Pirate Bay claims ‘virtual asylum’ in North Korea
Published time: March 05, 2013 06:13
After being forced out of Sweden, the file-sharing website Pirate Bay has announced a new and rather surprising location for its servers: North Korea. Pyongyang has not confirmed the report.
The website claimed in a statement published on its blog that Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un invited it to North Korea.
“This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high,” the Pirate Bay said. “And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.”
A Pirate Bay insider told website TorrentFreak that they had been working for a while to get connectivity in North Korea. “We’ve been in talks with them for about two weeks, since they opened access for foreigners to use 3G in the country,” the source said.
Last week anti-piracy groups forced the Swedish Pirate Party to deny service to The Pirate Bay. It was then offered refuge by the pirate parties of Norway and Catalonia, but the Norwegian party apparently dropped the site earlier on Monday.
Despite TorrentFreak confirming “the site does indeed route through North Korea at the moment,” many experts have expressed doubts the report is true.
The Guardian quoted analysis conducted by The Next Web suggesting that The Pirate Bay was most likely still being routed through Europe. “The individuals behind the Pirate Bay are unlikely to trade speed for the chance to say the site is hosted in North Korea. They are more likely to hack around and can claim it regardless of whether it’s true.”
MOX, A National Priority – Areva – or MOX, a national scam?
http://www.moxproject.com/about/Official%20MOX%20Video%202012%20web.wmv
MOX, A National Priority
Guest post by James Yu, Director of International and Federal Affairs, AREVA Inc.
Last week, Kelly Trice, President and Chief Operating Officer of Shaw AREVA MOX Services, presented the following video during the Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit in Arlington, VA.
The conversation underscored the importance of the national nuclear security mission of the MOX Project, through which the United States will fulfill its international commitment to dispose of at least 34 metric tons of nuclear weapons material initiated under the U.S.-Russia Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement of 2000. In turn, Russia is obligated to permanently dispose of at least 34 metric tons of its weapons plutonium.
During the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington in April 2010, President Obama announced:
“After many years of effort, I’m pleased that the United States and Russia agreed today to eliminate 68 tons of plutonium for our weapons programs—plutonium that would have been enough for about 17,000 nuclear weapons. Instead, we will use this material to help generate electricity for our people… We’ve made real progress in building a safer world.”
The MOX fuel that will be generated from the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) at the DOE Savannah River Site in South Carolina is estimated to produce $50 billion worth of electricity for American consumers while enabling the U.S. to eliminate the expense of storage, surveillance and other mandatory safeguards of nuclear weapons material. Already, the U.S. is benefitting from the consolidation at the Savannah River Site of much of the 34 metric tons destined for the MFFF from across the nation’s weapons complex.
Last Tuesday, Neile Miller, Acting Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and reiterated the Administration’s commitment to fulfilling its obligations under the U.S.-Russia agreement, stating that “the United States government remains completely committed to the agreement that we signed with Russia for the disposition of that excess weapons plutonium.”
Let’s fulfill our nonproliferation obligation, generate clean energy, and optimize nuclear safeguards costs by continuing to fund the MOX Project.
And for context, at this sudden rush of “feel good” MOX promotion, I give you this
And this strange story of MOX fuel being sent to Japan when the Japanese are saying that they have no use for it? Are the finances being manipulated before the end of the year? or has Japan done a secret deal in the last couple of days? It would appear that Areva have to keep sending the MOX fuel it is making anyway to sustain the business model.
“…The forecast is much more optimistic than a report published “yesterday” forecasting no new reactors put into operation before the end of the year….” Luc Oursel Head of Areva
IAEA Reports On Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown- “The worst is behind us” “post-accident phase,” – Amano
‘It has been a challenging two years, especially for the people and Government of Japan, but also for the IAEA. However, the worst elements of the accident are behind us and we are now in the post-accident phase,’ Amano told the IAEA board members gathered to discuss the agency’s work on nuclear verification, safety, security and the peaceful use of nuclear technologies.
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TOKYO (dpa-AFX) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday tabled its report on the aftermath of the meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant as well as issues related to the controversial nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea.
IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano told the Agency’s 35-member Board of Governors during their first meeting of the year in Vienna that the UN nuclear watchdog is working hard to help Japan deal with the consequences of the March 2011 nuclear power plant accident.
‘It has been a challenging two years, especially for the people and Government of Japan, but also for the IAEA. However, the worst elements of the accident are behind us and we are now in the post-accident phase,’ Amano told the IAEA board members gathered to discuss the agency’s work on nuclear verification, safety, security and the peaceful use of nuclear technologies.
Incidentally, March 11, 2011 marks the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, which was damaged after an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. The incident was reported to be the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
‘The Agency continues to work hard to help Japan deal with the consequences of the accident. Member States are also making serious efforts to implement the lessons learned from this and from previous accidents,’ Amano added.
IAEA says not yet contacted by Syria rebels about ex-nuclear site
The U.N. investigation appears to have died down since the national revolt against President Bashar al-Assad broke out in 2011, with the armed opposition increasingly capturing military sites in rural areas and on the edges of cities
VIENNA | Mon Mar 4, 2013 11:06am EST
(Reuters) – Syrian rebels who have reportedly captured a suspected nuclear reactor site – destroyed by Israel six years ago – have not been in contact with U.N. inspectors about visiting it, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said on Monday.
The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has long sought access to a site in Syria’s desert Deir al-Zor region that U.S. intelligence reports say was a nascent, North Korean-designed reactor geared to producing plutonium for nuclear weapons before Israel bombed it in 2007.
On February 24, opposition sources in eastern Syria said rebels had captured the destroyed site near the Euphrates River.
“Certainly we are aware of the report on (the) rebel group’s offer to invite us to the site of Deir al-Zor but we are not aware of any communication to that effect,” Amano, IAEA director general, told a news conference, referring to a media report last month.
The Vienna-based watchdog has also been requesting information about three other sites that may have been linked to Deir al-Zor.
Syria says Deir al-Zor was a conventional military facility but the IAEA concluded in May 2011 it was “very likely” to have been a reactor that should have been declared to its anti-proliferation inspectors.
The U.N. investigation appears to have died down since the national revolt against President Bashar al-Assad broke out in 2011, with the armed opposition increasingly capturing military sites in rural areas and on the edges of cities.
U.N. inspectors examined the site in June 2008 but Syrian authorities have barred them access since.
“I renew my call to Syria to fully cooperate with us in connection with unresolved issued related to the Deir al-Zor site and other locations,” Amano earlier on Monday told the IAEA’s 35-nation governing board, according to a copy of his speech.
(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Andrew Roche)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/04/us-syria-nuclear-iaea-idUSBRE9230QN20130304
Deal at Czech nuclear power plant fuels US-Russia economic rivalry
“The Czech Republic simply does not need another 2.5 gigawatts of power and with demand falling all round Europe and not likely to bounce back soon, the export market is risky,” says Steve Thomas, a professor of energy policy at Greenwich University in England.
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Companies with ties to the US and Russia are battling for a contract to expand a Czech nuclear power plant, which analysts say may be the gateway to kickstarting other nuclear power projects in Eastern Europe.
Prague, Czech Republic
The nuclear power plant that towers over the green fields outside the small Czech village of Temelin is quickly becoming a frontline in the economic rivalry between the United States and Russia.
Image ; Czech Republic’s Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, left, and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, arrive for their press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Secretary of State Clinton is lobbying the Czech Republic authorities to approve an American contract bid for an expansion of a nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Companies with ties to both countries are vying for a contract to build two new reactors at the site, a move that analysts say could open new nuclear energy markets across the region.
“The energy equation has changed…. [Globally] nuclear energy is in decline,” says Michal Snobr, an energy analyst at the Czech J&T Bank. “The Temelin contract is not about nuclear energy in the Czech Republic, but about breaking into the European market.”
Competing for the tender are two energy companies: Russia’s Rosatom, and Westinghouse, which is owned by the Japanese Toshiba Group but based in the United States.
Google starts digitally mapping Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone
Google starts to digitally map Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone
Two years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Plant, Google has begun trying to bring the displaced residents of the Nuclear Exclusion Zone virtually back to their homes by starting the digital mapping of the area using its street view technology.
For the first time since the disaster, Google’s street view car, with a camera mounted on top, drove around Namie, which is still basically a ghost town. The car is attempting to capture a 360 view of the damaged town through its collapsed houses and cracked roads. The Google crew wasn’t wearing any protective gear, but they had to be out of the zone within three hours. Google product manager Kei Kawai is estimating that the mapping process will take several weeks and that the Namie street view map can be unveiled in a few months. They will also continue following the progress of the rebuilding process through the “Memories for the Future” site, that includes a digital archive project that will give a virtual tour of the devastated buildings.
The idea for mapping the desolated town came from the residents themselves. They want to show the world what the real situation is, that they still cannot return home two years after the disaster. Namie Mayor Tamotsu Baba said that they still have not started the process of decontamination and that recovery is still a long way ahead for their town. He works out of a temporary town hall in Nihonmatsu, which is around 40 miles away from Namie. More than half of the residents have already relocated to other cities in the prefecture, and he’s finding it harder and harder to keep the community together. He even released a phone book with the contact details of the displaced residents, even those living outside the region, but he is still very much frustrated that it might take a decade for residents to be allowed to come home. “That ‘smell’ of life, the smell of the kitchen, the smell of gasoline in the streets, all of that is gone now. There is just silence,” he adds.
[ via ABC News ]
http://japandailypress.com/google-starts-to-digitally-map-japans-nuclear-exclusion-zone-0524511
Areva says Japan to relaunch six reactors in 2013 – The Big MOX Sale
“…The forecast is much more optimistic than a report published “yesterday” forecasting no new reactors put into operation before the end of the year….”
The head of French nuclear group Areva, a major supplier to Japan, said today six reactors would reopen in the country before the end of the year and that most of the country’s nuclear plants would eventually be put back on line.
Once a major consumer of nuclear power, the 2010 Fukushima disaster brought the archipelago’s nuclear industry to a standstill, but Areva and many Japanese companies hope the situation will soon be reversed.
“We think that there could be a half dozen reactors that will restart by the end of the year”, in addition to two reactors already put back into operation, Luc Oursel said at a news conference.
He said the company projection was based on what they expected Japan to decide in new regulation set for July and on the preparedness of Japanese engineers.
The forecast is much more optimistic than a report published yesterday forecasting no new reactors put into operation before the end of the year.
The Kyodo press agency said Japan’s major electricity providers believed that nuclear power would remain frozen in 2013.
Orsel said a newly created nuclear agency would “take years” to greenlight all of Japan’s reactors for activity, and that some, including those in Fukushima, would remain shut.
Areva plans first nuclear fuel shipment to Japan since Fukushima
Last updated Monday, Mar. 04 2013, 3:44 PM EST
French energy group Areva said it was preparing to send nuclear fuel to Japan for the first time since the Fukushima disaster of March, 2011, a sign of possible restarts of idled Japanese reactors.
Japanese Researchers Say Massive Amount of Fukushima Radiation Released into Ocean
Published on Mar 4, 2013
Researchers are now saying that massive amounts of radiation have been puked in the ocean from Fukushima. 18,000 trillion Bq est.
English Article
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/ma…
Japanese Article
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/…
Fukushima – Strontium 90 is about half the amount of Cesium in the sea water
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Strontium 90 is about half the amount of Cesium in the sea water
Strontium 90 is one of the four major radio nuclides from the nuclear disaster that we need to be aware of. According to Prof. Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute, the amount of strontium90 that was discharged from Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was 1/1000 of Cesium 134/137, that doesn’t sound a lot comparing it with Cesium, but it’s considered to be very harmful to the environment: It is 300 times more radioactively toxic. While cesium can be out of body in 100 days, much of strontium 90 stays in bones of the body, and yet we don’t hear much about it. The Food Authority checks Iodine and Cesium but not Strontium 90 because it’s difficult to measure the exact amount. It costs ￡300 in Japan to measure one item and takes half a month. Therefore if you measure fish, they rot in this time. So there has been a tendency to ignore Strontium 90…….
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
Saturday, March 02, 2013
February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youthnominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world. The lengthy personal statement to the pre-trial hearing February 28th by Bradley Manning in his own words validate that his motives were for the greater good of humankind.
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I was stigmatized as a walking atomic bomb
- WordPress has got some sort of glitch.. the headline link is wrong and if you were looking for the Chernobyl update it is to be found here:
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/chernobyl_roof_collapse_report
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Sometimes they are born alive and live for a few minutes or hours, and you can see the blood moving through their bodies before they die. We give birth to babies with missing limbs, or their organs and spinal cords on the outside of their bodies. We never experienced these types of births before the U.S. testing program. We have complained about these births for decades and we are always told by the U.S. Government that they are not the result of radiation exposure.
- Friday, 01 March 2013 15:47
- The Oslo Times
- Ursula Gelis – No-to-Nuclear-weapons
- http://theoslotimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9068:i-was-stigmatized-as-a-walking-atomic-bomb&catid=139:op-ed&Itemid=645
- Jelton Anjain (right) and Paul Ahpoy from Fidji. Hiroshima, 6th of August 2012. Photo: Ursula GelisBikini, Rongelap and, and…”I was stigmatized as a walking atomic bomb”. Traveling with Jelton Anjain from Rongelap.
“Test sites are the grounds for unlimited human suffering”. Senator Anjain-Maddison, Republic of the Marshall Islands.In July 1946, two atomic tests–code named “Operation Crossroads”–were conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, at the Marshall Islands. These tests explored the effects of airborne and underwater nuclear explosions on ships [and] equipment. A fleet of 95 surplus and captured ships were used as targets, including the Saratoga […]. These tests were witnessed by hundreds of reporters, politicians, and international observers, along with 42,000 military and scientific personnel. The two bombs used in Crossroads were identical in design and yield to the bomb used on Nagasaki.
Jelton Anjain and I are crossing the bridge which links the Japanese islands Honshu and Kyushu. We are traveling from Hiroshima to Nagasaki talking about the humanitarian consequences of any nuclear weapons use.
Rongelap was Jelton’s home, one of the Marshall Islands located in the Central Pacific. His island was part of the US nuclear weapons testing program from 1946-58. The Rongelap Atoll is near to the test sites’ ground zero. As the result of being so close to the epicenter where the bombs went off the people of the island became ‘bomb nomads’ and had to leave their sacred land.
Jelton dives back into history when the cobra trade brought German entrepreneurs to Rongelap. Intermarriage among Europeans and islanders was frequent, farming and fishing was the base to sustain families. Women were mainly tied up with housework and children.
Ditches were made by Jelton’s uncle for the Japanese during WWII. Japan “seized the islands in 1914 and later (after 1919) administered them as a League of Nations mandate. Occupied by the United States in World War II, […] the Marshall Islands were made part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under jurisdiction of the United States in 1947.”
In 1944 the US had taken Micronesia after two years of fighting bloody battles. A short while later the nuclear age arrived on the beautiful shores. Among the pearls taken was also the island of Tinian where the atom bombs for Japan were loaded.
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1 March 1954
Editorial: Nuclear disaster guidelines must put lessons from Fukushima into practice
“….However, critics have raised questions about whether 500 microsieverts is an appropriate level for ordering evacuations. The NRA should explain the basis for its figure. It should also consider delivering iodine tablets to households outside the five-kilometer zone in advance….”
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/perspectives/news/20130304p2a00m0na005000c.html
The government’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has drawn up new guidelines for nuclear disaster countermeasures, providing specific standards for evacuations in the event of another nuclear plant accident. In October last year, the panel decided to expand the priority zone for nuclear disaster prevention measures from a 10-kilometer radius around nuclear power stations to 30 kilometers. Authorities must implement detailed measures that dispense of the safety myth surrounding nuclear power plants.
Disaster prevention measures are the last line of defense in the five-tier layer protecting people from the radioactive substances from nuclear power stations. While guidelines must be strengthened, local governments also have a crucial role to play in protecting local residents from radiation in the event of a serious accident. Twenty-one prefectural governments and 135 municipal governments around Japan’s nuclear plants are drawing up nuclear disaster prevention plans, but their work has been delayed because it took the NRA longer than initially expected to work out its guidelines.
The guidelines are complex and there are numerous challenges to overcome. Local bodies are supposed to work out their nuclear disaster prevention plans by the end of this month, but some have never compiled such plans before. The NRA should help them, even if the process is prolonged.
Unlike the previous guidelines, the new guidelines call for a response before radioactive substances start leaking from damaged nuclear reactors. Residents within five kilometers from a nuclear plant are required to evacuate if a reactor faces serious trouble. Iodine tablets will be delivered in advance to residents in such areas so they can quickly guard their thyroid glands from radiation exposure in the event of a nuclear disaster. We can regard these measures as appropriate.
In areas located more than five kilometers from a nuclear plant, residents will be ordered to evacuate when airborne radiation levels reach 500 microsieverts per hour, and those who have difficulties fleeing their neighborhoods will be instructed to stay indoors. Under the guidelines, local bodies are required to stockpile iodine tablets and deliver them to residents in such areas if necessary.
Brazil to get its first nuclear subs
By Agence France-Presse on Monday, March 4th, 2013
Brazil is set to join the select group of countries that have nuclear-powered submarines, President Dilma Rousseff said Friday.
Rousseff stressed Brazil was committed to peace but also needed its defense deterrent, as she inaugurated a naval shipyard in Rio de Janeiro state where the country’s first nuclear-powered sub is set to be built in partnership with France.
“We can say that with these installations we are entering the select club of countries with nuclear submarines: The United States, Russia, France, Britain and China,” said Rousseff.
Known as the Metallic Structures Construction Unit, the factory in the city of Itaguai near Rio de Janeiro is part of the ambitious ProSub program launched in 2008.
Under the scheme, France will supply Brazil with four conventional submarines and help develop the non-nuclear components of the South American powerhouse’s first nuclear-powered attack submarine.
Brazil already has the uranium enrichment technology required for producing nuclear fuel and wants to use it to power the submarine.
The 7.8 billion reais ($3.95 billion) ProSub program aims to protect the country’s 8,500-kilometer (5,280-mile) coastline and huge deep-water oil reserves.
The defense ministry said the first of the four conventional Scorpene-class subs will be delivered to the Brazilian Navy in 2017, while the nuclear-powered vessel will be commissioned in 2023.
“This alliance (with France) must be carefully watched by all those who are taking part because our mission is to ensure that this technology is transferred to us in line with the contract,” Rousseff said.
The 75-meter-long (246-foot) Scorpene is a diesel-electric attack submarine built by France’s DCNS naval defense firm for a variety of missions, including anti-submarine warfare, special operations and intelligence collection.
France is also vying to win a contract valued at between $4 and $7 billion for 36 multi-purpose combat aircraft to modernize the Brazilian air force.
The Rafale fighter, built by French firm Dassault Aviation, is up against US aviation giant Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet and Swedish manufacturer Saab’s Gripen.
SNEAK PEEK SURVIVING JAPAN: Minimum # tix must be sold by March 4th!
Published on Mar 2, 2013
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Film premiere is planned for the following cities: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, & Laguna Niguel…tickets are available online only by advance purchase until 3.4.13 and if a minimum of 50 seats are not sold, the movie will NOT be shown.
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Save Minami-Soma Project, providing clean water and food to Japanese citizens still living in radioactive waste. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated and generated by your participation. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of the clean-up effort, including worldwide radioactive contamination through open-air burning policies and 200,000+ tons of highly radioactive water dumped into the Pacific Ocean.
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Italian Physicist Antonino Zichichi: “Nuclear Technology Is the Safest Technology That Exists, Anti-Nuclear Movement Is Meaningless”
I wonder if Jiji’s reporter dared (or bothered) to ask him about nuclear waste management and disaster cleanup cost. I suppose not. His strange calculation of 1 euro one sandwich doesn’t make any sense to me. And to have him say that the nuclear accidents are caused by lowly workers not scientists.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
EXSKF
and the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident happened because of human errors.
(Uh… A M.9.0 earthquake and over 30 feet tsunami hitting the nuclear power plant right on the coast, didn’t they have something to do with the accident?)
Italian nuclear physicist Antonino Zichichi was interviewed by Jiji Tsushin in February at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
From Jiji Tsushin in the series on the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 disaster (3/3/2013):
脱原発は「無意味」＝安全対策、人為ミス排除を－伊核物理学者【震災２年】
Two years since the disaster: Italian nuclear physicist says anti-nuclear movement is “meaningless”, focus on safety measures and eliminate human errors.
イタリアの素粒子、核物理学の第一人者でボローニャ大名誉教授のアントニノ・ジキキ博士（８３）が時事通信のインタビューに応じた。原子力技術は「人類の 最も安全な発明」とした上で、脱原発は「全く無意味」と明言。東京電力福島第１原発事故は人為的ミスで起きたとの認識を示し、知識を持った専門家による安 全対策が不可欠だと述べた。
Dr. Antonino Zichichi (age 83), one of the most prominent particle and nuclear physicists in Italy and professor emeritus at University of Bologna, spoke with Jiji Tsushin. Dr. Zichichi said the nuclear technology was “the safest human invention”, and declared anti-nuclear movement was “totally meaningless”. According to his understanding, the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident was caused by human errors, and safety measures developed by knowledgeable experts would be indispensable.
Safety inspections for Japan’s nuclear plants will delay any restart
Japan’s nuclear plants unlikely to restart in 2013 By MarketWatch, 3 Mar 13, TOKYO–None of Japan’s nuclear power plants that have been idled since the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami are likely to restart operations within the year as safety checks under new standards 
are not expected to be completed, a Kyodo news agency survey of utilities showed Sunday.
Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture, currently the only operating nuclear plant in the country, is also likely to be suspended in September for routine checks regardless of the new safety standards that are planned to enter into force in July, according to the survey of the 10 power companies that have nuclear plants.
Kyodo reported the financial burden on the utilities is increasing as they enhance preventive measures following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
The companies expect the cost of implementing the new standards will total at least 1.1 trillion yen ($11.75 billion), with Kansai Electric saying 285.5 billion yen is needed in the medium to long term.
Kyushu Electric Power Co. said it could restart two of its nuclear reactors in southwestern Japan in July if inspections by the Nuclear Regulation Authority are completed swiftly, but all the other utilities declined to provide specific dates……. Although the authority is now aiming to speed up the process, broader safety measures under the new standards are expected to make it difficult for inspections to be completed by the end of the year. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japans-nuclear-plants-unlikely-to-restart-in-2013-2013-03-03
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