UNSCEAR cover-up of health consequences of the nuclear disaster
The report has received criticism from medical experts who are researching on health effects of radiation. In the interview with 3Sat, Dr. Alex Rosen, a German pediatrician and member of German IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), harshly criticizes the playing down of radiation impact by UNSCEAR and the nuclear lobby. Professor Wolfgang Hoffmann, a German epidemiologist and radiobiologist, holds views similar to those of Dr. Alex Rosen. He assumes that those who criticize this report would be officially blamed for panic mongering and that any claims for damages and compensation could also be preempted on the basis of this report. https://nuclear-news.net/2013/12/26/medical-experts-criticise-unscear-report-for-playing-down-consequences-of-fukushima-nuclear-accident/
IPPNW press release dated 02.04.2014 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Physicians for Social Responsibility Association (IPPNW), Section Germany
UMWELT/718: UNSCEAR report on Fukushima – cover-up of health effects of the nuclear disaster (IPPNW)
www.schattenblick.de/infopool/…/m2um0718.html German language
3rd April 2014
Today’s report by the United Nations Committee on the Consequences of Radiation (UNSCEAR) plays down the true extent of the health consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster systematically.
UNSCEAR claims in his 300-page final report that
“are to be expected, no significant changes for future cancer rates that can be associated with radiation exposure from the accident.”
Doctors of the IPPNW, say their calculations estmate tens of thousands of additional cancer cases.
As the number of cancers in the Japanese population are already high, the majority of these cases will be claimed to not be related to the radiation.
The fact that a cancer bears no designation of origin, and never can be clearly attributed to a single cause, is used by the nuclear industry and also by UNSCEAR to deny any causality.
One tactic, was used by the tobacco industry or the asbestos industry for a long time.
“History repeats itself. Like the time after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the risks for the people living in the contaminated areas to be covered up, trivialized and secretive,” criticized the deputy chairman of the IPPNW, Dr. Alex Rosen.
The IPPNW also complained that the members of UNSCEAR support them in their report mainly on information from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the operating company TEPCO and the Japanese nuclear authorities.
Neutral, independent institutes and research institutions will be ignored. So based dose calculations of the affected population in the report
“to promote worldwide use of nuclear energy”The IAEA isn organization that was founded with that goal.
Unwanted results of independent food samples are ignored. To estimate the total emissions of radioactivity studies of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency are used, instead of the significantly higher calculations by independent institutes.
The radiation doses from the power plant workers were largely taken directly from the controversial operating company TEPCO. The large number of reports of manipulations and inconsistencies of these readings are overlooked by the the authors of the UNSCEAR report.
In 47% of the examined children in Fukushima Prefecture nodes and cysts were found. In 33 children, the doctors now firmly thyroid cancer and had to remove the thyroid surgery, a further 42 children with acute suspicion of cancer is such an operation before.
These figures correspond to an incidence of 13.0 per 100,000 children. Before Fukushima, the annual number of new cases was in Japan at only 0.35 per 100,000 children. The number of thyroid cancer cases in Fukushima are so alarmingly high.
Undisputed: every little dose of radioactivity is associated with an increased risk of cancer. Instead of the affected educate people openly about these risks, however, the report’s authors try based on questionable assumptions, selective samples and averaged doses of radiation that underlines the nuclear industries complacent messages of “no health effects”
A video statement by Dr. Alex Rosen, please visit:
http://youtu.be/MJOP0vJmeWA – German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidNoEizE1k – French
Source:
Press release of 2 April 2014
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
Physicians for Social Responsibility Association (IPPNW), Section Germany
Körtestr. 10, 10967 Berlin
Phone 030/69 80 74-0, Fax: 030/69 38 166
E-mail: ippnw@ippnw.de
Deep Borehole Disposal of Spent Fuel: International Developments and Implications for NE Asia
NAPSNet Special Report
Recommended Citation
Neil Chapman, “Deep Borehole Disposal of Spent Fuel: International Developments and Implications for NE Asia”, NAPSNet Special Reports, March 24, 2014, http://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/deep-borehole-disposal-of-spent-fuel-international-developments-and-implications-for-ne-asia/
by Neil A. Chapman
25 March 2014
This Special Report was originally published as a Working Paper 2013-12 by the Center for Energy, Governance and Security at Hanyang University, Seoul.
I. INTRODUCTION
Deep borehole disposal (DBD) has been discussed as a possible means of disposing of spent fuel (SF) from nuclear power reactors in some East Asian countries, to support a prospective nuclear weapons free zone in the region, and to help to avoid security and sustainability dilemmas associated with the management of rapidly growing quantities of SF. This Working Paper examines the status of the DBD concept and discusses some of the implications for SF strategy in East Asia, with special emphasis on NE Asian countries.
The concept of deep borehole disposal (DBD) of spent fuel, high-level nuclear wastes (HLW, generated during the reprocessing of spent fuel to extract plutonium and uranium) and other radioactive wastes has been discussed actively for many decades. The US Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board identified DBD as a “technically viable type of geologic disposal”. In fact, it is a significant variant of ‘conventional’ geological disposal in deep underground repositories, which are mined facilities that can be accessed by shafts and tunnels during operation, and which have extensive underground cavern and tunnel excavations. Nevertheless, DBD retains many conceptual similarities with conventional repositories in terms of the way in which long-term containment and isolation of radioactivity are provided.
Scheduled Re-Entry at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Plant Delayed
April 1, 2014
(CARLSBAD, N.M.) — Workers were unable to re-enter the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad on Tuesday as scheduled due to an equipment delay.
The radiation monitors that the personnel entering the plant are expected to wear were not received in time to enter the plant’s mines on Tuesday. The re-entry would have been the first since the plant was shut down following a February radiation leak.
Eight workers had been expected to establish a safe base of operations, conduct radiation surveys and check for airborne contamination.
The plant had been in operation for 15 years and allows for the permanent disposal of nuclear waste in salt mines over 2,000 feet below the earth’s surface. In February, prior to the initial radiation leak, the plant had suffered a vehicle fire in the underground mines.
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Japan may only be able to restart one-third of its nuclear reactors
“Given the current unwillingness of the government to have stronger support for nuclear power they have to be prepared for the future replacement,” said Tatsujiro Suzuki, a vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commision, who is stepping down on Monday. https://nuclear-news.net/2014/03/31/japan-to-add-11000-mw-of-fossil-fuels-thinking-about-renewables-for-2050-maybe/
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/107102.php
Three years after the Fukushima disaster prompted the closure of all Japan’s nuclear reactors, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to revive nuclear power as a core part of the energy mix, but many of those idled reactors will never come back online.
The above link will take you to the Japanese Media Center website that was abandoned in 2012. However I happen to know that the Japanese Science Media Center is still operating and giving the media some good climate change advice. – 🙂
Image source ; http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/blog/
LONG LIVE FIONNA FOX!!
The climate change queen
Arclight
New US/Russia nuclear warhead numbers released.
Department of State released some new data pertaining to New START aggregate numbers.
http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/224236.htm
Compared to previous declarations, there was a slight reduction of US numbers and a slight rise of Russian ones, mostly attributable to launch platforms (missiles, bombers and submarines) being shifted in and out of refurbishment.
Some chronological data for context:
h/t http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?236892
Nuclear lobby buys off Imperial College London to the applause of Fionna Fox
UNSW reinstated its graduate program in nuclear engineering this year, having previously offered courses between 1954 and 1986.
“Components to build a reactor are sourced from a number of different high tech engineering companies specialising in anything from pumps to control systems,” he says.
“Australia is a well known provider of world beating civil engineering but are also involved in other parts of the process.”
GERALDINE THOMAS (Chernobyl Tissue Bank): “Following Fukushima I doubt that there’ll be any rise in thyroid cancers in Japan.”
Students learn from top nuclear scientists
01 April 2014
http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/students-learn-top-nuclear-scientists
A teaching partnership with Imperial College London has given the first students in UNSW’s nuclear engineering masters program access to experts including Britain’s Chief Scientific Adviser to its Foreign Service, Robin Grimes.
Grimes, also a Professor of Materials Physics at Imperial College London, fellow College lecturer Dr Mark Wenman, and Dr Simon Walker are the first Imperial staff to visit UNSW under the partnership agreement.
“Imperial College is constantly developing and maturing partnerships with world-beating organisations,” Grimes says.
“We’re at the beginning of our journey with UNSW. We will carry out nuclear energy-related research together and as we become more familiar with each other’s processes and longer term goals, I hope it will lead to a much closer relationship.”
RUSI set to cover up the full impact of TEMPORA on UK population
Op Ed by arclight2011part2
2 April 2014
Posted to nuclear-news.net
Over the last 3 years, I have been researching information concerning the incident at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear site. Specifically I have concerns with the population and environment. In the course of my research I have found a lot of evidence about the nuclear processes and the different types of pollution that they emit into our environment.
I discovered that NO2 is a pollutant from the decommissioning processes used in the UK and possibly at other sites that use nitric acid to “melt” old fuel rods and contaminated materials. Many people die each year in the UK from the NO2 and the European Union has taken the UK government to task for all this “un-sourced” NO2. There is even some preliminary evidence of these new nuclear processes are causing miscarriage rates to soar.There are many other pollutants as well.
I also discovered that many institutions around the globe have been corrupted because of “national security” issues. The military industrial complex and their associated financiers have stopped most debate about this subject and by funding universities and medical organisations, have corrupted our health and education systems..
A nice example of how things get covered up is on the links and quotes below. I have tried many times to get some support to challenge, what I feel, is a blatant abuse of the TEMPORA system. Having been hacked and harassed in many forms, I can attest to the highly damaging nature of such technology when used in conjunction with corporate entities such as in Insurance companies, banks, telecommunications etc.
The latest attacks over the past few weeks are getting more urgent in their nature and I was wondering why? After talking to Chris Busby and others, I realised that the attack in the UK is widespread and damaging to many people from all walks of life.
Whilst RUSI are tasked with looking at the legal implications of Edward Snowdens revelations and how it has highlighted illegal wiretapping etc, it seems that the actual effects of such a system on the population at large is not of importance to them.
RUSI are the “independent” organisation looking into “official” hacking by GCHQ. I offered to give a witness statement outlining my situation with work and personal references but have received no reply, not even an acknowledgement.I also offered to supply other witness statements from anti nuclear activists and independent scientists.
Having been ignored and after a bit of searching I found this tweet from 2013 ..
“I would argue that the public does not need to know about Prism or Tempora,” says Charlie Edwards, RUSI #r4today …
And charlie is this guy .. https://www.rusi.org/analysis/authors/ref:B5134A15F3880E/
Here is the link to the report info
“RUSI to Convene Independent Review on the Use of Internet Data for Surveillance Purposes” https://www.rusi.org/news/ref:N5315B2C9B1941/
So RUSI will do a report that will support the military/security viewpoint and so no real independent discussion or critique will be allowed to be heard. In fact it is worse than that as Charlie Edwards statement above seems to testify to.
Another example of how to spin an independent inquiry is shown below courtesy of the Guardian. I might point out that Tony Blair works for WPP and therefore its daughter company Ogilvey and Maher who are in the business of using their media empire to smooth over large Industrial disasters such as the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico and Fukushima in Japan as 2 examples of contracts that they have taken on for the USA and Japanese governments to reduce liability costs for victims.
Please click on the title for the full article
Tony Blair manages Rebecca Brooks
According to Brooks’s note, Blair advised her to set up an “independent” inquiry, suggesting it could have “outside counsel, Ken Macdonald [the former director of public prosecutions], a great and good type“.
He said the inquiry would be “Hutton style” – a reference to Lord Hutton’s inquiry into the death of David Kelly – and would “clear” her, but warned that “shortcomings” would have to be accepted as a result of the report.
More information here;
…Despite the strong interparty consensus on the issue, therefore, the United Kingdom remains a country where public opinion – and anti-nuclear energy activists – will have to be “monitored” carefully to gauge which way the country will go following the Fukushima incident….. STRATFOR REPORT
XIII 国連と原子力の問題 UN and Nuclear Power Issues – How to lie when working for the IAEA
http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/xiii-un-and-nuclear-power-issues.html
ＸＩＩＩ 国連と原子力の問題について
UN and Nuclear Power Issues
2000年にアナン事務総長が「チェルノブイリで医療措置を必要としている子供が３００万人」といった発言を真っ向から否定したLars Eric Holm氏は、IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEARに所属
Mr. Lars Eric Holm from IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR denied UN Secretary General Mr. Annan’s statement in 2000 “3 million children require physical treatment from Chernobyl.”
原 爆投下直後から数千の被曝者の治療にあたった広島被爆医師の肥田舜太郎氏によれば、１９６８年国連のウ・タント報告書では、「生存被曝者はすべて健康」と 記載されており、驚いた肥田氏は国連にそうではないことを丁寧に説明し、その後１１０００人以上のヒバクシャ聞きとり報告を持って１９７７年国連とＮＧＯ 主宰の被曝者の実相に関する会議が開かれたと言います。核兵器の非人道性を過小評価するために、科学的に根拠のないことがヒバクシャが声を上げる前まで国 際的に長年の間まかり通っていたことになります。このエピソードが物語るように、真実というものは、被害者の声を聞かなければわかるものではありません。
According to Hiroshima A-bomb survivor Dr. Shuntaro Hida who has been treating A-bomb victims as a medical doctor, he was shocked when he saw 1968 UN U. Thanto Report saying, “All the A-bomb survivors have no health problems.” He went to the UN explaining the fact that there have been countless ill health survivors. Then upon the UN request, he conducted more than 11000 survivors’ survey, and an international conference by UN and NGOs was realized in 1977 focusing on the reality of A-bomb late effects on survivors.
In order to downplay the inhumane cruelty of nuclear weapons, scientifically groundless theory had been prevailed for many years until the A-bomb survivors’ raised their voices. As this episode shows, the truth could be hidden unless the victims’ voices are heard.
実 は日本国内でも、上記の肥田医師のような人は、まったく例外であり、ほとんどの医師や学者が政府側について研究費をもらい、被曝研究を行い、被曝の過小評 価をしてきたのです。原爆被爆者には悲しい歴史があり、原爆投下後、何年も原爆について語ることは禁じられ、また、原爆投下点から離れた被曝者は長年その 被害を認められませんでした。２００８年になってようやく、司法の場で、半径２ｋｍ以遠の被曝者が認められたのです。
As a matter of fact, a person like Dr. Hida was quite exceptional , and most doctors took the side of the US and Japanese governments to obtain research money on A-bomb survivors to downplay the late effects. There is a sad history among A-bomb survivors who were forced to be silent about A-bombs for years after the attack, and survivors at distant areas were not recognized as victims. As late as 2008, A-bomb survivors outside of 2km radius of the epicenter were recognized as the victims by the court.
ま た動物実験ではほぼ１世紀も前に証明されている放射線の遺伝的影響は、現在でも否定されています。長崎では胎児や赤ん坊を何千も解剖した学者がおり、遺伝 的な影響も出ていたのですが、そのような核開発推進に邪魔となるデータは敢えて無視し、代わりに原子力を持つ政府寄りの学者らが偏ったデータを使うこと で、原爆による遺伝的な影響を受けた者はいないとされてきました。広島長崎の学者たちのほとんどが権力側に加担し、被曝の実相を国内にも世界にも訴えな かったということは、日本の恥部だと思っています。
Moreover, genetic effects of radiation has been denied even as of today though it had been proven by animal experiments almost a century ago. In Nagasaki, there was a doctor who conducted autopsy on thousands of babies and fetus to see genetic effects of radiation. However, such inconvenient fact has been ignored by nuclear promoting lobbies and only biased data have been used by the nuclear power states and their affiliated scholars to deny any genetic effects by A-bombs. I think it is a shame of Japan’s history that our scholars have been siding on the government to conceal the facts about radiation effects domestically and internationally.
そ して１９９１年のＩＡＥＡ主導の国際チェルノブイリプロジェクトでは、広島の放射線影響研究所の重松逸造氏が委員長として、「汚染地帯の住民には放射能に よる健康影響は認められない、むしろ放射能恐怖症による精神的ストレスのほうが問題である。」と発表しました。被爆者を研究してきた医師と言うことで期待 した現地の医師や住民の落胆は非常に大きかったと言います。現地の医師たちはＩＡＥＡの報告の前に既に様々な放射線原因の健康異常を観察・報告していたの です。
In 1991, the leader of International Chernobyl Project lead by IAEA, Dr. Itsuzo Shigematsu, who was the director of Radiation Effects Research Foundation stated that no health disorder has been caused directly by radiation exposure and that negative impacts were caused only by stress. I heard the disappointment felt by local doctors and residents who at first had some expectation from Dr. Shigematsu who had researched on A-bomb victims were really great. They had observed and reported various radiation caused health damages before the 1991 IAEA report.
し かし１９９６年にはＩＡＥＡは、甲状腺ガンに限っては過ちを認めることになります。しかし、このことは、既に汚染された土地で暮らしている人々への予防原 則的な警告をタイムリーに発せられなかったこと、その間に新たに健康被害をこうむったチェルノブイリの汚染地帯の住民のことを考えれば、健康問題に対する 予防原則を考えれば、当然謝罪すべき話だと思います。しかしながらいまだにそのような謝罪がないことは、非常に倫理的におかしな話です。
However, in 1996, IAEA admitted that they had made a mistake on the additional thousands of cases of thyroid cancer. This means that a proper warning was not given at a timely manner and that residents in the contaminated area may have been exposed to further risks without any advice. Considering a preventive measure for protecting health, the then members of IAEA Project Team should extend apologies to the residents in the contaminated area, but such apologies have never been heard, which is ethically quite wrong.
私 がこのことを強調して言いたいのは、こういった類の学者たちは、意図的に同じ過ちを繰り返すからです。ちなみにこの重松氏の直弟子である長瀧重信氏は、 「チェルノブイリでのセシウムによる健康被害はいまだ認められていません」といい、その孫弟子にあたる山下俊一氏が「福島では健康被害はない」と主張して いるのです。
Aircraft threaten nuclear power plants and other industrial plants – Global dimming effects over the Atlantic due to contrails increasing severe rainfall – 2
NATS is the UK’s leading provider of air traffic control services. Each year we handle 2.2 million flights and 220 million passengers in UK airspace.
http://www.nats.aero/about-us/what-we-do/our-control-centres/
OpEd
Arclight2011
20 February 2014
This post attempts to answer the question of what mechanism is causing the large amounts of record breaking levels of rainfall in Norway and the UK over recent years. Whilst global warming is an obvious answer as clouds hold more water if the atmosphere is warmer but the facts remain that increased flights across the Atlantic and increased particulates from various sources are responsible for this.
This dimming effect has repercussion concerning reports that use data that expects no quick changes to the earths climate (ref MET Office UK). In planning large projects such as nuclear power plants, waste/fuel processing work and storage sites, I have noticed that they refer to the incorrect information on the MET Office site and do not include the obvious recent data showing record breaking severe weather.
Of course this localised dimming effect causes the clouds to empty quicker in Europe and has reported to be causing droughts in Iran for instance.
Severe rainfall also can flood deep nuclear waste repositories as well as undermine buildings.
David Cameron on Sky TV yesterday did not say that climate change was definite and a done deal in answer to why is the flooding so severe. David Cameron decided to concentrate on the here and now and not worry about the future (even with more storms heading towards the UK).
So as part of my research i will place the links and info that is helping to inform me.. I think many flights are not reported (rendition and military but bear in mind that most flights to the wars from the USA to the middle east fly either to Ireland or across the top of Scotland).
Below are some links concerning localised global dimming in the context of global warming.
Extreme Weather in parts of the world (Updated 14 February 2014)
Parts of the world have witnessed a series of extreme weather conditions in the first six weeks of 2014, continuing a pattern that was set in December 2013.
Much of the United States of America has experienced cold waves and major winter storms, whilst California remains gripped by drought.The United Kingdom has seen its wettest December-January period on record, with severe, widespread and prolonged flooding. A combination of strong winds, storms and high tides caused damage and flooding in other coastal areas of Europe. There has been unusually heavy snowfall in the southern Alps.
Monthly mean temperatures were extremely high from eastern Mongolia to eastern China. In the Southern hemisphere, Australia, Argentina and Brazil experienced extended heatwaves.
Throughout this period, national meteorological and hydrological services provided forecasts and regularly-updated warnings.
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/news/index_en.html
Tuesday, 8 January 2013: 9:15 AM
Relating the climate impact of trans-Atlantic flights to typical north Atlantic weather patterns
Room 17A (Austin Convention Center)
Emma A. Irvine, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and K. P. Shine and B. J. Hoskins
Video of talk here that discusses the connection between contrails and the jet stream and high pressure ridges as well as the connection between dimming (cloud cover) and rain.
https://ams.confex.com/ams/93Annual/flvgateway.cgi/id/23305?recordingid=23305
Martin Wild
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Coherent periods and regions with prevailing declines (“dimming”) and inclines (“brightening”) in surface solar radiation have been detected in the worldwide observational networks, often in accord with anthropogenic air pollution patterns
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00074.1
By Kharunya Paramaguru
Oct. 30, 2013
A new report on extreme-weather events by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the European national science academies suggests that “some of the extreme weather phenomena associated with climate change are increasing in frequency and intensity within Europe.” They also say that
“human activity has been the cause of more profound and rapid change”
for the earth’s climate.
Using computer modeling, the authors have found a “consensus” on “the likely future pattern of extreme weather events in Europe.” This includes more frequent and intense heat waves, as well as a reduction of rainfall and average temperatures for southern Europe.
For northern Europe, the authors say that “high intensity and extreme precipitation are expected to become more frequent……
Read more: Europe Hit by Powerful Storm: More Extreme Weather Is Likely in Future | TIME.com http://science.time.com/2013/10/30/bad-news-for-storm-battered-europe-theres-more-extreme-weather-on-the-horizon/#ixzz2tsKnjFg2
2011: world’s 10th warmest year, warmest year with La Niña on record, second-lowest Arctic sea ice extent
“Norway also had its wettest summer on record, and record summer rainfalls also occurred in many parts of Denmark and northeast Germany. “
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html
Past and future variations in climate and runoff in Norway
Nigeria – Nuclear experts call for resuscitation of programme, say NAEC is incompetent
“Nigeria made a commitment to upgrade its radiation protection infrastructure in 1996 and quickly became a model for demonstrating that it’s time to get serious …” 🙂 http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull472/htmls/rad_pro/nigeria.html
Calling on government to ensure that staff of the centres are paid allowances that had been hanging since December 2011 he said, “Due to the nature of the industry, its staff cannot go on industrial action but notwithstanding, government should consider health issues and pay peculiar allowance as radiation in the industry is dangerous to health of the staff.”
He however warned that, if the situation continue, and the working environment is not improved, the staff would be forced to move to another industry hence jeopardizing all the investment government has made on nuclear energy in the country.
Nigerian experts and the IAEA Team met in Abuja from 11 to 14 March 2013
By A’isha Biola Raji
Published On: Mon, Mar 31st, 2014
Nuclear experts from Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT) Zaria have shown their grievance over what they described as “strangulation “of the Nigerian Nuclear Energy Program by the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC).
The experts said this at a press conference held in Abuja. According to them, since NAEC took over from Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) in 2006, research activities have dwindled, as salary payment havebecome epileptic.
According to Dr. Paul Ogunleye, CERT, he said prior to the establishment of NAEC, the two centres, CERD (Center for Energy Research and Development) and CERT had no difficulty in discharging their duties as allowances were being paid as at when due. “Now that fund is coming from NAEC which only became active in 2006, there are difficulties in running the centre”, he said.
He said government should find solution to the plight of the centres, “The understanding of the working relationship between ECN and its centres across the country is attributed to the successes recorded in the growth and development of nuclear science and technology in Nigeria”, Dr. Ogunleye said.
Deutsche Bank Said to Mull Forgoing IPO Amid Nuclear China Hiring Probes
Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption seized computer records and documents after searching Fang’s office, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the investigation is confidential. A spokeswoman for New York-based JPMorgan and a spokesman for ICAC declined to comment.
China, which is curtailing coal consumption in favor of cleaner energy to fight air pollution, plans to add 8.6 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity this year, the National Energy Administration said in January. That’s almost equal to the U.K.’s annual nuclear-energy capacity.
China General Nuclear operates the Daya Bay nuclear center in Shenzhen, China’s biggest by capacity, according to its website. It changed its name from China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group last April, the website shows.
UK minister George Osborne and Guo Liming, of Taishan Nuclear Power, in front of a nuclear reactor being built in Guangdong, China. Photograph: Bobby Yip/EPA
Image source ; http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/17/nuclear-expert-warning-chinese-role-uk-plants
Cathy Chan
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-N39ZH96KLVR501-4JVH7BIIS3QUB8H74QTBT6H899
March 31 (Bloomberg) — Deutsche Bank AG is weighing whether to refrain from working on China General Nuclear Power Group’s initial public offering amid a probe into hiring practices in Asia, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
Germany’s largest bank employs the daughter of Shenzhen- based China General Nuclear’s chairman, He Yu, said the people, who asked not to be named as the deliberations are confidential. The Frankfurt-based lender, which has helped the company prepare for the IPO for about nine months, received a request for information on its hiring practices from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission late last year, one of the people said.
Global investment banks have come under scrutiny after the U.S. opened a criminal investigation last year into whether JPMorgan Chase & Co. violated anti-bribery laws by employing children of China’s elite. JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank, has dropped out of two share sales for Chinese companies since that probe began, according to people with knowledge of the actions.
Ukraine: Energoatom gets cover for nuclear liability limited to a staggering 1.6 billion dollars
March 28, 2014
Ukrainian nuclear energy operator Energoatom has bought cover for its nuclear liabilities from INGO Ukraine Insurance Co. for 1.7 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($153,068) and 5.07 million Special Drawing Rights, Forinsurer reported citing Interfax.
The operator has four nuclear power plants in Zaporizhzhya , South Ukrainian , Rivne and Khmelnitsky stations with 15 generating units equipped with water-cooled power reactors and total installed electrical capacity of 13,835 MW, Forinsurer added.
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“Energoatom ” identified insurance company ” INGO Ukraine ” (Kyiv ) for signing a contract for liability insurance for nuclear damage.
As reported in the disclosure of information about the tender purchases , acceptance took place on March 27.
Price accepted the offer of 1,629 million USD. and 5.07 million Special Drawing Rights ( SDRs).
“Energoatom” is the operator of all four operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine. Operates Zaporizhzhya , South Ukrainian , Rivne and Khmelnitsky stations with 15 generating units equipped with water-cooled power reactors with a total installed electrical capacity of 13,835 MW.
ASK ” INGO Ukraine ” since 1994 . Part of an international insurance group “Ingo ” and a member of the Ukrainian Nuclear Insurance Pool . | Inerfaks Ukraine
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http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20140328/NEWS09/140329824
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New Zealand – Scientists gather to focus on nuclear technology cooperation
Government Parties to the Regional Cooperative Agreement are Australia, Bangladesh, People’s Republic of China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of Palau, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. –
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Source: GNS Science – Press Release/Statement:Headline: Scientists gather to focus on nuclear technology cooperation – 31/03/2014
Nearly 50 representatives from 20 countries of the Asia and Pacific region and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are in Wellington this week to discuss cooperation and promotion of the many peaceful uses of nuclear technology.
The four-day event at Te Papa between 1 and 4 April is the 36th meeting of the Regional Co-operative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology for Asia and the Pacific (RCA). It was last hosted in New Zealand in 1997.
Cold nuclear war heats up! UK versus Russian nuclear contracts! China next?
Monday, 31 March 2014
http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/n/Business/750cnmhsz/UK-Russia-nuclear-cooperation-under-review-over-Ukraine.htm
Civil nuclear cooperation between the UK and Russia is under review, as western governments discuss potential sanctions against Moscow over the presence of Russian forces in Ukraine‘s Crimean peninsula, nuclear24 has learned.
A UK government spokesperson said today: “The UK has been very clear that there will be costs and consequences to Russia, and we have already taken some actions such as suspending preparation for the G8 meeting.
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Shinzo Abe Prime Minister of Japan Addresses RUSI-SPF Conference on UK-Japan Relations
(This is a provisional translation of the speech)
Your Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am very grateful to have been invited to this splendid gathering to consider the history of Japan-U.K. bilateral relations and its future path.
I would like to express my respect to Dr. Chiaki Akimoto, Director of RUSI Japan as well as the many others at both RUSI and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation for their great efforts in convening this meeting.
We are very honoured to welcome His Royal Highness Prince Andrews, Duke of York today. I find his attendance here exceptionally gratifying as we advance the development of Japan-U.K. bilateral relations.
This year, the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy is scheduled to visit Japan soon. As if to coincide with it, visiting Japan also is HMS Daring, one of the most advanced ships of the Royal Navy. It is very regrettable that Prince Andrew will not be able to view the joint activities that might be taking place between Daring and the JMSDF……….
Arnie Gundersen on Al Jazeera Discussing Fukushima Anniversary
Today on Fairewinds’ Film series Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen discusses the ongoing struggle for the people impacted by the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster in his recent interview on Al Jazeera USA
“… small microscopic particles are getting into peoples lungs and the Japanese government is not taking this seriously..”
“… people forced to return..”
“.. destroy the fabric of a country, it happened in Russia and its now happening in Japan ..”
“.. about 400 tons for over a thousand days … until our government tells me whats in the fish i remained very concerned about eating the fish coming from the Pacific ..”
March 27th, 2014
http://fairewinds.org/arnie-gundersen-al-jazeera-discussing-fukushima-anniversary/
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