Experts cast doubt on recent UN press release about Fukushima radiation
Expert: UN’s Fukushima study “absolutely ridiculous” — “Absolutely unacceptable” to claim no observable increase in cancer rates is expected — “Dose estimates don’t reflect the real dose of radiation” http://enenews.com/expert-uns-fukushima-study-absolutely-ridiculous-absolutely-unacceptable-to-claim-no-observable-increase-in-cancer-rates-is-expected-dose-estimates-dont-reflect-the-real-dose-of-r
Title: Japan’s Fukushima debate: How will the meltdown affect the health of residents?
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Author: Justin McCurry, Correspondent
Date: June 21, 2013
[…] In a recent draft report, the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects on Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) said it expected to see no noticeable rise in cancer rates, adding that the swift evacuation of people living in a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius of the plant had sharply reduced radiation exposure.
[…] some scientists accuse the UN of using faulty methodology.
Alexey Yablokov, author of “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” says UNSCEAR’s claim that there would be no observable increase in cancer rates was “absolutely unacceptable.”
The UN bodies’ calculations, he says, had been made using flawed estimates of average radiation doses among Fukushima residents. “The average dose estimates don’t reflect the real dose of radiation [received by Fukushima residents],” he said during a recent visit to Tokyo.
“How did they estimate the average? It’s impossible, because on the first day of the accident the level of radiation was thousands of times higher,” says Dr. Yablokov. “How do you calculate how many minutes people spent inside and outside their houses at that time, or how much air they breathed? It’s absolutely ridiculous.” […]
See also: Fairewinds: Thyroid data means much more radiation must have come out of Fukushima reactors than anyone reported — Medical professionals are talking about how many cancers have started showing up (AUDIO)
Most dangerous material on earth out of control at Hanford
TV: “It appears the worst case scenario has happened” at U.S. nuclear site — Most dangerous material on earth “out of control”? — A whopping 800,000 dpm measured outside tank (VIDEO http://enenews.com/tv-it-appears-the-worst-case-scenario-
has-happened-at-u-s-nuclear-site-most-dangerous-material-on-earth-out-of-control-a-whopping-800000-dpm-measured-outside-tank-video-hanford ) #Hanford Title: Worst Hanford tank may be leaking into soil
Source: KING 5 News
Date: June 21, 2013
h/t moxnews
[…] It appears the most dangerous material on earth is out of its tank and out of their control, and there’s no immediate plan on how to solve the problem. […]
Now it appears the worst case scenario has happened, the waste has eaten through the outer tank wall. […]
But no one expected this […]
A crew working on the leak detection pit pulled a piece of equipment from it and measured a whopping contamination reading — 800,000 dpm,or disintegrations per minute. […]
See also: “U.S. state on alert after nuclear waste leak” — Governor: “This is most disturbing news”… No ‘immediate’ public health threat #Hanford
Youtube: radioactive wastes dumped in the English Channel
Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaOX2rW0gc&feature=youtu.be25 May 2013 This documentary was shown on German and French TV but not in England. For obvious reasons the English don’t want anyone to see it. This is the English version which we hope you will mirror and call attention to. It discusses the effects of sea dumping of radioactive waste on the health of people living on the local coasts, like the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea, which is the most radioactive sea in the world. The documentary focuses on the British sea dumping in the English Channel Hurd Deep about 12 miles north of the Channel Island of Alderney.
Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaOX2rW0gc&feature=youtu.be25 May 2013 This documentary was shown on German and French TV but not in England. For obvious reasons the English don’t want anyone to see it. This is the English version which we hope you will mirror and call attention to. It discusses the effects of sea dumping of radioactive waste on the health of people living on the local coasts, like the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea, which is the most radioactive sea in the world. The documentary focuses on the British sea dumping in the English Channel Hurd Deep about 12 miles north of the Channel Island of Alderney.
UK nuclear decommissioning costs soar- could be over £100bn.
UK’s nuclear clean-up programme to cost billions more than expected 
Guardian UK, Terry Macalister 23 June 13, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority declines to predict final lifetime clean-up cost amid fears total bill could exceed £100bn
The public body charged with overseeing the dismantling of Britain’s network of atomic power and research stations will reveal on Monday that its estimates for the lifetime cost of the programme has risen by billions of pounds.
Despite this, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will say in its annual report that it is getting to grips with the clean-up problem because the rate of cost growth is slowing year-on-year.
Yet the soaring costs will alarm industry critics at a time when the government is trying to encourage construction of a new generation of atomic power plants while plans to construct a permanent home for high-level radioactive waste are stalled.
In the NDA’s 2011 annual report the provisional cost of dealing with the UK’s nuclear legacy was put at £53bn, compared with a 2010 figure of £49bn. The new number in the 2012 set of accounts is expected to be around £55bn. But under previous accounting methods, the figure historically used has risen to well over £80bn with some predicting the final bill could exceed £100bn. Continue reading
Radiation death ray plot to kill President Obama
Obama is death ray target of Ku Klux Klan nut http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4978215/Obama-target-of-KKK-nuts-radiation-weapon.html#ixzz2XAvBNDjL By PETE SAMSON, US Editor 21st June 2013 TWO men have been arrested over a plot to kill US President Barack Obama with a home-made DEATH RAY.
Fanatics Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and Eric Feight, 54, were nicked after a six-month FBI undercover operation. Mr Obama was among those said to have been targeted by the futuristic device that would have fired lethal doses of radiation.
Engineer Crawford, a member of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan, told undercover agents his design was “Hiroshima on a light switch”. He said his plan was to hide the death ray inside a van and park it
near to a target. The device would be activated from a safe distance and according to an
arrest affidavit would “kill human targets silently and from a distance with lethal doses of radiation”.
He said whoever had the device could kill with little chance of being caught, according to the criminal complaint.
Crawford, of Schenectady, New York, said President Obama was on their hit-list because he had let Muslims into the US.
On the day after the Boston Marathon bombing in April he allegedly sent a text message saying: “Obama’s policies caused this.” The two men were investigated after trying to get funding for their plan. Last year Crawford walked into a synagogue and allegedly inquired about technology that could kill “Israel’s enemies while they slept”.
He later asked KKK leaders in North Carolina for money for his machine. Both the KKK and Jewish leaders tipped off the FBI.
Crawford was arrested as he tried to connect a remote activation device to an X-ray machine that undercover agents had given him after making it useless.
Prosecutor John Duncan said: “From our investigation, the device would have been able to emit X-ray radiation that would cause death.”
Japan nuclear restart is in no way a sure thing
Japan’s atomic regulator will take a tough stance when its new safety guidelines take effect on July 8, and amid fierce local opposition.
“The problem for the banks is that it is very hard to give additional loans to the utilities in the current situation because from a private business perspective they are bankrupt,”
Japan nuclear safety upgrades dazzle, mask industry woes Reuters By Aaron Sheldrick and Kentaro Hamada (Additional reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Michael Urquhart) TOKYO Jun 23, 2013– Japan’s nuclear utilities face shareholders this week promising restarts of idled plants as soon as next month after costly safety upgrades, plans that look wildly optimistic given they are yet to secure either regulatory or local approval.
A glaring example is the Hamaoka nuclear plant, once dubbed the world’s most dangerous for its location near a major earthquake fault zone. Continue reading
Shareholders will propose shutdown of japan’s nuclear power
All of the proposals being submitted are expected to be rejected because large stakes are held by financial institutions, which are expected to vote along the lines of company management. Approval of two-thirds of shareholders with voting rights who attend the meetings is needed in order to pass any proposal.
Utilities face shareholders’ proposals to get rid of nuclear power,http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/business/AJ201306220057 Asahi Shimbun, By TAKASHI EBUCHI/ Staff Writer June 22, 2013
Shareholders of eight of the nine utilities that operate nuclear power plants will present proposals at shareholders’ meetings next week urging the companies to abandon nuclear power.
But with the Abe administration clearly in favor of nuclear power, the utilities are all expected to reject the proposals and press ahead with plans to restart reactors currently offline.
All of Japan’s electric power companies will hold their annual shareholders’ meetings on June 26.
Similar proposals were made at last year’s meetings for seven of the utilities, which all rejected the proposals. Continue reading
Pakistan’s 25,000 to protect its nuclear arsenal
Pakistan deploys 25,000-strong force to protect nuclear arsenal, Times of India PTI Jun 22, 2013, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has raised a 25,000-strong special force and put in place extensive measures to protect and manage its strategic assets, including its nuclear arsenal, finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday.
“A special security force of 25,000 personnel, who have been specially trained and provided sophisticated weapons, has been deployed to protect (the nuclear assets),” Dar said, while winding up the debate on the 2013-14 budget in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament……. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-22/pakistan/40133480_1_security-force-nuclear-arsenal-strategic-plans-division
India’s uncertain nuclear power future
for all of its ambition, and its government’s strident rhetoric, India’s nuclear industry is one beset by problems, both in its current operation and in its plans for expansion.
Emboldened by a global nuclear wariness post-Fukushima, those living nearby to proposed plants are resisting by all means available.
At Kundakalum in Tamil Nadu, rolling protests have slowed construction by years. Violent demonstrations against a proposed mega-plant in Jaitapur (it would be the third largest in the world) have seen hundreds arrested, dozens hurt and one man shot dead by police.
(unfortunate & incorrect title) India depends on a nuclear future The Age, June 22, 2013 Ben Doherty “……India has bold plans for its nuclear industry – 470GW by 2050, Dr Singh says, more than the entire world can produce now – but today, with the lights still flickering out, the country is finding its nuclear ambitions frustrated on every front.
Plans for new power plants are being resisted by violent protest, existing ones are stricken by radiation leaks, and uranium mines are plagued by reports of thievery and smuggling.
And high on a hill in a tiny corner of the country, one woman is holding out against the might of her government’s will. 81-year-old Spility Langrin Lyngdoh has lived in the village of Domiasiat in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, longer than modern India has existed.
Her father bought this land decades ago – his grave is a few hundred metres from the home where she now sits – and Spility has spent almost her entire life here. She wants it to remain as a home for her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
But beneath the hills her father bought lies uranium, more than 9,500 tonnes the Indian government estimates, between eight and 47 metres underground: the “largest, richest, near-surface and low-cost sandstone-type uranium deposit discovered in India so far”.
The state-run Uranium Corporation of India Limited is anxious to begin commercial mining as soon as possible. It plans two open-cut mines over 10 square kilometres…… Continue reading
Black Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship opposes uranium mining
FORUM: Join Unitarian Universalists in opposing uranium mining
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/forum-join-unitarian-universalists-in-opposing-uranium-mining/article_75fed94c-fb63-594b-9126-4845ba186bfc.html June 22, 2013 Carol Merwin Member of the Black Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, who writes from Rapid City
The Black Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has passed a resolution
opposing in-situ leach mining for uranium in the Black Hills. The
Canadian company, Powertech, wants 12.96 million gallons of water per
day from the Inyan Kara and Madison aquifers. We in Rapid City used
11.35 million gallons per day in 2012.
Our Unitarian Universalist principle that affirms and promotes the
inherent worth and dignity of every person includes those who are not
yet born. Clean water is essential for life; it would not be right to
deprive future generations of an irreplaceable resource. The demand
for clean water is growing; the supply is not.
Respecting the interdependent web of all existence is a principle that
requires us to regard all living beings as valuable. This value must
be upheld even when it is inconvenient or when it requires
thoughtfulness about unintended consequences. We consider caring for
the earth and everything on it a moral imperative.
A U.S. Geological Survey stated, “To date, no remediation of an ISR
(in-situ recovery) operation in the U.S. has successfully returned the
aquifer to baseline conditions. Often at the end of monitoring,
contaminants continue to increase.” Citizens in this area are well
aware of the arsenic from gold mining tailings leaching into Whitewood
Creek all the way to the Cheyenne River. The proposed Powertech
project includes ponds of polluted water, which will be detrimental to
all life.
Because of our belief in the right of conscience and the use of the
democratic process within our congregation and in society at large, we
encourage other religions and secular groups to join us in our
objection to in-situ mining for uranium in the Black Hills.
There is no safe waste disposal. Do we really want to risk so much for
an energy source that is an enormous gamble? Let us also contemplate
the fact that we have no say in how the yellowcake will be used when
it leaves here. Do we want to be responsible for the creation of more
nuclear weapons in the world? Let’s say, “No.”
Lake Huron Canada Day anti nuclear waste protest 3 – 4 July 2013
Southampton nuclear-waste dump opponents plan protest http://www.therecord.com/news-story/3852700-southampton-nuclear-waste-dump-opponents-plan-protest/ SOUTHAMPTON — A grassroots group opposed to having high-level nuclear waste buried along the shores of this Lake Huron community will stage its second annual protest walk on the Canada Day weekend.
The walk’s purpose “is to re-engage the community with this issue and to keep pressure on council,” said Pat Gibbons, a member of Save Our Saugeen Shores, a local citizens’ group.
Last year’s walk during the same weekend drew more than 500 residents as well as tourists who gravitate to this area during the summer.
It was the largest protest to be held in any of the 21 communities across Canada that are vying to host an underground repository that will store all of the country’s most radioactive waste.
The group hopes this year’s protest will be larger, Gibbons said. It will start at the flagpole in Southampton at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
So far, the group has about 2,500 signatures on their petition.
The group’s main fear is that a nuclear dump could contaminate the drinking water for 40 million people living in the Great Lakes basin, said Gibbons, a retired vice-principal from St. Mary’s High School in Kitchener who now lives in Southampton.
Of the 21 communities vying for this $16-million project, five are in Bruce County where Canada’s largest nuclear power plant is located.
The Bruce Nuclear power plant near Kincardine, which is the largest employer in Bruce County, has about 40 per cent of Canada’s used fuel already stored at its site.
All five Bruce County communities interested in the project are at Stage 3 of a nine-stage process which could take up to 10 years to complete. Stage 3 involves an in-depth feasibility study.
Mike Smith, mayor of Saugeen Shores — which consists of the towns of Southampton and Port Elgin — said the community is split on the issue. Some residents say it would create jobs and others say it would decrease property values.
Smith said even the town’s nine councillors are split on the issue, with some publicly saying if they had to vote today on the project, “they would vote no.”
Smith, a retired 34-year employee of the Bruce plant, said he’s undecided on the project.
“I want to learn more about it,” he said.
US electricity utilities see distributed energy as their killer
Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities Grist By David Roberts
Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves.
Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute — the (typically stodgy and backward-looking) trade group of U.S. investor-owned utilities — released a report [PDF] that, as far as I can tell, went almost entirely without notice in the press. That’s a shame. It is one of the most prescient and brutally frank things I’ve ever read about the power sector. It is a rare thing to hear an industry tell the tale of its own incipient obsolescence. Continue reading
No to Oak Ridge nuclear wastes – says Nevada Governor
Nevada Gov. Tells Feds To Bury ‘Dirty Bomb’ Nuclear Waste Elsewhere June 21, 2013 CBS, LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s governor is telling the federal government the state doesn’t want highly radioactive waste of the type that could be used to build a “dirty bomb” buried in a shallow pit at the former national nuclear proving ground north of Las Vegas.
The federal Energy Department is reviewing Gov. Brian Sandoval’s letter opposing plans to ship about 400 canisters of waste from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to the Nevada National Security
Site, agency spokeswoman Aoife McCarthy said Friday.
Sandoval, a Republican former federal judge and state attorney general, accused the Energy Department of trying to set a dangerous precedent by exploiting a regulatory loophole to classify the waste as a low-level hazard so that it can be buried at the former test site about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The governor said the material should be handled as high-level radioactive waste.
“This dangerous waste should be managed in the same manner as remote-handled transuranic waste,” Sandoval said, noting that the Energy Department provides hands-free handling and permanent deep-geologic storage of similar material at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.
The governor also accused the Energy Department of failing to adequately address concerns of affected local governments and Indian tribes.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1982fbx) that Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, are backing Sandoval…….
Even if the canisters meet a “legalistic definition” of low-level waste, Sandoval said in his letter, they aren’t suitable for shallow land burial at the Nevada National Security Site.
The governor noted that the canisters contain a high concentration of isotope uranium 235 and uranium 233 that would be a danger to workers and a potential source of dirty bomb material……. http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/06/21/nevada-gov-tells-feds-to-bury-dirty-bomb-nuclear-waste-elsewhere/
Two plead guilty to espionage of US nuclear weapons
Scientist and wife plead guilty to espionage involving nuclear weapons, Examiner, CRIME & COURTS JUNE 23, 2013 BY: JIM KOURI
Two contract workers for a U.S. nuclear facility pleaded guilty in
U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on Friday to
espionage charges involving classified nuclear weapons information,
according to Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security
John Carlin.
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina,
and Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to
charges under the Atomic Energy Act and other charges related to their
communication of classified nuclear weapons data to a person they
thought was a representative of the Venezuelan government under
then-President Hugo Chavez……..
Both husband and wife were indicted in September 2010 and they were
charged with conspiracy to communicate and communicating Restricted
Data to an individual with the intent to secure to an advantage to a
foreign nation.
The indictment also charged the couple with conspiracy to convey and
conveying classified Restricted Data. The indictment also charged
Mascheroni with concealing and retaining U.S. records with the intent
to convert them to his own use and gain, and both defendants with
making false statements…..
http://www.examiner.com/article/scientist-and-wife-plead-guilty-to-espionage-involving-nuclear-weapons
US Dept of Energy investing more in solar energy research
DOE Expands Solar Research Capability by Energy Matters, 24 June 13, A new $135 million renewable energy research facility is the latest addition to the U.S. Department of Energy’s network of National
Laboratories.
The 182,500-square-foot Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF)
will allow researchers and manufacturers of promising renewable energy
systems to test and scale up their products in a real-world
environment by simulating a utility-scale energy grid……..
According to the DOE, solar generation in America has doubled in the
last four years, while the cost of solar power systems has fallen by
80 percent. Consolidating these gains depends in part on
next-generation inverter technology that is cheaper to produce and
better suited to smart energy
grids.http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3804
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