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Nuclear news for the past week

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Our website nuclear-news.net   Some good news from co-editor ‘Arclight’.  He has been experiencing tribulations – which is what happens to  investigative reporters in UK. Moving to Ireland, Arclight was in dire straits.  But he has been helped first by anonymous donors, tiding him over, and then , in his passport status, by Jennifer Schweppe, Head of the School of Law, Limerick University. Arclight might not be ‘out of the woods’ yet, but isn’t it great that some people help out in time of need?

Taiwan. 28,000 anti nuclear demonstrators met with water cannons. But people power brings the government to halt the new nuclear reactor

Ukraine. One result of the political change there is a covert agreement that radioactive trash from European Union will now be stored in Ukraine

Chernobyl. The new 2 $billion sarcophagus slowly going up, will last only 100 years – the radioactive reactor wreck requires cover for many thousands of years.  It’s  a stop-gap measure, but the best that they can come up with.

USA.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9_8wrDH8M  A challenge to governments ruled by corporate greed. A challenge to the Trans Pacific Partnership, to nuclear power, and militarism.  Ralph Nader’s new book shows that corporate control of politics is opposed by both Left and Right. “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. ”    Nuclear front groups exposed – Nuclear Matters and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) getting far too much coverage in media.

Dead nuclear reactors – the funerals are getting more expensive. USA, home of nuclear power, is first to realise this. And there are more nuclear power deaths on the way.

Japan  The Tenacious Mari Takenouchi persists in her anti nuclear activism, despite the techniques used against her. This is detailed by Arclight.

Ecological effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Timothy Mousseau clarifies this complicated issue. Much publicity has appeared about how birds have adapted to ionising radiation. Mousseau explains how negative pressures on birds have indeed brought about adaptations. – we see these interesting adaptive responses in the birds that are remaining (i.e. those that haven’t perished…).

France.  A new poll finds that the  vast majority of French people prefer renewable energy, would not invest in nuclear power

May 2, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes