Published: June 7th, 2012 at 4:42 pm ET
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Subscription Only: Gov’t postpones decision on Oi reactors’ restart
Kyodo News
21:41 7 June 2012
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The government has decided to postpone its decision for restarting two idled reactors in Fukui Prefecture to next week or later due to stalled procedures for winning consent from the prefectural government, giving up its original plan to conclude as early as this week, sources close to the matter said Thursday.
The Fukui prefectural government remains cautious about rushing its decision to support the restart of the reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant amid deep-rooted opposition against the move among the public and neighboring municipalities following the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
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Published: June 7th, 2012 at 4:42 pm ET
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Can someone please tell me how they plan to restart any of them with no insurance coverage?
TEPCO Loses ALL Insurance Coverage; Japanese Nuclear Plants; Via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/tepco-loses-insurance-coverage-for-all.html
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AGR, do you think TEPCO gives any sort of consideration to an insurance policy? I think it would be an afterthought, as there is no effective "watchdog" to accept or deny its validity or viability. It's amazing they had actual coverage to be lost…
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if no one's left alive to collect, why would you need insurance?
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You know how that works, AGR. The people getting dumped on get to pay the bills. It has always been thus.
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So true… but there may be a legal angle to this, that lawyers can use to keep these things from starting up again..
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The would do it the same way it is done in the United States. If there is a meltdown, the taxpayer foots the bill. The nuclear industry does not pay for insurance beyond normal liability insurance because it cannot afford to. So the taxpayer shoulders the burden – with or without knowing about it.
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You are so right on..
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The government hasn't given up, merely postponed. The must not be restarted. The reactors need to be shut down worldwide.
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1. Shut them all down, world-wide.
2. Worldwide NPT.
3. Get rid of the waste (which doesn't include a decades-long effort to figure the problem out, while continuing to stack up waste in the meantime.)
Solar power can meet all needs.
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well said faith
and they can shut this one down as well Chinon npp france
Radiation Incident!! 800,000 000 nanosieverts/h in chinon france and gieger for london 7 june 2012
just after the air monitoring project in may???
"EU atmospheric research project ready for take off
Climate scientists will launch a mission on May 4 to investigate the relationship between atmospheric chemistry and climate change from an airship above the skies of Europe. The European Commission-funded research project PEGASOS (Pan-European Gas AeroSOL Climate Interaction Study) involves twenty-six partners from fifteen EU member states. The project team will leave from Friedrichshafen in Germany and over 20 weeks fly across Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy and France to measure the chemistry of the air. The project's findings are expected to provide a sound scientific basis to better fight climate change and improve air quality in Europe."
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=2460&obj_id=14820&dt_code=NWS&lang=en
more on this here
http://enenews.com/forum-post-radiation-monitoring-data-april-30-2012-present
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heres the link to the video describing the 800 000 000 nanosievert incident on the 1 june and other large spike on the 3 june.. what next??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3NqwGKZ30
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They won't be powered up again in Japan. And other countries will follow. It's a different world now.
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I hope you are right.
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If they don't start some reactors,say good-by to japan
it will become a 3rd world nation ! sorry I know some
of you think diffent!just the cost to swith, and high price of gas !generators? .iI see a summer of no electic,rolling black-out
factory can't build things lets just say cars to tv's and more !
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Sorry, but you seem very confused. If Japan continues to pursue electrical power generation with nuclear reactors–which entails the continual accumulation of highly toxic radioactive waste–in the hopes of eventually closing the fuel cycle with breeder reactors, then they may not only end their ecomony, but they also may end most human life in their country, and beyond.
A simple, small research program in nuclear energy may or may not be warranted, but nuclear power for electrical energy generation is not necessary, may actually consume more energy than it produces, and is extremely dangerous!
Actually, if Japan goes full-bore into solar power and alternative energy technology and leads the world off toxic oil consumption, they might prosper well beyond from where they currently are. For example, do a search on the 'Japanese water fuel cell car' video.
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Your right solar would work ,but we need to do the same!
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Here are the steps going forward:
1. STOP ALL NUCLEAR ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION NOW, to end any further accumulation of highly toxic waste.
2. PURSUE THE MOST SAFE, EFFICIENT, MEANS OF GETTING RID OF ALL TOXIC HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THE MOST RAPID TIME POSSIBLE, so that there is no further venting and release of toxic radioactive waste into the environment.
It has been shown that the electrical needs of all 100 million US households can be met 24/7 using simple solar concentrator technology (with thermal salt storage), using a total sunlit landmass less than 1/42 the size of Texas (6400 square miles). Whereas, the Fukushima Daiichi plant alone has, at a minimum, turned 8000 square miles into a Radiation Control Area.
It is a no-brainer. The people have been misinformed and/or lied to. It WAS NOT 'too cheap to meter', and the total nuclear fuel cycle may actually consume more power than it consumes!
What an insane sham! Shut them down now!
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"Whereas, the Fukushima Daiichi plant alone has, at a minimum, turned 8000 square miles into a Radiation Control Area."
That is landmass, and doesn't include the destruction to the vast oceans that this one plant is continuing to pollute. Furthermore, consider that one plant, Fukushima Daiichi, had ~600 tons of highly toxic high-level radioactive waste stored above ground, whereas, there are an additional 250,000 TONS of highly toxic high-level radioactive waste stored above ground worldwide, mostly in pools that need to be cooled and maintained. THAT IS INSANE!
SHUT THEM DOWN NOW AND QUIT ACCUMULATING FURTHER WASTE!
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Here is what can be done…
Solar Tractor, Solar Golf Cart/Club Car, Solar Chain Saw, Home Power System; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/solar-tractor-solar-golf-cart-solar.html
Sustainable Energy [R]evolution | Greenpeace International; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/sustainable-energy-revolution.html
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The transition will not be comfortable.
But once alternative energy sources are in place the Japanese people will see that is was not a mistake to keep the nuclear reactors from starting.. and later..will find it a gift to their people.
Being resolute is everything.
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To shut down before, you install solar ?How many years with out electic?got pay the bills ?NO ELECTIC, NO MONEYS, NO DICE,
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The switch to solar would not take years..
Germany is a fine example of nations moving swiftly in that direction.
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/half-germany-was-powered-solar.html
Money? ..the Japanese government has money for deception…they have money for solar.
Fukushima is an ongoing nuclear disaster.
One that no one is taking responsibility for.
The nuclear industry must be removed from Japan.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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This article elaborates on the reasons nuclear reactors must not restart in Japan.
Urgent International Appeal “Restart of Ohi Nuclear Power – A Threat to International Security” 31 May 2012
"Acknowledge that restarting nuclear power is an issue of a totally different dimension from the supply and demand of electricity and take the decision to put an end to nuclear power".
http://peacewalks.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/urgent-international-appeal-restart-of-ohi-nuclear-power-a-threat-to-international-security-31-may-2012/
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