accepted the assurances and commitments the Government had made.”
Helen Caldicott’s Global Symposium – After thoughts from activists from around the world
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SPECIAL: Direct from Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Global Symposium on the Medical and Ecoogical Consequences of Fukushima, the voices of activists from around the world share what they saw, heard, felt — and decided they’d have to do about it once they got home. Close to 20 individuals share their take-aways at the most exciting and arguably the most important event in the United States commemorating the second anniversary of the Fukushima anniversary.
MUSIC: “Ma Nature” from “Aarmageddon: The Living End!” – lyric by Libbe HaLevy, music by Grady. Dedicated to Dr. Caldicott.
Alarming Levels of Radiation Allowed in US Food! Fukushima Fallout
Published on 12 Mar 2013
HELEN CALDICOTT FOUNDATION FUKUSHIMA SYMPOSIUM: 3-12-13
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.
The Archived interviews will be available here shortly.
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The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.
WebCast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-sAi…
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Fukushima Now – Japan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6Jz4…
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident; March 11, 2013, 9:00am to 6:15pm EST
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Videos – Voices of nuclear protest and support for Fukushima victims – London UK 9 March 2013
Here are snippets of the speeches given on the day!
Some graphic pictures at the beginning of this first video might upset (Chernobyl children), skip to 1.04 mins for the Demo speeches if this is the case..
Opposite the Houses of Parliament
Outside the London Tepco HQ then outside the Japanese embassy
Outside the Houses of Parliament and various voices from the march
Talking dog, Anti nuclear dog animal activist…
We shall over come…Takafumi Honda – Fukushima anti-nuclear. march 9th 2013
1.This Month
Small Nuclear Reactors Education Task Force: https://stop-smrs.weebly.com/bulletins.ht
24 May. The Vow from Hiroshima film is coming on PBS, this month https://www.thevowfromhiroshima.com/
3 June – FILM. SOS – The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy
6-7 July A summit and a rally in Washington D.C. https://nonatoyespeace.org/
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