Nuclear news for the past week

International Court of Justice sets March dates for Marshall Islands’ nuclear case.

Prof. T. Mousseau explains Life after Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters .

Thyroid cancer increasing: can they continue to ignore the link with nuclear power?

Exploding the false claims of the thorium nuclear lobby.

CANADA .Will the government listen to 92,000 Petitioners against Great Lakes Nuclear Dump?

EUROPE. European Commission faces the astronomic future costs of nuclear power. Growing concerns in Europe over restarting aging Belgium nuclear stations

UK. Hinkley Point nuclear plant project director quits. Hinkley delayed….again…best get used to hearing that! Hinkley nuclear fiasco puts the wind up Hitachi, concerning investment in UK. UK nuclear power project a bonanza for Japanese companies, Hitachi-GE and others.

GERMANY. Costly nuclear waste dump correction. Costly, not available for decades, but Germany steps forward in nuclear fusion development.

FRANCE. Electricite De France : 6 union board members will oppose Hinkley Point nuclear project. French waste group Veolia moving intonuclear clean-up business. France’s plan for 1,000 kilometers of road paved with solar panels.

*SOUTH AFRICA. CORRUPTION GOES NUCLEAR – Jacob Zuma, the Guptas and the Russians

USA.

Bernie Sanders calls for total phaseout of nuclear energy.
Crapo’s crap nuclear amendment passed by USA Senate.
Big, fat waste of lawmakers’ time: US Congress trying to block Iran nuclear accord.
USA govt funds “new nukes’.
$4.7 billion the present cost [and rising] of building Watts Bar nuclear reactor.
Georgia State panel to do detailed probe of costs of Nuclear Plant Vogtle.
Strange progress of Class Action lawsuit against Brookhaven National Lab.
LA gas disaster – a mini Chernobyl?

JAPAN.

Japan: secret use of consumer’s money to fund pro nuclear political campaign.
High radiation levels, murky radioactive water, cause TEPCO to delay Fukushima robot survey. Another new plan to try to inspect Fukushma nuclear reactor 1 Fukushima ice wall near completion.
Kyushu Electric Power Co. scraps plan for emergency facility at Sendai nuclear station.
Anxieties over safety in the region, as Japan restarts 3rd nuclear reactor. Japan’s nuclear restarts- increase of deadly MOX wastes, but nowhere to put it.

INDIA. Protest repressed in India, as government panders to France, USA’s nuclear power marketing.

1 Comment »

The Pebble Bed and Molten Salt reactors being funded are the most dangerous (and dare I say crappy) of all. They are old, dangerously failed technologies. The father of Pebble Bed became a solar advocate. Germany is still trying to dump Pebble Bed waste from their failed pebble bed reactors on the USA after dumping a lot of the old fuel on Scotland. You beat me to the crappy Crapo. How could he get elected without a name change?

Comment by miningawareness | February 6, 2016 | Reply