UK Nuclear – Pandoras Box has been opened, but can it be shut?
Op Ed by Arclight2011part2
posted on Nuclear-news.net
13 October 2013
This weeks calamities for this blogger included, all dongle data Sims were blocked for half a day, I was unable to get into WordPress to post for whilst I availed my self of the free wireless network at my local library, During another session at the library my wireless became defunct.
Not a boring week by any means..
I thought I would get some thoughts down as the Internet seems to dislike me for some reason..
Heres why,
I uncovered a document where the UK Government body called DECC (Department foe Energy and Climate Change) instructed the UK Science media Centre to “manage” the news on Geo-Engineering, This got me thinking as you might well imagine.
The Science Media Centre (SMC) received a £300,000 boost to their income in the charity fiscal year of 2011. As I have previously mentioned that this “charity” sent a mental health professional to deal with the disaster at Daichi, as far as I could work out the psychologist was paid by a secondary aim of the “charity” that deals in mental health issues.
Considering the recent hurried push to sign nuclear contracts in the UK and get control of the epidemiological research, it makes sense that the SMC was advised by the UK government to shut the bad news down concerning Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, The Home office even sent diplomats to play cricket in Fukushima prefecture the day before the Japanese won the Olympic 2020 bid.
So, we have DECC instructing the SMC to manage the Geo engineering news and it is obvious that the SMC UK was behind the coverup of Fukushima with Ogilvey and Maher from the WPP group (Tony Blair works for WPP for a large retainer).
I have been made aware that the government is possibly undermining representations being made by NGO`s and civil pressure groups and have been helping find the data on this and that is likely why I had was targetted for disruption this week,
I am still awaiting an official statement on behalf of the NGO`s etc and will post the statement when it arrives on my email.
The recent showing of Pandora’s box and many “nuclear is the only solution to climate change” articles and videos are designed to show how pro nuclear the UK is and how ready for nuclear investment the UK is. Offers from China (The BBC does their children’s programming), Japan (Japan is ensnared into the nuclear fuel cycle and decommissioning strategies) and from a broke EDF (currently trying to pollute the whole of the English channel, north sea and just about anywhere they can get away with it) are flowing into the UK as quickly as the dissolution process for the nuclear fuel rods that pollutes our air space and waterways flows outwards. And the UK government wants lots of little La Hagues and Sellafields poisoning the waterways for multiple generations to come and MOX run reactors that give a guaranteed BIG BANG if there are any serious cooling lose incidents (ref; Daichi 3 nuclear reactor).
DECC has reported that the private companies will not share the technical data nor even the names of persons involved with the data. There is also some idea that there are no independent epidemiologists who will be accepted by the private corporations, so therefore they support Richard Wakefords (Ex BNFL) posit of “no effect from nuclear accidents worth talking about”.
I am not going to bash the BBC at this point as they tie in to every aspect of this marketing of nuclear materials and cash because it would make the article to long.. But you can imagine…
In short, DECC appears to be going all out for the large and very expensive nuclear projects that will not reap any rewards for a number of years and likely push Fracking as the interim solution. Meanwhile BP, the Anglo American corporation, is still drilling for the oil like there will be no tomorrow.
EDF charge about £65.00 per mega watt in France whilst in the UK the spot price, on offer, seems to be settling around £100.00? EDF are pretty broke and still have to find a cheap solution to the nuclear waste problem for their existing nuclear sites.
I will be reporting more on the processes that are being used and the new ideas that they are thinking of to cut costs at a later date.
In the recent government report it shows that they value cost cutting as a priority issue and following up that with secrecy concerning epidemiological research. And they didnt seem to interested in any other science from Yablakovs New York Academy of Science presented book that is now in its second edition with the needed corrections. Nor do they take into account the voices of dissent in the nuclear industry in Belgium, USA, Japan, Belarus and UK. Instead they close ranks and hide everything and everyone who might be responsible for a future UK nuclear health tragedy (though radiation has already reached Norway and Ireland (AM241 found near Dublin Bay recently in growing amounts).
That all I have to report for now, UKColumn is doing an in depth investigation on the BBC next week, I will post a viideo up. They have connected the BBC to WPP and they are generally not happy with our great British broadcaster, that appears to be now an arm of the global advertising and media corporations.
Fusion energy: two major announcements – Truthloader Investigates
“Fusion could be just 30 years away, but probably not though!”
Published on 11 Oct 2013
Fusion has taken two major leaps forward according to new papers. Firstly, scientists at the National Ignition Facility in California have, for the first time, managed to get more energy out of a Fusion reaction than they put in. Secondly, a team at the Ecole Polytechnique in France have found an improved method of fusing boron and hydrogen, vastly more powerful than previous experiments and creating a more easily harvested energy.
Threat to nuclear programme as Treasury blocks reactors at Sellafield
The Treasury is blocking an attempt by Toshiba to build three reactors at Sellafield in an inter-departmental row over money that threatens to hold back Britain’s nuclear programme.
A consortium led by the Japanese nuclear group wants to buy the Nugen project in Cumbria from its developers Iberdrola, ScottishPower’s parent company, and GDF Suez, of France.
However, the option to build the reactors will expire in October next year because so little work on the project has been completed. The Department of Energy and Climate Change wants to extend the option to allow the deal with Toshiba to go ahead….. Subscription only
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/utilities/article3892885.ece
George Osborne to give China go-ahead to build nuclear power stations
,,,,EDF also has plans to build a new nuclear plant at Sizewell in Suffolk. Once it has planning permission to build reactors there, it will be required to release another site it owns, Bradwell in Essex. A person familiar with the matter said EDF could sell the Bradwell site to CGN, for the construction of its own reactor….
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/44ad0ee4-3295-11e3-91d2-00144feab7de.html#axzz2hXc60Kg2
By Guy Chazan, Anousha Sakoui and Jim Pickard in London
12 October 2013
The chancellor George Osborne will sign a deal in China next week allowing a state-owned Chinese company to build nuclear power stations in the UK and have its reactor design approved by British regulators….
Under the deal, the government will give its backing to Chinese General Nuclear Power Group entering EDF Energy’s planned new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset as a co-investor.
The memorandum of understanding will also see Britain backing CGN’s plans to build a nuclear reactor in the UK and play a “supporting role” in operating it, according to people familiar with the matter.
That could ring alarm bells with some MPs, unions and regulators, amid concerns about the robustness of China’s nuclear safeguards.
The government will also express its support for China getting its nuclear technology through the UK regulatory approval process, known as the generic design assessment. It is unclear at this stage whether the reactor design will be CGN’s, or that of another Chinese nuclear group. A person close to the talks said UK officials have asked Beijing to select just one company’s technology for a UK rollout.
Chinese involvement is seen as essential if the £14bn Hinkley Point project – a centrepiece of government ambitions for a low-carbon economy – is to go ahead.
The shift to non-fossil-fuel energy such as nuclear is seen as crucial if Britain is to meet its binding targets for cutting carbon emissions and keep the lights on.
However, given the sensitivities surrounding nuclear power, the idea of allowing a Chinese state-backed company to play such a prominent role in the UK’s nuclear new build programme is likely to raise a welter of national security concerns
Pirates and pot heads: Silly new allegations waft over Greenpeace’s accused buccaneers
….Greenpeace has issued its refutations of the Investigative Committee’s allegations and I tend to believe them.
“Any claim that illegal drugs were found is a smear, it’s a fabrication, pure and simple,” Greenpeace said.
The Arctic Sunrise operated out of Kirkenes, Norway, which, as a country, has as dour a drug policy as you are likely to find this side of Malaysia. And Norwegian customs, which has searched the boat many times, found nothing untoward prior to its departure to the September 18 protest at Prirazlomnaya.
I would go even further than Greenpeace to call the drug allegations total rubbish. Russian cops stopping pedestrians and planting drugs on them is one of the oldest routines in their stale shake down repertoire. White bags of powder have routinely been planted by customs officials in the luggage of Western pop acts coming to tour Russia, as happened with REM…..
Charles Digges, 10/10-2013
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/arctic_sunrise_drug_allegations_idiotic
In an announcement surprising only in its tardiness, the Russian Investigative Committee said yesterday it discovered hard drugs aboard Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise vessel, which the Russian Coast Guard took by force on Sept 19 after two activists tried to scale a Russian oil rig to protest Arctic drilling.
In yesterday’s statement, infused with an appropriately stiff facsimile of indignation, Investigative Committee chair Vladimir Markin, said that, “During a search of the [Arctic Sunrise], drugs (apparently poppy straw and morphine) were confiscated.”
“In view of the data obtained while investigating the criminal case, charges are expected to be adjusted,” the committee said. It added that “a number of detainees will be presented with charges of committing other grave crimes.”
Greenpeace rightfully mocked the new allegations. “The Investigative Committee ‘found’ narcotics. We are waiting for it to find an atomic bomb and a striped elephant,” it said on Twitter. “This is possible in Russia these days and can hardly surprise anybody.”
Tsk, tsk, tsk, you tree-hugging dope heads.
Despite the stereotypes the Investigative Committee is counting on to grow this opium field of accusations, international maritime law – as dictated by the World Health Organization (WHO), and enforced by the International Labor Organization (ILO) – makes it illegal for certain classes of vessels not to carry their fair share of smack-based happy pills.
And the list of medications available in a ship’s sickbay doesn’t stop at morphine, a heavy opium based painkiller. The list provided by the WHO suggests a number of other opioid derivatives that are the stuff of junkie shopping in any typical urban emergency room, highly addictive downers like Valium, and a slew of other mother’s-little-helpers that have a higher value on the street than the Arctic Sunrise would have at auction.
Further, the ILO doesn’t require that these drugs be dispensed by a doctor on many classes of ships, which makes the presence of a bona fide physician among the Arctic Sunrise’s detainees, as confirmed by both Greenpeace and the Investigative Committee, a nearly air-tight defense against the imbecilic new allegations.
Pursuant to that, Greenpeace yesterday issued a completely believable statement saying, “We can only assume the Russian authorities are referring to the medical supplies that our ships are obliged to carry under maritime law.”
Just as laughable to anyone who’s been to high school and experimented with drugs are the Investigative Committee’s assertion that “dual-purpose” equipment was found on the Arctic Sunrise, that “could be used not only for ecological purposes.”
I am assuming from that little vagary that Russian authorities are postulating that the chemistry set for measuring various ecological hazards reportedly aboard the ship was used for smoking or injecting narcotics, or mixing various concoctions in the spirit of Breaking Bad meets Lillyhammer.
Report: Security Breakdown In America’s Nuclear Command Centers: “Not Taking the Job Seriously Enough”
Mac Slavo
October 12th, 2013
Last month a high level source speaking with Infowars revealed insider details of a nuclear weapons transfer within the domestic United States that was executed without an official directive or paper trail. One expert noted that such re-positioning of nuclear warheads doesn’t happen unless they “plan on using them.”
Curiously, just a day later, Senator Lindsey Graham warned that a failure to attack Syria could lead to a nuclear weapon being detonated in South Carolina. It was a notion that raised eye brows in mainstream media, but more so throughout alternative media circles, which suggested that the sequence of events were indicative of a false flag attack.
Yesterday, we learned that a senior member of U.S. nuclear command and head of the Air Force’s nuclear arsenal was relieved of his command. This has prompted questions about what is going on in the secret nuclear control centers around the country and it’s raising concerns about the security of America’s nuclear weapons.
Now, a report from the Associated Press goes further down the rabbit hole.
Together, the Carey and Giardina dismissals add a new dimension to a set of serious problems facing the military’s nuclear force.
The ICBM segment in particular has had several recent setbacks, including a failed safety and security inspection at a base in Montana in August, followed by the firing of the colonel there in charge of security forces. In May, The Associated Press revealed that 17 Minuteman 3 missile launch control officers at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., had been taken off duty in a reflection of what one officer there called “rot” inside the ICBM force.
In an inspection that the Air Force publicly termed a “success,” the AP disclosed that launch crews at Minot scored the equivalent of a “D” grade on missile operations. In June the officer in charge of training and proficiency of Minot’s missile crews was fired.
The sidelined launch officers were “not taking the job seriously enough,” causing their bosses to worry that they failed to understand what it takes to “stay up to speed” on nuclear missile operations, the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, told Congress in May. What it boiled down to, he said, was a lack of “proper attitude.”
Were the recent firings of top military brass a result of indiscretions and alcohol induced misbehavior as the official narrative would have us believe, or could a more sinister plot be developing?
Is it possible that nuclear war heads were, in fact, re-positioned by rogue elements within the ICBM nuclear command group without proper authorization?
And would these senior command terminations have occurred had the story about these weapons not been made public?
It’s all speculation at this point, but what we do know is that the U.S. government under the Obama Administration has been operating under a heavy veil of secrecy that has taken unprecedented steps to identify and prosecute whistle blowers and security leakers, making it difficult for the truth to make it to the public.
The fact that the military graded Air Force missile operations with a “D” should give us pause. That’s a gaping hole in our national security and one that could be capitalized on by those who would do us harm.
Thus, at this point, nothing is outside the realm of possibility, the least of which is the notion that a rogue element operating within the government apparatus may be planning a manufactured crisis on U.S. soil.
Fukushima Report: Interview With Dr Richard Wilcox
http://www.altheadlines.com/fukushima-report-interview-with-dr-richard-wilcox-13251769/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter20131012&utm_term=NLM51959
As the real truth about Fukushima escapes Japan in spite of the black hole of media censorship there, increasing international pressure on Japan to confront the reality of this disaster mounts exponentially.
Dr. Richard Wilcox and Hong Kong based science writer Yoichi Shimatsu traveled to Fukushima earlier this year.
The 5th Estate: Dr. Wilcox, there appears to be a lack of national or local media coverage on Fukushima and the ongoing radiation leaks there. What is the situation regarding this in Tokyo at this point
Wilcox: Since the beginning of this man-made disaster, the media in Japan has covered it up, there has always been a time-lag between what is happening at the site and the reality versus the cover the government and TEPCO give it so this is not new.
There has been non-stop leakage of substantial amounts of radiation into the Pacific, and the Japanese media has been under pressure from the government not to tell the truth on this. The nuclear industry in Japan has substantial influence over the media.
At a conference of Japanese media about a year ago Japanese journalists said they would be fired from their publications if they reported the truth on Fukushima radiation fallout dangers. In reality it is a Japanese media blackout to a large extent.
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| A Fukushima worker oversees removal of radioactive waste |
The 5th Estate: How are Tokyo residents reacting to this threat now?
Wilcox: Overall, the average Japanese citizens are in denial about the reality of the actual situation. A few express concern about irradiated seafood and vegetables however prefer not to discuss it, at least publicly. People here in Tokyo seem to just ignore the problem unless they are actually confronted with it on a personal level.
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| Temporary shelter for Fukushima evacuees |
The 5th Estate: Are the Japanese people totally detached from reality?
Wilcox: Of course the suffering people of Fukushima certainly are not. Just yesterday, TEPCO announced that they are spending millions to start yet another reactor while the Fukushima victims that are supposed to receive monetary assistance for relocation have not received anything. So TEPCO is now diverting money away from these victims whose lives have been arbitrarily destroyed, to a fruitless project to restart a reactor that will never transpire in any event given the situation at Fukushima now. TEPCO’s credibility and its ability to deal with the situation has now completely collapsed. Even the Japanese NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has denounced TEPCO’s handling of the disaster.
U.N. panel says Japan nuclear workers may have got higher radiation – report
….workers were tested for thyroid gland doses from radioactive iodine after a significant delay, through procedures that failed to account for iodine-132 and iodine-133, which have short half-lives of 2 hours and 20 hours, respectively….
Tepco creditors agree to roll over loan: Nikkei
TOKYO | Sat Oct 12, 2013 6:09am EDT
(Reuters) – Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and 27 other financial institutions have agreed to roll over a roughly 77 billion yen ($783 million) syndicated loan for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.T) due to mature at the end of the month, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.
Tepco has lost $27 billion since the 2011 disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and faces massive liabilities as it decommissions the facility, compensates tens of thousands of residents forced to evacuate, and pays for decontamination of an area nearly the size of Connecticut.
The SMBC-led group includes Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Gunma Bank (8334.T), Chiba Bank (8331.T), and a number of prefecture-based agricultural cooperatives.
Tepco’s major banks are prepared to provide 500 billion yen in financing in December – 200 billion yen in loan rollovers and 300 billion yen in new financing, a person involved in the talks told Reuters last month. ($1 = 98.3050 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Lisa Twaronite; editing by Ron Askew)
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