Yucca Mt scientifically unsuitable for nuclear waste dump
in the last three decades 1the Energy Department studied Yucca Mountain and simply couldn’t make the plan work. There are a multitude of scientific, technical and safety issues with Yucca Mountain, which is a porous volcanic ridge in an area prone to earthquakes. The Energy Department had to keep rewriting its plans and requirements to try to make it look like Yucca Mountain was suitable……Nevada was chosen because the state [back then] didn’t have any political power.
More Yucca hypocrisy, Las Vegas Sun, Republicans continue to push a foolish plan that is unsafe and expensive, May 15, 2011 Republicans in Congress this past week continued their shameful crusade to turn Nevada into a nuclear waste repository by trumpeting a report that they say shows “political opposition” is the key obstacle toward building a Yucca Mountain repository. Continue reading
German Chancellor Angela Merkel now a force for renewable energy
“We want to end the use of nuclear energy and reach the age of renewable energy as fast as possible,” Merkel said……”It’s over,” she told one of her advisers immediately after watching on TV as the roof of a Fukushima reactor blew off. “Fukushima has forever changed the way we define risk in Germany.”
How Angela Merkel became Germany’s unlikely green energy champion: Fukushima has seen German chancellor Angela Merkel embark on the world’s most ambitious plan to power an industrial economy on renewable sources of energy, Christian Schwägerl for Yale Environment 360 guardian.co.uk, 9 May 2011 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is anything but a left-wing greenie. The party she leads, the Christian Democratic Union, is the political equivalent of the Republicans in the US. Her coalition government is decidedly pro-business. Often described as Europe’s most powerful politician, Merkel’s top priority is job creation and economic growth.Yet if the chancellor succeeds with her new energy policy, she will become the first leader to transform an industrialized nation from nuclear and fossil fuel energy to renewable power. Continue reading
Legal Challenge as Australian Govt Sneaks in Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
The Senate is due tomorrow to debate the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill, which if passed will open the way for the government to build the dump on Muckaty station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek.Ownership of nuclear waste site disputed.
the government’s secret and divisive process to build the dump on Muckaty would be strongly resisted in Tennant Creek as well as nationally and internationally.
Ownership of nuclear waste site disputed, Lindsay Murdoch in Tennant Creek, Sydney Morning Herald, May 9, 2011 DOCUMENTS unearthed in the National Archives challenge the Gillard government’s push to build a nuclear waste dump on disputed Aboriginal land near Tennant Creek, lawyers say. Continue reading
Close Hamaoka Nuclear Plant – call by Japan’s Prime Minister
Japan PM Wants Another Nuclear Plant Closed Over Quake Fears, ABC News, By AKIKO FUJITA, TOKYO May 6 2011, Japan urged a power company today to temporarily shut down operations at another nuclear plant that straddles a major fault line for fear it would not survive a major earthquake and tsunami.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said during a news conference today that he requested the suspension of reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant over safety concerns, citing a study that said there was an 87 percent chance of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake striking central Japan within the next 30 years.
The Hamaoka plant is located in Shizuoka, 155 miles west of Tokyo, and sits on an active earthquake fault. Officials estimate the shutdown could last two years…..Japan Wants Another Nuclear Plant Suspended Out of Quake Fears – ABC News
North Carolina legislature opposing ratepayer money for new nuclear plant
Duke’s Fading Nuclear Dream The Progressive Pulse May 5, 2011 by Lisa Finaldi On April 15th I questioned if Duke’s dreamto build new nuclear power plants and charge ratepayers in advance of a reactor’s operation wasn’t fading. Events of this week indicate the company’s plans may be dimming. Funny it took Duke CEO Jim Rogers this long to realize it. Continue reading
Financial and security problems in USA’s foreign owned uranium mines
Foes Highlight Companies’ Foreign Ownership in Bids to Halt Uranium Mining, New York Times, By MANUEL QUINONES, 4 may 11, Environmentalists trying to halt U.S. uranium projects are emphasizing the foreign ownership of mining companies. A key issue: Companies that mine uranium and other hardrock minerals do not pay royalties to the U.S. government. Several companies that mine or are seeking permits to mine U.S. uranium are based in Canada.
Those companies are “able to take this uranium off of U.S. soil without paying taxpayer compensations,” said Jane Danowitz, public lands director for the Pew Environment Group.
“It just goes to show,” Danowitz said, “that this is an issue that should raise concerns beyond environmental impacts.” Among the concerns being raised about foreign ownership of uranium companies is that U.S. uranium could end up in hostile hands. Republican lawmakers last year raised alarms over the Russian-owned company ARMZ taking control from Canadian interests of Uranium One Inc., which has significant U.S. operations.
“This transaction would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told President Obama in a letter last December. “As you know, Russia has a disturbing record of supporting nuclear programs in countries that are openly hostile to the United States.”….. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/04/04greenwire-foes-highlight-companies-foreign-ownership-in-90317.html
Action on Climate Change will at last have a Canadian political advocate
Elisabeth May will help ensure that climate change and clean energy issues are a prominent part of the national conversation over the next four years
Canada’s Green party looks to bright future following Elizabeth May victory, Guardian UK 4 May 11, The environment may finally play a part in Canada’s political debate now the Green party has its first seat • Canada elects its first Green MP
Green party leader Elizabeth May added to Canada‘s psephological earthquake on Monday night by winning her party’s first seat in British Columbia, just as Canada swept Stephen Harper’s government to its first majority. Continue reading
German Chancellor wants definite date for closing nuclear industry
Merkel seeks to accelerate nuclear power exit-paper, BERLIN May 2 (Reuters) by Christian Ruettger, – Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to accelerate Germany’s planned exit from nuclear energy by fixing a precise date, business daily Handelsblatt quoted senior government sources as saying on Monday.
In a high-level meeting last week with Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen and her chief of staff Ronald Pofalla, Merkel pressed for an exact year when nuclear power will be taken off line, the sources said.
Merkel would like to have the nuclear plants switched off before the previous date of about 2022 agreed by the former centre-left government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, the sources said…….. http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE7410MU20110502
Japanese parents fight government over changed radiation limits
Parents and lobbyists are scheduled to meet bureaucrats today to hand over a petition demanding the withdrawal of the new radiation standard
Parents fight back over raised radiation limits, Independent, 2 May 11, By David McNeill in Fukushima City, Thousands of parents living near Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant have condemned a government decision to lift radiation limits for schools in the area by 20 times, saying the move is based on incomplete science and could put children in danger. Continue reading
Canada’s New Democrats gaining support for opposing nuclear subsidies
Canada’s New Democrats – Jack Layton and New Democrats advocate ending public subsidies for nuclear energy industry.
Jack Layton on nuclear power in Canada, Gordon Edwards, 27 April 
2011 Canadians go to the polls on Monday May 2 to elect new representativesfor the House of Commons, Canada’s elected Parliament
Jack Layton is the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), which has received a very dramatic surge in popular support in recent days, a surge which is mainly felt in the province of Quebec but which is also being noticed across Canada. Continue reading
Dissatisfied, Japanese Nuclear Adviser quits
Japanese Nuclear Adviser Quits, Wall Street Journal, By WILLIAM SPOSATO, 30 April 11, TOKYO—A special advisor to the Japanese government on radiation safety resigned Friday, saying that he was dissatisfied with the handling of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Continue reading
South African government irresponsibly promoting nuclear energy
Greenpeace Africa, who accuses the government of being irresponsible in approving plans for nuclear expansion. ….South Africa is ill-equipped to handle nuclear power generation. “We have a very weak nuclear regulator, little nuclear expertise in the country and a dependency on foreign nuclear expertise and technology,”
Cold and desolate in the dead zone, Mail & Guardian, ILHAM RAWOOT – Apr 29 2011, “……….In the wake of the disaster South Africa’s Cabinet approved the Integrated Resources Plan, or IRP2010, which aims to expand nuclear power capacity Continue reading
How USA’s nuclear industry stalled, despite government propping it up
There are many reasons those 896 reactors went missing. Number one is the fact that the No Nukes movement stopped the industry from gouging from the government the trillion or more dollars it would have taken to build that fleet. Continue reading
Green Party’s victory as Germans reject nuclear power
The Green vote was helped by the argument in Germany over its 17nuclear power plants, heightened by the Fukushima disaster
German Greens hail state victory in vote overshadowed byFukushima, Helen Pidd inBerlin, guardian.co.uk, 27 March 2011
• ‘Historic’ first ever victory in regional Landtag vote
• Chancellor suffers after U-turn on nuclear power Continue reading
German government under pressure from huge anti nuclear rallies
Demonstrators in Germany Demand End of Nuclear Power, New York Times, By JUDY DEMPSEY, April 25, 2011 BERLIN — An estimated 120,000 people demonstrated across Germany on Monday, protest organizers said, demanding an end to nuclear power and increasing pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to speed up the closing of the country’s 17 nuclear plants.
Demonstrations that take place each year over the Easter holidays have tended in the past to be pacifist, for instance, calling for the end of the war in Afghanistan. But this year, because of the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, in addition the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the rallying theme was nuclear power.
Some of the biggest protests took place in the western state of Lower Saxony, where, according to the organizer’s spokesman, Peter Dickel, more than 20,000 demonstrators gathered near the Grohnde nuclear plant.
In the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, 17,000 protested at the Krümmel nuclear plant, Mr. Dickel said.
In Bavaria, which has three nuclear plants, more than 15,000 people gathered near the Grafenrheinfeld power plant and thousands of others marched toward the Isar 1 and Isar 2 plants. “We are many, we will be more and we will not keep quiet until the last nuclear power plant is shut,” said Martin Heilig, an organizer of the demonstrations there…….http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/world/europe/26iht-germany26.html
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