May 2013
4 posts
Crushed By Soaring Energy Costs, Japan Prepares To... →
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...
Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too... →
Safety issues make plans to clean up a mess left over from the construction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal uncertain
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What Did They Know And When?Fukushima... →
“TOKYO — Like the persistent tapping of a desperate SOS message, the updates keep...”
– ‘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...
April 2013
4 posts
Atomic news: Fukushima Nuclear Pollution In The... →
wotfigo:
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…
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Energia nucleare? Solo al doppio del prezzo di... →
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.
Le Chamberlain Magazine: Fuite d'eau très... →
superpouvoir:
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…
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New Radioactive Leak Found At Fukushima After Rat... →
March 2013
4 posts
New nuke could POWER WORLD UNTIL 2083 →
Commovente decisione degli anziani giapponesi:... →
Fukushima disaster: nuclear industry profits,... →
February 2013
3 posts
Nucleare: Usa, allarme perdite scorie da serbatoi →
In sito Hanford nello stato di Washington, altamente radioattive
Roof collapses at Chernobyl nuclear plant: Ukraine →
A section of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine collapsed under the weight of snow, officials said Wednesday, raising new concerns about the condition of the facility that was the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Finnish nuclear reactor 'may be seven years late' →
Finnish electricity company TVO said on Monday that an EPR nuclear reactor being built by Areva and Siemens may not be ready until 2016, contradicting Areva’s claims that it would be completed in 2014.
January 2013
18 posts
Bulgaria set for nuclear power referendum →
Bulgarians are set to vote in a referendum on whether a new nuclear power plant should be built.
The opposition Socialist party called the vote because it wants the government to reverse its decision not to build a new plant at Belene.
Rising Water, Falling Journalism - Nuclear Danger... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
I just lifted the
Every evening, my father climbs the levee along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and peers down into the black water that swallows the road. The water is rising, and the Army Corps of Engineers says the levee has never faced such a…
Dangerous radiation leaked from three-quarters of... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
—Water tested around 37 facilities contained radioactive concentrations exceeding U.S. drinking water standard and in some cases at hundreds of times over limit 21 Jun 2011 Dangerous radiation has leaked from three-quarters of all U.S. nuclear power stations raising fears the country’s…
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska
Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry.
We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and…
Laboratory Equipment: Research Improves Nuclear... →
laboratoryequipment:
Prof. Yoshiaki Oka’s research team, from Waseda Univ., developed a conceptual nuclear reactor design of high plutonium breeding by light water cooling for the first time in the world. He devised a new fuel assembly where fuel rods are closely packed for reducing reactor coolant to fuel volume…
Fish with radiation over 2,500 times safe levels... →
progressivefriends:
A ‘murasoi’ fish, similar to a rockfish, was caught at a port inside the plant, according to AFP. Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) indicated that the amount of cesium measured 254,000 becquerels per kilogram – 2,540 times Japan’s legal limit for radiation in seafood.
Fukushima Update: Why We Should (Still) Be Worried
lastwordbooksandpress:
After the catastrophic trifecta of the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan last March—what the Japanese are referring to as their 3/11—you would think the Japanese government would be doing everything in its power to contain the disaster. You would be wrong—dead wrong… Read More…
Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
14 Jan 2012 After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of…
Last Word Books _______& Press: Nuclear Power in... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
by KARL GROSSMAN
The nuclear power program in the United States was set up rigged—to allow the federal government to push atomic energy with state and local governments “pre-empted” on most issues.
That’s what the State of Vermont was confronted with last week as a federal judge blocked…
Last Word Books _______& Press: Nuclear News from... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
Japanese leaders silent on meltdown 11 Mar 2012 Just four hours after a tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant a year ago, Japan’s leaders knew the damage was so severe that the reactors could melt down, but they kept their knowledge secret for months. Five days…
Last Word Books _______& Press: Record Radiation... →
lastwordbooksandpress:
Record radiation found off Japan 23 Aug 2012 Record levels of radioactive caesium were detected in fish caught within 20km of Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, news reports said yesterday. The operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said Tuesday it had found 25,800…
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant: Contamination Risks... →
Pisa. Versamento delle acque dell'ex reattore... →
Eight US Sailors Sue Japan's TEPCO For Lying About... →
December 2012
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Areva Again Raises Estimate of Cost of Olkiluoto... →
October 2012
11 posts
Nation's Oldest Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey's... →
Entropy Wins: Civilisations Decline: Radioactivity... →
wotfigo:
Fukushima still leaking radioactive contaminants into sea — Unprecedented events for ocean and society from 3/11 disaster
Fukushima fish ‘may be inedible for a decade’
Marine scientist finds levels of radioactivity in fish near stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are higher than expected
La centrale de Fukushima continuerait de fuir →
stopkillingourworld:
“TOKYO - Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water-treatment team said. About 200,000 tons of radioactive water - enough to fill more than 50 Olympic-size swimming pools - are being stored in hundreds of gigantic tanks built around...
Nucleare: “nell'Ue 13 centrali da chiudere subito”
ilpesodellafarfalla:
Sono 34 i reattori appartenenti a 13 centrali nucleari che “andrebbero chiusi immediatamente”. È quanto sostiene Greenpeace citando indagini indipendenti condotte dall’associazione ambientalista mentre iniziano a circolare indiscrezioni sugli stress test condotti dalla Commissione Europea sulle centrali nucleari. Per Greenpeace l’analisi condotta da Bruxelles “non...
“French GDF Suez, Spanish Iberdrola, Germany’s RWE and Czech CEZ all withdrew...”
– Romania asks companies to reconsider nuclear plan | Reuters
..not with Ponta.. (via zamoca)
Fra 10 e 25 miliardi saranno messi a disposizione da Bruxelles per migliorare la sicurezza degli impianti nucleari europei, olè… ma non erano già sicuri? E chissà quanti ne servirebbero per una messa in sicurezza seria… ma tanto paga Pantalone…
US Nuclear 'Fort Knox' Cracked By 82-Year-Old Nun →
As Reuters reports, Megan Rice - an 82-year-old nun - cut perimeter fences and reached the outer wall where enriched uranium was stored at the US Government’s nuclear storage ‘Fort Knox’ in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
September 2012
8 posts
Japan Nuclear Power Phase-Out Plan Falls Apart →
Nuclear Fusion Becoming a Real Possibility
nuclearnews:
For more information please visit: http://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-fusion-real-possibility-models-suggest-200610438.html
Entropy Wins: Civilisations Decline: The Nuclear... →
wotfigo:
Nuclear power champions Japan and France turn away
At a major nuclear energy conference in London this week,
executives said the sector needed to redefine itself and regain
the public’s trust.
“I am scared by the decisions in Japan and France because
these are short-term visions…
Nuclear Energy's Limp Causing Uranium Prices to... →
