Summary of Masao Yoshida’s testimony about the Fukushima nuclear calamity
Yoshida Interviews / Strong words on Fukushima N-crisis from TEPCO’s manager on the ground Fukushima Emergency what can we do?September 10, 2014 The Yomiuri Shimbun learned on Aug. 29 the full details of remarks made by the late Masao Yoshida, former plant manager for Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, to the government’s investigation committee on the nuclear accident at the plant. The following is a summary of Yoshida’s account of what happened at the plant for the five days immediately after the March 11, 2011, disaster.
After the tsunami struck, Yoshida was shocked to face the unprecedented situation of a total power outage. The personal handy-phone system (PHS) at the plant had stopped working, and reports he received from within the plant were too confusing to grasp exactly what was happening. Yoshida regretted immensely not realizing that the isolation condenser (IC) at the No. 1 reactor had stopped working.
Total power outage
Investigation committee : What did you think to do after receiving a report that the plant had lost all AC power sources?
Masao Yoshida : “To be honest, I was stunned. I thought the situation was grave. There was a strong possibility of this escalating into a severe accident, so we would have to start making preparations, I thought. My first thought was, “It’s a calamity…….
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001553303 http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/yoshida-interviews-strong-words-on.html
World governments out of step with public opinion as they back fossil fuels and nuclear
While governments back fossil fuels and nuclear, popular renewables boom, Ecologist Paul Brown 6th September 2014 Consumers around the world want their electricity to come from renewable sources, writes Paul Brown. Yet governments from the UK to Australia are defying the popular will as they push for fossil fuels and nuclear power. The good news? Renewable energy is surging ahead regardless Public support for renewable energies across the world continues to grow, particularly in more advanced economies – with solar power being especially popular.
At the same time, the policies of the governments in most of these richer countries do not mirror public opinion as many continue to develop fossil fuels, which do not command such popular support.
An example is the UK, where the government wants to exploit gas reserves by the controversial method of fracking – fracturing rock to allow the gas to reach the ground surface. The Conservative government is also promising to cut down on subsidies for onshore wind farms and to build nuclear power stations.
According to the public attitudes report published this month by the British government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, 36% of the population supports the plan to build new nuclear stations, and only 24% support shale gas extraction by fracking.
Huge popular support for renewable energy
In contrast, 79% of the public is in favour of renewable energies to provide electricity. The UK has plentiful renewable energy and is exploiting several different types.
Solar panels are the most popular form, with 82% of the public supporting their widespread use on the roofs of private houses and, more recently, solar farms in fields in the countryside.
Other high scores for renewables were offshore wind (72% in favour), onshore wind (67%), wave and tidal (73%), and biomass (60%) – even though all need public subsidy to compete with fossil fuels.
Despite the government’s public support for nuclear, there has been no start on a new station because a subsidy offered by the government is being investigated as potentially illegal under European Union competition legislation.
Fracking is still at the exploratory stage and requires years of investment before any power could be produced.
Renewables’ massive growth
Meanwhile, renewables keep on growing……..http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2534207/while_governments_back_fossil_fuels_and_nuclear_popular_renewables_boom.html
Meeting between USA and Russia over Nuclear Arms Treaty
US and Russia to Meet Over Nuclear Arms Treaty The treaty for the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles signed by Gorbachev and Reagan is under threat. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-and-Russia-to-Meet-Over-Nuclear-Arms-Treaty-20140908-0023.html
Top ranking United States and Russian officials are due to meet on Thursday to discuss a 1987 arms control treaty.
The treaty, which put a block on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces has been questioned in recent months with the Ukraine crisis, and NATO threats on Russia.
“We believe that this is an important agreement and that it should be properly executed,” Interfax new agency quoted Mikhail Ulyanov, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s non-proliferation and arms control department, as saying of the treaty.
He said talks on compliance with the treaty would take place this week involving Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
The original treaty has put a ban on nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of 500-5,500 km.
Last month, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov had said his nation was committed to the treaty, but President Putin had previously questioned if it is in Russia’s best interests.
Moscow has also said that U.S. use of armed drones amounted to a violation of the treaty.
Ralph Nader remnds us of nuclear power’s insanities
Nuclear Power’s Insanities – Taxpayer-Guaranteed, Dissident Voice by Ralph Nader / September 5th, 2014 The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) – the corporate lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for the disintegrating atomic power industry – doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from the negative impacts of nuclear power. For nuclear power is a government/taxpayer-guaranteed boondoggle whose staggering costs, incurred and deferred, are absorbed by American taxpayers via a supine government regulatory and subsidy apparatus.
So if you go to work at the NEI and you read about the absence of any permanent radioactive waste storage site, no problem, the government/taxpayers are responsible for transporting and safeguarding that lethal garbage for centuries.
If your reactors experience ever larger cost over-runs and delays, as is now happening with two new reactors in South Carolina, no problem, the supine state regulatory commissions will just pass the bill on to consumers, despite the fact that consumers receive no electricity from these unfinished plants.
If these plants, and two others in Georgia under construction, experience financial squeezes from Wall Street, no problem, a supine Congress has already passed ample taxpayer loan guarantees that make Uncle Sam (you the taxpayer) bear the cost of the risk.
If there were to be an accident such as the one that happened in Fukushima, Japan, no problem, under the Price-Anderson Act, the government/taxpayers bear the cost of the vast amount of damage from any nuclear power plant meltdown. To put this cost into perspective, a report by the Atomic Energy Commission about fifty years ago estimated that a class nine meltdown could make an area “the size of Pennsylvania” uninhabitable.
Why do we stand for such a doomsday technology all over America that is uneconomic, uninsurable, unsafe, unnecessary (it can’t compete with energy conservation and renewable energies), unevacuable (try evacuating the greater New York City area from a disaster at the two Indian Point plants 30 miles from Manhattan) and unprotectable (either from sabotage or earthquake)?
David Freeman, the famous energy engineer and lawyer, who has run four giant utilities (the Tennessee Valley Authority, the SMUD complex – where he closed the Rancho Seco Nuclear Plant – the New York Power Authority and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) sums up the history of nuclear power this way: “Nuclear power, promoted as too cheap to meter, turned out to be too expensive to use, the road to nuclear proliferation, and the creator of radioactive trash that has no place to go.” Right wing conservative/libertarians call it extreme “crony capitalism.”
Nuclear power plants are shutting down. ……..http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/09/nuclear-powers-insanities-taxpayer-guaranteed/
Kazakhstan’s nuclear past shown in photography, in London
The name Kurchatov is not immediately recognisable in the way that Hiroshima or Chernobyl are. The small town on the steppes of northeastern Kazakhstan didn’t appear on maps until the 1990s. Before that, it was marked only as “Final Stop” at the end of the railway line. Yet here, from the 1940s to the 1980s, Soviet scientists carried out 456 nuclear tests with a combined power 2,500 times that of the Hiroshima bomb.
Kurchatov was one of several dozen “closed cities” located throughout the Soviet Union where crucial military and strategic industries were sited. Nicknamed “post boxes” because they were known only for their postcodes (Kurchatov’s was Semipalatinsk-21), movement in and out of the cities was restricted, and entry was forbidden to foreigners. Officially, Russians only learnt of their existence in 1986.
It was Lavrenti Beria, the ruthless head of Stalin’s secret police, who chose the location in the depths of Siberia for the Soviet Union’s nuclear testing programme and ordered the town of Kurchatov to be built – using gulag labour – to house its scientists. The first Soviet nuclear bomb, nicknamed “Joe-1” by the Americans, was tested just 40 miles from Kurchatov in 1949, under Beria’s supervision.
But while Beria casually described the area as “uninhabited”, in fact there were more than a million people living within 100 miles of the site. Over the next four decades, Soviet researchers used Kurchatov as a base to hone the science of nuclear weapons and from the innocuously named “Dispensary No. 4” studied their effects on the population.
During a test of one particularly powerful bomb, in 1953, the authorities evacuated villagers and livestock, according to a recent academic study based on interviews with local citizens. When the villagers returned, they found their dogs and cats had lost their fur and their chickens had died. But not everyone was evacuated: the Soviet scientists left a group of 40 men behind as human guinea pigs.
The results of their research – like everything else about Kurchatov – were a closely guarded secret during Soviet times. But since then, a grim stream of reports has emerged: in the years of most intensive testing, infant mortality increased to four times the level of the rest of the Soviet Union and for decades afterwards rates of cancer in the region were several times higher than in the rest of Kazakhstan. Today, residents still have a life expectancy that is several years lower than in the rest of the country.
The story of Tuleutai Suleimenov, who was born in 1941 in Semipalatinsk, the nearest major city to the test site, is not an uncommon one. His father and one of his sisters died of cancer, while two other sisters were both scarred by the effects of the blasts. Unlike his neighbours, however, Suleimenov went on to become Kazakhstan’s first foreign minister, giving him a central role in dismantling the newly born country’s nuclear weapons.
Slideshow photographs: Nadav Kander/Courtesy Flowers Gallery
Nadav Kander, ‘Dust’, is at Flowers Gallery, 82 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DP, from September 10 to October 11. ‘Dust’ is published by Hatje Cantz, RRP£60. Jack Farchy is the FT’s Moscow and central Asia correspondent http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b90f2762-330d-11e4-93c6-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
New York nuclear bomb threat – a cruel hoax
Heartless prank caller threatens 1 World Trade Center with nuclear bomb http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/prank-caller-threatens-freedom-tower-nuclear-bomb-article-1.1930215 The caller phoned in the threat to the city’s 911 system around 7 p.m. Friday, claiming a device was placed next to the building near Vesey St. in lower Manhattan. BY THOMAS TRACY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, September 6, 2014,
A callous prank caller threatened to destroy 1 World Trade Center with a nuclear bomb Friday night — six days before the 13th anniversary of 9/11.
The caller phoned in the threat to the city’s 911 system at about 7 p.m., claiming the device was placed next to the building near Vesey St. in lower Manhattan.
Port Authority police and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force raced over, but found nothing, law enforcement sources said.
The call was traced to Brooklyn, but no arrests had been made Friday evening, sources said.
Thousands will be flocking to 1 World Trade Center, as well as the 9/11 Museum and Memorial, on Thursday as the city marks the 13th anniversary of the terror attack on the World Trade Center and remembers the nearly 3,000 people who died there.
Weapons manufacturers profit as the world becomes more dangerous
King Solomon’s Horse Tanks, Rudy Martinka, 7 Sept 14 “…….ISIS is using the weapons and dollars captured in Northern Iraq that were supplied by the US to be used to defend Iraq.
The US supplied armaments to Afghanistan rebels to combat the Russian invasion. Osama Bin Laden learned how to use these weapons.
The European and USA manufacturers of weapons have been selling armaments to the Middle East in exchange for oil.
The nuclear bomb technology stolen from the US after WWII is now a threat to the entire world especially if it is ever obtained by extreme terrorists or nations with ideologies to destroy perceived enemies even if they purposely kill themselves in the act…….King Solomon profited in the short term by trading arms same as many countries are doing today…….As for King Solomon, I wonder what he would have to say about the wisdom of US foreign aid in regards to our present policy to supply men and arms in the Middle East supposedly as a defense for the US. While at the same time having absolutely no control of US borders and visas in spite of a potential threat of a nuclear dirty bomb…….http://rudymartinka.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/king-solomons-horse-tanks/
3 Persistent Big Lies from the nuclear industry
Nuclear industry still engages in Big Lies http://www.dnj.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/09/07/guest-column-nuclear-industry-still-engages-big-lies/15135385/Kathleen Ferris September 6, 2014 The article by Duane W. Gang in Sunday’s DNJ, “TVA makes $4.5 billion bet on nuclear future,” states only a few arguments of environmentalists against more nuclear reactions, yet it repeats the Big Lie that nuclear energy is clean because power plants don’t emit greenhouse gases.
Let’s examine that statement. How much fossil fuel energy do you suppose was required to transport tons of material for the construction of Watts Bar 2 since the 1970s? How much fossil fuel energy to build the reactor? How much more to mine and transport the uranium for fuel? How much to operate the plant for the many years it will function? (We know from Fukushima what happens if the power goes out.) And finally, how much energy will be needed to decommission the plant and to haul the waste to Tennessee landfills?
Another Big Lie told by the officials of the nuclear industry is that nuclear energy is safe. In fact, reactors must routinely emit radiation in order to operate “safely”. Studies have shown that cancer and childhood leukemia increase in areas where nuclear power is produced and decrease when plants close down. How safe is that? Not to mention the high-level radioactive waste, deadly stuff with nowhere to go.
Have we learned nothing from the disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima? Huge swaths of land in Russia and Japan will be uninhabitable for thousands of years. The results are death and horrendous genetic damage. Chernobyl happened because the aged plant was operated long after it should have been shut down. In this country, we have over a hundred old reactors operating on licenses that were extended decades beyond their expected life-span. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has never turned down an application for license renewal, only required that some retrofitting be done first. How safe is that?
In Japan, the rate of thyroid cancer in children has skyrocketed and food supplies have been contaminated. Fukushima continues to spew millions of gallons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, poisoning our seafood.
If you believe it can’t happen here, consider this: the reactor at Diablo Canyon in California sits on a major earthquake fault. Given the eastward flow of winds, a disaster there could contaminate the continent. Closer to home, Browns Ferry plant near Huntsville has three old reactors, same design as Fukushima, located in a tornado alley. The F5 tornado that destroyed much of Tuscaloosa in 2011 narrowly missed Browns Ferry, which lost power for several days. A direct hit could have wiped out Middle and East Tennessee.
You think the new reactors will be safer? Actually, the new Watts Bar 2 is built on an antiquated containment design from the 1960s. It relies on 3 million pounds of chipped ice hanging in baskets surrounding the reactor to allow a thinner (“egg shell”) containment vessel. This design is especially vulnerable to releasing massive amounts of radiation if coolant is lost.
The third Big Lie of the nuclear industry, suggested in the DNJ article, is that nuclear power is good for the economy because it provides jobs. Think about it. Right now 3,100 workers are constructing the new reactor at Watts Bar 2. If the project really is finished by 2015, those jobs will be terminated. Only a few more people will be needed to operate the plant.
If TVA had employed the same number of people to construct solar panels, the jobs would be on-going and the environment would have been free of radiation. Instead, what the Gannett reporter failed to tell, is that the board of directors voted at the last TVA meeting to reduce funding for energy efficiency (including renewable energy) by 25 percent and to raise rates on electricity for TVA customers. How much sense does that make?
America’s nuclear guinea pigs – in Utah
The Day We Bombed Utah This is my father’s side of a phone conversation. I asked him about the nuclear tests that occurred in the 1950’s just a few miles from his home, specifically timed while the wind was blowing away from Las Vegas – and towards St. George, Utah. kateful.blogspot.com.au SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
“My boss, Art Crosby, was out looking for uranium [that day], he thought he’d get rich quick. Wave of the future.
“He left his Geiger counter sitting on his desk [at the gas station]. I set it to its lowest setting and the needle just slammed against the stop. I thought I’d broken it. And that was inside. The government came around and gave news conferences telling everyone not to worry…but they also offered to wash everybody’s car. I stayed inside. I didn’t go out much those days. The president of Dixie college in those days had been a biology teacher and an outdoors guy, best teacher I ever had, and he took his family out on some mountains like 40 miles closer to ground zero to watch the explosions, get up at 3 o’clock in the morning.
“He died of some type of leukemia, his daughter wrote a book about her family’s problems with various kinds of radioactive related diseases…she tried to have kids and had weird miscarriages. The dad died really young. Her mom died fairly young. Her sister died too. And she could never have a child.
“And then there’s the sheep. Sheep out in the hills eating the grass, it’s fallout. Literally radioactive particles. The sheep would lie down in the dirt, and all over southwestern Utah there were all stories of sheep born with 3 legs and 2 heads, miscarried lambs,
“That was ’54. ’57 through ’59 I was on my mission. When I came back I was in school, driving the truck, on the radio. But from ’59 on I was in school in northern Utah. Moved to California in ’68.
“There were studies that indicated the leukemia was some number of times greater.
“They waited until the wind wasn’t blowing towards Las Vegas. The population of all of Washington County might have been only 10,000 people, Cedar City even less. Kanab was a town of 2 or 3 thousand people…there’s just nothing. I remember when the state hit a million population. …..
“So…guinea pigs.” http://kateful.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/the-day-we-bombed-utah-oral-history-of.html
The Fukushima nuclear nightmare is far from over, and is still being mishandled
Experts Warn of ‘Inevitable’ Fukushima Disaster in California Nation of Change ANTHONY GUCCIARDI NATURAL SOCIETY / NEWS REPORT Wednesday 3 September 2014
“………In statements made during a presentation on water ecology at the University of Alberta, award winning scientist David Suzuki went on record in saying that in the event of another seven or above earthquake, which he says has about a 95% chance of occurring over the next three years, it would require a complete evacuation of North America and mean ‘bye bye Japan’.
“I have seen a paper which says that if in fact the fourth plant goes under in an earthquake and those rods are exposed, it’s bye bye Japan and everybody on the west coast of North America should evacuate,” he said.
Specifically speaking to the nature of Fukushima’s ticking time bomb, Suzuki began the breakdown of the plant’s numerous threats with stating the very real concept that Fukushima is perhaps the largest threat to both humanity and the planet that we face in the immediate future.
“Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,” he said before delving into the issue. “Three out of the four plants were destroyed in the earthquake and in the tsunami. The fourth one has been so badly damaged that the fear is, if there’s another earthquake of a seven or above that, that building will go and then all hell breaks loose… And the probability of a seven or above earthquake in the next three years is over 95 per cent.”
And Suzuki is not the only one with major concerns. In fact, Suzuki is perhaps one of the very few who actually received media attention due to his celebrity status as a recipient of 16 significant academic awards and host of the popular CBC Television program entitled ‘The Nature of Things’. Yale University professor Charles Perrow has voiced similar concerns in a telling piece entitled ‘Fukushima Forever’, which highlights the very serious threat of nuclear meltdown as a result of human error when it comes to removing the plant’s spent fuel rods.
A danger that the United States government certainly recognizes as legitimate based on the analysis of top experts, and undoubtedly is silently preparing for behind the scenes.
Perrow writes:
Much more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake, or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away. Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.
The Fukushima nuclear nightmare is far from over, and even now the disaster is being extremely mishandled and blatantly ignored by plant operator company TEPCO and the Japanese government. In the event of an American Fukushima within California, which would in fact be much more devastating, there is truly no telling how much of a fatal blow would be dealt to humanity. http://www.nationofchange.org/experts-warn-inevitable-fukushima-disaster-california-1409758143
Discussion over the Fukushima witness testimony of Masao Yoshida
Japan’s nuclear disaster Toxic legacy, The EconomistSep 5th 2014, by D.McN. | TOKYO IN THE pantheon of Fukushima heroes, Masao Yoshida is a key figure. As the manager of the crippled Daiichi plant in 2011, Mr Yoshida was the captain of a nuclear Titanic, ready to go down with his ship rather than let it spin totally out of control. He later gave the most complete account from the cockpit of the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Inevitably, perhaps, his account is now at the centre of a toxic row over the legacy of nuclear power.
But the Sankei mined the same extract and found confusion, not insubordination. Mr Yoshida’s orders were not properly conveyed, and in any case he later agreed with the workers’ decision to evacuate to the Daini plant about 10km away, it said. The newspaper accused the Asahi of “twisting” Mr Yoshida’s account to further the anti-nuclear cause.
Arguments over what took place have simmered for over three years and both sides have well-entrenched positions: one seeking to highlight the managerial and political fault-lines of the nuclear industry, the other trying to shift blame elsewhere, particularly on to Naoto Kan, who was Japan’s prime minister in 2011…….http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/09/japans-nuclear-disaster
An apology to all of the grandchildren
DEAR GRANDCHILDREN, WE’RE SORRY, Ikkuma.com GARY LEBLANC September 29, 2043
Dear Grandchildren,
We’re sorry for…
… playing God with mother nature and destroying our food chain with GMOs and indiscriminate biotech engineering.
… neglecting our health and burdening you with insurmountable health costs. We felt we were entitled to do what we wanted.
… destroying our oceans. We didn’t collectively protect our oceans from the billions of tons of toxic waste we dumped in it daily.
… killing off entire species of animals for our selfish wants. Ignorance was an easier path than activism.
… forgetting the meaning of community. I can’t tell you when we stopped supporting those in need. The philosophy of abundance just seemed to take a back seat to one of scarcity.
… ignoring the effects of climate change. We just thought it was too expensive to address the issue. It was too easy to pretend things would be ok.
We really hope you understand. You can’t blame us. Nobody knew this would happen. In the meantime, listen to this song. And really, we’re very sorry.
Sincerely yours,
“Grandparents” http://ikkuma.com/life/dear-grandchildren/
India and Japan fail to reach a deal on nuclear technology sales
No Nuclear Deal In PM Modi’s Talks With Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe NDTV, All India | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh September 01, 2014 TOKYO: Despite the bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese premier Shinzo Abe, India and Japan failed to break new grounds in ongoing talks on a nuclear deal between the two countries.
Sources say the Modi government had hoped to lure investment into its $85 billion market while addressing Japan’s concerns.
India has been pushing for an agreement with Japan on the lines of a 2008 deal with the United States under which India was allowed to import US nuclear fuel and technology without giving up its military nuclear programme……..
India operates 20 mostly small reactors at six sites with a capacity of 4,780 MW, or 2 percent of its total power capacity, according to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited. The government hopes to increase its nuclear capacity to 63,000 MW by 2032 by adding nearly 30 reactors. http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/no-nuclear-deal-in-pm-modi-s-talks-with-japanese-premier-shinzo-abe-585088
Video: children of UK’s nuclear veterans call for compensation
Video: Children of nuclear guinea pigs demand compensation http://www.3news.co.nz/world/kids-of-nuclear-guinea-pigs-demand-compensation-2014090209
Tuesday 2 Sep 2014 British veterans who took part in nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s are campaigning for a charitable fund to help them and their relatives.
Campaigners say over the decades many of them – and their children – have suffered health problems caused by deliberate exposure to radiation.
The UK’s nuclear arsenal was developed as a result of experimental explosions, and 22,000 service personnel were used as guinea pigs – standing in line as bombs many times the power of the one used on Hiroshima were detonated at Christmas Island.
They weren’t given any protection at all – some just wearing t-shirts and jandals.
The risks of radiation were poorly understood at the time.
Watch the video for the full report.
More delays for Finland’s nuclear white elephant Olkiluoto 3
HELSINKI, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor will be delayed until late 2018, construction consortium Areva-Siemens said, prompting a disgruntled statement from its client Teollisuuden Voima (TVO).
Areva-Siemens said the construction of plants, which started in 2005, would not be completed before mid-2016, and that operations were not expected to start until late 2018…….Olkiluoto 3, which will be Finland’s fifth nuclear reactor, was originally due to start operating as early as 2009, but it has been hit by repeated delays and soaring costs.
TVO and Areva have traded accusations about who is to blame for delays and extra costs, and the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) arbitration court is processing a dispute on cost overruns between the consortium and TVO……..http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N0R20CV20140901
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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