Tornado Passes Over The Oldest Nuclear Power Plant In The World

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Published on May 24, 2013

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How Polish nuclear boss commemorated Chernobyl nuclear disaster – Greenpeace

Jan Haverkamp – May 24, 2013

On the 27^th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, Aleksander Grad, the nuclear director of Polish utility PGE, sat behind his huge desk in his likewise huge office in Warsaw.

What was he doing?  Keeping two minutes of silence to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who suffered from the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe? Contemplating how his own nuclear plans could lead to a similar catastrophe? Realising that no emergency plan would protect the people around Lubiatowo and Zarnowiec or further down the road, areas where PGE wants to build Poland’s first nuclear power stations?

No.

Instead, Mr. Grad signed a letter threatening legal action against Tadeusz Pastusiak, president of “Lubiatowo Dunes“, a tiny environmental tourism organisation. Grad’s letter accused Pastusiak of spreading lies that would tarnish the good name of giant PGE and could lead to social unrest!

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Fredy Perlman Progress and Nuclear Power – On line book

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Seaweed stops Scottish EDF nuclear plant

UPDATE 1-Seaweed stops Scottish EDF nuclear plant

By John McGarrity

http://www.fxmemo.com/forum/thread/4013617/

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) – A rising tide of seaweed halted a nuclear power station near Edinburgh late on Thursday, threatening to clog up its cooling system.

EDF Energy took both reactors offline at its 1,280MW Torness nuclear plant, the company said in a statement on Friday.

‘Around 1130 (BST) last night, Thursday 23 May, Unit 2 at Torness power station came offline due to increased seaweed levels as a result of the severe weather and sea conditions in the area,’ EDF said.

It added: ‘This was followed by a decision to take Unit 1 offline just after 3am today, Friday 24 May, as a precautionary measure when it was clear that the seaweed levels weren’t reducing.’

According a regulatory update on EDF’s website, the 640-MW reactor 1 will be offline for the next 14 days while reactor 2, which also has a capacity of 640-MW, will not generate electricity for at least a week.

The EDF statement said power plant staff are trained to deal with high seaweed levels resulting from weather conditions in the Forth Estuary, and that the plant can be taken offline if there are signs that the cooling system could be affected.

The Torness plant was forced to shut down in 2011 after large numbers of jellyfish were found in the sea water entering the plant.

(Editing by William Hardy) Keywords: EDF BRITAIN/SEAWEED

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Michio Kaku: Nuclear Power Is a Faustian Bargain

http://www.meed.tv/9DPd58xljM0E5

The U.S. hasn’t commissioned a new nuclear plant since before the Three Mile Island meltdown in 1979, and will soon have to decommission all its ageing reactors. What, if anything, will replace these nuclear plants?

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Glencore says Iran metals swap deals did not violate sanctions

By Louis Charbonneau

http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27689:glencore-says-iran-metals-swap-deals-did-not-violate-sanctions&catid=8:nuclear&Itemid=45

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) –

Swiss-based commodities giant Glencore Xstrata (GLEN.L) said on Thursday that it had done nothing wrong when it engaged in metal swaps with Iran, rejecting a suggestion by U.N. experts that such bartering could have been a way of evading sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program.

A confidential U.N. Panel of Experts report seen by Reuters on Wednesday said alumina-for-aluminum swap deals with Iran by Switzerland-based commodities giants Glencore and Trafigura TRAFG.UL could have been a way to bypass international sanctions.

A Glencore spokesman said the company broke no regulations and did not violate the sanctions. Trafigura said in a statement to Reuters that it could not comment specifically on the experts’ report, which the company said it has not seen.

Reuters reported on March 1 that Glencore had supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminum to Iran’s nuclear program. Afterward, Trafigura acknowledged it had also traded with the same Iranian firm.

Glencore has confirmed the deals with Iran but insisted it had no knowledge that the company it was supplying alumina to – the Iranian Aluminum Company (Iralco) – was in turn providing aluminum metal to Iran Centrifuge Technology Co (TESA), which the European Union sanctioned in December 2012.

In a February statement to Reuters, Glencore said it first learned about the TESA-Iralco relationship in December and immediately “ceased transactions” with Iralco. It said its last actual trade as part of the barter arrangement was in October 2012, two months before the EU move.

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Czech minister ‘disappointed’ by Temelin nuclear power bids

PRAGUE, May 24 (Reuters) – Bids submitted for the expansion of the Czech Republic’s Temelin nuclear power plant have been disappointing, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek was quoted as saying in a newspaper on Friday.

Westinghouse, a unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp, has taken the lead in competition with a consortium led by Russia’s Atomstroyexport in the tender competition to build two new units at Temelin with a capacity of more than 1,000 megawatts.

Temelin is owned by state-controlled power utility CEZ

‘I must say that offers of both bidder surprised us very unpleasantly in terms of price,’ Kalousek is quoted as saying in the newspaper, Hospodarske Noviny.

French group Areva has been excluded from the tendering but has appealed.

(Reporting by Jana Mlcochova; Editing by Greg Mahlich) 

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Japan NRA Finds that Tsuruga NPP sits on Active Fault Line

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Published on May 23, 2013

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Fukushima Rad News 5/23/13: 56,000 Bq/m3 of Strontium-90 Reactor 2; Robot For Decommissioning

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Published on May 23, 2013

NRA: Tsuruga nuclear plant built on active fault
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has officially endorsed a report by its expert panel that said a reactor in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, sits on an active fault.
NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka announced the conclusion at a meeting on Wednesday. He said his organization takes seriously the result of the expert panel’s probe into the Number 2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant, which was released last week.

Robot for nuclear decommissioning
The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company say they plan to build a facility to develop a robot to help decommission the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Radiation levels in the plant are too high for workers to remove melted nuclear fuel rods.

Finland to bury nuclear waste underground
Country plans to solve problem of disposing radioactive waste permanently by using tunnels.
Finland has struggled with disposal of radioactive waste for decades, with temporary storage sites requiring constant monitoring.

Stricken Japan Fukushima nuclear plant struggles to keep staff
AP | May 23rd, 2013, 7:43am
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant’s operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/05/23/3…

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/th…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/56…

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/pl…

[Major leakage] Tritium detected from 13 of 14 observation holes, “To be discharged to the sea”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/ma…

Mayor of Fukushima-devastated town: Say no to nuclear energy
http://www.bellona.org/articles/artic…

Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 21st to May 22nd, 2013
http://www.greenpeace.org/internation…)

San Onofre Power Plant And It`s Potential Fallout In A Disaster
Thu, May 23, 2013, 6:55pm EDT
What would happen in the event of different natural disaster striking San Onfore, specifically the environmental and economic fallout of how a tsunami, earthquake, etc. would impact the region.

Fukushima breaking news A historical NUCLEAR . S.O.N.G.S PUBLIC Hearing
Kevin Blanch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9et0x…

Expert: “Incipient collapse” of radioactive waste tanks possible at U.S. nuclear site (AUDIO)
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/great-h…

http://enenews.com/report-terrorist-a…

http://enenews.com/object-dropped-nuc…

Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah
Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical brew. But this nuke calamity will be no fluke. It’s been foreseen, planned, even programmed, the result of an atomic extortion game played out between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the most failed American experiment in privatization, the company that has run the Paducah plant into the poisoned ground,
http://ecowatch.com/2013/countdown-to…

IAEA Outlines ‘Challenges And Uncertainty’ For Fukushima Decommissioning
24 May (NucNet): Relatively stable cooling of fuel and fuel debris in the reactors and spent fuel pools has been established at Fukushima-Daiichi, but there are still “several challenges” to be met before “a sustainable situation” is achieved at the plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.
http://www.nucnet.org/all-the-news/20…

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