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July 22, 2013
“Fukushima is here” for October 19, 2013 event in San Fransciso.
(YouTube published July 3, 2013.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cwL9Kqt2FQ

July 20, 2013
Hanford is setting for new crime novel.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/07/20/2479448/hanford-is-setting-for-new-crime.html

July 20, 2013
A rare protest prompts the government to scrap plans to build a uranium-processing plant. Is anti-nuclear activism on the rise?

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21582016-rare-protest-prompts-government-scrap-plans-build-uranium-processing-plant

July 19, 2013
Harnessing the power of the sun over nuclear inefficiency.

http://www.eco-business.com/opinion/harnessing-power-sun-over-nuclear-inefficiency/

July 19, 2013
TEPCO now says 2,000 Fukushima workers exposed to high radiation doses.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307190080

July 19, 2013
Graph Proves People Love Solar & Wind, Not Coal & Nuclear.

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/19/graph-proves-women-prefer-solar-old-men-love-nuclear/#H0PfmhwTZHIS2ZZV.99

July 18, 2013
Fukushima Residents: Highly Contaminated Radioactive Waste Burning In Samegawa.

http://intellihub.com/2013/07/18/fukushima-residents-highly-contaminated-radioactive-waste-burning-in-samegawa/

July 18, 2013
Mystery over why so many babies are born with brain defect that leaves them blind, deaf and unable to feel pain in Washington state.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2368654/High-rate-birth-defects-Washington-state-officials-stumped.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

July 18,2013
Forty Good Years and One Bad Day.
Fukushima tanks releasing x-rays in very high quantities offsite — Exposure to people outside plant is very, very high from ‘Bremsstrahlung’ phenomenon — Hundreds of tanks could easily start leaking after quake.

http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewinds-videos/forty-good-years-and-one-bad-day

July 18, 2013
Steam Detected at Damaged Fukushima Reactor.
The incident has brought the Fukushima plant’s vulnerable state into sharp relief, more than two years after its reactors suffered multiple meltdowns when its cooling systems were overwhelmed by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. A recent jump in levels of radioactive cesium and tritium in the groundwater at the coastal plant, along with suggestions that the groundwater is leaking into the Pacific, has also raised alarms over the continued environmental threat posed by the plant.
Fresh trouble at the No. 3 reactor is especially worrying because it contains mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel. The upper floors of the reactor also house its fuel pool, which stores over 500 fuel assemblies. The reactor complex’s basement is flooded with highly radioactive water. Studies show that an accident like a meltdown or containment failure in a reactor that holds such fuel would result in more cancer deaths than one in a reactor fueled only with uranium.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/world/asia/steam-detected-at-damaged-fukushima-reactor.html?_r=1&

July 17, 2013
Release of nuclear plant ‘effluents’ into lake described as part of normal cycle.

http://www.harborcountry-news.com/articles/2013/07/20/news/doc51e68d033453f499112136.txt

July 17, 2013
Nuclear energy is too expensive to compete, independent economist argues.
New 40 page paper by Mark Cooper, and independent economist and senior fellow for economic analysis at the Vermont Law School Institute for Energy and the Environment.

http://216.30.191.148/071713%20VLS%20Cooper%20at%20risk%20reactor%20report%20FINAL1.pdf
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/nuclear_energy_is_too_expensiv.html

July 17, 2013
World Industry Status Report
• A record decline in world nuclear power generation (–7% in 2012).
• A long term, steady drop of the nuclear share in global electricity production from 17% in 1993 to 10% in 2012.
• Rapid aging: average now 29 years with 190 units 30+ years in operation.
• Poor renewal with 6 units shutdowns vs. 3 startups in 2012 and 2 shutdowns vs. 1 startup in the first half of 2013.
• 800,000 tons of water in precarious storage at Fukushima contain 2.5 times the radioactivity released at Chernobyl.
• China, Germany, India and Japan, in 2012, generated more power from renewables than from nuclear plants.

http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/

July 17, 2013
Letters: No laws were skirted in the building of Columbia Generating Station by BOB FERGUSON, Richland

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/07/17/2472836/letters-no-laws-were-skirted-in.html

July 16, 2013
Iwaki city opened Yotsukura swimming beach / 3,200 Bq/kg from sand. (54 miles to Fukushima).

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/iwaki-city-opened-yotsukura-swimming-beach-3200-bqkg-from-sand/

July 16, 2013
Let’s watch the oceans die while we worry about other things!
Summary: While we worry about other things, including the possible fate of the world in 2100, the oceans are dying. Dying right now. The world’s oceans were suffering from pollution and overfishing, destroying the major fisheries. Now we administer another blow, with radiation from the Fukushima reactors flowing into the Pacific. Here we look at some of the sad details. Our indifference to the ocean’s death is more evidence of our dysfunctionality.

http://fabiusmaximus.com/2013/07/16/environmental-dangers-52545/

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2 Comments

  1. Michael..what a great way to start a New Year! It is just way beyond terrific to have all of these important articles, with their links, all listed on one page. First of all, it is really impressive to see that there are so many recent articles that MUST be read, and second…it is wonderful not to have to go hunting for them. I just wish I had the time back that I have spent in the past, trying to locate these articles, in order to forward them to friends, in an attempt to inform and educate them as to the nuclear crisis that is going on, thanks to Fukushima. I just wish that the US Government would go and do likewise!
    While I know that there are certainly articles on this potential global disaster to be found in some small newspapers, I have not, so far, found anyone, anywhere, who has been tackling the whole Fukushima disaster, head on, as you have been doing. And, in addition, you have also written many articles, plus, now, a five part series, on our local nuclear and toxic chemical contamination on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
    I cannot believe how incredibly lucky that we all are to have you here in our midst, doing your knowledgeable environmental reporting, without which we would basically all be in the dark, when it comes to understanding and interpreting everything that has been happening in California, the USA, and the World. My hope is that in 2013, you, and also Denise, will continue to have the concern, energy and courage to keep investigating and writing about all of these issues, which affect the health and welfare of all of us.
    Meanwhile, 2012 grateful THANKS!

  2. radar.weather.gov/Conus/full.php Check out this site to see the [possibly] radioactive clouds across USA

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