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UNSCEARが被曝による健康被害はなかったという報告を出そうとしている！ UNSCEAR is going to publish a report that says there is no health hazards after the Fukushima disaster!

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September 10th 2013
Posted by  Mia
Dear all, especially the UN personnel and concerned citizens in Japan
拡散してください！(特に国連の方と日本の憂慮する市民の方々)
Please dissemiante!
ベルギー代表も怒った9月発表のUNSCEAR報告　Even Belgian delegates got mad at the upcoming UNSCEAR report　http://vogelgarten.blogspot.de/2013/08/unscear.html(Japanese)

The UNSCEAR Report downplays the Effects of radiation after the Fukushima accident, which infuriated even the Belgian government delegate.

http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_1es-delegues-belges-indignes-on-minimise-les-consequences-de-fukushima?id=8042566 (French)
このままでは、日本では事故直後から出ている健康被害、そして先日発表された44人の甲状腺と疑いのことも、なかったことにされてしまいます。

If nothing done, all the health hazards observed since the onset of the Fukushima accident and the recent news of 44 thyroid cancers and suspected cases would be totally ignored.
これを訴えられるのは、日本人しかいません。

Only Japanese can respond to this!
英語ができない？

You say you cannot write English?
関係ありません！今はグーグル翻訳だってあるのです。

Nonsense!  You can use google translation!
グーグル翻訳でいいからメールを、以下のUNSCEAR担当者に！Please write a mail to UNSCEAR person below,

日本人がWatchしていることを国連に伝えないとなりません！！！
We need to tell the UN many Japanese are watching!!!
Contact address: Ms. Jaya…

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February 11, 2014 Posted by | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Costs of cleanup of Sellafield radioactive wastes getting out of control

Sellafield: MPs warn US-led consortium over escalating cost of clean-up Margaret Hodge says Nuclear Management Partners’ contract should be terminated if performance does not improve The Guardian,   The Guardian, Tuesday 11 February 2014 The American-led consortium presiding over the clean-up of hazardous nuclear waste at Sellafield must be stripped of its contract if it does not improve a performance that has seen the bill rise to more than £70bn, according to a committee of MPs.

A report from the public accounts committee said progress at the nuclear complex in Cumbria had been poor, with missed targets, escalating costs, slipping deadlines and weak leadership.

The MPs made a series of recommendations focusing on the role of the private consortium, Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), which was brought in by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) six years ago to help improve the plant’s performance.

The report concluded that the consortium was to blame for many of the escalating costs and the MPs said they could not understand why the NDA extended the consortium’s contract last October.

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Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said costs were rising to “astonishing” levels, such as the doubling to £729m million on a storage silo project, while another task had been put back six years to 2023. Hodge said the authority should monitor progress and terminate NMP’s contract if performance does not improve quickly……..

Timescales have slipped and reprocessing targets have been missed. NMP has failed to provide the clear leadership, strong management and improved capabilities for the job.”

Hodge added: “There has been a high turnover of executives, and NMP has failed to train staff with the right skills and experience. Instead it used expensive NMP staff – at an average cost of £300,000 per expert in 2012-2013.”

areva-medusa1One of the members of the NMP consortium is Areva, the French engineering firm that is also working on the new power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The group also includes URS of the US and Amec of the UK……..

Sources close to the authority claimed that the consortium’s contract was extended by the government because of a “lack of faith” in its ability to attract another consortium to take over the job at the same rates.,,,,,,,,,http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/11/sellafield-consortium-cost-clean-up

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We greatly under=reported level of Fushima radiation, admits Tepco

Fukushima radiation data is wildly wrong, management apologizes ,TNN | Feb 10, 2014, NEW DELHI: Tepco, the utility company that is managing the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan said that there were mistakes in the radiation levels they recorded last year. According to Japanese media,

Tepco announced last week that what was recorded as 900,000 becquerels per liter of deadly beta radiation from a test-well last July was wrong and the actual level should read 5 million becq per liter. That’s five times more than what they announced previously, and nearly 170,000 times more than the permissible level. ……………http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Fukushima-radiation-data-is-wildly-wrong-management-apologizes/articleshow/30163944.cms

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Good progress in Iran – UN nuclear talks

U.N. nuclear watchdog sees ‘good’ progress with Iran, much work remains BY FREDRIK DAHL VIENNA Mon Feb 10, 2014 Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog signaled its determination on Monday to get to the bottom of suspicions that Iran may have worked on designing an atomic bomb, a day after Tehran agreed to start addressing the sensitive issue.

Chief U.N. nuclear inspector Tero Varjoranta said his team made good progress during February 8-9 talks in Tehran but that much work remained to clarify concerns about Iran’s nuclear program in an investigation that Western diplomats say the Islamic state has long stonewalled……

n Tehran, Rouhani told a gathering of foreign diplomats that Iran’s doors “are open to the IAEA within international regulations”, the official news agency IRNA reported.

“We have never sought weapons of mass destruction. We don’t want nuclear know-how for war, as some countries do,” he said…….Varjoranta said Iran had implemented six previously agreed steps under the November framework accord, including providing inspectors access to two-nuclear related sites.

“Since November everything has gone as planned,” he said, and more steps would follow. “These things take time.”http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-idUSBREA1907820140210

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Not gjvjng up on fight to stop uranium mining

WHS Founder Vows To Fight Uranium Mining SDPB, 10 Feb 14 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent report on a request to mine uranium in the Black Hills isn’t going over well with Native Americans and non-Natives alike.  The report concludes there are no environmental concerns, but possible water contamination remains an issue for many……………

Dayton Hyde founded the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary. He worries that the mining will contaminate the area’s ground water.

Hyde is also concerned about the estimated 9000 gallons of water per minute that’s required for the mining process……Despite the NRC’s decision, Dayton Hyde says he’s determined to stop Powertech from mining uranium in the Black Hills.http://listen.sdpb.org/post/whs-founder-vows-fight-uranium-mining

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Grim uranium market forces Cameco to dump expansion plans

Weak Uranium Outlook Causes Cameco Corporation to Scrap Its Aggressive Guidance Continued weakness in the uranium market has Cameco Corporation seeing lower sales and scrapping its 2018 production target…..http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/10/weak-uranium-outlook-causes-cameco-corporation-to.aspx

Cameco (T.CCO) says 2018 uranium production goals no longer likely Stockhouse, 10 Feb 14 Cameco (TSX:T.CCO, Stock Forum) chief executive Tim Gitzel says it no longer makes sense for the company to keep to its goal of producing 36 million pounds of uranium a year by 2018……”There has been little to no improvement on the issues needed to help clear the oversupply and uncertainty the industry continues to face,” Gitzel told a conference call with financial analysts Monday.

“We don’t believe the answer is to sit idle and wait for improvement, which is why you see us moving away from our target.”

………The company had been optimistic about the restart of the industry, but Gitzel conceded Monday that it has been wrong about how quickly it expected the Japanese reactors to restart.

“We’ve quit predicting on that because we just don’t know,” he said.

The uranium market has also seen unexpected reactor shutdowns in the U.S. and utilities have been well covered under long-term contracts.

The new production guidance by Cameco came as the company reported the average spot price for uranium was US$35.03 per pound in the fourth quarter, down from US$42.46 a year ago……

Scotiabank analyst Ben Isaacson said Cameco’s earnings were lower than expected, due mostly to the higher costs.”While shareholders should be pleased to hear management is showing capital discipline and not empire building, the decision reconfirms that uranium supply-demand tightness will likely occur later, and not sooner,” Isaacson wrote in a report to clients.
Read more at http://www.stockhouse.com/news/natural-resources/2014/02/10/cameco-t-cco-says-2018-uranium-production-goals-no-longer-likely#pA7Lgw4k2co9YYxU.99

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