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This week’s nuclear news

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Fukushima news dominates – as always.  There is so much information coming out – it’s hard to keep up. I recommend the website     http://enenews.com/  for up to date news.

• A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has rocked Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on Thursday – 50 km South West of the crippled nuclear reactors. No harm reported there.  
• Workers on Wednesday discovered the cracks and cuts at 8 places in the buttress supporting the 120-meter vertical pipe standing  between the number-1 and number-2 reactor buildings about 66 meters above the ground..
• The planned ice wall around and under the plant is likely to increase the sogginess of the ground there, and thus increase risk of reactors collapsing
• Top actress Norika Fujiwara [former Miss Japan] has  accused the government of covering up the truth about the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant,
• TEPCO paid for the creation of a blacklist of actors and musicians who are against the nuclear industry.  http://enenews.com/report-tepco-paid-creation-blacklist-actors-musicians-against-nuclear-industry

India . Anger as the government tries to do a “sweetheart” deal with American nuclear companies, so that they can get around India’s Nuclear Liability Act .  ( This would mean that the Indian tax-payer would cop the costs of a nuclear accident, rather than the nuclear company as the Act stipulates)

Syria. The situation has settled down to the extent that war is not now so likely. Questions arise as to why nuclear weapons of mass destruction are not banned, if chemical ones are. Israel stands out as a nuclear weapons country in the region.

Iran  New President Hassan Rouhani making efforts for more diplomacy, and pledging that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.

September 20, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes