February 2012
10 posts
“1/3 of Fukushima kids have lumps in thyroids: Arnold Gunderson”
– 1/3 of Fukushima kids have lumps in thyroids: Arnold Gunderson | CollapseNet
Great coverage of this interview with Maggie & Arnie Gundersen of Fairwinds by Collapsenet / Mike Ruppert.
Very very very scary stuff. (via stopkillingourworld)
Nuclear plants in United States experienced... →
solitaryforager:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
The Fukushima Psychiatrist - 'It's Amazing How... →
Since the Fukushima catastrophe almost one year ago, Jun Shigemura has been providing psychological care to workers from the stricken nuclear facility. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he tells of the immense challenges facing TEPCO employees — and why most of them have elected not to quit their jobs.
Fission Stories #81: Where There’s a Will, There’s...
allthingsnuclear:
During the first refueling outage at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Mississippi, the plant’s owner contracted Westinghouse to come in and perform work on the main turbine. The main turbine is a massive metal object consisting of metal fan-shaped blades up to 12-feet long attached to a metal shaft as thick as a large tree trunk. During operation, steam produced in the...
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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...
