1 May: nuclear news for the past week

Late news flashes:

Australia’s submarine purchase from France in cahoots with nuclear lobby‘s plan for expansion of nuclear industry, Australia as world’s nuclear trash dump, to be announced on May 6 by the sham South Australia Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission.
The seller, France’s corporation Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales (DCNS) is notorious for corruption.

Most impressive news item of the week – Central bankers, financial facts, bringing an end to the nuclear power era?

NUCLEAR

The next nuclear disaster will probably be an intentional one.

Concern over influence on World Health Organisationby outside agencies, with financial support

UKRAINE. Ukraine’s nuclear industry remains a time bomb. The real menace of the Chernobyl nuclear situation. Mikhail Gorbachev: 30 years after Chernobyl, time to phase out nuclear power. Covering shattered Chernobyl nuclear reactor – a financial problem for Ukraine. Over 2 million people receiving benefits due to radiation effects of Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity hasseriously harmed wildlife. Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima Children: When the Language and Information Gaps Mislead. Indoor playgrounds help Fukushima families to deal with their very real fear of radiation.

JAPAN. Series of earthquakes is delaying Japan’s ‘nuclear revival’. Toshiba to lose 260 billion yen due tolosses over Westinghouse nuclear power subsidiary. Fukushima plant’s new ice wall not watertight.

USA.

A second double-shell tank leaking radiation at Hanford?
Idaho in danger from nuclear waste, and must be protected.
California State Senate demands removal of stored nuclear waste from San Onofre power plant.
US Senate Efforts to Do Away with Mandatory Licensing Hearings for So-Called Advanced Nuclear Reactors-Small Modular Reactors. US Senate Bill 2795 on Deregulation of the Nuclear Industry.

UK and FRANCE. So-called “charity” nuclear front, Alvin Weinberg Foundation, group lobbies UK govt to fund Small Nuclear Reactors. Westinghouse keen to fleece UK tax-payers with Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.

France’s government says decision on Hinkley nuclear plant is again delayed. European law means it is illegal for France’s govt to fund EDF’s British Hinkley nuclear project. France’s tax-payers give €3bn to save debt-ridden nuclear corporation EDF.

GERMANY’s compromise plan to make power companies pay for nuclear waste disposal. Germany wrestles with the dilemma of disposing of dead nuclear reactors and their toxic wastes. Computer viruses have infected German nuclear power station.

BELGIUM Most of Belgium’s population to be given potassium iodide pills.

SWEDEN Vattenhall nuclear corporation in financial trouble, opposes nuclear risk premium, seeks to abolish Swedish tax.

CLIMATE. USA Republicans – half of them accept the science of climate change. Austria losing to climate change its most precious environmental resource – glaciers. Climate Feedback helps climate scientists toevaluate media stories.

RENEWABLE ENERGY A solar-powered flight across the Pacific – the Solar Impulse 2 arrives in California. USA Republicans now liking renewable energy – for financial, not climate, reasons. USA wind energy investment – over $128 Billion. Denmark’s solar energy growth – way ahead of schedule.

May 1, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes

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What is frightening is that unless people wake up and stop it, the radioactive rubble from the old nuclear reactors around the world is going to be scattered into areas with the least vigilant or least wanted people with least strict standards, which appears to be the southern US, northwestern England and Scotland, and possibly Australia. I believe that Australia has not had its rebelliousness diluted so much as the others and with no operating reactors is more likely to successfully fight off the nuclear waste. But, we will see. The English speaking world seems to have the worst standards for radiation in food, making it a good candidate for waste. Even the African countries said years ago that they don’t want the nuclear waste.

Doug Kimmelmann, former Goldman Sachs “investment” banker (aka Goldman Sachs Alumnus), is Sr. partner and co-founder of the companying now owning EnergySolutions. EnergySolutions is about to have the US monopoly for rad waste and is present internationally. They are burying the radioactive waste in the US and UK. They own the old and largely ineffective ALPS system at Fukushima.

It is frightening to keep the old reactors running but also frightening that they apparently are just going to dump and bury the rubble just where-ever.

A sad testimoney to the problem is that while Bernie Sanders wants to stop relicensing of nuclear reactors, he had no qualms about sending nuclear waste from Vermont to be buried in west Texas. He didn’t even say that IF it must be buried then drier is better. This was after the Beatty dump had blown up at least once in arid Nevada and after Vermont had been a candidate for nuclear waste because of its granite. Where-ever it goes it must be monitored forever and never buried and left.

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