Kudankulam’s windmills produce more than nuclear plant
Not far from the agitation against the nuclear power plant, thousands of windmills around Kudankulam are calmly rotating to produce power — drawing from nature.
The combined capacity of wind turbines on the 120km stretch from Kanyakumari to Tuticorin — where the anti-nuclear plant protests are centred — is much more than — some estimates say nearly double — the 2,000MW capacity of the two reactors being commissioned at Kudankulam.
The corridor with its ideal geography between sea and hills and winds from advancing and receding monsoons is the hub of wind energy form the country’s highest concentration of windmills.
New-Are Europe’s nuclear plants dangerous?
http://m.dw.de/english/mobile.A-16277217-9097.html
When he was premier of Baden-Württemberg, Günther Oettinger must have been convinced the nuclear power plants in his state were safe – otherwise, he would have had to pull their operating licenses. As Europe’s energy commissioner, Oettinger must now present a report on the current state of safety in nuclear power plants across the bloc.
According to the German daily “Die Welt,” the report – expected for months and finally scheduled for publication on Wednesday (03.10.2012) – will paint a devastating picture of the safety measures in the EU’s nuclear power plants. Two days before the presentation date, a spokeswoman for the commissioner made the surprise announcement the report was not yet finished and would now be submitted on October 18.
After the nuclear reactor disaster in Fukushima, Japan, the EU Commission started an investigation into whether such a worst-case scenario could occur in Europe and, if so, what was being done to prevent it. There are 68 nuclear power plants with a total of 134 reactors in operation in the EU, situated in 14 of the 27 member states.
No protection against a plane crash
Fixing Duke Florida Nuclear Plant Could Top $3 Billion -USA
By Cassandra Sweet
Completing repairs necessary to restart Duke Energy Corp.’s (DUK) Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida could cost as much as $3.43 billion, according to a study released Monday.
Duke, which assumed ownership of the plant when it acquired Progress Energy earlier this year, hired a group of consultants to evaluate how much it might cost to fix and restart the plant, which has been shut for about three years.
The report, by Zapata Inc., found that Progress Energy’s initial plan to fix the plant would likely cost about $1.49 billion. That compares to Progress’s estimate that repairs would cost between $900 million and $1.3 billion. The consultants predicted that if more extensive work is required, under a “worst-case scenario,” the total repair bill would likely be $3.43 billion.
The problems at the Crystal River plant emerged as a key issue in Duke Energy’s decision to dismiss former Progress Energy Chief Executive Bill Johnson from his position as Duke CEO after the companies completed their $26 billion merger in early July.
Duke’s board dismissed Mr. Johnson because he withheld information, such as the rising cost of repairs at the Crystal River plant, Duke lead director Ann Gray told North Carolina regulators in July.
North Korea warns of nuclear war -blames the USA aggressive policies
(UKPA) – 1 hour ago A North Korean minister has lashed out at the United States, saying its “hostile” policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war.
Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon told the UN General Assembly that the Koreas have become “the world’s most dangerous hotspot” and blamed the “hostile” policy of the United States toward North Korea.
Pak said: “The vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of tension is an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean peninsula, which has become the world’s most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war.”
Pak also accused the US of seeking to use force to occupy the entire Korean peninsula – divided between the communist North and democratic South – and “use it as a stepping stone for realising its strategy of dominating the whole of Asia”.
He said the US has finalised scenarios for a new Korean War and “is waiting for a chance to implement them”.
In an apparent reference to North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and massive military, Pak said the nation’s “patience and self-defensive war deterrent,” have prevented US military provocations “from turning into an all-out war on the Korean peninsula”.
“However, the DPRK’s patience does not mean it is unlimited,” he warned, using the initials of the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
New -Security contractor at Y-12 nuclear weapons plant fired after intrusion by Sister Megan Rice
- Article by: ERIK SCHELZIG , Associated Press
- Updated: October 1, 2012 – 5:29 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The security contractor at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee was fired Monday after authorities said three protesters cut through fences and vandalized a building in an unprecedented break-in.
Security contractor WSI Oak Ridge said it has started winding down operations and will transfer its protective force functions to B&W Y-12, the managing contractor at the plant, over the next several weeks. The Department of Energy had earlier recommended that WSI’s contract be terminated.
The security contractor was criticized for its poor response when the protesters, including an 82-year-old Roman Catholic nun, cut through fences on July 28 and defaced a building that stores the plant’s weapons grade uranium.
Peter Stockton, a Department of Energy adviser on nuclear security during the Clinton administration, called the firing long overdue.
[…]
POGO, a Washington-based independent watchdog known for exposing overpriced military parts and other government shortcomings, has been a frequent critic of security lapses at the facility.
Azerbaijan Youth Activist Zaur Qurbanli -Detained in secret for a week! trumped up charges? Million Dollar Bribe! wow!
“Having received $500,000 from Abdullayev, Ahmadova was demanding half a million more in order to finish the business”
“I am not giving anything to master Ramiz. Master Ramiz is not someone who takes money, nobody has ever gave him one single manat as a bribe. I am demanding the money – me – Gular Ahmadova – if you give it, I will fix it for you, if you don’t , it is up to you. I am not a racketeer, I am not kidnapping people…”
from million dollar bribe link below..
October 01, 2012
Qurbanli, of the opposition NIDA youth movement, was arrested near his house in the town of Hirdalan on September 29.An Interior Ministry official told RFE/RL that Qurbanli is suspected of involvement in illegal drug activities, adding that Qurbanli resisted arrest and that “illegal documents and objects” were found in his office.
The official provided no more details.
Qurbanli’s colleagues say police brought him handcuffed to the office of another opposition youth group, Positive Changes, and questioned him there on September 29 about NIDA leaflets.
The official statement came after Qurbanli’s relatives complained to RFE/RL that they had received no explanation about Qurbanli’s arrest or whereabouts since his detention.
Breaking! MKO was accomplice in assassination of nuclear experts: Iran
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Saturday stating that the delisting of the MKO was “a violation of the United States’ legal and international commitments” and could threaten U.S. interests.The decision “will bring U.S. responsibility for past, present, and future terrorist operations by this group,” the statement read.01 October 2012 18:01
In Print: Tuesday 02 October 2012
TEHRAN – An Iranian Foreign Ministry official has said that the Mojahadin Khalq Organization is an accomplice in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast made the remarks in an interview with Al-Alam News Network broadcast on Sunday night in reference to the fact that the U.S. State Department formally removed the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations on Friday.
Mehmanparast said that the MKO has never renounced “terrorist activities” and has only changed its approach.
“The most recent terrorist moves, in which they were involved, were the assassinations of our nuclear scientists in cooperation with the Zionist regime’s security agents,” he stated.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Saturday stating that the delisting of the MKO was “a violation of the United States’ legal and international commitments” and could threaten U.S. interests.
The decision “will bring U.S. responsibility for past, present, and future terrorist operations by this group,” the statement read.
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Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:39PM GMT
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Typhoon Hits Japan as Nuclear Plant Construction Resumes. Admission of plutonium release.
“During the Unit 3 meltdown at Fukushima, plutonium as well as uranium radiation was released. MOX, which is more radioactive than uranium fuel, generated additional fear among people areas near Fukushima Daiichi.”
TOKYO, Japan, October 1, 2012 (ENS) – The Japanese power company J-Power today said it will resume construction of a nuclear power plant in Aomori prefecture at the northernmost tip of Japan’s main island, just as a typhoon delivered high winds, pounding rain and high waves to the area.
The move comes despite the Japanese government’s decision to phase out all nuclear power plants by the 2030s, announced in September.
[…]
Aomori is approximately 341 kilometers (212 miles) from Fukushima; both prefectures are in the Tohoku region on Japan’s main island, Honshu.
Jelawat formed on September 20; by September 24 it had reached “super typhoon” status, with maximum sustained winds above 240 kilometers (150 miles) per hour, out over the Pacific Ocean south of Japan. By the time the typhoon reached the Tohoku region it was reduced to a tropical storm with winds of 75 kph (46 mph).
[…]
J-Power President Masayoshi Kitamura today told a special session of the Ohma town assembly that the government’s September 14 clarification of its policy on uncompleted nuclear plants made the restart of construction possible.
[…]
The Ohma assembly members support the company’s decision, according to Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK TV.
Construction workers and officials from participating companies pose outside a partially constructed reactor containment building at J-Power’s Ohma nuclear power plant. (Photo courtesy Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.)
But officials at Hakodate, a city 20 kilometers (12 miles) away, oppose the nuclear plant. Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo told reporters that the city will go to court to stop the project.
“Horrific”: Former employee reveals CNN is paid by foreign governments to produce content disguised as news (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/horrific-cnn-journalist-reveals
Published: September 30th, 2012 at 12:03 pm ET
By ENENews
Former CNN Journalist Amber Lyon:
“…I started getting employees at CNN, longtime employees, approaching me saying, “You should investigate this. This is very suspicious. Something’s going on here.”
And we found out that, which was really, I felt defrauded as a journalist, we found out that at the same time I was being detained and risking my life to expose the Bahrain regime, CNN International is taking money from them in exchange for producing content that it airs on CNN International. Content disguised as news.
I mean one of these programs, the reporter, Richard Quest, was reporting live from Bahrain for a week. And u on a program called iList, and that program made Bahrain seem progressive. And the crown prince was a reformer.
And as an employee at CNN, I was never told that this was going on. Also viewers are not being told that CNN is being paid by state regimes some with horrific human rights records to air content disguised as news, which they’re often not even telling the viewers that this content was paid for by government. And, Alex, on a journalistic level, this is horrific..”
please read the enenews comments too!
Iwaki City Japan -Child with 3,300 becquerels of radioactive cesium.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/radioactive-japan-wbc-result-of-child.html
“…the test has found one child with 3,300 becquerels of radioactive cesium.
Some speculate that this particular child was eating food grown in the home garden. Iwaki City hasn’t disclosed the details of the child (age, sex, where he/she lives, what he/she eats, etc.). The date this child was tested hasn’t been disclosed. ..”
Iwaki City in southern Fukushima Prefecture has been testing the residents in higher radiation districts since November last year using the Whole Body Counter (WBC) for internal radiation exposure. On September 25, the municipal government announced the result of the test for about 12,000 residents. (Iwaki City’s population is about 330,000.)
Iwaki City’s radiation levels are moderately high (it was on the path of the radioactive plume (or cloud) on March 15, 2011), but compared to the municipalities in Nakadori (middle third, including Date City, Fukushima City, and Koriyama City) and northern Hamadori (ocean-side third, including Futaba-machi, Okuma-machi, and Namie-machi) they are much lower. Still, the test has found one child with 3,300 becquerels of radioactive cesium.
Some speculate that this particular child was eating food grown in the home garden. Iwaki City hasn’t disclosed the details of the child (age, sex, where he/she lives, what he/she eats, etc.). The date this child was tested hasn’t been disclosed.
From Mainichi Shinbun Fukushima local version (9/26/2012):
Iran’s Imminent Nuclear Weapon – On Max Kaiser- by Azziz
Iran’s Imminent Nuclear Weapon
Here’s some context behind the claims that Iran will imminently possess a nuclear weapon.
It started a long time ago (but not, unfortunately, in a galaxy far, far away):
1984: Soon after West German engineers visit the unfinished Bushehr nuclear reactor, Jane’s Defence Weekly quotes West German intelligence sources saying that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.”US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.
Seven years away? And did they have a bomb in 1991?
Breaking! Okinawa police remove anti-Osprey protesters, dismantle barricades
http://rt.com/news/osprey-protest-okinawa-police-360/
Published: 01 October, 2012
Japanese police have forcibly removed protesters and dismantled barricades around the US Futemma military base in the city of Ginowan ahead of the of the controversial deployment of American MV-22 Osprey aircraft.
Police had to use tow cars to remove 12 vehicles that had been parked by the protesters in front of the base over the weekend. Police also dispersed a crowd of demonstrators staging a sit-in near the entrance to the base to restore the vehicle traffic. So far no arrests have been reported.
Local residents, who are outraged by Monday’s deployment of the aircraft, began barricading one of the base’s gates last Thursday. Over the weekend they were parking their cars near the other two gates as well, effectively stopping all traffic from entering or leaving.
Video: Tepco’s Fukushima simulation has “100 percent error” — Bottom of containment “might be eroded or broken”
http://enenews.com/tepco-simulation-100-percent-error-bottom-containment-be-broken-eroded-video
Published: September 30th, 2012 at 10:23 pm ET
By ENENews
Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps
Uploaded by: OccupyUkiah
Filmed: July 30, 2012
Uploaded on: Sept. 27, 2012
Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps: Now this is a simulation carried out by Tepco of what happened in the vessel…
In the case of Fukushima, the fuel has melted down and eroded the concrete. And now Tepco says that there is some room. And they say this depth is 65 centimeters, 25 inches, but this is a simulation. No one has seen inside. Therefore, the shape of the debris is not known. This is just an assumption. And temperature is measured say 4-5 points, but the reliability of the measured temperature is very bad because of the damage inside. And furthermore sand and concrete is not uniform material like steel. It’s a mixture of stone, stand and cement.
Therefore that 65 centimeters must have, say 100 percent error, then if so the vessel bottom might be eroded, or broken.
And this
President Yamada back from his visit to the United States
2012/9/5
“..The “Fukushima Response”, a local activity group established by people who are concerned about the present situation of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, offered overall support for President Yamada, assiduously setting up meetings with decision makers of the United States, members of Congress and media representatives during the three week stay, as well as arranging more than ten lectures in cities on the West and East Coast; these lectures drew a lot of attention and sympathy, and were very well received on each occasion…”
USA CONDUCTS NEW UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTS
REVIVAL OF NUCLEAR ARMS RACE:US CONDUCTS NEW UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTS
In 1997, five years after its last underground nuclear test, the U.S. Department of Energy conducted its first subcritical nuclear test. Back then, critics said that the subcritical test program was creating a crisis of confidence in the negotiations over the CTBT because nations such as India and Indonesia strongly felt that such experiments should be included in the activities banned by the treaty. Critics also feared that because of the nature of these experiments on plutonium (e.g. conducted underground, there is no visible flash, seismic signal or ‘gas signature’), one country’s conduct of a subcritical test might easily be seen by another as a very low yield nuclear test.
Even without creating a ‘yield,’ which would categorize a nuclear experiment as a nuclear explosion, experts and even government documents agree that subcritical tests can be used beyond their stated purpose, to study the aging properties of plutonium. They could be used for developing new nuclear weapons. Although it hasn’t been yet proven that any country has used subcritical tests for this latter purpose, do we want to wait around and find out (the CTBT doesn’t actually ban subcritical nuclear tests)?
Officials mull seismic tests near US nuclear plant -may harm local ecology
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=854771&publicationSubCategoryId=200
(philstar.com) Updated October 01, 2012
“People need to understand, we’re living in the world post-Fukushima, so we need to go back and review everything we think we know about the seismic threat situation around important structures like this power plant,” said Bruce Gibson, a former seismologist who now serves as a San Luis Obispo County supervisor.
“Unfortunately, from an environmental impact standpoint, the only real way to get the images is to put high energy sound into the earth.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Plans to use an array of powerful air cannons in an undersea seismic study near a Central California nuclear power plant have federal and state officials juggling concerns over marine life with public safety.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wants to use big air guns to emit strong sound waves into a large, near-shore area that includes parts of marine reserves to make three-dimensional maps of fault zones, some of which were discovered in 2008, near its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
But a state study, mandated by a bill signed into law in 2006, found the project is likely to have “unavoidable adverse effects” on marine life and the environment. Biologists, environmental groups and fishermen have opposed using the high-energy air guns, saying the blasts have potential to harm endangered whales, California sea otters and other creatures frequenting these waters.
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
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
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