Future nuclear plans of Belarus dictatorship discussed at international forum
“..After Fukushima accident we recommended the Japanese government to address Belarus for help”. Amano
According to Vladimir Potupchik, Belarus will continue creating the infrastructure in spite of serious outside pressure.
Image source ; http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/17/wikileaks-belarus-leader-bizarre-disturbed
30 June 21:40
Vadim Shcheglov: The head of the IAEA Yukiya Amano
has recently paid a visit to Belarus and was impressed by Ostrovets project. The Minister of Energy Vladimir Potupchik announced that Belarus is going to start the construction of the NPP. The experts of the IAEA thoroughly supervise every stage of the construction.
Yukiya Amano, director general of the IAEA: “I visited a special emergency response center in Belarus and was greatly impressed by it. I know that your country gives a high priority to emergencies response and has the corresponding facilities. After Fukushima accident we recommended the Japanese government to address Belarus for help”.
According to Vladimir Potupchik, Belarus will continue creating the infrastructure in spite of serious outside pressure.
Alexander Bychkov, Deputy Director General of the IAEA: “Unfortunately, Belarus lacks its own resources to develop the power and nuclear plant is one of the best solutions for such an economy, as it will provide stable electricity for the industry and population”.
Belarus has already spent 250m USD to prepare the construction site. Mostly the Belarusian contractors are working on the site. The total cost of the project is 10bn USD and the project should work for the Belarusian economy. The first reactor in Ostrovets will become operational in 5 years and in 20 years Belarus will be producing half of its power from the nuclear plant.
http://www.tvr.by/eng/news.asp?id=6741&cid=15
Belarus authorities try to suppress coverage of anti-nuke demos
Published on Monday 29 April 2013.
Update: Henadz Barbarych and Alyaksandr Yarashevich were sentenced today to three days in prison. As the time they had spent in pre-trial detention was deducted from the sentence, they were due to be released this evening.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of at least six journalists on 26 April while they were covering anti-nuclear marches that environmentalists and opposition activists organize each year on the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Fukushima – 27 children have developed thyroid cancer so far!
30 June 2013
The most recent data on thyroid cancer 甲状腺がんの最新データ
(Source)
takenouchimari.blogspot.com
２０１３年６月時点での福島県での１８歳未満での甲状腺検査結果 を記します。2005年には日本で１０万人に１人であった未成年の甲状腺がんが、まだ正確な数値はデータを取っている途中なので、確定しませんが、少なく とも数十倍規模で事故１，２年後から増えていることが読み取れます。
First of all, let me give you the latest data of thyroid cancer test in Fukushima as of June 2013. Though we do not know the exact number since the examination is still underway and especially the 2nd tests had not been completed with many of the suspected subjects, we can tell that the incidence rate has already jumped dozens of times compared to the 2005 statistics of 1 thyroid cancer out of 100,000 among Japanese minors.
以下が最新の福島県甲状腺検査の結果報告です。
http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/250605siryou2.pdf
Below is the latest Fukushima Prefectural Thyroid Examination Report.http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/250605siryou2.pdf
現在２０１１年の１１人、２０１２年度の１６人、合計２７人の甲状腺がんが確定しています。
As of now, 11 thyroid cancer kids in fiscal year of 2011 and 16 in 2012, in total 27 thyroid cancer cases were found.
１１ページをご覧ください。
See the page 11.
２０１１年度には、４０７０４人中、１１人の甲状腺がんが発生しています。
（ただし、表３によりますと、２０５人中１６６人しか２次検査を受けていないため、残りの３９人が検査を受けると、１１人より増える可能性があります。）
http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/fukushima-27-children-developped.html
Missing nuclear material may pose attack threat!
VIENNA |
(Reuters) – Nuclear and radioactive materials are still going missing and the information the United Nations atomic agency receives about such incidents may be the tip of the iceberg, said a senior U.N. official.
Any loss or theft of highly enriched uranium, plutonium or different types of radioactive sources is potentially serious as al Qaeda-style militants could try to use them to make a crude nuclear device or a so-called dirty bomb, experts say.
Khammar Mrabit, a director of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said there had been progress in recent years to prevent that from happening. But he said more still needed to be done to enhance nuclear security.
“You have to improve continuously because also on the other side, the bad guys, they are trying to find ways how to evade such detection,” Mrabit said in an interview.
“The threat is global because these people operate without borders,” he said on Thursday before an IAEA-hosted meeting of more than 100 states in Vienna next week on how to ensure nuclear materials do not fall into the wrong hands.
The U.N. agency is helping states combat smuggling of uranium, plutonium or other items that could be used for a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb, which uses conventional explosives to scatter radioactive material across a wide area posing health risks and massive cleanup costs.
About 150-200 cases are reported annually to the IAEA’s Incident and Trafficking Database. More than 120 countries take part in this information exchange project, covering theft, sabotage, unauthorized access and illegal transfers.
While making clear that most were not major from a nuclear security point of view, Mrabit said some were serious incidents involving nuclear material such as uranium or plutonium.
A lonely battle against the Ohma Nuclear Power Plant in Japan
Saturday, 29 June 2013
Atsuko Ogasawara, Owner of Asako House, built in the center of the Ohma Nuclear Power Plant Premises
by Mayumi Nishioka
A major earthquake hit eastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The Fukushima Daiichi NPP was critically damaged and has been emitting large amounts of radionuclides since that time. This earthquake-vulnerable country has nuclear power plants nationwide. A small but increasing number of municipalities are adopting antinuclear policies. Regarding the Ohma NPP project, however, politicians and local municipalities are clear about having no plan to give it up.
The town of Ohma, where the nuclear power plant is under construction, is situated at the northernmost tip of Honshu, the largest Japanese island. There are two large plots of land, about one hectare in total, in the middle of the planned NPP premises. Their former owner was the late Asako Kumagai, who opposed the NPP project and did not agree to sell the land to the Electric Power Development Company (J-Power), the would-be operator of the plant. Because of the disagreement with Ms. Kumagai, the company reviewed the construction plan and moved the reactor core position, which was originally very close to her land, about 200 meters. (The reactor core will still be only 300 meters away from the land, if completed.)
Atsuko Ogasawara is Asako Kumagai’s daughter. The mother and daughter together built a log house on one of the plots to show their resistance, but Asako passed away in 2006, before moving into the house. Atsuko Ogasawara has been guarding Asako House ever since.
Ms. Ogasawara, whose home is located in Hakodate, the city facing Ohma across the Tsugaru Strait, visits Asako House several times a week to take care of the house and the vegetables she raises there. The antinuclear action she is most committed to is to request people to write to her at Asako House. She always carries prepaid postcards on which the address of Asako House is printed. The one-kilometer pathway J-Power prepared to allow access to Asako House is unpaved and fenced in on both sides. If someone writes to her, a mail carrier must visit the house, treading the pathway. This whole routine implicitly tells the company, and the neighborhood that cannot see the house from the outside, that Asako House is there, and has not been abandoned.
When I visited Asako House in 2008 for the first time, soon after the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry granted a reactor construction license to J-Power, the movement against the Ohma project was rather small. Subsequently, however, geomorphologists have reported that it is highly possible that there are active faults in the areas near the planned NPP site, and in 2010 a group of Hakodate residents filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government and J-Power to suspend construction. Ogasawara joined the group and delivered a speech during the first oral proceedings.
While having a bright and cheerful character, Ogasawara is often filled with emotion and moved to tears when talking in public. I believe that at such a time she strongly wishes she could show the audience to her late mother. When the Ohma NPP project was announced, many local landowners were against it and refused to sell their land at first. However, one after another, they gave up and finally Asako became the only landowner to own major plots of land in the very center of the premises. In the town, where a great majority of the population was in favor of the project, Asako faced a very lonely struggle.
In late May 2011, a rock festival was held on Atsuko’s plots, surrounded by cranes and plant facilities under construction, including the bizarre containment vessel. The festival attracted many supporters and music lovers, and was covered by multiple media outlets. Atsuko, who took over her mother’s lone struggle, is no longer alone.
If you wish to send a postcard to Atsuko, please address it to:
The address:
Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara
Asako House
396 Aza-kookuto , Oma-machi
Shimokita-gun , Aomori Pref.
039-4601, Japan
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大間原発反対に孤軍奮闘「あさこはうす」/Lonely Battle Against Ohma Nuclear Plant
Super Clean Coal and methane vs. Thorium
Microbes to turn coal into methane, then feed into an algae greenhouse!
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429682/coal-eating-microbes-might-c…
Microbes can be used to generate natural gas from inaccessable coal beds , at pretty good cost effectiveness.
Or coal that has been mined can be crushed , add some moisture to it and get the right temperature in a reactor vat, and then use the microbes to generate methane for a methane power plant with turbines.
This is far more efficient and clean burning than a convential coal plant. And much cheaper without the super toxic waste going to the environment.
The output of the turbines, Co2, water vapour and nitrous oxides can go directly to a large greenhouse containing algae, which can absorb the Co2 and nitrous oxides in a beneficial way. older algae can be harvested to produce oil from pyrolysis reactions or it can be partly dried to create food for farm animals.
Nuclear power is not understood by the public, and there is a lot of fear, cost overruns, and problems turning it on or off, and dangers to the public that are not being disclosed openly. A lot of secrecy surrounds nuclear power, and still would even for thorium. After three mile island, the quake that caused a tsunami and wrecked the nuclear reactor in Japan, Chernobyl, and the threat of weaponization of nuclear materials and possible terror threats make nuclear power really a no go solution.
Walking in woodlands after a misty rainshower does wonders for ones health. It feels terrific. We need to get back to basic non-nuclear clean and safe electrical power that is decentralized and safe for the public. Listening to Yo Yo Ma’s bach cello concertos feels really good. Listen to ‘the essential yo yo ma’ for inspiration.
Super clean coal and methane meets these requirements, while nuclear does not. It is also far more economical.
Special care must be taken to manage safely the groundwater impact of any coal or methane based solution right from extraction from the ground all the way to disposing of the waste from the crushed coal microbe laden vat constituents once all the methane has been extracted from the crushed coal.
Best wishes,
Richard
Former Futaba mayor, Mr. Idogawa sternly criticized the Japanese Government and Tepco for their cheap compensation for evacuees
http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/former-futaba-mayor-mr-idogawa-sternly.html
Former Futaba mayor, Mr. Idogawa sternly criticized the Japanese Government and Tepco for their cheap compensation for evacuees 井戸川前双葉町長国と東電を痛烈批判、「国は避難者を兵糧攻めにして安い賠償金で泣き寝入りさせようとしている」、
Friday, June 28,
(Source)
http://www.chibanippo.co.jp/c/news/local/143979
国と東電を痛烈批判、「国は避難者を兵糧攻めにして安い賠償金で泣き寝入りさせようとしている」、井戸川前双葉町長が講演(6/27 千葉日報)
A citizen’s group 「子どもと一歩の会」 held a film event of “Nuclear Nation” at the Health and Culture center in Ohtsunashirozato-city in Chiba prefecture. About 180 people attended the event. Former Futaba Mayor, Mr. Idogawa was invited to make an speech in front of the audiences after the film was shown.
市民団体「子どもと一歩の会」は、大網白里市保健文化センターで、福島 第１原発事故で町民全員が避難を余儀なくされた双葉町のドキュメンタリー映画「フタバから遠く離れて」の上映会を開き、約１８０人が出席した。会場では前 双葉町長の井戸川克隆氏（６７）が講演し「国はわれわれ避難者を兵糧攻めにして賠償金をいかに安くするかしか考えていない」と国と東京電力を痛烈に批判し た。
井戸川氏は、仮設住宅などでの避難暮らしが長期化している双葉町民の現状について、「避難生活から逃れるための金を早く手に入れよ うとして、あんな安い賠償金額で泣き寝入りし、はんこを押している」と憂慮。「原発事故は住民を困らせて賠償金を安くする悪しき前例となる」と訴えた。
Are recent cases of Thyroid cancer in Fukushima nothing to do with radiation?
Toshihide Tsuda, Professor at Okayama University Graduate School of Environmental Science who look into the situation from an epidemiological standpoint indicated that “this is nothing else but an (thyroid cancer) outbreak!”
Prof Tsuda said that if the correlation between thyroid cancer and radioactive exposure is not established, then claims for compensation will suffer. Professor Tsuda criticized the fact that things are being handled in such a way that policies change according to rumors. Also, he proposed that “decision-making be based upon documents and figures”.
Kazuo Shimizu, President of the Japan Thyroid Gland Association, who was the sole member of the panel to remain, asserted that the statistical investigation was “inadequate. I am going to appeal to the committee about this matter.”
The number of thyroid cancer cases is likely to be 45 to 270 times bigger than the figure predicted by the Fukushima Medical University
Image source ; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy
June 11, 2013
Ryuichi Kino was born in 1966. He became a freelance writer in 1995 after a carrier in production editing. He wrote the book “Kensho, Fukushima Genpatsu Jiko Kaiken, Toden/Seifu wa Nani wo Kakushita no ka (Iwanami Shoten)” (What Did TEPCO and the Government Conceal about the Fukushima Nuclear Accident?) Official Blog: “Kino Ryu ga Kaku”: http://kinoryu.cocolog-nifty.com/
Article from
http://no-border.asia/archives/9920
On June 5 at 10:15 a.m., with a 15-min. delay, the Fukushima Prefecture panel investigating on the impact of radiation on residents’ health (with Hokuto Hoshi as Chairman) started its evaluation meeting. Discussions were focused on thyroid cancer screening results, despite a host of other issues on the agenda, i.e. the health examination conditions and the problematic Basic Survey whose response rates continue to show the stagnant figure of roughly 23%.
Shinichi Suzuki, professor at Fukushima Medical University and a member of the prefectural panel reported that the number of persons with or suspected of developing thyroid cancer lumps has increased to a total of 28. He instructed that surgery be conducted on 13 cases. A post-surgery pathological examination has revealed that one person had only a benign tumor. The remaining 12 cases developed a papillary thyroid cancer. At the previous evaluation meeting, it was announced that only 10 people developed or were suspected of developing a malignant tumor. After surgery 3 were confirmed to have thyroid cancer.
Outline of Thyroid Cancer Screening Results by the Fukushima Health Management Survey Panel
Excerpt from:
http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/250605siryou2.pdf
Results reported at previous evaluation meetings have already received large media coverage. Thyroid cancer screening results drew diverse responses from the media. The national and the Fukushima editions of the Asahi Shimbun, for instance, projected different perspectives.
Radiation Effect Denied: 12 Cases of Thyroid Cancer Confirmed (Fukushima Minpo, June 6, 2013)
http://www.minpo.jp/news/detail/201306068849
Minors between 8 and 18 Years of Age: Target of the Prefectural “Thyroid Cancer Screening” Panel (Fukushima Minyu, June 6, 2013)
http://www.minyu-net.com/news/news/0606/news9.html
12 Fukushima Children with Thyroid Cancer, Prefectural Panel Dismisses Radiation Effect (Asahi Shimbun, June 5, 2013)
http://www.asahi.com/area/fukushima/articles/MTW1306050700007.html
12 Children with Thyroid Cancer, Health Study Panel Recommends a “Long-term Observation” (The Fukushima edition of the Asahi Shimbun, June 6, 2013)
http://www.asahi.com/area/fukushima/articles/MTW1306050700007.html
Curious Incidence of “12 Infant Thyroid Cancer Cases in Fukushima” (Toyo Keizai Online, June 9, 2013)
http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/14243?page=2
So far, Professor Suzuki has maintained that on average just one or two in a million of children contract thyroid cancer. On March 3, 2012, the online version of the Nagasaki Shimbun reported that Professor Suzuki indicated that ongoing serious medical examinations might lead to diagnoses of micro cancers regardless to the effect of radiation exposure, which is likely to increase the percentage of cancer cases.
1st Anniversary of the Great East Japan Catastrophe: Low-Level Radioactive Contamination/Infant Thyroid Cancer, Nagasaki University/Fukushima 2 (Nagasaki Shimbun, March 5, 2012)
http://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/news/k-peace/2012/03/05165027.shtml
In the document “Research Background and Purpose” submitted to the Ethical Committee of Fukushima Medical University, upon mentioning that “regardless to radiation exposure, on average 0.1~1% and plus respectively through ordinary palpation tests and ultrasound diagnoses, thyroid cancer might be detected”, Professor Suzuki’s team gave the following observations.
– However, only one or two children in a million contract thyroid cancer per year and the large number of cases are diagnosed with just benign lumps.
– For now as a basic child health control, we believe that information on the thyroid condition is going to appease concerns. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation is to gather basic information about infant health.
This means that Fukushima Medical University did not expect an increase in infant thyroid cancer after predicting a rise in the percentage of the overall thyroid cancer cases thanks to ultrasound diagnoses.
Infant Thyroid Cancer Screening as Part of the Prefectural Resident Health Survey
(Information provided by Clearing House)
http://clearinghouse.main.jp/web/fukushima_m015.pdf
If a correspondence is established between cases of thyroid cancer reported at the evaluation meeting and a target population of 1 million, the number of both confirmed and suspected cases of thyroid cancer can be respectively estimated to a maximum of 269 and 91 for the years 2011 and 2012. The number of thyroid cancer cases is likely to be 45 to 270 times bigger than the figure predicted by the Fukushima Medical University (Since papillary thyroid cancer can almost perfectly be diagnosed via cytological examination, the number of thyroid cancer cases confirmed by the Fukushima Medical University is likely to turn out to be extremely thin. Fukushima Medical University doesn’t provide for details on the difference between “confirmed” and “suspected” cases of thyroid cancer).
At WTO, Japan Demands countries to drop their food import bans after nuclear meltdowns
The Japanese limits are based on the assumption that 50% of nationally distributed foods are contaminated….
[…]
There is no new scientific information that supports the need of a new risk assessment.
Saturday, June 29, 2013
At WTO, Japan Demands China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to Drop Their Food Import Bans after Fukushima Nuclear Accident Because “Any Contaminated Products Can Not Be Traded” in Japan
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan continue to ban food import from Japan after the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, and Japan doesn’t like it. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged in his “growth strategy” that he wants to make Japanese agriculture “strong”. One of the clear gauges of this “strength” is apparently how much agricultural products Japan can export, particularly from the nuclear-disaster-affected Tohoku and Kanto. So his government used a committee at the World Trade Organization to demand these three countries drop the bans.
Country-specific restrictions should be based on science, Japan and WTO say.
First, from Jiji Tsushin (6/29/2013):
農産品の輸入規制撤回を＝日本、ＷＴＯで中国などに要請
【ジュネーブ時事】日本政府は２８日まで開かれた世界貿易機関（ＷＴＯ）の衛生検疫委員会で、東京電力福島第１原発事故を受け、日本産農産物などに対す る輸入規制を続けている中国、香港、台湾に対し、規制措置の是正を求めた。これまでは特定国の名指しを避けてきたが、規制が長期化しているため、強い懸念 を示した形だ。
In the meeting of the WTO’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Committee that ended on June 28, the Japanese government demanded China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to correct (revise) the import restrictions on Japanese agricultural products. The countries continue to place the import restrictions following the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident. The Japanese government had refrained from naming the countries, but used the opportunity to express strong concern as the import restrictions from these countries have been going on too long.
食品の安全性に関しては、国際的な衛生検疫基準に加え、各国の独自判断も認められている。その場合は科学的根拠に基づく健康などへのリスク評価が必要となる。
Regarding the food safety, in addition to the international sanitary and phytosanitary measures, countries are allowed to use their own judgment. In the latter case, the health risk evaluation based on scientific evidence would be necessary.
The WTO’s meeting was in part to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Codex Alimentarius, a controversial collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety.
It is amusing for the Japanese to insist on scientific evidence at this point, but that’s what they did at WTO.
From WTO’s press release (6/28/2013; emphasis is mine):
WTO members celebrated the 50th anniversary of 186-member Codex Alimentarius, which sets international standards for food safety, by calling, on 27–28 June 2013, for continued support for the body, and for trade measures to be based on science.
The calls came in a two-day meeting of the WTO’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Committee, which consists of all 159 WTO members and deals with food safety and animal and plant health — measures having an increasing impact on trade.
They echoed a paper circulated by Brazil (document G/SPS/GEN/1253), which described food safety as an important contributor to food security, and said international standards and guidelines should be based on science, that confidence in Codex and other international standards-setting bodies should be strengthened, and that any measures that apply higher standards should also be justified by science.
“The increase in the number of SPS measures that are not based on international standards, guidelines and recommendations, or that lack scientific justification, is a point of concern that has often been raised by many members in the SPS Committee and other contexts,” Brazil observed.
A political body like WTO insisting on science. Fantastic.
So, if people in the world don’t want to eat food that contains more than normal amount of radioactive cesium, or don’t want to eat genetically-modified food, both of which are supposedly proven “safe”, what does WTO do? Force-feed them?
From the same press release, Japan’s specific concern:
Import restrictions in response to Japan’s nuclear power plant accident.
Japan updated members on the latest situation and said radiation levels are generally within normal safety levels, and that any contaminated products could not be traded. Many trading partners have lifted their import restrictions, Japan said. However, restrictions remain in Hong Kong China and Chinese Taipei although Japan is starting to work with them on analysing the situation. China remains a major trading partner that still has import bans and Japan has not been able to discuss this bilaterally, Japan said. China said that only products from seriously polluted areas are affected.
Just by looking at the daily updates by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and periodic updates from municipal governments, not to mention citizens’ groups, it is easy to note that food items being sold on the market in Japan continue to be found with radioactive cesium. The levels may be below 100 Bq/kg in most cases, but they are actively “traded”, contrary to the Japanese government’s claim.
I do not know what “normal safety levels” for the radiation levels in Japan at this point, but judging by the way the national government is trying to return the evacuees in the former “no-entry” evacuation zones, as long as the annual external radiation exposure is less than 20 millisieverts, it is safe. (More in later post.)
After the March 11, 2011 triple disaster, people in Taiwan collected and donated a large amount of money (second-largest, in fact, almost the same as the US, at 2.9 billion yen) to help people in the disaster affected Japan. China, in addition to monetary donation (920 million yen), offered the Putzmeister crane to be used at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. Hong Kong gave 700 million yen to Japan.
And Japan turns around and use the WTO to force them to drop the food bans. Not a way to treat generous neighbors.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/at-wto-japan-demands-china-hong-kong.html
Radioactive Beef found in Grocery Store in Japan
Published by nuclear-news.net
By Arclight2011
19 May 2013
The Japanese limits are based on the assumption that 50% of nationally distributed foods are contaminated….
[…]
There is no new scientific information that supports the need of a new risk assessment.
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/06/29/radioactive-beef-in-grocery-stores-in-japan/
Fukushima News 6/28/13: Tepco to Shareholders-Fuku You; Hanford Plutonium In Unusual Places
Published on 28 Jun 2013
Shareholders reject anti-nuclear power proposals
Nine Japanese utilities that own nuclear power plants held their shareholders’ meetings on Wednesday. Groups opposed to nuclear power asked shareholders to reject atomic energy.
Executives from all the utilities said that suspending operations at their nuclear plants has had a major impact on their businesses. This is due to an increase in fuel costs for running thermal power plants.
Four of the 9 companies, including Shikoku Electric and Kansai Electric, are preparing to restart their 6 nuclear plants.
At the Tokyo Electric Power Company meeting, a group of about 450 shareholders who are opposed to nuclear energy submitted a list of 9 proposals.
Offshore wind power generation starts in Kyushu
A major offshore wind turbine has started operating on a test basis off Japan’s southwest coast.
The turbine is 83 meters wide and stands 1.4 kilometers off the city of Kitakyushu.
It generates 5,500 megawatts of electricity annually, enough to supply 1,500 households for a year.
The turbine began rolling slowly as officials pushed the start button in Thursday’s ceremony. The project is a joint effort between the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, or NEDO, and Electric Power Development Company, also known as J-POWER.
http://enenews.com/workers-at-u-s-nuc…
http://enenews.com/something-did-not-…
[Tritium overflow] Tritium detected from 11 locations in the sea, average 340,000 Bq/m3
Posted by Mochizuki on June 28th, 2013
[Express] “After 311, extremely radioactive debris removed by major construction companies, not Tepco or plant maker”
Posted by Mochizuki on June 28th, 2013
ENERGY OFFICIALS ARE DIVIDED OVER NUCLEAR AGENCY’S FUTURE
Russian prosecutors respond to small town mayor – further answers may be unwelcome
“There is definitely evidence that on certain days, in certain meteorological conditions, that such [pollution] excesses have occurred,”
….According to studies by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, the Sør-Varanger area is the country’s hardest hit by the KMMC’s pollution. Some 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and heavy metal emissions cross the Norwegian border yearly from the smelting plants……
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/prosecutors_respond
Prosecutors in Russia’s Far North Murmansk Region, dogged by media reports of pollution and the legal threats of a vociferous small town Norwegian mayor whose region is getting the worst of it, were finally compelled this week to announce they were already investigating contaminating emissions as part of “planned” inspections.
The Murmansk Region prosecutors’ office earlier this week released the information that it was in the middle of conducting a planned inspection of the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Combine (KMMC) – a daughter company of Norilsk Nikel – to make sure it was in compliance with Russian pollution regulations.
The prosecutors’ announcements concerning their inspections to local papers followed directly on reports by Bellona, and other Norwegian and Russian media, that Cecilie Hansen, mayor of the northerly Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger intended to bring a police investigation into the emissions of sulfur dioxide and heavy metals from the KMMC’s smelting facilities, which have been billowing into northern Norway for decades.
A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office Thursday told Bellona that they “were not able to not react to the reports in the media.”
The ongoing routine inspections of the KMMC and other Kola Peninsula industries’ compliance with environmental norms in the Murmansk region does not, however, mean that pollution reduction measures satisfying Norwegian complaints will be undertaken.
Loan guarantee for Hinkley Point C
When pushed to give an indication of the level of strike price EDF was seeking, Mr de Rivaz told us that the figure of £140/MWh was “rubbish”, but would not comment on the figure of £100/MWh
Jean-Paul Chanteguet, is reported to have stated that the revised build cost of Flamanville is expected to deliver a price for electricity at 74/MWh. It will be important to establish whether this is directly comparable to the UK context in relation to the ongoing negotiations for the strike price for Hinkley Point C.
28 June 2013
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Loan_guarantee_for_Hinkley_Point_C-280613ST.html
The UK government has announced that EDF Energy’s proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is eligible for a multi-billion pound loan guarantee.
In a speech to Parliament on 27 June, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander outlined the government’s infrastructure plan, which includes measures aimed at enabling up to £110 billion ($167 billion) of private sector investment in electricity infrastructure by 2020. The plan includes the extension of the UK guarantees scheme by two years to December 2016. A guarantee under this scheme is expected to help EDF Energy to secure financing for its Hinkley Point C project at a lower rate than would be possible without government backing.
EDF Energy is planning to build two Areva EPR reactors at Hinkley Point. Planning consent for the estimated £14 billion ($21 billion) project was announced earlier this year, but EDF Energy is still locked in negotiations with the government over terms of the so-called contracts for difference (CfDs). These are intended to set a long-term price of electricity generation from low-carbon sources.
A key element of a CfD is the strike price- the price that generators receive for electricity. Should the market price be below the strike price, then generators are paid the difference; should the market price exceed the strike price, then generators must pay back the difference.
While the terms of the CfD strike price for the Hinkley Point C project are not yet finalised, the government has now announced the draft strike prices for renewable projects. These range from initial rates of £100 ($152) per megawatt hour (MWh) for onshore wind to £305 ($464) per MWh for tidal stream and wave technologies. The strike price for offshore wind would initially be £155 ($236) per MWh, dropping to £135 ($205) per MWh by 2019. The renewable CfDs would run for fifteen years and be linked to inflation.
The energy policies announced this week would result in £60 billion ($91 billion) worth of investment in new nuclear plants by 2030, according to energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey. CfDs form a core component of the government’s strategy to bring forward investment in affordable low-carbon electricity generation – including renewables, carbon capture and storage and new nuclear,he said.
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by World Nuclear News
UK spells out draft strike prices
The contract for difference (CfD) draft strike price for onshore wind will fall only modestly in 2018-19, to £95/MWh; for offshore wind the price will fall more sharply, to £135/MWh.
The government believes that CfD strike prices at these levels will deliver up to 16GW of offshore wind and 12GW of onshore wind by 2020.
Large-scale PV will receive £110/MWh in 2018/19, a level the government feels could deliver up to 3.2GW of capacity by the end of the decade. The government’s goal of 22GW of PV by 2020 is largely centred on…. (subscription)
http://www.rechargenews.com/wind/article1331059.ece
Building New Nuclear: the challenges ahead – Energy and Climate Change
Prepared 4 March 2013
At the most recent estimate, the price for each reactor at Hinkley Point C was expected to be £7 billion.[47] In the current economic climate, finding such large sums of money is difficult.
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Radioactive Beef found in Grocery Store in Japan
27 June 2013
CODEX and food safety? The hidden world of radioactive food!
Published by nuclear-news.net
By Arclight2011
19 May 2013
The Japanese limits are based on the assumption that 50% of nationally distributed foods are contaminated
[…]
There is no new scientific information that supports the need of a new risk assessment.
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/19/codex-and-food-safety-the-hidden-world-of-radioactive-food/
South africa -1.6 million people living with dangerous radioactive contamination of food air and water!
“Only around eight shacks, with about 35 families, were moved from this site,” says the community leader, pointing to a yellow outcrop of mine sludge, where Professor Chris Busby, a world expert in uranium, in December found radiation levels inside a shack 15 times higher than regulatory limits. “
“Do NOT come to Fukushima and do NOT eat the food products!” – Support evacuation instead!
Published on 4 May 2013
http://www.yonaoshi311.com
Iitate radioactive Hot spot / 飯舘村 /Zone contaminée de Iitate
EN
We are on a road approximately 40km north-west of Fukushima Dai Ichi power plant near Iitate. The village is now a famous Hot spot with high levels of radioactivity.
Wow! TEPCO ShareHolders say “NO MORE NUCLEAR ENERGY”
By the way, if you want to send Megan Rice a
thank you card, here’s her address:
Megan Rice
22100 Irwin County Detention Center
132 Cotton Drive
Ocilla, GA 31774
Published on 26 Jun 2013
THIS IS GOLD! TEPCO shareholders Demand No More Nuclear Energy from the Nuclear Conglomo.http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis…
I saw that news report last night and was So Happy… And Then I awoke to the Ying of the Yang update on “TEPCO shareholders want out of nuclear power” and, of course, we are being “slowly but silently exterminated as a species” Here’s TEPCO;s reply:
Shrugging off Shareholders
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsli…
(I should have expected it, but it was nice for a few minutes to think that the shareholders actually “did something” to influence TEPCO. Dreamworld I suppose.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch… Guess WHAT?! oOOOooOOPS… WRONG RADIATION MEASUREMENTS WERE given to residents “due to a computer error”…
Oh, and here’s another “good one”: The Japanese Gov’t ‘POLITELY REQUESTS” that Radioactive Tritium “stop being dumped into the environment! OMG
USA granny bashing again!! A friend of Sister Megan Rice perhaps?
Psalms 71:18 “Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kPpNCHj0Q
Obama Assassination Plotter Gets “15” Years
http://politix.topix.com/homepage/1438-obama-assassination-plotter-gets-15-years
USA: 83-year-old Catholic Nun Faces “20” Years in Prison for Break-in Protest at Nuclear Facility
In a statement to the court, Boertje-Obed said: “Nuclear weapons do not provide security. Our actions were providing real security and exposing false security.”
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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