These documents show the schemes used by a fake international organisation supported by the UN and numerous states in order to corrupt local elites and steal the natural resources of impoverished states and their populations. https://wikileaks.org/car-mining/#wsa
Sakurajima Volcano erupts violently just a few miles away from nuclear power plant [good video and pictures] MIRROR UK, 5 FEB 2016 BY ELAINE LINES
Fountains of lava spewed out of the mountain but there were no reports of any immediate damage. A Japanese volcano about 30 miles from a nuclear plant violently erupted last week, shooting ash nearly 2 km into the night sky.
Fountains of lava spewed from the Sakurajima mountain, but there were no immediate report of damage and operations at the power station were not affected.
Following what they termed an “explosive eruption,” Japan’s Meteorological Agency raised the warning level on the peak to grade three, meaning people should not approach the mountain.
Television footage showed red streams of lava bursting from the side of the volcano, but Ishihara said he thought the impact of the eruption would not be that serious…….
Nuclear tax and low prices continue to impact Vattenfall, World Nuclear News, 04 February 2016 Swedish utility Vattenfall has announced a loss of SEK19.8 billion ($2.4 billion) in 2015, its third consecutive annual loss. It attributed this partly to continued low electricity prices and unprofitable Swedish nuclear power reactors…….
Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall said, “The major challenge in 2015 continued to be the impact that today’s very low electricity prices have on Vattenfall’s profitability and the valuation of our assets. Unfortunately, combined with new regulatory requirements, this led to further write-downs, mainly on the values of Swedish nuclear power and German lignite in the summer.”
He added, “Continued falling prices and a nuclear tax corresponding to SEK0.07 per kilowatt-hour have put Swedish nuclear power in a critical situation…….http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-Nuclear-tax-and-low-prices-continue-to-impact-Vattenfall-0402164.html
India Joins Nuclear Liability Pact, Opening Door to Foreign Reactor Investments http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2016/02/05/397765.htm By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Stephen Stapczynski | February 5, 2016 India’s decision to join a global treaty on nuclear accident liability may help it woo reactor suppliers, including Westinghouse Electric Co. and General Electric Co., that have been reluctant to sell technology to the nation.
The country ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, also known as CSC, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday. India’s current law allows operators to hold suppliers responsible for accidents, making international equipment makers hesitant to sign deals as the nation seeks to expand nuclear power capacity more than 10-fold by 2032………
India’s decision to join a global treaty on nuclear accident liability may help it woo reactor suppliers, including Westinghouse Electric Co. and General Electric Co., that have been reluctant to sell technology to the nation.
The country ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, also known as CSC, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday. India’s current law allows operators to hold suppliers responsible for accidents, making international equipment makers hesitant to sign deals as the nation seeks to expand nuclear power capacity more than 10-fold by 2032.
Ratifying the CSC is the latest effort the government has taken to ease suppliers’ concerns that they would be open to liability claims in case of a nuclear accident. Joining the treaty “marks a conclusive step in the addressing of issues related to civil nuclear liability in India,” the country’s external affairs ministry said in a statement Thursday.
In 2011, India capped suppliers’ liability, saying claims by the nation’s nuclear plant operator can’t exceed the amount of compensation paid by the utility. That was followed last year with the creation of a 15 billion rupees ($222 million) insurance pool to shield the operator, Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd., and the suppliers against claims. The government also last year issued a note explaining the law, including the sections that leave suppliers exposed to lawsuits.
“The ratification is a very important step for the comfort of foreign vendors,” said Sekhar Basu, secretary at India’s Department of Atomic Energy.
Westinghouse Electric expects to reach a deal with India by the end of this year to provide at least six nuclear reactors, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Roderick said in December. France’s Areva SA signed an accord in 2009 to supply six 1,650-megawatt reactors at Jaitapur, a coastal town in India’s western province of Maharashtra.
“Ratifying the CSC is a step in the right direction towards unlocking the market potential for further nuclear development in India,” Jeff Benjamin, senior vice president of new plants and major projects at Westinghouse, said by e-mail. General Electric and Areva didn’t respond to requests for comment outside normal business hours.
The ratification doesn’t change the country’s existing liability laws, according to R. Rajaraman, emeritus professor of physics at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Physical Sciences.
“This will not lead to a re-think or a modification of our liability act,” Rajaraman said in an e-mail. “That would not be politically feasible.”
Vikas Swarup, spokesman for India’s External Affairs Ministry, didn’t respond to requests seeking comment. Calls to Jagdish Thakkar, a spokesman at the prime minister’s office, weren’t answered.–With assistance from Archana Chaudhary.
Nuclear still unclear: Does ratification of CSC fix problems of nuclear law? Now that India has ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage, the question is whether this paves the way for firms like GE, Westinghouse and Areva setting up nuclear plants in India or whether the Indian Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CNLD) Act still effectively acts as a deterrent. The Financial Express, By: Sunil Jain | New Delhi | February 5, 2016 Now that India has ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage, the question is whether this paves the way for firms like GE, Westinghouse and Areva setting up nuclear plants in India or whether the Indian Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CNLD) Act still effectively acts as a deterrent. Considering that, on his visit to India less than six months ago, GE CEO Jeff Immelt was quite dismissive of the changes proposed by India, it would appear it isn’t quite the done deal that was made out by the government which, after the ratification in Vienna, said “this marks a conclusive step in the addressing of issues related to civil nuclear liability in India”.
While in India, Immelt had said “the world has an established liability regime … it has been accepted and adopted … I can’t put my company on risk … India can’t reinvent the language on liability”. All that the ratification means, for all practical purposes, is that India considers its nuclear liability law to be in conformity with the CSC; it doesn’t mean that the CSC will now override the Indian law. Indeed, as the FAQs released by the ministry of external affairs (MEA) last year in February make clear, India has believed its law to be in conformity with CSC for a long time. “Based on the presentations by the Indian side …”, the MEA’s FAQs read, “there is a general understanding that India’s CLND law is compatible with the CSC”; at another place, the FAQs states “the provisions of the CLND Act are broadly in conformity with the CSC”.
Hinkley Point nuclear power station lurches into another crisis after director of £18bn project quits, This Is Money By EMILY DAVIES FOR THE DAILY MAIL 4 February 2016 Hinkley Point nuclear power station lurched into another crisis after the director of the £18bn project quit……..His resignation comes just days after EDF delayed giving approval to construction of Hinkley Point C as it struggles to find the billions of pounds to finance the deal.
Hinkley Point, in Somerset, has been beset with delays and cost overruns since 2010. EDF agreed a subsidy deal over Hinkley Point in 2013 and currently has a 66.5 per cent stake in the project, after Chinese utility CGN took a 33.5 per cent stake in the project.
But EDF has £28bn net debt and needs to find an estimated £41bn to extend the lifespan of 58 French nuclear plants. The company is said to be pressuring the French government, which owns 85 per cent of EDF, to take some of its stake in Hinkley Point.
And this week it emerged that the power station could be further put off, as five French union members on EDF’s 18-seat board came out in opposition of the project. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-3430400/Hinkley-Point-nuclear-power-station-lurches-crisis-director-18bn-project-quits.html#ixzz3zKCwnvD2
296,000 Radioactive Shots Per SECOND (Bequerels) per Liter of Water (34 oz) in groundwater test wells for Entergy’s Indian Pt. Nuclear Power Station. Compare to a M134 MiniGun at 100 Rounds Per Second.
The idea of a gunshot analogy is not our invention, but rather from Los Alamos Nuclear Lab, Number 23 1995, Los Alamos Science, where they compare radiation damage types to rifles, shotguns, etc.
How long would an individual get by with shooting a gun of any sort at people in public? And, yet the nuclear industry-utilities get by with it all of the time. They are allowed by law to legally leak long-lived lethal radioactive materials into the environment on a routine basis throughout the entire nuclear fuel chain. Being a New Orleans based company, Entergy’s just apparently decided to add radioactive lagniappe (a little something extra).
Water (H2O) and Carbon are the foundations of life…
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¶ Does shrinking ice in the Arctic lead to worse snow storms along the East Coast? It’s very possible says leading Arctic researcher Judah Cohen. In Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, at least five of the top 10 snow storms on record have occurred since 1990. [Washington Post]
September Arctic sea extent compared to 1981-2000 average portrayed by yellow line (NASA)
¶ The ice cover across the Arctic hit a new low throughout January. The Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center tracked the lowest ice extent ever for January. The record-low ice extent was driven by unusually high air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean – more than 6° C (10.8° F) above average. [Nunatsiaq News]
¶ The Ugandan company Kiira Motors recently showed off what it claims to be the first solar-powered bus in Africa – the Kayoola…
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Like Japan, Taiwan is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is an exceptionally bad location for nuclear power stations. About 90% of the world’s earthquakes and 81% of the world’s largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire. On Friday, Sakurajima volcano erupted in Japan and on early Saturday, local time, a large earthquake occurred in Taiwan.
“The ‘Ring of Fire’, also called the Circum-Pacific belt, is the zone of earthquakes surrounding the Pacific Ocean- about 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur there. The next most seismic region (5-6% of earthquakes) is the Alpide belt (extends from Mediterranean region, eastward through Turkey, Iran, and northern India.” (“This dynamic earth: the story of plate tectonics” 1996, Kious, W. Jacquelyne; Tilling, Robert I., USGS Unnumbered Series General Interest Publication) http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/7000097
Recent 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake: Early Saturday in Taiwan. (Friday UTC: 2016-02-05 19:57:27 (UTC)
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¶ Aviva stadium, home of the Ireland rugby team, will be fully powered by renewable energy for the upcoming 2016 Six Nations tournament. The move is expected to save almost 2,500 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2016 alone. The stadium has teamed up with SSE Airtricity, who will supply green electricity and gas. [edie.net]
The move is expected to save almost 2,500 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2016 alone
¶ Global energy efficiency investment will reach $5.8 trillion by the year 2030, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Authority. By 2030, yearly energy efficiency investment will total around $385 billion, the report says. The focus will be buildings, manufacturing, and transportation. [Sustainnovate]
¶ Danish energy giant DONG Energy released its 2015 financial results, reporting a 13% increase in operating profit over 2014 figures. DONG said the the increase was thanks primarily to…
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http://dailywitness.com/feature-high-school-girl-crusading-against-voter-apathy/
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Aine, a 16-year-old high school girl, is a new breed of political activist. Leading a protest group of high school students, she is trying to make change happen in a country of endemic voter apathy that is feared to be drifting dangerously to the right.
Aine, who uses only her first name, formed the group, T-nsSOWL, in June last year together with other like-minded high school students. The group’s name is purported to stand for “Teens Stand up to Oppose War Law.”
The name is a reference to a set of new national security laws championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pave the way for the Self-Defense Forces to play a more active role overseas, an initiative seen by some people as a breach of the war-renouncing provision of the Japanese Constitution. The laws were enacted last September.
Aine’s group organizes protest activities in the busy streets of Shibuya and Harajuku in Tokyo, which are the haunts of high school students and other young people.
During last year’s Christmas season, it staged a protest march in Harajuku. To the tune of music flowing from a truck leading the march, Ryuki, 18, another group leader who also uses only his first name, cried out rap-ish slogans like “Protect the Constitution,” “Don’t kill anybody” and “Don’t look down on the people.”
Aine was clad in her school uniform as she led the march, which was joined by around a thousand protesters. Onlookers were using smartphones to take shots of the rare sight of high school students spearheading a political protest activity. To those people, Aine called out: “We are demonstrating against the national security laws. Let’s march together.”
Aine’s family background apparently had little influence in setting her on this course of activism. She lives with her parents, who work in building-related jobs and do not bring up politics at the dinner table.
Something akin to political awareness grew within her after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, which took place when she was in her last year at elementary school. She began to sense a disconnect between what politicians were saying and what was actually happening.
Huge tsunami waves triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, spreading radioactive fallout, but the government continued to downplay the health risk. Meanwhile, the areas around the doomed nuclear plant have been kept off-limits for residents, many of whom still live in makeshift homes.
“That struck me as odd,” Aine said. “There were things that were too difficult to understand, but even children could see something was wrong.”
Over the following years, Japan’s political landscape changed. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for most of the postwar period, took back power from the Democratic Party of Japan, and the Abe government arrived with a national security agenda that aroused suspicions that he would take Japan away from its pacifist path.
For Aine, the defining moment came on a December day in 2014, just before the last general election. Having gone through the ordeal of a term-end examination, Aine went shopping in Shibuya with friends, before moving on to the neighborhood of the Diet building. The area had become the locus of antigovernment protest around that time, later attracting droves of people outraged at the Abe government’s attempt to railroad the national security bills through parliament despite widespread voter reservations.
On that day, more than a thousand protesters were rallying against Japan’s new secrecy law, which toughens penalties for leakers of state secrets, in front of the nearby prime minister’s official residence under the leadership of a students’ group which would later evolve into SEALDs, a major protest movement against the new security legislation. Despite the intensity of such protest activities, voter indifference remained a problem, with the turnout at the general election falling to a record low of 52 percent.
Inspired by her experience of the protests around the Diet, Aine started to join protest rallies, and she got to know other students who would later become her allies in T-nsSOWL.
Aine said she did not feel uneasy, as a typical Japanese would do, about joining marches and rallies as a means to express protest. There is nothing special about ordinary people participating in such activities, she said, citing the kind of epoch-making popular movements that are taken up by history textbooks.
Talking about the history of her protest activities, Aine named a string of political events on which she has kept tabs. Among them were the landslide victory of Abe’s LDP in the 2014 general election, Abe’s visit to the United States to cement ties with Japan’s major military ally, and the hustle and bustle over the deliberation and enactment of the national security bills.
Aine’s group has now around 70 members, including 35 in the Kanto region that includes Tokyo. For her, talking with the group’s members about politics, war and peace is a valuable experience that can’t be gained in the classroom.
She is also hoping that her group’s activities will inject a breath of fresh air and a dose of energy into Japanese politics by shaking the business-as-usual mindset of politicians and by helping to nudge voters to the polls. “If high school students show interest in politics and go as far as to join demonstration activities, that will keep politicians on their toes and have an impact on ordinary people as well,” she said.
In the elections to the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of parliament, scheduled for this coming summer, high school students will cast ballots for the first time in Japan as the minimum voting age is lowered from 20 to 18. Unfortunately, Aine will be one year shy of the age limit at that time. But she is “not that disappointed,” saying what she cares about most is her fight against voter apathy.
9:10 pm, February 07, 2016
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) revealed that the total number of sessile species, such as barnacles and snails, has been decreasing significantly along the coast within 10 kilometers south of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since the accident there in 2011.
Although the exact relevance to the accident is unclear, according to the institute’s analysis there is the possibility that the mass death of sessile species was influenced by radioactive materials released into the sea.
The NIES gathered sessile species attached to tetrapods from seven survey points 50 centimeters square within the limits in Fukushima, Miyagi and Ibaraki prefectures in May and June 2013. Four of the survey points are located in Fukushima Prefecture. The institute then investigated species numbers among other details.
Concerning the survey points in Fukushima, the numbers at the two sites south of the power plant were much lower than the numbers at the two northern sites. Extrapolated into one square meter, 2,864 sessile creatures were confirmed at the survey point in Okuma, which is 1.2 kilometers south from the power plant. At the survey point in Tomioka, which is 9.5 kilometers south of the plant, 2,404 creatures were confirmed. Meanwhile, the average number of sessile creatures in the other five locations reached 18,592, with 31,728 in Minami-Soma and 5,324 in Futaba, both in Fukushima Prefecture and north of the power plant.Speech
http://www.the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002732843
More on this topic in an interview a few days ago, with Tim Mousseau here;
Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl concerning radionuclide distribution and Isotopic variations on Land and effects on the environment. New studies by Timothy Mousseu and his team.
Tim was interviewed and he gave us an overall look at the situation and compares the 2 nuclear disasters for us
Ireland stands behind the Human Rights Acts of the UN and the EU .. As well as showing compassion. A small amount of protesters were a bit agressive but out of the 1000`s they were a small minority … Well done Ireland I feel Proud to live here.. Peace not War
UPDATE ;
It would appear that simplyinfo are not going to sue the blogger in question and we have agreed to move on and pursue our relevant roles and important work for these scientists and researchers .. Thank you simlyinfo team for your hard work and understandingThe beaviour recounted here in this Oped by Dun Renard by the Fukuleaks team has been noted by myself as well. It caused me to largely discount tham as a source and I promptly deleted the bookmark. I wonder what other information they are also hiding by this creeping censorship. Barrett Browns Persecuters (https://theintercept.com/staff/freebarrett_/ ) would be very pleased with their stance on copyright as would the UK Government (Julian Assange) and The USA Government (Edward Snowden) . So I suggest that he Fukuleaks team are more Corporate than caring.
I appreciate that they are doing but attacking people that promote their blogsite is like the situation that occoured recently by the Fine Brothers who tried to do a similar thing on You Tube.
A link to a responce to that can be found here (They lost 200, 000 subscribers in just a day or so after begining just a few take down notices);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHSn-PaaZFY
I hope that the Fukuleaks Team backs off hastling a Fukushima father and concentrates their efforts at the conspiracy to cover up the health effects of nuclear disasters.
I hope that Fukuleaks doesnt want to go down the road of the Fine Brothers for that way leads to destruction.
Regrds
Shaun McGee
aka arclight
First I shared a short article of Fukuleaks on Radioactive Glass Nanoparticles, but Fukuleaks immediately harassed me complaining that I was infringing their copyrights and asking me to delete my article on my blog.
I told them you should be happy that I reposted your article, giving you the credits and giving your article link as the source, thus making your website more well known to those people who do not know it yet.
I cut by 60% their short article text, posting only 40% of it, as 40% sharing of an article text, if no money generating from it is considered by copyrights law as fair share and is usually tolerated.
But no it was still not enough good for them and still they pested me by email complaining, asking me to delete completely their article.
I told them, what kind of antinuclear people are you, as antinuclear don’t you…
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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