How Japan buys the people on nuclear power
How Japan Buys Support For Nuclear Power By Sam Biddle on June 1, 2011 There are 54 nuclear reactors in Japan. That’s about half the number in the US – for a country 1/25th the size. So how did nuclear become massive on a tiny island? Money, the NYT reports. Buying the people. Continue reading
Confidence building in USA’s anti nuclear movement
“If Germany can do it, the US can do it. We have much better renewable energy resources than Germany,”
US anti-nuclear campaign buoyed by German opt-out Expatica.com 2 June 11, US anti-nuclear campaigners are hoping German Chancellor Angela Merkel will try to persuade President Barack Obama to follow in Berlin’s footsteps and drop plans for new atomic power stations.
The German proposals, hammered out by Merkel’s ruling coalition, will see the country shutter all 17 of its nuclear reactors, eight of which are currently off the electricity grid, by 2022.
Merkel, who will hold White House talks here next week, said Monday that Germany could prove to “be a trailblazer for a new age of renewable energy sources.” Continue reading
Experts at Gulf energy forum enthusiastic about renewable energy, not nuclear
Observations and questions from the floor indicated that the case for developing nuclear power had not been to the satisfaction of delegates and other options, solar and geothermal energy in particular, had much to offer and should be explored first.
Solar, not nuclear, power gets the vote of delegates at environment forum By ROGER HARRISON | ARAB NEWS May 31, 2011 JEDDAH: Expert delegates at the Gulf Environment Forum’s opening session on nuclear power have suggested solar energy is the way forward. Continue reading
Shut down nuclear power, says Scottish SNP Party
Scotland wants German-style nuclear shutdown, says SNP, The Scotsman 31 May 2011 By Andrew Whitaker GERMANY’S decision to shut its nuclear power plants has sparked a furious row in Scottish politics, as a leading SNP politician claimed the move was the same “route that Scotland wishes to go down”….Nationalist MSPs at Holyrood seized on yesterday’s announcement, with energy minister Fergus Ewing saying that the move “adds further weight” to the SNP’s plans to generate all of Scotland’s energy from renewables within ten years….
Be wary of the promoters of the uranium industry
There will continue to be a persistent chorus of uranium investors who also have an audience in the media proclaiming uranium to be the ‘contrarian trade of the decade’. But smart investors, before getting caught up in such rhetoric need to ask themselves, “How much does the person who is the source of the information have invested in uranium shares?”
Uranium Stocks Under Siege as Fukushima Continues Spewing Radiation By James WestMidasLetter.com, May 30, 2011 As shares in uranium exploration companies continued to shed value, Japan’s nuclear nightmare is still getting worse. Continue reading
Uranium mining – an immoral investment
Uranium industry untenable By Leo Kurtenbach, The StarPhoenix May 30, 2011 In 2009, Dan Perrins chaired Future of Uranium meetings across the province to look into the future of uranium mining in Saskatchewan.
This took place at a time when the uranium industry anticipated ballooning profits, if nuclear power would be used to develop our province’s oilsands.
Approximately 80 per cent of those attending the meetings or making written presentations opposed the expansion of nuclear power, however. Continue reading
Radioactive iodine found in fish in Hong Kong
Hong Kong finds radioactive iodine in fish | Herald Sun: AFP * May 28, 2011 A SMALL amount of radioactive iodine-131 has been found in a sample of fish taken from a wholesale market in Hong Kong, the Government said today…… Hong Kong finds radioactive iodine in fish | Herald Sun
France’s Sarkozy to tout nuclear power safety at G8
Reuters) 27 May 11– Leaders of the Group of Eight want more stringent international rules on nuclear safety following the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday….
“We all wish to get a very high standard of regulation on nuclear safety, that will apply to all countries involved in civilian nuclear energy and which will take safety to the highest levels ever,” Sarkozy told reporters at the summit in the northern French seaside resort of Deauville.
Sarkozy said there was no alternative to nuclear power and insisted that safety, not cost, had to drive projects……G8 leaders want tougher nuclear safety rule | Reuters
Rift in G8 countries over nuclear safety
Japan’s nuclear disaster following the March 11 earthquake opened a rift in the G-8.
So far, European countries remain at odds over whether to scale back their nuclear power projects or continue plans to expand…..
Middle east situation, nuclear safety top G-8 agenda PARIS, May 26 (Xinhua)Editor: Zhang Xiang — The two-day summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) begins Thursday in the French seaside resort of Deauville to discuss major issuing facing the world today.
……Thursday’s first working session will focus on nuclear safety. Continue reading
Japan’s PM pitching Japan as nuclear safety expert
Japan to host nuclear summit, Times LIVE, May 26, 2011 By Sapa-AFPJ apan intends to host a global meeting on nuclear safety with US atomic energy watchdog IAEA next year, Prime Minister Naoto Kan told G8 leaders yesterday
“Japan would like to open an international summit on nuclear safety in co-operation with the IAEA next year in Japan,” Kan said during lunch at the G8 summit in Deauville, according to a senior government official. ……
Japan has drawn up a timetable for stabilising the plant by early next year. Currently, an international team of IAEA specialists is inspecting the plant. Kan described the nuclear situation as “gradually stabilising”. ….Japan to host nuclear summit – Times LIVE
Switzerland’s decision another blow to the nuclear industry
In Switzerland’s Decision to Phase Out Nuclear Power, a Glimpse of the Future? Forbes, by Parmy OlsonMay. 25 2011 The political fallout from Japan’s nuclear crisis has reached Switzerland. On Sunday, 20,000 people participated in the country’s largest anti-nuclear demonstration in a generation. Today, the Swiss cabinet decided to phase out nuclear power through attrition over the next few decades. “The existing reactors will operate for as long as they’re safe,” Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard said, but no new nuclear plants will be built. The decision was seen as a compromise between those who support a quick halt to nuclear power generation and others who want to build more plants…….The Swiss phase out raises more doubts about the future of the nuclear power industryIn Switzerland’s Decision to Phase Out Nuclear Power, a Glimpse of the Future? – Osha Gray Davidson – Edison 2.0 – Forbes
At long last, cleanup begins on uranium contaminated Navajo land
…The Navajo have borne a deeply unfair burden. Four million tons of uranium have been pulled from beneath their land in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, mostly for use in nuclear weapons. Federal compensation for miners can’t make up for the disease they now suffer.
The Environmental Protection Agency is finally starting to haul away the toxic remnants of decades of uranium mining in Utah’s Monument Valley. “I hear the trucks,” resident Elsie Mae Begay told the Salt Lake Tribune. “When they start cleaning up, it’s OK for us.” Continue reading
Tokyo Electric Power Company dishonestly meters out Fukushima news
Today in news reports we have another carefully metered dose of the truth seeping out from the corrupt, incompetent and totally dishonest Tokyo Electric Power Company, that apart from conceding that a meltdown occurred in the Number 1 reactor there ‘appeared to have been partial meltdowns in reactors Number 2 and Number 3′, and that the pressure vessels in one or more of the reactors ‘appear’ to have been damaged .
Some plain talking about nuclear lies, Crikey , May 24, 2011 –, by Ben Sandiland When the Tohoku earthquake struck Japan on March 11 it was covered here because the first indication of the massive consequences of the following tsunami was the inundation of Sendai Airport. Continue reading
European Union’s new nuclear power safety tests won’t be independent
Switzerland Decides on Nuclear Phase-Out – NYTimes.com, 25 May,11“………national regulators from across the 27-nation European Union are planning new safety tests for the 143 operating nuclear reactors in their territories…..The E.U. energy commissioner, Günther Oettinger, said at a news conference in Brussels that the tests would be robust……
Greenpeace, an environmental group that opposes nuclear power, strongly disagreed.
The tests “won’t be independent, won’t cover plans for emergencies and won’t always tell us whether some of Europe’s most obvious terrorist targets are protected or not,” said Jan Haverkamp, a nuclear policy adviser at Greenpeace.
Britain, France and the Czech Republic were among countries that had fought hardest to water down the tests, Mr. Haverkamp said……Switzerland Decides on Nuclear Phase-Out – NYTimes.com
Germany to become front runner in renewable energy technologies
The expertise of carbuilders and machine-tool makers would drive the switch to renewables, Mr Röttgen said. Germany could become “a frontrunner” in the shift from fossil fuels – a move even the US and China saw as being one of the century’s key competitive challenges.
Röttgen sees rewards in non-nuclear policy, Ft,com By Gerrit Wiesmann and Quentin Peel in Berlin May 23 2011 Phasing out nuclear power in the next decade could boost competitiveness and “reap enormous pay-offs for the economy”, Germany’s environment minister has claimed in a powerful snub to critics… Continue reading
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