30,000 Mossad spies exposed by Anonymous! Press TV
As soon as the story hit, press assets, both “blogosphere shills” and the MSM passed on the word, “Mossad assassination teams know where to find ‘Anonymous’ and are ready to kill family members, pets, blow up neighborhoods or even shoot up another elementary school.”
The hack, initially exposing a hidden network of 30,000 covert operatives, some openly labeled “hitman,” came only days after Israel admitted to their 2010 act of piracy and terrorism against the Freedom Flotilla.
Now the Israeli regime has filled the internet with threats against “Anonymous,” if detailed information on their terror cells is leaked.
After all, who is better to carry out acts of terrorism than an organization with 30,000 covert operatives around the world, almost all trained in use of explosives and demolition, building IEDs, car bombs, kidnapping and assassination and with a long and very public history of, not just murdering people but getting away with it as well.
Every day we see it in the news, dozens killed in Pakistan, dozens more in Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, the covert army of 30,000, planning terror, building a dozen car bombs a day and then being able to, not just write the lies blaming others but, in most cases, direct public officials, controlled through blackmail, threats or bribery, to “respond as directed.”
Did I forget Syria?
The army, more correctly the “cells” exposed by Anonymous include:
Sellafield and Professor Chris Busby – INTRIGUE AND DECEPTION CONCERNING IRELAND!
Published on 30 Mar 2013
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Breaking! Sellafield, the BBC and EURDEP lie to cover up contamination incident! Irish coast hit!
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/23/breaking-sellafield-the-bbc-and-eurdep-lie-to-cover-up-contamination-incident-irish-coast-hit-2/
Radiation alert at home of dead Russian tycoon in UK — Officers search for nuclear material — Connected to ex-KGB spy poisoned with polonium-210 (VIDEO)
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/23/breaking-sellafield-the-bbc-and-eurdep-lie-to-cover-up-contamination-incident-irish-coast-hit-2/
Sellafield smoke stack incident — 20 October 2012 — Picture-repost
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/23/sellafield-smoke-stack-incident-20-october-2012-picture-repost/
Study: Nuclear Plant Shutdown Results in 4,319 Fewer Cancer Cases
“….Previous studies on the rates of cancer near eight closed nuclear reactors showed a 25 percent decrease in childhood cancers, while the national rate rose 0.5 percent 10 years after the plants closed. …….”
ABOUT THE AUTHORSJoseph Mangano MPH MBA is an epidemiologist, and Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He is the author or co-author of 30 peer-reviewed medicaljournal articles and letters, and author of the booksLow Level Radiation and Immune System Disease: An Atomic Era Legacy(1998);Radioactive Baby Teeth: The Cancer Link(2008); and Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment(2012). Janette Sherman MD is an internist and toxicologist, and adjunct professor at Western Michigan University. She is the author/co-author of many scientific publication s, and is author of the booksChemical Exposure and Disease: Diagnostic and Investigative Techniques(1994) andLife’s Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer(2008).COMPETING INTERESTSThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest in connection with this publica-tion.
Report source ; http://www.bmijournal.org/index.php/bmi/article/viewFile/115/82
Yahoo posted article…
By Brian Krans
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
Closing a nuclear reactor in California has prevented an estimated 4,319 cases of cancer in the past 20 years, according to a new study released Thursday. Researchers studied the population of the state capitol of Sacramento, an area with more than 1.4 million people living within 25 miles of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant.
Using 20 years worth of data, researchers found an overall drop in the incidence of all cancers, including six of the 16 most common types. The sharpest drop came within a decade of the plant’s closing in 1989.
“These findings suggest that the closing of Rancho Seco reduced the risk to health for local residents, and provides a basis for conducting analyses on potential long-term health changes,” the study, published in the journal Biomedicine International, states.
Researchers say more work is needed to determine if there’s a cause-and-effect relationship between the reduced incidence of cancer and the closing of the power plant, but they say the data show a statistically significant relationship in several areas.
Women, Children, and Hispanics Affected Most
The most statistically significant reductions were in breast and thyroid cancers in women, two cancers that appeared more frequently in survivors of the nuclear bombs attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII.
Hiroshima updates number of atomic bomb victims for the final time.
The study will most likely be the last one because 68 years have passed since the bombing and it is unlikely that any new documents will be discovered, an official suggested.
Press Trust of India | Tokyo March 28, 2013 Last Updated at 16:35 IST
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The number of victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima has climbed up a notch to 557,478 – 15,000 more than the previously recorded figure, according to a new report.
The total number of the explosion-affected people or “hibakusha” from the Second World War atomic bombing by the US is more than 15,000 people recorded in the previous file, according to research conducted by the city government.
Based on a fresh review of 120,000 documents which was undertaken by computer for the first time, the number of atomic bomb victims has grown by around 15,000 compared with the previous tally 14 years ago, the data showed, Kyodo News agency reported.
Of the latest figure, 384,743 hibakusha were confirmed to have been in the city or nearby towns and villages when the Atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, up by around 12,000 from the previous survey.
The remainder includes people who later entered areas near ground zero and those who lacked sufficient information about their whereabouts.
After eliminating duplications, the death toll from the bombing was lowered to 277,996, from the previously reported 280,959, the report said.
The study will most likely be the last one because 68 years have passed since the bombing and it is unlikely that any new documents will be discovered, an official suggested.
The Hiroshima Study Group on Re-construction of Local Fallout from A-bomb in 1945 Book 2 launched, with recent research results and data !
2013-03-22
HiSoF Book 2 launched, with resent research results and data
Documents Source : http://city.youth-service.com/
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Hiroshima City and HiSoF launched the second volume of “Revisit The Hiroshima A-bomb with a Database -Latest Scientific View on Local Fallout and Black Rain-” on March 22, in Hiroshima (see Publications page).
This book contains recently found data and research results by HiSoF members and its collaborators (see Database page), including:
– the wind data based on the navigation record of the aircraft of bomber and two weather stations data in Japan between July and August 1945;
– results of neutron activation analysis of the soils used under roof tiles in traditional Japanese houses, and ground soil samples in Hiroshima city;
– particle size distribution of the soils used for walls and under roof tiles in traditional Japanese houses and ground soil samples;
– a study that suggests the region west to the hypocenter has a higher risk compared to other areas that cannot be explained by direct exposure only;
– measurements of Cesium-137 and Pu isotopes in under-floor soil samples from houses built 1–4 years after 1945 in Hiroshima;
– a paper which asks a question of whether observed Hiroshima TLD excess dose could be the result of a pattern of local fallout of Hiroshima A-bomb.
Books are available from Hiroshima City
HiSoF Book 1 and Book 2 as well as abridged editions in Japanese are available on request. Those wishing to obtain HiSoF publications, please contact Hiroshima City (see Contact).
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Links to new Pdfs (recommend) and visit the site to if these interest you!
Revisit The Hiroshima A-bomb with a Database Volume2New!
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| 1.1 | Aerological data in August 1945 at Hiroshima, Japan | Michio Aoyama, Masaru Chiba, Manami Suzuki |
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£31 million injection for new nuclear technology in the UK
26 Mar 2013
The nuclear industry received a boost today as Business Secretary Vince Cable announced major new funding awards that will enhance the supply chain and increase opportunities to commercialise new technologies in the sector.
The funding will support 36 projects across the UK in developing new technologies for the construction, operation and decommissioning of nuclear power plants. This will bring together over 60 experienced organisations including Laing O’Rourke, Sheffield Forgemasters and EDF. They will work alongside innovative small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and universities.
The £18 million joint funding between the Technology Strategy Board, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is expected to leverage in an additional £13 million making the total value of the projects £31 million.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said:
“There are huge global opportunities that the UK is well placed to take advantage of in the nuclear industry. Our strong research base will help develop exciting new technologies that can be commercialised here and then exported across the globe.
Up to 1,000 North Wales nuclear workers retraining for alternative industries
….“When considering my future career I needed to think about location and lifestyle. Working in a fast-paced London-based job would not have met my lifestyle results for example.”
Judy says the academic level of the workers in Trawsfynydd and Wylfa would shock most people.
“It’s very unusual for a project to be working with people from the top end of the academic scale,” she said….
….She is worried the are could be “crippled” economically if this does not happen, as a report commissioned by Magnox found £42m would come out of the local economy as a result of 1,200 people at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa not living and working in the area…….
…She admitted “funding is starting to fade” and was unsure whether the project would apply for a second round after 2015…
- by Martin Williams, DPW West
- Mar 27 2013
UP TO 1,000 nuclear energy staff in north west Wales are being retrained and re-educated to work in other industries.
Menter Môn’s £4million Shaping the Future initiative is attempting to get every member of the Trawsfynydd and Wylfa workforces into other jobs in a bid to retain £42m for the region’s economy.
Hitachi’s acquisition of Horizon last year gave the Wylfa B development a shot in the arm and firmed-up its future.
But project director Judy Craske says staff still need to be reeducated and re-skilled so they could be put to use in other industries, such as the automotive, tourism, manufacturing and aerospace sectors.
She says a talent drain would have a knock-on effect for the counties and has been busy enrolling employees at both sites.
At the last count in the new year, 833 of the 1,200 people she targeted have signed up for Shaping the Future – 527 at Wylfa and 306 at Trawsfynydd.
Speaking to Business Post, the former Magnox transition manager revealed last June how she garnered millions of pounds of European Social Fund cash through the Welsh Government, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Gwynedd and Anglesey councils to try and save them from the scrapheap.
“Since last summer the project has been off and now back on again, which has caused uncertainty,” she said.
“There is no panic but there is a wind of change and it is vital they take this on board. They’re going to get an idea in the coming months what the future will look like.
“Most can’t believe the day will come when there is not a job for them. They have to take this opportunity while there’s money in the bank. You never know, Wylfa might break, can keep going as long as it can but eventually there will be no more fuel to burn.”
Judy says, even dismissing the worst-case scenario, the staff should capitalise on Shaping the Future – notably the experience of ambassadors including Centrica nuclear director Greg Evans, and Aerospace Wales chief executive John Whalley – and add more skills to their CV so other positions open up to them. She is worried the are could be “crippled” economically if this does not happen, as a report commissioned by Magnox found £42m would come out of the local economy as a result of 1,200 people at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa not living and working in the area.
Among those to have already benefited is Magnox communications employee Ian Edwards, who secured funding to start an MsC in public relations at the University of Glamorgan.
“I immediately saw the benefits of Shaping the Future in helping me and my colleagues to improve our skills and qualifications for the future,” said Ian.
Proposal to Ship Hanford High-Level Radioactive Waste to New Mexico – A Letter to Steven Chu
March 26, 2013
Secretary Steven Chu
Office of the Secretary
Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave SW
Washington DC 20585
The.Secretary@hq.doe.gov
RE: Proposal to Ship Hanford High-Level Radioactive Waste to New Mexico
Dear Secretary Chu,
We write to you regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) News Release and subsequent publication in the Federal Register on March 11, 2013 of DOE’s “preferred alternative” to retrieve, treat, package, characterize and certify certain Hanford tank wastes for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. 1 As detailed below, DOE’s proposed course of action would fail to resolve or meaningfully address potential threats to the Columbia River from leaking high-level radioactive waste (HLW) tanks at Hanford. The waste proposed for treatment and transfer to WIPP is too small a fraction of the total inventory of Hanford tank waste to make the investment worthwhile and the proposal does not prioritize the leaking single-shell tanks. Further, DOE’s “preferred alternative” would likely have a disastrous impact on both efforts to arrive at a national nuclear waste strategy and associated progress at the WIPP facility from legal, technical and institutional perspectives.
With such caution in mind, we urge you to ensure DOE complies with the law and retracts the preferred alternative of attempting to ship high-level radioactive waste to New Mexico. It is costly, unwise and illegal to ship Hanford tank waste to WIPP. DOE should move as quickly as practicable to build new tanks to empty the actively leaking high-level radioactive waste tanks and have tank capacity for eventual feed to the Waste Treatment Plant. We would be happy to meet with your successor in the coming weeks to discuss these and other matters. We further detail these matters below.
Background
As national and regional groups that have worked on the nuclear weapons complex cleanup for decades, we share DOE’s concerns about protecting human health, the environment, and of course, the Columbia River and its central role as the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest. We also share concerns about achieving an effective high-level waste program inclusive of state, tribal and public
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EIS-0391: Notice of Preferred Alternative, 78 Fed. Reg. 15358, (March 11, 2013). Notice available at:
http://energy.gov/nepa/downloads/eis-0391-notice-preferred-alternative .
interests that ultimately arrives at long-term geologic disposal solution for defense-generated HLW and commercial spent nuclear fuel.
As you know, Hanford’s tanks are leaking HLW with an underground flow pathway toward the Columbia River. An estimated one million gallons of contamination have already leaked from the tanks, and an undetermined quantity has entered the groundwater adjacent to the river. The Washington State Department of Ecology has declared, “out of these 149 SSTs, 67 have been declared as known or assumed leakers that have released more than one million gallons of waste to the soil and groundwater. The released tank waste is now moving toward, but has not reached, the Columbia River.” 2 Six single-shell tanks and one double-shell tank are now confirmed to be actively leaking, and 14 others may be leaking, according to DOE. 3 Such leaks will only serve to drive existing contamination closer to the Columbia River. This is an urgent problem, and we applaud the State of Washington and the Department of Energy for their renewed commitment to address this crisis.
While we share concerns for a meaningful and effective high-level waste disposal program, the position of the NRDC, Hanford Challenge and Southwest Research and Development Center is that DOE’s “preferred alternative” to retrieve, treat, package, characterize and certify certain Hanford tank wastes for disposal at WIPP in New Mexico is both unlawful and fraught with several technical problems that make it evident any such plan does not meaningfully solve the urgent situation in Washington.
The Hanford EIS and the subject of shipping HLW to New Mexico
Prior to the close of the public comment period on the Draft Tank Closure & Waste Management EIS (TC &WM EIS), DOE issued a statement in the Federal Register (74 FR 67189) that indicated it was no longer considering sending Hanford tank waste to WIPP, declaring the intention that these wastes would be retrieved and treated at the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) being constructed at Hanford.
For this reason, the State of Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and many members of the public did not comment on sending tank waste to WIPP during the public comment period, and no public meeting was held in New Mexico. However DOE changed its position in the Final TC & WM EIS and included the preferred alternative of sending portions of tank waste to WIPP.
In its Forward to the Final TC & WM EIS, Ecology elaborated on some of its concerns over DOE’s current approach to the potential mixed TRU tank waste:
Ecology has legal and technical concerns with any tank waste being classified as
mixed TRU waste at this time. DOE must provide peer-reviewed data and a strong,
defensible, technically and legally detailed justification for the designation of any
tank waste as mixed TRU waste, rather than as HLW. DOE must also complete the
WIPP certification process and assure Ecology that there is a viable disposal pathway
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http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/nwp/tank_waste_storage.htm
“The U.S. Department of Energy and its contractor are evaluating 14 other single-shell tanks that appeared to have lost liquid, according to state regulators and others who attended a DOE briefing in Oregon Monday.”
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“DOE is now expressing its preference that no Hanford tank wastes would be shipped to WIPP.” 74 Federal Register 67189, (December 18, 2009).
(i.e., permit approval from the State of New Mexico and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) before Ecology will modify the Hanford Sitewide Permit to allow tank waste to be treated as mixed TRU waste. Further, Ecology is concerned with the cost benefit viability of an approach that sends a relatively minor amount of tank waste to WIPP, given the cost it would take to secure the disposal path, and to construct and operate the drying facility for the TRU tank waste. 5
A treatment facility to retrieve, process and package Hanford tank waste for shipment to WIPP would be expensive, and time-consuming. Without substantially more information, we are unclear how any such plan could comply with current law. We are unaware of blueprints or plans for such adrying facility, and certainly there is no existing facility at Hanford that could accomplish that mission.
DOE named 20 tanks with high level waste that DOE would seek to reclassify as TRU in the Final TC &WM EIS, 6 but an earlier review by the Washington State Department of Ecology put the number of tanks that might qualify under the legal definition of TRU at only eight tanks. 7 DOE’s current presentations further the intention to classify 11 tanks as Contact Handled TRU (CH-TRU) and send this waste, totaling around 280,000 gallons to WIPP. 8 However, no policy, cost or legal analysis on the topic has been completed and therefore there is no credible basis at this time for DOE’s preferred alternative of sending Hanford tank waste to WIPP.
The Legal Bar Against Reclassifying HLW
More than 250 employees axed from Hanford nuclear power facility leaking 1,000 gallons per year of radioactive waste !
…In a letter to Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Daniel Poneman from DOE warned that the furloughs and layoffs could severely delay progress towards fixing the leaking tanks — according to the latest estimates, nearly 5,000 Hanford employees, both permanent and contracted, are being either laid off or put on temporary furlough….
Thursday, March 28, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson
(NaturalNews) Federal budget cuts have prompted the layoff of at least 235 workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southern Washington, a massive 586-square-mile storage site for radioactive waste located near Richland. But according to the Associated Press (AP), aging underground storage tanks at the facility are estimated to be leaking some 1,000 gallons of radioactive waste into the ground every single year, a serious environmental threat that has many questioning why the government would cut funding for this important mitigation project.
As reported by Tri-CityHerald.com, the cuts were made as part of sequestration by the federal government, or the automatic budget trimming of certain federal programs, and include primarily union positions. But some 27 non-union positions were also cut, and several thousand other contracted workers could also lose their jobs soon as a result of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contractors cutting back on the work they assign to their subcontractors.
The Hanford facility was originally created by the federal government back in the 1940s as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop and build the atomic bomb, according to the Associated Press. But after the facility stopped producing nuclear weapons after the Cold War, Hanford became the nation’s largest and most complex environmental clean-up project, costing American taxpayers roughly $2 billion a year, or one-third of the country’s entire budget for nuclear clean-up efforts nationwide.
“You can’t furlough 20 percent of the workforce without having an impact on the work,” Gary Petersen from the Tri-City Development Council is quoted as saying to AP. “There’s no question that the longer you delay clean-up, the longer it’s going to take and the higher the cost.”
More than a dozen Hanford nuclear waste storage tanks believed to be leaking
Tohoku Electric to abandon planned nuclear plant in Fukushima!
Kyodo
TOKYO, JAPAN, 28 SEPTEMBER – Kasumigaseki – The woman’s active group “KNOW NEW KISS” (Japanese phonetically : No Nukes) at the anti-nuclear demonstration in front of the National Diet Building (Kokkai Gijidou) – Following shyly the example of the Femen’s Ukrainian activist, they use the charm of their naked shoulder an belly to protest about the resumption of the nuclear power after the Fukushima’s crisis. – September 2012Copyright:Sébastien Lebègue
SENDAI – Tohoku Electric Power Co. is planning to withdraw its plan to build a new nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, local government sources said Thursday, in the first such move since the March 2011 nuclear disaster.
Tohoku Electric apparently decided it was impossible to go through with the construction plan amid strong local opposition following the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 plant. The utility will exclude the plan from its supply plan for fiscal 2013 to be released later Thursday.
Tohoku Electric has been in the process of acquiring around 150 hectares of land in the town of Namie and Odaka Ward, Minamisoma, but has faced strong local opposition.
The construction site was flooded with tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the area was designated as a no-go zone.
Since the nuclear crisis erupted the same month, Fukushima Prefecture has supported the phase out of atomic energy while the municipal assemblies of Namie and Minamisoma have passed resolutions to stop attracting nuclear power plants to the area, making it difficult for Tohoku Electric to proceed with the construction plan.
Can Small Reactors Ignite a Nuclear Renaissance?
Even once the final design is approved by the NRC, costs could prove higher than expected once the plants are actually built. “Part of the problem when you start in on these things, especially with a new technology, is that all the news after you begin is bad,” says Michael Golay, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT. “Things never behave in an optimized fashion.”
Small reactors have some benefits, but they won’t make nuclear as cheap as natural gas.
- By Kevin Bullis on March 28, 2013
Small, modular nuclear reactor designs could be relatively cheap to build and safe to operate, and there’s plenty of corporate and government momentum behind a push to develop and license them. But will they be able to offer power cheap enough to compete with natural gas? And will they really help revive the moribund nuclear industry in the United States?
Nuclear option: Babcock & Wilcox’s proposed power plant is based on two small modular nuclear reactors.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would provide $452 million in grants to companies developing small modular reactors, provided the companies matched the funds (bringing the total to $900 million). In November it announced the first grant winner—Babcock & Wilcox, a maker of reactors for nuclear ships and submarines—and this month it requested applications for a second round of funding. The program funding is expected to be enough to certify two or three designs.
The new funding is on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars Babcock & Wilcox has already spent on developing its 180-megawatt reactor design, along with a test facility to confirm its computer models of the reactor. Several other companies have also invested in small modular reactors, including Holtec, Westinghouse Electric, and the startup NuScale, which is supported by the engineering firm Fluor (see “Small Nukes Get a Boost,” “Small Nuclear Reactors Get a Customer,” and “Giant Holes in the Ground”).
The companies are investing in the technology partly in response to requests from power providers. One utility, Ameren Missouri, the biggest electricity supplier in that state, is working with Westinghouse to help in the certification process for that company’s small reactor design. Ameren is particularly worried about potential emissions regulations, because it relies on carbon-intensive coal plants for about 80 percent of its electricity production.
Second High Court in Japan to Declare 2012 election Unconstitutional
Published on 27 Mar 2013
The results of the 2012 general election are again in doubt in Japan.
India – Nuclear cooperation with Kazakhstan
Sandeep Dikshit
NEW DELHI, March 27, 2013
Kazakhstan has said interaction with India in nuclear energy will open up prospects for implementation of other “breakthrough projects” in many of the priority sectors. Kazakhstan, the largest and most dynamic economy among five Central Asian states, wants civil nuclear energy cooperation that will benefit both countries.
“Undoubtedly, our cooperation in this area will include the development and deepening of cooperation from Kazakhstan’s fuel supply to full-sized participation in joint projects, from training of personnel to the sharing of the best and environment-friendly technologies,” Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov told The Hindu in an interview.
This means instead of selling the uranium ore to India, Astana will like to value add by providing fuel rods as well as jointly taking up projects in this sector. India has already expressed its wish to be involved in Kazakh plans to set up small nuclear plants to provide electricity in its far-flung and thinly populated areas.
Kazakhstan is a major producer and exporter of uranium and has always signalled its interest in supplying its products to India. Its company Kazatomprom has already signed an MoU with NPCIL. The foundation was laid with the signing of an Inter-Governmental Agreement on cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy. This led to Kazakhstan assuring India of supply of 2,100 tonnes of uranium. “We hope that our cooperation in the nuclear field will lead to intensive cooperation in the exchange of technology and creation of joint ventures,” reiterated Mr. Idrissov, who is fluent in Hindi. The two sides have already agreed to set up a Centre of Excellence in information and communication technology at Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana.
Hinkley nuclear plant put back five years !!
…..The government says it wants to deliver a plan for oil and gas this week, in order to “secure sustainable future growth in the economy”. Some would argue that planning for a sustainable future should not include finite, polluting sources of energy, but instead focus primarily on clean, renewable sources such as wind, solar and marine…..
The government has put back by five years the deadline to build the first new nuclear power station in the UK since 1995.
27 March 2013
As we reported last week, the plant at Hinkley Point, Somerset, would cost around £14bn and this has now been confirmed in the ‘Nuclear Industrial Strategy’ released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change.
The document also said that the facility would be developed by 2030 – originally, the government had said it would be built by 2025. Back in 2007, we reported that the Conservative controlled West Somerset District Council had opposed plans to a new nuclear power plant in the region.
The strategy document said there were “plans to deliver around 16GW of new nuclear by 2030. That broadly translates into at least 12 new nuclear reactors at five sites currently earmarked for development: Hinkley Point, Sizewell, Wylfa, Oldbury and Moorside”.
Tawian – NSC denies USA role in nuclear energy policy -except uranium refinement and “consultations” for billions?
By Mo Yan-chih / Staff reporter
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
Tapei Times
The National Security Council (NSC) yesterday denied that it had discussed the recent dispute over the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮) with the US, saying that nuclear power issues would not affect US-Taiwan relations.
“The government never discussed nuclear power plant issues with the US and did not receive any response from the US on the matter,” it said in a press release.
Amid mounting opposition to the power plant’s completion, the Chinese-language China Times yesterday said that while Taiwan imports most of its uranium from Australia, the uranium is sent to the US to be refined into fuel for the generation of nuclear power. The Taiwanese government pays billions to the US government every year for uranium refinement and for consultations about the power plant.
Citing anonymous sources from the council, the report said that the fuel refinement business with the US plays a role in the Taiwanese government’s nuclear power policy, such as its insistence on only gradually reducing the use of nuclear energy, or aversion to abruptly suspending construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, because a policy change could jeopardize bilateral relations.
The council yesterday said that Washington did not play any role in the government’s stance on nuclear power and said the story “blurred the focus of the nuclear power plant issue and misled public perceptions of the issue.”
Separately yesterday, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) reiterated the government’s plan to resolve the dispute over the Gongliao plant via a national referendum, adding that the Democratic Progressive Party’s proposal to put the suspension of the project to a legislative vote was a violation of the Constitution.
Ma said the policy on the construction of the nuclear power plant received support from the legislature, which made it a major national policy.
In addition, amendments to the Constitution have scrapped a previous article that gave the legislature the authority to ask the Executive Yuan to make changes to major policies.
“The Executive Yuan has the authority to propose and change major policies. Right now, the Executive Yuan’s attitude toward the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant is quite clear, and that is to hold a referendum and let the public decide whether the policy should be changed,” he said.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/28/2003558195
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