Why Fukushima is worse than you think – CNN
By Mycle Schneider, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Mycle Schneider is an independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy based in Paris. He is the coordinator and lead author of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report. The views expressed are his own.
“Careless” was how Toyoshi Fuketa, commissioner of the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority, reportedly described the inspection quality of hundreds of water tanks at the crippled Fukushima plant following the recent discovery of a serious radioactive spill. China’s Foreign Ministry went further, saying it was “shocking” that radioactive water was still leaking into the Pacific Ocean two years after the Fukushima incident.
Both comments are to the point, and although many inside and outside Japan surely did not realize how bad the March 11, 2011 disaster was – and how bad it could get – it seems clear now that we have been misled about the scale of the problem confronting Japan. The country needs international help – and quickly.
While the amount of radioactivity released into the environment in March 2011 has been estimated as between 10 percent and 50 percent of the fallout from the Chernobyl accident, the 400,000 tons of contaminated water stored on the Fukushima site contain more than 2.5 times the amount of radioactive cesium dispersed during the 1986 catastrophe in Ukraine.
So, where has this huge amount of highly contaminated water – enough to fill 160 Olympic-size swimming pools – come from? In the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the reactor cores of units 1, 2 and 3 melted through the reactor vessels into the concrete. Nobody knows how far the molten fuel went through the containment – radiation levels in the reactor buildings are lethal, while robots got stuck in the rubble and some never came back out.
More from CNN: What Japanese leaders can learn
The molten fuel still needs to be cooled constantly and the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), injects about 400 tons of water into the perforated reactor vessels every day. That water washes out radioactive elements and runs straight through into the basements that were flooded during the tsunami. By 2015, over 600,000 tons of highly radioactive liquid are expected to have accumulated in temporary tanks, some underground, many bolted rather than welded together, and none ever conceived to hold this kind of liquid over the long term. The dangerous fluid is pumped around in four kilometer long makeshift tubes, many of them made of vinyl rather than steel, and plagued with numerous leaks in the winter when the above ground lines get hit by frost.
TEPCO’s account of the discovery this month of the leak of 300 tons of highly radioactive water showed a frightening level of amateurism:
“We found water spread at the bottom level of tanks near the tank No.5… Therefore, we checked the water level of this tank, and… confirmed that the current water level is lower by approximately 3 meters than the normal level.”
TEPCO reportedly admitted that only 60 of 350 tanks in that area are equipped with volume gauges. “Inspection” is done visually by a worker with a radiation detector. Meanwhile, the soil around the leaking tank delivered a dose per hour equivalent to the legal limit for nuclear workers for five years. No remote radiation measuring devices, no remote handling.
Tonopah range used for unarmed nuclear bomb test
…Before 1992, full-blown nuclear tests went on underground at the Nevada Test Site. Palmer says some underground nuclear testing still happens there, but on a smaller scale…..
Reported by: Amber Dixon
30 August 2013
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LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3.com) — The U.S. government says it dropped an unarmed nuclear about 110 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The test happened two weeks ago with an unarmed B-61 at the Tonopah Test Range.
“It’s kind of like if you have a battery in your garage and you keep it there for years, you wanna make sure it’s gonna work,” said Allan Palmer, the executive director of the National Atomic Testing Museum.
Palmer says the B-61 is the biggest number of tactical weapons the nation has in its inventory. He says he thinks that if it becomes necessary that the U.S. would use B-61s again, officials have to know they will work.
Before 1992, full-blown nuclear tests went on underground at the Nevada Test Site. Palmer says some underground nuclear testing still happens there, but on a smaller scale.
Radioactive water should be diluted, released into ocean: experts
The Mainichi
A panel to the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) has suggested diluting and releasing radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the ocean rather than keeping it in aboveground tanks.
The accident investigation board under the AESJ, which has been examining the Fukushima nuclear disaster, compiled its view on the radioactive water leaks from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, which states: “It would be realistic to dilute the contaminated water to levels found in the natural world and release it into the ocean after removing radioactive materials other than tritium.”
The panel argues that tritium is generated in the natural world by cosmic rays and is also included in seawater in small amounts. The panel also says the substance is easily discharged from fish and other creatures and is hardly concentrated in their bodies. Therefore, the panel claims, diluting and releasing contaminated water into the ocean would reduce the risk of radiation exposure and environmental pollution through incidental leaks, rather than keeping it in aboveground tanks.
However, such an ocean release is unlikely to take place right away, because TEPCO’s water decontamination system called the Multi-nuclide Removal Equipment (ALPS) — which could remove up to 62 kinds of radioactive substances apart from tritium from up to 500 tons of water each day — has yet to be put into full operation, while understanding from local residents and neighboring countries would also be necessary.
August 29, 2013(Mainichi Japan)
New UK Nuclear Plants Could be Obsolete – A need for change?
…Mr Birch said “It alarms me to read the UK debate where there is talk about further subsidies to support a new nuclear plant that will generate its first electrons in 2023,”
“Given the proven cost curve in solar, that nuclear plant could be obsolete before it’s even switched on. Politicians must be careful not to lock Britons into 20th century energy prices.” He continued….
The British-born entrepreneur behind one of the US’s most rapidly-rising solar panel companies has weighed in to the debate over Parliament’s plans to rely on nuclear power for the UK’s commercial energy needs.Andrew Birch, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, is currently chief executive of Sungevity – one of the fastest growing names in solar panel production.
Based in San Francisco, Sungevity has doubled in sized every year since it’s 2007, employing 300 people and selling 500 solar units worth $10m in the US alone last month.
UK’s New Nuclear Plants Could be ‘Obsolete’ Before Launch
As someone who has seen the benefits of solar first hand over the last six years, Birch holds concerns that his native country is backing nuclear technologies to power it’s commercial energy needs, which would leave the UK behind the curve in green power.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Birch said “It alarms me to read the UK debate where there is talk about further subsidies to support a new nuclear plant that will generate its first electrons in 2023,”
“Given the proven cost curve in solar, that nuclear plant could be obsolete before it’s even switched on. Politicians must be careful not to lock Britons into 20th century energy prices.” He continued.
Given the rise in the controversy surrounding fracking, the government backing given to so-called ‘new nuclear’ as a way of providing energy to businesses for the short term has generally escaped criticism.
Is this a valid call for the government to re-think it’s energy strategy? Or is it a solar exec trying to drum up more business?
China conducted 3-4 nuclear blasts in Tibet in 2005 to divert the Brahmaputra river
Image source ; http://peakwater.org/2011/07/will-china%E2%80%99s-designs-on-the-brahmaputra-leave-india-parched/
Chandan Nandy
29 August 2013,
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nandygram/entry/china-conducted-3-4-nuclear-blasts-in-tibet-in-2005-to-divert-brahmaputra
In a surreptitious move fraught with dangers of nuclear radiation in areas bordering India, China conducted three to four “low yield atomic explosions” in March 2005 to aid in clearing mountainous terrain to divert the Yarlung Tsangpo river, also known as the Brahmaputra, from north to south in Tibet.
According to classified Indian intelligence documents accessed by TOI, the blasts were reported at Moutou in Tibet and also near the Great Bend of the Brahmaputra. The blasts were low yield nuclear explosions and were conducted at significant depths to avoid detection.
As alarm bells rang in South Block, the issue was taken up by the Indian ambassador in Beijing with the Chinese authorities who flatly denied that atomic blasts had been executed to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra. It was not before three years had elapsed that information on the blasts in Tibet was shared at the highest levels of the National Security Council (NSC) with the United States during the then American defence secretary Robert Gates, a former CIA director, during his visit to India in 2008. At the time, US authorities admitted to their Indian counterparts the complete failure of their satellites to detect the blasts.
When contacted, India’s the then deputy national security adviser S D Pradhan confirmed the blasts and the efforts made to confront the Chinese with the evidence. Other sources in the Research and Analysis Wing and the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) too corroborated the information. However, the security establishment, particularly the NSC, sought to play down the “grave” issue.
A top secret Chinese plan to take the Brahmaputra to arid zones in the north by building a 200-km-long canal passing through Mount Namcha was presented by experts from that country in December 1995 at the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics.
USA spying blind spots: pakistan nukes, north korea?? (and Iran)
America stands to spend $52.6 billion this year on an intelligence community that includes 107,035 employees and can??t say whether Pakistan??s nuclear program is secure or what North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un is up to.
Those are some of the stark findings in a new Washington Post report that provides an unprecedented look inside the vast and growing “Black Budget” of the nation??s spy agencies, as well as some of their troubling blind spots.
The report, based on information leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, also provides new details about the hunt for Osama bin Laden .
The Post says the intelligence community has fivecritical? blind spots.
Pakistan??s nuclear weapons: America??s spies aren??t sure whether Pakistan nuclear components are secure when they are being transported.
North Korea: The United Stateshas all but surrounded the nuclear-armed country with surveillance platforms,? the Post reports. That includes ground sensors to monitor seismic activity (a way to detect underground nuclear tests), and other methods meant to detect the construction of new nuclear sites.
U.S. agencies seek to capture photos, air samples and infrared imageryaround the clock,??? the Post says.
But there are troublinggaps? in U.S. knowledge about North Korea??s missile and nuclear programs, andanalysts know virtually nothing about the intentions of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,? the Post reported.
Russia: A quarter-century after the CIA failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union, American intelligence is not sure how Russian leaders would respondto potentially destabilizing events in Moscow, such as large protests and terrorist attacks,? the report says.
China: The report said theblank spots? includethe capabilities of China??s next generation fighter aircraft.?
Hezbollah: But the Washington Post sheds little light on the precise concerns about the armed Lebanese movement, which opposes Israel.
The Post does offer some new details about the May 2011 bin Laden raid. It says that eight hours after American commandos killed the world??s most hunted man, a forensic intelligence laboratory run by the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan had confirmed his identity via DNA from his corpse.
Months later, in September, American intelligence agenciesscraped together? $2.5 million to work through a backlog of data pulled from bin Laden??s laptop. The cash paid for 36 computer workstations and overtime for staff including linguists.
Dubai says yes to food import from contaminated Japanese prefectures
Image source ; http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/fears-over-radioactive-food-japan-grow 2011
August 30, 2013
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/d3ec6dbe-d5b4-402a-b9bf-cdf8a80f5ed9.aspx
DUBAI: Dr Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water (MOEW), has issued a decree to allow the import of all kinds of food and feed from 14 Japanese provinces. The stipulated requirement for importers is to attach a certificate stating that the imported products do not contain radioactive contaminants in excess of the allowable limit, authenticated by Japanese health authorities.
The decree stated that to allow the import of food from the provinces, name of the province and the origin of food must be provided and attached with a certificate showing the date of production or manufacturing.
The counties covered by the decree are Fukushima, Goma, Ibaraki, Tuccikja, Miyagi, Kanegwa, Aomori and other provinces.
The ministry highlighted its commitment to achieving the objectives of food security, bio-security and maintaining food safety and consumer health, along with the implementation of federal laws on quarantine based on the recommendations of the National Committee for Food Safety, which include the collection and analysis of 50,000 samples from various districts in Japan.
The import ban on food and agricultural materials from Japan came after potential exposure to radiation from the leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami witnessed by the country in March of 2011.
WAM
Nuclear Power in the United Arab Emirates
(Updated May 2013)
- The UAE is taking deliberate steps in close consultation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to embark upon a nuclear power program.
- It accepted a $20 billion bid from a South Korean consortium to build four commercial nuclear power reactors, total 5.6 GWe, by 2020.
- Construction of the first unit started in July 2012, and the second in May 2013.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was founded in 1971, comprising seven states including Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Abu Dhabi city is the federal capital of UAE, and Abu Dhabi emirate accounts for 86% of the land area of UAE, and 95% of its oil. Dubai is the UAE’s largest city.
more here
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-T-Z/United-Arab-Emirates/#.Uh-_Qbxx0nk
Dispute Over US Nuclear missiles in the Netherlands: So, who Pays For An Accident?
Who pays for a crash of a nuclear weapons airlift from Volkel Air Base?
By Hans M. Kristensen
August 29, 2013
http://blogs.fas.org/security/2013/08/volkelnukes/
Only a few years before U.S. nuclear bombs deployed at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands are scheduled to be airlifted back to the United States and replaced with an improved bomb with greater accuracy, the U.S. and Dutch governments are in a dispute over how to deal with the environmental consequences of a potential accident.
The Dutch government wants environmental remediation to be discussed in the Netherlands United States Operational Group (NUSOG), a special bilateral group established in 2003 to discuss matters relating to the U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in the Netherlands.
But the United States has refused, arguing that NUSOG is the wrong forum to discuss the issue and that environmental remediation is covered by the standard Status of Forces Agreement from 1951.
The disagreement at one point got so heated that a Dutch officials threatened that his government might have to consider reviewing US Air Force nuclear overflight rights of the Netherlands if the United States continue to block the issue from being discussed within the NUSOG.
The dispute was uncovered by the Brandpunt Reporter of the TV station KRO (see video and also this report), who discovered three secret documents previously released by WikiLeaks (document 1, document 2, and document 3).
The documents not only describe the Dutch government’s attempts to discuss – and U.S. efforts to block – the issue within NUSOG, but also confirm what is officially secret but everyone knows: that the United States stores nuclear weapons at Volkel Air Base.
Michael Gallagher, the U.S. Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Hague, informed the U.S. State Department that environmental remediation is “primarily an issue of financial liability” and discussing it “potentially a slippery slope.” During on e NUSOG meeting, Dutch civilian and military participants were visibly agitated about the U.S. refusal to discuss the issue, and Gallagher warned that “a policy of absolute non-engagement is untenable, and will negatively impact our bilateral relationship with a strong ally.”
Gallagher predicted that the Dutch would continue to raise the issue, and said the Netherlands was ahead of the other European countries that host U.S. nuclear weapons on their territories in having signed and implemented the NUSOG. Unlike Germany, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, the Netherlands was the only country that had raised the issue of remediation in a forum such as NUSOG, but Gallagher warned that the other countries would raise the issue of remediation in the future as similar nuclear weapons operational groups are established.
Charge d’Affaires Michael Gallagher shakes hands with Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans, who wants U.S. nuclear weapons removed from the Netherlands.
The United States has deployed nuclear weapons in the Netherlands since April 1960 and currently deploys an estimated 10-20 nuclear B61 bombs in underground vaults inside 11 aircraft shelters at Volkel Air Base. The weapons are under the custody of the US Air Force’s 703rd Munitions Support Squadron (MUNSS), a 140-personnel unit that secures and maintains the weapons at Volkel.
Experts urge Japan to break away from ‘failed’ nuclear reprocessing program
h/t http://election.democraticunderground.com/101672276
August 28, 2013
By YASUJI NAGAI/ Senior Staff Writer
In a proposal submitted to The Asahi Shimbun, researchers at an international group of nuclear experts outlined steps they say Japan must take to break away from its “failed” nuclear fuel recycling policy.
Masafumi Takubo and Frank von Hippel of the International Panel on Fissile Materials noted that Japan currently has 44 tons of already separated plutonium, enough to make more than 5,000 Nagasaki-type atomic bombs, while it has no clear path toward disposal.
In the proposal titled, “Ending plutonium separation: An alternative approach to managing Japan’s spent nuclear fuel,” they said Japan’s reprocessing policy has “insignificant” resource conservation and radioactive waste management benefits.
It is also “becoming increasingly dysfunctional, dangerous and costly,” since weapon-useable separated plutonium is a “magnet for would-be nuclear terrorists,” the authors said. Japan’s program is also setting an ill example for countries interested in nuclear-weapon options, they added.
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The full-text of the proposal is available at: http://www.asahi.com/special/nuclear_peace/academic/August2013_english.pdf
August 29 marks the International Day against Nuclear Tests – Radio Armenia
The world-wide observance of the fourth annual International Day against Nuclear Tests will be on Thursday 29 August 2013. The day highlights the efforts of the United Nations and a growing community of advocates, including Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, youth networks and media in informing and educating on the importance of a ban on nuclear weapons testing for the achievement of a safer and more secure world.
Activities ranging from symposia and conferences to exhibits are expected to take place throughout the world to call attention to the dangers of nuclear weapon test explosions, the threats posed to humans and the environment, and the need to ultimately eliminate all nuclear weapons and their testing.
The day, August 29, was chosen by the General Assembly as the annual commemoration date against nuclear tests because it marks the day in 1991 when Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan one of the largest test sites in the world, was closed permanently.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has issued a message on the forth observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests
Fifty years ago, with the adoption of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, the international community completed its first step towards ending nuclear weapon test explosions for all time. This objective remains a serious matter of unfinished business on the disarmament agenda.
Although twenty years have passed since the Conference on Disarmament began negotiations on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), this treaty has still not entered into force.
Today, 183 countries around the world have signed the CTBT and 159 have ratified it. The strong and unified response to the nuclear test earlier this year by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea demonstrated the commitment of the international community to uphold the global norm against nuclear tests. However, some States have still refrained from taking action, thus preventing the CTBT’s entry into force.
There are no justifiable grounds for further delay in achieving this great goal. It is time to avert any more of the horrific human and environmental effects caused by nuclear tests through a global ban, the most reliable means possible to meet this challenge.
I once again urge all States to sign and ratify the CTBT without further delay. The eight remaining States whose ratifications are necessary for the Treaty to enter into force have a special responsibility; none should wait for others to act first. In the meantime, all States should maintain or implement moratoria on nuclear explosions. I also encourage civil society, academia and others to continue to contribute their crucial advocacy.
As we mark this International Day against Nuclear Tests, let us work together to end nuclear weapons testing and achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/08/29/august-29-marks-the-international-day-against-nuclear-tests/
Nuclear powered robot rebelion on Mars – NASA loses nukes on Mars!!
Image source ; http://www.itweapons.com/tedblog/?p=309
NASA’s nuclear Mars tank REBELS against human control
Red Planet gets self-driving cars before Earth does
NASA’s famous nuclear-powered, raygun-armed Mars rover Curiosity has broken free of human control and made up its own mind where to drive across the rusty plains of our neighbour world, according to boffins at the space agency who were formerly in charge of it.
No, I WILL NOT stop and ask for directionsThe move doesn’t represent any sort of extra-terrestrial machine rebellion against fleshy dominance, however. The switch to autonomous navigation by the rover is designed to let the prowling vehicle get on and move without waiting through lengthy delays as pictures of the terrain ahead are beamed to Earth and instructions are sent back.
According to rover boffins at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California:
On Tuesday, August 27, Curiosity successfully used autonomous navigation to drive onto ground that could not be confirmed safe before the start of the drive. This was a first for Curiosity. In a preparatory test last week, Curiosity plotted part of a drive for itself, but kept within an area that operators had identified in advance as safe.
“Curiosity takes several sets of stereo pairs of images, and the rover’s computer processes that information to map any geometric hazard or rough terrain,” said Mark Maimone, NASA rover driver. “The rover considers all the paths it could take to get to the designated endpoint for the drive and chooses the best one.”
Curiosity is currently some 0.86 miles into a 4.46 mile journey from the so-called “Glenelg” area to Mount Sharp. The route for this trip was chosen based on images acquired from space by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite circling the red world. However the route is amended on a day to day basis as the rover finds out actual conditions on the ground, until now by the drivers on Earth – and now by the machine itself on occasion.
There’s more on the ongoing Curiosity saga from NASA here. ®
Keiser Report: The Killing of Tony Blair with George Galloway
Published on 28 Aug 2013
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the U.S. regulator’s case against JP Morgan for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, known in polite circles as ‘client hires.’ In the second half, Max talks to George Galloway, a Member of Parliament, about the film, The Killing of Tony Blair, that he is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The film explores the financial killing the former prime minister has made on the mass killings in the various wars he started across the Middle East.
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The IAEA sets JAPAN straight on the correct Pro Nuclear Propaganda Technique
NSA
IAEA
TEPCO
IAEA Document Reveals Concerns Over Fukushima Communications
Security & Safety
28 Aug (NucNet): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has told Japan to consider producing an “appropriate communications” plan to explain the safety significance of incidents at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant and to avoid sending “possibly confusing” messages to the media and the public.
In a document responding to questions from Japan’s permanent mission to the Vienna-based agency, the IAEA says that with “clear content and appropriate frequency of messages” such a plan would be “highly effective” and would avoid sending confusing messages on a possibly long series of low-level International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) incidents throughout the recovery operation at the plant.
The document, posted online by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), was a response to questions from Japan about whether or not it should apply an INES rating in the case of a leak earlier this month of contaminated water from a tank.
The leak was first reported on 19 August 2013 when water was discovered inside and outside a dike surrounding the water tank. On 21 August the NRA revised its initial rating of the leak from a Level 1 to a provisional Level 3 on INES.
The IAEA document notes that the leak was the latest in a number of similar events that were not given an INES rating.
It says the application of an INES rating is a national responsibility, but whatever communications strategy is adopted, it is important that the information needed to properly determine an INES rating is collated and that “a defensible” rating is determined.
“Frequent changes of rating will not help to communicate the actual situation in a clear manner,” the document says.
The document is online: http://www.nsr.go.jp/activity/bousai/trouble/data/20130828-1.pdf
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Bulava missile to be test-launched from Dmitry Donskoy nuclear sub – Ready for Syria??
MOSCOW, August 28 (Itar-Tass) –
http://pda.itar-tass.com/en/c32/855701.html
An intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava will be test-launched from the Project 941 Akula nuclear-powered submarine Dmitry Donskoy in the autumn of this year, a source in the Russian defence and industrial complex told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
In turn, another source acquainted with the situation explained to Itar-Tass, “A field test of an advanced modification of this missile can be one of possible goals of the Bulava launch from Dmitry Donskoy.” “The nuclear-powered submarine Dmitry Donskoy is a well-developed testing complex, as opposed to silo-based Borei class Bulava carriers,” he added.
All previous test-launches of Bulava from the submarines Dmitry Donskoy and Yuri Dolgoruky (the Project 955 Borei head carrier of Bulava) failed, as no missiles were fired on the orders from the General Staff of the Armed Forces with the use of a new automatic control system for the missiles launches.
Director General of the Severodvinsk shipyard Sevmash Mikhail Budnichenko said at the international naval show, which was held in St. Petersburg last July, that the nuclear-powered submarine Alexander Nevsky, which is the first production Bulava carrier, will test-launch this missile. Budnichenko noted that Alexander Nevsky is planned to be put into service of the Navy on November 15. One or two more test-launches of Bulava are to be made before the end of this year, Director General of the Automation Research-and-Production Association Leonid Shalimov said last April. Thus, a Bulava test-launch from Dmitry Donskoy is to become the second test-launch of the missile this year. Last time the intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava was test-launched from the Project 955 head nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky in December 2011.
It was decided that the modernized missile carrier Dmitry Donskoy will be left in service until 2017 as a testing platform for missiles and other weaponry. Two other Project 941 warships, Severstal and Arkhangelsk, will be scrapped. During the test-launches from Dmitry Donskoy more than ten test-launches of Bulava were made. A total number of the Bulava test-launches from Yuri Dolgoruky and The Dmitry Donskoy is now 18.
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Arnie Gundersen: VT Yankee Closing Permanently, Fukushima still in a World of Hurt(ing)
Published on 27 Aug 2013
A Breaking News Podcast:
Vermont Yankee Closing! Also some other stuff going on at Fukushima that is currently going on (all bad) closer to the end of the podcast.
Entergy just announced that they are shutting down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Generating Station in Vernon, Vermont. We’ve been saying that Yankee would probably be shut down in 2014 to avoid the expensive modifications that they would have had to comply with as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi triple meltdowns in 2011, as the Yankee reactors were of the same unsafe design. There are 22 other reactors in the US identical to Fukushima, all of which face these costly modifications. We recorded a special podcast today with Arnie and Nat to respond to the news. Listen In
Vermont Public Radio: “Citing Economics, Entergy To Close Vermont Yankee By End of 2014” http://tinyurl.com/oo87fsu
Seven Days: “Nuclear Expert Says It’ll Take At Least 20 Years — and More Money — to Clean Up Vermont Yankee” http://tinyurl.com/plnz23c
WPTZ Channel 5 News: “Nuclear Engineer Talks Yankee Options” http://tinyurl.com/ozc4spp
Entergy’s Press Release http://tinyurl.com/ka322pa
& FAQs http://tinyurl.com/q9dom73
Press Release: Entergy’s official announcement of their plans to shut down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Generating Station
Entergy Corporation announced that it will permanently shut-down and decommission the single unit boiling water reactor at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station at the end of its current fuel cycle.
Let’s not forget your newest bonus link for today boys and girls:
Japanese Nuclear Propaganda Cartoon
http://youtu.be/sOFg8oWMHRM
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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
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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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