May 7, 2012
There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2011, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet. But for the first time in 42 years, a country at the core of global reactor electricity is producing none of its own. Worldwide, there [...]
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April 11, 2012
AP One year after the reactor accident in Fukushima, resistance to nuclear energy is growing around the world. But the atomic industry continues to push for the construction of new reactors, primarily in emerging economies. The German government even wants to support that expansion — despite the fact it has abandoned nuclear power back home. By SPIEGEL Staff. [...]
Tags: fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, German, Germany, Japan, Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear power plant, nuclearpower, Vladimir Putin, World Nuclear Association
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April 7, 2012
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami} by Image courtesy of Digital Globe |Author =Digital Globe |Date =2011-03-16 Worldwide, safety regulators still see role as implementing nuclear industry plans opednews.com The ‘freeze’ on new nuclear has rapidly thawed. China, France and the UK have all announced the ‘all clear’. Even in [...]
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April 6, 2012
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Are America’s Nukes on the Brink of Death? by Harvey Wasserman link http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/05-1 The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons. If they go under, there will almost certainly be no new reactors built here. The much mythologized “nuclear renaissance” [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, Harvey Wasserman, New York, North Carolina, nuclearpower, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Southern Company, United States
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April 5, 2012
Why Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer to Global Warming There is no “nuclear renaissance” and there won’t be: it just doesn’t make sense economically. April 4, 2012 | link to article http://www.alternet.org/story/154854/why_nuclear_power_is_not_the_answer_to_global_warming?page=entire Despite the triple meltdown at Fukushima—which has driven tens of thousands of Japanese from their homes, cast radioactive fallout across the U.S., and will [...]
Tags: European Pressurized Reactor, fukushima, Generation III reactor, Japan, Lazard, Nuclear Power 2010 Program, nuclearpower, United States
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November 20, 2011
Workers arrive at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan. Local elections are being remotely held for the area, although it remains largely deserted. Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP Japan’s nuclear disaster towns hold remote local elections Evacuated residents from Okuma and Futaba in Fukushima plant exclusion zone ballot for regional assemblies from afar reddit [...]
Tags: fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima University, Futaba, Japan, Mainichi Shimbun, nuclearpower, Okuma
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November 9, 2011
The Nuclear Contagion by WALTER BRASCH For a few hours on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the people of southern California were scared by initial reports of an alert at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. An “alert” is the second of four warning levels. Workers first detected an ammonia leak in [...]
Tags: Benjamin K. Sovacool, California, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, nuclearpower, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, United States
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October 20, 2011
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has pledged to review safety standards for nuclear facilities in India due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but India has more than 20 nuclear facilities planned for construction [GALLO/GETTY] Japan’s nuclear disaster has fuelled fear and uncertainty among the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, fukushima, India, Japan, Manmohan Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mikhail Gorbachev, nuclearpower
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September 14, 2011
Ridding Fukushima of radiation contamination By D. Parvaz in Asia on Mon, 2011-09-12 15:11. Iwamura oversees a simulation experiment for his soil-decontamination system [D.Parvaz/Al Jazeera] FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE – Nestled among the rice paddies and country roads is a workshop where engineers work with a singular focus on a vital project: A process to decontaminate soil from [...]
Tags: Fukushima Prefecture, Government of Japan, Naoto Kan, nuclearpower, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Yoshihiko Noda, Yoshio Hachiro, Yukio Edano
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August 10, 2011
The clean-up process after the nuclear crisis has contributed directly to the losses incurred by TEPCO [EPA] Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of Fukushima nuclear plant, has announced a $7.4bn quarterly loss mostly due to a massive provision to compensate victims of this year’s meltdown. The March disaster at the Fukushima complex in northeast Japan spawned the [...]
Tags: Asia, Chernobyl, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, List of companies of Japan, nuclearpower, Reuters, Tokyo, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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August 6, 2011
The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2011/08/20118693514112266.html Anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan are using the 66th anniversary of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima to push the government to abandon nuclear power. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August, 1945, near the end of the Second World War. By the end of the year, [...]
Tags: Aela Callan, Anti-nuclear movement, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Hiroshima, Japan, nuclearpower, United States
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August 6, 2011
Hiroshima Under the Mushroom Cloud A Day That Shook the World: Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima In Pictures: Hiroshima After the Bomb Dropped New A-Bomb Exhibits to Highlight Hiroshima Peace Ceremony Renowned Storyteller Left Last Heartfelt Message Before Passing Away Hiroshima Mayor: Efforts Should Be Made to Share A-Bomb Experiences Hibakusha: A-Bomb Survivor Expresses [...]
Tags: Hibakusha, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan, Naoto Kan, Nuclear weapon, nuclearpower, World War II
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July 26, 2011
A no entry sign outside Heysham nuclear power station in Morecambe, Lancashire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Christopher Thomond Why must the UK choose between nuclear and renewable energy? That was the question George Monbiot asked recently in a blog that challenged me to answer four questions. Here is a concise version of my answers: the full version of [...]
Tags: Committee on Climate Change, Economics of new nuclear power plants, George Monbiot, Government of the United Kingdom, Low-carbon economy, Mott MacDonald, nuclearpower, Renewable energy
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July 15, 2011
If you have been watching the endless debate about nuclear power you may be interested in this video report about the possibility of contaminated beef after Fukushima in Japan. It is interesting because the numbers are, as far as disasters are concerned quite small. So why beat up this type of matter. Whether or not nuclear power [...]
Tags: Aela Callan, Al Jazeera, fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, George Monbiot, Japan, nuclearpower, Tokyo
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July 11, 2011
Jellyfish Rule Posted: 08 Jul 2011 05:59 AM PDT Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology? By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 8th July 2011 Last year I began to wonder, this year doubt is seeping away, to be replaced with a rising fear. Could they really have [...]
Tags: European commission, Fish, George Monbiot, Greenpeace, Hadera, Irish Sea, Israel, Jellyfish, Mackerel, Nuclear power, nuclearpower, Torness Nuclear Power Station
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Committee on Climate Change, George Monbiot, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, Hindenburg disaster, International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclearpower, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 1, 2011
Government officials launched a PR campaign to ensure the accident at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan did not derail plans for new nuclear power stations in the UK. Photograph: AP British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two [...]
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June 30, 2011
Japan‘s desperate ‘nuclear gypsies’ Rights groups say country’s poorest people are being exploited to repair Fukushima plant. Last Modified: 30 Jun 2011 20 Economic downturn has forced many of Japan’s poorest people to work at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, risking exposure to dangerous levels of radiation. The growing number of so-called nuclear gypsies, who come [...]
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June 30, 2011
Demonstrators pass the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, during an anti-nuclear power protest in Tokyo on Thursday. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Trace amounts of radioactive substances have been found in urine samples taken from children from Fukushima city, raising concerns that residents have been exposed internally [...]
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June 21, 2011
UK government‘s Fukushima crisis plan based on bigger leak than Chernobyl As Japan’s nuclear emergency unfolded, scientists devised a worst case scenario involving issuing iodine pills to Britons The earthquake and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from the air on 14 March 2011, following a second explosion. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The British government made [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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