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Hey Admin,
Thanks for your endless, tireless devotion in not letting these issues go gently into the good night.
Best holiday, Christmas and/or Festivous wishes to you and your family and all those others at ENENEWS.
Happy New Year everyone!
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Call to Action —->
"The Department of Energy (DOE) is considering a plan to allow radioactively-contaminated metal from nuclear weapons facilities to be “recycled.” This would allow this toxic metal to be mixed with clean recycled metal and enter into normal commerce—where it could be turned into anything from your next pants zipper to baby toys."
"This DOE action is just the foot in the door….if it’s allowed to occur, expect more efforts to deregulate radioactive materials from both DOE and NRC."
'TELL DOE: "RECYCLING" WITH RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!"
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12406
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Abe hints at scrapping reactor ban
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121222x1.html
"The head of the Liberal Democratic Party repeated Saturday that he will reconsider revoking the ban on construction of new nuclear reactors when he takes office next week.
…The strategy also said Japan will aim to phase out nuclear power in the 2030s, but that goal is widely expected to be retracted after the change in government following the Democratic Party of Japan's bruising defeat in Sunday's general election.
Currently, three reactors are under construction and nine more are at the planning stage."
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Tepco settles over nuke evacuee death
Utility to pay ¥14.7 million, won't say how woman died
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121222a3.html
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The JNES is the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization.
"According to JNES’s report “Severe Accident Analyses of Fukushima-Daiich Units 1 to 3″ published on IAEA general conference of 9/17/2012, Central research institute of electric power industry evaluated the amount of releases of radioactive material (I-131, Cs-134/137) to Pacific ocean.
Their analysis shows 1.1 ten quadrillion Bq of Iodine-131 and 7.1 thousand trillion Bq of Cs-134/137 were released to Pacific ocean from March.26 to September.30 of 2011.
Additionally, Tepco evaluated 50 ten quadrillion Bq of Iodine-131 and 2 ten quadrillion Bq of Cs-134/137 were released to the land from March.11 to March.17 of 2011."
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/7-1-thousand-trillion-bq-of-cs-134137-and-1-1-ten-quadrillion-bq-of-iodine-131-released-to-the-sea-from-326-to-930/#comments
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The Nuclear Industry has taken a bad rap lately, with Chernobyl and Fukushima messing up their clean green image.
Ya, so they have come out with a few cozy new ads to correct that.
Here's one from Tepco in Japan about how you should smile and embrace Nuclear Power. It's good for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-8CSa9xj8
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some intel for the enenews crowd…
Head of national nuke security agency departing
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Head-of-national-nuke-security-agency-departing-4140729.php
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Eon-Atomreaktor 10 Jahre ohne Notstrom (Eon-Atomreaktor 10 years without emergency/backup power)
Schwedens Atomaufsicht moniert wieder einmal schwerwiegende Mängel am Eon-Atomkraftwerk Oskarshamn und stellt den Reaktor "unter besondere Aufsicht". Die "Mängel in Führung, Leitung und Eigenkontrolle" reichen von falsch montierten Ventilen über nicht mehr "aufspürbares" strahlendes Material bis zu einer Notstromversorgung, die nie betriebsbereit war. Fragt sich nur, warum die Behörde dem Betreiber immer noch vertraut.
Swedish supervision again complained about serious flaws at Eon Oskarshamn nuclear power plant and the reactor is "under special supervision." The flaws in leadership, management and self-control" results in incorrectly assembled valves, no longer be able to detect radioactive material and an emergency power supply, which was never operational. The only question is why the authority still trusts the operator..
http://www.klimaretter.info/energie/hintergrund/12699-eon-atomreaktor-10-jahre-ohne-notstrom
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Engineers warn: Two US nuclear plants may cause new Fukushima
http://rt.com/usa/news/two-nuclear-nrc-facilities-604/
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Arrest over Disaster Debris Disposal Protests In Osaka Made By Security Police
"Security Police is the direct descendant of the Special Political Police – a secret police – that had existed until it was finally disbanded by the General Headquarters (GHQ, US occupation force) in 1945."
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/12/arrest-over-disaster-debris-disposal.html
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The Nuclear Industry studies how YOU THINK.
Title:
How a Nuclear Power Plant Accident Influences Acceptance of Nuclear Power: Results of a Longitudinal Study Before and After the Fukushima Disaster
Summary:
"Major nuclear accidents, such as the recent accident in Fukushima, Japan, have been shown to decrease the public's acceptance of nuclear power. However, little is known about how a serious accident affects people's acceptance of nuclear power and the determinants of acceptance."
"We assessed acceptance, perceived risks, perceived benefits, and trust related to nuclear power stations."
"…the nuclear accident did not seem to have changed the relations between the determinants of acceptance. Even after a severe accident, the public may still consider the benefits as relevant, and trust remains important for determining their risk and benefit perceptions. A discussion of the benefits of nuclear power seems most likely to affect the public's acceptance of nuclear power, even after a nuclear accident."
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01861.x/abstract
ACCEPTANCE?
It's all about getting YOU/US to accept the risk.
Don't do it!
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NRC Fails to Enforce its own Regulation
“In this week's Fairewinds podcast Arnie Gundersen discusses recent problems at two nuclear reactors and how the NRC is failing to enforce its own laws governing those reactors. Gundersen discusses nuclear containment problems at the Ft. Calhoun reactor near Omaha and accident release rates at the San Onofre nuclear plant south of Los Angeles. In both cases, the NRC seems willing to ignore its own regulations and allow these two damaged reactors to restart. “
http://fairewinds.org/content/nrc-fails-enforce-its-own-regulation
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More Lessons From the Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Containment Failures and the Loss of the Ultimate Heat Sink
“In this Monday's video, Fairewinds investigates a recently released report from Tokyo Electric. Arnie Gundersen discusses TEPCO's latest analysis that, almost two years after the accident, fully substantiates Fairewinds long held position that the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 was the result of a detonation shock wave. Arnie also discusses troubling reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been avoiding the analysis of damage to many nuclear plants' emergency cooling systems (Ultimate Heat Sink) from storm surges, tsunamis or dam failures. The ramifications of both of these issues on old designs and also the AP1000 are also analyzed in depth.”
http://fairewinds.org/content/more-lessons-fukushima-daiichi-accident-containment-failures-and-loss-ultimate-heat-sink
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Inland projects suspended in wake of Fukushima
“China will not develop nuclear power plants inland before 2015, a State Council executive meeting decided on Oct 24. The decision means that inland nuclear power projects on which preliminary work has already begun will be halted for at least another three years.
“China National Nuclear Corp has already moved major equipment and staff members from its Taohuajiang nuclear power project in Hunan province to its Xudabao plant at Huludao in coastal Liaoning province.
“The Taohuajiang project, which was launched in 2006, originally planned to build four units of 1,250 MWe AP1000 reactors, with total investment estimated to reach 67 billion yuan ($10.7 billion). The first unit was expected to begin commercial operation in 2015, generating a maximum of 28 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per annum….
“Pu Jilong, a senior expert in nuclear and radiation safety, wrote in his blog that the public do not support the nuclear power projects because they have lost confidence in the people employed by the nuclear power industry, rather than because they do not understand the technology.
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[cont.]
“To win support from the public, industry professionals should respect the public's right to know the safety and radiation status of the power stations, provide information about the cons as well as the pros of nuclear power and the harm caused by leaks and other accidents, and also how to protect themselves and others in the event of a major accident, wrote Pu. “
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-12/24/content_16045327.htm
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This is a wonderful story that has seemed to be lost in all the other stories.
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Trying to revive a Fukushima 'ghost town'
“…Yukio Nakano remains hopeful that he and his wife can return to their home one day.
“But we don't know when that will happen. It's hard to predict our future,’ he says.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/23/world/asia/eco-japan-fukushima-village-cleanup/
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Think the NRC is totally corrupt and a puppet organization for the nuclear industry? You are right .
NRC Chairman Writes about Enhancing Safety after a Visit to Fukushima
“’The individual early fatality risk from SOARCA scenarios is essentially zero. Individual LCF risk from the selected specific, important scenarios is thousands of times lower than the NRC Safety Goal and millions of times lower than the general cancer fatality risk in the United States from all causes, even assuming the LNT dose-response model.’ (Emphasis added.) http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/163746/nrc-chairman-writes-about-enhancing-safety-after-visit-fukushima-japan
Natural radiation and man-made radiation are two different things. And adding them together is more toxicity anyone can survive. And add all the other man-made pollution and you have an ELE event that no one can survive.
The only safe nuclear facility is one that is never built in the first place. Human hubris plus lying propaganda is the recipe for complete, never-ending extinction. Greed promotes blindness to any truth.
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Not far enough. No place on the earth or in space is safe anymore.
This article is to make it seem that those in the US are safe. But this is a chimera.
Japanese flee Fukushima nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa, plan class-action against radiation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japanese-flee-fukushima-nuke-disaster-to-faraway-okinawa-plan-class-action-against-radiation/2012/12/22/6bcac6b8-4c06-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921_story.html
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Engineers warn: Two US nuclear plants may cause new Fukushima
“…Paul Blanch, a retired nuclear engineer who used to work at the Indian Point nuclear facility in Buchanan, N.Y., and Lawrence Criscione, a risk engineer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) headquarters, sent a letter to the senator, warning that a Fukushima-like meltdown is in America’s future if no action is taken to improve the facilities at Indian Point and Oconee.
“The engineers claim that the gas lines leading to the facilities, as well as nearby dams, are vulnerable to sabotage. Engineering failures or natural phenomena like earthquakes or floods can also cause a meltdown….
“The NRC has “allowed a very dangerous scenario to continue unaddressed for years,” Perkins said. Nuclear power plants are required by US law to able to withstand all types of weather conditions that could occur in the region they are located, but many of their flood walls are inadequate and don’t consider the floodwaters that could result from nearby dams.
“The Oconee Nuclear Station in South Caroline is protected by a 5-foot wall, but is located near a dam that could result in floodwaters as high as 16.8 feet and cause a meltdown that resembled what happened in Fukushima.
“Blanch has been petitioning the NRC about gas line issues since 2010, and Criscione has raised the issue with Congress, the media, and high-ranking officials at the NRC….”
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http://rt.com/usa/news/two-nuclear-nrc-facilities-604/
Notice, they don’t say that these facilities are safe:
“’The NRC has reviewed and evaluated the gas pipeline issue. Our review of the petition found the plant continues to comply with NRC requirements,’ Burnell described the NRC response to a complaint he made about Indian Point.”
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Very sad commentary on the nuclear industry’s flagrant disregard for human life. The only concern is the economy, not how this catastrophe is causing death and disease worldwide in exponentially worsening conditions of radiation contamination and poisoning and bio accumulation up the food chain spread throughout the entire biosphere by the ocean and the jet stream and by contaminated food and goods shipped around the world.
Conference aims to dispel myths about Fukushima disaster
“…The World Bank estimated that it would cost up to 5% of Japan’s gross domestic product and take five years for the reconstruction to be completed.
“Japan’s tax revenues now cover less than 50% of its annual expenditure, while debt is 20 times the government's annual revenues. It has traditionally financed its government borrowing largely from domestic investors, with foreigners holding only about 5% of Japanese government bonds, but in coming years, as its own savings pool declines, the country will need to tap foreign capital markets.
“That is why the government and opposition agreed to a phased increase in sales tax, from 5% to 10%, to raise revenue.”
http://za.news.yahoo.com/conference-aims-dispel-myths-fukushima-disaster-133901783–finance.html
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Merry Xmas to one and all.
May your Xmas tree always be free of plutonium.
Be well and fight the good fight
Never give up I won't
Educate the masses we are right
Through sheer numbers we will prevail
It is only a matter of time
One way or another and another is not a option.
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The stupidity Never Ends for the human race .This is the Only thing that should be said about Nuclear Power plants. We the people
voted on Life !http://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/decommissioning/power-reactor/rancho-seco-nuclear-generating-station.html
hope its ok to post this here .
Longtime reader 1st time posting at Enenews .
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Right back at you Weeman and the Rest of the World ,
Happy Holidays and Hoping that WE LEARN from OUR mistakes …DUH
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Some good news for Christmas.
Plans to store the nation’s high-level reactor waste in Utah are officially dead.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55513674-90/waste-utah-license-site.html.csp
The Skull Valley Goshutes were first targeted by the nuclear power establishment more than 20 years ago. Altogether, 60-some tribes have been actively targeted for high-level radioactive waste parking lot dumps. All the proposals have been stopped, as through the work of Native American grassroots environmental activists like Grace Thorpe, working in alliance with environmental and environmental justice organizations.
In 2006 a very unlikely coalition, involving the likes of Mormon political leaders and wilderness advocates, succeeded in creating the first federal wilderness area in Utah in a generation. This created a "moat" around the Skull Valley reservation, blocking the railway needed to directly deliver the waste.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/native-america/2012/12/22/pfs-pulls-the-plug-on-parking-lot-dump-targeted-at-skull-val.html
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Fault-linked nuke plants sitting on 800 tons of fuel
"A combined 800 tons of spent nuclear fuel is being stored at two power stations thought to have active quake faults running underneath them.
Japan Atomic Power Co., operator of the Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture, said Sunday that the storage pool of reactor 2 contains roughly 500 tons of spent fuel and the pool for reactor 1 has about 80 tons.
Beneath both buildings are crush zones that have been judged active faults by the Nuclear Regulation Authority. And another active fault has been found 250 meters away from unit 2.
At the Higashidori plant in Aomori Prefecture, meanwhile, Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Sunday that there are 131 tons of spent fuel inside reactor 1 and another 104 in the building's fuel pool. The building is 200 to 400 meters from two crush zones that have been determined to be active faults."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121225a2.html
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Contaminated water leakage from reactor6, “already absorbed into the ground”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/contaminated-water-leakage-from-reactor6-already-absorbed-into-the-ground/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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Flimsy waste tanks cause new delay in Fukushima plant decontamination
“Tanks designed to hold radioactive filtrate at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are proving too fragile to be used, and the operator has announced a further delay in starting up machinery that cleans contaminated water.
“Multinuclide removal equipment was originally slated to begin operation at the plant in September. But on Dec. 25, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said vessels that receive the machinery's radioactive discharge were failing drop tests and could not be relied upon.
“Officials said reinforcing the tanks and testing them anew will take some time, so they are unable to predict when the equipment may finally come online….”
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212260032
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William A. Collins: Nixing nuclear energy around the world
“You’ll be less pleased to hear that the top danger now is nuclear power. Yes, weapons still make a great excuse to invade nations allegedly on the cusp of acquiring them, especially if they’ve got large oil deposits, but no one is really much concerned anymore about owners actually using them. Even “crazy” nations aren’t into suicide.
“Atomic safety is now less the province of government and more of corporations. That’s why atoms have become more worrisome when used to generate electric rather than political power. Pin-striped moguls don’t fret about social consequences. Their medium-term outlook only extends as far as the next quarterly dividend, and there’s no future that registers beyond their own golden-parachuted retirement.
“In an industry where consequences can be very long-lasting indeed, and hard to measure, this attitude isn’t healthy for people or any living thing requiring clean air and water….”
http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2012/12/25/opinion/doc50da514b1cf50865750357.txt
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The nuclear industry can not exist without extremely massive amounts of governmental subsidies.
So every time a government issues subsidies to the nuclear industry they are using the money from their own citizens to kill them.
Stop the murder. Decommission every nuclear power plant and facility immediately. Never issue another license for any nuclear facility to continues and never issue another license to build any new nuclear facility.
Has the tipping point already been reached? Is there no longer any marrow window to stop the nuclear madness?
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+1
"Has the tipping point already been reached? Is there no longer any marrow window to stop the nuclear madness?" – anne
I don't know.
But, maybe someday, people/humans will look back on this, like we look at the madness of things like… slavery. How accepted it was at the time and now how unusually cruel and insane it seems.
We have been enslaved by the Nuclear Overlords, at least that's part of what they want us to think.
My hope is that there's is still time to change, I pray for the knowledge or miracles or whatever to correct the debacle of Nuclear Power.
I have great concern that the window of opportunity to survive this as a planet is closing quickly and that the really sad part will be it could have been stopped.
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Fukushima farmers return to the land
“The soil Sudo farms now is relatively safe, but she explained that she is is still worried because of potential issues on neighboring farms. Her farm is beside a plot of land that is still quite contaminated and she thinks this may eventually carry over to her fields. Some soil is clay-based and so it retains more contaminated water…”
http://www.dw.de/fukushima-farmers-return-to-the-land/a-16446642?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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The land won't be safe for farming for many thousands or millions of years. How many people are going to die worldwide as a result of this nuclear disaster?
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Disasters
Fukushima conference wraps up on positive note
“International nuclear experts want to learn lessons from the Fukushima disaster but there is still a long way to safety….”
http://www.dw.de/fukushima-conference-wraps-up-on-positive-note/a-16462720?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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There will never be any safety possible with nuclear power. The continued propaganda will kill even more people. Where are the war crimes courts? Genocide by a country's own government should be punishable by law.
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Yes. See The Unique feature of 100% safety requirement demanded by nucular power! at
http://deathdealersnukes.blogspot.in/2012/12/the-unique-feature-of-100-safety.html
But how aware are politicians of this? See the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu demanding 100% energy from the Kudankulam nuclear plant should go to Tamilnadu:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/jayalalithaa-seeks-2830-mw-of-power/article4237812.ece
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U S sailors aboard the USS Ronald Reagan have filed lawsuits against TEPCO and the government of Japan over misrepresenting radiation levels coming from Fukushima Daiichi, to which they were needlessly exposed because of the misinformation.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/26/53414.htm
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Now that's news.
We've ALL been misrepresented!
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bounce this to admin dosdos…
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Wow! I bet the US Navy is furious. But what a boost for our side. Brave sailors who decided they are not going to lie down and die quietly.
There will be more revelations and more lawsuits. Hard to win, but the bad publicity alone is quite costly to the nucleocrats.
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Iran Pays Russian Women to Cover Their Bodies at Nuclear Plant
12:37 PM, DEC 25, 2012 • BY DANIEL HALPER
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/iran-pays-russian-women-cover-their-bodies-nuclear-plant_691987.html
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121226_28.html
Experts conclude nuclear plant fault assessment
"On Wednesday, one member of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, Kunihiko Shimazaki, and 4 other experts gave their final assessment of an inspection they made earlier this month at the Higashidori plant in Aomori Prefecture.
At a meeting last Thursday, they said 2 fissures under the plant may be active.
…This is the second case in which experts have found faults under a nuclear plant active. Earlier this month, they determined that faults running underneath the Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture are active."
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Cheney will rival Hitler for ignominy:
Early Site Permit Issued for Nuclear Plant in Mississippi
“WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2007 (ENS) – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, today unanimously authorized its Office of New Reactors to issue an Early Site Permit to System Energy Resources Inc. for the Grand Gulf site near Port Gibson, Mississippi.
“System Energy Resources is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Entergy Corporation, the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. …
“Earlier this month, the NRC approved the first ESP for the Exelon Generation Company's Clinton site, in central Illinois….
“Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said, ‘We're seeing a lot of momentum in the nuclear world. While promoting nuclear energy is good policy for government, it can also be good business. NRC approval of two Early Site Permits in just one month represents a major accomplishment in the Bush administration's effort to improve the nuclear regulatory processes while still demonstrating its effectiveness.’…"
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2007/2007-03-27-09.asp
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The good thing is both of the planned Grand Gulf add-on units are looking pretty unlikely to be completed, even before the Fukushima blowup:
"In a vacant field, next to the operating Grand Gulf station, is an unfinished concrete structure that was to be the containment for Unit 2, a twin to the existing Unit 1. In December 1979, staggered by construction cost Entergy (then called Middle South Utilities), stopped work on Unit 2."
"On January 9th, 2009, Entergy indefinitely postponed work towards the license and construction of Unit 3."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Gulf_Nuclear_Generating_Station
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Majia has a great entry in her blog today. What a classic description of the murderous frackers:
" Majia here: Uranium is to humanity what gold was to Midas."
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/propublica-uranium-mining-sacrifices.html?m=1
SP: Naked apes defecate and poison their drinking water like it is inexhaustible. One day soon only millionaires will be able to afford glacier water. The rest of us will be diseased mutants.
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Japan announces construction of new nuclear reactors
http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fsoziales%2Fjapan-will-akw-wieder-ans-netz-lassen-a-874753.html
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On a Wyoming Ranch, Feds Sacrifice Tomorrow’s Water to Mine Uranium Today
http://www.propublica.org/article/on-a-wyoming-ranch-feds-sacrifice-tomorrows-water-to-mine-uranium-today
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Cancer risk stat material
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/docs/federal/402-r-99-001.pdf
current measurement standard
http://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/measurement.asp
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Whole body absorbed dose info
http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/d/dose.htm
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This is why ALPHA is the worst especially if ingested or inhaled to the lungs.
"A multiplication factor is used that represents the ‘effective’ biological damage of a given type of radiation."
Radiation Factor
(QF Quality Factor)
(1) Beta
(1) Gamma
(1) X-ray
(10) Neutron
(20) Alpha
"For example… ‘Alpha’ energy that is absorbed by soft human tissue does 20 times more damage than… Gamma, X-ray or Beta radiation."
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Awww… darn. The EPA RadNET contraptions only report fake gamma and beta readings. I demand fake *alpha* readings, too.
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Radiation sickness exposure chart
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/radiation-sickness/DS00432/DSECTION=symptoms
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/ionizing.html
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Reference material (also an opportunity to argue with Norman if he is still there)
http://www.paforge.com/files/resources/nuclear_effects.pdf
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=441713
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FWIW: New Nukushima piece today from Geo. Washington blog, with both repeat references and some new, and the usual zerohedge responders:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-12-27/tokyo-almost-irradiated-fukushima
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100 million Bq of cesium-134/137 is released every single hour.
"According to mid/long term roadmap of Tepco released on 12/27/2012, 100 million Bq of cesium-134/137 is still released from reactor1, 2 and 3 every single hour.
This is measured at the top part of each reactor building. The amount is computed from the dust density of Cs-134/137, other nuclides are excluded.
Since this April, the releasing amount has been stably around 100 million Bq / hour."
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/100-million-bq-of-cesium-134137-is-still-released-every-single-hour-from-reactor1-2-and-3/
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Abe Cabinet signals big changes ahead
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121228a1.html
"…Pressured by a vociferous nationwide call to abandon nuclear power, then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his DPJ-led government adopted a zero-nuclear policy in September. The decision was adamantly opposed by Keidanren, the nation's largest business lobby and a strong supporter of the LDP, which has welcomed the Abe government's intention to change course.
"The previous government's policy to stop all active nuclear reactors by the 2030s needs to be reviewed," Motegi said.
Abe has repeatedly stated that the LDP would take 10 years to come up with the "best energy mix," indirectly suggesting his government intends to maintain reliance on atomic energy despite the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which forced thousands of residents to flee and contaminated many of the prefecture's resources, from fish to vegetables to water, with radiation."
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/abe-to-review-fukushima-nuclear-crisis-as-prelude-to-restarting-reactors
“As a government, we want to once again analyze why Fukushima Daiichi failed,” he said. He gave no further details and did not set out a timeframe for a probe.
“After that, I wish to think of next steps, including the restart of reactors,” he said on the program, according to broadcaster NHK."
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Fukushima operator seeks yet more money
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/fukushima-operator-seeks-yet-more-money-104921310.html
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Ailing California Nuke Plant faces Questions On Restart
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/12/27/ailing-calif-nuke-plant-faces-questions-on-restart/
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West Coast girds for More Tsunami Debris in Winter
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/12/26/west-coast-girds-for-more-tsunami-debris-in-winter/
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HIROSHIMA — Keiji Nakazawa, author of "Hadashi no Gen" ("Barefoot Gen"), an iconic comic about the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, has died of lung cancer at a hospital in the city, sources said Tuesday. He was 73.
The popular antiwar story, which was serialized in the 1970s and 1980s, is based on his experience of the atomic bombing at age 6 while on his way to school about 1.2 km from the hypocenter.
He lost his father, older sister and younger brother, and survived with his mother and older brother.
The story played a vital role in the education of Japanese youth, especially elementary and junior high school children, many of whom were introduced to the Hiroshima bombing and war through Nakazawa's work. It has also been translated in various languages, including English, French, Korean, Thai and Russian.
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui expressed hope that the comic strip will continue to be "passed on to the next generation" and tell the horror of the atomic bombing to many people in Japan and around the world.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121226a3.html
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima [Paperback]
This harrowing story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, is a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences speak to children and adults everywhere. Volume one of this ten-part series details the events leading up to and immediately following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
http://www.amazon.com/Barefoot-Gen-Vol-Cartoon-Hiroshima/dp/0867196025
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Barefoot Gen (1983)..Ratings: 8.1/10
Gen and his family are living in Hiroshima as Japan nears the end of World War II. Gen's father has come to believe that the war is unwinnable, thus earning the wrath of the town officials and, in turn, discrimination from the rest of their neighbors. Shunned by the local merchants and tradesmen, food becomes scarce for Gen and his family. All these concerns soon pale, however, as the American military begins its final assault on Japan with the unleashing of its terrible new weapon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085218/
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Try Disney's "Our Friend The Atom" in paperback, hardcover or video form, sometimes know as indoctrination of an ignorant public…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZ1AyDEGSk
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@razzz LOL "Our friend The Atom is indeed a marvelous trip down propaganda lane…
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6 March 2012 Last updated at 04:10 ET
Shareholders sue Tepco executives for nuclear disaster
"By seeking to hold individuals responsible, we want to correct the collective and systemic irresponsibility in the nuclear industry," Hiroyuki Kawai, one of the lawyers for the group was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17268326
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Power reactors operational in Japan
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf79.html
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