Proving that Japan has learned absolutely nothing from its recent past, it is now preparing to risk yet another Fukushima, just to make sure that Goldman’s partners have a fresh year of record bonuses, driven by the BOJ’s monetary insanity. Yomiuri Shumbun reports, that just two years after a wholesale shutdown of Japan’s nuclear power plants demanded by the people, Japan is once again going to reactivate its nuclear power plants, much to the chagrin of the already massively irradiated local population.
Nucleare: quale, dove, come, quando.
Safety issues make plans to clean up a mess left over from the construction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal uncertain
‘A very fragile situation’: Leaks from Japan’s wrecked nuke plant raise fears - World News
The situation has also attracted the attention of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which sent a team of experts to review the decommissioning effort last month. They warned Japan may need longer than the projected 40 years to clean up the site. A full report is expected to be released later this month.
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The discovery of a greenling fish near a water intake for the power station in February that contained some 7,400 times the recommended safe limit of radioactive cesium only served to heighten concern.
What did everyone think was happening with the radioactive water leaking into their ground water and ocean? That it just dissipates and wa-la - GONE? Absurd. And take more than the 40 years… of course it’s going to take more than 40 years.
(via stopkillingourworld)(via stopkillingourworld)
900-mile-long “front” of most contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi moving across Pacific toward U.S., Canada
“So how far and how fast [is the cesium traveling]? If you take a broader look at the Pacific Ocean and you look for a front of where you see the edge of the…
Martedì il governo britannico ha rilanciato ufficialmente il suo piano nucleare, ma per ora gli unici disposti a costruire la prima centrale atomica nel paese dal 1995 l’EDF, chiedono come garanzia che l’elettricità che sarà prodotta venga acquistata per 40 anni al doppio del prezzo del mercato.
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), la compagnie gérante de la centrale accidentée de Fukushima a fait état jeudi 11 avril d’une nouvelle fuite d’eau très radioactive, cette fois lors des opérations de pompage destinées à vider un réservoir souterrain défectueux qui laissait échapper le…
(via atomicnews)

