China’s nuclear dilemma, Phys Org. September 14, 2012 An expert assessment of China’s nuclear weapons strategy highlights the risk of escalation to nuclear war from a conflict beginning with conventional weapons, due to the unusual structure of the nation’s military. The new study, previously only available in Chinese, appears in the latest edition of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE.
The authors believe that this is the first comprehensive non-governmental study on how China’s nuclear-war plan was developed….. http://phys.org/news/2012-09-china-nuclear-dilemma.html#jCp
India’s peaceful anti nuclear campaign now facing terror and repression
A regime that hates common masses and uses them only as vote bank can do anything to make the rich and multinationals terribly happy
Indian regime has already exhausted all techniques and tricks to malign, terrorize the people of Kudankulam.
India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Terror threatens Jal-Satyagraha http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/editorial/2012/09/14/4450.html 14 SEPTEMBER 2012 : BY DR. ABDUL RUFF Gandhian method of struggle still has relevance for India which fought against the British occupation for centuries. In fact the Indian regime is not happy about protesters using non-violent protests against a government that employed as its prime tool of attack on Britain.
Defying security presence, Kudankulam protesters have entered sea for a Sea water Protest , or Jal Satyagraha, signalling that the not only the people of Kudankulam, especially the fishermen and families angry with central India and Tamilnadu regimes, but even the Sea itself is annoyed with an nuclear extra terror fitting on its shores..
Upon state murder of one fisherman in Kudankulam vicinity, the protesting masses have decided to continue the movement through relaunching the struggle by getting into the sea. Protesters have formed human chain in sea from Sep 13, 2012. Continue reading
India’s nuclear heavies will “enlighten the masses”
I was so fascinated by this little article: I have coloured my favourite phrases in red.
Summit to allay fears on Kundakulam, Jaitapur nuclear plants Times of 
India B Sridhar, TNN Sep 13, 2012, JAMSHEDPUR: The innocent misguided people opposing the likes of Kundakulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu and Jaitapur nuclear power plant in Maharashtra will be in focus in the global Nuclear Energy Summit scheduled to be held in Mumbai on September 25.
The summit to be organized by the department of atomic energy (DAE) will witness domestic and foreign nuclear producing company’s representatives discuss the various misconceptions and misinformation about the nuclear energy plants in a comprehensive manner.
“The summit will immensely help in allaying the fears related to the operation of the nuclear energy plants in India,” said
Jamshedpur-based Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) spokesperson Atul Bajpai.
The UCIL will have 15 panels at the summit venue that will largely be informative in nature aimed at enlightening the common masses about the effective and sustainable uranium exploration measures the premier public enterprise is practicing over the years…..
Atomic Energy Commission chairman R K Sinha, Atomic Energy Nuclear Board vice-chairman S Duraisamy, nuclear specialist, Lisega Inc (US) Bob Fandetti and chief executive, French Nuclear Industry Association, Henri Chapotot are among those who will take part in the summit to be held at the Mumbai Exhibition Center.
Growth of India’s solar energy, grid parity by 2014
Solar power catching up with conventional energy http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/solar-power-catching-upconventional-energy/186748/on Cost of solar power may equal to that of conventional energy by 2014: Study Devjyot Ghoshal / New Delhi Sep 14, 2012, If India’s conventional power sector, particularly coal-based thermal power projects, has found itself squarely stuck under the long shadow of governmental inefficiencies and suspect allocation mechanisms, there is a drastically different story unfolding in the country’s solar energy sector. Continue reading
Radiation exposure to Fukushima workers before the March 11 catastrophe
Journalist who covered Fukushima Daiichi: I heard stories that tens of people at plant may have died from radiation exposure before 3/11 (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/journalist-covered-fukushima-daiichi-heard-stories-tens-people-plant-died-radiation-exposure-before-311-video “TEPCO and the Fukushima Forbidden Zone”, by Matsumura & Onda Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan Feb 28, 2012
Katsunobu Onda, Journalist: As was explained earlier, I have a 35 year relationship with nuclear power plants.
My first opportunity I had to study nuclear power plants was 35 years ago when I visited the Daiichi Fukushima nuclear power plant that was run by Tepco.
And the reason that I went was that, as you may know inside the power plants facilities themselves there are many, many, many people that work at a the plant…
And I had heard stories that several people, or maybe several tens of people, had died from their exposure to radiation.
Workers reluctant to go to Fukushima nuclear plant, if no medical checkups
Anonymous Fukushima Worker: Nobody will want to come work at plant if there’s no more health checkups – Gov’t does not understand situation here (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/anonymous-fukushima-worker-one-will-work-plant-health-checkups-govt-understand-situation-video
September 12th, 2012 By ENENews Without medical examination cost assistance on site of the Fukushima nuclear high dose News 7 (Japanese TV)
Fukushima Daiichi Worker: The Health Ministry is busy with paperwork
and does not understand the situation at the plant. The Health Ministry must think the workers are dispensable. No one will want to start working at plant.
Groundwater with cesium at 9 times gov’t limit found in Fukushima
http://enenews.com/groundwater-cesium-9-times-govt-limit-found-fukushima
September 12th, 2012 By ENENews Mainichi report from Sept 12, 2012 with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:
Ministry of the environment announced they measured 88 Bq/Kg of cesium
from well water in Odaka Minamisoma City, Fukushima
The sample was taken in June and July of 2012
The safety limit is 10 Bq/Kg
They measured cesium more than 10 Bq/Kg at 2 of 436 locations
They also measured cesium less than 10Bq/Kg from 4 of 436 locations
They found something like mud in the well water that they measured 88
Bq/Kg of cesium
Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protest goes national
KKNPP protest will be taken up at national level: Kejriwal THE HINDU 12 Sept 12, The ongoing anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protest will be taken up at the national level with more vigour, former member of ‘Team Anna’ Arvind Kejriwal, said on Wednesday.
Mr. Kejriwal, who came to Idinthakarai on Tuesday night to express solidarity with the ongoing protest, told reporters here that he was fully supporting the protest being led by anti-KKNPP struggle committee convener S.P. Udayakumar, who should not surrender to the police.
‘India Against Corruption’ would wholeheartedly endorse his stance in this agitation and take it to the national level. He warned that there would be disastrous consequences if the KKNPP reactor was allowed to attain criticality without ensuring adequate water source. There should be an open debate on the KKNPP by involving experts from the government and protestors’ side so that the public understood the facts pertaining to nuclear power programmes.
The United Progressive Alliance government was trying to hastily take the KKNPP reactor to criticality even as several safety concerns remained unanswered, he said.
He visited a few houses at Tsunami Colony which were allegedly damaged by the police after the Monday clash. Mr. Kejriwal claimed he wanted to file a police complaint in this connection, and came to the Kudankulam police station in the afternoon, but could not do so as there was no senior police official present.
Speaking to reporters in front of the police station, Mr. Kejriwal alleged that the police had ransacked a few houses and arrested even a 16-year-old boy from Vairaavikinaru village after the protest. “We’re not against development as we need power and other better infrastructure. But you cannot bulldoze the people in the name of development. The police should show their loyalty only to the nation and not to the government,” said Mr. Kejriwal.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3888410.ece
Radioactive food in kids lunches in Kawasaki City – it’s “educational”!
“Don’t be a chicken” mayor tells parents concerned their children are eating radioactive lunches — “The pace of descending into deeper and deeper lunacy seems to be accelerating in Japan” http://enenews.com/dont-be-chicken-mayor-parents-concerned-children-eating-radioactive-lunches-pace-descending-deeper-deeper-lunacy-be-accelerating-japan
September 11th, 2012
By ENENews More from the Tokyo Shinbun report on Sept 5, 2012, translated by EXSKF:
Mayor Takao Abe said during the regular press conference on September 4 that it was important for children to learn that they were living in dangers, and that he would continue to use the frozen oranges from Kanagawa and canned apples from Yamagata that were found with radioactive cesium in the school lunches in the elementary schools in Kawasaki City, emphasizing the educational aspect of using food [known to be contaminated with radioactive cesium].
[…]
the city has been serving the frozen oranges in the school lunches since April this year. The city will start using the canned apple in September.
[…]
There are parents who are not convinced, but to them, the mayor said, “Don’t be a chicken.”
In the post — which cites several other similar situations that have occurred around Japan — EXSKF writes:
It is worse than the worst that Professor Kunihiko Takeda of Chubu
University feared exactly a year ago, with his short poetic prose titled
“A girl doesn’t talk“; he pleaded
with teachers and educators to do all they could to protect children.
His plea has fallen on totally deaf ears, and here we are. This has got
to be the end.
[…]
T he pace of descending into deeper and deeper lunacy seems to be accelerating in Japan. Maybe this is what people must have felt like in the 1930s, right before the last world war
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
High radiation makes removal of debris difficult, from Fukushima nuclera reactor 3
Yomiuri: Tepco having difficulty with ‘debris’ around Unit 3 due to high radiation — Years before spent fuel removal will begin http://enenews.com/yomiuri-tepco-having-difficulty-removing-debris-around-unit-3-due-to-high-radiation-years-before-spent-fuel-removal-will-begin
September 11th, 2012
By ENENews T itle: Debris removal inching along at Fukushima nuclear plant
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: Sep. 12, 2012
Debris removal is progressing slowly at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to photos released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. 1-1/2 years after the nuclear crisis began.
[…]
TEPCO is having difficulty removing debris in and around the No. 3 reactor building, which was destroyed by a hydrogen explosion on March 14, 2011, due to high levels of radiation around the building.
Steel platforms, where unmanned heavy equipment for debris removal will be installed, have been mostly completed on the eastern and western sides of the No. 3 reactor building. TEPCO also plans to construct platforms on the building’s northern and southern sides.
TEPCO expects to finish debris removal within this fiscal year and start removing nuclear fuel from the fuel storage pool at the end of 2014.
Warning sign: poor development in Fukushima kids
Fukushima Pediatrician Warns: “Clear sign something abnormal is occurring” in young children http://enenews.com/fukushima-pediatrician-warns-clear-sign-something-abnormal-is-occurring-with-children
September 12th, 2012
By ENENews Title: Disaster-area kids under hard stress
Source: Jiji
Date: Sep. 12, 2012
[…]
In Koriyama, Fukushima, the weight of about 30 4-year-olds was recorded until they turned 5. It was found that their weight increased at an average annual rate of 2.4 kg before the disaster struck, but the annual rise shrank to 1.5 kg afterward.
Pediatrician Shintaro Kikuchi, 42, of Koriyama, who conducted the study, warned this is a clear sign something abnormal is occurring.
See also: Jiji: Many children appear “prone to sickness and weak” after 3/11 — Reuters: Many children with “immune system problems and listlessness” after Chernobyl
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
Lynas rare earths plant – troubles are far from over
The world will witness one of the biggest civil disobedience events in this nation”
Mr Ibrahim has demanded that Australians ”hear the frustrations of Malaysians” over the project.
First Weld war looms – Malaysians mobilise to fight Lynas plant, The Age, September 13, 202 Lindsay MurdochACTIVISTS are planning a multi-pronged attack to try to stop the Australian miner Lynas Corp opening a rare earths
processing plant in Malaysia.
Opposition parties, led by Anwar Ibrahim, are also planning to make the $230 million plant a key issue of the country’s national elections, which must be held by April next year. They have vowed to shut the plant if they oust the government. Continue reading
Riot police attack Kudankulam anti nuclear protestors
Indian riot police attack 4000 nuclear protesters, Examiner SLIDESHOW SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 BY: DEBORAH DUPRE Saturday and Sunday, Indian riot police opened fire one group and assaulted thousands of others with tear gas, mainlywomen and children on the beach protesting Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), the country’s largest nuclear power facility, due to fire up soon. By late Sunday, there was one dead and many injured as police began rampaging homes of protesters.
“A large riot-gear bedecked police force is in the frontline facing the people, and tear gas lobbers are apparently on stand-by,” a human rights defender informed Counter Currents Sunday morning.
“Police are intimidating people by moving closer, swaying batons,” Dr. S P Udayakumar at the scene texted in an SMS at 11:30 a.m. “Thousands of women and children are here. Officials threatened with naval intervention. Situation is very tense and dangerous. We need your appeals to the governments.”
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