Prefectures dally over nuclear evacuation plans – Japan
…..In particular, Izumida cited concerns over securing bus drivers to take people to evacuation centers, monitoring food and how to actually distribute the iodine pills in storage. On these issues, the NRA either said there wasn’t a problem or that it would be decided later on…..
New 30-km proximity standard massively expands crisis zones
by Eric Johnston
Staff Writer
OSAKA – If a disaster were to occur at one of country’s remaining 50 nuclear reactors, the most critically needed personnel in the minutes and hours immediately afterward might not be doctors, nurses or firefighters, but bus drivers.
Ready or not: Residents near Chubu Electric Power Co.’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant receive radiation checks during a disaster evacuation drill Feb. 15 in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture. | KYODO
The discovery comes as localities around Japan are due to submit updated plans Monday to the central government for evacuating residents living within 30 km of atomic energy plants. The deadline is unlikely to be met by all but a handful.
Current guidelines call for evacuating those within 8 to 10 km. The new 30-km standard means those plans must be expanded to evacuate 4.8 million people living in 135 cities, towns and villages. Some local governments said they will miss Monday’s deadline and plan to release their revised guidelines this summer.
That makes the central government’s goal of restarting the nation’s 50 reactors more difficult. The independent Nuclear Regulatory Agency says having evacuation plans in place is a prerequisite for restarts. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government, as well as the nation’s major utilities and industrial groups, are pushing hard to fire up the units as soon as possible.
Concern about getting the evacuation plans right is especially high in and around Fukui Prefecture, which hosts 13 commercial reactors in addition to the experimental Monju fast-breeder reactor.
The prefecture’s total population is about 800,000. The four towns of Takahama, Mihama, Oi, and Tsuruga, which all host nuclear plants, have around 105,000 residents combined. Adding other towns in and out of Fukui within a 30 km-radius of those plants entails an evacuation of at least hundreds of thousands of people, depending on the location of a major accident.
Last June, the prefecture drew up a provisional evacuation plan to accompany the restart of two reactors at the Oi power plant.
The plan was so impractical that it drew heavy fire not only from Fukui residents, but also from officials in neighboring Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.
Activist ‘Shocked’ At Conviction For Yelling At David Cameron
….She had wanted to read out a version of “Callum’s List” which documents the names of those who have allegedly died, through suicide or natural causes, as a result of losing their benefits……
Published on 16 Mar 2013
The artist taxi driver
– 16 March, 2013Posted in: All, Featured News, Guardian
The 28-year-old was convicted of using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
Kaori Izumi: an unforgettable force and a tragic loss
March 14, 2013
We have lost one of the precious ones. We learned today of the passing of Kaori Izumi. Kaori came to the US in September 2011 on a speaking tour.
We were with her in Washington, DC, New York City and at Indian Point. Her courage, energy and passion inspired us all. She led the campaign to Shut the Tomari nuclear plant in Hokkaido, but she did so much more.
She was determined to tell the world the truth about Fukushima and to urge the world to stop the nuclear madness right away and to shut down nuclear plants. We will miss her.
But we must carry on her work. (Pictured below: Kaori speaks at a press conference at Indian Point; gathers with Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition activists; and protests outside the UN in New York).
Nuclear shadow over Gujarat village
….But have the farmers listened to the other side before making up their mind? Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) organised a trip of sarpanchs to the operational nuclear power plants a year ago. “We have done our best to inform farmers that nuclear power is safe,” said P M Shah, chief engineer, NPCIL. But people in villages are distrustful of the government…….
People in Mithi Virdi and nearby villages talk to Ankur Paliwal about their fears over the nuclear power park proposed on their land
This woman I found plucking weeds in her vegetable patch refused to give her name thinking I represent the power plant developers and would deprive her of her only source of living (Photos by Ankur Paliwal)
I didn’t know her name. She was busy plucking weeds from her tomato farm. She was wearing bright blue and red clothes, her shining white hair half covered with a purple shawl. “She makes for a good photograph,” I thought to myself. I started moving towards her and took out my camera. She looked at me curiously, smiled and then got back to plucking weeds. I took that as her consent. I clicked her pictures till I was satisfied that I had got the right frame.
I asked my interpreter Sukhdev Singh, a 21-year-old engineer from her village Mithi Virdi in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district, to introduce me to the woman. He told her I am a journalist from Delhi and that I am writing about the proposed nuclear power plant in her village. Her expression suddenly changed. She got angry and started shouting, “hamara photu na paro (do not click my photograph).”
She threw her hands in the air in anger. I could not fathom the reason for her anger. It dawned on me that she was gesticulating more out of fear. Singh interpreted her words: “She thinks that you are from the company which is building the nuclear power plant and that you would misuse her photo.” She thought that I will present her as somebody who wants the plant.
Farmers in Mithi Virdi and adjoining villages harvest up to three crops a year and earn well
She said that this was the patch of land she has to feed her family. Through my interpreter, I reassured her I was a journalist and was visiting her the village to understand what people of Mithi Virdi think of the power plant. She did not believe me. By this time her son and daughter-in-law emerged from their hut. I tried to convince her but she was fearful.
I sat with her and asked if she could tell me her name. She refused. I turned to the family members and they too were reluctant to share details. The woman politely said to me, “My son, you sit, drink water, eat food and relax, but please do not misrepresent me.” I assured her that I would not misuse her photo and I was not there to take away her land. Her expression was that of disbelief. I asked her to forgive me and left her house cursing myself for having ruined her day.
Areva boss Luc Oursel quietly bullies the UK to stop supporting the poor!! …but support nuclear!
…..Until now, it was widely assumed that EDF was leading the call for subsidies for new nuclear. But a new document reveals that last November, Areva‘s chief executive officer, Luc Oursel, lobbied the European Environment Commissioner, Connie Hedagaard, for financial help for the construction of new nuclear power stations…..
….Mr Oursel also called for the “progressive removal” of “a stack of ad hoc tariff distortions” – such as “subsidies for renewables [and] energy poverty”…..
Nuclear boss wants to cut family fuel aid
Chief of French company poised to build reactors in Britain also argues against European subsidies for renewable energy
Sunday 17 March 2013
The boss of a company set to build two nuclear reactors in Somerset has been demanding cuts to renewable energy subsidies and to help for people in fuel poverty while quietly lobbying the European Commission for financial help for new nuclear power stations.
Areva, which is part owned by the French state, has signed a contract to build nuclear reactors for EDF, another French company, at Hinkley Point. If it goes ahead, it will be the first new nuclear power plant in Britain for a generation. Areva already has hundreds of engineers working on the project.
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Until now, it was widely assumed that EDF was leading the call for subsidies for new nuclear. But a new document reveals that last November, Areva’s chief executive officer, Luc Oursel, lobbied the European Environment Commissioner, Connie Hedagaard, for financial help for the construction of new nuclear power stations. He asked the commission and European Central Bank to give “credit guarantees … to be used as a catalyst to ease the financing of low-carbon technologies“, such as nuclear. His letter was obtained by the NuclearSpin website under European Freedom of Information laws.
Mr Oursel also called for the “progressive removal” of “a stack of ad hoc tariff distortions” – such as “subsidies for renewables [and] energy poverty”. Asking for energy poverty payments to be cut is a world away from the company’s image, which was bolstered last month by news that Usain Bolt would run at the firm’s annual athletics meeting in the Stade de France this year.
Viva the Belarus Free Theater
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January 19, 2011 | Le Poisson Rouge | New York City
With Billy Crudup, Margaret Colin, E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Tom Stoppard, Iva Bittova, and the Belarus Free Theater
In December 2010, the members of the Belarus Free Theater were either in jail or in hiding. In January, miraculously, they performed their play Being Harold Pinter as part of the Under the Radar Festival in New York. Upon their return in Belarus, they will continue to risk the wrath of President Aleksandr Lukashenko, the man known as “Europe’s last dictator.”
On the eve of their return to Minsk, the Belarus Free Theater joins internationally-acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard, PEN American Center, and a stellar supporting cast for an evening celebrating artistic freedom and the courage of hundreds of writers, artists, journalists, and intellectuals targeted in Lukashenko’s latest crackdown following the nation’s flawed December elections. Billy Crudup, Don DeLillo, E.L Doctorow, Tom Stoppard, Iva Bittova, and other surprise guests come together for a farewell gathering featuring literature, music, and cocktail conversation about the power of art and the future of Belarus.
Women at centre of anti-nuclear battle, from Bhopal to Fukushima
…Lalita Ramdas, environmental activist and former Board Chair of Greenpeace International, speaking to the gathering via Skype added that “Whether it’s in India or Japan, we need to stop romanticizing nuclear power as a symbol of national pride and strength.”….…They spoke of the arrogance of the modern man who dared believe that he could control nature by bringing uranium out of the soil, when it should have been left there, never to be touched…..
When I went to Bhopal in 2009 as a part of a student group, to visit the Union Carbide factory site and meet victims of the 1984 gas tragedy, I was struck by the strong presence of women in the protest initiatives. In fact, they were the ones who seemed to be leading the movement against Dow Chemicals. Whether on the streets, shouting slogans against nuclear power, or at home taking care of children who suffer from mental and physical deformities, it was always the women negotiating with the consequences of nuclear power at every point. Exposure to the gas left many young girls and women barren or caused terrible developmental problems in their children.
In the space of their homes too, the legacy of the tragedy surfaced each day when they’d be forced to drink contaminated water — a result of nuclear waste having been left at the factory site due to which toxins over the years seeped into the groundwater. In a moment of moving delicacy, a mother in one house served us tea prepared with this water while talking about water contamination, only to find terror stricken students refuse her generous offer. It became clear to us that though the gas had not spared anyone, in the wake of this tragedy, it was the women who were left with the most gruelling battles to fight.
On 11 March, the two year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant disaster, a group of concerned students and academics got together at the Jawaharlal Nehru University to talk about the politics of nuclear power and how women were at the centre of anti-nuclear protests. Making her stand absolutely clear at the outset, Nivedita Menon, Professor, JNU said that “Nuclear energy is neither clean nor cheap, nor is it safe. Let’s not kid ourselves into believing that nation states develop nuclear power peacefully and nuclear bombs are byproducts. Rather, a nexus between states and the weapons industry makes the production of nuclear bombs the primary objective. Peaceful harnessing of nuclear power is nothing but a garb.”
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A nexus between states and the weapons industry makes the production of nuclear bombs the primary objective.  — Nivedita Menon |
Many of us here in India are not too familiar with what actually followed after the disaster in Japan and the screening of the film Women of Fukushima helped put things into perspective. The film essentially traces the journey of six Japanese women who were in one way or another affected by the nuclear disaster. They offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
All women in one way or another became a part of the protest against the proliferation of nuclear power. “It’s important for us to realise that such protests are a big deal for Japanese people. This is a population that actually believed that nuclear was the way to go. No questions asked. Fukushima has suddenly shattered their faith in both the kind of developmental politics Japan follows as well as the country’s government”, said Caitlin Stronell, the moderator of the discussion who has also spent a long time in Japan.
Lalita Ramdas, environmental activist and former Board Chair of Greenpeace International, speaking to the gathering via Skype added that “Whether it’s in India or Japan, we need to stop romanticizing nuclear power as a symbol of national pride and strength.”
The discussion wasn’t wholly one sided and many students wondered whether it was possible to turn back time and ignore nuclear technology which to many is the technology of the future. Menon responded by making it clear that “the technology of the future is actually renewable energy. By opposing nukes we are rejecting seventeenth century ideas of progress and development which are in fact regressive.”
The second film titled Voices from The Daughters of the Sea looked at the Koodankulam anti nuclear protests. In the songs and slogans, whether Indian or Japanese, women always spoke about how nuclear energy was a reproductive issue, a health concern and an end to a certain way of life. They spoke of the arrogance of the modern man who dared believe that he could control nature by bringing uranium out of the soil, when it should have been left there, never to be touched.
Voices from the daughters of the Sea – Koodamkulam Part 1/2.mp4
Published on 21 Aug 2012
The women and children fighting against the koodamkulam nuclear project are raising several questions to you Mr. Prime minister and your colleague Narayana Swami and Ms. jayalalitha, on their unanswered questions for the past 25 years. Answer them before it gets out off your hands– There is a limit to the patient struggle and do not pave the way with your undemocratic ways for which you and the whole nation will regret.Yes we will fight to save the remnants of whatever is left off democracy….mind U…
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Black Water: Extension of CIA | Big Brother Watch-RT
Reflecting on the prosecution and the scrutiny of the company he founded, Prince said the charges against Blackwater executives left him “perplexed and angry.” “Blackwater carried out countless life-threatening missions for the CIA,” he said. “And, in return, the government chose to prosecute my people for doing exactly what was asked of them.”….
Published on 15 Mar 2013
Abby Martin takes a look at how executives at Academi, the military contractor formally known as Blackwater, have been able to commit countless crimes with utter impunity.
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Exclusive: Court Docs Reveal Blackwater’s Secret CIA Past
In News on March 14, 2013 at 11:31 AM
03/14/2013
Last month a three-year-long federal prosecution of Blackwater collapsed. The government’s 15-felony indictment—on such charges as conspiring to hide purchases of automatic rifles and other weapons from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—could have led to years of jail time for Blackwater personnel. In the end, however, the government got only misdemeanor guilty pleas by two former executives, each of whom were sentenced to four months of house arrest, three years’ probation, and a fine of $5,000. Prosecutors dropped charges against three other executives named in the suit and abandoned the felony charges altogether.
But the most noteworthy thing about the largely failed prosecution wasn’t the outcome. It was the tens of thousands of pages of documents—some declassified—that the litigation left in its wake. These documents illuminate Blackwater’s defense strategy—and it’s a fascinating one: to defeat the charges it was facing, Blackwater built a case not only that it worked with the CIA—which was already widely known—but that it was in many ways an extension of the agency itself.
Report reveals shocking level of chemicals – New Zealand
5:37 PM Saturday Mar 16, 2013
New Zealand Herald
The Green Party says a Customs Service report reveals a shocking level of dangerous chemicals present in our shipping containers, endangering port workers and nearby communities.
Biosecurity and customs spokesperson Steffan Browning says the report – released under the Official Information Act – shows 90 per cent of shipping containers sampled had dangerous chemicals, including methyl bromide in the air at 18 per cent above safe levels.
He says it’s difficult to accept the Customs Services claim that they have fixed this problem, given that they kept this damning report from the public.
Mr Browning says its very poor on Customs’ part not to let those affected know.
He says it’s another example where trade imperatives are placed above the health and safety of New Zealand workers and communities.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10871669
And from the Greenpeace site this…
Saturday, 16 Mar 2013 | Press Release
“….. “The dangerous levels of methyl bromide identified at ports in containers and from log fumigations, is a particular concern. A neurotoxin, methyl bromide gas, has been linked with motor neurone disease and cancers, and is colourless, tasteless, and odourless, making it impossible for people to know if they are in contact with it. It also depletes the ozone layer.
“Port workers and nearby communities do not deserve exposure to toxic fumigant gases. We need to urgently put in place procedures to recapture methyl bromide from shipping containers and log fumigations, rather than just releasing it into the air we breathe.
“Recapture of methyl bromide fumigant is used at Port Nelson, following an Environment Court air quality case following the deaths of several port workers there from motor neurone disease.
“It is difficult to accept the Customs Service’s claim that they have fixed this issue, given that they kept this damning report from the public. I call on the Customs Service to release all data on the levels of toxic fumigants in shipping containers and to ensure that methyl bromide recapture is available at our ports,” said Mr Browning……”
Nuclear Submarine Fires: Man Gets 17 Years
..But his lawyer said Fury’s actions were influenced by his depression and anxiety, and that he never intended to harm anyone…..
..Fury admitted setting fire to a pile of oily rags aboard the USS Miami on May 23 last year……
Seven people were injured in the smoky blaze, which took more than 100 firefighters a dozen hours to put out.
By Sky News US Team
Friday 15 March 2013
http://news.sky.com/story/1065242/nuclear-submarine-fires-man-gets-17-years
A shipyard worker who set two fires on and near a nuclear submarine because he wanted to get off work has been sentenced to just over 17 years in federal prison.
Casey James Fury, 25, was sentenced under a deal in which he pleaded guilty to two counts of arson.
He has also been ordered to pay $400m (£264m) in restitution.
Image source ; http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/15/uss-miami-military-submarine-fire-sentence
Fury admitted setting fire to a pile of oily rags aboard the USS Miami on May 23 last year while it was in dry dock for an overhaul at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.
The ensuing blaze transformed the vessel into a fiery furnace, injuring seven people and causing $450m (£297m) in damage.
It took more than 100 firefighters 12 hours to save the submarine.
Fury, a civilian painter and sand blaster, told police he needed to go home because he was suffering from an anxiety attack and had used up his holiday or sick leave.
He said he did not intend to cause such extensive damage.
Kurion partners with Perma-Fix to deploy GeoMelt ICV technology
“Together, we look forward to addressing some of the most challenging nuclear waste streams around the world. Perma-Fix’s permitted facilities, including its Perma-Fix Northwest facility in Hanford, Washington, are ideally suited for processing a variety of domestic nuclear waste streams.”….
16 March 2013
Image source www.kurion.com
According to the company, Kurion’s GeoMelt ICV turns certain components of waste into glass through a process known as vitrification (a volume reduction and stabilization process that immobilizes waste in a leach-resistant glass matrix so that the resulting waste form provides the ultimate assurance of long-term environmental isolation).
Image source www.kurion.com
The ICV is a modular and easily deployable in-container and low-cost application of vitrification. Targeted waste streams for processing and demonstration of capabilities include Class B or C nuclear power plant primary or radwaste resins, filters, sludges; sealed sources; and those waste streams required by customers to be vitrified, such as certain Hanford Low Activity Wastes (LAW).
“Perma-Fix, a pioneer and technology leader in treating a variety of nuclear waste streams, is the ideal partner to help further our own advanced technologies,” said Ralph DiSibio, Kurion Chairman and CEO. “Together, we look forward to addressing some of the most challenging nuclear waste streams around the world. Perma-Fix’s permitted facilities, including its Perma-Fix Northwest facility in Hanford, Washington, are ideally suited for processing a variety of domestic nuclear waste streams.”
“We believe that this collaboration will allow us to treat a variety of highly complex nuclear waste streams that currently have no other commercially available treatment and disposal options,” said Louis Centofanti, Perma-Fix Chairman. “We are excited to work exclusively with Kurion in advancing this discriminating technology in the US and other strategic markets.”
Source: MarketLine
Trappers pass unanimous resolutions on logging, nuclear waste – Saskatchewan
- “What the 300 million tons of nuclear tailings from the mining aspect has done is … the toxins have been blown in the wind as radons, and it’s landed on our plants,” Morin said.“The animals eat the plants and they’re getting sick. As a new study revealed from the University of Saskatchewan, people eat moose and people eat most of the animals — deer, they eat beavers, the muskrats — and the further down the food chain the toxins from nuclear (go), they get stronger.”…….Published on March 15, 2013
- Matt Gardner
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Committee for Future Generations chairperson Max Morin (left) and Fish Lake Métis Nation Local 108 president Bryan Lee hold the two resolutions on, respectively, nuclear waste storage and logging that were passed unanimously on Friday at the 2013 Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association convention.
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Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission project officer Sarah Eaton gives a presentation on regulating uranium mines and mills in Canada on Friday at the 2013 Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association Convention.
photo by Herald photo by Matt GardnerLocal activists were elated on Friday as members of the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association (NSTA) unanimously passed resolutions opposing nuclear waste storage and logging without the permission of local trappers.
The resolutions were among several that were debated and discussed at the 2013 NSTA convention, which was held at the Senator Allan Bird Memorial Centre and attracted hundreds of trappers.
However, the environmental ramifications of clearcutting and the proposed nuclear waste storage had made the two resolutions a priority for trappers and activists concerned about the environment.
“We’re very, very pleased, because these (trappers) are the people who are out on the land.” Fish Lake Métis Local 108 president Bryan Lee said.
Sufficient information needed on nuclear power issue: president
Ma, who doubles as chairman of the ruling Kuomintang, said at a forum that the government is striving to achieve the goal of “ensuring nuclear safety, steadily reducing nuclear power generation, building a green, low-carbon environment and moving toward a nuclear-free homeland.”…..
By Kelven Huang and Y.L.Kao)
Focus Taiwan
2013/03/16 16:30:53
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Sizewell/Hinkley: Nuclear deal ‘a £50bn gamble’, says Royal advisor
By Tom Potter Saturday, March 16, 2013
8:00 AM
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/sizewell_hinkley_nuclear_deal_a_50bn_gamble_says_royal_advisor_1_1981039
A ROYAL advisor has slammed Government proposals to guarantee a minimum price for the electricity generated by EDF Energy for the next 30-40 years.
Former Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) chairman Jonathon Porritt compared guaranteeing a “strike price” for the electricity produced by Hinkley Point C to making a “£50billion bet on the wholesale price of energy in 2050”.
Under proposals by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), a minimum price for the nuclear electricity of almost £100 per megawatt hour would give EDF a guarantee on future returns and may herald similar deals for the rest of Britain’s planned nuclear suite, including Sizewell C.
But Mr Porritt, one-time director of Friends of the Earth and founder of the non-profit Forum for the Future, said energy minister Ed Davey was planning to sign a long-term investment contract to buy electricity at twice today’s price from power stations that will not produce any electricity in this decade.
Mr Porritt, who acts as advisor on environmental matters to Prince Charles, added: “That would be like having asked Tony Benn, Harold Wilson’s energy minister in 1976, if he knew what the wholesale price of electricity would be in 2013.”
Nuclear talk is cheap, nuclear power is not – Greenpeace
And all this after 60 years of the nuclear age and levels of government support and multi-billions in subsidies and bail-outs that the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries can only dream of. It borders on the pathetic.
After such waste and incompetence, and instead of lauding nuclear power, these 12 EU nations should be laughing the nuclear industry out of town. If would be hilarious if it wasn’t for the damage these nuclear fantasies have caused and are causing…..
Blogpost by Justin McKeating – March 15, 2013 at 14:59
When it comes to keeping promises, the nuclear industry and its supporters are very good at talking the talk but very bad at walking the walk.
The industry’s excited talk about a nuclear “renaissance” where a thousand new nuclear reactors would bloom and save the planet from catastrophic climate change turned out to be a dangerous fantasy. The time, money and resources wasted fantasising over new nuclear reactors have left a lost decade where energy efficiency and renewables could have made real and planet-saving progress on reducing emissions but have been shamefully neglected.
This is why the communiqué released by 12 EU nations affirming their support for nuclear power is dangerously deluded.
Showing a tasteful grasp for the timing of their propaganda– the day after the 2nd anniversary of the Fukushima disaster – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and the UK –“affirmed their commitment to collaborate in the context of the role that they believe that nuclear energy can play a part in the EU’s future low carbon energy mix”
Or, in straight-talk, these nations wish to continue to prop up the nuclear boondoggle – expensive, unsafe, dirty and unable to make any significant contribution to fighting climate change – even while the chances of humanity limiting the global temperature increase to an average of two degrees Celsius are looking increasingly and terrifyingly unlikely.
The thing is, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my time as an observer of the nuclear industry and its boosters, it’s this: nuclear talk is cheap while nuclear power is expensive and getting more so by the day.
The nuclear “renaissance” in Europe – which has been heralded for at least five years – has yielded just two partially built nuclear reactors at Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France. Both reactors, of the same European Pressurised Reactor design, are years behind schedule and billions of Euros over budget.
Which is certainly why the signatories to this week’s communiqué have said:
The Member States wishing to construct new nuclear power stations signalled that an investment environment must be created taking account of the long term nature of nuclear infrastructure projects in the EU.
“An investment environment” is spin for fixing the game in the nuclear industry’s favour. It’s a fancy way of saying that governments must guarantee the profits of the nuclear companies for decades as well as shielding them from any liability should their reactors cause an accident. It’s propaganda that says the public must pay while the nuclear companies profit.
The evidence for this is everywhere.
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