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Supervisor at Calvert Cliffs confirmed positive for alcohol during fitness for duty test 26 Oct 12 http://enformable.com/2012/10/supervisor-at-calvert-cliffs-confirmed-positive-for-alcohol-during-fitness-for-duty-test/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

October 27, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Petition to Kitakyushu City to stop burning of radioactive wastes

Petitioning The Mayor of Kitakyushu City This petition will be delivered to: Kenji KITAHASHI The Mayor of Kitakyushu City  TO STOP BURNING OF RADIOACTIVE DISASTER DEBRIS IN KITAKYUSHU https://www.change.org/petitions/to-stop-burning-of-radioactive-disaster-debris-in-kitakyushu?utm_campaign=twitter_link&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition
by Horiwaki Kosaku Brooklyn, NY ACT NOW TO PROTECT the safe and clean air, water and soil of the Japanese city of Kitakyushu and the island of Kyushu from further radioactive contamination.

GO TO THIS SITE To SIGN  TO STOP BURNING OF RADIOACTIVE DISASTER DEBRIS. Tell Kitakyushu Mayor Kenji Kitahashi to stop spreading radioactive particles into the Kitakyushu and Kyushu air, land and water. Continue reading →

October 26, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Robots – very limited ability to do nuclear cleanup

Japan Nuclear Expert: Humans must ‘decommission’ Fukushima reactors ― Robots can’t do anything basically (VIDEOS) http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-decommissioning-fukushima-reactors-be-humans-robots-anything-basically-video
October 23rd, 2012
Watch video of the interview here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stBmhNY6X58
Interview with Hiroaki Koide
Upload by: 座間宮 ガレイ
Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012
Translation: Fukushima Diary

Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute: You should think robot can’t do anything basically. It has nothing to do with settling the situation. […] They can’t be a help at all. […] Japan hasn’t developed a robot for nuclear emergency at all on the
assumption that nuclear accident can never happen. However, some European nations and US have such robots indeed, but their capacity is very limited regardless of remote controlling technology. After all, it must be done by human

October 25, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Safety reasons against re-licensing Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station

NRC to hear argument against Davis-Besse nuclear plant relicensing http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2012/10/nrc-to-hear-argument-against-davis-besse-nuclear-plant-relicensing.html October 24, 2012 By PennEnergy  The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will hear oral arguments Nov. 5-6 on a new contention in the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station relicensing hearing.

The contention alleges that cracks in the plant’s shield building should be considered “an aging-related feature” that would preclude renewing the plant’s operating license for an additional 20 years. Continue reading →

October 25, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Davis-Besse nuclear power plant gets a new emergency response cen

FirstEnergy opens emergency response center dedicated for Davis-Besse, Toledo Blade, 25  BY DAVID PATCH LINDSEY, Ohio — First-Energy Nuclear Operating Corp.has spent $6 million on a 12,000-square-foot building it hopes to use as little as possible. Continue reading →

October 25, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Bankruptcy of Fukushima commercial fishery

Ministry of Agriculture paid TV company $1,090,000 for “Support by eating” TV commercial,with fishery agency bankrupt http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/ministry-of-agriculture-paid-tv-company-1090000-for-support-by-eating-tv-commercialwhile-fishery-agency-was-left-bankrupt/by Mochizuki on October 23rd, 2012 ·

 

The sum of subsidy that Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries paid for mass media was reported. On the other hand, disaster areas are not paid enough and suffering from lack of finance.

Event : Damaged by 311 and went bankrupt
Company : Otsuchi fishery cooperative In Iwate prefecture
Time : 1. 2012
Money : 0 JPY (0 USD)

 Event : TV commercial “Support by eating”

Company : Most of the TV companies
Time : Summer of 2011. (Broadcast 800 times in the summer of 2011, 1200 times in this spring)
Money : 87,000,000 JPY (1,089,836 USD)
In this TV commercial, Japanese idol group TOKIO is acting. However, it was their volunteer, they were not paid.

 

October 24, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

FORMER MOSSAD HEAD SAYS NUCLEAR IRAN IS NOT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT Human Events By:Julie Ershadi 10/23/2012  The former head of the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, the Israeli intelligence agency known as Mossad, says an Iranian nuclear capacity would not constitute an existential threat to the state of Israel…… http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/23/former-mossad-head-says-nuclear-iran-is-not-an-existential-threat/

October 24, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Nuclear industry now looks for private investment, not government

Financing Nuclear Power Projects: New Trends Emerging for Asia EIN News 23 Oct 12  The financing of nuclear power projects is a key consideration for any country planning to include nuclear power in their energy mix. The industry has started to see a shift towards private sector financing and this trend is expected to increase going forward

The financial cost of new nuclear power projects is a major factor in planning for a sustainable nuclear future [ now there’s an oxymoron – Christina Macpherson ] . Continue reading →

October 24, 2012 Posted by | general | 1 Comment

USA cuts the budget for The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO)

Occupy the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) WTF??? WHY ARE WE CUTTING THE DNDO BUDGET BY 40%??? Shouldn’t we be INCREASING the detection of radiation in our country b/c there’s an ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan and the prevailing winds are in OUR direction?? It rains down in OUR crops, contaminates OUR food supply, and gets in OUR air and water!! Would someone please explain that to the people in charge!!! Never mind the fact that many of our own 104 aging nuclear power plants also leak and when they do the leaking is invisible. Shouldn’t we be spending MORE on monitoring all of this instead of cutting the budget by 40%?? In the middle of an ongoing nuclear disaster it seems really stupid to be slashing the radiation monitoring budget.
The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is a jointly staffed agency within the Department of Homeland Security. DNDO is the primary entity in the U.S. government for implementing domestic nuclear detection efforts for a managed and coordin
 ated response to radiological and nuclear threats, as well as integration of federal nuclear forensics programs. Additionally, DNDO is charged with coordinating the development of the global nuclear detection and reporting architecture, with partners from federal, state, local, and international governments and the private sector.

WE NEED BETTER MONITORING OF OUR FOOD SUPPLYhttp://www.change.org/petitions/urgent-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-food-safety-petition

AND WE CERTAINLY DON’T WANT INGREDIENTS FROM FUKUSHIMA TO BE MIXED INTO OUR FOOD SUPPLY
http://www.change.org/petitions/urgent-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-food-safety-petition

Budget Information Here http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/FY12-slides.pdf

October 23, 2012 Posted by | general | 2 Comments

Ikea uses sun, wind to become energy independent Wendy Koch, USA TODAY 22 Oct 12 As more U.S. businesses embrace renewable energy, IKEA plans to announce Tuesday that it will rely on the sun and the wind to produce all the power it uses at its stores and buildings by 2020. – Continue reading →

October 23, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Climate change – now at the irreversible stage?

Is climate change out of our hands? Redding.com October 21, 2012
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
H.G. Wells “……
In March in Reuters we read,, “The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday.”

And now in the current Scientific American  we learn it may not matter anymore. It may be too late. We may have already crossed the line. The crash may be underway. Our denial protects us from knowing. But for how much longer? Continue reading →

October 23, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Nuclear reactors near dams – damn dangerous

Occupy the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)The NRC’s job is to PROTECT citizens from the dangers of nuclear power. SO WE HAVE JUST ONE QUESTION: Since when is purposefully concealing information about the potential failings of the nuclear power plants near us part of protecting us???? In a letter submitted Friday with the NRC Office of Inspector General, Richard Perkins, an NRC reliability and risk engineer, said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “intentionally mischaracterized relevant and noteworthy safety information as sensitive, security information in an effort to conceal the information from the public.” An engineer with the NRC says that a reactor meltdown is an “absolute certainty” if a dam upstream of a nuclear plant fails

October 22, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Need for diplomacy with Iran, on the nuclear issue

no one gets respect like those who have the bomb. And those who stop reaching for it tend to get killed.

Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, But Only Iran Has Nuclear Power Forbes.com James Conca, 21 Oct 12,  With all the uproar over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, reckless speculation on attacks and the latest Iranian cyberthreat, does anyone care that Iran just brought up to full power the only commercial nuclear energy reactor in the Middle East? Of the kind you can’t really make weapons from?
It’s easy to forget that Iran has had a 50-year nuclear program, begun by the United States in the 1960’s Continue reading →

October 22, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima aTicking Time-Bomb , 07 May 2012  By Brad Jacobson, AlterNet   Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. Continue reading →

October 20, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

We teeter on the edge of the nuclear abyss

Nuclear disaster http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-letter-display.asp?xfile=data/letters/2012/October/letters_October87.xml&section=letters Farouk Araie, Johannesburg / 20 October 2012 Robert Christy, who died recently at the age of 96, was the man who helped make the Nagasaki bomb. On July 16 1945, a prototype of his creation was tested at Alamogordo in New Mexico. It was a nuclear device with a force of 21,000 tones 
of TNT.

Today, nuclear powers use their weapons as an instrument of foreign policy. We are teetering precariously on the edge of nuclear abyss. A fact that is unknown to the world till this day is that The Cuban missile crisis could have sparked a nuclear war without the knowledge of former US president Kennedy, and Soviet ex-premier Nikita Kruschev.

Russia and America possess most of the world’s nuclear weapons. In today’s world, there are not many chances of a full-scale world war, but if the superpowers play a risky game, it is only a matter of time before a crisis will arise. If neither side is willing to comprise and the bluffs will be called followed by the destruction of civilisation.

There are approximately 1,440,000 kilogrammes of highly enriched Uranium in the world today. But as little as 25kgs are needed to create a nuclear bomb.

A nuclear war between the US and Russia could result in lowering temperatures to those of the last Ice age 18,000 years ago, leading to the extinction of most or all complex life on the planet.

 

October 20, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

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