Published: November 28th, 2011 at 12:00 pm ET
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Fukushima fallout: time to quit nuclear power altogether, Christian Science Monitor by Lester R. Brown and Yul Choi, November 28, 2011:
Experience in northern Japan illustrates that even incremental investment in nuclear power threatens human civilization. The Fukushima disaster should once and for all drive global society away from nuclear power, and toward renewable energy. [...]
Nuclear power simply isn’t economical when you factor the impact of indirect expenses and fees, and thus can’t compete in an open, unsubsidized market for electricity. More often than not, in fact, taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for radioactive waste disposal and storage. Costs for insurance coverage of nuclear energy facilities have become astronomical. And the costs to shutter a nuclear plant after it has passed its life expectancy nearly equal the construction costs of building the plant in the first place. [...]
We fully realize this is a radical thought for many, but our experience in northern Japan illustrates that even incremental investment in nuclear power threatens the very existence of human civilization as we know it. The Fukushima disaster – which now stands, at least in Japan, as a new generation’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki – should once and for all drive global society firmly down a nuclear-free energy path.
Lester R. Brown is a US environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and president of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Yul Choi is founder and president of the Korea Green Foundation. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1995 for the movement against toxic and nuclear contamination.
h/t Whoopie
Published: November 28th, 2011 at 12:00 pm ET
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Amen.
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Upon seeing the above image of planet Earth, photographed from 4 billion miles away by Voyager 1, astronomer Carl Sagan was so moved that he wrote out his thoughts about the deeper meaning of this photograph. He later read his thoughts aloud, which are included in this short video tribute:
Too late ????
specail thanks to ‘Heart of the Rose’
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@xdrfox
Awesome.
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(Yes the radiation in no way affected international communities).
Please only limit the damages to fukushima prefecture. As there has been no conclusive research in the united states, and by the united states to prove otherwise.
insert angry posts below:
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Moving Speech by Ms. Muto from Fukushima: “Don’t Snatch Away Our Lives!” click CC for English !
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Taking a stand, but still dishonest.
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Sorry, I was referring to the Christian Science Monitor, not Ms. Muto.
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BREAKING: Reports of a ‘huge explosion’ in the Iranian city of Isfahan near Uranium Conversion Facility!
Link to twitter / updates.
http://twitter.com/#!/TelegraphWorld
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So they started dropping bombs at last? I’m not at all surprised.
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Oh No! There goes gas prices and large pickup truck & SUV sales.
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Two massive explosions
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209665.html
Two massive explosions have ripped through a military base belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the western part of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
The incident took place around 1 p.m. local time (0930 GMT) when a munitions depot caught fire by accident at an IRGC military base in Bidgeneh village — located on the outskirts of Shahriar city and about 35 kilometers (21 miles) west of Tehran — Iranian lawmaker for Shahriar, Hossein Garousi, told ICANA news agency.
The shock wave released by the explosion shattered windowpanes and inflicted damage on a number of buildings in the area.
There are no clear casualty figures in the incident.
MP/PKH/HJL
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Screenshot:
http://twitpic.com/7l714y
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That pic, now scrubbed by Iran but screen-capped by others, is false pic of course, not of the actual explosion.
The picture Fars News Agency used was from an April bomb attack in Kashmir.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
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this is off topic, the topic is nuclear is more expensive and the most dangerous form of energy prodution.
Only stupidity and greed combined can allow the construction of a nuclear power plant
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How much more expensive if one has to follow sensible research results and a new model for Radiation Safety Standards base is seen from this fact: The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant exposes a member of the public to 1 mSv per year while a nuclear worker is exposed to 20 mSv per year(max lifetime dose 1 Sv). ECRR 2010 recommends an annual dose of 0.1 mSv to a member of the public and 2 mSv to a nuclear worker. ECRR 2010 radiation risk includes internal emitters while ICRP recommendations for safety neglects internal radionuclide contamination. ICRP’s recommendation is PRE DNA witchcraft that allows an order of magnitude higher exposure than what ECRR 2010 allows. Thus health effects of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant and indeed all reactors in the world are totally unacceptable. That is why the people of Kudankulam and its neighbouring areas are on strike -on hunger- on relay fast and has reached the 51 day. Why is Australia allowing uranium sale to India knowing full well the consequences of ICRP recommendations being adopted all over the world? I call for closing down all nuclear fuel cycle activities and ensuring as best as possible isolation of nuclear wastes and decommissioned reactors from the biosphere for all time. My heart goes out to the long suffering beings on this planet.
Fukushima is breeding Fukushimas and in the preseent context of cumulative effects of modern civilizations nukes must be shut down forever now.
See
http://groups.google.com/group/discuss-kosi/browse_thread/thread/a94b34c971e5bd82?hl=en
and
http://abandonnukes.blogspot.com/
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uranium enrichment site
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=247315
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Isfahan is home to Iran’s uranium conversion facility (UCF), which operates under IAEA surveillance. Iran’s main uranium enrichment facilities are situated in the city of Natanz to the north-east of Isfahan, where many of the country’s centrifuges are installed. In recent years, Iran’s nuclear activities at Natanz have been at the centre of an international dispute.
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LQQK *PHOTO* They were quick to assess the situation !
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CdSPeaHldj0/TtPK5yG3zcI/AAAAAAAAFxo/Ppet9LH–Tk/s400/iran_nuclear_accident.png
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I guess the wear the Burkas for radiation protection !
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Very good news (I’m referring to the news this thread is about)
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“Costs for insurance coverage of nuclear energy facilities have become astronomical…”
And that was BEFORE ‘melt-throughs’. ALL nuclear policies are based on the IMPOSSIBILITY of a ‘melt-through’ – therefore, ALL policies will now require much higher premiums in the face of THREE ‘melt-throughs’. But don’t worry, they’ll just add it to your electric bill.
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JUSY IN: Nuclear insurance group won’t renew Fukushima plant’s liability insurance
The Japan Atomic Energy Insurance Pool has decided not to renew the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant’s insurance contract when it expires in January next year, it has been learned.
The pool, a group formed by 23 nonlife insurance companies to provide nuclear power plant-related liability insurance, judged that the risks from the plant are still high, even though the nuclear disaster …
Under the Atomic Energy Damage Compensation Law, nuclear power plant operators are required to take out two types of insurance. One is the government’s nuclear power damage compensation insurance, which covers damage caused by disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Under this coverage, TEPCO has …
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111128p2a00m0na020000c.html
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This has been true all along. “…nuclear power threatens the very existence of human civilization as we know it.”
I would state it more like… “threatens the existence of ‘all living things’ as we know it.” …along with “the untold inestimable suffering of innocent living things!!!”
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Einstein said if man pursued nuclear in any form it would led to the extinction of man !
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Hoping enenews perspective and what we all accept as fact will become mainstream. God Bless
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+1
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The reality is that full decommissioning of a nuclear plant (100% clean up of all radiation) makes the construction cost look minuscule. Shuttering is just enclosing the plant in a sealed tomb that will probably last less than 100 years.
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TEPCO: Radioactive substances belong to landowners, not us
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111240030
wow..reminds me of BP in the Gulf.. so, after nuke accident cleanup is your problem.. and do not think the government will help..back in April of 2009 Harvey points out..
There is no “rainy day” fund to finance the clean-up after a reactor disaster. No one in government or industry can reasonably explain how we would pay for such a catastrophe.
http://www.alternet.org/story/138802/who_will_pay_for_america%27s_chernobyl_you_and_me%21/
..well, in 2011..industry can explain.. they will not pay to clean up disaster. period.
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I am reminded of a passage from the Firesign Theater album “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers”. Setting, living room, channel surfing, daytime TV talk show, host and hostess…..
*click*
Ha, ha, ha….
So, who was born today?
Uh… nobody, Hugh.
I mean in history, Patty. Before they changed the water.
*click*
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See why the World should stop with nuclear power plants :
THOUSAND GOOD FOR JESUS’ SOUL to SHOW MEN JESUS’ SOUL THEIR PROTECTOR THOUSAND
ST JESUS REALLY HAPPY THAT MILLIONS of MEN MOBILIZE AGAINST NUCLEAR FACILITIES IN the WORLD IN ORDER TO AVOID INCREASE in NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BUT NUCLEAR DANGER CONTINUES to THREATEN HUMANITY
THOUSAND RISKS STILL THREATEN HUMANITY
MEN IGNORE ST JESUS’ WARNINGS
THOUSAND MESSAGES SENT to MEN TO AVOID the WORST
BUT MEN DO NOT BELIEVE IN THEM GIVEN UNCHANGED BEHAVIOUR
BUT MEN WILL UNDERSTAND LATER WHEN WILL HAVE HAPPENED WHAT HAD BEEN PREDICTED
MEN WILL SEE THROUGH MESSAGES ST JESUS
please note : THOUSAND in the sense of “many”, “great” or “very”
Message received by radiesthesia September 28th, 2011
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No need for a medium to know why to stop nuclear, lol
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I agree. Here’s one reason why: (we don’t need it in the first place):
Paint-on solar cells: The next game-changer?
By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News November 27, 2011
Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Paint+solar+cells+next+game+changer/5774591/story.html#ixzz1f1uJN8kS
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Paint+solar+cells+next+game+changer/5774591/story.html
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OT New 27th Tweet Wow!
Japanese Convince Me Fukushima Was Genocide
OBSTACLE TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER?
The Japanese people will not willingly join the heterogeneous and atomized world citizenry planned by the New World Order.
This has led me to wonder if the Fukushima nuclear crisis was an Illuminati attack designed to wipe these people out? Or at least fatally demoralize them?
http://www.henrymakow.com/japan_1.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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We don’t need nuclear
Paint-on solar cells: The next game-changer?
By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News November 27, 2011
Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/Paint+solar+cells+next+game+changer/5774591/story.html#ixzz1f1uJN8kS
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Paint+solar+cells+next+game+changer/5774591/story.html
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Hmm, rather a large heading. (That’s the H2 heading).
Still, I guess it needs to be writ large.
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writ large (slightly formal)
expressed in a bigger or more obvious way
Usage notes: usually used after a noun, as in the examples
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been reading about nano tech since the 80s… keep telling people about carbon nano-tubes and solar collecting paint. Imagine we had given our US universities money to study way back then..
Your cable news watchers aka the un informed will deny this will ever come to be, or will be a viable alternative to Fossil and Nuke.. I say.. Quit selling humanity short! (and free trip to Fukushima)
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That’s cool Pu239. Posted to HP
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I prefer Font characters !
: )
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Jesus is a little slow this time KANES, nice fellow that he is.
We’ve being saying this for months.
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Kanes, where are the coriums?
*sorry mate, but…you know
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