Published: November 3rd, 2012 at 10:11 pm ET
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Title: Japan utilities paid atomic safety people
Source: AP
Author: Yuri Kageyama
Date: 04 November, 2012
[A] team of experts working under the [Nuclear Regulation Authority] has been examining earthquake faults at Ohi nuclear power plant, which houses the only two reactors currently running in Japan.
A decision is expected today on whether Ohi will be shut down.
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Ruling party legislator Goshi Hosono, the former minister overseeing the disaster, yesterday said that more tests may be needed to check the earthquake faults, but even “a gray zone” of uncertainty would likely mean the Ohi reactors would go offline.
Published: November 3rd, 2012 at 10:11 pm ET
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Japan has the incredible opportunity to transition away from nuclear power.
It's what the Japanese people want. It's why they've demonstrated and had so many anti-nuke rallies.
Yet, the U.S. seems to be pressuring Japan to keep nuclear.
Look at some of the quotes from this article:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121103d1.html
"U.S. needs Japan to remain nuclear"
"A "zero-nuclear" Japan will be a serious concern for the United States…"
There is "too much of a romantic idea about alternative energy in this country as a substitute for nuclear power."
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In the same article, John Hamre, former deputy U.S. defense secretary, admits this:
"Nuclear power from the very beginning was (not only) a source of promise, but (also) a source of great threat because nuclear power electric generation is also the base for making nuclear weapons, and it's a great risk to the world to have commercial nuclear power plants because there is a possibility of diverting the material and turning it into weapons."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121103d1.html
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hi mack
a case of last man left holding the plutonium waste etc stockpile after the music stopped perhaps? the uk will be really badly off!
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@arclight; "one man's trash is another man's treasure"(!!) It seems the more of the crap they produce,the more of it winds up being around & subsequently makes it easier to procure by those who would use it to cause great harm to those they classify as real or imagined enemies. I classify ANYONE who intentionally or "incidentally" use any form of nuclear material,technology & related activities without regard for the innocents victimized by their agenda(s),thus THEY are my enemy-OUR enemies!!……
I'm a bit wound up at the moment after a kid was shot on the corner 75 ft. from my door!!(again=5x this month alone!)-here on the SW Side of Chicago if the gangbangers don't get ya',the 11 nuke plants surrounding us "mop up" the rest!! In closing on a positive note-the kid didn't die(yet)although he was hit with 5 of the 14 shots fired-but with any luck Japan will "do the right thing" and the Japanese nuke industry WILL DIE?!! For what it's worth~I have been "annoying" our friends and family with the reality of what's going on with Fukushima and globally elevated background rad levels & the precarious state of Fuku AND our own "clones" of Fuku1 that hold many more times the quantity of spent fuel and waste materials than that of Fuku1's SFP#4 that WILL someday collapse whether hot fuel was offloaded or not. Unless it's in the latter state-it WILL be an ELE! SHUT IT DOWN JAPAN!!!
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Nuclear power generation is like those gangsters in your city in slow motion, and it is much, much worse. Someone shoots today, without aiming at anyone specific. Some innocent kid will get shot – in 10 years or in 100 years or in 1.000 years or much more. The horror will never be over. And any bullet does not kill/maim only once, but can do so multiple times. Until now, not a single person responsible for the "shooting" got locked up, despite the mass killing scientifically/statistically being proven in the case of Chernobyl, for instance.
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another reason to shut em down!
Osaka governments call for shutdown of Oi nuclear plant
By Adam Westlake / September 4, 2012
The governments of both the city and prefecture of Osaka called on the central Japanese government to end the operations of the two reactors at the Oi nuclear plant that were restarted earlier this summer. The protest was lodged with the central government, as well as Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO), the operator the facility in Fukui Prefecture. This Friday marks the end of the designated two month power-saving period for the summer, and Osaka’s leaders say the operation of the nuclear facility is
no longer needed at this point…….
http://japandailypress.com/osaka-governments-call-for-shutdown-of-oi-nuclear-plant-0411117
sounds about right, unless you invested in NUCLEAR after 2008
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Japan can survive and thrive with Renewable Energy!
"Japanese breakthrough that could make windpower cheaper than nuclear"
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/japanese-breakthrough-will-make-wind-power-cheaper-than-nuclea
"Wind power helping to keep the lights on in Japan"
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/wind-power-helping-to-keep-the-lights-on-in-japan
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and who could forget all the hard work japanese protesters have put in.. their voices deserve a revisit.
saikado hantai!!
Published on Jun 10, 2012 by tokyobrowntabby2
On June 7, 2012, about 70 women including 10 women from Fukushima did a "die-in" in front of the Prime Minister's Official Residence to protest against the restart of Ooi Nuclear Power Plant. Before the die-in, 10 Fukushima women visited the Cabinet Office and met with officials to submit a letter of requests addressed to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
This video clip shows the words from the Fukushima women and part of the die-in.
On the very next day, June 8, 2012, Prime Minister Noda held a press conference and declared he would restart Ooi Nuclear Power Plant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQNd2ybiDg
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This is the Japanese version of our Nuclear Power = Death t-shirt.
原子力発電の日本語版を見るにはここをクリック=死シャツ
http://www.zazzle.com/%E5%8E%9F%E5%AD%90%E5%8A%9B%E7%99%BA%E9%9B%BB_%E6%AD%BB%E3%81%AEt%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%84_tees-235222583515715163
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The political elite are the real NIMBY's in all this. If Kennebunkport had been Fukushima'd last week, they'd have just swapped their golf to Colorado or California…. How many No-Go areas in the World will it take before they realise and have empathy with others..
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