The week’s roundup of nuclear news

JAPAN

Nuclear weapons kept on Okinawa, by USA.

Japan’s nuclear reactor restarts anger Minami Soma mayor.

Fukushima.

Normalizing radiation – Japan’s nuclear policy “Fukushima is clean and safe again!”
Japan Olympic teams to train in nuclear clean-up zone.
Japan’s Nuclear regulator suggests Tepco to give up removing molten fuel from Fukushima plant.
Out of control- Fukushima nuclear wastes, but they plan Olympic events there!.
Fukushima and the great repatriation lie.
Fukushima disaster: Tepco to pay couple in landmark damages case
Rising toll of missing Fukushima workers – presumed dead – coverup by mass media.
For some Fukushima mothers, protecting children from radiation comes at heavy price.
How banned “Mislabeled” Fukushima food products are making it onto international store shelves.

USA.

USA Presidential candidates: their policies on nuclear power.
Nuclear Whistleblowers Report Criminal Acts by Multiple US Government Agencies; Affidavit Ties Lockheed-Martin to Karen Silkwood’s Death.
Thousands of nuclear workers made sick by radiation, but not getting any help.
Swiss-German Plutonium Believed to Have Just Been Dumped on South Carolina; More on Its Way.
Spread of Hanford radioactive pollution is “alarming”.
Calls for Reopening Investigation of Corruption at Los Alamos Nuclear Lab and of Suspicious Suicide of Ex-Deputy Director Richard Burick.
Florida lawsuit over alleged unlawful nuclear fees.
Gloom in USA nuclear industry: claim they’re ignored in Clean Power Plan. Entergy won’t save loss-making FitzPatrick nuclear plant.
St Louis radioactively contaminated sites visited by Dr Helen Caldicott.
USA Dept of Energy wants to dump nuclear waste on Sacred Native American Lands.

UK. The collapse of UK’s planned nuclear power programme ?

INDIA. USA govt’s position: its nuclear companies should be exempt from civil or criminal liability.

CANADA. Fukushima Cesium 137 found in 7 fish near Canada’s West Coast, but not in salmon.

GERMANY struggles with nuclear waste storage problem. Nuclear industry AND tax-payer funds both may be needed to cover nuclear shutdown costs. Germany’s “big four” utilities liable for nearly 40 billion euros for nuclear waste storage.

CHINA ramping up its nuclear industry, with plans for exporting reactors. Russia is offering bribes for Egypt to buy its nuclear reactors.

SOUTH KOREA rejects calls for nuclear armament.

SOUTH AFRICA. Trouble brewing over nuclear energy programme. Economist warns that nuclear deal will downgrade South Africa’s economy to junk.

AUSTRALIA. Aboriginal landowners shocked at plan for nuclear waste dump close to sacred site.

Saudi Arabia political analyst says that the kingdom has a nuclear bomb.

Huge savings in planned solar energy project for Marshall Islands.

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