Educated women do not share Lady Barbara Judge’s enthusiasm for restarting Fukushima nuclear plant
this was in stark contrast to the mood of the Japanese public, still in a state of shock and strongly opposed to the restoration of the nuclear programme.
In addition to discussing clothing choices, the article notes, “There’s one group of people who stay stubbornly anti-nuclear – women, especially the more educated ones. Wherever you are in the world, she says, all the focus groups show that it’s better-off women who don’t trust fission.”
American hailed as “Japan’s nuclear saviour”: Fukushima workers hope reactors can be made safe and start up again http://enenews.com/american-hailed-japans-nuclear-saviour-hope-fukushima-reactors-be-made-safe-start-operating-again
Title: Lady Barbara Judge: Japan’s smart nuclear weapon
Source: The Independent
Author: Margareta Pagano
Date: 17 February 2013
Lady Barbara Judge is just back from inspecting the nuclear plants at Fukushima in Japan, the ones closed down after the devastating earthquake and tsunami two years ago. She visited the control rooms at Daiichi – plant one – where three of the reactors went into meltdown and met many of the men who risked their lives by working during the emergency to cool the over-heated reactors and eventually shut them down.
It’s not what she expected but the mood there was ” fantastic”. “What was astonishing was the optimism and hope shown by the workers that these plants can be made safe, and that they can start operating again,” she says. Continue reading
Another shutdown for Palisades Nuclear Plant
Palisades Nuclear Plant Shuts Down Again February 16, 2013
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/02/16/palisades-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-again/
COVERT TOWNSHIP (WWJ/AP) – The Palisades nuclear power plant in
southwestern Michigan has been shut down for repairs after workers
spent several days trouble-shooting its cooling water heat exchanger
system.
The plant was disconnected from the state’s electrical grid just
before 5 p.m. Friday. There was no timetable given for the repairs at
the plant along Lake Michigan’s shoreline in Covert Township.
The plant, owned by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., has been under
extra scrutiny by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after numerous
safety issues and shutdowns.
The Palisades website acknowledge that they working to improve safety,
following indications that the facility wasn’t meeting its own
standards.
Things are crook when radiation interferes with military exercises
National Guard holds off on training in grasslands amid uranium concerns, The Daily Republic, 14 Feb 13, A key official told the media there’s no indication based on previous air samples that radiation samples at the proposed training area would be above safety standards, but the state will take the necessary precautions. RAPID CITY (AP) — The South Dakota National Guard has postponed plans for training exercises on federal grasslands in the Black Hills after an environmental group warned the military about radiation levels caused by uranium deposits.
Maj. Gen. Tim Reisch, adjutant general of the Guard, said Wednesday the group would hold off until it can be determined that radiation levels in the area do not pose health hazards to soldiers. The Guard was contacted by Defenders of the Black Hills coordinator Charmaine White Face about the possibility of contamination.
“I’m very happy they’re not going to be there for another year,” White Face said. “But that radiation is not going away.”……
North Korea’s secrecy leaves everyone in the dark about its nuclear program
A Secretive Country Gives Experts Few Clues to Judge Its Nuclear Program NYT, By WILLIAM J. BROAD: February 12, 2013 As scientists and world leaders scrambled Tuesday to judge the importance of North Korea’s claim that it had detonated a third nuclear bomb, the main thing that quickly became evident is how little is known about the country’s increasingly advanced atomic and missile programs…………It also remains unclear whether the North used plutonium or enriched uranium to fuel the bomb. ….. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/world/asia/despite-claims-of-third-blast-north-korean-nuclear-program-remains-a-mystery.html?_r=0
Nuclear industry constantly denies harm of nuclear radiation
Dose limits = Allowing Gunshots at Children http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/dose-limits-allowing-gunshots-at-children/October 14, 2012 by Mikkai
“We are constantly being told about a ‘permissible amount of radiation.’ Who permitted it? Who has any right to permit it?” Albert Schweitzer
Plutonium for Infants: http://www.life-upgrade.com/DATA/US-FDA-BequerelLimits.jpg
“Up to 1,300 million people have been killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since its inception. The industry’s figures massively underestimate the real cost of nuclear power, in an attempt to hide
its victims from the world.”http://exacteditions.theecologist.org/read/ecologist/vol-29-no-7-november-1999-5368/29/2/
“The most important consideration is the generally accepted value judgment that early embryonic losses are of little personal or social concern.” Dr R. Mole, 1979, a member of ICRP – The international committee which makes the dose limits WORLDWIDE ignores LIFE. http://bjr.birjournals.org/content/52/614/89
“Possible scale of lost or impaired children after Chernobyl in all of Europe and the part of Asia covered – Missing Children: 2,5 Million.” PAGE 34http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/RIGEinEuroandCNPPc.pdf
Dwight Eisenhower advised AEC (NRC): “Keep the Public confused about Fission and Fusion.” http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19790423&id=nXUjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lmcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6981,3863905
760 milliSievert thyroid gland dose per year for an infant (up to one year of age)
1390 milliSievert thyroid gland dose per year for a small child (1 to 2 years of age)
1340 milliSievert thyroid gland dose per year for a child of 2 to 7 years of age SOURCE: http://www.strahlentelex.de/RadiationRisk_EU_042011_engl.pdf
info by Masaichi Shiozaki:leaked polluted water from Cesium cleanup equipment, Nov 20th, 8:00 am:
leaked water dosage: about 176L
134Cs: 3.7×10^2Bq/cm3
137Cs: 6.5×10^2Bq/cm3
60Co: 3.5×10^0Bq/cm3
54Mn: 1.9×10^0Bq/cm3
via TEPCO website(only Japanese version):http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201211-j/121120-01j.html
Cancer Patients = Victims of the Atomic Age.
Stop sacrificing infants: NEW nutrition facts WITH becquerel!http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/stop-sacrificing-infants-new-nutrition-facts-with-becquerel/
Toyota recalls 7.43M vehicles for fire risk:http://www.usatoday.com/story/driveon/2012/10/10/toyota-recall/1624003/
Fukushima in USA: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/list-power-reactor-units.html
Exelon nuclear company seen as idiotic
Exelon issues dumbest threat in the history of dumb threats http://grist.org/news/exelon-issues-dumbest-threat-in-the-history-of-dumb-threats/?utm_content=mill&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet By Philip Bump Here’s the stupidest threat ever. From The Hill:
Exelon Corp. CEO Christopher Crane told the Chicago Tribune in comments published Friday that his company might eventually have to close nuclear facilities “if we continue to build an excessive amount of wind and subsidize wind.” …
Crane explained the subsidy reduces the rate Exelon receives from nuclear generation by encouraging wind turbines to rotate when power demand is low. That means the utility sometimes pays customers to take its nuclear power in wind-heavy regions.
Ha ha. Oh no! You’ll have to close nuclear plants if we keep building wind turbines? Oh man what will we do? Everyone, we clearly need to rethink this wind energy thing if it means fewer nuclear facilities like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and Fukushima. [BIG FUCKIN’ FROWN EMOTICON]
Exelon was last in the news after being kicked off the board of the American Wind Energy Association, presumably for being idiots.
Lawmakers of Southside Virginia urge Governor to resist pressure from uranium lobby
Southside anti-uranium legislators write to McDonnell By Julian Walker The Virginian-Pilot February 8, 2013 A sextet of Southside Virginia legislators have written Gov. Bob McDonnell asking him to resist uranium supporters who want him to move ahead with the development of new mining regulations despite the recent demise of legislation for that purpose.
“We strongly urge you not to follow that course,” reads the Feb. 6 letter to the governor, which notes “the General Assembly has concluded the risks are too great to approve lifting the moratorium on mining.”
The letter is signed by six Republicans: Sens. Frank Ruff of Mecklenburg County and Bill Stanley of Franklin County; and Dels. James Edmunds of Halifax County, Danny Marshall of Danville, Don Merricks of Pittsylvania County, and Tommy Wright of Lunenburg County.
“To ignore the overwhelming opposition to uranium mining that has been expressed by citizens and organizations across the Commonwealth does not fit with representative government” they wrote. “An issue as divisive as this should be dealt with by the legislative process.”
Last week, Sen. John Watkins withdrew his uranium legislation when it became clear he lacked the votes to get the bill past the Senate committee where it had been sent…..
Fighting the pro-uranium effort is a broad coalition of interested parties who want Virginia to maintain its 31-year mining moratorium.
They fear possible environmental fallout and public health hazards from the accidental release of mining waste, known as tailings, leftover from the milling process when uranium ore is separated from rock…… South Hampton Roads localities are among the groups that oppose mining out of concern that the accidental of tailings into waterways that feed local drinking water supplies could cause contamination. http://hamptonroads.com/2013/02/southside-antiuranium-legislators-write-mcdonnell
North Korea’s a worry – but regime may collapse from within
ALARM AT NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR THREAT – BUT THE REGIME MAY FALL FROM WITHIN, The Independent, 8 Feb 13, “… there’s no need to head for the bunker just yet, if the Economist’s analysts have it right. They see one big green reason for hope – “Capitalism is seeping through the bamboo curtain”.
A new class of traders and merchants has the power to destabilise Mr Kim’s regime. But they’ll need help; and the West should don its saboteur goggles and start burrowing.
Here’s what the Economist advise: “taking every opportunity to undermine the regime…So outsiders should pay for North Koreans to travel and to acquire skills abroad, support the radio stations that broadcast into the country, back the church networks that supply documentaries and films and turn a blind eye to the smuggling networks and the traders.” http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iv-drip/alarm-at-north-koreas-nuclear-threat–but-the-regime-may-fall-from-within-8486436.html
No need for nuclear – UK Greens spell it out
analysis using the government’s figures shows that we don’t need nuclear power to meet climate goals and keep the lights on.
with the energy bill set to deliver a backdoor subsidy for nuclear, truly sustainable renewables like wind, solar, waste digestion, wave and tidal are in danger of being sidelined once again
We don’t need nuclear power to meet climate goals and keep the lights on, Guardian UK, Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas by Caroline Lucas 8 February 2013 It would be a folly to think that there is no hope of tackling climate change without nuclear power Making the case for new nuclear this week, George Monbiot admitted that, what with the proposed nuclear waste dump in Cumbria being rejected and Centrica pulling out of new nuclear in the UK, the facts are not exactly working in his favour. But his argument raised two crucial questions. Continue reading
Exelon cutting down on nuclear reactor upgrade spending
Exelon cuts nuclear upgrade spending amid low gas prices, Reuters, 8 Feb 13, 02/08/2013Feb 7, 2013 11:27pm GMTFeb 7 (Reuters) – Low natural gas prices and slow economic growth forced U.S. power company Exelon Corp to cancel plans to spend $2.3 billion on capacity expansion at its nuclear power plants and other projects, Chief Executive Chris Crane said on Thursday. Continue reading
Public becoming immune to pro nuclear propaganda
Public sees through nuclear spin http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2013/02/07/public_sees_through_nuclear_spin.htmlToronto Star, Dr. James Deutsch,
Faculty of Medicine, University of TorontoFeb 07 2013 It is chutzpa
for General Electric to promise “improved communication with the
community” after the enormous sums spent on PR and advertising by the
nuclear industry. Good for the public, which is increasingly immune to
such disinformation.
The Fukushima disaster is just the latest. It calls attention to the
lethality, for countless generations, of the entire nuclear cycle,
from mining of this carcinogen on Native lands to the “disposal” of
the roughly 200 new radioactive elements created by fission of Uranium
in the power plants
60 years to clean up radioactivity from closed Florida nuclear plant
AP: Florida nuclear plant will permanently close — 60 years to decontaminate and dismantle http://enenews.com/ap-florida-nuclear-plant-permanently-closed-60-years-decontaminate-dismantle
Title: Duke Energy to close Crystal River nuclear plant
Author: Associated Press
Date: February 5, 2013
The largest U.S. electricity company said Tuesday it will permanently close a Florida nuclear power plant after botched repairs and use $835 million from an insurance settlement to refund consumers forced to pay for higher-cost replacement power.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy said Tuesday it will close its Crystal River Nuclear Plant north of Tampa, starting a process that may take 60 years before the site is decontaminated and dismantled. […]
“We believe the decision to retire the nuclear plant is in the best overall interests of our customers, investors, the state of Florida and our company,” Duke Energy Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Rogers said in a statement.
Decline and fall of the nuclear industry – it’s the economics, stupid!
The Real Deterrent to Nuclear Power WSJ BY LIAM DENNING, 6 Feb 13 Long before they consume even a pound of uranium, nuclear-power plants burn through copious quantities of cash. That handicap was laid bare, once again, on both sides of the Atlantic this week.
On Tuesday, Duke Energy said it would decommission its Crystal River nuclear-power plant in Florida rather than pay a repair bill estimated last October at more than …(subscribers only) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324761004578285992381951734.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Doubts about independence of Japan’s nuclear regulator – another setback for restart of nukes
Leak stalls Japan’s nuclear return BY:RICK WALLACE, TOKYO CORRESPONDENT :The Australian February 06, 2013 JAPAN’s attempts to boost its economy by restarting nuclear plants have suffered a setback with its new regulatory body under fire over leaks to a power company and a criminal negligence probe into the Fukushima disaster gathering momentum.
The removal of an official at the Nuclear Regulation Authority for leaking a draft report on the Tsuruga nuclear plant has cast further doubt on its independence. Tetsuo Nayuki, 54, director-general for nuclear regulation policy, received an official reprimand last month and was transferred to the science ministry after news of the leak emerged….(subscribers only) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/leak-stalls-japans-nuclear-return/story-e6frg6so-1226571126055
Nuclear power “solution” to global warming creates bigger problems
The danger of relying on nuclear power plants http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-nuclear-power-20130206,0,4009253.story Gwen L. DuBois February 6, 2013 Norman Meadow’s commentary promoting nuclear power over wind energy as a solution to climate change leaves out serious unsolved problems that wind does not present (“Nuclear blows away wind,” Feb. 1).
Huge piles of highly radioactive waste are sitting all over the world in vulnerable spent fuel pools lacking containment structures or backup generators. The Japanese government was considering an evacuation of Tokyo in the event of an explosion at one.
As we expand our reliance on nuclear power, we also expand this Achilles heel of the nuclear industry. Fukushima led to hot spots of radioactivity as far as 158 miles away. While Mr. Meadow talks of exaggerated fears of small doses of radiation from accidents, would anyone choose to raise their children in an area contaminated by radioactive cesium with a half-life of 30 years?
Recently 28 of 442 exported food samples tested by the Food and Drug Administration were found to be contaminated. Chernobyl may have led to as many as 900,000 deaths worldwide.
Decades ago, a Sandia National Labs report for Congress estimated tens of thousands of deaths would occur from a worst-case nuclear accident, which would also be costly and chill the expansion of nuclear power plants. Three Mile Island, a formerNuclear Regulatory Commission member said, “taught Wall Street that a group of NRC-licensed reactor operators, as good as any other, could turn a $2 billion asset into a $1 billion cleanup job in about 90 minutes.”
Mr. Meadow’s goal of a carbon-free society is correct. In addition to wind, we need solar; we need smart grid and infrastructure and we need greater efficiency. We need lifestyle changes leading to less energy use.
We can get to zero this way, and nuclear can be a transitional source of energy while we are gearing up renewable energy sources. But what we don’t need are more nuclear wastes, more nuclear accidents, more dirty mining of uranium or more sources of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium waiting to be stolen and used against us.
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petition to oppose the rapid increase of space-military industry threatening Jeju Island and the region.
[Petition by April 19th (KST)] Stop the joint military-Hanwha Systems-Jeju Provincial Government Sea Launch!
World Nuclear Power. Reactors 1951-2026, 75 Years of Nuclear Power.
Interactive Map– https://dv.worldnuclearreport.org/
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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