TOKYO – The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has logged a first-half net profit with its results boosted by a government bailout and electricity rate hike.
AMMAN — Jordan’s under-formation Green Party on Thursday sent invitations to political parties to hold an “urgent” meeting to discuss the government’s final decision to move ahead with the nuclear programme.
In a statement sent to The Jordan Times, the Green Party said it included with the invitation letters a brief study on the environmental impact of the projected nuclear plants, expressing hope that all political parties would reach a consensus to object to the government’s nuclear plans.
Earlier this week, the government announced that it has selected the Russian state-owned firm Rosatom to build two 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants east of Amman by 2022.
Scunthorpe veterans of nuclear test site, Christmas Island, says they did not know how dangerous the work they were carrying out was.
The British nuclear veterans are fighting for compensation from the Government, claiming they have suffered a lifetime of illness following the exposure to radiation.
Former Deputy Chair of the Liberal Democrats, Donnachadh McCarthy, writes to Lib Dem DECC Secretary of State Ed Davey about Hinkley C nuclear power station.
Re: Nuclear assault on Poor, Workers and UK Economy
I could hardly sleep last night thinking about the enormity of the crime committed yesterday by you, George Osborne and Ed Miliband over your agreement to massively subsidise China and EDF to build poisonous nuclear plants in the UK.
The proposed £420 billion (minimum) subsidy for 12 nuclear poison-production plants, would have created huge employment in the UK’s energy efficiency and renewables industries.
This nuclear subsidy will to go to foreign firms as we no longer have the technological capacity in this old 1950s dirty technology.
This figure does not include the massive free open-ended blank cheque for free insurance to the French/Chinese consortium nor the increase in subsidy if/when renewables fall below current grid-price.
Thus the decision was a direct attack on UK workers with thousands of jobs sent overseas.
Secondly the decision means millions of the UK poor who could have had their energy bills eliminated through energy efficiency and home and decentralised renewables will now be kept in fuel-poverty for another generation.
Yesterday’s announcement of the tearing up of the Lib Dem and Tory manifesto promises, and the coalition agreement for no subsidies to nuclear was accompanied by no basic cost/benefit analysis.
Where is the comparison for jobs created, carbon saved, fuel poverty eliminated and UK jobs created by investing £420 billion in nuclear poison creation v energy efficiency / regulation / renewables?!
Any responsible political party not in the pockets of their in-house party nuclear-lobbyists, would carry out such an independent analysis and publish it for scrutiny.
But the sorry fact is we have no such party of government – as all 3 parties are infected with internal bought nuclear lobbyists.
The list of other reasons why yesterday should be marked as a black day for the UK and its people is overwhelming:
Nowhere to store the nuclear poisons.
Nuclear poisons will have to be stored “safely” for generations to come.
Over 90% of DECC (The Department of Energy and Climate Change) budget already consumed with storing / dealing with already produced nuclear poisons, with costs escalating every year, with no end in sight to this inflation.
1 in 100 nuclear plants have disastrously failed
the nuclear plants proposed is a new unproven design
the nuclear plants proposed are already years behind in Finland and France.
the nuclear plants proposed are already billions over budget in Finland and France.
Safe reliable existing alternative technologies already exist.
France, Germany and Italy all have rejected this 1950s technology and are pursuing renewables and energy efficiency instead thus creating thousands of jobs for their citizens.
Nuclear plays an irresponsible catastrophic Russian Roulette with our nation. A Fukushima catastrophe in Somerset would cause permanent evacuation of large areas of the county.
A Fukushima in Somerset would destroy offshore fishing industry of UK, Ireland and Scotland
Nuclear power stations are a national existential terrorist security risk – the costs of making them safe from a Jumbo Jet suicide mission is enormous
Many of the nuclear power stations are being built on low-lying coastal land that cannot be protected without huge costs to future generations, from the sea levels now inexorably rising due to the climate crisis.
The Glinsk renewable energy storage project in Ireland has the capacity of 2 nuclear power stations without any of the over-whelming risks and disadvantages above.
Every day of the week in my work as an eco-auditor, I encounter colossal waste of energy, from pointless daylight lighting to energy systems on in offices 24/7 to innumerable empty fridges to air-conditioned stores with wide open doors.
I am in no doubt you are building nuclear power stations to provide energy to be criminally wasted.
The list goes on and on. This is one of the largest ever criminal attacks on the UK state and the UK public by The Prostitute State.
Could I implore you to re-think this disastrous nightmarish decision and respect the promise to oppose nuclear white-elephants that you made each time you stood for election?
Yours sincerely,
Donnachadh McCarthy FRSA.
Donnachadh says: Please engage with your local MPs or those whom you know on this hugely important issue. Please feel free to use the letter I sent to Ed Davey as a basis if you wish.
Anti-nuclear protesters, many wearing business suits, marched through Tokyo’s Shinbashi district in the evening of Oct. 30.
Most of the attendees came straight from their offices to take part in the 40-minute demo.
The group started at a park near Shinbashi Station at 7 p.m and marched nearly 2 kilometers in the business district, shouting slogans such as “No to restarts,” “Stop contaminated water” and “Stop export.”
They also passed by the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, to raise their voices against nuclear energy.
The event organizer’s aim was to increase the involvement of office workers, who generally hesitate to join demonstrations. Ordinary people are generally not taking any action, the organizer said.
Satoko Namikawa, a corporate employee who lives in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, attended the march in her black suit after finishing work.
The 31-year-old Namikawa said, “Having seen the devastation in Fukushima Prefecture a year ago, I no longer feel that nuclear power is necessary.”
She added, “I hope more people feel inclined to join demonstrations after seeing that many company employees attended this one.”
About 600 people attended the march, the organizer said.
….But was it really? “No one can say for sure that the earthquake did not play a part,” the second video states. But what was clear was that the nuclear reactions were built in 1974 and Tepco believed that the risk was very low…..
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The disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant was “man-made and preventable.” It was not “an act of God,” as Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) originally claimed. Japanese authorities were “putting off safety measures” from 2009 to 2016, and so “the nuclear power plant was not well-guarded against accidents.”
These simple yet stunning statements were the conclusions of 18 young professionals who were engaged by the Japanese government to produce the Diet Report of NAICC (Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission). This independent panel of determined professionals, lawyers, scientists, journalists and university students took part in a unique-to-Japan project to help the general public understand what had happened in March 2011 in Fukushima.
The National Diet’s executive report also blamed “Japanese culture for the fundamental causes of the disaster.” (The National Diet or “Kokkai” is Japan’s bicameral legislature.)
To incite open discussions on the disaster’s lessons, this independent group had compiled a 592-page report in July 2012 in which they outlined their investigation of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, which continues to this day. Unfortunately, because that report was originally in Japanese, very few had read the full account. Because it was very technical, even fewer understand its full impact.
For the very first time, this NAICC panel has released six short video clips explaining the lengthy report in simple language for easy consumption by the general public. These videos have hit the Internet. Starting today, English versions have been made available on the Internet.
One week we learn the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has contaminated the entire North Pacific with via the daily discharge of 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean. The following week we learn that Britain has approved the first new, “totally safe” nuclear power plant in 35 years, at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The snow job being perpetrated on the British and American public is that nuclear energy creates electricity without emitting carbon dioxide and that it’s cheaper than renewable energy. Neither is true.
Nuclear energy only looks cheap and carbon neutral if you take plant construction and nuclear waste disposal out of the equation. The US, British, French, Chinese and other governments driving the current nuclear renaissance don’t want you to think about nuclear waste disposal. This is because the technology required to safely neutralize and store spent plutonium that remains radioactive for 10,000 years has yet to be invented. Finland has come the closest, with the launch of a $3 billion excavation of an underground depository at Onkalo. Since the US site at Yucca Mountain was defunded in 2010, most countries have been leaving their spent fuel rods lying around in containment pools. At Fukushima, the spent rods were on the roof of the stricken reactors – before they melted down and spewed immeasurable amounts of radiation into the air and groundwater. In Britain, most nuclear “decommissioning” happens at a former nuclear weapons site called Sellafield. Despite a government allocation of more than ₤67 billion to the facility, the spent rods are still lying around in open pools. No one can figure out what to do with them.
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