February 2012
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Deutschland muss Franzosen wärmen - Frankreich... →
Es ist kalt in Deutschland, bitterkalt. Mehrere Zeitungen melden jetzt, dass der Strom knapp wird. Die Netzbetreiber in Deutschland mussten erneut ihre Reserven anzapfen. Die Versorgung sei jedoch gesichert, sagen die Energieversorger. Dramatischer ist die Lage in Frankreich. Dort läuft so einiges anders als in Deutschland. I problemini che stanno avendo i francesi col freddo ed il riscaldamento...
US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors →
“For the first time in 30 years, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved licenses to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia. These are the first licenses to be issued since the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. The pair of facilities will cost $14 billion and produce 2.2 GW of power (able to power ~1 million homes). They will be Westinghouse AP1000 designs, which are the...
The Great ShakeOut: Earthquakes Affect Reactors,...
allthingsnuclear:
Yesterday (Feb. 7) was the Great Central-U.S. ShakeOut aimed at helping people in that part of the country learn some of the ways to protect themselves from earthquakes. While people on the west coast know about the risk of earthquakes, several decades ago the U.S. government determined that the hazard posed by seismic activity in the central and eastern parts of the country...
Fission Stories #78: The Bucket List
allthingsnuclear:
The owner of a factory in Wilmington, North Carolina that makes fuel for nuclear power reactors notified the NRC by phone on April 23, 2008, and by letter on May 23, 2008, about a safety problem. Workers had taken a 35-quart mop bucket into one of the fuel manufacturing areas for some cleaning. Their action violated the company’s...
January 2012
9 posts
Cura ricostituente per le centrali francesi →
“Nucleare: 10 miliardi per assicurare la massima sicurezza”, titola le Figaro all’indomani del verdetto dell’Autorità per la sicurezza nucleare (Asn), secondo cui “le centrali [francesi] non presentano difetti sostanziali, ma è necessario avviare lavori di miglioramento”. L’Asn non pretende “la chiusura immediata” di nessuno dei 58 reattori...
L’energia e il nostro modo di concepire il... →
(scritto da un ingegnere nucleare)
“The visual artefacts provoked by the high level of radiation and other leaks...”
– BBC News - First video of Fukushima nuclear reactor interior
Yikes - the visual distortions are kinda freaky. (via stopkillingourworld)
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Fukushima mangiò verdure in Tv. Ora ha la... →
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Fukushima: deputato giapponese beve acqua... →
Il filmato riprende Yasuhiro Sonoda mentre beve un bicchier d’acqua proveniente da Fukushima per dar prova dell’efficacia del processo di decontaminazione. M’era scappata questa chicca…
So was there, or wasn't there, a nuclear blast in... →
stopkillingourworld:
I’m guessing NOT due to the following statement from S. Korea.
“No increased radiation was detected by South Korean sensors, and no tremors in the area were picked up by geological monitoring stations.
In Vienna, and official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said: ‘We have not been informed of anything.’ North Korea is not a member of the IAEA.” source
All Things Nuclear: UCS Resources on Nuclear Power... →
allthingsnuclear:
We recently posted some new fact sheets related to nuclear power safety, including:
-Fire protection
-Emergency planning
-Potassium Iodide
-Spent fuel storage
-Nuclear Power and Water Use
We also continue to update the Nuclear Power Information Tracker—our interactive…
December 2011
17 posts
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 27th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
Yasutaka…
Incendio su un sottomarino nucleare russo: nessuna... →
Incidente nucleare di Fukushima Daiichi causato da... →
Piano Tepco e governo giapponese: dai 30 ai 40... →
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 20th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
A…
NRC’s Post-Fukushima Response: Going in Circles?
allthingsnuclear:
One of the most important tasks before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today is moving forward quickly on implementing the safety improvements recommended by its Fukushima Near-Term Task Force, and considering additional safety enhancements that have been identified by the NRC staff.
For a while it appeared that this was actually...
Fukushima. La bugia di Tepco →
senzaverso:
L’annuncio dei funzionari di Tepco e del governo giapponese di aver raggiunto lo stato di “arresto a freddo” dei reattori della centrale nucleare di Fukushima Daiichi è un’informazione fuorviante. Non può esserci “arresto a freddo” se i reattori sono fusi.
Is Berlin Still in the Nuclear Power Business? →
Germany plans to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, like this one in Bavaria. But is it helping to export the technology elsewhere?
The German government may be getting out of the nuclear power business at home, but it is still active internationally. Berlin is currently reviewing applications for federal export guarantees for four nuclear projects abroad. Environmentalists are...
Redefining “Cold shutdown” doesn’t hide the truth... →
A satellite image shows damage at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant In Fukushima Prefecture after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami (© DigitalGlobe)
The Japanese authorities stated last…
The future of nuclear power takes another hit →
In 2009, multinational financial services corporation Citigroup called nuclear power – with its skyrocketing costs, disastrous economics and dependence on public bailouts – a “corporate…
Castoren gehen auf die Straße →
Im Schneckentempo hat sich der Castor-Transport ins Wendland vorgearbeitet. Die letzten 20 Kilometer legt er auf der Straße zurück. Hier planen Aktivisten neue Blockaden. (28.11.2011)
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 9th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
Japan will…
Fission Stories #70: Tag, You’re It
allthingsnuclear:
Figure 1
Two years after the refueling outage woes described in Fission Stories #69, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) shut down the Unit 2 reactor at its Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama for a refueling outage in late 1979. As happened before, this refueling outage was extended when something fell into the water...
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 6th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
Reports…
Living with Fukushima City's radiation problem →
While walking through the highly contaminated outskirts of Fukushima City last week, I suddenly realized that this capital of the prefecture is as far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site…
UCS Comments on Threat Assumptions for Dry Cask...
allthingsnuclear:
The termination of the Yucca Mountain repository project has left the US with no near-term prospects for a final disposal site for spent nuclear fuel. Until the repository program gets back on track, dry cask storage of spent fuel can be an acceptable interim option for many decades, but it is not risk-free. Long-term dry cask storage raises safety and security concerns that...
Fission Stories #69: Shake Your Booty
allthingsnuclear:
At the height (or depth) of the disco fad in late 1977, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) shut down the Unit 1 reactor at its Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama to begin a refueling outage. Workers removed the top head of the reactor vessel to remove irradiated fuel assemblies and replace them with new fuel assemblies. In January 1978, the unthinkable happened – a...
November 2011
18 posts
Castor nimmt letzte Hürde vor Zwischenlager... →
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France needs to upgrade all nuclear reactors →
France needs to upgrade the protection of vital functions in all its nuclear reactors to avoid a disaster in the event of a natural calamity, the head of its nuclear safety agency said, adding there was no need to close any plants.
Contaminazione da Iodio 131 nei cieli d'Europa:... →
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Mangiò cibi di Fukushima, ora ha la leucemia →
Voleva tranquilizzare la popolazione giapponese e aiutare gli agricoltori locali dopo il grave incidente nucleare di dello scorso marzo, e per questo aveva mangiato davanti alle telecamere, insieme alla sua assistente, delle verdure coltivate nelle vicinanze della centrale danneggiata. Ora però a Otsuka Norikazu (63 anni), famoso presentatore della tv giapponese, i medici hanno diagnosticato...
Swiss nuclear shutdown to cost $22.5bn →
Greenpeace seafood analysis finds more Fukushima... →
As our team in Japan continues to monitor the radioactive contamination of land and sea that resulted from the destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, we’re still finding very disturbing…
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 15th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
Shikoku…
Clini, il nucleare e la strategia energetica che... →
Mappa dell'inquinamento radioattivo prodotto da... →
Due studi indipendenti hanno realizzato una mappa dell’inquinamento radioattivo prodotto dall’incidente alla centrale nucleare di Fukushima, riducendo l’incertezza sull’entità della contaminazione di Edwin Catlidge
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 8th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Today marks eight months since the Fukushima…
Don’t Hack the Hippies: Nuclear giant EDF found... →
As the great Mahatma Gandhi (nearly) said, ”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they spy on you, then you win”.
That’s pretty much the chain of events that lead to today’s…
Nucleare, in Francia il dibattito si fa atomico →
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 4th... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
A new…
Nuclear history repeating: why can’t anybody build... →
With the news that two new nuclear reactors being built in China are having the same serious problems as two being built in France and Finland, it looks like lightning has struck four times for the…
Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 →
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 1st... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
The…
Two more steps towards removing the hazard of... →
(This post is by Lauri Myllyvirta, energy campaigner for Greenpeace International)
The movement by European countries to phase out nuclear power just got stronger. Two new, major blows hit the…
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 28th –... →
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
Over 80%…