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Shareholders reject anti-nuclear power proposals
Nine Japanese utilities that own nuclear power plants held their shareholders’ meetings on Wednesday. Groups opposed to nuclear power asked shareholders to reject atomic energy.
Executives from all the utilities said that suspending operations at their nuclear plants has had a major impact on their businesses. This is due to an increase in fuel costs for running thermal power plants.
Four of the 9 companies, including Shikoku Electric and Kansai Electric, are preparing to restart their 6 nuclear plants.
At the Tokyo Electric Power Company meeting, a group of about 450 shareholders who are opposed to nuclear energy submitted a list of 9 proposals.

Offshore wind power generation starts in Kyushu
A major offshore wind turbine has started operating on a test basis off Japan’s southwest coast.
The turbine is 83 meters wide and stands 1.4 kilometers off the city of Kitakyushu.
It generates 5,500 megawatts of electricity annually, enough to supply 1,500 households for a year.
The turbine began rolling slowly as officials pushed the start button in Thursday’s ceremony. The project is a joint effort between the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, or NEDO, and Electric Power Development Company, also known as J-POWER.

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[Tritium overflow] Tritium detected from 11 locations in the sea, average 340,000 Bq/m3
Posted by Mochizuki on June 28th, 2013

[Express] “After 311, extremely radioactive debris removed by major construction companies, not Tepco or plant maker”
Posted by Mochizuki on June 28th, 2013

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ENERGY OFFICIALS ARE DIVIDED OVER NUCLEAR AGENCY’S FUTURE

Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman told lawmakers on Thursday that he and other top DOE officials reject a suggestion from the department’s top security official that it might be prudent to dissolve the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration in the wake of last year’s highly publicized break-in at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility.
http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2013/0…

ANALYSIS: Negatives abound for Japan’s ‘pluthermal’ power generation plans
It doesn’t appear Japan’s troubled plutonium-thermal (pluthermal) power generation program is going to see the light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon.
The utilities are being forced to continue using the pluthermal process because it constitutes a key component of Japan’s nuclear fuel recycling program.
Past problems have delayed the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, and some utilities face the possibility of having to halt their nuclear plant operations, even if they are allowed to restart idled reactors, because they simply have no place to store the spent fuel.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disa…

Fukushima the Marine biology Marine ecology COVER-UP, Explained by Kevin Blanch
June 27 2013
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Some Atomic Energy Workers Passed Effects of Radiation and Chemical Exposure to their Spouses and Children
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 –
Worker safety has been a sacred cow for those subjected to potentially life threatening hazards at the place where they earn their living. New technologies oftencreate high paying jobs but carry unknown health risks, such as for those who manufactured components for the nuclear industry.
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/64104

South Carolina plutonium plant plagued by cost overruns, poor planning
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Nuclear Waste Bill Fails to Address Near-Term On-Site Management and Risks from Overcrowded Pools
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/commentary…

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