Even right wing USA scandalised at Fukushima radiation effect on Navy men
Top Conservative Website: If lawsuit proves true and Tepco lied about radiation to get Americans in there, this is despicable http://enenews.com/top-conservative-website-lawsuit-proves-true-tepco-lied-about-radiation-americans-despicable
December 29th, 2012
Excerpt From: US sailors sue Tokyo Power for masking radiation danger
Source: Hot Air (#1,053 in US)
Date: December 29, 2012
[…] When people show up to help you during a disaster of this magnitude they’re already putting their lives on the line. Assuming the complaint proves true and Tokyo Power knowingly lied about the radiation levels to get the Americans in there and working, this is despicable. It’s also not the sort of thing that money can fix, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be made to pay for their horrible performance. Of course, that doesn’t even begin to address the disservice they did to their own citizens in the vicinity of the reactor. […]
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UK nuclear lobby desperate to keep the industry alive, therefore needs waste dump quickly
without a positive decision, new nuclear development could be put
at risk.
Ministers are thought to be working on plans to try to ensure the
new-build programme is not derailed. Final investment decisions and
approvals for EDF’s proposed nuclear plant in Somerset are expected
next year.
a “no” vote in Cumbria in January would be likely to
deter a consortium that is at the early stage of planning a new plant
in the county, as it would have to invest hundreds of millions of
pounds before seeking planning permission….
Nuclear sector pushes for green light on waste dump. Telegraph By
Emily Gosden 30 Dec 2012
Britain’s nuclear industry has warned that a “no” vote by local
councils on crucial plans to assess sites for a major radioactive
waste dump would be “an injustice to future generations”. Continue reading
America is run by gangs – military, industrial, oil, ….
the takeover of political power in America by the
”corporatocracy”.
First is the well-known military-industrial complex. ”As [President]
Eisenhower famously warned in his farewell address in January 1961,
the linkage of the military and private industry created a political
power so pervasive that America has been condemned to militarisation,
useless wars and fiscal waste on a scale of many tens of trillions of
dollars since then,” he says.
The four business gangs that run the US, The Age, December 31, 2012 Ross Gittins
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Economics Editor IF YOU’VE ever suspected
politics is increasingly being run in the interests of big business, I
have news: Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from Columbia
University, agrees with you – at least in respect of the United
States.
In his book, The Price of Civilisation, he says the US economy is
caught in a feedback loop. ”Corporate wealth translates into
political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the
revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political
power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation
and sweetheart contracts between government and industry. Wealth
begets power, and power begets wealth,” he says.
Sachs says four key sectors of US business exemplify this feedback
loop and the takeover of political power in America by the
”corporatocracy”.
First is the well-known military-industrial complex. ”As [President]
Eisenhower famously warned in his farewell address in January 1961,
the linkage of the military and private industry created a political
power so pervasive that America has been condemned to militarisation,
useless wars and fiscal waste on a scale of many tens of trillions of
dollars since then,” he says.
Second is the Wall Street-Washington complex which has steered the
financial system towards control by a few politically powerful Wall
Street firms…..
Third is the Big Oil-transport-military complex, which has put the US
on the trajectory of heavy oil-imports dependence and a deepening
military trap in the Middle East, ……
”And Big Oil has played a notorious role in the fight to keep climate
change off the US agenda. Exxon-Mobil, Koch Industries and others in
the sector have underwritten a generation of anti-scientific
propaganda to confuse the American people.”…..
Fourth is the healthcare industry……
The 30-year achievement of the corporatocracy has been the creation of
America’s rich and super-rich classes, he says. And we can now see
their tools of trade….
Fortunately, things aren’t nearly so bad in Australia. But it will
require vigilance to stop them sliding further in that direction.
Japan’s Prime Minister Abe welcomes in pro nuclear officials
Pro-nuclear bureaucrats back in the picture under Abe THE ASAHI
SHIMBUN, 30 Dec 12
The Liberal Democratic Party wasted little time restoring the
influence of the pro-nuclear industry ministry to move away from the
nuclear-free society envisioned by the previous government.
Soon after new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe established his Cabinet on
Dec. 26, moves were quickly made that elated ministry officials who
had been kept on the defensive since the March 2011 accident at the
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Even before he was named prime minister, Abe indicated the direction
he would take concerning the nation’s energy policy. And LDP members
expressed confidence that the party’s landslide victory in the Dec. 16
Lower House election had given them the go-ahead from the public to
pursue nuclear power generation. Continue reading
TEPCO needs help! 3.2 trillion yen needed for Fukushima compensation
Tepco requested additional financial support of 697 billion yen for the 
Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/tepco-requested-additional-financial-support-of-697-billion-yen-for-the-nuclear-damage-liability-facilitation-fund/
by Mochizuki on December 27th, 2012 ·
Tepco has estimated the total nuclear damage compensation to be 2.5 trillion yen and has been requesting the financial support from the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund based on the revised Special Business Plan approved on May 9, 2012.
However, after deciding the compensation standard of lands or houses, adding real estate and postponing the compensation term for spontaneous evacuees and harmful rumor of agricultural products, the estimated compensation amount increased to be 3.2 trillion yen.
On 12/27/2012, Tepco requested the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund for 697 billion yen of the additional financial support.
Related article..[Bloomberg] Tepco Sued by U.S. Sailors Exposed to Radiation [Link]
Call to Philippines government to reject nuclear power, and implement the Renewable Energy Law
The group is also calling on the Philippine government to commit to
fully implement the Renewable Energy Law to achieve 50 percent
renewable energy in the country’s energy mix by 2020.
Greenpeace slams DOE chief’s plan to revive nuclear power program
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/331337/greenpeace-slams-doe-chiefs-plan-to-revive-nuclear-power-program
By DJ Yap
Philippine Daily Inquirer
December 28th, 2012 MANILA, Philippines — The
environmentalist organization Greenpeace has asked Energy Secretary
Carlos Jericho Petilla to abandon his department’s plans to revive the
use of nuclear energy in the Philippines.
The group said it was shocked at the Department of Energy’s recent
proposal to revive the use of nuclear energy to power the country as
“this plan goes against global trends as far as safety is concerned.”
“Worldwide, the nuclear industry is declining having failed to
establish itself as a clean, cheap, safe or reliable energy source. Continue reading
Japan’s new government likely to promote nuclear power, restart reactors
Japan’s new government to restart nuclear reactors – Nikkei Dec 28
(Reuters) – Japan’s idled nuclear reactors will gradually be restarted
under the newly-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the units receive
the all-clear from the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, the
Nikkei reported.
Abe, in his instructions to cabinet members, outlined his policy of
allowing nuclear reactors to resume operations while giving priority
to the regulator’s safety assessment, the Japanese daily reported…..
The new government will also review its predecessor’s policy of
phasing out nuclear power by 2040, trade and industry minister
Toshimitsu Motegi said at a press conference on Thursday, the Nikkei
said.
Shinzo Abe who took over as Japan’s premier on Wednesday, had derided
the ‘zero nuclear’ goal of the ousted Democratic Party of Japan as
unrealistic. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/27/idUSL4N0A13QS20121227
Japan’s new government contemplates building new nuclear reactors
a more symbolic issue concerns whether the new government will approve the construction of new reactors.
“a major political decision” on whether or not to allow construction of nine reactors that currently exist only at the planning stage.
personnel appointments point to a greater say in policy by senior former civil servants who in the past walked in step with the LDP in promoting nuclear energy.
Abe administration to overhaul nuclear, monetary policies December 27, 2012 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will drastically shift the direction Japan takes in monetary and fiscal affairs, and will likely overturn a pledge by the outgoing administration to pull the plug on nuclear power….. There is now a strong possibility of Japan retaining nuclear power, and Abe has additionally indicated a readiness to allow nuclear reactors halted last year to fire up again…… “Once the Nuclear Regulation Authority creates stricter rules, we will decide over a period of three years whether operations can resume,” Abe said at a news conference late on Dec. 26, the day he formally established his Cabinet…….
The Nuclear Regulation Authority is not expected to compile new safety standards until after July 2013, which means any decision on resuming operations could likely only be made after the Upper House election in the summer.
During negotiations with coalition partner New Komeito, the LDP overruled New Komeito’s demand that Japan go nuclear-free. And the wording in the coalition agreement was toned down to state the aim of reducing “dependence on nuclear energy as much as possible.”
This lack of a specific target could allow Japan to maintain its dependence on nuclear energy indefinitely. Continue reading
Russia disappointed with India’s Nuclear Liability Law
Still comrades after all these years, The Hindu KANWAL SIBAL, 28 Dec
12, “…….Russia’s disappointment with the delay in signing the
agreement on Kudankulam 3 and 4, despite the attractive financial
terms offered, is understandable. Having agreed to set up nuclear
plants in defiance of U.S.-led international restrictions on civilian
nuclear cooperation with India and supply nuclear fuel for Tarapur,
the Russians are resentful that India wants to treat them and the
Americans and the French alike with regard to our nuclear liability
law, especially as the inter-governmental agreement pertaining to
these reactors preceded our liability legislation.
However, with
Fukushima and the public agitation against Kudankulam 1 and 2, not to
mention the Supreme Court’s involvement in the matter, the issue has
become politically difficult for the government. The answer may lie in
increased cost of Russian reactors to cater for liability exposure. Continue reading
Slowing down- China’s nuclear power programme
deciding not to build any inland nuclear power plants through 2015
Although China has not announced new nuclear power installed capacity targets for 2020, it is expected that targets will be adjusted downward from previous expectations. ….
China moves to strengthen nuclear safety standards and moderate the pace of its nuclear power development, Switchboard, Alvin Lin This post was co-written with my colleagues Jingjing Li, Jason Portner and Christine Xu, 23 Dec 12, .”……….. Before the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, China had been undertaking the world’s largest nuclear power plant construction program, with plans to expand its then approximately 11.5 GW of nuclear power to as much as 80 GW of nuclear capacity by 2020. (Given that current reactors are about 1 GW in size, this would be equivalent to building nearly 70 reactors over a decade.)
Following Fukushima, however, Beijing immediately suspended approval of all new nuclear power projects while it undertook a comprehensive safety review of existing and under-construction nuclear power plants, as well as research reactors and fuel cycle facilities, and developed its Twelfth Five Year Plan for Nuclear Safety……
The report concluded that operating reactors “basically fulfill” China’s nuclear safety laws and regulations and the International Atomic Energy Agency’s most recent standards, that they have the capacity to respond to design-basis accidents and severe accidents, and that safety risks are under control.
However, in spite of these conclusions, the inspection report and nuclear safety plan also identified areas for improvement. Continue reading
With Japan’s new government, nuclear energy may be back
http://www.startribune.com/business/184510891.html?refer=y
December 23, 2012
Liberal Democratic Party’s big win may give nuclear industry a
reprieve.In the two days after the election the shares of Tokyo
Electric (TEPCO), the owner of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant, surged by 56 percent. Investors bet that the new government
would allow Japan’s reactors, almost all of which have been idle since
being struck by an earthquake in 2011, to restart.
That may be wishful thinking. Abe may want to steer clear of the
sensitive nuclear issue until upper-house elections in mid-2013. If
so, a time frame agreed with TEPCO’s 77 banks for restarting the first
of its seven Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors in Niigata prefecture may be
missed.
TEPCO says each stalled reactor costs it $1.2 billion in lost profit each year.
Furthermore, the nuclear industry now has an independent watchdog, the
Nuclear Regulation Authority, which is showing teeth. Its
investigators have so far issued seismic warnings against two nuclear
power plants, which may lead to their permanent mothballing.
By law, even an LDP government should be unable to boss the watchdog around.
Yet a share-price rally may still be warranted. TEPCO’s share price is
barely a tenth of what it was before the disaster.
That reflects a genuine fear that the company may go bust. Surely,
investors mutter, the LDP remains chummy enough with Japan’s nuclear
utilities not to let any of them collapse into bankruptcy?
Coles Hill uranium decision depends on Virginia legislature
Virginia alone can’t approve the mine. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a federal agency, also would have to sign off on it. The agency would do an environmental impact statement that might take more than two years.
When asked, Larry Camper, the head of environmental protection for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said he wasn’t aware of his agency ever fully rejecting such an application. So the mine’s fate might rest entirely on whether Virginia lifts its moratorium on uranium mining.
Proposed Coles Hill uranium mine: Buried treasure or hidden threat? By Sean Cockerham and John Murawski | McClatchy Newspapers
CHATHAM, Va. 23 Dec 12NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTS
Opposition in North Carolina has spread from towns near the potentially affected areas to the state capital. Eighteen towns, counties and economic groups have passed resolutions in opposition, including Henderson, Creedmoor and the Roanoke River Mayors Association. Continue reading
Pro nuclear Mr Amari likely to be Japan’s Economic Minister
Abe to Give Posts to Stimulus, Nuclear Advocates By TAKASHI NAKAMICHI, WSJ, December 20, 2012,
TOKYO—Incoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely form an
old-boy economic team led by fiscal stimulus and nuclear energy
proponents,….. Along with Mr. Aso, the incoming prime minister will
likely tap the policy head of the Liberal Democratic Party and
longtime ally, Akira Amari, to fill in a new ministerial post
responsible for guiding overall economic policy discussions. Mr. Amari
held the trade minister’s portfolio when Mr. Abe was last prime
minister from 2006-2007.
One of the LDP’s leading energy experts, Mr. Amari has defended
Japan’s reliance on nuclear plants, even after the March 2011
earthquake triggered the nation’s worst nuclear crisis. A one-time
employee at Sony Corp., 6758.TO -1.63% Mr. Amari represents the voices
of corporate Japan……
Mr. Abe is diverging from the path trodden by the outgoing ruling
Democratic Party of Japan, which has grown more fiscally conservative
and has pledged to exit nuclear power by 2040……
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324461604578191052600447858.html
Japan’s new government, bad for the environment, and for women
activists are concerned about two areas they fear will slip beneath the radar of the incoming administration: the country’s nuclear policy in the aftermath of the disastrous accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor following the earthquake and tsunami last March; and job stability for youth and women, both grappling with badly paid or part-time work.
Only 38 female candidates, from a total of 225, won seats in the parliament during this election, a major dip from the 54 women who won seats at the last poll in 2009.
Already, Japan has been ranked as low as 110th on the World Economic Forum’s latest gender gap survey, which rates countries based on gender equality in political representation.
Women and Activists Lament Japan’s Election Outcome By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Dec 18 2012 (IPS) – The return to power of Japan’s conservative and hard-line Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sunday indicates that voters traded urgently needed social and environmental reforms for traditional male-led leadership, according to analysts here.
Youth and feminist organisations who had campaigned vigorously for better environmental protections, labour equality and the upholding of regional peace ahead of the elections, expressed frustration about Sunday’s outcome, lamenting that the victorious LDP is yet to present concrete policies to tackle Japan’s most pressing problems……
LDP leader Shinzo Abe, whose brief term as Prime Minister ended abruptly in 2007, is now set to take back the reins.
A hawkish politician, he has raised his profile by promising to usher in a militarily stronger Japan – Continue reading
Japanese voted on economic issue, but anti nuclear opinion is widespread
Exit poll: Anti-nuclear votes spread across the board http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212170097 Ballots cast by people who advocate scrapping nuclear power ended up being spread among the various parties, meaning that anti-nuclear entities failed to gain seats, an Asahi Shimbun exit poll shows.
The Asahi Shimbun approached voters nationwide who had cast their ballots in the Dec. 16 Lower House election to find out if they supported “scrapping nuclear power immediately, “gradually phasing out nuclear power altogether” or “not pursuing zero nuclear power.”
Fourteen percent chose scrapping nuclear power immediately, and 64 percent picked gradually phasing out nuclear power altogether.
Voters opposed to nuclear power cast ballots across a wide range of parties in the proportional representation system.
This was because parties other than the Liberal Democratic Party advocate a break with nuclear power to a certain extent. Fifteen percent of the respondents said they do not want to pursue zero nuclear power.
The LDP has been a strong supporter of nuclear power. Yet, the party was supported by 16 percent of those who said they want to scrap nuclear power immediately, and 28 percent of those who said they supported gradually phasing out nuclear power altogether. This suggests voters made choices based also on issues other than on nuclear energy.
Of those who do not want to pursue zero nuclear power, 43 percent voted for the LDP. Continue reading
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