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UAE, Japan sign MoU on nuclear energy
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Khaleej Times – 27 February, 2014
The two sides signed the schedules on amending the Air Services Agreement between the UAE and Japan. The deal was signed by Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, and Fumio Kishida, Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The two foreign ministers also signed a MoU on the development of joint cooperation committee work between the UAE’s Ministry of Development and International Cooperation and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It aims to boost joint cooperation and understanding over the implementation of international development initiatives and international aid in areas of interest and concern.
The UAE Energy Minister, Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, and Japan’s Minister owf Economy, Trade and Industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, signed a MoU on the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the UAE.
Abdullah Saeed Al Darmeki, CEO of Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, and Hiroshi Takada, Chairman and CEO of Small and Medium Enterprise and Regional Innovation in Japan, signed an agreement on extension and amendment of the MoU between them
Plutonium in Fish and Seafood – “Metal Bioaccumulation in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates: A Literature Review,” by Phillips and Russo, December 1978
http://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/plutonium-in-fish-and-seafood/
The document below is 35 years old, but even more relevant today. The plutonium in this document is still in the environment, along with Chernobyl and Fukushima plutonium and other plutonium emitted from the nuclear industry, since that time. Were you ever warned about plutonium in your fish and especially in fish whose bones are eaten, like sardines? We were not! We were warned about mercury in tuna, but not about this!
A reminder:
“Plutonium-239 is an isotope of plutonium. Plutonium-239 is the primary fissile isotope used for the production of nuclear weapons…Plutonium-239 is also one of the three main isotopes demonstrated usable as fuel in nuclear reactors…Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years…In any operating nuclear reactor containing U-238, some plutonium-239 will accumulate in the nuclear fuel…A small percentage of plutonium-239 can be deliberately added to fresh nuclear fuel. Such fuel is called MOX (mixed oxide) fuel, as it contains a mixture of uranium oxide (UO2) and plutonium oxide (PuO2)” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239
From a US EPA document “Metal Bioaccumulation in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates: A Literature Review,” by Phillips and Russo, December 1978.
Towns near crippled Fukushima nuclear plant see surge in wildlife – But no testing for radiation or studies being reported
The Tomioka government has recently established a hunter group comprising 14 residents with hunting licenses. The town is considering paying 20,000 yen per pig from April this year to catch more unwanted wild animals.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20140226p2a00m0na014000c.html
TOMIOKA, Fukushima — An increasing number of wild “iron age pigs” — a cross between wild boars and domestic pigs — has been seen in this town near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, destroying homes and crops while residents have been evacuated due to the triple disaster.
Following the onset of the Fukushima plant accident in March 2011, some 20 iron age pigs that were being raised for meat in Tomioka escaped. The Ministry of the Environment and the local government set up traps in the area and had captured around 120 iron age pigs by January this year. While it is difficult to distinguish iron age pigs from wild boars, officials believe most of the captured boars are the former, and that they had reproduced in great numbers.
The town’s industry promotion section sub chief Shinya Kurosawa, 46, said, “There are many more iron age pigs left. We have no idea how many.”
When Mainichi reporters went to Tomioka this month, we saw five wild iron age pigs, including piglets, wandering around the town in less than an hour. In December last year, a door to the agricultural cooperative’s storage house was found broken, and 3 tons of rice (worth about 600,000 yen) inside the storehouse had been eaten. An investigation found two-towed tracks all over the place near the site.
The population of wild boars also has been increasing near the Fukushima plant. The town of Namie, where all residents have been ordered to flee following the plant accident, has seen 43 reported cases of damage to homes caused by wild boars from April last year to Feb. 24. In November, Namie residents who were making a brief visit to their home were attacked by wild boars.
Hiroshi Sakai, chief of the nature conservation section of the Fukushima Prefectural Government, explained that wild boars that have been multiplying in deserted evacuation zones have been wandering about in nearby areas.
Meanwhile, reported sightings of raccoons — designated as an invasive alien species — in the prefecture is also on the rise. In the city of Date, 1,100 raccoons were captured between April last year and this January, marking an increase of some 600 from the same period last year.
Demystifying Nuclear Power with Maggie Gundresen – 11 February 2014
Published on 26 Feb 2014
http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewind…
Fairewinds Energy Education’s mission to demystify nuclear power. Margaret and Maggie discuss the current conditions at nuclear power plants in the US and at Fukushima Daiichi, including the harmful effects of exposure to tritium. Margaret Harrington also asks how Maggie and Arnie met while working in the nuclear industry.
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Finland – Rautaruukki to participate in Fennovoima nuclear power plant project
Nickel mining company Talvivaara also announced that it wants to continue in the project but the the company is said to be embroiled in financial difficulties
FTimes-STT Report, February 27
Steel company Rautaruukki has confirmed its continuation to invest in Fennovoima nuclear power plant project.
Poland schedules first nuclear plant for 2024 but where does the investment money come from? -“Funds” now available!
Thursday, 27 February 2014 (11 minutes ago)
Poland’s government said today it was committed to introducing a civil nuclear programme that would see the country’s first reactor unit producing electricity by the end of 2024.
Construction of a second unit is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2035, the government said.
According to the government’s schedule, the first phase of Poland’s nuclear programme begins immediately – with work towards concluding a contract to deliver…
http://www.onenewspage.us/n/Business/750azc8x7/Poland-schedules-first-nuclear-plant-for-2024.htm
Nuclear power in Poland will only be possible “if the funds are available”
Nuclear Power in Poland
Power to the People
http://newzar.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/nuclear-power-in-poland/
26 February 2014
Preparations to build a nuclear power station in Poland may cost as much as PLN 2 billion. It is still unknown where the money will come from. The Polish Nuclear Power Programme (PPEJ) has finally been accepted by the government which officially confirms that Poland wants to build a nuclear power station. The decision mean a huge investment in the energy sector. The Nuclear Power Station 1 (EJ1) project, which is controlled by the state-owned Polish Energy Group (PGE), was given the green light to spend PLN 1.3 billion. That is the preliminary cost of giving so-called integrated permission to an external company. The funds are needed for choosing the appropriate technology, equipment and fuel supplier and deciding who will finance the most expensive construction project in history of Poland. Before any of this can happen, …………………… Several weeks ago Prime Minister Donald Tusk intimated on Twitter that shale gas is the priority, coal is a must and nuclear power will only be possible if the funds are available.
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Here is one possible answer;
Deal at Czech nuclear power plant fuels US-Russia economic rivalry
“The Czech Republic simply does not need another 2.5 gigawatts of power and with demand falling all round Europe and not likely to bounce back soon, the export market is risky,” says Steve Thomas, a professor of energy policy at Greenwich University in England.
[…]
Companies with ties to the US and Russia are battling for a contract to expand a Czech nuclear power plant, which analysts say may be the gateway to kickstarting other nuclear power projects in Eastern Europe.
Prague, Czech Republic
The nuclear power plant that towers over the green fields outside the small Czech village of Temelin is quickly becoming a frontline in the economic rivalry between the United States and Russia.
Image ; Czech Republic’s Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, left, and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, arrive for their press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Secretary of State Clinton is lobbying the Czech Republic authorities to approve an American contract bid for an expansion of a nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
……………………… “The Temelin contract is not about nuclear energy in the Czech Republic, but about breaking into the European market.”
Competing for the tender are two energy companies: Russia’s Rosatom, and Westinghouse, which is owned by the Japanese Toshiba Group but based in the United States.
Britain’s Nuclear Cold War Veterans: Left out in the cold? Audio podcast
“I’ve had nine operations on my spine. It’s crumbling.” says 73 year old Jeff Liddiatt, who was involved in the testing in the Australian Outback in 1960. ”At one stage I was in a wheelchair. I do find walking very difficult. I can’t walk very far. And I’m in constant pain and take painkillers every day,” he says
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http://lakeshorepublicmedia.org/stories/britain-s-cold-war-veterans-out-in-the-cold/
February 26, 2014
When the nuclear bomb went off, Don James was not equipped with special clothing. He was wearing a pair of shorts , a t-shirt, and a floppy hat. He and his fellow troops were told to turn their backs and put their hands in front of their faces.
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“There’s a huge flash. And you can see the bones of your hands…the flash goes through your body and you can see the bones of your hands like an X-ray,” says James.
“It’s as if somebody is opening an oven, you can feel the heat on your back. And then you get the blast come in and some of the coconut trees were bent right down touching the ground,” he says.
The year was 1958 – at the height of the Cold War. The place: Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Don James – 19 years old at the time – was one of more than 20,000 British soldiers, sailor, and airmen who took part in the testing of nuclear weapons. Many were ordered to witness the explosions, some were required to clean the aircraft used in the tests. None were warned of the dangers of radiation or issued with protective clothing or equipment and many of the men went on to develop serious health problems with conditions like cancer and degenerative bone disease.
Preliminary tests indicate 13 workers at New Mexico nuclear dump were exposed to “radiation”
….More than 250 people attended that forum, where Sharif and Joe Franco, the DOE site office manager, told sometimes skeptical residents that the elevated amounts of radiation that have been detected offer no more risk than a dental X-ray or an airline flight…..
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Thirteen workers were exposed to radiation during a recent leak at the U.S. underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, according to the results of preliminary tests announced Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the contractor that runs the Waste Isolation Pilot Project said in a joint news release that they have notified the workers of the positive results and will do further testing. They declined to comment further until a news conference Thursday afternoon.
“It is important to note that these are initial sample results,” the statement said. “These employees, both federal and contractor, will be asked to provide additional samples in order to fully determine the extent of any exposure.”
Nuclear Hotseat #140 – Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center concerning WIPP New Mexico
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THE INTERVIEWS:
- Don Hancock of Southwest Research and Information Center (www.sric.org) again provides us with on-the-ground information of what’s really going on with the radiation leak at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
- Dr. Catherine Wind Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes (https://www.facebook.com/mamabears.againstnukes?fref=ts) goes over radiation basics as applies to the human body.
- RadCast’s Mimi German weighs in on the EPA’s pesky air monitors – will they work? will they not work? and Why?!? www.RadCast.org
- Chizu Hamada, a businesswoman originally from Japan, has been working to coordinate protest efforts around the world to mark the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. She tells us about the website she created that lists all the known events taking place on and around March 11: http://fukushimathirdanniversaryevents.blogspot.com If your event isn’t listed, contact her through that site to have it added.
NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Snow for the Odaiba Snow Festival trucked in to Tokyo… from Fukushima? Oy!
PLUS:
- 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice gets 35 months in prison, asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the Y-12 nuclear facility;
The “damage” done by 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice at the Y-12 Nuclear Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Second safety official at Hanford fired after she spoke out for – wait for it! – safety!
- Georgia’s planned new Vogtle reactors receive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees as President Obama pays off his top campaign fundraiser;
- Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours, sirens sound the alarm;
- High levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture;
- Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant… then don’t know what to do with it when truce is called. Oy!
- Radcast Radiation Weather Report with Mimi German.
- …and much, much more!
AAP ropes in anti-nuclear activist SP Udayakumar to contest polls
“Udayakumar is an outstanding, courageous activist and a honest man and the AAP welcomes him with open arms”
Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/india/aap-ropes-in-anti-nuclear-activist-sp-udayakumar-to-contest-polls-1402041.html
Japan, U.S. Move to Expand Nuclear Power Programs Despite Contamination at Fukushima & New Mexico
We end today’s show with news that Japan has announced a major push to revive its nuclear energy program, just weeks before the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. This comes just a week after it was revealed about 100 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Here in the United States, the Obama administration announced last week it approved $6.5 billion in loan guarantees to back construction of the country’s first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years. This comes as a nuclear waste disposal site is set to reopen in New Mexico following an unexplained leak of radioactive material. We speak to Edwin Lyman and Susan Stranahan, co-authors of the new book, “Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster.”
Video on link;
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/26/japan_us_move_to_expand_nuclear
Transcript
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: We end today’s show with nuclear news from both Japan and the United States. Japan has just announced a major push to revive its nuclear energy program, just weeks before the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown. This comes just a week after it was revealed about a hundred tons of highly radioactive water had leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Here in the United States, the Obama administration announced last week it approved $6.5 billion in loan guarantees to back construction of the country’s first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years. This comes as a nuclear waste disposal site is set to reopen near Carlsbad, New Mexico, following an unexplained leak of radioactive material that occurred on February 14th. The underground waste dump was shut down after an air monitor detected radioactive contamination. On Monday, federal regulators reported “slightly elevated levels” of airborne radioactivity, but said they didn’t pose a threat to the public.
For more, we’re joined by the co-authors of the new book, Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster. Edwin Lyman is one of the country’s leading experts on nuclear power safety and security and is senior global security scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Susan Stranahan is with this. She has covered nuclear energy issues since she was the lead reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer’s coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
We’re going to begin with Edwin Lyman. Talk about these parallel nuclear developments, Japan with its conservative prime minister, Shinzo Abe, despite the polls showing overwhelming opposition to anti-nuclear—to growth of nuclear power reliance, is announcing upping this, and the United States is also moving in this direction.
EDWIN LYMAN: Well, I think these are both symptoms of the same phenomenon, which is the complacency about the nuclear industry and its dangers that was prevalent before Fukushima and is still—and still exists today. So, we have Japan, the new government, which is hoping that the people will eventually forget about the crisis that they went through, so that they can restart the 50 nuclear power plants that were shut down after the accident. In the United States, we have the government’s all-of-the-above energy policy, which includes more government subsidies for nuclear power. And we’re very concerned that if these efforts go forward without taking all the lessons of Fukushima into account, that we’re setting up a potential disaster.
AMY GOODMAN: What are those lessons?
Nuclear reactors should operate for only 4o years! Anglais et Francais – Greenpeace
Nuclear reactors should operate for only 4o years! English at the last third of the video!
All of France’s nuclear reactors should be shut down after 40 years of use, says a report released by Greenpeace on Monday, arguing that their upkeep would be inefficient, costly and potentially unsafe CLEAN : Nuclear reactors should operate for only 40 years on February 25, 2014 in Paris, France (Footage by AFP/Getty Images)
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France’s 58 Nuclear Fuel Pools Must Be Safer, Watchdog Says
…When asked about the prospect of extensive work on EDF’s existing spent-fuel ponds, Chief Executive Officer Henri Proglio said he wasn’t aware of the “specifics.”
“It’s nothing serious in any case”…
Tara Patel
EDF to repair French nuclear reactor fuel rods after corrosion found
“Mediapart said the problem would impact production levels due to the high number of reactors involved, and the corrosion could require EDF to replace the nuclear fuel more frequently”
“EDF has already estimated that some Eur55 billion ($75.0 billion) of investment is required to extend the lifespans of its entire fleet for a further 10 years, including around Eur10 billion to cover further safety demands from the ASN following the Fukushima disaster in 2011″
“EDF’s nuclear fleet produced 403.7 TWh of power in 2013, down 0.3% on the year and below the reduced 405-410 TWh target for 2013 announced by the company in early November.”
“EDF has said it also plans seven, ten-yearly outages in 2014″
“This will be more of a challenge in 2016, when six, 10-yearly outages are planned.”
London (Platts)–10Feb2014/749 am EST/1249 GMT
Dell to Build Private Cloud for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
In addition to Dell Services’ private cloud installation for NRC, Dell currently supports the NRC Office of Information Services and all NRC users, including data center operations and other information technology services at the NRC headquarters and NRC regional offices across the United States, under a contract awarded in 2011
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2014/02/26/3314619/dell-to-build-private-cloud-for.html
WASHINGTON — Dell announced today that it has been selected by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build and install an on-premises, federal government compliant private cloud. Dell designed the cloud solution specifically for the NRC to help it achieve its business needs of reducing IT costs, simplifying operations, providing new technology and capability to the NRC user community and satisfying the Office of Management and Budget direction for each agency to establish a cloud instance. This agreement further showcases Dell’s customer-driven approach and cloud expertise.
Through the private cloud deployment process, Dell Services Federal Government will help the NRC consolidate data centers, replace aging equipment and take advantage of modernized IT services to deliver improved IT performance and an enhanced customer experience.
Chernobyl, Fukushima… Davis-Besse? Northwest Ohio Nuclear Plant Still Causing Problems With No End in Sight
“The coalition contends that FENOC’s shortcut on safety risks repeating the same sort of dangerous mistakes made at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California. In January 2012 a steam generator tube rupture at San Onofre released radioactivity to the environment, and led to the discovery of widespread tube degradation in replacement steam generators just a year or two old.”
“It’s really a big experiment,” Kamps contends, “but it’s turned into a multi-billion dollar fiasco at San Onofre.”
by Sam Allard
February 26, 2014
The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, near Toledo, is in the midst of $600-million infrastructure overhaul (financed by the plant’s operator, Akron’s FirstEnergy Corp.), which will include the replacement of two mammoth steam generators and will employ around 2,300 people in rural Ottawa County. According to one study, the upgrades will generate roughly $150 million for the state.
That all sounds like a really non-ironic big whoop, except the anti-nuclear crowd has been raising a collective index finger and clearing a collective throat, urging folks to oppose Davis-Besse and its bid for a 20-year operating license renewal in 2017. Davis-Besse, opponents testify, has had the most high-level structural violations per reactor in the country since 2001.
The latest in a series of cracks and corrosions is neither a crack nor a corrosion, but rather an “air bubble,” as described by the plant’s operator. It was uncovered earlier this month when the reactors were shut down for upgrades. According to reports, the air bubble is 6-12 inches wide and runs the length of a 25-foot gap in the reactor’s concrete protective shield. New concrete was poured back in 2011 when the reactor’s lid was replaced.
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