Latest on Fukushima, and USA nuclear waste worries
Additional concerns in the U.S. this week include the safety of spent fuel pools and reactor venting systems. A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies charges that we are at greater risk than Japan of an accident occurring in fuel pools due to overcrowding beyond design capacity. It has also surfaced that engineers warned the NRC of design flaws in venting systems 5 years ago, with little action taken.
Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 2 June Clean Energy.org. France’s Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety recommends that an additional 70,000 people be evacuated from areas outside the already established 20 km zone, which includes 10,000 children. These figures are based on radiation data collected by U.S. and Japanese radiation monitors. Continue reading
Japanese parents sceptical over lack of action on radiation levels in schools
School radiation cleanup slammed, The Japan Times Online, 3 June 11 Parents flunk ministry over soil-removal policy shift Kyodo Despite the education ministry’s recent move to set a new nonbinding target to reduce the radiation children in Fukushima Prefecture are exposed to at schools, experts, local educators and parents don’t feel reassured. Continue reading
Radiation worries keep opera stars out of Japan tour
Met Opera Stars Drop Out of Japan Tour On Radiation Fears — WSJ* May 31, 2011, “…….“She (Ms. Netrebko) explained that she lived in Russia during Chernobyl and that many of her friends and relatives had contracted cancer and that she felt this was leaning very heavily on her,” said Mr. Gelb about the soprano’s reasoning at a news conference in Japan on Tuesday, referencing the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. “When she actually thought about coming here, when it came down to the wire of getting on a plane she just couldn’t face making that decision.”
Met Opera Stars Drop Out of Japan Tour On Raditation Fears – Speakeasy – WSJ
Images of Fukushima – fatigue of nuclear workers
PhotoBlog – Doctor describes fatigue of workers at Fukushima nuclear plan, PhotoBlog, David R Arnott 3 June 11, Newly released photographs taken by a doctor who has examined workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant show the difficult living conditions they have endured while battling to bring the situation under control.
ased June 2 by industrial medical doctor Takeshi Tanigawa, who examined the workers. The Japan Times reported that Ehime University professor Takeshi Tanigawa had visited the workers twice since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a series of meltdowns at the plant. He warned that there was an increased risk of accidents because the workers had suffered from chronic sleep deprivation and fatigue, the paper said.
Tanigawa also warned that workers were at risk of developing PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) due to what they had been through in the early days of the disaster, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. See more images of the disaster in our slideshow and more pictures related to Fukushima on PhotoBlog. PhotoBlog – Doctor describes fatigue of workers at Fukushima nuclear plant
Cloud of deception over Australian company’s plan for thorium wastes in Malaysia
Radiation gradually accumulating in marine life beyond Fukushima
More radiation worries for Japan’s fishing industry – Fishupdate.com, 31 may 11, MORE trouble appears to be on the horizon for Japan’s beleaguered fishing industry, following the country’s disastrous earthquake two months ago.
Greenpeace has said that the radioactive leaks are continuing to seriously affect fish and other marine life. According to fresh information released by the environmental group high levels of contamination have been found in fish, shellfish, and seaweed from samples taken 12 miles off the coast of the Fukushima plant.
Analysis by laboratories in France and Belgium found high levels of radioactive iodine and radioactive cesium in seafood, according to Greenpeace. Contamination levels were highest in seaweed samples, which contained radiation 50 times higher than official limits…..Greenpeace Radiation spokesman Jan Van Putte said: “Our data shows that significant amounts of contamination continue to spread over great distances from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life.”… More radiation worries for Japan’s fishing industry – Fishupdate.com
How Japanese communities have become nuclear addicts
In a process that critics have likened to drug addiction, the flow of easy money and higher-paying jobs quickly replaces the communities’ original economic basis, usually farming or fishing….the subsidies encourage not only acceptance of a plant but also, over time, its expansion. That is because subsidies ….the system of subsidies and dependency Japan created to expand nuclear power makes it difficult for the country to reverse course.
In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency – NYTimes.com,By MARTIN FACKLER and NORIMITSU ONISHIMay 30, 2011 “…….Tokyo has been able to essentially buy the support, or at least the silent acquiescence, of local communities by showering them with generous subsidies, payouts and higher-paying jobs. In 2009 alone, Tokyo gave $1.15 billion for public works projects to communities that have electric plants, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Experts say the majority of that money goes to communities near nuclear plants. Continue reading
Japanese actor punished for his anti nuclear stance
“I received an email from my manager today. ‘Your planned role in a July 8 drama has gone away because of your statements regarding nuclear power plants.’”…
It’s Not Easy Being Antinuclear – Japan Real Time – WSJ* May 30, 2011, By Yoree Koh It’s a difficult time to trumpet the virtues of nuclear energy in Japan, but it appears naysayers are finding that speaking out can have negative consequences. Continue reading
Farmers in India resolute against Bhavnagar nuclear power plant
Gujarat: Farmers oppose nuclear power plant in Bhavnagar, West: India Today, D. P. Bhattachary | Mithi Virdi Village (Bhavnagar), May 30, 2011 A storm of resistance is brewing in the mango orchards of coastal Bhavnagar district.
As the Union government proposes to set up a 6,000 Mw nuclear plant at Mithi Virdi village, farmers from the five villages of Jaspara, Mithi Virdi, Khadarpar, Mandva and Sosiya have come together to pledge that they would die rather than give their fertile farmland for the power plant……. Continue reading
Works suspended at Fukushima because of stormy weather
Storm suspends work at Japan Fukushima nuclear plant BBC News 30 May 2011 The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has suspended some of its outdoor work due to a tropical storm, just days after it admitted it was not prepared for harsh weather.
Heavy rain and strong winds are hitting north-east Japan, which was devastated in the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading
Cores of 3 Fukushima reactors are leaking radioactive water
that’s just the start of the bad news because the reactors themselves appear to be leaking as well. TEPCO initially hoped that the leaks were largely coming from pipes that could be repaired, but they now concede that both the reactors’ pressure vessels and primary containment vessels, which are designed to contain an accident, are probably leaking water.
Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking like a sieve –Nature News Blog: May 26, 2011 As more details leak out about the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it’s become clear that something else is leaking—radioactive water from the cores of three damaged reactors. Continue reading
Malaysia fight against Australian company dumping radioactive waste
Crucial questions remain unanswered especially regarding the safe disposal of radioactive waste…… officials from the nuclear watchdog would be pro-nuclear and therefore fail to produce a fair assessment of the Lynas plant.
Calls for local and environmental groups to be represented in the monitoring team have also gone unheeded…’Whatever their findings, our final agenda – which is our ultimate goal – is to stop Lynas.’..
Malaysia’s new rare earth plant provokes radiation fears – Monsters and Critics, By Julia Yeow May 29, 2011,Kuala Lumpur – In the quiet town of Gebeng in Malaysia’s central state of Pahang, a new rare earth plant has evoked fears of radiation contamination as residents desperately seek to stop the construction of the world’s largest such refinery. The 700-million-ringgit (233 million dollars) refinery is being constructed by Australia’s Lynas Corp, which plans to ship rare earth ore mined from Western Australia’s Mount Weld to the Gebeng plant by September. ……
Full severity of Fukushima nuclear disaster now slowly being revealed
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday. “The situation continues to be very serious.”.
Fukushima plant probably began spewing radiation within hours of earthquake: data National Post, Peter Goodspeed 21 May 11, Data released for the first time this week show three of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors probably began spewing radiation within a few hours of Japan’s devastating earthquake and at least one may have gone into a full meltdown within about 15 hours of the tsunami striking the plant and shutting off its cooling systems. Continue reading
Doubts about Fukushima’s full impact cast gloom on nuclear industry
While debates on who or what was at fault will no doubt continue, the nuclear industry has clearly suffered a major blow, with nuclear looking to be unreliable and costly….Nobuo Tanaka, the chief executive of the International Energy Agency, has warned that the role of nuclear power in global energy supply may be less than previously forecast, following the events in Japan. “Building nuclear power or expanding nuclear power may mean more costs or more delay. That means the nuclear option may not play as big a role as we predicted….”
What happened at Fukushima? – environmentalresearchweb, 30 May 11, More information has begun to emerge as to actually what happened at Fukushima, with it now being clear that full fuel melt-down did occur, perhaps even starting before the tsunami hit, although we are still some way off knowing what the longer term impacts will be, Continue reading
Fears of terrorist nuclear jihad, following Taliban raid on Pakistan naval base
Signalling the launch of nuclear jihad!, The Pioneer , May 30, 2011 Kanchan Gupta After the Taliban’s daring raid on PNS Mehran, a heavily guarded naval base in Karachi, the world, and not only the US, has reason to worry, if not be alarmed. This is not just another incident of radical Islamists demonstrating their ability to strike terror with the help of brainwashed young men desperate to die in the hope of frolicking with 72 nubile nymphets in the other world; it signals enhanced capability on part of Pakistan’s terrorists to attack high security targets. Continue reading
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