Nuclear aspirations in Egypt
Will Egypt Go Nuclear? Israel National News, , September 13, 2012 Though Egypt does not have a nuclear energy program, that reality could soon change. President Mohammed Morsi made clear that Egypt wishes a civilian nuclear energy program.The Muslim Brotherhood wants nuclear weapons. We may soon miss the riots……. Continue reading
Canada joins the feeding frenzy to sell off nuclear technology to India
Canada turns page, wants to sell nuclear reactors to India Indrani Bagchi, TNN | Sep 13, 2012 NEW DELHI: Canada wants to sell nuclear reactors to India. Putting behind a troubled nuclear history with India, Canadian foreign minister John Baird said, “We have turned the page with India. India is a very different country today.”….. Anuclear deal between Canada and India signed in 2010 is yet to be operationalized, waiting for a follow-up end-user agreement. After meeting Baird on Wednesday, Krishna said, “We also look forward toearly completion of negotiations on Appropriate Arrangements for the
bilateral Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement signed in 2010.”
Acknowledging that the agreement was “actively discussed”, Baird said, “We’re readying an end-user pact with India, same thing we have with 42 countries. We’re not asking for or imposing any additional obligations on India.”
Canada is emerging as a favourite source for energy and resources for India… http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Canada-turns-page-wants-to-sell-nuclear-reactors-to-India/articleshow/16375962.cms
Japan to aim for zero nuclear power by 2030
JAPAN will abandon nuclear power within the next three decades under new government policy on the post-Fukushima energy mix. Herald Sun 13 Sept 12, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration will declare its intention to permanently shut down reactors by the 2030s, the Mainichi Shimbun reported, citing unnamed government sources.
The move will bring resource-poor Japan into line with Germany, which has said it will wean itself off nuclear power by 2022, and comes as regular vocal protests against nuclear power continue. The government ”will formally decide at an energy and environment meeting this weekend” to stop the use of nuclear, the paper said….
. Last week, Mr Noda’s ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) issued a policy recommendation that Japan ”put every political resource to realise a situation where the number of nuclear plants operated be zero in the 2030s”.
The DPJ listed three principles to achieve this: not constructing new nuclear plants, stopping old nuclear plants after 40 years of operation, and only approving the restart of nuclear plants that passed safety checks by a regulator.
The policy paper recommended Japan make greater use of renewable energy and take further energy saving measures, including the use of smart metering.
It said Japan should develop resources in nearby waters and look to cheaper procurement of liquefied natural gas and other fossil fuels, including shale gas. http://www.smh.com.au/world/japan-moves-to-end-nuclear-energy-use-20120912-25so4.html#ixzz26OQ6u4qZ
Hasty appointment by Japan’s PM of new nuclear safety agency
Noda’s appointment of nuclear watchdog chief inevitable The Yomiuri Shimbun, 13 Sept 12, A nuclear regulatory commission must be established as soon as possible to reconstruct the nation’s nuclear safety administration.
At a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, the government decided to establish the commission next Wednesday. The chairman and four other posts will be appointed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda based on a law that allows for the appointment of the nuclear watchdog’s members without obtaining Diet approval.
Personnel appointment without Diet approval is not desirable. But considering that the legal deadline for establishing the agency is Sept. 26, the government will have no choice but to take this exceptional step.
There was no vote held on a personnel plan for the commission during the ordinary Diet session that ended last week because of differences within the Democratic Party of Japan.
Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and former Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi, a candidate in the forthcoming party presidential election, and some other DPJ members called for replacing the proposed personnel with people who do not belong to the so-called nuclear power village……
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T120912003426.htm
New Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposal to ease safety requirements for new plants
New proposal from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would allow nuclear power plants to skip inspections and inservice testing
http://enformable.com/2012/09/new-proposal-from-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission-would-allow-nuclear-power-plants-to-skip-inspections-and-inservice-testing/
A new draft document released for public comment by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, would allow nuclear power plants to skip inservice testing and inspection of key safety components such as pumps, valves, welds, nozzles, vessels, and other components due to
impracticality, hardship, unusual difficulty, or when they would like to use a different approach for meeting requirements.
When making a decision on a request for relief, the NRC staff assesses the limitations of the examination or testing, evaluates the susceptibility to known degradation, mechanisms or failure modes, the consequences of a failure at the location where the test or
examination is impractical, and if any other inspections or tests should be implemented to compensate for the impracticality, according to the document.
The industry would also be allowed to submit alternative plans due to hardship regarding radiation exposure during an examination or test, which may offer utilities another argument for exemption if none of the other circumstances apply. The licensee would need to communicate the radiation levels at the test or examination area in this event.
Public comments will be accepted through October 22nd, 2012. Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Japan – no blackouts despite nuclear power almost completely shut down
No summer blackouts: nuclear scaremongering in Japan proven false http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/no-summer-blackouts-nuclear-scaremongering-in/blog/42057/
by Justin McKeating – September 10, 2012 Despite the dire warnings from the nuclear industry and its backers, Japan’s hot summer has passed with no power blackouts or shortages even though just two out of its 50 nuclear reactors were in operation. Continue reading
Japan’s nuclear lobby trying to keep nuclear power off the election topics
Japanese Professor: All the nuclear interests want to do is avoid making nuclear power a central election issue — Gundersen: Gov’t trying to frighten public http://enenews.com/japanese-professor-all-the-nuclear-interests-want-to-do-is-avoid-making-nuclear-power-a-central-election-issue-gundersen-govt-trying-to-frighten-public
September 6th, 2012
By ENENews Title: Japan stresses cost of ending nuclear power as decision loomsSource: REUTERSAuthors: Linda Sieg and Aaron Sheldrick; Additional reporting by Risa Maeda, Kentao Hamada and Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Robert Birsel
…..a forecast [by Japan’s government said] that household energy bills would by 2030 rise by nearly double 2010 levels if Japan abandoned nuclear power.
But that has been disputed. Continue reading
The USA nuclear industry is to get a new Waste Confidence Rule
Opposition to nuclear power for Nigeria
critics are worried that the project will do the country more harm than good. They say the effect of radioactive substance cuts across both geography and politics, and if not properly managed, may compromise not only the lives of the present generation but also several generations yet unborn.
What Nigeria needs now is investment in safe alternatives that will not harm the environment and the people.
Furore over nuclear power plant in Nigeria The Guardian, 06 SEPTEMBER 2012 00:00 FROM CHUKWUMA MUANYA AND EMEKA ANUFORO, FOCUS PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and the relevant agencies set up to actualize Nigeria’s dream of becoming a “nuclear power” are excited that the national nuclear power programme has reached an advanced stage.
Nigeria and Russian had in June begun implementation of a nuclear power generation agreement signed in June 2009, to facilitate cooperation on the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Continue reading
Shut down Japan’s 2 operating reactors – call from Osaka governments
Kyodo: Gov’t calls for shut down of Japan’s only 2 operating reactors http://enenews.com/kyodo-government-calls-for-shut-down-of-japans-only-2-operating-reactors
September 4th, 2012 By ENENews
( (Subscription Only) Title: Osaka pref., city gov’ts call for halt to 2 Oi plant reactors
Source: Kyodo News
Date: September 4, 2012
The Osaka prefectural and municipal governments on Tuesday called for a halt to the operation of two reactors at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture ahead of the end Friday of this summer’s more than two-month power-saving period.
[…]
Kansai Electric […] restarted the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the four-reactor Oi plant in July
[…]
In a joint statement adopted at their meeting on energy earlier in the day, the two local governments said the two reactors should be shut down, noting the demand-supply situation for electric power is not so tight and that many Japanese nationals now want a nuclear-free Japan.
The decision to restart the Oi reactors does not respect people’s wish for a nuclear-free Japan, it said.
Japan likely to go for zero nuclear power, and terminate nuclear reprocessing
Other options under consideration include termination of the commercialization program for “fast-breeder” reactors and of research on the experimental Monju prototype in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. As for the all-important nuclear fuel cycle, the government is actually discussing scaling down its reprocessing and recycling pursuits.
Zero option for nuclear power may be added to revamped energy plan http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120903a3.html Jiji Eliminating dependence on nuclear power is expected to be part of the government’s revamped energy policy, officials say.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will reveal the new policy to his ministers after making a formal decision this month, government officials said Saturday. According to the officials, the government will make the 15 percent option its interim target for nuclear power dependence in 2030 before completely eliminating it from electricity generation at an unspecified date. Continue reading
Political problems with China’s involvement in building UK’s nuclear reactors
any Chinese involvement in EDF’s new nuclear plans would raise concerns on a number of fronts and could even require a direct UK government involvement through some kind of golden share.
China could take key role in UK nuclear infrastructure through Hinkley Point
• EDF in talks with China to share £10bn reactor costs
• French company’s debt levels rocket to £30bn
• Security concerns raise possibility of government taking ‘golden
share’ in development Terry Macalister guardian.co.uk, 2 September 2012 EDF has been holding talks with China about sharing the soaring cost of building £10bn worth of new reactors at Hinkley Point, Somerset.
The move underlines growing pressure on the French company’s internal finances and has reignited a fractious debate about Communist state-run businesses playing a critical role in sensitive western energy infrastructure.
The overtures to Beijing’s state corporations – as well as approaches to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds – come as EDF faces growing investment demands in France and the UK that have sent debt levels rocketing to €39.7bn (£30bn)…… Continue reading
Japan’s nuclear industry in the grip of the criminal yakuza
The Nuclear Mafia Derails Democracy in Japan Dissident Voice, by Richard Wilcox / August 31st, 2012
End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.
– Bruce Springsteen, “Factory”
Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss.
– Fukushima official’s request to Yakuza
TEPCO’s involvement with anti-social forces and their inability to filter them out of the work-place is a national security issue … Nuclear energy shouldn’t be in the hands of the yakuza. They’re gamblers and an intelligent person doesn’t want them to have atomic dice to play with.
– Japanese Senator1…. The exploitation of labor at nuclear plants depends on the tools of social engineering, of government, mass media and schools. This is the hidden and shameful side of today’s materialist society and belies our complicity in a criminalized culture.Inefficient and corrupt employment practices at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) are prolonging the disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) outsources 90 percent of the work to subcontractors, mainly utilizing Japan’s criminal syndicates, “the Yakuza.” Japan is still a middle class society and most people will not volunteer for nuclear work. Japan risks running out of workers who have not exceeded their legal radiation limits.
Considered to be “Japan’s largest organized crime group” — who are on the radar of the US Treasury Dept. (another big crime group) — the Yakuza offer a service to society by sopping up its losers and giving them a dodgy occupation….. These short video interviews offer a useful introduction into how the Yakuza operate. Tepco’s relationship with the Yakuza is a cesspool of corruption from the highest to the lowest levels in its organization. “A senior National Police Agency officer, speaking on grounds of anonymity said, ‘TEPCO has a history of doing business with the yakuza that is far deeper than just using their labor.’ Continue reading
Japan’s political problems delay appointment of a new nuclear regulatory agency
Nuclear panel limbo Renewable energy plan sees no nukes Japan Times Sep. 1, 2012 Kyodo, Jiji The Diet may not vote on appointments to the new nuclear regulatory
commission before the legislative session ends Sept. 8.
A vote is unlikely in the current session, a senior Diet affairs official in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan confirmed Thursday.
This is because some DPJ members, including ex-Prime Minister Yukio
Hatoyama, oppose appointing Shunichi Tanaka, former acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, as head of the regulatory body, describing him as pronuclear.
There is concern within the DPJ that forcing the votes could cause more lawmakers to quit the party.
Another DPJ executive said holding the votes would be difficult as the opposition parties have boycotted deliberations since the opposition-controlled Upper House passed a censure motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Wednesday.
The government has until Sept. 26 to set up the nuclear regulatory body. If the Diet doesn’t act, Noda has the power to appoint the commission’s members as a stopgap measure.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120901a1.html
Historic event – Nuclear Regulatory Commission denies a license for new nuclear reactor
CALVERT CLIFFS-3 LICENSE DENIED! http://www.nirs.org/ August 30, 2012. In a historic decision, NRC Licensing Board supports NIRS’s position and denies construction/operating license for Calvert Cliffs-3! Key decision here. NIRS press statement is here.
The Licensing Board also issued decisions onNIRS’ solar and wind contention, and another contention related to Fukushima Task Force issues.
On July 26, 2012, NIRS held a press briefing on the expected Calvert Cliffs-3 decision and its implications for the nuclear industry with Michael Mariotte of NIRS, Bob Eye, attorney for intervenors in the South Texas licensing proceeding, and former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford. You can listen to the briefing here. Michael Mariotte’s opening statement is here.
Timeline of the Calvert Cliffs-3 reactor project and licensing proceeding.
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