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A customs officer holds up a device used for measuring radiation levels, while standing in front of vehicles delivered from Japan, in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok.(Reuters / Yuri Maltsev)
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January 4, 2014
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4 January 2014
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I have just posted a rebuttal of the Turner Radio article claiming a recent meltdown of a reactor (that had already melted down in the early stages of the Daichi nuclear disaster in March 2011).
This is already documented and even the pro nuclear sources agree (finally), that this happened.
One major reason that allowed the confusion is a lack of knowledge concerning nuclear matters. Years ago the Main stream media used to employ “Science Journalists” who did a specific qualification in related fields. Now we have to rely on largely volunteer bloggers and independent scientists, who are trying to disseminate real lies and real corruption that is hidden deep in the data, using the talents they have acquired to date. It is an imperfect way of gathering data but is useful if you have some basic knowledge and critical thinking skills. And this method has been effective for some. There are also differences of opinion on the effects caused by this disaster within the anti nuclear movement, most regular nuclear viewers are aware of the differences in ideas and can decide for themselves but all are agreed that there any meltdowns have already happened years ago.
The reason I wished to comment on this situation is because there is a twist to this tale. There are real people having real problems in Japan, especially those that live in the sporadically contaminated areas of Fukushima and Miyagi (possibly beyond). We have some evidence for the levels of contamination, not by the IAEA and the “nuclear family” but by independent scientists, bloggers in France and beyond. Most blogs might post some sensational posts but will balance it with other human interest stories that are available and are real such as this;
http://vimeo.com/51297975
Best Animated Film: ABITA, Germany, 2012, 4 min, Shoko Hara, Paul Brenner
"Abita", animated short film about Fukushima children who can't play
outside because of the radioactivity. About their dreams and realities.
福島の子供たちが、放射能のため外で遊ぶことができない。彼らの夢と現実について。
The argument is really about the dose and other issues on contamination that are effecting the effected areas. The secrecy that started early April 2011 has successfully blinkered the worlds view of the human impact of the Fukushima tragedy.
The lies of TEPCO, supported by their nuclear fuel friends from the USA and the UK and the IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR , have made Fukushima an internet brand that now commands many hits on a relevant website. The human dimension has been ignored and articles such as the Turner Radio and this effort; http://topinfopost.com/2014/01/03/underground-nuclear-explosion-at-crippled-japan-atomic-plant-shocks-world have caused real hurt to many.
These media outlets managed to miss all the more accurate news that can be found or as Dun Renard posits maybe there is something more suspect? They ignore the feelings of the people of Fukushima and concerned viewers from around the world that may have family and friends in these effected areas.
Fukushima, indeed Japan has started to slide into totalitarianism with military ambitions. Belarus was allowed to go that way by the Soviet leadership as it would contain the information that might effect its weapons program. Now the USA (with dozens of full on military bases around Japan) is allowing and encouraging Japans similar slide. It seems obvious to me this geo-political similarity. And the Military industrial complex`s of the world get “business as usual”. There are real stories to be told on this situation.
So well don D`un Renard for challenging this type of news. And the other media outlets that admitted it was just business as usual at Daichi. We need to think about the people in Japan and how we could support them because;
If we stop Japanese, USA or UK/French nuclear then that effects the whole global nuclear cabal and if we do that, no matter what you believe, the engorged one percent get a bad beating.
If we prove that there is more serious health effects than the nuclear lobby are letting on then many governments will get a bad beating and so will corrupt medical professionals etc.
We could then help better in mitigating contamination in the many areas that are polluted around the world and better support the most badly effected from this disaster and that would make us consider effects further away from ground zero. We need effective testing that is not available now and an independent radiological measuring organization such as the effrts of (The non-existence of the International Nuclear Emergency Service – Iouli Andreev)
For future disaster remember that Japan has now an independent radiation monitoring network called SAFECAST with more than 4000 monitors. Also, go to You Tube and look for new gieger readings, certain bloggers will post any high hits there.. Check the main nuclear news sources, I recommend http//www.nukene.ws to see the different posters there and any more reliable news sources you know off. They all have the links to the same Japanese bloggers etc.
The Japanese have an anti nuclear network that can doublecheck with a phone call/email so I recommend http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/fake-urgentalert-about-escaping-steam.html as a good place to start for the latest Japanese related as well as fukushima diary.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/01/column-reactor3-hoax-and-fukushima-exploiters/
I hope that this little bit of info might help in the future and hope that other media outlets use these links and ideas to double check stories. My thoughts are with all those Japanese and concerned bloggers/scientists around the world that had their New Year celebrations dulled with concerns.
January 4, 2014
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From someone who is keeping his/her wits
I have been following this latest panic blitz…
It’s complicated, here’s my quick take:
There was a fake *URGENT*ALERT* about escaping steam blowing west in Japan, back at the end of 2012
Had all of us really shook up
Turned out was faked, by survivalist/end-times trolls having fun? or paid professionals?
I think it’s a psyops campaign:
1) Introduce secrecy laws to shut down all news from FukushimaD’un Renad
2) Fill the internet void this creates with orchestrated news & noise
3) Float rumors & start feuds (hat-trick vs Arnie, is ENEnews part of TEPCO cover-up, etc
4) Gradually raise heat & stir briskly with panic (drive ’em crazy w/info overload, get ’em poppin’ like popcorn
This will heat up & polarize the issue, disrupt clear thinking, bury true info on subject and neutralize (discredit, divert, demonize) those who know pieces of it before they can infect others…
How?
Those of us following online Fuku news closely are supposed to fall/jump for fake alarm
We get excited and relay bogus info, that can be debunked at later date…
And start to look/sound like kooks to the normal sleeper-walkers, forcing them to choose: which side do you believe
This will reinforce identity positions vis-a-vis Fuku, ie I’m not a kook, it’s all okay, nuke is safe, etc
And I can stop listening to those who are trying to tell me otherwise…
But tarnish us with a bogus CPM panic now, at Christmas time no less!
And people won’t trust us any more than they do the grinch, later when the numbers do start climbing
The nuke industry & war machine nexus is doing all it can to keep nuke power & profit going
Hence psyops to neutralize the global networks of awareness are logical (and likely enjoy unlimited budgets
But these misguided miscreants are on a serious pathological & global death trip
So while this burst of provoked panic is phony and I wouldn’t get excited about it
The situation is not good, and will never be (until the thieves & thugs are dethroned…
Intentional viral confusion of facts & fears buys time (this works because it may take 50 years to see the full proofs)
But the time we’re wasting with lies, secrecy, inept response efforts & bogus ‘news’ games is the outrage, and a crime
And that’s where real panic sets in for me, that’s the worst news
All this effort & expense to keep people blind so the homicidal corruption can continue even when it will destroy all life…scary thought: we are a psychotic species!
One thing for sure, I think it’s time we turned ‘Turner Radio” news on its spooky head
Haven’t trusted them since I saw their story about USS Reagan sailors lawsuit: claimed sailors were contaminated because they swam in contaminated ocean, had desalinated water contaminate their bathtubs, etc
AND their related story: Navy was innocent because Japan knew but didn’t tell them about radiation levels…
hahahaha
By my thinking, Turner is a bogus source, a trojan horse (with shady b/g, see home page explantaion…
And they have sure done a lot to push this, what I’d call the “2013 holiday panic campaign”
Here’s the relevant links
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/tepco-quietly-admits-reactor-3-melting-now/
The giveaway clue is in the title:
Because reactor cores 1, 2 & 3 ‘melted down’ in March 2011
Then soon after ‘melted through’ containment vessels
Now they are called ‘corium’ (this is the word that dare not be spoken!
And the CORIUM is in the ground in contact with ground water & sea
Three 100 ton lumps of nuclear material gone critical, ie out of control chain reactions
Like a faucet, the corium in Fukushima will spew isotopes for hundreds of years into our ocean and atmosphere
There are also spent fuel pools, turns out the one in unit4 went dry and the initial plume was far worse than any of us imagined then
This is the news they don’t want circulated or understood, thus it’s open season on credible messengers to carry it…
It seems we Fuku aware folks are being squeezed from both directions:.
Exaggerated reports are widely disseminated spreading distortions that may discredit our efforts. When people learn that their fears were needlessly aroused, they may lose interest in the issue.
From the other direction, there’s misinfo of the opposite variety that says there’s no problem or that risks are insignificant.
In correcting that misinfo, cite and/or link to reputable/credible sources to back concerns .
In calming undue panic, also emphasize that the problem is important and requires our action.
Yeah & yes, no time like the right time to watch our wingspans fellow sparrows of truth, there be plenty of crows out lately, looking to trip up the true…
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January 4, 2014
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憲法九条の素晴らしさを共有し、守り、活かし、世界に向けて広めていく取組の一つとして、実行委員会を組織し、ノルウェー・ノーベル委員会宛の署名活動を開始しました。
EUが団体としてノーベル平和賞を受賞出来るなら、憲法前文から始まり基本的人権の尊重と徹底した戦争放棄を謳った憲法九条を戦後70年近く保持している日本国民も団体としてノーベル平和賞を受賞出来る可能性はあるのではないでしょうか。
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January 4, 2014
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I had to reblog this evidence and some earlier evidence that explains the thyroid cancer rate around children..
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Published on 13 Mar 2012
This video shows radiation levels on May 29th 2011, in Fukushima city (Japan) about 60-65 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.
Measurements are made by a CRIIRAD scientist (Bruno. Chareyron, engineer in nuclear physics) during a meeting between CRIIRAD and Japanese citizens : M. Wataru Iwata (co-founder of Project 47 and CRMS) and persons in charge of the network “Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation”, including M. Nagate (ex-representative), Mrs Marumori (now Executive Director of CRMS) and Mrs Sato. CRIIRAD is sharing its experience of independent radiation monitoring with the Fukushima citizens.
In this video, CRIIRAD researcher is using a gamma radiation detector (DG5 scintillometer) to show the intensity of radiation rates, even inside the office at floor level. Radiation rates are given in counts per second (c/s). With this device, normal values should be about 50 to 150 c/s depending on natural radiation.
The powerful gamma radiations emitted by radioactive caesium deposited on the ground of the parking located in front of the building give a radiation rate about 10 times above normal values inside the building (at the centre of the office), and 15 times above near the window. This radiation will decrease only very slowly. After one year, the decrease should be about 23 % only.
Additional info : look at http://www.criirad.org
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January 4, 2014
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While trawling the web i came upon this message on the RADSAFE comments.. No mention of Japans 100mSv/year dose allowance ..
However, there are moves to increase the dose allowance of gamma, Beta and Alpha energies even further, with no mention of internal dose allowances.. A figure mentioned in the message is O.2 Rontgen a day or 71 mSv/year.
I find it interesting that now the Nuclear Health Physicists are supporting the failed ICRP model so as to not make any bad publicity. At least that is the discussion.. Read on..
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Source of comment ; http://health.phys.iit.edu/archives/2013-December/039276.html
Dear RADSAFERS,
Let me at the very outset wish all of you a happy, healthy and productive New Year.
I thought it is time to discuss some of the developments in radiation risk assessment.
A review titled
"Evidence for beneficial low level
radiation effects and
radiation
hormesis"by Dr L E
FEINENDEGEN published in the British
Medical Journal concluded :
"Thus, the
linear-no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis for cancer risk is scientifically
unfounded and appears to be invalid in favour of a threshold or hormesis. This
is consistent with data both from animal studies and human epidemiological
observations on low-dose induced cancer. The LNT hypothesis should be abandoned
and be replaced by a hypothesis that is scientifically justified and causes
less unreasonable fear and unnecessary expenditure". (BJR , 78 (2005), 3–7)
Shortly thereafter, The French
Academy of Sciences chaired by Prof. Tubiana came to similar conclusions. Several
papers appeared since then. Many of them concluded that LNT theory is not supported by scientific evidence.
The French report concluded that
on the basis of our present knowledge, it is not possible to define the
threshold level (between 5 and 50 mSv?) or to provide evidence for it.
A draft summary of the DOE funded Low Dose Radiation Research
Programme over 10 years from
1998-2008 concluded
"To date, these data have
had major impact on understanding the biological processes triggered by low
doses of radiation but require additional research, development of methods of
using the data, and communication before such data can impact radiation
standards"
The quest for a scientifically
supported model continues. Every one fervently hopes that the model may provide
evidence for a quantitative value for a threshold dose.
What is the way forward.? Fukushima has added another
dimension to the discourse. Evacuation caused over 1000 deaths
In his article titled "Commentary on Fukushima and Beneficial
Effects of Low Radiation" Dr Jerry Cuttler made a persuasive and
thought provoking statement and a recommendation
. "The ICRP’s concept of
radiation risk is wrong. It should revert to its 1934 concept, which was a
tolerance dose of 0.2 roentgen (r) per day based on more than 35 years of
medical experience".
I
request RADSAFERS to please respond to the following:
1) How many radsafers are willing to accept Dr Cuttler's
recommendation?
2) My take is to keep the current
ICRP recommendations in tact. Fear of radiation arises from the improper and
incorrect use of concepts. ICRP earlier
and UNSCEAR now has cleared the air. A
well focused public information
programme must be tried to allay radiation phobia.
We should unambiguously state
thus:
"There is substantial and convincing evidence for health risks
following high dose exposures. However, below 5–10 rem (which includes
occupational and environmental exposures), risks of health effects are either
too small to be observed or are nonexistent." (Part of the position
statement by the US Health Physics Society)
Do you agree with this proposal?
3) Dose levels at which any emergency
has to be handled should be decided in advance; all stake-holders must participate in that
exercise.
Is that acceptable?
January 3, 2014
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He said the PISA has been engaged in the number of Cyber Drills during last year and has trained more than 1000 university students, information security professionals and members of law & enforcements for secure use of Cyber Space and to establish international liaison with the similar organizations functioning in other different countries.
Senate’s Defence Committee has taken the initiative for the formulation of Cyber Security Policy to preserve, promote and protect Pakistan’s national security digitally.
Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of Senate Defence Committee — who was attending the Cyber Secure Pakistan Conference as Chief Guest – announced this today.
Senator Mushahid Hussain, while defining the role of the Task Force on Cyber Security Policy, said the task force working jointly with Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA) under Senate Defence Committee will be asked to define the nature of the new emerging threats to Pakistan’s national security & defence in the digital battlefield and to prepare Cyber Security Policy, in consultation and with cooperation of experts and professionals from PISA and government organisations as well.
He said legislation and legal framework for Cyber Security and guarding against Cyber Warfare will be another most important task as the Cyber Warfare is already being waged by certain elements and must be countered with courage. In this connection, Senator Mushahid Hussain also welcomed recommendations made in the International Judicial Conference yesterday organised by the Supreme Court.
He hoped the joint task force will be capable to promote the required awareness for Cyber Security and to bring all relevant stakeholders on one platform for collaborated and organized efforts.
In his address, Mr. Ammar Jaffri, President PISA and organizer of the Cyber Secure Pakistan Conference informed the participants about the different steps taken by PISA to secure the Cyber Space of Pakistan. He said the PISA has been engaged in the number of Cyber Drills during last year and has trained more than 1000 university students, information security professionals and members of law & enforcements for secure use of Cyber Space and to establish international liaison with the similar organizations functioning in other different countries.
Mr. Jaffri welcomed the formation of Joint Task Force on Cyber Security and hoped to boost the collaboration between public & private organization as relevant state holders of Cyber Security.
Cyber Security professionals from number of other countries Malaysia, USA, Australia Kingdom of Saudi Arabia etc. were also participated in the annual conference and had delivered their key note speeches on vital topics related to Cyber Security.
January 3, 2014
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…The plant sat in limbo until 2000, when Russian President Vladimir Putin, on an official visit in Cuba, offered then-President Fidel Castro a belated $800 million. But Castro declined, for reasons unknown. The abandoned plant sits on the Caribbean coast, and access is not permitted to foreigners….
on January 03 2014 10:43 AM
http://www.ibtimes.com/bolivia-wants-nuclear-energy-brazil-other-latin-american-countries-are-abandoning-it-1525442
Tiny Bolivia, the poorest nation in South America, packs a punch — or so says President Evo Morales, who welcomed the new year with an announcement: Bolivia is ready to pursue nuclear energy. Morales assured that the country has the necessary raw materials for the quest to be successful, and said nuclear power is a “right for every Bolivian.”
“Nuclear energy is not a privilege for developed countries, and others have to be deprived of it,” he said, adding that Bolivia is not a warlike country and nuclear energy would be used for “peaceful ends.”
Morales did make a point to say that it will take some time to develop the necessary technology, and that countries like France and Argentina were helping out. “It is time to take Bolivia off the last row in Latin American development,” he said.
However, Morales’ enthusiasm for this technology notwithstanding, the history of Latin America with nuclear energy is not very promising. Three countries in the region — Mexico, Brazil and Argentina — use nuclear power, all under the Treaty of Tlateloco of 1967, which forbids nuclear weapons and the use of nuclear energy for war. Others, like Chile and Cuba, have expressed interest in developing nuclear energy.
But no Latin American countries have been very successful with it, for various reasons.
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January 3, 2014
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National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs both Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the two labs were critical to the agency meeting several of its goals.
Dan Mayfield
Reporter- Albuquerque Business First
Jan 3, 2014
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/blog/morning-edition/2014/01/nnsa-says-it-needs-new-mexicos-labs.html
In its 2013 wrap-up, the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs both Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the two labs were critical to the agency meeting several of its goals.
The largest capital project the agency completed for the year was the Radiological Laboratory Office Building Equipment Installation at LANL, which is the first nuclear project NNSA has delivered under budget and ahead of schedule.
NNSA also recognized New Mexico researchers who garnered four of “Popular Science” magazine’s 100 best innovations from 2013, which came from LANL and Sandia. Also, researchers from Sandia were responsible for radar drop tests of B61 nuclear bombs at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
January 3, 2014
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The Indian ruling class’ colonial mentality was revealed by what Dr. Manmohan Singh said while accepting an honorary degree from the Oxford University on July 8, 2005: “As we look back and also look ahead, it is clear that the Indo-British relationship is one of ‘give and take’. The challenge before us today is to see how we can take this mutually beneficial relationship forward in an increasingly inter-dependent and globalized world that we live in.”
Confronting the Nuke-colonization of India: A National Convention of Anti-Nuclear Movements will be held in Idinthakarai, Tamil Nadu on January 4 and 5. This will be inaugurated by Admiral (retd.) L. Ramdas.In the context of the unprecedented threats facing the world due to global warming and the rapid depletion of conventional energy sources, the nuclear establishment is most opportunistically pushing nuclear energy as a climate-friendly energy source. However, all the activities associated with nuclear power generation – the mining and processing of uranium, the building of nuclear power stations involving huge amounts of cement and steel, the long construction process, the decommissioning of plants and the handling of radioactive waste – are highly unsafe and expensive, and cause enormous climate-changing pollution. Nuclear energy is not cheap, safe, clean or sustainable. It also does not offer a solution to our energy problems.
The Nuke-Colonization of India
However, the government of India headed by Dr. Manmohan Singh has been aggressively expanding nuclear power generation and enhancing nuclear business with countries such as the United States, Russia, France, Kazakhstan, Australia, Japan and others without any regard for the norms of democratic decision making. Throwing all the democratic precepts and practices to the air, the two-term UPA government unilaterally took upon the task of nuclearizing the highly and densely populated country, India, and securing a ludicrous legacy for the discredited prime minister.
A highly populated country like India does have an increasing need for energy. But for that very reason, the energy options we choose must be economical, sustainable, safe and environmentally-friendly. Moreover, energy distribution must be made more equitable, just and efficient.
What is happening in India right now is not just nuclearization of the country, but growing nuke-colonization, colonizing India all over again with the help of nuclear powers such as the United States, Russia, France etc. Both the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are complicit in this national crime!
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January 3, 2014
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GE has wisely chosen a high margin part of the oil and gas business that plays well with their exceptional skills in specialized materials and remote sensing. Not only does deep drilling require sophisticated materials, but it also requires mobile generators and an increasingly large array of treatment systems. Since hydraulically fractured wells exhibit depletion rates in the 5-10% per month range, maintaining a steady supply of gas from shale rock formations that require fracking means a continuing need to drill an ever larger number of wells.
3 January 2014
Rod Adams
https://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/322386/ge-cto-describes-his-company-s-focus-oil-and-gas-technology
Bill Loveless from Platts Energy Week recently interviewed Mark Little, GE’s chief technology officer, about the company’s interests in the oil and gas extraction sector. Loveless and Little discussed GE’s planned investments into an Oklahoma-based research center that will be the first GE technology development laboratory that is focused on a single business sector.
Mark Little: We’re very excited about going to Oklahoma. We have a global network of research centers that support all of our businesses. The first one was in upstate New York. First industrial research lab ever in the United States. We built out from that to India, China, Germany, Brazil, other places in the US. We’re going to Oklahoma for the first time with the intent of having a single business focused center. All these other centers support every business. This one will be focused solely on oil and gas.
Why are we doing that? There’s such a rich technology opportunity here to get technology into the oil and gas space. We wanted to really focus on that; make a showcase for our customers from around the world to come and see this and to help us develop technologies that they need to make their operations more efficient and more productive.
The video of the interview can be found by clicking here.
After watching that interview, do you have any more doubt about why GE leaders spend little or no time marketing new nuclear power plants that would reduce the growing demand for natural gas in the lucrative US electrical power market?
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January 3, 2014
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…”Sea level rise, especially in the south-east of England, will mean some of these sites will be under water within 100 years,” said David Crichton, a flood specialist and honorary professor at the hazard research centre at University College London. “This will make decommissioning expensive and difficult, not to mention the recovery and movement of nuclear waste to higher ground.”….
….”It makes you wonder what other important information about the safety of our nuclear plants the government and EDF might be hiding,”….
Rising sea levels because of climate change put 12 of 19 sites at risk, unpublished government analysis shows
http://verschwoerer.soup.io/post/384229393/UK-nuclear-sites-at-risk-of-flooding
As many as 12 of Britain’s 19 civil nuclear sites are at risk of flooding and coastal erosion because of climate change, according to an unpublished government analysis obtained by the Guardian.
Nine of the sites have been assessed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) as being vulnerable now, while others are in danger from rising sea levels and storms in the future.
The sites include all of the eight proposed for new nuclear power stations around the coast, as well as numerous radioactive waste stores, operating reactors and defunct nuclear facilities. Two of the sites for the new stations – Sizewell in Suffolk and Hartlepool in County Durham, where there are also operating reactors – are said to have a current high risk of flooding. Closed and running reactors at Dungeness, Kent, are also classed as currently at high risk.
Another of the sites at risk is Hinkley Point in Somerset, where the first of the new nuclear stations is planned and where there are reactors in operation and being decommissioned.
According to Defra, Hinkley Point already has a low risk of flooding, and by the 2080s will face a high risk of both flooding and erosion.
Other new reactor sites that face some risk now and high risk by the 2080s are Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Bradwell, Essex.
The huge old nuclear complex at Sellafield, Cumbria, is said to face a medium risk of flooding now and later.
The analysis was conducted by officials from Defra’s floods and coastal erosion team as part of a major investigation into the impact of climate change on the UK. But when the results were published in January only summary numbers for the 2080s were mentioned and no individual sites were named.
Defra has now, however, released its full analysis in response to a request under freedom of information legislation. As a result, the department’s assessments of the risks for individual sites can be disclosed for the first time.
Many of the sites date back to the 1950s and 1960s, and are unlikely to be fully decommissioned for many decades. Seven of those containing radioactive waste stores are judged to be at some risk of flooding now, with a further three at risk of erosion by the 2080s.
Experts suggested the main concern was of inundation causing nuclear waste leaks.
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January 3, 2014
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State Involvement Key for Decommissioning Old Nuclear Plants, Nasdaq, By Oilprice.com, January 03, 2014 The beginning of 2014 marks the final year of operation for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, ending a contentious battle between the state and the plant’s owner. On December 23, Entergy (ETR) and the state of Vermont announced a deal that will end all litigation surrounding the plant’s operation, shut down the plant at the end of 2014, and lead to a compressed schedule to study decommissioning.
The conflict started when Entergy sought a 20-year license renewal to keep the Yankee plant operating into the 2030’s. Vermont, however, requires approval from the state legislature for license renewal, the only state in the country that does so. Yet Entergy sued the state, arguing that authority over nuclear license renewals rests only with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and that federal authority trumps state authority.
Although a series of court decisions affirmed Entergy’s position, the company ultimately decided to close the plant anyway, largely due the inability to compete with cheap natural gas. In August 2013 it announced that it would cease operations at the end of 2014…….
The deal to close Vermont Yankee does offer a useful model for decommissioning as it tackles some of the key areas of conflict between the industry and the areas in which it operates. Entergy agreed to complete adecommissioning study in one year, much quicker than the four years allotted for by the NRC. It also agreed to move nuclear waste from onsite pool storage into dry casks within seven years, even though the NRC allows the company to keep waste in pools for sixty years. The deal also calls for Entergy to pay millions of dollars to the state for economic development for the county in which Vermont Yankee is located.
One of the interesting features of the deal is that it allowed for active involvement of the state in shaping the path towards decommissioning and waste disposal, which is often absent elsewhere. To be sure, huge question marks remain, including how the state will make up for the shortfall in electricity generation, and where funding for decommissioning will come from. But, the U.S. has thus far failed to implement a strategy to decommission old nuclear power plants. And with most of the 100 or so nuclear power plants obtaining 20-year license renewals, that conversation has been pushed off into the future. The Vermont Yankee deal, while incomplete, does offer lessons for decommissioning. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/state-involvement-key-for-decommissioning-old-nuclear-plants-cm315680#ixzz2pRYlLxGz
January 3, 2014
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Plumes of Mysterious Steam rise from Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Reactor By Russia Today
Global Research, January 03, 2014 Fresh plumes of most probably radioactive steam have been detected rising from the reactor 3 building at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said the facility’s operator company.
The steam has been detected by surveillance cameras and appeared to be coming from the fifth floor of the mostly-destroyed building housing crippled reactor 3, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the plant’s operator.
The steam was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then again on December 24, 25, 27, according to a report TEPCO published on its website.
The company, responsible for the cleanup of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, has not explained the source of the steam or the reason it is rising from the reactor building. High levels of radiation have complicated entry into the building and further inspection of the situation…….
January 3, 2014
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