Tepco, Chubu Electric Power Co., Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp to join up to build nuclear power plant in Aomori?
Tepco and three other companies considering joint firm to build nuclear power plant in Aomori, Japan Times, 9 Aug 19,
JIJI Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and three other companies are considering jointly setting up a new firm to construct and manage a planned nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture, informed sources said Thursday.
The three partners are Chubu Electric Power Co., Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp., the sources said.
Under the plan, the new company will build and run a new nuclear plant next to Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Higashidori nuclear facility, which has been idle since the triple core meltdown at Tepco’s Fukushima No. 1 plant…….
Hitachi has frozen its nuclear plant construction program in Britain, while Toshiba withdrew from nuclear plant construction overseas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/09/business/corporate-business/tepco-three-companies-considering-joint-firm-build-nuclear-power-plant-aomori/#.XU3f0egzbIU
Trump praises ‘very beautiful’ letter from Kim Jong Un amid frozen nuclear talks, tension over military exercises
Trump praises ‘very beautiful’ letter from Kim Jong Un amid frozen nuclear talks, tension over military exercises, By CONOR FINNEGAN and ELIZABETH MCLAUGHLINPresident Donald Trump said on Friday that he received another letter from North Korea‘s Kim Jong Un on Thursday amid stalled talks over the regime’s nuclear weapons program and Kim’s recent missile launches.
Chernobyl ‘sarcophagus” on the verge of collapse
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CHERNOBYL ‘SARCOPHAGUS’ THAT HOLDS IN RADIATION FROM THE WORLD’S WORST NUCLEAR DISASTER IS ABOUT TO CAVE IN UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT, Newsweek, BY ON 8/8/19 The vast structure that was built around the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, following the infamous 1986 disaster is on the verge of collapse, according to experts.The “sarcophagus,” or “Shelter Structure” as it is known, was constructed shortly after the worst nuclear disaster in history as a temporary measure to limit the radioactive contamination leaking out of the destroyed reactor. But now the concrete and steel structure—which weighs around 8,000 tons—has degraded to such a point that there is a “very high” probability it will cave in on itself, according to officials from SSE Chernobyl NPP, the Ukrainian company that manages the plant, Brinkwire reported. Fortunately, authorities have been planning for this eventuality. Last month, a new structure built around the sarcophagus was formally inaugurated. Known as the New Safe Confinement or New Shelter, this 32,000-ton structure—which took around a decade to build at a cost of $2.3 billion—should keep the radiation contained for about another century. This gives workers plenty of time to disassemble the older structure and decontaminate the materials from it. Chernobyl NPP has just awarded a contractor this task and set a completion date of 2023, the year that experts have suggested the sarcophagus would be able to survive until in the best-case scenario…… All of the disassembled elements from the sarcophagus will be cut up, decontaminated and then put into shipping containers for transportation to a processing or disposal facility. The disassembly contract will be funded by the Ukrainian state budget, unlike the construction of the New Safe confinement which was financed by the Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF)—an organization founded in 1997 that counts 28 member states as contributors……https://www.newsweek.com/chernobyl-sarcophagus-that-holds-radiation-worlds-worst-nuclear-disaster-about-cave-under-1453263 |
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Three British nuclear submariners sacked over cocaine use
Three nuclear submariners discharged over cocaine use, Telegraph UK 9 AUGUST 2019
Three sailors serving on a nuclear submarine have been thrown out of the Royal Navy after cleaners “found cocaine in their rooms”.
The submariners on HMS Vengeance failed a compulsory drug test shortly after shore leave in a US military port in Florida in June…..
China’s nuclear policy
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Paving the Way for a Shift? Evidences from China’s Nuclear Documents, International Policy Digest, The historical roots of the Chinese nuclear doctrine dates back to the traumatic experiences of the Korean War and the Taiwan Strait crises during the 1950s when the United States, then bound to South Korea and Taiwan, kept on the table a nuclear option against Beijing. After testing their first A-bomb in southern Xinjiang in October 1964, Beijing stated that, given the power of annihilation, “China will not at any time or under any circumstances employ atomic weapons first.” The no first use (NFU) policy is, then, congenitally rooted in China’s nuclear doctrine……… The main concern for the U.S. and its allies in Asia is whether China is modernizing its nuclear arsenal solely to secure a credible and effective second-strike capacity or if it is overhauling its nuclear policy toward a completely new approach. If the above-analyzed documents were meant to pave the way for more meaningful shift away from the traditional Chinese nuclear posture, then, Asia’s security environment would be significantly altered and global peace could be sorely tested. https://intpolicydigest.org/2019/08/09/paving-the-way-for-a-shift-evidences-from-china-s-nuclear-documents/
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Removal of one metric ton of plutonium from Savannah River Site South Carolina
One metric ton of plutonium removed from massive nuclear facility in SC, https://www.wspa.com/news/one-metric-ton-of-plutonium-removed-from-massive-nuclear-facility-in-sc/ by: Georgiaree Godfrey
Posted: Aug 8, 2019 / 09:06 PM EDT Updated: Aug 9, 2019 / 0JACKSON, SC (WSPA)- The South Carolina Attorney General announced earlier this week the successful completion of the removal of a portion of the plutonium being stored at the Savannah River Site in Aiken.
The Savannah River Site has been in the state since the late 1950’s and was originally home to a nuclear bomb making facility, but over the years the site has taken on the role of several different operations, including the storage of plutonium.
Savannah River Site is now home to a nuclear laboratory and facility to reuse the nuclear material left behind from the Cold War. Over the years the storage of that plutonium has become a concern.
“A lot of pollution left over from that so the main mission of the Savannah River Site for a long time has been the cleaning up of the contamination that exists,” explained Tonya Bonitatibus, the Executive Director of Savannah Riverkeeper. Savannah Riverkeeper monitors the quality of the Savannah River, which is used for drinking water for more than 1 million residents.
The United States Department of Energy notified the state’s attorney general of the removal of one metric ton of plutonium from the Savannah River Site.
In 2016, Congress passed a law to remove the plutonium if production goals to reuse the material were not met.
The plutonium removed so far is the first step in a wider cleanup after the state won a lawsuit against the DOE.
Bonitatibus continued, “The Savannah River Site has been the dumping ground for nuclear waste. It just has because nobody wants it. So it ends up being stored here leaking into the coastal plain and groundwater.”
The National Nuclear Security Administration says, “The material removed from the Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, South Carolina, will be used for national security missions and is not waste.”
NNSA also released a removal plan that designated Texas and New Mexico as the destinations for the removed plutonium.
The ruling outlined that one metric ton of the plutonium would be removed each year. The process could take another 5 to 7 years to remove the plutonium being stored.
The removal was supposed to be completed by January 1, 2020. The process is 6 months ahead of schedule, according to NNSA.
Savannah River Site is located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell counties.
China buried nuclear waste in Sudan desert
According to the former director of the Sudan Atomic Energy Commission in Sudan, Mohamed Siddig, 60 containers have been brought to Sudan together with construction materials and machinery for the building of the Merowe Dam (Hamdab Dam) in the Northern part of Sudan. He did not mention the exact year of the import and the date the nuclear waste was disposed. China worked on the dam between 2004 and 2009.
During a conference held by the Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organisation (SSMO) in Khartoum on Tuesday, he disclosed how the Sudanese authorities allowed the import of the waste ‘without inspection’. He told the audience that 40 containers were buried in the desert not far from the Merowe Dam construction site. Another 20 containers were also disposed in the desert, though not buried…..
Mohamed Siddig was responsible for the Sudan Radioactive Waste Management programme that started in 1995, a central radioactive waste management facility was established in Soba near Khartoum. The Atomic Energy Committee is responsible for overseeing the safety in activities that involve the use of atomic energy in Sudan, and promoting the use of nuclear techniques.
Gold miners complain
In 2010, the government was already confronted by complaints of local gold diggers, according to the Sudanese newspaper El Tariq. Several gold workers approached the government complaining about many of the worker suffering from cancer and skin diseases. The Sudan authorities downplayed the questions saying the waste they dug up were remnants from earlier times. However witnesses told El Tariq that 500 sealed barrels were discovered in the El Atmur desert area in River Nile State…….https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/official-china-buried-nuclear-waste-in-sudan-s-desert
futurism.com | Russia Is Floating a Nuclear Power Plant Across the Arctic — mukeshbalani.com
mukeshbalani.com | “You heard it here first…if you haven’t already heard it elsewhere”… Russia Is Floating a Nuclear Power Plant Across the Arctic Russia’s massive floating nuclear power plant is destined to make its way across the Arctic Ocean to supply electricity to a remote eastern region, The Guardian reports. The plant, called the Akademik Lomonosov, […]
via futurism.com | Russia Is Floating a Nuclear Power Plant Across the Arctic — mukeshbalani.com
Holtec International Tricked The TVA Nuclear Employee Who They Bribed According to OIG Report — Mining Awareness +
What a small incestuous little world. Holtec sent the TVA Nuclear employee to Trump’s Taj Mahal hotel. Holtec International, which cans most of the high level nuclear waste in the USA, apparently conned the TVA employee who they bribed for contracts. They paid for him to go to Trump’s Taj Mahal, and paid him part […]
Entergy & Holtec Oppose Massachusetts AG’s Motion to Put Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station License Transfer Review on Hold Pending Negotiations — Mining Awareness +
From Cape Cod Times: “Pilgrim principals oppose delay in license review By Christine Legere Posted at 6:26 PM Updated at 6:26 PM Owner, potential buyer say break to set post-shutdown conditions gives state upper hand. PLYMOUTH — The owner of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and the plant’s potential buyer have submitted joint arguments against the […]
August 9 Energy News — geoharvey
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