India’s Nuclear Liability Bill makes it hard for nuclear reactor sellers to get insurance
Nuclear damage: Should suppliers be liable? sify finance, | 2010-09-01 Nilendra Kumar lThe nuclear damage Bill has crafted a pragmatic provision to bind operator and supplier under contractual liabilities, but suppliers may find it tough to obtain insurance to back such contracts Continue reading
The nuclear power option favours American business, not the Indian people
Super profits for American corporations or true concern for the Indian people — this is the question today. The answer, unfortunately for our people, is in favour of the former……a tragedy exponentially worse than Bhopal is waiting to happen.
A moral meltdown – Hindustan Times, Sitaram Yechury , 1 Sept 10, “……The PM has announced the target of generating 40,000 MW of nuclear power. By using the nuclear option, India would be spending way beyond R3 lakh crore more than by using the available thermal, hydro or other options. Continue reading
New charges and fuel tax burden on Germany’s nuclear plants
Financial demands before German nuclear operators, World Nuclear News, By Rumyana Vakarelska, 31 August 2010 In addition to the introduction of a new €2.3 billion ($2.9 billion) annual windfall tax, the German government has now demanded nuclear firms pay a contribution towards the development of renewable energy.A number of measures expected to be brought in during September are likely to see the introduction of a tax on nuclear fuel that will help shore up German finances in return for allowing nuclear operators to continue their businesses. This could come at the same time as austerity measures, when additional billions in tax from nuclear firms would be particularly welcome. Financial demands before German nuclear operators
India’s new Nuclear Liability Bill upsetting ambitions of USA’s nuclear salesmen
Flawed’ liability bill threatens Indo-US nuclear deal: Expert, The Times of India Sep 1, 2010, WASHINGTON: Terming passing of the civil nuclear liability bill by the Parliament as “flawed”, an eminent American expert on South Asian affairs has said the US policy makers and industrial leaders have been taken off guard by this and it threatens to cast a pall over the historic Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. Continue reading
British govt gags debate: delaying tactics as nuclear veterans die
More than 1,000 former servicemen and their families are fighting to win £20million compensation from the Ministry of Defence after being made ‘guinea pigs’ for postwar nuclear tests in the South Pacific and Australia….On average, three survivors are dying each week.
MPs gagged over atom bomb test veterans: 1,000 former servicemen fighting £20m compensation battle, Daily Mail UK, By Ian Drury 31st August 2010 The Commons Speaker is under fire after MPs were barred from asking questions about the treatment of Britain’s nuclear test veterans……… MPs and veterans have accused Mr Bercow’s officials of stifling freedom of speech to avoid embarrassing the Government. Continue reading
Hot summer causing costly cutbacks of nuclear power
Last week, TVA violated its permit with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management when the river temperature topped 90 degrees……..
Hot river forces costly cutback for TVA | Chattanooga Times Free Press, By: Dave Flessner 23 Aug 2010, The Tennessee Valley Authority has lost nearly $50 million in power generation from its biggest nuclear plant because the Tennessee River in Alabama is too hot. Unless the summer cools down, TVA could lose millions of dollars more, pushing up fuel costs and consumer electric bills even after seven consecutive monthly increases. Continue reading
More delays, more costs, with AREVA’s new reactor in France
EDF was asked for modifications of the control platform on the reactor, which is delayed and will cost more than expected.
French Nuclear Watchdog Says EDF Has Problems With Flamanville EPR Liner – Bloomberg, By Tara Patel – Aug 30, 2010 Electricite de France SA, Europe’s biggest power producer, experienced renewed problems with welding quality at the EPR nuclear reactor being built in Normandy, according France’s nuclear safety agency. Continue reading
Safety lapses at UK’s Trident nuclear weapons facility
Health and safety practices at the UK’s main nuclear weapons base are under intense scrutiny just weeks before it is expected to be granted permission for a multibillion-pound facility to conduct a new generation of radioactive tests.
Nuclear arsenals under scrutiny for safety lapses, fires and flood Group calls for planners to think twice about a major new facility at Trident warhead base at Aldermaston in Berkshire Jamie Doward The Observer, Sunday 22 August 2010 Continue reading
Germans keen for renewable energy, not nuclear
Merkel faces uphill nuclear energy battle, THE PoliJAM TIMES, BERLIN, Aug. 30 (UPI) –– Opposition is growing to plans announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to extend the life of the nation’s nuclear power plants, protests indicate. Nearly 200 supporters of the environmental group Greenpeace protested Merkel as she toured nuclear power plants across the country last week.
Groups opposing nuclear power plans for the country said they would have large-scale protests Sept. 18 in Berlin, the Platts news service reports……
Merkel last week was met with opposition by lawmakers who said the nuclear plants weren’t needed to expand the renewable energy sector for Germany. Critics say energy efficiency measures could reduce consumption in the country by as much as 2 percent per year, cutting emissions by nearly 100 million tons through 2020……..Merkel faces uphill nuclear energy battle
“Temporary” nuke waste disposal becoming Permanent, and expensive
If the plant closes in 2012, it would be mothballed, or put into SAFSTOR, until its decommissioning fund reaches the level necessary to clean up the site, which could take up to 60 years.
NRC considers long-term on-site storage of waste, Brattleboro Reformer, By JOSH STILTS, Aug. 30 2010 BRATTLEBORO – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted earlier this month to explore the option of storing nuclear waste at decommissioned sites past the current 30-year standard……. Continue reading
Indian government’s dangerous rush to get nuclear power
the Indian government tried to limit liability to only if it could be proved that a supplier had done an act ‘with the intent to cause nuclear damage’. This astounding insertion left a huge loophole for contractors doing shoddy work to wriggle out of paying any damages if things go wrong………Given India’s pervasive culture of poor management and corruption, Mr Singh’s government should think carefully before plunging headlong into a risky track from which there is no going back.
Dangers in India’s path to nuclear energy, THE BUSINESS TIMES, By YOGI AGGARWAL, August 31, 2010, THERE have been few acts by the Indian government in recent months that have given rise to as many misgivings as its attempt to push through the nuclear liability Bill. Continue reading
Egypt’s nuclear plant a ‘grave regional threat’
the new plant will be a “grave regional threat.
Greenpeace Blasts Egypt for Nuclear Plans, Israel National News by Hillel Fendel, 30 Aug 2010, The international environmental organization Greenpeace has targeted Egypt for its plan to build a nuclear energy plant off the Mediterranean coast. Continue reading
10 years to ‘clean up’ Iraq’s nuclear sites?
the clearing operation which had been estimated to take up to 10 years. So far scientists have only cleared one site in central Baghdad.
EU to help Iraq dismantle old nuclear facilities . (Reuters), By Aseel Kami. Aug 29, 2010 BAGHDAD, – The European Union signed a 2.5 million euro ($3.2 million) agreement with Iraq on Sunday to help Iraqi scientists’ dismantle, decommission and decontaminate nuclear facilities built under dictator Saddam Hussein……. Continue reading
Demands to scrap plans for nuclear plant in Jaitapur
The most important point that has come from the discussions with the NPCIL is the information that the project does not have proper disposal or storage mechanism for nuclear waste and the information in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), prepared by the NEERI about the nuclear waste storage and disposal, is completely false,”
Farmers in India fight to keep their land from nuclear power plant
“There is only one important demand — land should be compensated by providing land and employment. No matter how much money is given, it will vanish after a generation.” The Hindu : News / National : Fatehabad farmers see nuclear plant as a liability
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