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RAD NEWS DIGEST I coverage from March 11, 2011 through December 1, 2012 HERE!
“The very lowest levels of radiation are harmful to life”
http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5214#.ULuSjI6tsoL
Over 10,000 multi-media radiation tests across America since 2011
RAD NEWS DIGEST II coverage from December 2, 2012 through October 27, 2013 BELOW
October 27, 2013
Charles Perrow, a professor emeritus at Yale University on fuel rod removal at Unit #4 Fukushima.
“Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable [and] would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo”
“[Then] the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.”
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1340687/fukushima-nuclear-plant-operators-prepare-dangerous-procedure
October 27, 2013
Emission of spherical cesium-bearing particles from an early stage of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757362/
October 26, 2013
TV: “Like they’re melting… a lot of melting sea stars out there” says Seattle biologist — Veterinarian: It’s concerning, in under a week roughly 60% of species are sick or dying — “Same thing happening near Canada and nobody’s sure why.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Biologists-search-for-cause-of-sea-star-deaths-229408861.html
October 26, 2013
Cesium 137 detected in Canadian mushrooms.
http://www.vancouvermonitoring.blogspot.ca/2013/10/bc-bc-matsutake-mushroom.html
October 25, 2013
Long-shadow of Chernobyl – Organic Blueberry spread imported from Italy hads 164 Bq/kg Cesium 137.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/10/long-shadow-of-chernobyl-4-organic.html
October 25, 2013
Simply information submits a series of proposals to Japan.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11630
October 25, 2013
“Wild Nameko Mushroom sold in the market 590bq/kg (Gunma, Japan)
Cs134 180bq/kg
Cs137 410bq/kg
http://www.pref.gunma.jp/houdou/d7000170.html
October 25, 2013
Senior marine chemist Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution :
“The tuna that were caught off San Diego with the Fukushima cesium isotopes, they were 10 to 20 times lower than they had been off Japan. Now the new releases, the leak from the tanks – they’re changing in character. Strontium 90 has become of more concern because it’s a bone-seeking isotope. That will stay in fish much longer,” he said.
http://www.voanews.com/content/fukushima-radiation-traced-in-pacific-seafood/1777465.html
October 25, 2013
Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-fukushima-workers-specialreport-idUSBRE99O04320131025
October 24, 2013
A Road Less Taken: Energy Choices for the Future.
http://fairewinds.org/media/presentations/jsc-energy-choices-future
October 24, 2013
Researcher: High death rate, ‘puzzling’ behavior in B.C. orcas.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Researcher-High-death-rate-puzzling-behavior-in-BC-orcas–229135551.html
October 24, 2013
Resident killer whales off B.C. coast go mysteriously quiet.
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/resident-killer-whales-off-b-c-coast-go-mysteriously-quiet-1.1512405
October 23, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 19th to October 22nd, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-october-1/blog/47100/
October 23, 2013
Dr. Helen Caldicott on Fukushima and the Perils of Nuclear Power.
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/dr-helen-caldicott-on-fukushima-and-the-perils-of-nuclear-p-t88232.html
October 23, 2013
Fukushima-like Columbia Generating Station must close.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/10/fukushima-like_columbia_genera.html#incart_river
October 22, 2013
Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: After having monitored the waters around Fukushima, he said “I could swim in that water. But you might not want to eat those fish. It’s a serious concern for internal doses. (Radionuclides) are now on the seafloor and could stay in the food chain for years, if not decades.”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/22/national/no-1-water-woes-laid-to-tepcos-ineptitude/#.Um1EdSTGV7z
October 22, 2013
Union of Concerned Scientists: What are accidents and transients?
http://allthingsnuclear.org/accidents-and-transients/
October 22, 2013
Radioactive cesium levels spike in ocean near Fukushima as stricken plant braces for super-typhoon.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/8433250.html
October 22, 2013
These new charts show clearly: nukes are more expensive than renewables in Europe, and discrepancy is growing larger.
http://www.renewablesinternational.net/cost-of-new-nuclear-and-new-renewables/150/537/74119/
October 22, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update
Michael Collins Radiation Update (21 October 2013): One hour special that covers much of the radiation challenges facing us today regarding Fukushima, nuclear power safety and the never-resting nonsense spewed by pro-nukers in the media such as the New York Times.
The series listeners have been waiting for, Black Swan SONGS, is finally out describing in five pieces and 23,000 words the threats facing the spent fuel at the San Onofre and Peach Bottom nuclear generating stations. Discussion moves to story of an experienced yachtsman making the Pacific Ocean trek first from Australia to Japan and then onto North America. Sea life is near non-existent for thousands of miles save for a huge whale floating on top of the water with a massive head tumor. “The Ocean is Broken” may be a ‘fish story’ but if it isn’t, the tale it tells is hopelessly heartbreaking. Jeff and Michael discuss next typhoon bearing down on Fukushima and the massive spikes in radiation readings that previous storms over the stricken plant have left in their wakes. Even with persistent poisonous radionuclides recently found in British sediment bordering the Irish sea, the UK government announces the construction of two new nuclear reactors on its southern coast. Michael points out that the British taxpayer will be on the hook for billions in this outrageous government giveaway. US Pacific Coast seaweed is again found contaminated with Fuku goo in the form of cesium-134, cesium-137 and cobalt-60 which suggests ongoing fission at the Japanese site of the triple meltdowns. Sad state of the media in which New York Times dismisses Fukushima radiation and lauds new EPA rules that radically raise amounts of allowable radiation in emergencies, a dangerous plan first exposed months ago in EnviroReporter.com with EPA Nukes Radiation Rules. Happy, though small, state of citizen awareness as 500 people gather on San Francisco beach forming a human chain reading “FUKUSHIMA IS HERE.” Michael discusses $60 billion US government is planning to spend ‘modernize’ its nuclear weapons complex suggesting money would be better spent tracking and addressing Fuku goo. US EPA says “To this day, the [RadNet] system continues to confirm that there are no harmful levels of radiation in the air reaching the U.S. from Japan,” an EPA spokesperson said in the last week when EnviroReporter.com‘s own US EPA RadNet graphs data shows upward spikes in beta radiation in Phoenix AZ, Anaheim, Fresno & Los Angeles CA, Albuquerque NM, Corvalis OR, Amarillo TX and Charleston WV. One of the best shows in over 2.5 years of bringing radiation information to a growing international audience.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/radio/
October 21, 2013
WSJ: Alarm over recent Tepco alert, could be quite bad; Yttrium at 200,000 Bq/liter in groundwater. That would suggest there could be 200,000 Bq per liter of strontium-90 in the well – more than 6,600 times the allowed emission limit.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/10/21/fukushima-watch-parsing-the-latest-radioactive-spike-in-zen-beta/
October 21, 2013
FUKUSHIMA WATER CRISIS: Heavy rain causes radioactive water spills at 11 spots. Levels of strontium-90 exceeding provisional safety standards were detected at six of those sites. The highest reading in the spilled water was 710 becquerels per liter, 71 times the safety standard approved by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310210087
October 21, 2013
LA Times: Already 60 billion becquerels going directly into ocean every day at Fukushima.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-japan-nuclear-20131020,0,3287177,full.story#axzz2iTNiJV5y
October 21, 2013
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant said that radiation levels on Oct. 17 had spiked some 6,500 times higher overnight, at a well near the spot where 300 tons of highly radioactive water is thought to have leaked in August.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/10/21/fukushima-watch-parsing-the-latest-radioactive-spike-in-zen-beta/
October 21, 2013
The UK’s new nuclear reactors: too expensive and not needed.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/the-uks-new-nuclear-reactors-too-expensive-an/blog/47067/
October 21, 2013
UK government fleeces public for China/French nuke plan.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/10/21/uk-government-
October 20, 2013
Britain to build Europe’s first nuclear plant since Fukushima.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/20/britain-nuclear-hinkley-idUKL6N0I81SA20131020
October 19, 2013
Black Swan Songs – 4 Part Series on San Onofre.
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, sits south of San Clemente along the Southern California coast between Los Angeles and San Diego. A four-month investigation reveals that the shuttered plant’s spent nuclear fuel rods are vulnerable to earthquakes and terrorist attacks which could result in a “black swan” event – a foreseeable but ignored disaster of epic proportions. Spent fuel pools’ vulnerability nationwide is well known to nuclear watchdogs like the ones that succeeded in shutting down SONGS. The phlegmatic government and nuclear power industry responses to these threats are inadequate to the challenge. EnviroReporter.com exposes the vulnerabilities and proposes solutions that should be enacted.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/black-swan-songs/
October 19, 2013
U.S. Pacific Coast Seaweed Shows Fukushima Cesium Contamination.
Washington State Pacific coast eel weed sample contained 0.22 pCi/g of Cs134 and 0.24 pCi/g of Cs137. It also contained 0.1 pCi/g of Co60”
These values converted to the more common bq/kg are:
Cesium 134: 8.14 Bq/Kg
Cesium 137: 8.88 Bq/Kg
Cobalt 60: 3.7 Bq/Kg.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11613
October 19, 2013
CNN: Scientists puzzled as rare ‘sea monsters’ wash ashore in Southern California — Expert: 2 giant oarfish and saber-toothed whale in a week… “What is going on?
http://www.okcfox.com/story/23728488/scientists-puzzled-as-rare-sea-monsters-wash-ashore
October 19, 2013
Hanford whistleblowers say they’re targeted. Dr. Walt Tamosaitis was fired after raising questions about design flaws at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. He and a second whistleblower say they’ve been targeted for retaliation by Hanford for raising safety concerns.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157494n
October 18, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 10th to October 18th, 2013.
Fukushima village of Litate agrees to host temporary incinerator for radioactive waste.
Radiation levels in seawater there, which was collected just off the coast of reactor #2, reached 1,200 Bq/liter of cesium, the highest measured in nearly two years.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-october-8/blog/46968/
October 18, 2013
U.S. nuclear safety violations point to inconsistent oversight: Study
Minor violations may contribute to creation of major problems.
http://www.safety-reporter.com/articleview/19142-us-nuclear-safety-violations-point-to-inconsistent-oversight-study
October 18, 2013
Global nuclear retreat continues while renewables soar. Nuclear power continues its decline worldwide while investements in, and development of, renewables soar. The findings of the newly released 2013 World Nuclear Industry Status Report, prepared by Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt et al., show that only three reactors started up worldwide in 2012 while six were shut down. Meanwhile, China, India, Germany and Japan now generate more power from renewables than nuclear. Read the report.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/10/18/global-nuclear-retreat-continues-while-renewables-soar.html
October 18, 2013
Tepco admits “radiation levels in groundwater are soaring” at Fukushima — “Strontium readings spike 6,500-fold in one day” (VIDEO).
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/18/national/water-radiation-soars-at-fukushima-no-1/
October 18, 2013
Nuclear waste whistle blower now out of a job.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157390n
October 17, 2013
Biologist finds pink salmon that are canary yellow on Canada’s Pacific coast — Insides also yellow: Heart parts, gill arches, spines, cartilage in head — Spleens swollen, livers spotted, some with bugged-out eyes.
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2013/10/tracking-viruses-2013.html
October 17, 2013
Concerns about rain on U.S. West Coast having Fukushima contamination — “The monitoring effort, our vigilance, should be stepped up.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me1ov9YoA1g
October 17, 2013
Nuclear report warns of apocalyptic scenario at Fukushima in weeks ahead — Ambassador: This could one day be considered start of “the ultimate catastrophe of the world and planet” — Tepco: It’s “under control”.
http://www.voanews.com/content/amid-criticism-tepco-prepares-for-critical-phase-of-fukushima-clean-up/1769997.html
October 17, 2013
How Accurate Are The Instruments in Nuclear Reactors?
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/flat-soda-monitoring-water-levels-nuclear-reactors
October 17, 2013
“Criminal negligence” on the shores of the Great Lakes.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste-whatsnew/2013/10/17/rolling-stewardship-for-radioactive-waste-instead-of-great-l.html
October 16, 2013
Inaugural publication pegs investment in 2011 at USD 300 billion, underscoring growing importance of energy efficiency.
http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2013/october/name,43788,en.html
October 16, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s efforts to keep radioactive water at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 power station from spilling into the sea have been ineffective, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority. Cesium-137 in seawater samples collected between the water intakes for reactors 1 and 2 inside the port rose to around 100 becquerels per liter this month from around 10 becquerels between late June and early July. […]
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/16/national/tepcos-toxic-water-failures-pitiful-nra
October 15, 2013
TEPCO Prepares for Critical Phase of Fukushima Cleanup.
http://www.voanews.com/content/amid-criticism-tepco-prepares-for-critical-phase-of-fukushima-clean-up/1769997.html
October 15, 2013
Why have sardines vanished off the B.C. Coast?
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/10/headlines_northwest.html
October 15, 2013
Nulcear safety violations across regions point to inconsistent oversight, gov’t study says.
http://news.yahoo.com/uneven-enforcement-suspected-nuclear-plants-191626989–finance.html
October 14, 2013
Doctors in Japan helping perpetuate Fukushima cover-up — Patients not being told their illnesses are from exposure to radioactive contamination — Scientific reports showing radiation health damage to humans are forbidden to be published (AUDIO)
http://fairewinds.org/media/radio/arnie-interviewed-paradigms-wbkm
October 14, 2013
Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson Talks With David Letterman About Renewable Energy
October 14, 2013
Japan Conducts Nuclear Evacuation Drill – exposes fleeing citizens when the winds changed – CGS needs to do a Citizen Evacuation Drill.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11594
October 14, 2013
“State of emergency should now be declared throughout world community” over Fukushima — Nuclear Expert: Molten corium related leaks into ocean have never stopped.
http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_10_14/Fukushima-radiation-worse-than-feared-experts-3949/
October 14, 2013
Doctors in Japan helping perpetuate Fukushima cover-up — Patients not being told their illnesses are from exposure to radioactive contamination — Scientific reports showing radiation health damage to humans are forbidden to be published (AUDIO).
http://fairewinds.org/media/radio/arnie-interviewed-paradigms-wbkm
October 14, 2013
40% of Japan nuclear tech exported over past decade failed to go through safety check.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20131014p2a00m0na015000c.html
October 14, 2013
Mass Starfish Die-Off May Be Headed For Washington.
NPR: Starfish epidemic “moving fast” — Turning into ‘goo’ in Washington, not just Canada — “Virus, bacteria or something else entirely”? “Will it spread to other sea life and other parts of West Coast?” (AUDIO).
http://kuow.org/post/mass-starfish-die-may-be-headed-washington
October 14, 2013
Meet “Fukuppy”: The Unfortunately-Named New Mascot of Fukushima Industries.
http://tokyodesu.com/2013/10/14/meet-fukuppy-the-unfortunately-named-new-mascot-of-fukushima-industries/
October 13, 2013
Thousands mass for antinuclear rally in Tokyo.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/13/national/thousands-mass-for-antinuclear-rally-in-tokyo
October 12, 2013
On June 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt hour (MWh). That is, generating companies were having to pay the managers of the grid to take their electricity.
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21587782-europes-electricity-providers-face-existential-threat-how-lose-half-trillion-euros
October 12, 2013
Gov’t Officials: “All of Japan” at risk of food and water having serious contamination from Fukushima, now and into future — Land is contaminated out to 250 kilometers from plant (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ertXuuV6Aok#t=262
October 12, 2013
Top Japan Nuclear Officials: Fukushima is an unprecedented disaster — “It’s probably the worst nuclear accident to ever happen in the world” (VIDEO).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ertXuuV6Aok
October 11, 2013
Greenpeace: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 8th to October 10th, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-october-8/blog/46968/
October 11, 2013
Reactor Event Notifications stopped on Oct 9 – due to government shutdown.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2013/
October 11, 2013
Resident Inspectors still working during government shutdown. Here are the NRC shutdown plans.
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2013/10/11/nrc-shutdown-day-two-of-furloughs/
October 11, 2013
Ralph Nader: Atomic Energy — Unnecessary, Uneconomic, Uninsurable, Unevacuable and Unsafe.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/atomic-energy_b_4086042.html
October 11, 2013
1983 Nuclear Peril and no-one Noticed – The USA and USSR came terrifyingly close to nuclear war in late 1983 and the first Australia would have known of it was when mushroom clouds rose over US bases at Pine Gap, Nurrungar and North West Cape.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/10/11/18/16/1983-nuclear-peril-and-no-one-noticed
October 10, 2013
Radiation levels near damaged Fukushima reactor hit two-year high.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310100095
October 10, 2013
Former NRC Chairman Says U.S. Nuclear Industry is “Going Away” .
http://m.spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/former-nrc-chairman-says-us-nuclear-industry-is-going-away
October 10, 2013
All Nuclear Reactors Must Go Now, Expert Panels Charge
As Fukushima shows, business-as-usual for US nuclear plants poses risks of future catastrophe, says group of experts.
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/10-2
October 10, 2013
Operator reports surge in radioactivity in waters near Fukushima.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/10/10/operator-reports-surge-in-radioactivity-in-waters-near-fukushima/
October 10, 2013
120 Bq/Kg from 2 bags of rice in Minamisoma Fukushima / All the other bags are to be shipped.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/10/120-bqkg-from-2-bags-of-rice-in-minamisoma-fukushima-all-the-other-bags-are-to-be-shipped/
October 10, 2013
New nuclear reactors not in Ontario’s future.
Ontario’s Liberal government on Thursday abandoned plans to spend billions of dollars to build two new nuclear
reactors, saying the province doesn’t need the power to meet its electricity demand.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/new-nuclear-reactors-not-in-ontario-s-future-1.1959328
October 10, 2013
British Columbians not taking Earthquake Risks Seriously – New Survey Shows Majority Expect the Big One, But Get a D Grade for Preparedness (they also don’t know there is a nuclear power reactor 260 miles away in Washington state that could meltdown in a large earthquake and contaminate the entire Pacific northwest)
http://www.prepperpodcast.com/british-columbians-not-taking-earthquake-risks-seriously-new-survey-shows-majority-expect-the-big-one-but-get-a-d-grade-for-preparednessh
October 10, 2013
Shutdown hampering earthquake monitoring in Washington.
http://www.king5.com/news/cities/seattle/Seismic-Shutdown–How-government-clousure-hurting-science-227313591.html
October 10, 2013
1,400 Bq/m³ of radioactive cesium in ocean off Fukushima Daiichi — Highest reading to date, had not been detected previously at location — “Suggests that toxic water leaks at plant have not been contained”.
https://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/10/250820.html
October 10, 2013
Belarusian therapists help Japanese colleagues to fight radiation.
Cancer found in over 40 children… We believe it’s related to the nuclear disaster.
http://www.tvr.by/eng/news.asp?id=11440&cid=16
Ocotber 9, 2013
90% of America’s nuclear safety staff will be furloughed tomorrow.
http://gizmodo.com/almost-all-of-americas-nuclear-regulators-are-about-to-1443157270/1443173670/@mattnovak
October 10, 2013
Highest radiation level seen in 2 years near Fukushima reactor — Surges more than 1,000% over previous day.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/10/japan-fukushima-radiation-idUSL1N0I003120131010
October 10, 2013
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-accident-ongoing-lessons
October 10, 2013
Radiation Levels Near Fukushima Reactor Hit 2-Year High.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/radiation-fukushima-high_n_4075066.html
October 9, 2013
TEPCO – like the last days of Rome.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11571
October 8, 2013
GAO report says shortage of key material threatens operation of 65 U.S. nuclear reactors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/business/energy-environment/report-says-a-shortage-of-nuclear-fuel-looms.html?_r=0
October 8, 2013
10 million Bq of Cesium-134/137 are still released from reactors 1 to 3 every single hour.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/10/10-million-bq-of-cesium-134137-are-still-released-from-reactor1-3-every-single-hour/
October 7, 2013
Vancouver Aquarium ‘alarmed’ at mass die-off of starfish on B.C. ocean floor.
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Vancouver+Aquarium+alarmed+mass+starfish+ocean+floor/9006150/story.html
October 7, 2013
Fukushima And Our Inability To Gauge Risk.
http://www.countercurrents.org/cobb071013.htm
October 7, 2013
Canada TV: New concerns about radiation levels in fish from Pacific — “These numbers are just staggering” — Contamination up considerably — “It’s a major event worldwide” (VIDEO).
http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/report-raises-fresh-concerns-about-radiation-levels-in-japanese-fish-1.1486514
October 7, 2013
Japanese Prime Minister Issues International Plea for Help Containing Radiation Leaks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-winfield-burns/sockeye-salmon-sushi-japa_b_4054103.html
October 7, 2013
Report raises fresh concerns about radiation levels in Japanese fish.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency tested fish exports from Japan for several months, but dropped the testing in June 2011, just three months after the disaster. “Canadian authorities are really doing us all a disservice by not following and monitoring this much more closely. They’re treating it as though it’s a kind of ho-hum situation, but in fact, it was a major event worldwide. And it should be studied very more carefully because that’s the only way we’re going to learn what the effects of this may be for the future” said Gordon Edwards.
http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/report-raises-fresh-concerns-about-radiation-levels-in-japanese-fish-1.1486514
October 7, 2013
Save the date Oct 8/9:
THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT: ONGOING LESSONS FOR BOSTON & NEW YORK.
Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission joins panel to discuss the risks of nuclear power at the Indian Point and Pilgrim Nuclear Power Stations
Seminar Tuesday, Oct. 8 in NYC
Seminar Wednesday, Oct. 9
http://coalitionagainstnukes.org/?utm_source=World+class+seminar+on+the+dangers+of+nuclear+power&utm_campaign
October 7, 2013
Letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon from 17 international scientists and experts urging international action on Fukushima crisis.
http://helencaldicott.com/pdf/expert-ltr-bankimoon-09-2013.pdf
October 7, 2013
Cesium 137 found in Children’s Urine in Fukushima Showing Ongoing Widespread Problem in Japan.
The acceptable amount of radioactive cesium in human urine is zero. The substances (cesium 134 and 137) does not exist in nature and cause damage to the human body. It was widely reported that a citizen group in the Tokyo region found cesium in children’s urine recently. While this is notable, it isn’t unique. Radioactive cesium has been found in the urine of children across a wide area of northern Japan since 2011.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11564
October 6, 2013
Official Gov’t Documents: Fukushima to endanger North Pacific marine ecosystem and health of human beings? “Very important to monitor radiation exposure level and assess effects of radioactive substances”.
https://pices.int/publications/other/2013-SG-RS_final_report.pdf
October 6, 2013
Japan PM says open to overseas expertise to help contain Fukushima radioactive water leak.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/06/japan-pm-says-open-to-overseas-expertise-to-help-contain-fukushima-radioactive/
October 5, 2013
Extremely clear explanation of the threat to us from Fukushima.
Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. That event is the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
http://space4peace.blogspot.ca/2013/10/fukushima-update.html
October 5, 2013
Caldicott: Fukushima much worse than Chernobyl — Nuclear engineers say there’s no end in sight to this — I predict they’ll never be able to fix it (VIDEO).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqz9qDyZ004
October 5, 2013
U.N. nuclear agency sends new Fukushima expert mission.
http://www.firstpost.com/world/u-n-nuclear-agency-sends-new-fukushima-expert-mission-1154171.html
October 4, 2013
Greenpeace: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 1st to October 3rd, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46831/
October 4, 2013
Significantly Deteriorating’: Fukushima disaster “causing irreversible radioactive damage” says top nuclear official — Tepco now admits it’s “affecting the environment” (VIDEO).
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/04/national/nra-to-tepco-fix-water-mess-even-add-workers/#.UlBhRY4QHS9
October 4, 2013
Professor: Fukushima disaster is the worst case of nuclear contamination in history — It’s a crisis for all humanity — Building up to something much worse? (VIDEO).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxNmKxGfb4
October 4, 2013
The next giant quake: It’s coming and here’s how.
http://seattletimes.com/html/pacificnw/2021850265_1006coverearthquake1xml.html?cmpid=2628
October 4, 2013
Radiation Soars 6,700 Times Legal Limit as Fukushima Disasters Continue Unabated.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/04-6
October 4, 2013
Hanford whistleblower Tamosaitis loses his job.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/10/04/2609383/hanford-whistleblower-tamosaitis.html
October 3, 2013
New research finds high amounts of radioactivity in Pennsylvania fracking wastewater.
http://e360.yale.edu/digest/excess_radioactivity_and_metals_found_in_pennsylvania_fracking_wastewater/3967/
October 3, 2013
Congressional Response to the NNSA’s Budget: Part 1
http://allthingsnuclear.org/congress-on-nnsa-p1/
October 3, 2013
Gundersen: Tour of Fukushima Daiichi.
http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewinds-videos/tour-fukushima-daiichi
October 3, 2013
70% of children tested are contaminated with radioactive cesium — All of them from outside Fukushima Prefecture.
http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nSeq=151871
October 3, 2013
Gundersen: Deformities, stillbirths not being reported after Fukushima — Officials withholding truth about health effects — Gov’t suppressing studies on deformed animals.
http://fairewinds.org/media/radio/arnie-discusses-fukushima-daiichi-wbais-morning-michael
October 3, 2013
Life After a Nuclear Meltdown. PHOTOS.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-345173/
October 3, 2013
Resolutions, legislators, and petition signatures against Canadian Great Lakes radioactive waste dump!
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste-whatsnew/2013/10/3/resolutions-legislators-and-petition-signatures-against-cana.html
October 3, 2013
NRC Nuke Waste Con Game meetings underway, public comments needed.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste-whatsnew/2013/10/3/nrc-nuke-waste-con-game-meetings-underway-public-comments-ne.html
October 3, 2013
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant operator says another tank leaked toxic water.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/03/us-japan-fukushima-water-idUKBRE99200R20131003
October 3, 2103
Arnie Gundersen was interviewed on WBAI’s Morning with Michael radio program to discuss the ongoing crisis at Fukushima Daiichi.
http://fairewinds.org/media/radio/arnie-discusses-fukushima-daiichi-wbais-morning-michael
October 3, 2013
In 5 Charts, Here’s Why Nuclear Energy Is Going Nowhere.
(note from Mary Olson at NIRS:Please note that one of the key factors that under-lie the 5 charts shown in the article linked below is that nuclear has not been building much or fast… well folks there is a LOT of different reasons for that, but one of them surely is that PEOPLE have said “no way” — we have helped to keep the institutional memory of nuclear accidents, melt-downs and 98 reactors CANCELED in the first round of nuclear construction… so please do not look at this and let ANYONE tell you we did not have to “bother! HIP HIP HOORAY for the day a business journal reports the story WE have been telling for a very, very long time!”
http://www.businessinsider.com/5-charts-that-show-nuclear-is-declining-2013-10
October 3, 2013
Mutated Fukushima wasps responsible for Nebraska deaths.
http://www.voiceofeden.org/mutated-fukushima-wasps-responsible-for-nebraska-deaths/
7 Reasons Why The Solar Revolution Took Off
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http://www.businessinsider.com/how-solar-surged-in-america-2013-10
October 2, 2013
Nuclear Expert: Plutonium from Fukushima in Pacific fish presents health risk — Study: “Long-distance transport” of Fukushima-sourced plutonium should be addressed.
http://www.straight.com/life/497646/fish-data-belie-japans-claims-fukushima
October 2, 2013
New highly radioactive leak at Fukushima — Believed to be draining into Pacific Ocean — 200,000 Bq/liter of strontium and other beta-ray emitters .
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20131003_04.html
October 2, 2013
Former Japanese Leader Declares Opposition to Nuclear Power
“There is nothing more costly than nuclear power,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/world/asia/former-prime-minister-declares-opposition-to-nuclear-power-in-japan.html?_r=0
October 2, 2013
NY Times: Human crisis unfolding in Fukushima — Many now realizing “we’re being lied to, they can’t fix things” — “Lies… They can’t handle it… Many here have given up”.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/10/01/world/asia/20131002-JAPAN.html?_r=0
October 2, 2013
Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania
October 2, 2013
Fukushima Watch: Stemming One Leak Causes Another.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-344840/
October 2, 2013
Fish data belie Japan’s claims on Fukushima.
http://fairewinds.org/media/in-the-news/fish-data-belie-japans-claims-fukushima
originally published in:
http://www.straight.com/life/497646/fish-data-belie-japans-claims-fukushima
October 2, 2013
Experts: NRC Should Ignore Staff And Follow Chair’s 2003 Call To Curb Risk Of Nuclear Reactor Pool Fire Catastrophe. By Gordon R. Thompson, Ph.D., Robert Alvarez, and Diane Curran. Washington, DC.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/02/5787947/experts-nrc-should-ignore-staff.html
October 1, 2013
Nuclear Engineer: Japan’s PM “Lying to the Japanese People” About Safety of Fukushima.
http://fairewinds.org/media/in-the-news/nuclear-engineer-japans-pm-lying-japanese-people-safety-fukushima
October 1, 2013
Cesium-134/137 densities in tap water are the same in Tokyo and Fukushima from this April to June.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/10/cesium-134137-densities-in-tap-water-are-the-same-in-tokyo-and-fukushima-from-this-april-to-june/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+(Fukushima+Diary)
October 1, 2013
TEPCO admits another leak of 4 tons of radiation-tainted water at Fukushima.
http://japandailypress.com/tepco-admits-another-leak-of-4-tons-of-radiation-tainted-water-at-fukushima-0136970/
October 1, 2013
Nuclear Engineer: Japan’s PM “Lying to the Japanese People” About Safety of Fukushima.
Gundersen: The problem right now is that Japanese researchers are afraid to tell the truth. We’ve got doctors calling us at Fairewinds saying, “We know our patients have radiation illness and the hospital isn’t allowing us to tell the patients that.” […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1LVOPSgR1Xk#t=311
October 1, 2013
The demand for a global take-over at Fukushima has hit critical mass.
By Harvey Wasserman –
More than 48,000 global citizens have now signed a petition at www.nukefree.org asking the United Nations and the world community to take charge of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Another 35,000 have signed at www.rootsaction.org . An independent advisory group of scientists and engineers is also in formation.
http://warisacrime.org/content/demand-global-take-over-fukushima-has-hit-critical-mass
Michael Collins Radiation Update (30 September 2013): Historic show starting minutes into the U.S. federal government shutdown. Michael thanked over 800,000 fed workers for their service and expressed sympathy for their unearned plight. Also gave thanks that the EPA’s RadNet hadn’t gone dark which is good because this crucial information is brought to the public in an accessible way by EnviroReporter.com on our U.S. EPA RadNet Data page.
Discussion of the FDA’s new *voluntary* ban on a huge list of food products from 15 Japanese prefectures. Michael noted that Japanese food has radiation limits in their food 12 times more strict than the U.S. standards meaning that their hot food can be shipped to us legally with no one the wiser. Hence the importance of our Radiation Food Lab, the most comprehensive data on food, water and other ingestibles anywhere in the world. RFB honcho and Team EnviroReporter stalwart Peter Dailey’s new detections of Radium-220 spell real trouble. From his report we discussed: “The rain swab collected at Caloundra was tested and found to contain both the decay daughters of both Radon-222, and Radon-220. It is common to get Radon-222 washouts, not Radon-220. Radon-222 is from the Uranium decay chain, and Radon-220 is from the Thorium decay chain. This theory has been put forward by a contact in New Zealand. The Radon-220 decay daughter isotope detection here, is an indication that one or more of the underground coriums at Fukushima undergoing fast neutron fission. One or more coriums are possibly purifying, and operating in a mode of unmoderated fission. This would increase the yields of Thorium daughters.” Russia has also banned food from 7 Japanese prefectures and China along with South Korea have restrictions too. Before Michael wrapped up the show, he again reminded his devoted listeners that true character is what a person does when he or she knows that doom looms. He also talked about the radiation levels in Montogomery AL, Tuscon AZ, Los Angeles CA, Denver CO, Washington DC, Tallahassee FL, Fort Wayne IN, Corvallis OR, Toledo OH, Amarillo TX and Harrisonburg VA.
September 30, 2013
Media finally gets it right? Bloomberg: “Before Fukushima, Chernobyl was ranked the world’s worst nuclear accident.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-29/golf-balls-fall-short-coping-with-21st-century-disasters.html
September 30, 2013
PEER a group representing public workers has filed a lawsuit against the US NRC for their refusal to share information with the public about US dam failure risk. The probability of a massive dam failure destroying a US nuclear plant is higher than the probability of the Fukushima tsunami contributed nuclear disaster.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11528
September 30, 2013
Fallout level in Tokyo was the 3rd highest in Japan this August / 5.2 MBq/km2.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/fallout-level-in-tokyo-was-the-3rd-highest-in-japan-this-august-5-2-mbqkm2・month/
September 30, 2013
Central New York nuclear plants struggle to avoid financial meltdown.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/oswego_county_nuclear_plants_struggle_to_avoid_financial_meltdown.html
September 30, 2013
Dr. Helen Caldicott Talks Bluntly About Fukushima.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/dr-helen-caldicott-talks-bluntly-abou
September 30, 2013
$75,000 for downwinders.
http://www.atomicveteran.info/
September 30, 2013
Ikea to sell residential solar panels in Britain.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ikea-to-sell-residential-solar-panels-in-britain-1.1873153
September 29, 2013
Two Upstate nukes in particular – the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County and the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in nearby Wayne County – are high on the watch list of plants that industry experts say are at risk of closing for economic reasons.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/oswego_county_nuclear_plants_struggle_to_avoid_financial_meltdown.html
September 28, 2013
WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-refuses-to-publish-report-on-cancers-and-birth-defects-in-iraq-caused-by-depleted-uranium-ammunition/
September 28, 2013
FDA Import Alert: U.S. bans agricultural and fishery products from 14 prefectures in Japan due to Fukushima radionuclides.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_621.html
September 28, 2013
Take Action! “We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
—Harvey Wasserman, author and activist.
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8598
September 28, 2013
Fukushima Radiation Hitting US, Canada More Than Japan (Video)
September.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/fukushima-radiation-hitting-us-canada-more-than-japan-video/
September 27, 2013
Greenpeace: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 24th to September 26th, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46794/
September 27, 2013
Is This Fukushima? Pacific Herring in Canada Bleeding Eyeballs, Fins, Tails. Government Ignoring Problem.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-this-fukushima-pacific-herring-in-canada-bleeding-government-ignoring-problem/5351845
September 27, 2013
How a Scientist Was Censored by the Japanese Government After the Fukushima Accident.
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/09/how-scientist-was-censored-by-japanese.html
September 27, 2013
TEPCO seeks 2 more restarts of Japan nuke reactors.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/TEPCO-seeks-restart-of-2-more-Japan-nuke-reactors-4848299.php
September 26, 2013
Tepco “Can’t disclose atmosphere contamination data because the crane is malfunctioning”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/tepco-cant-disclose-atmosphere-contamination-data-because-the-crane-is-malfunctioning/
September 26, 2013
New documentary: .23 microsieverts – Fukushima – Is there a Way out?
http://www.arirang.co.kr/Player/TV_Vod.asp?HL=L&code=VOD&vSeq=68329#
September 26, 2013
Weekly Asahi (週刊朝日）published a report that in urine samples from children living in Kanto, 70% of those tested, contained cesium.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/26/the-fukushima-generation-new-data-on-birth-defects-in-post-meltdown-japan.html
September 26, 2013
Reporters in Japan write about rise in birth defects for 2011 — University won’t publish data on malformed babies after many years of doing so; Not releasing figures for Fukushima, other prefectures.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/26/the-fukushima-generation-new-data-on-birth-defects-in-post-meltdown-japan.html
September 26, 2013
Bridging the News Gap, with Professor Matt Noyes.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/bridging-news-gap-professor-matt-noyes
September 25, 2013
California rice test O.K.
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://securitytokyo.com/&prev=/search%3%20%3Dtokyo%2Bsecurity%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Dimvnsu&sa=X&ei=NystUMmoC8iuiALqkoHQCw&ved=0CF4Q7gEwAA
September 25, 2013
Paul Blanch: “Safety Culture is not Possible Without Regulatory Compliance”.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/nuclear-safety-culture-a-work-of-smart/
September 25, 2013
Fukushima Crisis: Call to Protest at Japanese Consulate …
11th of each month – will you set up a vigil to save the world?
http://masspeaceaction.org/3809
September 24, 2013
Learn How to Prepare for Nuclear Disaster. [Editor: This is a real laugher but what we’ve come to expect for the collapsing “Patch” media syndicate.]
http://moorpark.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/learn-how-to-prepare-for-nuclear-disaster
September 24, 2013
Health damages shown among a family from Fukushima City (60km from NPP).
http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.ca/2013/09/2health-damages-shown-among-family-from.html
September 24, 2013
Atomic Goal: 800 Years of Power From Waste.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/business/energy-environment/atomic-goal-800-years-of-power-from-waste.html
September 24, 2013
India Plans To Build The Largest Solar Plant In The World.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/24/2674891/india-solar-largest-ever/
September 24, 2013
At 45:00 in
Gregory Jaczko, Former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: There’s very risk significant activities happening in the next several months with the attempt to remove fuel from the Unit 4 spent fuel pool.
That’s a very significant activity, and it’s also unprecedented.
There’s significant structural damage to the Unit 4 spent fuel pool. New structures had to be created.
They’re going to have to lift significant debris from the pools.
These are all very, very unprecedented activities.
Watch the FCCJ event here
http://www.fccj.ne.jp/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=500&Itemid=119&year=2013&month=09&day=24&title=p-c-jaczko-johnson-tsutsui-the-ongoing-fukushima-daiichi-crisis
September 24, 2013
Energy outlines new approach to problem-riddled Hanford cleanup.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Energy-outlines-new-approach-to-problem-riddled-Hanford-cleanup-225118722.html
September 24, 2013
Oregon Earthquake Experts Believe State Is Due For ‘The Big One’.
On Oct. 17, at 10:17 a.m. millions across the United States will “Drop, Cover, and Hold” for the Great ShakeOut, a worldwide earthquake drill designed to teach people how to prepare for an earthquake.
http://shakeout.org/washington/news/
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/oregon-earthquake-experts-believe-state-due-big-one#
September 24, 2013
Ex-top U.S. nuclear regulator counsels end to atomic power.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/24/national/ex-top-u-s-nuclear-regulator-counsels-end-to-atomic-power/#.UkNC2o4QHUS
September 24, 2013
First US nuclear power closures in 15 years signal wider industry problems.
As the economics of building plants and maintaining old ones erode, some experts see little hope for an industry being touted by some as a climate savior.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/24/us-nuclear-power-closures
September 23, 2013
In a stunning international press conference held in Tokyo last Monday, the former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Gregory Jaczko says “We need to rethink all nuclear reactors currently in operation. We need to be putting resources into developing new energy sources”. Jaczko makes it clear that the risk of nuclear power in it’s present condition is unwarranted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fs-Ok1BbI4&feature=youtu.be
September 23, 2013
FLOOD RISK TO REACTORS UNDERESTIMATED AND UNADDRESSED
Upstream Dam Failures May Cause Fukushima-Level Events at “Multiple” Plants .
http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/2013/09/23/flood-risk-to-reactors-underestimated-and-unaddressed/
September 23, 2013
Radioactive Cesium still found in drinking water in Japan including Tokyo.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11469
September 23, 2013
Study: High concentrations of Fukushima radioactive material will reach west coast of North America — “Entire coast” to be affected from Alaska to Mexico — “Can negatively affect human life for decades… should raise concern” (MODEL).
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11434-012-5171-6
September 23, 2013
Study: Contamination in Tokyo suburb 3 times higher than area just 1 mile from Fukushima Daiichi — Nuclear Scientist: Significant contamination in Tokyo, a serious problem.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057760#s4
September 23, 2013
EU-funded Research: Fukushima atmospheric release of 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 used as upper bound in simulation — Chernobyl estimated at 70 to 85 quadrillion.
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/1425/2013/acp-13-1425-2013.html
September 22, 2013 (repost)
Major NGOs speak out about the Fukushima disaster!
Below is a list of the organisations that spoke out in defence of the children of Fukushima.No individual countries made any statement concerning the Fukushima disaster and the plight of local residence at the UN meeting March 2013
http://nuclear-news.net/2013/09/22/major-ngos-speak-out-about-the-fukushima-disaster-unanswered-questions-2/
September 22, 2013
Nuclear Weapons Test from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
http://guardianlv.com/2013/09/nuclear-weapons-test-from-vandenberg-air-force-base/
September 21, 2013
Fukushima contamination data wrong, may be 1,000% of levels reported by gov’t and Tepco — 60 billion becquerels of strontium and cesium claimed to be flowing to ‘outer ocean’ each day.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201309200053
September 22, 2013
China says they have siezed 1800 tons of radioactive scrap metal from Japan so far. All of it is over the limit allowed and considered unsafe for human contact.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11464
September 21, 2013
Japanese gov has started asking for the international advice for contaminated water issue.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/japanese-gov-started-asking-for-the-international-advice-for-contaminated-water-issue/
September 21, 2013
Humankind’s Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4. “This is an Issue of Human Survival.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/humankinds-most-dangerous-moment-fukushima-fuel-pool-at-unit-4/5350779
September 20, 2013
Japan Meteorological Research Institute “Contaminated seawater reaches the east coast of Australia and Indonesia”.(check out the chart)
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/PDFplus/2013/cn207/Presentations/1028-Aoyama.pdf
September 20, 2013
Is a Study Abroad Program in Japan Safe? By Yuri Hiranuma
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/09/is-study-abroad-program-in-japan-safe.html
September 20, 2013
Fukushima Forever.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-perrow/fukushima-forever_b_3941589.html
September 20, 2013
Much more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake, or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away. Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years. […]
The denial that Fukushima has any significant health impacts echoes the denials of the atomic bomb effects in 1945; the secrecy surrounding Windscale and Chelyabinsk; the studies suggesting that the fallout from Three Mile Island was, in fact, serious; and the multiple denials regarding Chernobyl (that it happened, that it was serious, and that it is still serious).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-perrow/fukushima-forever_b_3941589.html?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science
September 20, 2013
More Fukushima plant workers show health problems
4.21% of the employees in the area, showed unhealthy medical readings, such as higher white blood cell counts.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130920_36.html?play
September 20, 2013
Ban on Japanese fish remains in place in Russia due to Fukushima accident – oversight service.
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_20/Ban-on-Japanese-fish-remains-in-place-due-to-Fukushima-accident-oversight-service-5812/
September 20, 2013
Greenpeace: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 17th to September 19th, 2013
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46707/
September 20, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Reservation Tanks Leaking Radioactive Waste …
http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/women/hanford-nuclear-reservation-tanks-leaking-radioactive-waste-underground-517681308
September 19, 2013
Peter Daley – our very own Radiation Station Sunshine Coast Australia station master and Radiation Food Lab maestro is our Australian Whistleblower on the Fukushima Radiation Crises & Survival:
http://www.greenplanetfm.com/members/greenradio/blog/VIEW/00000001/00000261/Peter-Daley-Australian-Whistleblower-on-the-Fukushima-Radiation-Crises–Survival.html#00000261
September 19, 2013
Japan Meteorological Research Institute “60,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 and Sr-90 is leaking to the open ocean everyday”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/japan-meteorological-research-institute-60000000000-bq-of-cs-137-and-sr-90-is-leaking-to-the-open-ocean-every-single-day/
September 19, 2013
WSJ: Companies Unplug From the Electric Grid, Delivering a Jolt to Utilities. The trend is clear.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906304579036721930972500-dhdfhjf.html
September 19, 2013
Columbia Generating Station LER: Accidental swic bump makes Hig Pressue Core Spray and DieseI Inoperable – nuc pros assessment of the June 27, 2013 event.
http://www.nucpros.com/content/columbia-generating-station-ler-accidental-swic-bump-makes-hig-pressue-core-spray-and-diesei
September 19, 2013
Gundersen’s podcast – Fitness for Duty: Operating Under the Influence (check out Lucas Hixon’s timeline).
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/analysis-fitness-duty-events-nuclear-power-plants-united-states-2008-2013
September 19, 2013
Shinzo Abe, Japanese PM, Wants Fukushima Plant Entirely Shut Down.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-332292/
September 19, 2013
Environmental groups challenge NRC’s false confidence on radioactive waste, organize for nationwide public comment meetings.
Irony of NRC’s “Draft Consequence Study,” given her own co-authorship of a 2003 study that strongly warned of the needless risks of fire in densely-packed HLRW storage pools. In fact, a number of her co-authors on that study were among those at yesterday’s meeting strongly criticizing NRC’s “Draft Consequence Study,” including Alvarez and Thompson mentioned above, as well as Dr. Ed Lyman, now at Union of Concerned Scientists.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste-whatsnew/2013/9/19/environmental-groups-challenge-nrcs-false-confidence-on-radi.html
September 19, 2013
Test under way at planned nuclear waste disposal site in French village amid protests.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130919p2a00m0na015000c.html
September 19, 2013
BCSEA Webnar: 100% Renewables – powering states, countries and the world with water, wind and sun. Mark Jacobson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqsbeYiEJlY&feature=youtu.be
September 18, 2013
Release of nuclear plant ‘effluents’ into lake described as part of normal cycle.
http://www.harborcountrynews.com/articles/2013/09/17/news/doc51e68d033453f499112136.txt
September 18, 2013
Fukushima: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident…
http://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/fukushima-cesium-137-is-85-times-greater-than-at-chernobyl-accident/
September 18, 2013
Only renewables – not nuclear – could be too cheap to meter.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/may/22/energy-nuclear-renewables
September 17, 2013
US utility chooses wind and solar – “cheaper and more reliable”.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/us-utility-chooses-wind-and-solar-cheaper-and-more-reliable-79876
September 17, 2013
The solar stats that will strike fear into utilities’ hearts .
http://www.utilitydive.com/news/the-solar-stats-that-will-strike-fear-into-utilities-hearts/170532/
September 17, 2013
Environmental coalition challenges NRC on risk of HLRW pool fires yet again.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/us-utility-chooses-wind-and-solar-cheaper-and-more-reliable-79876
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/9/17/environmental-coalition-challenges-nrc-on-risk-of-hlrw-pool.html
September 17, 2013
U.S. Sen. Markey slams NRC for biased study of HLRW storage pool risks.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/9/17/us-sen-markey-slams-nrc-for-biased-study-of-hlrw-storage-poo.html
September 17, 2013
Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (At 38:00 in): What’s been happening at some level like a month ago there was less concern […] You measure the isotopes, we can say that they’re coming from that reactor, and had it been completely zero, we couldn’t have seen them anymore. So we’ve known about the leaks, they seem to be getting stronger.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561
September 17,2013
New studies show radioactive materials being carried across Pacific relatively intact from Fukushima — On West Coast we need to monitor these pockets of high contamination — Parts of areas may be affected in a significant way (
Timothy Mousseau, Professor of biological studies at the University of South Carolina:
In terms of fish from the West Coast, what we need to be doing is monitoring the ebb and flow of these pockets of high contamination […]
Given what we’re seeing off the coast of Japan right now with some of these new models and these new studies showing pockets of fairly concentrated materials can be carried relatively intact — even all the way across the ocean — there may be little patches of areas that are affected in a significant way.
http://www.cknw.com/the-simi-sara-show/
September 17, 2013
Farm minister asks S. Korea to lift import ban.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/130917/farm-minister-asks-s-korea-lift-import-ban
September 17, 2013
Dave Lochbaum Fission Stories #146: Who’s Next?
http://allthingsnuclear.org/fission-stories-146-whos-next/
September 17, 2013
Fukushima Operator Dumps 1,000 Tons Of Polluted Water In Sea.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/fukushima-polluted-water-sea_n_3939014.html
September 16, 2013
Tritium density of leaked tank area still increasing / 97,000 → 130,000 → 150,000 → 170,000 Bq/L.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/tritium-density-of-leaked-tank-area-still-increasing-97000-→-130000-→-150000-→-170000-bql/
September 16, 2013
Greenpeace: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 13th to September 16th, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46647/
September 16, 2013
Over 100 environmental organizations today called on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to withdraw EPA’s controversial new Protective Action Guides (PAGs), which would allow exposure to very high doses from radiation releases before government would take action to protect the public.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/07/epa-nukes-radiation-rules/#comment-241409
September 16, 2013
U.S. Plans Nuclear Missile Tests Around International Day of Peace and UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-241407
September 16, 2013
Typhoon Forces Dumping of Radioactive Water at Fukushima
TEPCO officials indicate measures were taken to avoid worse disaster, but it remains unclear how much water was pumped into ocean.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/16-3
September 15, 2013
Interesting charts of Tokyo fallout 1964 compared to today.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/09/radioactive-olympic-in-2020-try-1964.html
September 15, 2013
JFK “Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics.”
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/09/jfk-our-children-and-grandchildren-are.html
September 15, 2013
Japan shuts down last nuclear reactor.
http://rt.com/news/japan-shuts-last-reactor-878/
September 15, 2013
Tritium rises in groundwater in Fukushima Daiichi. The level of radioactive tritium at one of the wells rose to 130,000 becquerels per liter on Thursday. That’s more than twice the government-set level for its release into the sea.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130914_03.html
September 14, 2013
Japan’s Nuclear Migraine: A Never-Ending Disaster at Fukushima.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/japans-nuclear-migraine-ending-disaster-fukushima/story?id=20226885&singlePage=true
September 14, 2013
TEPCO under-reported cesium measurements.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130914_09.html
September 14, 2013
The REAL Fukushima Danger: Failure of Fuel Pools Could Trigger Worldwide Nuclear Radiation.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-fukushima-danger-failure-of-fuel-pools-could-trigger-worldwide-radiation/5349850?
September 13, 2013
97,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium detected in groundwater of 300m3 leakage tank area / 1.5 times much as one day before.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/97000000-bqm3-of-tritium-detected-in-groundwater-of-300m3-leakage-tank-area-1-5-times-much-as-one-day-before/
September 13, 2013
Caldicott; Endless Fukushima catastrophe: Many generations’ health at stake. Fukushima reactor cores may have had “Melt Through to China Syndrome” and went into the earth .
Fukushima radioactive plume will continue to hit shores of U.S. and Canada for many decades — Impossible to remove molten cores for hundreds of years, if ever — Flow of contamination from plant will be virtually impossible to stop
Includes over 1,500 pounds of plutonium
http://rt.com/op-edge/fukushima-catastrophe-health-japan-803/
September 13, 2013
Tritium levels reach new high at Fukushima nuclear plant. Tritium levels in water taken from a well close to a number of storage tanks holding irradiated water rose to 97,000 becquerels per liter on Wednesday from 64,000 becquerels/liter measured at the same location a day earlier.
http://www.legitgov.org/Tritium-levels-reach-new-high-Fukushima-nuclear-plant
September 13, 2013
FUKUSHIMA EQUALS 6,000 HIROSHIMA BOMBS TODAY, MORE TOMORROW
http://www.okobserver.net/2013/09/13/fukushima-equals-6000-hiroshima-bombs-today-more-tomorrow/
September 13, 2013
Japan must get ready to release Fukushima water into the sea: U.S. adviser.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/13/us-japan-fukushima-adviser-idUSBRE98C0GB20130913
September 13, 2013
Greenpeace: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 10th to September 12th, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46595/
September 13, 2013
International Experts Join Tepco in Grappling With Fukushima.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130913-704658.html
September 13, 2013
Efforts for Decommissioning of Unit 1 to 4 Reactors in TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130913_01-e.pdf
September 12, 2013
64,000,000 Bq/m3 Tritium in groundwater besides leaked tank / 15 times much as 2 days before.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/64000000-bqm3-tritium-in-groundwater-besides-leaked-tank-15-times-much-as-2-days-before/
September 12, 2013
Does U.S. Advice on Disposing Fukushima Waste Apply Back Home?
www.nationaljournal.com/global-security-newswire/does-u-s-advice-on-disposing-fukushima-waste-apply-back-home-20130912
September 12, 2013
9,500,000 Bq/m3 of all β near Reactor1 turbine building / Not direct leakage of coolant water ?
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/9500000-bqm3-of-all-β-near-reactor1-turbine-building-not-direct-leakage-of-coolant-water/
September 12, 2013
Fairewinds Team on Nuclear Free Future with Margaret Harrington.
http://fairewinds.org/media/television/fairewinds-team-nuclear-free-future
September 12, 2013
NRC “Nuke Waste Con Game” draft GEIS published in Federal Register on Sept. 13, public comments needed by Nov. 27
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste-whatsnew/2013/9/12/nrc-nuke-waste-con-game-draft-geis-published-in-federal-regi.html
September 12, 2013
Urgent call for help at Fukushima. Sign petition!
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/9/12/urgent-call-for-help-at-fukushima-sign-petition.html
September 12, 2013
EPA Documents Raise Doubts Over Intent of New Nuclear-Response Guide.(NIRS comment – long but important.)
http://www.nationaljournal.com/global-security-newswire/epa-documents-raise-doubts-over-intent-of-new-nuclear-response-guide-20130911?mrefid=mostViewed
September 12, 2013
Energy Fact Check: Distributed generation is poised to soar over next five years.
http://www.energyfactcheck.org/slideshow/renewables-work-best-from-a-central-utility-owned-distribution-point-just-like-fossil-fuels-distributed-generation-dg-is-a-niche-market-for-rich-off-the-grid-enthusias/
September 11, 2013
Fukushima Unit #4 Fuel removal risks.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11357
September 11, 2013
Website map tracks path of ocean pollution, Fukushima radiation plume.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/23399560/website-map-tracks-path-of-ocean-pollution-fukushima-radiation-plume
September 11, 2013
Contrary to claims by some in the nuclear industry, accelerating the transfer of spent fuel from cooling pools to dry casks would not pose a significant risk to workers from increased radiation exposure, and does not outweigh the benefits of such transfers.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/radiation-from-accelerating-the-transfer-of-spent-fuel-from-pools-to-casks/
September 11, 2013
Bloomberg: Solar Panels are beginning to become a standard amenity in new homes.
Power companies are losing business because they can’t cut their rates in line with the tumbling prices of residential solar systems.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-10/solar-panel-is-next-granite-countertop-for-homebuilders.html
September 11, 2013
Japan’s Fukushima radiation crisis: a Good News/Bad News story.
http://commonsensecanadian.ca/japans-fukushima-radiation-crisis-good-newsbad-news-story/
September 10, 2013
Documentary tells Hanford story.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/09/2776047/documentary-tells-hanford-story.html
September 10, 2013
See the graph of where the salmon swim.
http://www.vancouvermonitoring.blogspot.ca/2013/09/effect-on-alaskan-salmon-from-fukushima.html
September 10, 2013
Filmmaker revisits the children of Fukushima’s ‘Grey Zone’
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/09/09/issues/filmmaker-revisits-the-children-of-fukushimas-grey-zone/#.UjQBJI4QGU1
September 10, 2013
Fukushima: Greenpeace:Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 6th to September 9th, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46537/
September 10, 2013
Fukushima: Greenpeace re Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 6th to September 9th, 2013.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/46537/
September 10, 2013
Fukushima: 4,200,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium from groundwater of leaked tank area.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/4200000-bqm3-of-tritium-from-groundwater-of-leaked-tank-area/
September 10, 2013
Fkushima: Lake H. Barrett from NRC and DOE to join Tepco’s contaminated water task force.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/lake-h-barrett-from-nrc-and-doe-to-join-tepcos-contaminated-water-task-force/
September 10, 2013
Fukushima:JP PM Abe to IOC “Contaminated water is completely blocked”→Tepco “Tritium can’t be blocked.”
September 9, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update: A special one-hour classic show that wasn’t even long enough for the breadth of disaster discussed. Of course Michael’s Tokyo’s Radiation Olympics and Yoichi Shimatsu’s Boycott The Radioactive 2020 Olympics Of Death were the top topics since their double-barrel debut in response to the outrage that greeted Tokyo Japan’s being awarded by the controversial and corruption-riven doyens of the International Olympic Committee in Buenos Aires Argentina September 7. The gold medal performance of Prime Minister Abe convincing the creaky IOC board that all was AOK at Fukushima was easily dissembled by Michael as he pointed out that TEPCO actually pleaded with the Japanese government to take control of the disaster in the week before Dishonest Abe’s blizzard of hogwash won the day. The fact that Fukushima Dai-ichi’s Unit 4, with its full spent fuel pool tottering four stories above the ground, has recently sunk over 30 inches into the soup that the ground is turning into was pointed out by Jeff. The hyper-hot groundwater is within four inches of the surface and the entire site is about to sink into the slush. Once Unit 4 collapses before the spent fuel is removed – an impossible task as the rods are busted and not removable even with TEPCO’s weak assurances – Tokyo is toast as EnviroReporter reported in The Unforgettable Fire in June 2012. Michael gave numerous examples of Tokyo contamination as reported in Rad News Digest just since the beginning of the year: June 17 – 300 Bq/Kg in the park of Konanku Yokohama city” (Tokyo – 178 miles south of Fukushima, Yokohama – 204 miles south of Fukusima); June 16 – 19,000 Bq/Kg from the drain of balcony in Setagaya Tokyo; June 8 – 102.5 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from Sayama (suburb of Tokyo) green tea leaves for sale; May 28 – Cs-134/137 from pool bottom sediment of 9 of 9 elementary school in Chiba,(20 miles NE of Tokyo) max as 796 Bq/Kg and on and on. Jeff talked about a letter sent to him from South Korean flight attendants about the hazards of flying through the air over Fukushima. Michael reminded the audience, which has grown significantly and shows its appreciation more and more, that EnviroReporter.com‘s US EPA RadNet compilation shows high beta radiation, almost certainly from Fukushima or local reactor releases, in the American cities of Montgomery AL, Phoenix AZ, Fort Smith AR, Bakersfield CA, Tallahassee FL, Augusta GA, Fort Wayne IN and other locales including St. Louis MO which had a September 8 rain 108 times background. Jeff and Michael discuss how the California Highway Patrol considers anything over three times background a HAZMAT situation. This hot show again demonstrates that people know where to go to get the real skinny on the radically rad world we’re living where those with true courage to face the consequences are few and far between but always are on the Michael Collins Radiation Update.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_090913.mp3
September 9, 2013
U.S. Beyond Nuclear: Revised and updated pamphlet on uranium mining.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/9/9/revised-and-updated-pamphlet-on-uranium-mining.html
September 9, 2013
Air Travel:Fukushima Radiation Brutal on Flight Crew, Passengers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/nuclear-energy-survives-o_b_3882434.html
September 9, 2013
Nuclear Energy Survives Only on the Basis of Faulty Risk Assessment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/nuclear-energy-survives-o_b_3882434.html
September 8, 2013
Fukushima:Tokyo’S Radiation Olympics.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/09/tokyos-radiation-olympics/
September 8, 2013
Earthquakes: Now, 3D model to pinpoint earthquakes, nuclear blasts.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/now-3d-model-to-pinpoint-earthquakes-nuclear-blasts-113090800365_1.html
September 7, 2013
Fukushima affecting U.S.:Professor: Radioactive substances will be blanketing U.S. West Coast for some time to come — There’s suggestions “pockets of high contamination” may get carried over from Fukushima (VIDEO) with Tim Mousseau
http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/record-radiation-readings-near-fukushima-517921204
September 6, 2013
Fukushima affecting:S. Korea bans fishery products from 8 Japanese prefectures.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201309060027
September 6, 2013
U.S. Seattle’s EPA Radnet radiation spikes with downpour Sept 5-6, 2013.
http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/seattles-epa-radnet-gamma-radiation-spike/
September 6, 2013
CGS:Columbia Generating Station Operates BLIND, Once AGAIN Loses Radiation Assessment Capability.
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.ca/2013/09/columbia-generating-station-operates.html
September 6, 2013
Fukushima affecting food: Fukushima Disaster Hits Sales of Fishery Products. Consumption of seafood is plummeting in Korea after leaks of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/09/05/2013090501115.html
September 6, 2013
Fukushima: 50% of the seawater in Fukushima plant port goes to the Pacific everyday.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/50-of-the-seawater-in-fukushima-plant-port-goes-to-the-pacific-everyday/
September 5, 2013
Fukushima:Tepco’s data shows they’re to run out of tanks in the 3rd week of November.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/tepcos-data-shows-theyre-to-run-out-of-tanks-in-the-3rd-week-of-november/
September 5, 2013
Energy Choices: The Road Less Taken: Energy Choices for the Future, featuring Amory Lovins.
http://vimeo.com/73862210
September 5, 2013
Fukushima Affecting U.S.:New revelations on leaks from Fukushima reactors into the Pacific. When will rad water reach U.S. West Coast? Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds.com, nuclear expert explains. From Radio Ecoshock 130911 24 minutes.
http://archive.org/details/KNEWEcoshock130908
September 5, 2013
Britain: Contaminated Sellafield chimney to be dismantled.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/ff58f0ea-163f-11e3-a57d-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.htmlSeptember 4, 2013
September 5, 2013
Fukushima; Japan Expert: Covering Fukushima reactors in concrete like at Chernobyl should be considered — Nuclear Official: If we just buried them, no one would want to look at another nuke plant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/world/asia/errors-cast-doubt-on-japans-cleanup-of-nuclear-accident-site.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: 2.2 Sv/h measured from tank leakage / Highest reading ever
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http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/2-2-svh-measured-from-tank-leakage-highest-reading-ever/
September 4, 2013
Fukushima affecting US:Edwin Lyman Union of Concerned Sceintists – People are going to be slowly consuming the radioactive material coming out of Fukushima.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27201422#52922439
September 4, 2013
Nuclear Industry fatal flaw: Fukushima farce reveals nuclear industry’s fatal flaw: not possible to both control costs & ensure safety.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/sep/04/fukushima-farce-nuclear-industry-flaw?CMP=twt_fd
September 4, 2013
U.S. Comment by NIRS:Washington Post supports the dark side. Doesn’t understand 23 Fukushima clone reactors now operating in U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-give-up-on-nuclear-energy-yet/2013/09/04/9b2a202c-14ea-11e3-a100-66fa8fd9a50c_story.html
September 4, 2013
Wanna eat fish?: So what happens if you eat seafood? Researchers measured the increase in radioactive polonium levels in semen after a single seafood meal. It caused a 300 percent spike in radioactivity levels. Probably not enough to cause infertility—but that was just one meal. Whether the kind of dose you can get from eating seafood is high enough to damage sperm cells still needs to be established. We may have to eat as much as a pound of seafood a month before we might realize the harmful effects of the radiation.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fukushima-and-radioactivity-in-seafood.html#ixzz2e2MxbEXS
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Nuclear disaster: Radiation levels at Fukushima would now be fatal within hours.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/nuclear-disaster-radiation-levels-at-fukushima-would-now-be-fatal-within-hours/
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Japan in touch with U.S., others on Fukushima water crisis.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-japan-fukushima-motegi-idINBRE9830JL20130904?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Inside Fukushima’s Evacuation Zone.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/09/03/world/asia/20130904-FUKUSHIMA.html?_r=0
September 4, 2013
Fukushima Farmer’s: Fukushima farmers describe what it’s like to harvest poisoned food…
http://acehoffman.blogspot.ca/2013/09/fukushima-farmers-describe-what-its.html
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Fukushima Radiation at Record High. Radiation levels at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a new high. The latest figures show radiation levels of 2,200 millisieverts.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/4/headlines/fukushima_radiation_at_record_high
September 4,2013
Keeping the lid on costs when the task is to keep the lid on a slow motion atomic explosion is an impossible challenge.
“From the promise of nuclear electricity being too cheap to meter, we now have costs that are too great to count”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/sep/04/fukushima-farce-nuclear-industry-flaw
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Summary of Fukushima – How to minimize the risk.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/column-summary-of-fukushima-how-to-minimize-the-risk/
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Record radiation readings near Fukushima contaminated water tanks as high as 2,200 millisieverts (mSv).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-japan-fukushima-tanks-idUSBRE98301020130904
September 4, 2013
Fukushima: Japan to pay $500 million to freeze soil, find other ways to stop leaking Fukushima water.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japans-government-pledges-nearly-500-million-as-tepco-deals-with-water-crisis/2013/09/03/581876c6-147c-11e3-880b-7503237cc69d_story.html
September 3, 2013
U.S. Fission Stories #145: When Good News Causes Bad News.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/fission-stories-145-when-good-news-causes-bad-news/
September 3, 2013
Fukushiam affecting US: Fukushima Disaster Leaves Hundreds of Whales Radiated to Death.
http://nationalreport.net/breaking-fukushima-disaster-leaves-hundreds-whales-beached/#sthash.vYNAOqEo.dpuf
September 3, 2013
Arjun MakhijaniWhat if the Fukushima Ice Wall Defrosts? Looking at Risks of Japan’s Experiment.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec13/fukushima2_09-03.html
September 3, 2013
Fukushima: Japanese national government devotes mere $500 million to radioactive “soggy mess” at Fukushima Daiichi.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/9/3/japanese-national-government-devotes-mere-500-million-to-rad.html
September 3, 2013
Fukushima: Fukushima radioactive leak is ‘the greatest threat humanity ever faced.’
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/9/3/fukushima-radioactive-leak-is-the-greatest-threat-humanity-e.html
September 3, 2013
Fukushima: Nuclear disaster: Radiation levels at Fukushima would now be fatal within hours.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/nuclear-disaster-radiation-levels-at-fukushima-would-now-be-fatal-within-hours/
September 3, 2013
Fukushima: Professor: Fukushima Unit No. 4 “an immediate problem” — Building is sinking, over 30 inches in places — Extraordinary possibility plant could be back at March 2011 if situation continues — Risk of fission accident in fuel pool.
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/asia-pacific/japanese-government-turns-on-tepco-after-latest-fukushima-failures/1184991
September 3, 2013
Fukushima affecting US:NBC Nightly News: Concerns are growing tonight, especially out West, about the continuing radiation threat from Fukushima — Japanese Diplomat: U.S. food supply stands to be contaminated (VIDEO).
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/52916018#52916018
September 2, 2013
Fukushima:300,000,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide to include Sr-90 detected from the leaked water of tank.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/300000000000-bqm3-of-all-β-nuclide-to-include-sr-90-detected-from-the-leaked-water-of-tank/
September 2, 2013
Fukushima: Nuclear Expert: Melted fuel is exiting Fukushima site — Very effective way of it being dispersed to humans far away from plant — Situation is beyond man’s control — 3 or 4 times Chernobyl’s radioactivity available for release
http://ruvr.co.uk/2013_09_02/Japans-radioactive-water-the-impact-on-humans-and-wildlife/
September 2, 2013
U.S.Volunteers Needed: Baby Tooth Survey to Assess the Effect of Nuclear Fallout From Above-Ground Nuclear Testing.
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2013/09/volunteers-needed-baby-tooth-survey-to-assess-the-effect-of-nuclear-fallout-from-above-ground-nuclea.html
September 2, 2013
Japan: Japan shuts down nuclear reactor in preparation for inspection.
One of Japan’s two remaining working nuclear reactors was taken offline Tuesday, with the other to be shut down later this month and no restarts in sight amid public hostility to nuclear power.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/02/japan-shuts-down-nuclear-reactor-in-preparation-for-inspection/
September 2, 2013
Fukushima: Fukushima water release unavoidable: Japan nuke watchdog
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/fukushima-water-release-unavoidable-japan-nuke-watchdog-413322
September 1, 2013
Fukushima affecting US:Fukushima’s Radioactive Plume Could Reach U.S. Waters By 2014.
About 25 percent of the radioactivity initially released will travel to the Indian Ocean and South Pacific over two to three decades after the Fukushima disaster, the model showed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01/fukushima-radioactive-plume_n_3853604.html?utm_hp_ref=green
September 1, 2013
Fukushima: Fukushima radiation levels ’18 times higher’ than thought.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23918882
September 1, 2013
Fukushima: Radiation levels of up to 1,800 millisieverts per hour have been detected at four locations at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201309010021
August 31, 2013
Fukushima:New Fukushima tank leaks – levels as high as 1.8 Sv/hr. It went from a 100 mSv/h detected leak on Aug 22 to a 1.8 Sv/h leak today. Leaks this high will complicate work to deal with the tanks.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11333
August 31, 2013
Fukushima farmers: Fukushima farmers negotiate with Japanese Government.
http://nuclear-news.net/2013/09/01/fukushima-farmers-negotiate-with-japanese-government/
August 31, 2013
Fukushima: High radiation readings suggest new tank water leak at Fukushima.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/09/243727.html
August 31, 2013
Columbia Reactor: At the top of the wage scale this year and last year is Mark Reddemann, Energy Northwest’s chief executive officer, with a base salary of about $624,000 — up almost 16 percent from last year. That salary is within the range of what the nuclear industry pays CEOs, said Sid Morrison, chairman of the Energy Northwest executive board. It also reflects the success of the Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant under Reddemann’s leadership.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/31/2551281/meet-the-money-makers-a-look-at.html#storylink=cpy
August 30, 2013
USA: Group sues NRC to get documents that could show cover-up of flood concerns at Oconee reactors.
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130830/NEWS/308300066/NRC-sued-over-documents-related-Oconee-Nuclear
August 30, 2013
Fukushima: Contamination levels skyrocket at Fukushima plant, up nearly 2,000% — NHK: Quadrillions of becquerels already released; “Gov’t needs to take charge entirely”.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsline/201308302000.html
August 30, 2013
Fukushima: 400 tons of radioactive water are spilling every single day.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518801/how-the-fukushima-ice-barrier-will-block-radioactive-groundwater/
August 30, 2013
Nuclear waste: Sen. Ron Wyden deserves support on nuclear waste safety: Guest opinion.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/08/sen_ron_wyden_deserves_support.html
August 30. 2013
Fukushima: Why Fukushima is worse than you think.
Nuclear Consultant on CNN: “Nobody knows how far the molten fuel went through containment” at Fukushima — “Challenges of unprecedented complexity”.
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/30/why-fukushima-is-worse-than-you-think/
August 30, 2013
Fukushima: Ag-110m detected from 8 of 8 crab samples from 20km radius area of Fukushima nuclear plant port.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/ag-110m-detected-from-8-of-8-crab-samples-from-20km-radius-area-of-fukushima-nuclear-plant-port/
August 30, 2013
Nuclear waste: Fukushima’s continuing struggles raise questions about America’s nuclear waste storage.
http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/fukushima-s-continuing-struggles-raise-questions-about-america-s-nuclear-waste-storage-14875.html
August 30, 2013
Fukushima affecting us: How concerned should we be about Fukushima? Arjun Makhijani and Arnie Gundersen.
http://fairewinds.org/media/radio/concerned-fukushima
August 30, 2013
Fukushima: Experts on Fukushima Unit 4* CNBC: “Far from under control, could get a lot worse” – Japan Times: “Could very quickly get much worse” – CNN: “Could still get a lot worse” — “Tokyo, Yokohama, even neighboring countries at serious risk” (VIDEO)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/08/29/commentary/government-must-take-over-fukushima-nuclear-cleanup/#.UiIhfY4QF_i
August 29, 2013
Just say no to nuclear power – from Fukushima to Vermont
Fukushima showed us the intolerable costs of nuclear power. The citizens of Vermont show us the benefits of shutting it down.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/29/nuclear-power-dangers-fukushima-vermont
August 29, 2013
Fukushima: ABCNews: The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has admitted that it failed to notice a serious leak of highly radioactive water from one of the site’s storage tanks for what it says was ‘probably’ a month. The leak of 300 tonnes of extremely contaminated water has now been officially designated a ‘Level Three’ nuclear incident scale.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-29/shock-at-tepcos-announcement-that-they-did-not/4922468
August 29, 2013
Fukushima: Will Fukushima now officially be referred to as worst nuclear disaster in world history? Study estimates Japan plant released 100 quadrillion becquerels (PBq) of cesium into atmosphere… In a single day.(evaluated by enenews)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10512-012-9541-6
August 29, 2013
Fukushima:NHK: There was a melt-through so Fukushima fuel is definitely down with the groundwater, and that’s flowing into Pacific — Americans need to watch, it gets international very quickly — May already be at West Coast — No ‘immediate’ risk (VIDEO).
http://www.dw.de/fish-stocks-threatened-by-fukushima-leaks/a-17017871
August 29, 2013
Japan:Officials at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have admitted to the NRA that they are storing 406 tons of highly radioactive liquid waste at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant in Ibaraki Prefecture. Although JAEA plans to treat the waste and eventually bury it, that process could take up to 20 years. In the meantime, if an earthquake or tsunami were to shut down power at the plant, 100 billion Becquerels of radioactive materials could be released into the atmosphere within 24 hours.
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2013082900945
August 29, 2013
Fukushima: Professor: Fukushima disaster “beyond a cover-up” — Japan gov’t thinks they can get away with tricking masses about extent of problem — Officials and Tepco cannot be trusted, they are lying to the camera.
http://www.newstalk.ie/Are-the-Japanese-government-lying-about-Fukushima-fallout
August 29, 2013
Health: Safe’ Levels of Environmental Pollution May Have Long-Term Health Consequences.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130829112852.htm
August 28, 2013
Good News: Vermont Yankee Joins the Tsunami of U.S. Reactor Shutdowns.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/vermont_yankee_joins_the_tsunami_of_us_reactor_shut-downs_20130828/
August 28, 2013
Fukushima: Fukushima worker “Tepco had to choose vulnerable flange type of the tanks for the shortage of workers.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/fukushima-worker-tepco-had-to-choose-vulnerable-flange-type-of-the-tanks-for-the-shortage-of-workers/
August 28, 2013
>Good News: In Victory for Activists, Entergy to Close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant; Will More Follow?
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/28/in_victory_for_activists_entergy_to
August 28, 2013]
Fukushima affecting us: Fukushima radioactive plume to reach US in three years after the event. (2014)
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-fukushima-radioactive-plume-years.html
August 28, 2013
Fires: Fires are a particular concern for nuclear power plants as they can can damage generators used for shutdown procedures as well as lead to emissions of radioactive substances, Niel told Le Parisien.
http://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/london/french-nuclear-power-plants-must-improve-fire-26220147
August 28, 2013
Good News: US nuclear power: meltdown.
Falling natural gas prices are spurring a nuclear shutdown. Fracked Nation shows how the gas industry is going to cause a housing and commercial property meltdown too in 34 fracking states.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/c783fdf8-1005-11e3-a258-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html
August 28, 2013
Japan: Experts urge Japan to break away from ‘failed’ nuclear reprocessing program.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201308280071
August 28, 2013
Fukushima fishermen: Fukushima crisis new blow to fishermen’s hopes. Fishermen from Fukushima Prefecture, whose livelihoods have been decimated by the nuclear disaster, are stepping up their efforts to urge the government to intervene.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308280085
August 27, 2013
Fukushima lawsuit: For the first time, victims who were forced to evacuate their homes as a result of the Fukushima nuclear crisis filed a lawsuit against TEPCO and the government in Western Japan. They are seeking damages in the amount of one billion yen ($10 million) for psychological stress, loss of their former living situations, forced evacuations, and in some cases, damage to homes. The case charges that government officials failed to take necessary safety measures. “My life was destroyed by the accident. I want to pursue the responsibility of the central government and TEPCO through the lawsuit,” said Katsutoshi Sato, one of the plaintiffs.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308270069
August 27, 2013
Fukushima: [Fuel removal of reactor4 pool] Tepco released the debris map of SFP4 -Complete mess.
August 27, 2013
Fukushima:Tepco Faces 132 Olympic Pools Worth of Radioactive Water. Experts: Fukushima “literally a matter of national security” — “This is becoming rapidly an international issue” — “Something must be failing” as Japan gov’t not dealing with crisis.
August 27, 2013
Fukushima affecting us: Gundersen: Radioactive plume to impact West Coast in a year — Not going away after it hits… likely to only get stronger — Fukushima will keep releasing contamination for years to come — Must demand officials test fish and make data public (AUDIO).
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/breaking-news-entergy-pulling-plug-vermont-yankee
August 27, 2013
Good news: Entergy to Close, Decommission Vermont Yankee. Closed for economic reasons.
If a meltdown occurs on a river, it would be much worse than on the ocean.
Radioactive plume heading our way in a year is 10x more radioactive than the ocean was before Fukushima.
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130827-906108.html
August 27, 2013
Good news: Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to shut down.
The company blamed a variety of factors, including the boom in natural gas that has driven down natural gas and wholesale energy prices, the high cost of operating the plant, and what it called wholesale market “design flaws.” The company blamed a variety of factors, including the boom in natural gas that has driven down natural gas and wholesale energy prices, the high cost of operating the plant, and what it called wholesale market “design flaws.”
August 27, 2013
Good news: Entergy pulling the plug on Vermont Yankee
http://fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.com/files/podcast_August_27_2013.mp3
August 27, 2013
Fukushima affecting us: “Fukushima: At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over”.
http://sprinterlife.com/2013/08/fukushima.html
August 26, 2013
Fracked Nation
Fracking Chemical Cocktail and Mr. Drill attend “The Toxies Exposed” premiere August 15 and reveal their designs on Southern California. Frackie has quietly made herself at home in the Southland and in 34 states raising gas and controversy. It made perfect sense that Frackie would wow the crowd and press at film premiere which she sees as vindication for all the bad press she’s gotten. Fracking Chemical Cocktail’s drinks look almost as good as she does. So confident is Frackie that she shares her deepest “fracktastic” plans.EnviroReporter.com has found that a little known new threat posed by fracking is slowly becoming known in addition to the already established menaces of groundwater contamination, huge water usage, methane gas releases and fracking induced earthquakes.
Fracking also threatens the very value and marketability of real estate, so much so that major insurance companies are not renewing homeowner insurance policies on properties that have been fracked or are near fracking. Lenders will not loan money on property that has potential for hazardous activity and contamination issues meaning that the land owner is truly fracked. The land becomes uninsurable and unsellable making it worthless.
August 26, 2013
Fukushima: Nuclear Engineer: Estimated 276 quadrillion Bq of Cs-137 entered Fukushima basements — Triple Chernobyl total release — A portion “has already made its way to aquifer, whence it can easily flow into sea”.
Cesium-137: 276 PBq (i.e. 40 percent of the reactor core inventory)
[…] about 2.5 to 3.3 times, depending on the estimate, the total amount released into the environment from the Chernobyl accident.
http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/World-Nuclear-Report-2013.html
August 26, 2013
Good news: We are about halfway” to the president’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and “about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector.”
August 26, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation update
Michael Collins Radiation Update August 26, 2013: Fast and furious show as Fukushima triple meltdowns’ “Lost Coriums” sink deeper into the ground, they are impacting the groundwater which is directly leaking into Pacific with astonishing radiation readings. Japan asks for international help for first time publicly as situation out of control. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences showed that radiation on the West Coast of North America could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan by 2016. Michael postulates that this is true for the radiation leaking now but in three years, he predicts the radiation gushing out of Fukushima will even dwarf today’s unbelievable numbers with the result that after 2019, the cesium-134 and cesium-137 off the West Coast will make even 2016’s numbers seem enviable. Jeff figures his 400 tons of radioactive goo sloshing into the Pacific is low. Intense and deep discussion of how this is ruining the Pacific and all the unfortunate flora and fauna in it. “Fracked Nation,” Michael’s new article is discussed showing how EnviroReporter.com has found that a little known new threat posed by fracking is slowly becoming known in addition to the already established menaces of groundwater contamination, huge water usage, methane gas releases and fracking induced earthquakes. Fracking also threatens the very value and marketability of real estate, so much so that major insurance companies are not renewing homeowner insurance policies on properties that have been fracked or are near fracking. Lenders will not loan money on property that has potential for hazardous activity and contamination issues meaning that the land owner is truly fracked. The land becomes uninsurable and unsellable making it worthless. Once that happens, these same oil and gas companies, as well as the insurers and lenders, will be able to scoop up huge swaths of land for pennies on the dollar. This is news that homeowners over frackable oil and gas better pay attention to. We certainly will and won’t let up covering the story.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_082613.mp3
August 26, 2013
Fukushima: Incidences of Thyroid Cancer on the Rise among Fukushima Children.
The number of under-18s in Fukushima Prefecture diagnosed with thyroid cancer has increased to 12, while the number of possible cases has reached 15, according to Kolnet, an online media source focused on the Tohoku region of Japan.
August 25, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fatal Flaws in Fukushima Water Tanks Found.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11300
August 24, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Contamination now spiking in seawater off Fukushima plant — Asahi reports 8 to 18-fold increase in a week.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308240067
August 24, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Toxic Water From Fukushima Spreads to the Pacific Ocean. A single puddle of water from the leaking storage tank is now emitting 100 millisieverts an hour of radiation. That is, the water is so contaminated that, if you were standing 50 centimeters away from it, after one hour you’d be exposed to five times the dose limit for Japanese workers.
http://www.care2.com/causes/yes-toxic-water-from-fukushima-spreads-to-the-pacific-ocean.html#ixzz2czmV2jph
August 23, 2013
Fukushima affecting us: Highly Regarded Physician: The salmon migrate through radioactive plumes coming off Fukushima, then we catch them on Canada’s shores — Concerned about lack of testing — Officials “rely on Japan for test results”
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/World/ID/2402715481/
August 23, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: NYT:Opposition lawmakers here have demanded that [Prime Minister Shinzo] Abe stay home and declare a state of emergency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/world/asia/nuclear-operator-raises-alarm-on-crisis.html?_r=1&
August 23, 2013
Fukushiam: Citizen Scientists In The Fukushima Fallout Zone – Safecast
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/23/citizen-scientists-fukushima
August 23, 2013
Fukushima affecting us: “Fish and water have shown signs of Fukushima contamination” in U.S. Northwest — Officials to start radiation testing of steelhead and salmon due to news from Japan — NOAA: Nuclear plant leaks “a surprise to everybody, we weren’t aware of it” (VIDEO)
http://www.king5.com/video?id=220592691&sec=549122
August 23, 2013
Canadian Food Inspection Agency says they will test fish “if warranted”.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/World/ID/2402715481/
August 23, 2013
Greenpeace update: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for August 20th to August 22nd, 2013.
Econcomic impacts:
Fisheries cooperatives for Iwaki and Soma-Futaba have voluntarily halted test fishing indefinitely, recognizing that the public has lost faith in the safety of their seafood. And, Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese ambassador to Switzerland, has called for the withdrawal of Tokyo’s bid to host the winter Olympic games.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-august-20/blog/46342/
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: “Tepco Has Lost Control” – What Is Really Happening At Fukushima In Four Charts.
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/477904
August 22, 2013
Good news: Why the U.S. Power Grid’s Days Are Numbered
He says that in about the time it has taken cell phones to supplant land lines in most U.S. homes, the grid will become increasingly irrelevant as customers move toward decentralized homegrown green energy. Rooftop solar, in particular, is turning tens of thousands of businesses and households into power producers.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-22/homegrown-green-energy-is-making-power-utilities-irrelevant
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Dumps 30 TRILLION Bq Radioactive Water. (some tongue in cheek but not a bad overview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpEbHAVd2vg&feature=em-subs_digest
August 22, 2013
Ron Wyden interviewed on Think Outloud.
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/summer-recess-conversation-ron-wyden/
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: BBC:Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe.
Dr Ken Buesseler is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has examined the waters around Fukushima.
“It is not over yet by a long shot, Chernobyl was in many ways a one week fire-explosive event, nothing with the potential of this right on the ocean.”
“We’ve been saying since 2011 that the reactor site is still leaking whether that’s the buildings and the ground water or these new tank releases. There’s no way to really contain all of this radioactive water on site.”
“Once it gets into the ground water, like a river flowing to the sea, you can’t really stop a ground water flow. You can pump out water, but how many tanks can you keep putting on site?”
Several scientists also raised concerns about the vulnerability of the huge amount of stored water on site to another earthquake.
The quantities of water [TEPCO is] dealing with are absolutely gigantic. What is worse is that the water leakage is everywhere else—it’s not just [coming] from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that. It is much worse than we have been led to believe, much worse.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Water releasing as much as 10 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has flowed into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Co. estimates.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/22/national/rate-of-radioactive-flow-to-pacific-alarming/#.Uhjr8o4QEoJ
August 22, 2013
Hanford: Investigation into Abnormal Radiological Reading at Hanford.
http://www.kplu.org/post/investigation-abnormal-radiological-reading-hanford
August 22,2013
Hanford: A comparison of Hanford and Fukishima Daichi nuclear issues Tom Carpenter and Paul Gunter.
http://www.kboo.org/content/acomparisonofhanfordandfukishimadaichinuclearissues
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Tepco “30,000,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 and Sr-90 leaked to the Pacific” / 30,000,000,000 Bq still leaking per day.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/tepco-30000000000000-bq-of-cs-137-and-sr-90-leaked-to-the-pacific-30000000000-bq-still-leaking-per-day/
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima operator pleads for international help as radiation crisis deepens.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-international-iaea-leak-866
August 22, 2013
Fukushima: Citizens and Tepco bid farewell to Mr. Masao Yoshida, who died of esophagus cancer on July 9, 2013.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/08/tepco-and-citizens-thanked-and-bid.html
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima disaster worsens, Japan sends first international SOS.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/japan/2013/8/22/fukushima-disaster-worsens-japan-sends-first-international-s.html
August 22, 2013
Human Rights:Can nuclear power ever comply with the human right to health? Part III.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radiation-health-whats-new/2013/8/22/can-nuclear-power-ever-comply-with-the-human-right-to-health.html
August 22, 2013
Worst-case scenario’ at Fukushima
Fukushima getting worse: The Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority said the cascading series of radioactive water leaks from the Fukushima plant is approaching a worst case scenario.
[Tepco] warned there may be hundreds more tanks like [the one leaking] on the site of the 2011 meltdown.
“We cannot waste even a minute,” [Chairman of the Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority Shunichi Tanaka] said. “This is what we have been fearing.” […]
Atsunao Marui, director of research at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, said the situation is likely to get worse.
“It’s important to think of the worst-case scenario,” he said.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2013/08/22/Worst-case-scenario-at-Fukushima/UPI-63001377171938/
August 22, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Media now exposing Fukushima cover-up: “So many terrible things are not being reported” — Official radiation figures cannot be trusted — Regulator suspects Tepco giving false data — Problems much worse than officials claim.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561
August 22, 2013
U.S. Waste Issue: Environmental coalition challenges NRC on high-level radioactive waste storage risks.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste/?SSScrollPosition=0
August 22, 2013
Earthquakes: Megaquake aftershocks pose lasting danger – Tokyo, Santiago at risk after megaquakes 400 kilometres away
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/08/22/science-megaquake-aftershock-danger.html
August 21, 2013
Fukushima affecting us: West Coast of North America to Be Hit Hard by Fukushima Radiation.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-08-21/west-coast-north-america-be-hit-hard-fukushima-radiation
August 21, 2013
Good news: FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff: Solar ‘Is Going to Overtake Everything’.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ferc-chair-wellinghoff-sees-a-solar-future-and-a-utility-of-the-future
August 21, 2013
Canadian gov’t now plans to start radiation testing on fish off B.C. coast.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/food/2013/8/21/canadian-govt-now-plans-to-start-radiation-testing-on-fish-o.html
August 21, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Japan official: it’s a “house of horrors” as Fukushima threat level raised. More storage tanks believed leaking highly radioactive water.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-japan-fukushima-severity-idUSBRE97K02B20130821
August 21, 2013
We need to consider this: Time to Amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
The lesson is to end the Atomic Energy Act’s grant of exclusive federal jurisdiction over radiation hazards and to amend the Act to empower states to mothball their nukes for reasons of public health and safety.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/21/the-dark-lesson-of-entergy-v-shumlin/
August 21, 2013
Fukushima getting worse; Nuclear leak could ‘begin new disaster’.
http://www.dailymail.com/News/201308210121
August 21, 2013
Hanford: Richland Company Working On Ground Water Sensor. A carcinogen called hexavalent chromium has been an environmental problem in many places, including the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. – Remember Erin Brockovich?
http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-richland-company-working-on-ground-water-sensor/
August 21, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Japan to issue gravest warning since quake on Fukushima nuclear plant leaks.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/world/asia/japan-nuclear-leak-warning
August 20, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Worse than Chernobyl: The inner threat of Fukushima crisis. Busby
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/worse-than-chernobyl-the-inner-threat-of-fukushima-crisis/
August 20, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: 8 Fukushima children diagnosed with thyroid cancer / 44 malignant cases reported.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/breaking-18-fukushima-children-diagnosed-with-thyroid-cancer-44-malignant-cases-reported/
August 20, 2013
Fukushikma getting worse: 300m3, 24,000,000,000,000 Bq of β nuclide released / still keeps leaking.
“From their announcement, one of the tanks (No.5) lost 1/3 of the stocked water, which is approx. 300 tones.”
Most of the leaked water has travelled out of the local dam. The total amount of leaking β nuclide is 24,000,000,000,000 Bq. The total amount of leaking Cesium-134 is 13,800,000,000 Bq. The total amount of leaking Cesium-137 is 30,000,000,000.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/tank-leakage-300m3-24000000000000-bq-of-β-nuclide-released-still-keeps-leaking/
August 20, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Radiation levels found in one of the puddles are the highest found in the two and a half years since the reactors were destroyed. According to TEPCO, the leaked water contains 80 million Becquerel of beta radiation per liter. One location measured over 100 milliSievert per hour of radiation dose.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/someone-needs-to-urgently-teach-tepco-a-lesso/blog/46313/
August 20,2013
CGS Event notification #49290.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2013/20130820en.html
August 19, 2013
Good news: A Solar System Is Installed in the US Every 4 Minutes
The industry will soon install one solar system every minute and a half.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/america-installs-a-solar-system-every-four-minutes
August 19, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update August 19, 2013: This may be the finest hour-long special in the last 2.5 years. Associated Press picks up on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory story with alternative headlines betraying battle of Boeing PR flack Gary Polakovic and the residents fighting for the agreed-upon comprehensive cleanup to background levels of rads and chems. AP not fooled by Polakovic’s meltdown makeover of SSFL with Girl Scouts and disadvantaged youths the target of Boeing photo ops at lab. Three 100-ton meltdown coriums ‘missing’ at Fukushima as radiation readings higher in last week than at any time during the meltdown. 125 liters of intensely hot goo found outside Unit 4 with damaged spent fuel pool that will destroy Tokyo if it collapses and catches fire. SPF 4 has 14,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of cesium-137 alone. Radiation readings pick up sharply in San Francisco and San Diego. New Dept. of Defense study by University of Texas research assistant says all reactor complexes, spent fuel pools and nuclear weapons storage depots are vulnerable to terrorists. Flawed study misses the most obvious weakenesses but does show that subject itself isn’t taboo in DOD circles, an important consideration in surveillance state where executive branch targets journalists. EnviroReporter.com study will break mold on issue. New Freedom of Information Act documents show coverup of Fukushima triple meltdowns in US with West Coast pounded with fallout in early days of ongoing triple meltdown begun March 11, 2011. Over 100 Ohio earthquakes near nuke plant on Great Lakes caused by fracking in official new study. Columbia Generating Station, a version of the Fukushima reactor design, can be hit with earthquake over three times its design limit according to Dept. of Energy report. Northwest activists want it shut down.
August 19, 2013
Good news:The hallmark of the future of nuclear power right now is uncertainty.
Utilities largely have backed off any rush to forge ahead in constructing the next generation of expensive, new nuclear reactor plants — even though they seemed plausible just a few years ago.
http://www.thestate.com/2013/08/19/2927964/doubts-dampen-scs-nuclear-future.html
August 19, 2013
NRC: Indian Point 2 can operate during license renewal (!)
As NIRS put it – “License? You don’t need no stinking license to run a nuclear reactor at Indian Point…”
August 19, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Tritium Measurement In Fukushima Bay Highest Ever As TEPCO Admits 40 Trillion Becquerels Have Spilled Into Pacific.
August 19, 2013
Joseph Mangano/RPHP report on radioactivity releases from Palisades and increased death rates in the surrounding area.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/8/19/joseph-manganorphp-report-on-radioactivity-releases-from-pal.html
August 19, 2013
Nuclear waste: British nuclear plant needs 90 years for decommissioning after 26 years in operation.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1409b33bd27eb463
August 19, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Radiation levels in Fukushima bay highest since measurements began – reports 4700 Bq/l.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-sea-radiation-highest-686/
August 19, 2013
Fukushima:More Than Two Years After Meltdown, Doubt and Fear Remain Over Fukushima’s Safety.
Two-and-a-half years after an earthquake and tsunami rocked the Fukushima plant and spewed radioactive waste across the region, tens of thousands of evacuees still live in a fugue of fear and confusion.(Noteworthy because this was published in Time Magazine that has all but ignored the Fukushima disaster and because it shows what could happen here if CGS melted down.)
August 19, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: 11 Facts About The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Holocaust That Are Almost Too Horrifying To Believe.
August 18, 2013
Fukushima could get even worse:Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-apocalypse-fuel-removal-598/
August 18, 2013
Fukushkma getting worse: Fukushima nightmare: An atmospheric scientist and a medical scientist sound alarm.
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/fukushima-nightmare-atmospheric.html
August 18, 2013
Fukushima: Tepco’s Pre-Disaster Past shows that nothing has changed.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11231
August 17, 2013
Nuclear terrorism: Best Way to Prevent Terrorist Attack on Nuclear Facilities? Close Them.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/17-1
August 17, 2013
Fukushima: EDITORIAL: Clearer government role needed for Fukushima cleanup.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201308170027
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: Nuclear crisis reaching critical stage. (mainstream media Canadian report)
“The seriousness of the situation cannot be overstated. It is truly a global crisis. A host of observers have called for a team of the world’s top scientists to take over the entire clean-up, especially in light of Tepco’s miserable track record of missteps and misinformation.
But the danger of “radiological disaster” from Reactor Four is real. For the Japanese it’s a living nightmare, and for the west coast of North America, it is a legitimate threat.”
“If we had a responsible government, we would be told about the risks from Reactor Four. People could take measures to protect themselves and their families in the event that an earthquake or blunder by Tepco caused the unspeakable to occur.”
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: Highest contamination levels yet in seawater off Fukushima plant — 3,800 Bq/liter of tritium.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2013/images/2tb-east_13081601-e.pdf
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: Greenpeace Nuclear Crisis Update for 13 August to 15 August 2013.
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: Tepco is talking with the DOE on whether cocooning could work for the crippled reactors in Fukushima. Sealing them off in concrete for 75 years would allow more focus on cleaning up surrounding areas.
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: Cesium levels in Fukushima water 8 times higher than after disaster. 11,600 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter of contaminated water in a tunnel near the No. 1 reactor building on the side facing the ocean. But the amount detected is roughly one-100,000th of that found in radioactive water in a tunnel near the No. 2 reactor building.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308160041
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: 110,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium from sub-drain of reactor1.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/110000000-bqm3-of-tritium-from-sub-drain-of-reactor1/
August 16, 2013
Fukushima: TEPCO is currently trying to strike a deal with Hanford and the DOE to help in the Fukushima decommissioning process.
http://japandailypress.com/wwii-atomic-bomb-maker-offers-expertise-for-fukushima-cleanup-1634044/
August 15, 2013
Podcast re Three Miles Island.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest
August 15, 2013
Nuclear terrorism: All U.S. nuclear reactors vulnerable to terrorism, probe finds.
The Northwest’s only nuclear power plant, Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station near Richland, was tested for public safety by NRC officials last year, Energy Northwest spokeswoman Angela Walz said.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/15/2523464/all-us-nuclear-reactors-vulnerable.html
August 15, 2013
Nuclear terrorism: Nuclear Reactors in U.S. Seen at Risk of Terrorist Attack.
August 15, 2013
Nuclear terrorism: Protecting U.S. Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack: Re-assessing the Current “Design Basis Threat” Approach.
http://blogs.utexas.edu/nppp/files/2013/08/NPPP-working-paper-1-2013-Aug-15.pdf
August 15, 2013
Nuclear waste: Legacy for our future children – new nuclear waste poster.
http://www.vancouvermonitoring.blogspot.ca/2013/08/legacy-for-our-future-children.html
August 15, 2013
Nuclear injustice served: three objectionable rulings in three days on Davis-Besse, Yucca Mountain, and Vermont Yankee.
August 14, 2013
Top U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility to Be Powered by the Wind.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-u-s-nuclear-weapons-facility-to-be-powered-by-the-wind/5345952
August 14, 2013
Nuclear terrorism:
U.S. nuclear facilities vulnerable to terrorist attack: study.
August 14, 2013
Fukushima: Currently, officials estimate that the trench is holding approximately 210 tons of extremely contaminated water, which contains 2.35 billion Bq/liter of cesium; 750 million Bq/liter of radioactive substances, including strontium; and 8.7 million Bq/liter of tritium.
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2013081400940
August 14, 2013
Our Voice: State should keep public informed about safety issues at Hanford – keeping silent is not the way to handle public safety issues.
(So Tri City Herald should want to know the safety issues at the reactor)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/14/2519540/our-voice-state-should-keep-public.html
August 14, 2013
Fukushima: Letting Tepco “Clean Up” Fukushima Is Like Letting a Murderer Do Brain Surgery On a VIP.
August 14, 2013
Fukushima: Reuters: Corrosion is weakening Unit No. 4 at Fukushima — Concern quake to ‘topple’ bulging structure — “May have tilted” — Holds 14,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of cesium-137.
August 14, 2013
Canadian party line: Fukushima radiation leak not a concern to Canada, officials say.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/08/20130814-211703.html
August 14, 2013
Fukushima: Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-japan-fukushima-insight-idINBRE97D00M20130814
August 13, 2013
Nuclear waste: Resistance mounts to Canadian Great Lakes radioactive waste dump.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactive-waste-whatsnew/2013/8/15/mi-state-senator-hopgood-releases-video-and-petition-against.html
August 13, 2013
Fukushima: Last week, levels of radioactive tritium in samples collected near reactor #1 spiked sharply, measuring 34,000 Bq/liter—far higher than that of samples collected near reactors #3 and #4, which measured between 210 and 1,500 Bq/liter.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130813p2a00m0na017000c.html
August 13, 2013
Nuclear waste:Federal appeals court orders White House to move forward on Yucca Mountain nuclear dump.
August 13, 2013
Good news: California Sets (another) Solare Generation Record.
http://energymediasociety.com/2013/08/13/california-sets-another-solar-generation-record
August 13, 2013
Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #12: Finding Stuff in ADAMS.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/nuclear-energy-activist-toolkit-12-finding-stuff-in-adams/
August 12, 2013
Fukushima: The Danger at Fukushima Grows Even Worse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/the-danger-at-fukushima_b_3734655.html
August 12, 2013
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Is Using Obviously Faulty Models to Pretend Crumbling Nuclear Reactors Are Safe.
August 12, 2013
NRC on Earthquakes: Dealing with the Possibility: Nuclear Power Plants and Earthquakes
August 12, 2013
Fukushima: They are turning ground into quicksand at Fukushima plant — Engineers warn reactor units may topple.
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2013/08/daily-topics-monday-august-12th-2013
August 12, 2013
Fukushima: CBC Radio Fukushima Failure: Admitting to a leak.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/ID/2400360251/
August 12, 2013
South Korea’s decision to keep four nuclear reactors offline because of faked safety reports.
In Yangnam, Lee, head of the local branch of Nonghyup, the nationwide cooperative federation of farmers, says concern that nuclear power isn’t safe is damaging sales of the area’s rice and other farm produce.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/False+reports+after+Fukushima/8777438/story.html
August 11, 2013
Fukushikma: Tritium density jumped up 150% in 2 days on the seaside of reactor1
23,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium on the seaside of reactor1.
August 11, 2013
Fukushima: Radioactive cesium in seawater by Fukushima has gone from 71 million to 200 bq/litre in two years.(Long blog by ex-skf that may be reassuring)
“Off-handed remark of “300 tonnes of contaminated water leaking every day” by a career bureaucrat from the most powerful government ministry in Japan. The remark was actually a mere assumption by the official and his office but was reported as “fact”. It is safe, I believe, to assume that the highly contaminated water that still exists in the trenches and which has radioactive cesium in billions of becquerels per liter is not leaking in great quantity into the seawater yet.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/08/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-historical.html
August 11, 2013
Bleeding herring discovery alarms B.C. marine biologist.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2013/08/11/bleeding-herring-discovery-alarms-bc-marine-biologist
August 11, 2013
Taiwan’s First Nuclear Power Plant In Shihmen May Have Been Leaking Radioactive Water For 3 Years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/taiwan-nuclear-power-plant-leak_n_3729659.html
August 11, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Tritium density jumped up 150% in 2 days on the seaside of reactor1.
August 11, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: S. Korean Editorial: The Japanese government has finally acknowledged that highly radioactive water has been pouring out at a rate of 300 tons a day from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. That means about 270,000 tons [270,000,000 liters] of contaminated water has flowed into the Pacific Ocean over nearly two-and-a-half years. […]
It defies understanding how Japan has hid this regional, if not global, issue of environmental concern from its neighbors.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/08/12/0200000000AEN20130812000300315.html
August 11, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:“Nuclear leaks poison the Pacific” — “We’re talking about the Pacific Ocean, so it’s not just Fukushima that’s affected” — “Criticism will be worldwide” if contamination keeps flowing from plant. The earthquake and tsunami that hit Fukushima have left a lingering toxic legacy and despondent fishermen denouncing ‘act of treason’
August 11, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima operator begins to pump out toxic groundwater.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/18445774/fukushima-operator-pumps-out-toxic-groundwater/
August 11,2013
Banned from the internet in 1998. 2.5 minute aired once and banned cartoon explains the nuclear industry/Fukushima .
August 11, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: NBC Nightly News: Urgent situation after frightening discovery at Fukushima — Planned ice wall shows Tepco is grasping at straws and can’t stop plant leaking like a sieve — Now almost 900 straight days of contamination flowing in Pacific (VIDEO).
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/52718251/#52718251
August 10, 2013
Nuclear waste: Viewpoints: Nuclear waste bill endangers public health.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/20/5581319/nuclear-waste-bill-endangers-public.html#storylink=cpy
August 10, 2013
Nuclear waste: Sensible waste storage needed.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/28/5600122/sensible-waste-storage-needed.html
see also:
Feinstein’s nuclear waste legislation is a start Published: Friday, Aug. 2, 2013
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/02/5611790/nuclear-waste-legislation.html
August 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Cover-up Fails.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/mike-mish-shedlock/fukushima-cover-up-fails/
August 10, 2013
Senior Scientist: Plume of Fukushima nuclear material from March 2011 to hit U.S. West Coast within a year — Will go on for years, as contamination has been released since disaster began.
August 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Fukushima’s radioactive spill merits serious concern here. By Danny Steinberg, West Vancouver, B.C.
August 9, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Interview with Dr Ken Buesseler, senior scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute,.
“Different isotopes that are radioactive are shifting from being predominantly a caesium concern early on to what might be different isotopes, including strontium 90, if you know something about these isotopes, they accumulate differently in fish and in parts of our bodies, so strontium is called the bone seeking isotope, because it looks like there’s calcium in the fish and in our bone, so it has a more long term affect and potentially different health affect to the caesium that’s been released earlier.”
August 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Nuclear Expert: Fukushima Is ‘Emergency Without End’.
Arjun Makhijani PBS interview: Radioactive strontium being released is ‘likely to be a seaside nightmare for decades.’30 times more strontium-90 than cesium at Fukushima… and strontium is “much more dangerous… this is a problem” — Researchers far from plant “surprised by how much continuing radioactivity they found” — Like “ongoing experiment.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec13/japan2_08-08.html
August 9, 2013
Shocked UNSCEAR members in Belgium protest “It even goes back behind the lessons of Chernobyl and other studies.”
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/08/shocked-unscear-members-in-belgium_9.html
August 9, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Paul Gunter on Fukushima nuclear waste still leaking into Pacific . Radioactive cesium strontium hydrogen and tritium – 300 – 400 metric tons per day ” We’re seeing a full range of radioactive contaminants now moving, which indicate that the damaged cores of these reactors — the meltdowns themselves — are now contributing to the contamination in the Pacific Ocean and groundwater. […]”
Right now we’re seeing the Japanese government is in chaos.
The fact that the revelation of this extensive contamination is coming now — more than two years after the accident occurred — indicates that it’s completely out of control. […]
Indications are right now that the reactor structures themselves have been breached.
It’s very likely that some of the radioactive material — the melted cores — have moved into the earth.
So it’s beyond containment right now.
I think that’s the tragedy that we see unfolding as Fukushima’s radioactive water crisis is only beginning. […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYB1TTV-v3U
August 9, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: U.N. agency says it’s monitoring Fukushima and ready to help on request.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/japan-fukushima-iaea-idUSL6N0GA3HO20130809
August 9, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: China Syndrome Emergency at Fukushima 8/6/13 update (Trouble Just Beginning)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3Oh1Vlit4&feature=em-subs_digest
August 9, 2013
Nuclear waste: Documentary on Nuclear Waste.
http://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/70110/
August 9, 2013
Canada:Nuclear power plant in Pickering gets five-year licence extension.
August 9, 2013
SMR: IEER Report: Small Modular Reactors a “Poor Bet” To Revive Failed Nuclear Renaissance in U.S.
August 8, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Greenpeace Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for 6 August to 8 August, 2013.
August 8, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese Who Are Anti-Nuclear Power. Found strontium 90 at levels 30 times higher than Cesium
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec13/japan2_08-08.html
August 8, 2013
Santa Susana Field Lab:State Stumbles over Illegal SSFL Radioactive Waste Disposal Allegations. By Michael Collins
August 8, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima leak: Japan government ‘to take measures’.
Be sure to scroll down to the end of the article and see the 12/12 slides
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23602362#story_continues_1
August 8, 2013
Nagasaki: Letter: Recall legacy of ‘Fat Man’ atom bomb drop and opt for change.
August 8, 2013
Three Mile Island:An Ominous Forecast: Black Rain.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/an-ominous-forecast-black-rain
August 8, 2013
Hiroshima: Daniel Ellsberg among 31 arrested at Livermore lab during Hiroshima Day protests.
August 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Gundersen: Fukushima reactors “will become unstable” if new barrier causes water buildup underground — Nuclear buildings could topple during quake.
August 8, 2013
Defective assemblies:Ukraine preparing to sue Westinghouse over defective nuclear fuel assemblies.
August 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: New radioactive “Emergency” in worsening Fukushima nuclear disaster . “cumulative 20 trillion to 40 trillion Becquerels of radioactive tritium had probably leaked into the sea”
August 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:There is no way to stop Fukushima radioactive water leaking into the Pacific.
August 7, 2013
Hope for Fukushikma: Fukushima: Consensus Trance and Our Right to Know.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fukushima-Consensus-Tranc-by-Julian-Gresser-Es-130807-253.html
August 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima leak worse than thought, govt joins clean-up.
Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.
August 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know (NIRS says “pretty good summary).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130807-fukushima-radioactive-water-leak
August 7, 2013
Nuclear Waste: Lochbaum Testimony on Waste Bill and Dry Casks.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/lochbaum-testimony-on-waste-bill-and-dry-casks/
August 6, 2013
U.S. Indian Point may close if Entergy loses water-use permit. Company proposes new screen-filtering system.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20130806/NEWS/308060066?nclick_check=1
August 6, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Wall St. Journal: Official warns Fukushima reactor buildings could “topple” — Tepco’s work to change flow of groundwater can form pools below surface that soften the earth
But there’s a risk to changing the flow of groundwater in the ways that Tepco is considering, said Tatsuya Shinkawa, nuclear accident response director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, at a news conference last month. The water could pool dangerously underground, softening the earth and potentially toppling the reactor buildings, he said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323420604578651713545887032.html
August 6, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: BBC: Water crisis at Fukushima has only just begun — “Plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer” — It’s rapidly being overwhelmed deep beneath ground (VIDEO).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23584008
August 6, 2013
Nuclear waste: US NRC approves publication of draft waste confidence rule.
August 6, 2013
Documentary: A2-B-C: A Documentary Film by Ian Thomas Ash.
http://fairewinds.org/demystifying/a2-b-c-a-documentary-film-by-ian-thomas-ash
August 6, 2013
Hiroshima Documentary of the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH9n2beSoLY
August 6, 2013
Hiroshima: Gen barefoot – Hiroshima – compelling and heartbreaking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfVn-19v09I
August 6, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:China Syndrome Emergency at Fukushima 8/6/13 update.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3Oh1Vlit4&feature=em-subs_digest
August 6, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: On BBC:Fukushima radioactive water leak an ’emergency’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23584008
August 6, 2013
Sun’s Magnetic Field Forecast to Flip by Year End.
“Such solar disturbances can cause geomagnetic storms in Earth’s magnetic field, affecting communications, power lines and satellites.”
http://ens-newswire.com/2013/08/06/suns-magnetic-field-forecast-to-flip-by-year-end/
August 6, 2013
Radioactive contamination ‘soaring’ in Fukushima groundwater — Strontium and other beta emitters up 4,500% in recent days; Cesium rises nearly 1,500% — Tepco says it doesn’t know why levels spiked (VIDEO).
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308060059
August 6, 2013
Fukushima drainage has 20,000 tons of water with radioactive substance – TEPCO.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radioactive-water-tons-121/
August 6, 2013
Oregon Health Officials: We are actively monitoring the situation in Japan — We are not ‘yet’ mobilizing in response to the news — We will respond with enhanced efforts as appropriate.
August 6, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Tepco Press Conference: The situation at Fukushima is bleak — “This discharge is beyond our control”.
The head of the country’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force Shinji Kinjo told Reuters that the leak was an emergency, but he was worried the plant’s operator, TEPCO, had no sense of how to deal with it. […]
http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=149925
August 5, 2013
田牧米に聞いてみました。 Q&A about California Rice.includes Comment from Marco Kaltofen about his highest reading
http://www.vancouvermonitoring.blogspot.ca/2013/08/q-about-california-rice.html
August 5, 2013
Boeing’s Meltdown Messhttps://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/08/boeings-meltdown-mess/“>https://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/08/boeings-meltdown-mess/
August 5, 2013
Michael Collins Radiatioin Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update August 5, 2013: Breaking news with “Boeing’s Meltdown Mess” with six environmental groups ready to sue Cal-EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control and Department of Public Health for allowing Boeing to demolish radioactive buildings including a plutonium fuel fabrication facility, recycling metal or sending to municipal dumps.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_080513.mp3
August 5, 2013
Hiroshima, Nagasai: Peace groups commemorate atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
The event, billed as “Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Hanford: A Tragic Connection,” takes place from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Japanese American Historical Plaza, opposite Northwest Couch Street at the park. The plutonium used in the bombs that leveled much of the two Japanese cities was created at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/158321-peace-groups-commemorate-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-nagasaki
August 5, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Barrier is breached at Fukushima says official — ‘Highly radioactive’ water entering ocean — Will flow ‘extremely fast’ if it reaches surface — Tepco sorry for trouble.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-japan-fukushima-panel-idUSBRE97408V20130805
August 5, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Watchdog Issues Fresh Fukushima Radioactivity Alert – “The radioactive discharge is out of control”.
http://www.ajc.com/videos/news/watchdog-issues-fresh-fukushima-radioactivity/v8G5p/
August 5, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: 9,640 Fukushima plant workers reach radiation level for leukemia compensation. TEPCO figures showed that 19,592 people worked at the Fukushima No. 1 plant during the nine-month period and were exposed to 12.18 millisieverts on average.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308050104
August 4, 2013
Eat and Support Fukushima Campaign – the plight of the Fukushima Farmer.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/08/eat-and-support-fukushima-campaign.html
August 4, 2013
Hanford Workers Prepared for it to Blow at any Time.
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/68877
August 4, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima operator discloses extent of nuclear leak. The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean since the disaster. Between 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of the substance is estimated to have leaked into the sea since May 2011, said Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/04/fukushima-operator-discloses-extent-nuclear-leak/“>http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/04/fukushima-operator-discloses-extent-nuclear-leak/
August 3, 2013
Fukushiam getting worse: Doubts cast over TEPCO’s plan to block radioactive water at Fukushima plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308030046
August 3, 3013
Fukushima getting worse: Simple overview of past,present and future of Fukushima Daiichi.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/08/column-summary-of-fukushima-nuclear-plant-situation-past-present-and-future/
August 3, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Radioactive Fukushima groundwater rises above barrier.
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/788039
August 2, 2013
Hanford: Businessweek: U.S. plutonium facility “might blow up, or, as they like to call it, experience a ‘criticality event’” — “450 billion gallons of industrial and radiological contaminants dumped directly into soil” — Threatens water supplies for millions across Pacific Northwest #Hanford.
August 2, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima clean up costs hit $58 billion
August 2, 2013
Environmental Groups Tell Nuclear Regulator Commission to Strengthen Rules Barring Foreign Ownership of U.S. Reactors.
August 2, 2013
Dr. Gordon Thompson’s “devastating critique” of NRC’s HLRW storage pool fire risk whitewash.
August 2, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Radioactive iodine detected in 6 seaweed samples by South Korea — Concerns over Fukushima contamination after Tepco admits plant is leaking into ocean.
“A very small amount” (3.65-5.25 becquerel/kilogram) of iodine was detected in six samples of tangleweed, but they, too, have been confirmed to be safe as the amount is far less than the standard level (300 bequerel/Kilogram),” it said in a press release.
August 2, 2013
Good news: Duke Energy to cancel proposed Levy County nuclear plant. Electricite de France SA (EDF) reached a deal with Exelon Corp. (EXC) for a possible exit from atomic operations in the U.S. after six years of declining fortunes that cost the biggest operator of nuclear plants 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion).
August 1, 2013
Good news: Cooper: Duke Abandonment of Levy Reactor Fits Into 2013 Pattern of “Rapid-Fire Downsizing” of Nuclear Power in U.S.
August 1, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Radiation-Contaminated Japanese Cars Still Concern – Russian Customs.
August 1, 2013
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over nuclear plant bill.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-08-01/taiwan-lawmakers-brawl-over-nuclear-plant-bill
August 1, 2013
Hanford: Before entering the shuttered Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford Site, Jerry Long hangs his identification badge on a board outside the entrance, so rescue crews can easily figure out who’s inside, should it come to that. “This is a no-kidding hazardous category 2 nuclear facility,”
August 1, 2013
Back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill make clear: the Yucca dump and Mobile Chernobyl “ain’t dead yet!”
August 1, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Watch: What’s Behind Tepco’s Confidence?
Tepco, saddled with the massive costs cleaning up the plant. appears unable to generate the profits it needs to survive as an ongoing entity and meet its sizable compensation claims from those affected by the accident.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/08/01/fukushima-watch-whats-behind-tepcos-confidence/
August 1, 2013
Gunderen’s podcast: About the forty good years that can end with one bad day.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/40-years-of-being-a-good-neighbor
August 1, 2013
PILGRIM COALITION: Power plant poses risks to Halifax, Canadian community.
August 1, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: TEPCO took no action about radioactive water leak for 2 years.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201308010053
August 1, 2013
Hanford: Fed-up state officials may cit Hanford for miscues on readioactive leaks.
http://crosscut.com/2013/08/01/hanford/115782/hanford-leak-cooperation-energy-ecology-challenge/
August 1, 2013
Entergy Nuclear battered by lawsuit, arrest, layoffs.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/safety/2013/8/1/entergy-nuclear-battered-by-lawsuit-arrest-layoffs.html
July 31, 2013
Duke plans for 2 new S.C. nuclear reactors delayed.
July 31, 2013
Hanford: State looks at safety of Hanford short shipments.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/07/31/2498732/state-looks-at-safety-of-hanford.html#storylink=cpy
July 31, 2013
Sitting on top of SEVERAL FAULT LINES. Holding Tons of nuclear fuel waste with no place to put the waste. Mothers for Peace Spokeswoman Linda Seeley explains the many risks posed to California by the continued operation of PG&E’s aged two-unit Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near San Luis Obispo, and why, like San Onofre was recently, it should be shutdown permanently – NOW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuzKLm8bz0&feature=em-subs_digest
July 31, 2013
Fukushima Fallout Hits Farmers. “The nuclear accident has dealt a solid blow to farming in Fukushima by contaminating vast swaths of land and frightening Japanese consumers so much that they shun our products.”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JAP-01-310713.html
July 31, 2013
Mohawk presses NRC to expand evac zone. If a 50-mile evacuation radius was recommended for American citizens in Japan during the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, why not have the same planning radius for school children living near the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant?
http://www.recorder.com/news/townbytown/charlemont/7869007-95/mohawk-presses-nrc-to-expand-evac-zone
July 30, 2013
Hanford: Uranium-contaminated plume covers 125 acres at U.S. nuclear site — Over 300 lbs. of uranium a year flowing into Columbia River (AUDIO) #Hanford.
http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/cleanup-options-hanfords-300-area-going-public
July 30, 2013
Entergy to cut jobs, mulls future of wholesale nuclear.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/07/30/entergy-to-cut-jobs-mulls-future-wholesale-nuclear/
July 30, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Japanese utility, and the public, in dark about crippled nuclear plant.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/japan-fukushima-nuclear-idUSL4N0FZ31J20130731
July 30, 2013
800 layoffs throughout Entergy Corp. nationally. The same number of people are carrying the same amount of work, and now there’s going to be 30 less of them,” he said. “At some point, somebody is going to break and miss something. And when you miss something at a nuclear plant that can be a real problem.”
July 30, 2013
Food Safety Group Applauds Recent American Medical Association (AMA) Recommendation to Test U.S. Seafood for Radiation.
July 30, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Fallout Continues to Wreak Havoc.
http://ecowatch.com/2013/fukushima-continues-to-wreck-havoc/
July 30, 2013
Good news: EDF Writing ‘Last Chapter’ on Nuclear in U.S., Piquemal Says.
July 30, 2013
Hanford: State inspectors document problems at Hanford.
http://www.king5.com/news/hanford/State-inspectors-document-problems-at-Hanford-217685301.html
July 30, 2013
Hanford: Study on combining Hanford, commercial waste underway.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/07/30/2496383/study-on-combining-hanford-commercial.html
July 30, 213
Fukushima getting worse: The leaks have triggered alarm bells over the plant’s precarious state and the capability of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) to deal with a long list of problems two years after it was swamped by a tsunami that sent reactors into meltdown.
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/784170
July 30, 2013
Mini-nuclear plants the next frontier of US power supply — or the next Solyndra?
July 30, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Agency to Form Group to Collect Radiation Data Amid Continued Problems.
Tepco said Saturday it found extremely high concentrations of radiation in water samples from a trench near the No. 2 reactor. It said that the sample had 750 million becquerels of cesium-134 and 1.6 billion becquerels of cesium-137 per liter.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324354704578635251984998378.html
July 29, 2013
Hanford: Cleanup Options For Hanford’s 300 Area Going Public […] Federal officials are trying to figure out what to do about radioactive materials that remain at a place near the Columbia River known as the 300 Area. […] The 300 Area was where workers milled uranium rods and tested ways to process plutonium during WWII and the Cold War. They poured about 2 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste a day into sandy ponds and trenches right next to the Columbia River. […] One of the remaining jobs is to work on a 125-acre groundwater plume contaminated with uranium.
http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/cleanup-options-hanfords-300-area-going-public
July 29, 2013
Good news:Mayor, environmentalists declare victory of people power over nuclear power.
Sarnia Mayor Mike BradleyAs reported by the Sarnia Observer, the Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Mike Bradley (photo, left), has declared victory in a years-long campaign to block the shipment of radioactive steam generators, by boat on the Great Lakes, from Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario, across the Pacific, to Sweden.
July 29, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: The Nuclear Regulation Authority told [Tepco] on Monday it must stop the water from leaking into the sea.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20130729_27.html
July 28, 2013
Good news: Nuclear power plant cancels radioactive shipping plans through the Great Lakes.
July 28, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Entire Pacific Ocean Radioactive and Getting Worse and No Solution.
In at 12 minutes: Arnie Gundersen says over the next 5 years Cesium 137 will be 5 to 10 times higher than they were at the peak of the bomb testing.
This is the biggest release of reaiation to a body of water in the history of the world – much worse than Chernobyl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7WbiB6cz08&feature=em-subs_digest
July 28 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Tepco detected 8.7 million becquerels of tritium per liter in water.
July 27, 2013
Good news: Nuclear Power Is Being Abandoned Worldwide.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-power-is-being-abandoned-worldwide/5344082
July 27, 2013
Emergency declared at U.S. nuclear plant: Fire shuts down reactor — “Reports of black smoke” — Company says no release of radioactivity “above normal operating limits”.
http://www.fultonsun.com/news/2013/jul/27/fire-shuts-down-callaway-nulear-plant-no-danger-pu/
July 27, 2013
How Much Nuclear Waste Does Your State Hold?
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/07/27/how-much-nuclear-waste-does-your-state-hold
July 27, 2013
750,000,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclides to include Sr-90 detected from seaside trench of reactor2.
July 27, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that the trench problem at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has cropped up again and is sending highly radioactive water into the sea.
The water in the underground passage, which runs under the turbine building of reactor 2, contains 2.35 billion becquerels of cesium per liter, roughly the same as that measured right after the crisis began in spring 2011. The latest sample, taken Friday from a trench, contained 750 million becquerels of cesium-134, 1.6 billion becquerels of cesium-137 and 750 million becquerels of other radioactive substances, the utility said. A sample from April 2011 contained 1.8 billion becquerels of both cesium-134 and cesium-137 per liter. Cesium has a half-life of about 30 years.
July 27, 2013
Steam coming out of reactor 3, contaminated water being released into the ocean and the engineers don’t understand what is happening. Fukushima shows that nuclear is never 100% safe – what is happening in Japan is a stark reminder of the danger.
July 26, 2013
Fukushima Leak: TEPCO Delayed Informing Public Of Contaminated Water Leaking Into Sea.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/fukushima-leak_n_3658403.html
July 26, 2013
Nuke experts blast Fukushima operator over toxic water leaks.
July 26, 2013
Time to take over Daiichi?
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/26/commentary/time-to-take-over-daiichi/#.UfRGCFOAEoL
July 25, 2013
NRA chairman says release of radioactive water into sea is inevitable.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307250040
July 25, 2013
Nuclear power is in decline, despite new reactors.
http://www.economist.com/node/21582333
July 25, 2013
Fukushima Children’s Documentary Premiere in the US A2 B C
July 25, 2013
Mobile Chernobyl bill revs its engines on Capitol Hill.
July 25, 2013
Nuclear Timelines: A New Tool for Looking at History.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/nuclear-timelines-a-new-tool-for-looking-at-history
July 24, 2013
Fukushima Unit 3 steaming again, third time in a week — Asahi: High radiation levels detected near where it was observed — Tepco does not know where it’s coming from.
The maximum dose was 2,170 millisieverts per hour, while the minimum was 137 millisieverts per hour.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307240036
July 24, 2013
Rising Tritium Could Trigger
Huge Fukushima Blasts.
The underground corium pockets can be detected by radiation scanners and with blast tomography, which reveals the locations of larger concentrations. Next, steam-injection pumps used at near-exhausted oil fields should be deployed to pump borax solution into those pockets. Borax unlike boric acid, crystallizes in solution, thereby partitioning the underground spaces with neutron-absorbing barriers. Subdivided into smaller cysts, the fissile materials will be deprived of critical mass.
http://rense.com/general96/rising.html
July 23, 2013
Measurements around Fukushima that are over 1000 millisieverts/hour.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.jp/2013/07/hot-spots-in-fukushima-i-nuke-plant.html
July 23, 2013
Ex-supervisor at Indian Point nuclear plant charged with fabricating fuel tests. Daniel Wilson, 57, the Westchester County plant’s chemistry manager from 2007 to 2012, was charged in Federal Court in White Plains with two counts of violating rules of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
July 23, 2013
Bill Gates’ nuclear company explores molten salt reactors, thorium.
July 23, 2013
Nuclear plants, including Oyster Creek, to soon be studied for cancer rates.
July 23, 2013
URGENT! Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Food Safety Petition.
http://www.change.org/petitions/urgent-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-food-safety-petition
July 23, 2013
See a nuclear blast in your hometown with NUKEMAP.
http://www.kpho.com/story/22914636/see-a-nuclear-blast-in-your-hometown-with-nukemap
July 23, 2013
BBC: It’s boiling inside Fukushima Unit No. 3 — Reactor supposed to be in cold shutdown — Situation ‘worrying’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23419325
July 23, 2013
Viewpoints: Nuclear waste bill endangers public health. Dr. Robert Gould is president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/20/5581319/nuclear-waste-bill-endangers-public.html
July 23, 2013
TEPCO admits radioactive groundwater is leaking into the sea at Fukushima.
July 22, 2013
Radiation Update with Michael Collins.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_072213.mp3
July 22, 2013
France’s oldest nuclear plant to shut down by 2016.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-07/22/c_132560534.htm
July 22, 2013
NRC inspecting Richland nuke plant after issue discovered.
A maintenance plan had considered inspections of that part of the system optional because past experience found very little problem with it, Gregoire said. It had not been inspected in six years.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/07/22/2481184/nrc-at-richland-nuke-plant-after.html#storylink=cpy
July 22, 2013
NRC Begins Special Inspection at Columbia Generating Station.
The licensee discovered a large heat exchanger that provides cool air for a room housing electrical circuit breakers and safety-related batteries had not been properly maintained.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2013/13-020.iv.pdf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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?
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.
July 18, 2013
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.
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/
July 16, 2013
New undersecretary for Hanford oversight to be named.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management, with responsibility for Hanford, no longer will report to the undersecretary for nuclear security.
July 16, 2013
Hanford sirens to be tested July 18.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/16/2680880/hanford-sirens-to-be-tested-july.html
July 16, 2013
Energy storage is no longer an idea and a theory — it’s actually a practical reality,” batteries could help integrate more renewable sources like solar and wind into the power grid, smoothing out their intermittent production. Battery would provide electricity cheaper than a new gas power plant built to help fulfill periods of high demand,
July 16, 2013
Japan’s nuclear “ghost town” tour.
July 15, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Vegetables Have Bizarre Tumor-Like Growths And Deformities: Is Nuclear Meltdown To Blame For Freaky Produce? (PHOTOS)
July 15, 2013
Activists break into a French nuclear power plant.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19483872-security-probe-launched-after-activists-break-into-french-nuclear-power-plant
July 15, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:The nuclear power plant at Fukushima has been leaking contaminated water into the ocean for the two years since the accident that saw three of the plants six reactors suffer a meltdown, according to the head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan.
July 15, 2013
Aging nuclear reactors pose safety.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/15/us-nuclear-safety-iaea-idUSBRE96E0C820130715
July 15, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Highest level of all β measured from “empty” reservoir’s leakage detector hole.
July 14, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: 150,000,000,000Bq/m3 of Cs-134/137 in reactor3 trench shaft.
July 13, 2013
After Protest, China Cancels Plans for Uranium Plant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/world/asia/china-uranium-plant.html?_r=0
July 12, 2013
EnviroReporter.com exclusive expose: EPA Nukes Radiation Rules.https://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/07/epa-nukes-radiation-rules/
July 12, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: 92,000 Bq/l all beta reported at Fuskushima.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/07/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-groundwater_12.html
July 12, 2013
Where and How a Fukushima Boiling Water Reactor Leaks.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=10675
July 12, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Prefectural officials said 1,037 becquerels of cesium were discovered per kilogram of Japanese sea bass. That’s more than 10 times the government safety limit.
July 12, 2013
“A little Hope” for stopping the Great Lakes radioactive waste DUD!
July 11, 2013
Fukushima getting worse :Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear interview
Fukushima plant is hemorrhaging radioactivity — “Scariest part of all is they don’t know where it’s coming from” — The big mystery is why contamination is coming out now in such a hurry (VIDEO).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tiDCCnw2cXE#at=26
July 11, 2013
Nuclear renaissance was just a fairy tale by Peter Bradford.
The promise of cheap, low-carbon power – with 31 new reactors in the US – was based on rhetoric and obedience. Anyone who doubts that should read the new status report on the industry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/11/nuclear-renaissance-power-myth-us
July 11, 2013
American Medical Association Urges Testing Seafood for Radiation.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=10663
July 11, 2013
Wastewater Wells, Geothermal Power Triggering Earthquakes.
http://www.nwpr.org/post/wastewater-wells-geothermal-power-triggering-earthquakes
July 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Groundwater Cs-134/137 density jumped 1.2 times much as one day before, “33,000,000 Bq/m3, highest ever again.
July 10, 2013
Chernobyl at Sea? Russia Building Floating Nuclear Power Plants.
July 10, 2013
Japanese Nuclear Plant May Have Been Leaking for Two Years.
July 10, 2013
Stop EPA from allowing cancer in 1 in 6 people.
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7285/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14709
July 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Cesium Levels rise 100 times at Fukushima plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307100082
July 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Fukushima Groundwater Shows Record Radiation Levels.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920419000698
July 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Fukushima: levels of radioactive caesium soar 90-fold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBilwGsZv90
July 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Gundersen’s Fairewinds podcast
Marco Kaltofen, a leading scientist who studies radiation as well as specific radioactive isotopes. Marco and Arnie discuss a recent sample that contained highly concentrated radioactive material from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.
Marco Kaltofen, President at Boston Chemical Data Corp. & Doctoral student researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute: […] We kept hearing reports about something unusual, a black dust […] we finally got a very small sample of that […]
What’s different about this material is unlike a lot of the soil and dust samples we’ve gotten, there’s a real uniformity to this stuff. It’s a single substance. It’s not a mix of mineral particles and pieces of dead bugs and plant matter and dust particles. It’s actually very homogenous and uniform when you look at it under the microscope. And it doesn’t look like the surrounding soils. And it is much more intensely radioactive than any other soil or dust sample we’ve gotten from around Fukushima Daiichi. So this material is different. It’s not a natural soil. There’s something unusual happening with this stuff. […]
The sample had fairly high levels of radium 226. Now that’s not a radioisotope that we hear as much about. The radium 226 has almost as much activity as the radioactive Cesium in the sample. Radium 226 is a degradation product of uranium and we can’t really detect the uranium directly. […] And this tells me that this particle contains not only fission waste products from the reactor but very likely contains a concentrated unburned nuclear fuel. And that’s unusual. This sample had by far the highest level of uranium daughters that we’ve seen in a dust or soil sample. We’re actually seeing material that might well have come from inside a failed fuel assembly.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/japans-black-dust-with-marco-kaltofen
July 9, 2013
Fukushima getting worse Officials report “troubling discovery” at Fukushima nuclear plant: Cesium levels rocket 9,000% over 3 days in groundwater — Tepco “can’t explain it” (VIDEO)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307090059
July 9, 2013
Canada’s first nuclear emergency response support centre planned for Ontario.
July 9, 2013
Masao Yoshida, the Fukushima nuclear chief who led efforts to stabilise the crippled plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, has died at the age of 58.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23251102
July 9, 2013
Public to have say in WIPP’s rule change. The Department of Energy will not have an easy path to bringing 3.1 million gallons of radioactive waste from its Hanford Washington site to New Mexico.
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/218907/news/public-to-have-say-in-wipps-rule-change.html
July 8, 2013
[Column] Summary of Fukushima situation ~What we are not informed of
July 8, 2013
Germany heading toward 100% Renewable Energy – so should we.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/germany-100-renewable-energy-and-beyond-78310
July 8, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Record levels of radioactive material detected at Fukushima — 600,000 Bq/liter Tritium in groundwater — Official: May be seeping from reactors into ocean.
July 8, 2013
Blasted by explosion?] 2 more radioactive pieces found in Naraha-machi, “16cm long, 5mm thickness”.
July 8, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update – EPA radiation readings now on Enviroreporter.com.
Michael Collins Radiation Update July 8, 2013: Special 1-hour show with Fukushima corium wrecking groundwater flowing into Pacific; new EnviroReporter.com US EPA RadNet beta and gamma air monitoring data for 48 states & Puerto Rico made user-friendly; new EPA emergency rad regs that raise limits thousands of times & much more!
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_070813.mp3
July 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Fukushima Groundwater Shows Record Radiation Levels
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/fukushima-groundwater-radiation_n_3565767.html
July 7, 2013
NEWS ANALYSIS: Fukushima Continues: More than two years after the initial meltdowns, Fukushima is still SNAFU
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/66916
July 7, 2013
600,000 bq/l Tritium into Ocean at Fukushima.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/07/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-highest-amount.html
July 7, 2013
Spain closes controversial nuclear power plant.
July 7, 2013
The Department of Energy on July 9 will mark 15 million tons of waste disposed of at Hanford’s Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/05/2667600/doe-to-mark-hanford-waste-disposal.html
July 7, 2013
Food contamination fears still persist in Japan, and will for decades. This short video by Jamie Williams of the New York Times, clearly explains why private food testing has become a necessity to protect families, and children in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQvZTFulPw
July 6, 2013
More than 500 citizens from across North America gathered at the Southampton to protest the Great Lakes Nuclear Waste Dump.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/stop-the-great-lakes-nuclear-waste-dump/5341849
July 5, 2013
What Fukushima Might Have Taught Terrorists.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/05/what-fukushima-might-have-taught-terrorists/
July 4, 2013
1,785,216 Bq/Kg of radioactive Cesium from moss in Fukushima city.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/1785216-bqkg-of-radioactive-cesium-from-moss-in-fukushima-city/
July 4, 2013
FUKUSHIMA–Radioactive cesium levels found in moss on a rooftop in downtown Fukushima exceeded 1.7 million becquerels, the highest levels detected in a year, researchers said. – 50 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307040081
July 3, 2013
Extremely radioactive piece of debris found in 7km from Fukushima nuclear plant “3.4 mSv/h”.
July 3, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for July 2nd to July 3rd, 2013.
July 3, 2013
Dr. Helen Caldicott: Radiation and Fukushima, What They Aren’t Telling You.
http://foodintegritynow.org/2013/07/03/dr-helen-caldicott-radiation-and-fukushima-what-they-arent-telling-you/
July 3, 2013
Tell the Dept. of Energy to stop wasting billions on this nuclear boondoggle.
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13853
July 3, 2013
Fukushima a ‘blueprint’ for terrorists, IAEA warns.
July 3, 2013
French nuclear tests ‘showered vast area of Polynesia with radioactivity’. Declassified papers show extent of plutonium fall-out from South Pacific tests of 60s and 70s was kept hidden, says French paper.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/french-nuclear-tests-polynesia-declassified
July 2, 2013
Nuclear Reactor at Diablo Canyon Down with Leak During Serious California Heat Wave. Reactor Not Available When Needed—Becomes “Intermittent and Not Predictable”
July 2, 2013
The shifting economics of energy and Japan’s Fukushima disaster may have squashed the industry’s attempted comeback.
http://money.msn.com/investing/nuclear-power-faces-uncertain-future
July 2,2013
Fukushima Radiation Shocking Over Americas From Chile to Oregon.
http://guardianlv.com/2013/07/radiation-shocking-over-americas-from-chile-to-oregon/
July 2, 2013
Tahiti nuclear fall-out far worse than previously admitted.
Nuclear test veterans in French Polynesia are asking France to come clean at last about the effects of the tests of the 1960s and 1970s.
The call comes after declassified French defence documents show that one test alone hit Tahiti with a plutonium concentration 500 times the safety limit.
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=77239
July 2, 2013
Gundersen’s podcast: “Barrier to Entry” with Terry Lodge – lawyer who deals with the NRC.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/barrier-to-entry-with-terry-lodge
July 1, 2013
1.04 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 detected from powdered milk in Tokyo, already distributed for sale.
July 1, 2013
Energy Northwest joins nuclear initiative.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/07/01/2455882/energy-northwest-joins-nuclear.html
July 1, 2013
Can nuclear power ever comply with the human right to health? Part II
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radiation-health-whats-new/2013/7/1/can-nuclear-power-ever-comply-with-the-human-right-to-health.html
July 1, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update July 1, 2013: Canada Day special with huge rad detects in Japanese beef as new Fukushima rad waste incinerator being built; unfiltered burning of rad goo continues throughout Japan; new high jet rad readings from US to Chile; San Onofre spent fuel pool dangers & NRC hooey in Indian Point enviro report dismissing aquatic kills and more.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_070113.mp3
July 1, 2013
Construction of an incinerator is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to burn the low-level waste (LLW) being generated from the clean-up and decommissioning of the site.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Fukushima_waste_incinerator_takes_shape-0107134.html
June 30, 2013
Doctors’ Critique of Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Study.
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June 29, 2013
Pandora’s Empty Promise
Pro-nuclear power film obscures as much as it reveals by Gar Smith.
June 29, 2013
A consortium made up of Marubeni Corporation, the University of Tokyo, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Limited, Japan Marine United Corporation, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company, Limited, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Limited, Furukawa Electric Company, Limited, Shimizu Corporation and Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc. have been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project I n Japansponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry since March 2012.
http://www.steelguru.com/international_news/Fukushima_floating_offshore_wind_farm_demonstration_project/316917.html
June 28, 2013
The U.S. Senate confirmed Allison Macfarlane to a full, five-year term as chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130628-907583.html
June 28, 2013
Nuclear watchdog: Contaminated water at Fukushima plant likely flowing into sea.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306270085
June 28, 2013
Columbia Event Number: 49152
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2013/20130701en.html
June 28, 2013
State ready to take action over leaking Hanford nuclear waste tank.
June 28, 2013
Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant seen optimistically starting in 2020.
June 27, 2013
TEPCO fails on its responsibilities from the Fukushima disaster.
June 27, 2013
[Nuclear Regulation Authority] Fallout level in Tokyo is the second highest in Kanto area, 1.72 times much as average.
June 27, 2013
Senators float long-awaited nuclear waste bill.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/308233-senators-float-long-awaited-nuclear-waste-bill
June 27, 2013
Nuclear Waste: Washington has ignored a cheaper way to dispose of its plutonium — until nowAfter DOE spends $3.7 billion on a troubled fuel plant, an alternative plan to bury the nuclear explosive suddenly gains new advocates.
June 27, 2013
Did the NRC allow PG&E to dodge Diablo Canyon seismic licensing requirements?
http://www.newtimesslo.com/news/9668/calculational-garbage/
June 27, 2013
Japan gets 1st post Fukushima MOX fuel.
http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Japan-gets-1st-post-Fukushima-MOX-fuel-20130627
June 26, 2013
Isotopic ratio of radioactive iodine (129I/131I) released from Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident.
This scientific report indicates that the amount of long lived radioactive Iodine I-129, released during the early stages of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster, was 31 times greater than the short lived radioactive Iodine I-131. This study does not take into account any radioactive Iodine releases since then.
http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/GJ/pdf/4604/46040327.pdf
June 26, 2013
Cs-134/137 detected from 15 of 15 tea leaves samples in Shizuoka prefecture (225 miles from Fukushima and 80 miles southwest of Tokyo).
June 26, 2013
U.N. Downplays Health Effects of Nuclear Radiation.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/u-n-downplays-health-effects-of-nuclear-radiation/
June 26, 2013
Renewables to surpass gas by 2016 in the global power mix.
http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2013/june/name,39156,en.html
June 26, 2013
The agency that regulates nuclear safety in Canada has received an application to approve a container designed to carry liquid nuclear waste. Designed to transport high-level radioactive liquid waste over public roads and bridges – something that has never been done before anywhere in North America.
June 26, 2013
Exposure data wrong for 16,000 in Fukushima.
June 25, 2013
NRC study finds little risk to nuclear spent fuel pools from earthquakes.
June 25, 2013
Radiation detected on Hanford waste shipment to contractor.
http://www.king5.com/news/environment/Hanford-shipment-is-hot-on-arrival-213053591.html
June 25, 2013
Lawmakers shed their fiscal conservatism to appease local politics and keep a troubled nuclear plant alive at Washington’s expense.
June 26, 2013
New NRC Study Shows Benefits of Transferring Spent Fuel to Dry Casks.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/new-nrc-study-shows-benefits-of-transferring-spent-fuel-to-dry-casks/
June 25, 2013
Radioactive tritium level rising in Fukushima water.
June 25, 2013
Greenpeace Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for June 21st to June 24th, 2013.
June 25, 2013
The Growing Threat of Nuclear Waste.
http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/catalyst/su-13-the-growing-threat-of-nuclear-waste.html
June 25, 2013
The Ten most radioactive places on earth.
http://brainz.org/ten-most-radioactive-places-earth/
June 24, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update June 24, 2013: Special 20th Birthday anniversary of the Rense Radio Network celebrated with Michael asking Jeff about best and worst shows plus special birthday wish; new alarming jet cabin readings above America from Radiation Station Pacifica; massive Hanford radiation leak of plutoniumner Columbia River; hot Sebastes cheni fish off of Fukushima & repeated TEPCO hooey in memorable show.
June 24, 2013
NRC says spent fuel pools safe from earthquake dangers.
http://www.reformer.com/latestnews/ci_23526707/nrc-says-spent-fuel-pools-safe-from-earthquake
June 24, 2013
For 26 years, forests around Chernobyl have been absorbing radioactive elements but a fire would send them skyward again – a concern as summers grow longer, hotter and drier.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=at-chernobyl-radioactive-danger-lurks-in-the-trees
June 23, 2013
Solar power still better than nuclear in the fight against climate change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jun/24/solar-nuclear-power-climate-change
June 23, 2013
Storage, disposal facilities for nuclear waste urgently needed in post-Fukushima Japan.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/globe/economy/AJ201306230010
June 23, 2103
“The leader who sprayed water to Fukushima plant on 311 died of lung cancer, 47 y.o”
June 22, 2013
Over 200 μSv/h on the ground. Hamadori” the coastal area of Fukushima prefecture.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/video-over-200-%CE%BCsvh-on-the-ground/
June 22, 2013
10 μSv/h in front of Minamisoma city hall after decontamination, “atmospheric dose is increasing”.
June 21, 2013
320,000 Bq/kg from Sebastes cheni in Fukushima plant port, 3,200 times much as safety limit.
June 21, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Site Tank May Be Leaking Waste Into Soil.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/hanford-nuclear-site-tank_n_3479387.html
June 22, 2013
Possible leaks of nuclear waste discovered.
http://www.wdam.com/story/22663064/possible-leaks-of-nuclear-waste-discovered
June 22, 2013
Worst case scenario has happened” at U.S. nuclear site — Most dangerous material on earth “out of control”? — 800,000 dpm measured outside tank (VIDEO).
http://www.king5.com/video?id=212259211&sec=583402&ref=rcvidmod
June 22, 2013
Leak at Fukushima – 26,000Bq/cubic cm = 1,560,000 dpm.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/06/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-ro-leak-all-beta.html
June 21, 2013
TEPCO withheld Fukushima groundwater contamination data for weeks.
http://japandailypress.com/tepco-withheld-fukushima-groundwater-contamination-data-for-weeks-2131013
June 21, 2013
Japan’s Fukushima debate: How will the meltdown affect the health of residents?
June 20, 2013
Can nuclear power ever comply with the human right to health? Part I.
June 20, 2013
500,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium and 1,000,000 Bq/m3 of Sr-90 detected from groundwater east side of reactor2 at Fukushima.
June 20, 2013
Moniz Promises New Hanford Plan.
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2013/jun/20/moniz-promises-new-hanford-plan/
June 20, 2013
Utilities to apply to restart 12 reactors at 6 nuclear plants in Japan.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306200069
June 20, 2013
TEPCO withheld data on contaminated well water for weeks.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306200076
June 20, 2013
Book Review of Full-Rip 9.0 – a must read.
From the schools that will be shaken to the leaky tanks and Columbia Generating Station nuclear plant at Hanford that will feel the earth move, Full Rip 9.0 is terrifying in its implications,
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20130620/books/big-one
June 20, 2013
Nation’s largest nuclear utility, Exelon, may cut nuke output: can’t compete with renewables.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130620/NEWS11/130619723/
June 20, 2013
So-called nuclear renaissance relapses, recovery seems unlikely.
June 19, 2013
Tepco minutes reveal staff exodus concerns.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/19/business/tepco-minutes-reveal-staff-exodus-concerns/
June 19, 2013
Experts Explain Effects of Radioactive Water at Fukushima.
June 19, 2013
Strontium-90 in Fukushima groundwater is 30+ times higher than regulatory limits.
June 19, 2013
Update on NRC’s “Nuke Waste Con Game”: 10 public hearings in 9 cities this autumn.
June 19, 2013
Japan formally OKs new nuclear safety requirements.
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-japan-formally-oks-nuke-safety.html
June 19, 2013
Nuclear waste clean-up delayed and billions over budget.
June 19, 2013
Fukushima’s Nuclear Plant is Still Giving Off Scary Levels of Radiation
June 18, 2013
From IEER–always a trusted source–new issue of Science for Democratic Action focusing on Human Health and Radiation.
http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/17-1.pdf
June 18, 2013
Nuclear aging: Not so graceful.
http://www.thebulletin.org/nuclear-aging-not-so-graceful
June 18, 2013
EPA Blasts WA State Oversight of Hanford Nuclear Site.
June 18, 2013
UK and Russia sign nuclear agreement.
http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2013/06/uk-and-russian-sign-nuclear-agreement.html
June 18, 2013
EPA criticizes state over Hanford inspections.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/EPA-criticizes-state-over-Hanford-inspections–212062641.html
June 17, 2013
300 Bq/Kg in the park of Konanku Yokohama city” (Tokyo – 178 miles south of Fukushima, Yokohama – 204 miles south of Fukusima.)
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/express-300-bqkg-in-the-park-of-konanku-yokohama-city/
June 17, 2013
With 20 reactors shut since Fukushima, world is about to learn just how much decommissioning costs.
June 17, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update June 17, 2013: Taut one-hour show starting with amazing images of Pacific hot zones of water matching Sea of Goo floating on the Kuroshio Current towards North America. Custom-video illutstrates just how far in the drink Pacific users and exploiters are two years after Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdowns began; more startling San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station exclusive exposures; Boeing’s meltdown makeover with reputation-shredding antics.
June 17, 2013
New U.S. Energy Secretary Set To Visit Hanford This Week.
http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-new-us-energy-secretary-set-to-visit-hanford-this-week/
June 17, 2013
11th Prefectural Oversight Committee Meeting: Thyroid Ultrasound Examination Results.
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/06/11th-prefectural-oversight-committee.html
June 16, 2013
19,000 Bq/Kg from the drain of balcony in Setagaya Tokyo, May 2013
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/19000-bqkg-from-the-drain-of-balcony-in-setagaya-tokyo-may-2013/
June 16, 2013
Aging nuclear plants closing — for economic reasons, not protests.
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20130616/THISJUSTIN/706169967
June 15, 2013
Nuclear Energy Doc Pandora’s Promise Getting Mixed Reviews.
http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/237841/pandora-s-promise-getting-rave-and-no-so-rave-reviews
June 15, 2013
133 Bq/Kg from knitted hat in Kanagawa prefecture in March 2011 (203 miles from Fukushikma)
June 14, 2013
Wind outcompetes nuclear at Exelon’s LaSalle, IL & Limerick, PA reactors.
June 14, 2013
Feds: Hanford leaking tank won’t be pumped until 2019.
June 14, 2013
House O.K.’s nuclear national ‘park’ as Hanford cleanup lags.
June 14, 2013
Nuclear Plants, Old and Uncompetitive, Are Closing Earlier Than Expected.
June 14, 2013
Environmental, anti-nuclear groups urge Sandoval Nevada Gov. Brian Sandovalto turn away uranium waste.
June 14, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for June 11th to June 13th, 2013.
June 14, 2013
Fukushima Doctor: Many who were robust farmers are unable to stand up without help — They look completely different now.
June 14, 2013
Cameco’s Cigar Lake project has a uranium mining licence from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) that clears the way for the start of production at the northern Saskatchewan site.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Regulatory_blessing_for_Cigar_Lake-1406137.html?
June 13, 2013
Red Cross radiation limit for relief workers too low, say critics.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306130065
June 13, 2013
Stars Make A Stand Against Nuclear Weapons.
http://www.looktothestars.org/news/10333-stars-make-a-stand-against-nuclear-weapons
June 13, 3013
Cleanup From Fukushima Daiichi: Technological Disaster Or Crisis In Governance?
June 13, 2013
Hanford contractor wasted millions on leaking tank.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Hanford-contractor-wasted-millions-on-leaking-tank-211496721.html
June 13, 2013
Retracing the Steps of Post-Fukushima “Walkdowns”.
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2013/06/13/retracing-the-steps-of-post-fukushima-walkdowns/
June 13, 2013
Scariest Atomic-Waste Burial Plan Has French Villages Up in Arms
June 13, 2013
Leak in Hanford double-shell tank getting worse.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Leak-in-Hanford-double-shell-tank-getting-worse-211425341.html
June 13, 2013
45-year-old construction error revealed in leaking tank at Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor.
June 13, 2013
Exelon blames ‘subsidized’ wind, markets for derailing nuclear projects.
June 13, 3013
Cleanup From Fukushima Daiichi: Technological Disaster Or Crisis In Governance?
Experts: Shock during first trip to Fukushima — Radiation levels so high far away from reactors that full protection suit would be used in U.S., yet people were walking around — “Contamination far more widespread than most Japanese understand”
Fungus emitting radiation 70 times higher than nearby asphalt — “A boy sitting on that patch to watch a baseball game could do real damage to his gonads”.
June 12, 2013
Prohibitively expensive cost of safety repairs leads nuclear utilities to instead permanently close age-degraded atomic reactors.
June 12, 2013
CNN’s nuclear propaganda film “is dishonest to its core” — It’s “actually an infomercial”.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/947251-129/nuclear-pandora-promise-allen-anti-add
June 12, 2013
54 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from Shiitake mushroom in Osaka (348 miles from Fukushima).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/54-bqkg-of-cs-134137-measured-from-shiitake-mushroom-in-osaka/
June 12, 2013
Arnie Gundersen’s weekly podcast – The Echo Chamber Effect.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/the-echo-chamber-effect
June 11, 2013
“2.1 μSv/h in Karuizawa Nagano”(203 miles south of Fukushima).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/express-2-1-%CE%BCsvh-in-karuizawa-nagano/
June 11, 2013
Study: An overview of Fukushima radionuclides measured in the northern hemisphereFukushima fuel burn-up spread over entire northern hemisphere’s middle latitudes — First time measured in southern hemisphere.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969713004105
June 11, 2013
Fukushima Accident Raised Levels of Radioactive Strontium Off the East Coast of Japan by Up to 100 Times.
“the amount of strontium-90 discharged into the sea during those three months was between 90 and 900 Tbq (terabecquerels), raising levels by up to two orders of magnitude.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130611084207.htm
June 11, 2013
More Delays at Hanford.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jun/11/more-delays-at-hanford/
June 11, 2013
Comment: WITH half of the population destined to get cancer, why are we not discussing the cancer-causing effects globally of the 2,000 nuclear weapons test explosions in the atmosphere, the radiation from such mega-disasters as Chernobyl and Fukushima, the widespread use of radioactive depleted uranium in wars round the world including Iraq and Afghanistan, radiation leaks from nuclear power stations and radiation leaks from nuclear waste dumps around the world?
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/tragic-effects-of-nuclear-trials-29334824.html
June 10, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update June 10, 2013: Amazing one-hour special discussing historic environmental victory in closing San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station but where 1,500 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel rods remain; people and organizations that made SONGS closure happen; potential sabotage issue & inconsistencies in security plan for the complex; foreign ownership of US nuke plants possible; extensive discussion of new Japanese radiation contamination along with US Air Force Japan serving up Japanese produce/vegetables with no further restrictions; permanent US nuclear repository needed and much more including how Denise Anne and Michael live rad-free.
June 10, 2013
Review of the misleading movie Pandora’s Promise.
http://www.l-a-k-e.org/blog/2013/06/review-of-the-misleading-movie-pandoras-promise.html
June 10, 2013
RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS AND HEALTH HAZARDS
SURROUNDING BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN ALABAMA
The study shows that the death rate of residents of Morgan and six other North Alabama counties is 21 percent higher than it is for those living outside a 50-mile radius of the nuclear powered electric generating facility. Since Browns Ferry’s startup in the mid-70s the local mortality rate for all causes of death steadily rose from 1.7 to 20.7 percent above the U.S average.
http://www.bredl.org/pdf4/AL_BFN_Report_2013-final-digit.pdf
June 10, 2013
Is Japan headed for another Fukushima? Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority Capitulates to Electric Utility on Earthquake Assessment.
http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/wordpress0/index.php?p=105
June 10, 2013
Washington State Officials “Extremely Disappointed” Over Key Hanford Deadlines.
http://kuow.org/post/washington-state-officials-extremely-disappointed-over-key-hanford-deadlines
June 10, 2013
TEPCO moves all radioactive water from leaky underground tanks.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306100068
June 10, 2013
Study: Huge spike in cesium outside Fukushima long after 3/11 — “Incorporation into sediments was almost irreversible”
Sedimentation and remobilization of radiocesium in the coastal area of Ibaraki, 70 km south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10661-012-2956-7
June 10, 2013
Canadian Proposal for Liability for nuclear plant operators will jump to $1 billion.
June 10, 2013
Editorial: Cease promoting Nuclear Power.
June 10,2013
Areva signs nuclear power deals with Japanese firms.
June 10, 2013
Green Action: Japan’s regulatory authority capitulates to nuclear industry on earthquake assessment.
http://www.greenaction-japan.org/internal/130610_GA_IPR_Ohi_NRA.pdf
June 10, 2013
ASAHI POLL: 59% oppose Abe’s nuclear power policy.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201306100070
June 9, 2013
27,000 Bq/Kg from the soil in front of the swings for children of Fukushima city
June 8, 2013
222,495 Bq/Kg from street gutter mud of public hall in Fukushima city, (66km from Fukushima nuclear plant.)
June 8, 2013
40,000 Bq/Kg from farm soil in Fukushima city.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/40000-bqkg-from-farm-soil-in-fukushima-city/
June 8, 2013
102.5 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from Sayama (suburb of Tokyo) green tea leaves for sale.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/102-5-bqkg-of-cs-134137-from-sayama-green-tea-leaves-for-sale/
June 8, 2013
Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill.
June 8, 2013
The United States has a new energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, who was sworn in May 21 after unanimous Senate confirmation. He told senators a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation would be a top priority, and he is expected to follow through on that pledge within the next few weeks.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jun/08/editorial-moniz-must-solve-the-hanford-problem/
June 8, 2013
Support Structure for Fukushima Reactor #4 complete.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.jp/2013/06/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-support.html
June 8, 2013
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American (Hanford)Plutonium Disasters.
http://fdlbooksalon.com/2013/06/08/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-kate-brown/
June 7, 2013
Paper: U.S. nuclear site Hanford “a true horror story” — Officials should be screaming at top of their lungs in outrage — “Problems could lead to explosions or nuclear reactions” .
http://www.kingstoncommunitynews.com/opinion/210490071.html
June 7, 2013
2013 has seen most ever atomic reactor closures in a single year.
June 7, 2013
NRC orders owners of 31 Fukushima-clone reactors to toughen vents–in 4 years. Still no filters.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-06/nrc-orders-owners-of-31-u-s-reactors-to-toughen-vents.html
June 7, 2013
France, Japan join forces for larger share of nuclear market. What could go wrong? One is expert in $ overruns, other expert in disaster…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/us-japan-france-nuclear-idUSBRE9560C720130607
June 7, 2013
San Onofre Shut Down Activist Press Conference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj6qFDTcq6c&feature=youtu.be
June 7, 2013
Troubled Nuclear Plant, San Onofre, to Be Closed.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324069104578531620654470196.html
June 7, 2013
Victory: Edison closes San Onofre for good.
http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2013-06-victory-edison-closes-san-onofre-for-good
June 6, 2013
Beyond Nuclear examines unhealthy and unscientific UN assumptions on radiation. UN radiation panel: children more vulnerable to radiation, even so, no detectable health effects from Fukushima.
June 6, 2013
18,756 Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 measured from the mud in street gutter in Setagaya Tokyo. (145 miles from Fukushima npp).
June 6, 2013
Nuclear regulators order venting systems added.No filters.
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20130607_Nuclear_regulators_order_venting_systems_added.html
June 5, 2013
Is uranium mining poisoning America’s bread basket? Excellent article.
June 5, 2013
Radioactive soil stops Hanford construction work.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021127690_apwahanfordradioactivenest.html
June 5, 2013
Fukushima thyroid cancer cases rise to 12 confirmed, 15 suspected.
http://japandailypress.com/fukushima-thyroid-cancer-cases-rise-to-12-confirmed-15-suspected-0530049
June 5, 2013
12 Thyroid Cancer Cases Confirmed in Fukushima Children: Preliminary Results of FY2011/FY2012 Fukushima Thyroid Examination
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/06/12-thyroid-cancer-cases-confirmed-in.html
June 5, 2013
Fairewinds podcast – Fighting the Dragon I Cannot See.
The catastrophe at Fukushima released three times as much Nobel gases and as much Cesium as did the accident at Chernobyl.
We are facing global catastrophe over next 40-100 years because of Fukushima n.uclear disaster.
Radiation levels actually rising in Fukushima — Started going up again last fall.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/fighting-a-dragon-i-cannot-see
June 4, 2013
60,000 protest Japan’s plan to restart nuclear power plants.
http://www.infowars.com/60000-protest-japans-plan-to-restart-nuclear-power-plants/
June 4, 2013
In terms of cost and safety, nuclear power can’t hold a candle to renewable energy sources.
June 4, 2013
Environmental government white paper removes risks of nuclear power.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201306040085
June 4, 2013
Fukushima: Ongoing Lessons for California – Naoto Kan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYVK8_W2h4
June 4, 2013
Fukushima: Ongoing Lessons for California – Gregory Jaczko.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG1QmEQ84aY
June 4, 2013
Fukushima: Ongoing Lessons for California – Arnie Gundersen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6mViUvHUo
June 3, 2013
Examination of Namie street dust by trusted analyst Marco Kaltolfen indicates highly radioactive hotspots remain.
http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.ca/2013/06/radiological-analysis-of-namie-street.html
June 3, 2013
4.1 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from beverages produced in Iwate prefecture.
June 3, 2013
1.8 μSv/h in a park of Tochigi, 105km South West from Fukushima nuclear plant.
June 3, 2013
“0.5μSv/h in a park of Fukushima city even after decontamination” (about 167 cpm).
June 3, 2013
Great Lakes Region Nuclear Hotspots Map.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/6/3/great-lakes-region-nuclear-hotspots-map.html
June 3, 2013
Warren Buffett Shelves Plans To Build A Nuclear Plant.
http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-just-shelved-plans-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-2013-6
June 3, 2013
State ready to take action over leaking Hanford nuclear waste tank.
June 2, 2013
Japan’s post-Fukushima solar boom.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/japans-postfukushima-solar-boom-20130602-2njim.html
June 1, 2013
Information for ill Hanford, PNNL workers offered.
The program offers compensation and medical benefits for current and former employees made ill by exposure to hazardous chemicals or radiation at Hanford or Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The program has paid $1 billion to Hanford and PNNL claimants and enrollment remains open for new claims.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/06/01/2620572/information-for-injured-energy.html#storylink=cpy
June 1, 2013
PNNL scientist advises Japan on nuclear cleanup.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/06/01/2621757/pnnl-scientist-advises-japan-on.html
June 1, 2013
Washington state nuclear storage facility a leaking time bomb
In 2006, construction was suspended for 22 months after an independent review concluded the department underestimated the force of ground movements at the site should a severe earthquake occur.
Hydrogen gas could build up inside the tanks and possibly cause an explosion that would release radioactive material. The Defence Nuclear Facilities Safety Board recommended additional monitoring and ventilation of the tanks last fall to avoid such a disaster, and federal officials are working to develop a plan to implement the recommendation.
June 1, 2013
Questions, answers on Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021101437_apushanfordqa.html
May 31, 2013
“Over 400Bq/Kg from an everyday long sleeved shirt” even after washing many times.
May 31, 2013
Highschool students picnic in 0.93 μSv/h in Kohriyama city”(34 miles from Fukushima Daiichi npp).
May 31, 2013
Crisis lurks at leaking Washington nuclear site. Underground waste in need of permanent solution.
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Crisis+lurks+leaking+Washington+nuclear+site/8467312/story.html
May 31, 2013
No Rise In Cancer Seen From Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, UN Says.
May 31, 2013
Soil around Fukushima to be frozen to stop groundwater leaking in.
May 31, 2013
Westinghouse Electric Takes Steps To Close Windsor Plant, Connecticut.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-westinghouse-layoffs-20130531,0,5840946.story
May 31, 2013
Greenpeace challenge may delay Hinkley Point C for years.
Greenpeace is challenging the decision to grant planning permission on the grounds that the Government has yet to secure a site to store the plant’s nuclear waste.
May 31, 2013
Deepwater wind turbine launch opens way to huge US energy resource Offshore wind could negate need for nuclear and coal in Eastern US.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/BN_ME_DeepwaterWind_May31_2013.pdf
May 31, 2013
Energy Northwest Pays Record Amount of Privilege Taxes Today
RICHLAND, Wash. – Energy Northwest paid approximately $4.5 million in privilege taxes to the state of Washington today – setting a record year for the largest tax sum ever paid by the public power agency.
May 31, 2013
Abe to intensify efforts to restart nuclear power plants.
Score a victory for Japan’s powerful business lobby.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305310087
May 30, 2013
Over 300Bq/Kg from most of the jerseys for junior high school students in Kohriyama city (34 miles from Fukushima npp).
May 30, 2013
Risk of “dirty shutdown” at Paducah gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment plant.
May 30, 2013
“3.3 μSv/h in Iitate mura (24 miles from Fukushima npp), vegetables are still planted”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/express-3-3-μsvh-in-iitate-mura-vegetables-are-still-planted/
May 30, 2013
No Longer Unthinkable: Should US Ready For ‘Limited’ Nuclear War?
http://breakingdefense.com/2013/05/30/no-longer-unthinkable-should-us-ready-for-limited-nuclear-war/
May 30, 2013
Amid years of delays, leaks and other problems, a question: Will Hanford ever be cleaned up?
May 30, 2013
USA, an energy innovator, launches first floating deepwater wind turbine in the world .
May 30, 2013
Japan Orders Tepco to Build Underground Wall at Fukushima Plant.
May 30, 2013
US officials cover up evidence of radioactive leak in Washington state at Hanford.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/30/hanf-m30.html
May 29, 2013
Over 60 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium in dried plums OUTSIDE Fukushima Prefecture
Cs-134: 21.95 Bq/kg
Cs-137: 38.17 Bq/kg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oNsH4lyVc
May 29, 2013
Head of Hanford tank farm contractor abruptly retires.
May 29, 2013
Yellow Oscar for Indian film at Uranium Film Festival.
May 29, 2013
Vermont and three other states have petitioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of long-term storage of spent radioactive fuel on nuclear plant sites.
The petition also asks the commission to re-evaluate the ongoing production of spent fuel rods when the federal government has no permanent repository for the waste.
http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/story.php?articleno=7606&page=1#.UaePuY4QEoI
May 29, 2013
Canada’s oldest nuclear power plant is seeking to renew its operating license for five years. Critics say it should be closed.
http://www.thestar.com/business/2013/05/29/aging_pickering_nuclear_plant_seeks_five_more_years.html
May 29, 2013
In late April, the Leverett Town Meeting voted to abolish the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and to demand that Entergy expand the emergency evacuation zone from 10 to 50 miles from the troubled Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.
http://www.recorder.com/home/6661506-95/letter-call-to-action
May 29, 2013
Fairewinds podcast: Eyewitness report on the Fukushima disaster.
http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/ongoing-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-eyewitness-report
May 29, 2013
JAPAN TRAVEL ADVISORY (Updated May 29, 2013)
[Read and then see May 27, 2013 links re:Tokyo ward level of 0.6 μSv/h. and .42 μSv/h and you decide – Team EnviroReporter]
“Tokyo is NOT within radiation contamination concern area, located over 200km (124 miles) away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant facilities”
http://www.japantravelinfo.com/news/news_item.php?newsid=431
May 29, 2013
Last no-go zone designation in Fukushima lifted.
May 28, 2013
9,348 Bq/Kg from soil in Kunimimachi Fukushima, 72km from Fukushima nuclear plant”.
May 28, 2013
Cs-134/137 from pool bottom sediment of 9 of 9 elementary school in Chiba,(20 miles NE of Tokyo) max as 796 Bq/Kg.
May 28, 2013
Black substance in Fukushima — Beta particles too intense to be only cesium-134 and 137 (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o_xLc1JI_UM
May 28, 2013
Radioactive Eyeglasses, Hip Joints, Spoons and More Might Be Coming…
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/63605
May 28,2013
Yochi Shomatsu on Hanford.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Shimatsu_052713.mp3
May 28, 2013
San Onofre: Internal letter reveals Edison knew of defects at crippled reactors but misled federal regulators to get expedited license.
http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2013-05-internal-letter-reveals-edison-knew-of-defects-misled-regulators
May 28, 2013
Our Voice: Telling Hanford’s story critical role for Reach.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/05/28/2411282/our-voice-telling-hanfords-story.html#storylink=cpy
May 27, 2013
Experts Conclude Meeting to Discuss “Human Factors” of Nuclear Safety.
The International Experts’ Meeting (IEM) on Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety in the Light of the Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant discussed ways to improve nuclear safety culture across a range of key institutions, including nuclear power plant operators and nuclear regulators. While technology and plant design are essential factors in nuclear safety, human and organizational behavior also play critical roles.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/humanfactors2.html
May 27, 2013
Cs-134/137 measured from apple juice of Aomori prefecture. (212miles from Fukushima Diaichi).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/cs-134137-measured-from-apple-juice-of-aomori-prefecture/
May 27, 2013
0.6 μSv/h (206cpm) from the street dust in Edogawa ward Tokyo (124 miles from Fukushima npp).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/0-6-μsvh-from-the-street-dust-in-edogawa-ward-tokyo/
May 27, 2013
Tokyo Citizen reading:“0.42μSv/h in Itabashi ward Tokyo 5/24/2013.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/tokyo-citizen-0-42μsvh-in-itabashi-ward-tokyo-5242013/
May 27, 2013
Fukushima meltdown’s latest victims: American uranium jobs.
http://grist.org/news/fukushima-meltdowns-latest-victims-american-uranium-jobs/
May 26, 2013
Farmers resume planting rice near crippled Fukushima site.
The farmers are using fertilizer containing potassium to help curb radioactive cesium absorption by rice plants. All rice from the paddies will be checked for radioactive contamination before being shipped, said Onami.
May 26, 2013
Nuclear Farming – don’t let it happen here.
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2013/s3767536.htm
May 25, 2013
The only American-owned plant for enriching uranium, a cold war relic near Paducah, Ky. will be shut down next month.
see also:
An American Nuclear Tragedy: A Little Known Nuclear Facility in Paducah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1BLMosusRI
May 25, 2013
5.3 μSv/h in Hitachi city Ibaraki.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/5-3-μsvh-in-hitachi-city-ibaraki/
May 24, 2013
74,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from the soil of a park in Da-te city Fukushima
May 24, 2013
Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean After Fukushima. Researchers release report showing cesium in seawater, plankton following Fukushima disaster.
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/24-3
May 24, 2013
One Hundred Environmental/Clean Energy Groups Submit Comments in Opposition to Senate Energy Committee Draft Radioactive Waste Legislation.
http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/hlwtransport/groupsignoncommentwyden52413.pdf
May 24, 2013
CNSC study says no childhood leukemia link near nuclear sites.
http://www.thepost.on.ca/2013/05/24/cnsc-study-says-no-childhood-leukemia-link-near-nuclear-sites
May 24, 2013
UN special rapporteur Anand Grover’s report on Fukushima accident is published.
May 24, 2013
Vice president of Minamisoma city hospital reports on the rise of cerebral apoplexy in Minamisoma, Fukushima
May 24, 2013
Plan for leaking Hanford tank promised by June 14.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51986883/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/#.UaBOfo4QFlc
May 23, 2013
Hanford Site: West
Coast Radiation Crisis, Part 3.
http://rense.com/general96/hanford.html
May 23, 2013
Sign on to stop nuclear exports from Japan to India!
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/5/23/sign-on-to-stop-nuclear-exports-from-japan-to-india.html
May 23, 2013
Help support this important documentary about Erwin, TN
May 23, 2013
Staffing at Japan nuke plant is a challenge.
http://www.newsday.com/news/world/staffing-at-japan-nuke-plant-is-a-challenge-1.5327830
May 23, 2013
Columbia Generating Station: Fukushima all over again?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN2m_fY83Ho
May 23, 2013
Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep workers in setback for decommissioning.
May 23, 2013
Beyond Nuclear asks us to :
Take the mic at Pandora’s Promise
The pro-nuclear propaganda film, Pandora’s Promise, will screen in New York on June 12 and in number of other cities on June 14 and June 21, finishing at Santa FE, NM on July 5. Please check the list for your city; bring copies of our two-pager or longer debunk to the film; and take the mic if there is a Q&A. And consider showing The Atomic States of America in your area – a sobering look at the reality of nuclear power. Read More
http://pandoraspromise.com/upcoming-screenings/#.UZ7Rmo4QEoJ
May 22, 2013
Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah.
http://ecowatch.com/2013/countdown-to-nuclear-ruin-at-paducah/
May 22, 2013
UCS charges NRC with “enabling unsafe and illegal operations” for non-enforcement of reactor coolant pressure boundary leakage.
May 22, 2013
Michigan State Senate passes resolution critical of proposed Canadian radioactive waste dump targeted at Great Lakes shore.
May 22, 2013
An Inside look at the Columbia Generating Station.
http://www.kvewtv.com/article/2013/may/22/inside-look-columbia-generating-station/
May 22, 2013
San Onofre at the No Nukes Brink
by Harvey Wasserman
http://pacificfreepress.com/opinion/12547-california-s-fukushima-onofre-on-the-brink.html
May 22, 2013
Experts Discuss “Human Factors” of Nuclear Safety.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/humanfactors.html
May 22, 2013
Fukushima To Get A Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Centre.
http://www.spyghana.com/fukushima-to-get-a-nuclear-emergency-preparedness-centre/
May 22, 2013
Arnie Gundersen’s weekely podcast: Great Haste Made Great Waste at Hanford.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/great-haste-made-great-waste-at-hanford
May 22, 2013
Hundreds outside of Fukushima’s borders seek compensation.
May 22, 2013
Researchers find high cesium in some Pacific plankton.
May 22, 2013
Cs-134/137 detected from zooplankton and seawater at over 10 locations of the Pacific, “Even from 2100 km.”
May 21, 2013
Meteorological Research Institute, “Cs-134/137 going deeper under ocean due to the subduction of winter” It suggests the possibility that radiation measurement of ocean surface water doesn’t represent the actual sea contamination. The actual sea contamination which may affect fish contamination is likely to be worse than the measurement data.
May 21, 2013
Nuclear power is safe and pigs can fly.
“The other nuclear nations would do well to pay attention. How vulnerable are their reactors? Don’t waste billions in a doomed attempt to upgrade inherently unsafe reactors when that money could finance an energy revolution in renewables and energy efficiency.”
May 21, 2013
Plutonium in Fukushima nuclear plant significantly increasing, Max as 632% within 8 months of 2012.
May 21, 2013
Hanford officials hid leak evidence from advisory panel.
May 21, 2013
Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico.
http://grist.org/news/nations-biggest-uranium-mine-planned-in-new-mexico/
May 21, 2013
Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water.
May 20, 2013
First, it was Fukushima peaches. Then apples, pears, then persimmons. Now, Fukushima will sell fresh cherry tomatoes and asparagus to wealthy Thais.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/05/cherry-tomatoes-and-asparagus-from.html
May 20, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update May 20, 2013: Special Michael/Denise Anne 9-year anniversary hour-long show with intensely radioactive black mold growing in Japan; ongoing Fukushima contamination undiminished but impacting Pacific more than air now; consumption of sushi, seaweed impacted by radiation; Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover scandal spreads; Oklahoma tornadoes & nuclear power plants plus more.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_052013.mp3
May 19, 2013
Earthquake scenarios show potential for huge damage, loss of life.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021019310_quakescenariosxml.html
May 18, 2013
Columbia Riverkeeper White Paper: Private Industry on Hanford Land
May 18, 2013
On Fukushima Beach – Nuclear Catastrophe Documentary.
“This homegrown documentary reveals the true scale of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe! It is an hour long, brilliantly constructed documentary by Andrew Ebisu, that uses a montage of mainstream and Internet media clips to unpack the Fukushima disaster.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMWmEbIuWkE
May 18, 2013
The Oak Ridge Girls: Denise Kiernan’s new book exposes the secret lives of the Tennessee women who unknowingly built the first nuclear bombs.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/may/18/the-oak-ridge-girls-denise-kiernans-new-book-the/
May 18, 2013
Whistleblower Wins Case Against Nuke Plant.
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Whistleblower-Wins-Case-Against-Nuke-Plant-207987221.html?ref=221
May 17, 2013
Cover-up? Burning ship with tons of radioactive uranium hexafluoride, explosives — Tens of thousands nearby for Evangelical church day — Public not told of “near-catastrophe” (PHOTO).
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130517-49777.html#.UZZ4mmfYGTc
May 17, 2013
Study: Concentrated Fukushima radioactive plume staying on narrow path toward U.S. — Moving with surface water along 40 N — Same latitude as Northern California (MAP)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/10/3067/2013/bg-10-3067-2013.html
May 17, 2013
Very high radioactive dose of 65 microsieverts per hour in Fukushima City — “Informed officials 3 month ago, nothing happened until today.
https://twitter.com/JohannesHano/status/334510509640523777/photo/1
May 17, 2013
Nuclear waste on parade in Richland, Washington.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/380958/28/Radioactive-waste-trucked-through-Washington-city-using-simple-parade-permits-
May 16, 2013
NRC Regional Office to Discuss Regulations about Releases from Nuclear Power Plants; Webinar to be Held May 23.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2013/13-018.iii.pdf
May 16, 2013
A fault running under reactor 2 at the Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, effectively killing any chance the reactor will be reactivated.,,, appears to have moved within the past 130,000 years, is therefore considered technically active.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/16/national/fault-said-active/#.UZkWao4QEoK
May 16, 2013
Monju reactor faces long-term suspension over lax safety system
In the latest case, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, operator of Monju, was found to have skipped inspections of nearly 10,000 pieces of equipment since 2010, including crucial devices in the safety and emergency systems at the plant, based in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201305130090
May 16, 2013
2012 record-breaking year for wind power.
http://www.dw.de/2012-record-breaking-year-for-wind-power/a-16819096
May 16, 2013
NRC To Discuss 2012 Performance Assessment for Columbia Generating Station June 4, 2013.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2013/13-014.iv.pdf
May 16, 2013
Markey Introduces Bill to Stop Energy Department’s Radioactive Recycling Program.
May 16, 2013
Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Crack Discovered.
May 16, 2013
336 Bq/Kg from vacuum cleaner dust in Sendai Miyagi.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/336-bqkg-from-vacuum-cleaner-dust-in-sendai-miyagi/
May 16, 2013
Richland nuclear plant oversight returns to routine level.
http://www.tricityherald.com/search_results?q=Columbia%20Generating%20Station
May 15, 2013
Atomic Energy of Canada says no danger during nuclear ‘near-miss’ at Chalk River.
May 15, 2013
NRC: Lapdog or Watchdog?
Officials say U.S. nuclear plant operator “was going to do an experiment on the people of Southern California” — “That’s their words; they said it was an experiment” (AUDIO).
http://fairewinds.org/content/nrc-lapdog-or-watchdog
May 15, 2013
Environmentalists decry plan to truck weapons-grade N-waste through N.Y.
Sometime this summer, high-level, weapons-grade radioactive waste is expected to pass through New York State – maybe through the Buffalo Niagara region – on flatbed trucks traveling from Ontario to a South Carolina facility.
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130515/CITYANDREGION/130519417/1010
May 15, 2013
Northwest Nuclear Plant Scores Higher Safety Rating.
http://www.nwpr.org/post/northwest-nuclear-plant-scores-higher-safety-rating
May 15, 2013
Mystery black substance detected in Japan with extreme radioactivity levels — Over 170,000 CPM (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/user/kienaiyoru?feature=watch
May 14, 2013
Japanese notice,:”please view cherry blossoms from inside of the car because the radiation level is too high”.
May 14, 2013
Kendra Ulrich, Nuclear Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, explains the significance of the May 13 Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB) ruling that mandates an adjudicated public hearing on Southern California Edison’s (SCE’s) scheme to restart the dangerous, damaged Unit 2 at San Onofre.
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/5026ecc7-e08d-d30c-3fdc-aa50419346cd.mp3
May 14, 2013
Life after Fukushima: “The New Normal”
Prepared Remarks of NRC Chairman Allison M. Macfarlane
At the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Nuclear Energy Assembly.
“Domestically, our review of the potential of normal earth processes -such as earthquakes and floods – to affect reactors will inform future regulatory decisions.
“After all the analyses are done and the reports are written, the changes we implement must be appropriate, effective, and sustainable.”
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/speeches/2013/S-13-008.pdf
May 14, 2013
Toshimitsu Motegi, head of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), said that the government will encourage Japanese fishermen to allow TEPCO to release groundwater gathered near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, after the utility’s attempts to do so failed.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305140090
May 14, 2013
The Continuing Fukushima Cover-Up.
http://open.salon.com/blog/stuartbramhall/2013/05/13/the_continuing_fukushima_cover-up
May 14, 2013
Greenpeace Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 10th to May 13th, 2013.
May 14, 2013
TEPCO seeks permission to dump groundwater from Fukushima plant into ocean.
May 14, 2013
Fukushima Fallout Threat and Cover Up Continues.
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.ca/2013/05/fukushima-fallout-threat-and-cover-up.html
May 14, 2013
Palisades Nuclear Plant shut down until further notice.
May 14, 2013
Nuclear board rules San Onofre restart requires public input.
http://www.vagazette.com/news/sns-rt-us-utilities-edison-sanonofrebre94c153-20130513,0,3979177.story
May 14, 2013
Pandora’s Propaganda: New Documentary Omits Sound Science and Expert Research and Should be Viewed with the Facts at Hand.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/Pandora%27s%20False%20Promises_Final_May13_2013.pdf
May 14, 2013
Environmentalists Praise Fed Ruling on San Onofre.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-board-issues-mixed-ruling-san-onofre-19171567
May 13, 2013
Press Release by Beyond Nuclear onn Pandora’s Promise.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/Pandora%20press%20release.pdf
May 13, 2013
Nuclear Power Falters, Engulfed by ‘Cauldron’ of Bad Luck.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100728120
May 13, 2013
Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/62458
May 13, 2013
Atomic Energy Authority to test imported food for radioactivity.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/29394-aea-to-go-ahead-with-radiation-tests-on-imported-food.html
May 13, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update May 13, 2013: Hard charging special hour show with breaking news that NRC must hold full public judicial-like hearing on SONGS restart; top DTSC honcho’s head roles for her regulating companies she has stock in; Boeing Meltdown Makeover continues with former Times reporter Gary Polakovic hard at work with Girl Scouts now coming to contaminated SSFL to plant trees for merit badges even as liability waiver Boeing uses declares no rights if sickened at lab yet visitor images can be used to keep selling radioactive lab as clean & more!
Michael Collins Radiation Update.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_051313.mp3
May 13, 2013
Children play soccer in the park of Koriyama, Japan 0.83μSv/h after decontamination”.
May 13, 2013
Indian Point To Become First Nuclear Plant To Operate With Expired License.
May 13, 2013
Nuclear Hot Spots along the Great Lakes.
http://news.wbfo.org/post/nuclear-hot-spots-along-great-lakes
May 12, 2013
Olympic Peninsula: West Coast Radiation Crisis, Part 2.
http://rense.com/general96/olymp.html
May 11, 2013
Fallout level in Fukushima city in increasing trend since the summer of 2012.
May 11, 2013
No plan in place when leak alarm sounded at Hanford .
Quick action to address a leak in AY-102 was important given the nature of the high-level waste the tank contains, according to Bob Alvarez, a former nuclear policy adviser to President Clinton. Tank AY-102 contains massive amounts of the nuclear by-product Strontium-90 –- more than any other tank at Hanford. Strontium-90 sinks to the bottom of waste tanks and generates heat so hot it boils the material around it.
http://www.krem.com/news/northwest-news/207043831.html
May 10, 2013
430,000 Bq/Kg and 280,000 Bq/Kg measured from dust near public libraries, pref gov blockaded irrelevant place.
May 10, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 7th to May 9th, 2013.
May 10, 2013
No plan in place when leak alarm sounded at Hanford.
May 9, 2013
Cs-137 measured from 2 of the 2 eel samples in Ibaraki, “Max was 13.2 Bq/Kg”.
May 9, 2013
“Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks in 3 Days Are Latest Stumbles for U.S. Nuclear Power Industry”
May 9, 2013
Scientific American – Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous – “Plutonium could congregate to trigger nuclear chain reaction”.
http://news.yahoo.com/hanford-nuclear-waste-cleanup-plant-may-too-dangerous-110000622.html
May 9, 2013
Southern California Edison (SCE) is so desperate to get one of its two idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station reactor units near San Diego back on line by June 2013 that the company is threatening to permanently shut the nuke if it doesn’t get the restart approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/nuclear-reactors-whatsnew/2013/5/9/groups-to-oppose-restart-of-crippled-california-reactors.html
May 9, 2013
83-year-old nun facing 20 year sentence for ‘symbolic’ nuclear facility break-in.
May 9, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Cleanup May Be Too Dangerous, Future Of Storage Plant Uncertain.
May 9, 2013
Activists convicted over Tennessee nuclear facility break-in.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/09/usa-security-nuclear-idINDEE94800T20130509
May 9, 2013
Report: Tepco now dumping contaminated water from Fukushima plant into ocean — 200 tons of radioactive groundwater “pumped out”.
May 8, 2013
Citizen’s lab”Average contamination of food samples in Nagano was 154 Bq/Kg, highest in Japan, 150% of safety limit”.
May 8, 2013
16,740 Bq/Kg from PROCESSED shiitake mushroom.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/distributed-16740-bqkg-from-processed-shiitake-mushroom/
May 8, 2013
TEPCO has decided to transfer some 23,000 tons of polluted water from leaking underground tanks to more reliable containers above ground, this will cause an increase in the radioactive level in the nuclear power plant compound to exceed limits = up to 7.8 millisieverts.
http://japandailypress.com/tepco-fukushima-radiation-levels-could-exceed-limits-0828461
May 8, 2013
Stroke rate spiking in people ages 35 to 64 — 3.4 times higher than before.
May 8, 2013
Budget cuts put Hanford deadlines at risk
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/05/08/2387958/budget-cuts-put-hanford-deadlines.html
May 8, 2013
U.S. Department of Energy estimated levelized generation costs per megawatt for year 2017:
Natural Gas Advanced Combined Cycle – $65.50
Wind – $96.80
Coal – $99.60
Geothermal – $99.60
Advanced Nuclear – $112.70
According to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union, 11 U.S. nuclear plants have been identified as being in danger of closing due to natural gas being a cheaper generation source.
S.A.F.E.’s (Saving America’s Farmland and Environment)
May 8, 2013
TEPCO to dump groundwater to ease crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305080062
May 8, 2013
Arnie Gundersen’s weekly podcast: Nuclear Regulators Stick Their Heads In The Sand.
http://fairewinds.org/content/nuclear-regulators-stick-their-heads-sand
May 8, 2013
TEPCO eyes dumping groundwater from Fukushima plant.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/780160.shtml#.UYsBSI4QEoI
May 8, 2013
Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks In 3 Days Are Latest Stumbles For U.S. Nuclear Power Industry.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/08/5404811/worst-week-since-fukushima-4-major.html
May 8, 2013
“It’s the first time in Fukushima that soil with cesium levels exceeding 100,000 becquerels was found on the grounds of an urban area, not in sludge accumulated in ditches,” said a city official in charge of decontamination work.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305080058
May 8, 2013
Nuclear vs Solar: Corporate profits and public risk.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/nuclear-vs-solar-corporate-profits-and-public-risk-87302
May 7, 2013
Koriyama city Fukushima held a kids festival in 0.58 μSv/h, 58km from Fukushima nuclear plant.
May 7, 2013
Nuclear regulators of 9 states meet in Tokyo over Fukushima accident.
May 6, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update May 6, 2013: Outstanding show with low rads in L.A. rain; heavy radon washout in Australia & Brazil; San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station battle over re-starting with So Cal Edison threats to shut down; Kewaunee WI to shut down at cost of $1 billion borne by ratepayers; Palisades MI reactor leaks into Lake Michigan as company issues questionable report; high Cs-137 in Japanese fresh water fish & typically bad LA Times op-ed.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_050613.mp3
May 7, 2013
Fukushima pushes Japan over 26 times normal radiation.
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/headline_news/2013/05/07/5835.html
May 7, 2013
Last remaining pupil at Fukushima school hides his loneliness.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ201305070074
May 7, 2013
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Water Leaks Into Lake Michigan.
May 7, 2013
The Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Wisconsin shut down for the last time on Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/energy-environment/kewaunee-nuclear-power-plant-shuts-down.html?_r=0
May 6, 2013
The Fukushima disaster is without precedent and will have unprecedented impacts on future policies governing the ocean, both Japanese and international.
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=167889
May 6, 2013
Marco Kaltofan announced last week some new understanding of the strange radioactive black sand being found in Japan.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=10316
May 6, 2013
Italian Mushroom Contamination.
Dried mushrooms from Italy found with 170 Bq/kg of Cesium-137. This report just in, indicates this contamination is probably a result of the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster that occurred 27years ago.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/long-shadow-of-chernobyl-3-dried.html
May 6, 2013
Supreme Court gives greenlight for Russian-built Kudankulam plant in state of Tamil Nadu despite widespread protests.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/05/201356776113728.html
May 6, 2013
Palisades nuclear plant shut-down after leak.
http://rt.com/usa/palisades-nuclear-plant-leak-895/
May 6, 2013
Study: Vast area of 60 million people contaminated from Fukushima disaster.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23625055
May 6, 2013
Host Taylor Weech interviews the three panelists of upcoming discussion “Hanford: Our Nuclear Neighbor” May 8th at 6 PM at Gonzaga Law School, Leslie March (Sierra Club), Theresa Labriola (Columbia Riverkeeper) and Tim Connor (Center for Justice & Hanford Concerns Council). Discussion of the history of the most contaminated nuclear site in the U.S., the complications of clean up efforts, the underlying politics, effects on waterways, human health and more.
http://praxisradio509.podomatic.com/entry/2013-05-07T09_12_40-07_00
May 5, 2013
Outage planned at Richland nuclear plant. “This will be the plant’s 21st refueling outage, but workers are being told it’s the plant’s most important.”
The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations in late 2010 rated Columbia as one of two nuclear plants in the nation in greatest need of operational and employee performance improvement. Problems occurred primarily in 2009, when the plant had a series of scrams, or unplanned shutdowns.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/05/04/2584928/outage-planned-at-richland-nuclear.html
May 5, 2013
Columbia Generating Station Unit 2 Reactor.
http://nuclear-power-plants.findthedata.org/l/20/Columbia-Generating-Station-Unit-2
May 4, 2013
Japan, Turkey sign $22 billion nuclear deal.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/107372-japan-turkey-sign-22-billion-nuclear-deal
May 4, 2013
Chris Busby on mystery radioactive rain in Brazil.
http://radiationnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/542013-mystery-of-radioactive-rain-in.html
May 4, 2013
Solar Scores a Big Win Over Nuclear.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11911544/1/solar-scores-a-big-win-over-nuclear.html
May 4, 2013
Editorial – Candadian Northern towns ‘bribed’ to take nuclear waste.
May 3, 2013
Edison International said that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, may retire both of its reactors along the Pacific coastline.
http://www.energybiz.com/article/13/05/fate-nuclear-energy-southern-california-may-dim
May 3, 2013
Fukushima ocean radiation panel to be live-streamed.
An international panel of scientists will discuss the accident and potential impacts to the environment and human health in a web-streamed session at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
http://summitcountyvoice.com/2013/05/03/fukushima-ocean-radiation-panel-to-be-live-streamed/
May 3, 2013
The NRC is seeking a $70,000 civil penalty against Dominion Energy Kewaunee Inc., after the federal agency determined fire drills were not being properly conducted and fire drill records were falsified at thepower station.
http://www.fireengineering.com/news/2013/05/03/dominion-nuclear-plant-fined.html
May 3, 2013
Britain signs up to world’s hottest nuclear physics project.
Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (Fair) will study elements that exist fleetingly on the surface of exploding stars.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/03/britain-hottest-nuclear-physics-project-fair
May 3, 2013
Mitsubishi, Areva Sign $22b Turkish Nuclear Plant Deal.
May 3, 2013
Military planes dropped “radiation bombs” by U.S. cities — 60 times more radioactivity than released during TMI meltdown. Humans Used for Radiation Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History.
May 3, 2013
Lawmaker: “Smells like a very deliberate cover up” of leaks at U.S. nuclear site — “A very serious problem” (VIDEO)
Bonus money trumps safety at Hanford, experts say.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Bonus-money-trumps-safety-at-Hanford-experts-say-205901171.html
May 3, 2013
Former Governor: Leaking U.S. nuclear site an “underground Chernobyl waiting to happen” (VIDEO).
Behind the scenes: KING 5’s Gary Chittim on why Hanford matters to every Washington resident .
May 3, 2013
2.3 μSv/h on the ground of Kunimi SA, 74 km from Fukushima nuclear plant.
May 3, 2013
Duke Energy and government regulators have been hiding a not-so-little secret from the people of the Carolinas. Duke’s Oconee nuclear power plant, three aged nuclear reactors 30 miles from Greenville, SC, is at risk of a meltdown should an upstream dam fail. If that were to happen, a meltdown of all three reactors on the scale of the Fukushima meltdowns and subsequent containment failure are virtual certainties according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) documents obtained by Greenpeace .
We’ve also received a tip that the cost to upgrade the Oconee nuclear plant site to address this triple meltdown threat would cost Duke Energy a billion dollars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-radford/will-repairs-to-the-ocone_b_3208859.html
May 2, 2013
NBC News: Fears that Fukushima plant could “break apart” during cleanup process
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/01/17813244-a-very-fragile-situation-leaks-from-japans-wrecked-nuke-plant-raise-fears?lite
May 2, 2013
Bonus money trumps safety at Hanford, experts say.
May 2, 2013
Fukushima pushes Japan over 26 times normal radiation . As of the sampling done four days ago, the radiation fallout level has spiked up to twenty six times its average level since the past year in Japan. The reading indicates 100.4 MBq/Km2. The average reading was at 3.85 MBq/Km2 until 26th April.
As per air samples taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency at eighteen different collection points in the Pacific States, the average level of radioactivity in the air has also spiked to more than seven times the normal levels.
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/headline_news/2013/05/02/5835.html
May 2, 2013
Duke Energy suspends effort to license N. Carolina nuclear units.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/utilities-duke-nuclear-idINL2N0DJ2QG20130502
May 2, 2013
Slower growth drives Duke Energy’s decision to suspend proposed plans for Harris Nuclear Plant expansion.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/slower-growth-drives-duke-energys-200100470.html
May 2, 2013
Fancy New Lids for Nuclear Waste Casks, As Contents Get Hotter.
May 1, 2013
The Prophets of Oak Ridge. – NIRS calls it “stunningly excellent”.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2013/04/29/the-prophets-of-oak-ridge/
May 1, 2013
Representatives from 24 organizations from across the United States have petitionedthe United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revoke the operating license of the General Electric Mark Iand Mark IIboiling water reactors like those at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/bn_news_05022013_revoke_mk_final.pdf
May 1, 2013
1.16 μSv/h in Hitachi seaside park in Ibaraki, “111km from Fukushima nuclear plant”
May 1, 2013
Nuclear Safety Expert: “Many experts are extremely concerned we could have additional releases” at Fukushima plant — “Very, very unstable facility” (AUDIO).
Dan Hirsch, a nuclear safety expert, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, and lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz: Many experts are extremely concerned that we could have additional releases.
This is a very, very unstable facility.
http://fsrn.org/audio/workers-fukushima-nuclear-plant-struggle-contain-rush-contaminated-water/11929
May 1, 2013
U.S. Senators introduce Mobile Chernobyl bill on eve of Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe anniversary.
May 1, 2013
Fukushima’s Radiation Threat with Dr. Chris Busby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4X5CfZiGJ8&feature=em-subs_digest
May 1, 2013
Nuclear Contamination Knows No Borders.
http://fairewinds.org/content/nuclear-contamination-knows-no-borders
April 30, 2013
2,700 Bq/Kg from tea leaves picked by elementary school students in Itabashi Tokyo.
April 30, 2013
Take Action at Fukushima: An Open Letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
April 30, 2013
CNN to air nuclear power propaganda: “Irrational fears” — “Systematically debunks the myths and misinformation”.
April 30, 2013
Plastic bags, tape, broomsticks fix San Onofre leak
NRC contemplating restart of nuclear plant.
April 30, 2013
Economist Robert McCullough of McCullough Research, will examine the business case for an early retirement of the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) nuclear power plant, after being hired by the Washington and Oregon chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
http://www.fierceenergy.com/story/cgs-nuclear-plant-30-years-operation-enough/2013-04-30
April 30, 2013
Environmentalists Go Pro-Nuclear in ‘Pandora’s Promise’ Trailer – Premiere. Film examines idea that nuclear power can help fight climate change.
April 30, 2013
A New Authority For Nuclear Waste.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/04/30/a-new-authority-for-nuclear-waste/
April 30, 2013
Plans to build two new reactors at the South Texas Project nuclear facility outside Bay City hit a road block Tuesday.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled that a partnership between NRG and Toshiba Corp. through the holding company Nuclear Innovation North America violated a U.S law prohibiting foreign control of nuclear power plants.
http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2013/04/nrc-shoots-down-texas-nuclear-plant-expansion
April 30, 2013
Edison’s Damaged Nuclear Plant Costs Exceed $550 Million.
April 29, 2013
Fallout level in Japan spiked 26 times much as the average of this April.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/04/fallout-level-spiked-26-times-much-as-the-average-of-this-april/
April 29, 2013
Flight north from California, passing over from Oregon just over the border to Washington State – Geiger counter went on red alert – 2.26 microsieverts – 30,000 feet up doesn’t think it’s from Hanford – thinks it is from Fuskushima.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Shimatsu_042913.mp3
April 29, 2013
NPR: There’s been a melt-through, there’s cracks… Fukushima reactors not likely to stop leaking into ocean anytime soon — Levels in fish still as high as 2 years ago.
http://capeandislands.org/post/challenges-disaster-follow-research
April 29, 2013
Japan Doctor: So enraged by response of gov’t — Fukushima children’s rashes, nosebleeds, diarrhea, fatigue blamed on radiation-phobia mothers.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/opinion/AJ201304300010
April 29, 2013
New York Times: Alarming reality at Fukushima Daiichi — Plant faced with new crisis — “Tepco is clearly just hanging on day by day”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/asia/radioactive-water-imperils-fukushima-plant.html
April 29, 2013
“Grim Decision” says Chomsky after Japanese Court Rejected Demand to Evacuate Children.
April 29, 2013
LA City Council tells NRC to put the brakes on San Onofre restart.
April 29, 2013
Flow of Tainted Water Is Latest Crisis at Japan Nuclear Plant. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is faced with a new crisis: a flood of highly radioactive wastewater that workers are struggling to contain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/asia/radioactive-water-imperils-fukushima-plant.html
April 29, 2013
Dept. of Energy helps Hanford contractors fight whistleblowers.
April 29, 2013
Remembering Chernobyl – Arjun Makijani, Tim Mousseau, Paul Walker.
April 29, 2013
U.S. Nuclear Plants Order Spent Fuel Pool Monitoring Systems.
April 28, 2013
NRC warns nuclear plants to watch for water damage.
April 28, 2013
Situation in Fukushima is beyond imagination — Many young and old people dead from heart attacks — Young woman died of leukemia.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2013/04/an-appeal-from-fukushima-woman-young.html
April 28, 2013
The leaking reservoirs at Fukushima may contain 1,300 Bq/m3 of Pu-238 and 110 Bq/m3 of Curium-244.
April 28, 2013
210 Bq/Kg from edible wild plants in Tochigi, 102 km from Fukushima nuclear plant.
April 28, 2013
Fukushima’s Catastrophic Aftermath: The Dangers of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation.
April 27, 2013
[School lunch] 1 ~ 20 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from cabbage produced in Aichi prefecture.
April 27, 2013
For the first time, a source from inside the San Onofre nuclear power plant has come forward to warn that restarting the power plant is too dangerous. “Something grossly wrong” at California nuclear plant — Fears for his safety — Potential reactor meltdown if restarted.
April 27, 2013
Highest fallout levels in Tokyo since soon after Fukushima crisis began.
April 27, 2013
Wyden calls for new federal agency for nuclear waste.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/04/27/2374175/wyden-calls-for-new-federal-agency.html
April 27, 2013
27 years since Chernobyl and what have we learned?
April 27, 2013
Fukushima’s Radiation: BC Health Risk, or Fish Tale?
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/04/27/Fukushima-Radiation/
April 26, 2013
Japanese High Court Rejects Childrens’ Claims on the Right to Evacuation.
http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/
April 26, 2013
Tepco is about to discharge pumped ground water to sea, “They won’t remove 21,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium.
April 26, 2013
Losses from Chornobyl Disaster to Approximate USD 180 Billion in 2015 – Ukrainian President.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/26/5374581/losses-from-chornobyl-disaster.html
April 26, 2013
1,000 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium (Cs-137) in the ashes. made from trees from Europe (Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria) – fallout leftover from Chernobyl.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/04/long-shadow-of-chernobyl-224-bqkg-of.html
April 26, 2013
New potassium iodide supply available to residents near SC’s nuclear power plants.
http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=890268
April 26, 2013
Tokyo Announces the Reopening of Nuclear Power Plants in Autumn.
http://www.energytribune.com/76291/tokyo-announces-the-reopening-of-nuclear-power-plants
April 26, 2013
Fallout level in Tokyo was the highest this March since May of 2011.
April 25, 2013
Japan court rejects demand to evacuate kids, acknowledges radiation risk.
April 25, 2013
Tritium leaked from 4 of 7 Fukushima reservoirs, “1,100,000,000Bq/m3 from reservoir No.1″.
April 25, 2013
1,527 Bq/Kg of radioactive silver from house centipede in Fukushima “Concentration factor is 700 times Cs-137.
April 25, 2013
NRC to webcast May 2nd public call to close U.S. Fukushima-style reactors.
April 25, 2013
Federal regulators should “do the work” necessary to learn whether people living within 50 miles of nuclear power plants know what to do if a dangerous incident occurs, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said Wednesday.
“More than 10 million Pennsylvanians, which is 80 percent of our population, live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant,” Casey wrote in a letter to Allison M. Macfarlane, chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/3904045-74/emergency-casey-nuclear#axzz2RUM24rQg
April 25, 2013
Fukushima and Miyagi “less than one bequerel campaign for children” gets underway!
April 25, 2013
Studies mull impact of closing nuclear plant.
http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestnews/1078794-8/studies-mull-impact-of-closing-nuclear-plant
April 25, 2013
Contaminated rice piles up, veggies from the evacuation zone, and over the limit
towns reopen, Tamura Japan. This article also points out some of the methods used to sell contaminated food.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=10271
April 24, 2013
NRC is not our voice – Federal agency has shown contempt for citizens’ concerns.
http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/story.php?articleno=7386&page=1#.UXtn3o4QEoI
April 24, 2013
Nuclear power plant shutdown worth analysis, says doctors group.
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2013/04/hanford-nuclear-site-shutdown-worth.html
April 24, 2013
Radiation of Chernobyl blast discovered in Sri Lankan soil.
April 24, 2013
Fairewinds Podcast: Can’t Win? Change the Rules!
Gross containment failure” of Fukushima reactors — Now we are seeing plutonium far from plant (same containment as Mark 1/11 GE US BWR)
Japan and IAEA “grossly downplaying” Fukushima cesium releases — Chernobyl-like levels leaked from plant
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/cant-win-change-rules
April 24, 2013
Xenon detected in Japan — Consistent with nuclear fission event — Could be from reactor or other atomic activity — N. Korea bomb test?
April 24, 2013
Vegetables from inside Fukushima ‘no-go zone’ now ok to ship to stores — Farms preparing crops.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/25/national/recovery-from-meltdowns-patchy/#.UXgNPWfYGTc
April 24, 2013
Studies mull impact of closing nuclear plant.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/04/24/2571940/studies-mull-impact-of-closing.html
April 24, 2013
64% Belurusian Children with Thryoid Cancer in Remission.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/04/long-shadow-of-chernobyl-2-german-and.html
April 24, 2013
Food for Thought: How safe are these wineries if the Columbia Nuclear Reactor melts down?
April 24, 2013
Studies mull impact of closing nuclear plant.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/04/24/2571940/studies-mull-impact-of-closing.html
April 24, 2013
Nuclear accidents: the guilty should pay, not the innocent.
April 23, 2013
Study: Fukushima fallout spiked year after 3/11.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969804313001668
April 23, 2013
CTBT measured unusually high level of Xe-133 and Xe-131m 4/8~4/9, Vienna “It’s due to N. Korea”.
April 23, 2013
EPA Signs Industry Authored Public Radiation Rules.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=10254
April 23, 2013
Fukushima decommissioning to last for up to 40 years – IAEA.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-iaea-report-problems-241/
April 23, 2013
Officials trying to stop nuclear material from spreading after collapse at Chernobyl — Will be covered with ‘special resin’.
http://www.nzweek.com/world/ukraine-to-cover-collapsed-chernobyl-roof-with-special-resin-61408/
April 23, 2013
Hanford Contractor discounted leak for a year.
Leaking nuclear material at Hanford was white, “now yellow or light green” — Amount has increased ‘measurably’ — Expert: This waste actually gets worse as time goes on.
April 23, 2013
Safety upgrades could cost $40 million per nuclear unit: Dominion.
http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/21978672?sf313355=1
April 23, 2013
How to close the US nuclear industry: Do nothing.
http://bos.sagepub.com/content/69/2/12
April 23, 2013
L.A. City Council votes unanimously to urge NRC to hold off on San Onofre restart, hold public hearings.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-onofre-20130423,0,6476550.story
April 23, 2013
Was Fukushima inevitable?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/23/1204273/-Was-Fukushima-inevitable#comments
April 23, 2013
World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013.
http://sgnews.ca/2013/04/18/energy-potential-without-limit/
April 23, 2013
Northwest Physicians Group Hires Economist to Evaluate Hanford Nuclear Plant
April 23, 2013
Wall Street Journal – Northwest Physicians Group Hires Economist to Evaluate Hanford Nuclear Plant
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130423-914639.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
April 23, 2013
Radiation Detected in Sea Lion Autopsy 150 Metres from San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.
http://rense.com/general95/sanofre.html
April 23, 2013
COLUMBIA GENERATING STATION – Licensed .Operator Training Lands 3 out of 4 of the Violations during an Integrated NRC Inspection/
April 22, 2013
SEN. RON WYDEN HOLDS A HEARING ON DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET.
April 22, 2013
Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor #3 in Fuksuhima now covered.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-reactor-3-spent.html
April 22, 2013
CNN shows diagram of nuclear material leaking from Fukushima reactor — “Tepco always says it’s alright… it always turns out they’re not telling the truth. Fishermen’s livelihood affected.
April 22, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update April 22, 2013: Earth Day show where Michael shows how new EPA radiation limits are going to be for everything, not just emergencies, with I-131 at 27,027 x EPA MCL, Sr-90 x 828 its MCL & 7,022 x its EPA PRG, Cs-137 x its EPA MCL and Pu-239 90 x its MCL & 3,448 x its PRG; death of long-form journalism except at EnviroReporter.com and much more in a romping show that is one of Michael’s favorites.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_042213.mp3
April 22, 2013
Fukushima Plant Operator Should Prepare Better, U.N. Watchdog Says.
April 22, 2013
Analysis: Why Japanese Government didn’t evacuate Eastern JP -What Kan possibly was the most afraid of.
April 22, 2013
U.S. officials concerned about Japan’s plan to reprocess nuclear fuel in Aomori.
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/04/us-officials-concerned-about-japans-plan-reprocess-nuclear-fuel
April 22, 2013
Bloomberg New Energy Finance projects renewables will be 70% of new global energy supply by 2030; new nukes fading into irrelevance.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/04/charts-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels
April 22, 2013
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant intruder, shooting under federal probe.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/apr/22/watts-bar-intruder-shooting-under-federal/
April 22, 2013
Radioactive mud in Fukushima school pools tops 100,000 becquerels.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201304220072
April 22, 2013
Fuel-rod cooling halted by rats at crippled Japan nuclear plant.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/us-japan-nuclear-idUKBRE93L07L20130422
April 21, 2013
TEPCO refusing to pay $100+ million for decontamination work needed from its Fukushima meltdowns.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201304210011
April 21, 2013
According to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 0.73 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 was measured from Orange. The orange was produced in Shizuoka prefecture. It was distributed for sale in Yokohama city.
April 21, 2013
Notice of NRC meeting re Lessons Learned from Fukushima webcast April 23, 2013.
http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/webcast-live.html
April 21, 2013
Fukushima cleanup hit by significant setbacks.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant remains in an unstable condition, and there is concern that we cannot prevent another accident,” said Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/21/fukushima-cleanup
April 21, 2013
Three days after first -ever drill – Attack at U.S. nuclear plant? Multiple shots fired at security officer — May have fled in boat — FBI sending team to site — “Many of the details I won’t be able to share”
April 20, 2013
EPA Proposes to Reduce Toxic Pollutants Discharged into Waterways by Power Plants.
There are numerous documented instances of environmental impacts associated with steam electric plant discharges including widespread aquatic life impacts and toxic metal bioaccumulation in wildlife. In addition, there are increased cancer and non-cancer risks to human health from these discharges. EPA has monetized benefits where possible but most of the real benefits could not be quantified.
EPA’s proposed options would annually reduce pollutant discharges by 470 million to 2.62 billion pounds and reduce water use by 50 billion to 103 billion gallons per year at affected steam electric power plants.
April 20, 2013
PILGRIM STATION: Tritium source accidentally discovered.
April 20, 2013
PILGRIM STATION: Chronology of 2013 leaks, events.
April 20, 2013
Cs-137 measured from milk powder produced in Tokyo sold in western Japan.
April 20, 2013
Firefighters Tackle Nuclear Power Plant Blaze.
During incidents such as this there are several procedures that take place including the venting of steam generators.
http://news.sky.com/story/1080813/firefighters-tackle-nuclear-power-plant-blaze
April 19, 2013
Please sign – if you do nothing else this week!
A plea for the evacuation of Fukushima’s children Please sign the petition!!!!
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/4/19/a-plea-for-the-evacuation-of-fukushimas-children.html
April 19, 2013
Study: Boston, New England at Greatest Tsunami Risk in US — 12 quakes at edge of continental shelf in past year — 1929 tsunami killed 27, destroyed thousands of homes.
April 19, 2013
Gundersen’s weekly podcast –Too Big to Fail:
Report: Every U.S. nuclear plant has staff of workers checking eBay to buy old parts (AUDIO).
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/too-big-fail
April 19, 2013
TMI attack exercise involved intruders trying to “take over the plant.
The attack involved eight people who attempted to “take over the plant.” But officials wouldn’t reveal further details Friday at a public briefing on the drill, which was the first of its kind ever held at a U.S. nuclear power plant.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/04/tmi_drill_terrorist_attack_thr.html
April 19, 2013
ALERT! La Salle Nuclear Plant Nearly Took Out Chicago ! (with the lightning strike)
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.ca/2013/04/alert-la-salle-nuclear-plant-nearly.html
April 18, 2013
Germany wondering what to do with radioactive waste.
http://www.dw.de/where-to-go-with-nuclear-waste/a-16755844
April 18, 2013
New radiation guidelines outrage anti-nuclear groups.
http://www.renewablesbiz.com/article/13/04/new-radiation-guidelines-outrage-anti-nuclear-groups
April 18, 2013
Could lightning strike nukes twice?
When they do decide to go back online, our resident inspectors will be in the control room to make sure that (everything) goes safely, because we all know reactors are most vulnerable when they are shutting down or coming back to power.”
April 18, 2013
1,900 Bq/m3] Sr-90 measured from Fukushima plant offshore seawater, Tepco admitted it’s due to the accident.
April 18, 2013
First Shipment of Nuclear Fuel for Japan Departs from France.
http://www.energytribune.com/75997/first-shipment-of-nuclear-fuel-for-japan-departs-from-france
April 18, 2013
Japanese court’s negative verdict on request to shut down nuclear plant puzzling.
April 18, 2013
Environmental resistance continues against federal rollbacks on radiation protection standards.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/nuclear-power/2013/4/18/environmental-resistance-continues-against-federal-rollbacks.html
April 18, 2013
Emergency declared at U.S. nuclear plant after lightning strike — “Venting of Unit 1 primary containment” — ‘Normal’ radiation levels reported — NRC mobilizes response center.
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/2013/04/18/lightning-strike-causes-unusual-event/abz36jh/
April 18, 2013
Fukushima kids sue for evacuation.
http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-kids-sue-for-evacuation/
April 18, 2013
Marine contamination] Cs-134 measured from Miyagi offshore seawater, radiation level not been decreasing.
April 18, 2013
Call to revoke the licenses for U.S. Fukushima-design reactors: May 2, 2013.
April 17, 2013
43,300 Bq/Kg from incineration ash in Chiba.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/04/43300-bqkg-from-incineration-ash-in-chiba/
April 17, 2013
Nuclear Power Plant Disasters Are Forever.
http://texasvox.org/2013/04/17/nuclear-power-plant-disasters-are-forever/
April 17, 2013
Beyond Nuclear is asking us all to sign the petition to the Japanese Sendai High Court appealing for the children of Fukushima to be evacuated.
http://www.fukushima-sokai.net/action/opinion-e.php
April 17, 2013
“The Experts”: What’s the Best Way Forward on Nuclear Power?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323809304578428570153032936.html
April 16, 2013
Electricite de France SA, Europe’s biggest nuclear operator, faces “uncertainty” about how long it can operate its French reactors, the country’s regulator said.
April 16, 2013
Book on Oak Ridge History 1972: Hijackers had airplane in nosedive heading for U.S. nuclear reactor — “A very, very scary situation” -Energy Official.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2013/04/the-odd-side-of-oak-ridge-hist.html
April 16, 2013
In this video, the radiation level indicated by the official monitoring post is significantly lower than the mobile geiger counter, which is already traditional. The mobile geiger counter showed 0.15 μSv/h, where the official monitoring post shows 0.05 μSv/h.
April 16, 2013
Nuclear power: Green groups launch lawsuit over Darlington plant overhaul.
April 16, 2013
Sabotage: High-powered rifle used in attack on California power substation — Same perpetrators blamed for cutting AT&T fiberoptic cables — Objective was “shutting down the system” — FBI now leading investigation (VIDEO).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/california-electricity-siliconvalley-idUSL2N0D31PQ20130417
April 16, 2013
Three documentaries to watch out for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH9ZyoP_1kw
April 16, 2013
A new book Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident provides information about the actual movement and accumulation of radioactivity in the ecological system—for example, whether debris deposited on mountains can be a cause of secondary contamination, under what conditions plants accumulate radioactive cesium in their edible parts, and how radioactivity is transferred from hay to milk. The book is published in Springer’s open access (OA) program and is freely available on SpringerLink (link.springer.com) to anyone with access to the internet.
April 16, 2013
Japan court rejects request to shut down Ohi nuclear reactors.
advocates had sought to have the reactors at Kansai Electric Power’s Ohi plant in western Japan shut down because seismologists suspect parts of the station sit above an active faultline, which would be against Japanese law on nuclear siting.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/16/us-japan-nuclear-ruling-idUSBRE93F07620130416
April 16, 2013
Wind produces almost twice as much power as nuclear in California.
http://grist.org/news/wind-producing-twice-the-power-of-nuke-plants-in-california/
April 15, 2013
The bitter battle over two stricken southern California reactors has taken a shocking seismic hit. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ignored critical questions from two powerful members of Congress just as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has seriously questioned emergency planning at the San Onofre nuclear plant.
http://ecowatch.com/2013/public-pressure-on-the-rise-against-nuclear-power/
April 15, 2013
EPA Dramatically Weakens Radiation Protection (could allow 1 in 20 to get cancer)
http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radstds/epadramaticallyweakensradiationprotection41513.pdf
April 15, 2013
Tepco admitted Pu-238/239/240, Sr-90 in sea soil are from Fukushima accident.
April 15, 2013
Increasing risk that Fukushima radioactive waste being dumped into Pacific Ocean.
April 15, 2013
Blatant Disregard For Public Safety: Crippled Nuclear Power Plant in California Is Being Fast-Tracked for Reopening.
April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon Bombings: Nuclear Plants Tighten Security In New Hampshire, Massachusetts
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-bombings-nuclear-plants_n_3087887.html
April 15, 2013
Environmental groups go to court over Ontario’s Darlington nuclear station.
April 15, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update April 15, 2013: Reflecting on the Boston terrorism tragedy and the bravery of first responders and law enforcement noting that they are first on the scene and into the fray. Yet new EPA emergency radiation limits would expose them – and the rest of public – to huge amounts of radiation which would theoretically kill 1/6 exposed including you. Plus all 104 U.S. nuclear reactors unsafe says former NRC chief plus NRC tells U.S. Senator Boxer to get lost as they are going to allow damaged San Onofre nuke reactor to start by June 1. North Korea would be pleased at these anti-American actions.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_041513.mp3
April 15, 2013
Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking Water. Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket.
April 15, 2013
L.A. Air 419 % Above Background.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-239657
April 14, 2013
Efforts to remove highly contaminated water from a leaking underground storage pool at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were delayed on Sunday when the plant’s operator said it had found yet another leak, this time in the pipes that would be used to move the water to above-ground storage containers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/world/asia/new-leak-found-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant.html?_r=0
April 14, 2013
All facts you could ever want to show that nuclear Is NOT a Low-Carbon Source of Energy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-14/nuclear-not-low-carbon-source-energy
April 14, 2013
US Rethinks How to Respond to Nuclear Disaster. The proposal could reduce the amount of contaminated land that would have to be abandoned.
The E.P.A. document, called Protective Action Guidelines, and the report prepared for the Department of Homeland Security would allow a sharp increase in the amount of radioactive contamination allowed in food and water, and the allowable doses from irradiation by radioactive particles that would be deposited in an accident.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/science/earth/new-rules-for-us-nuclear-disaster-response.html?_r=0
April 14, 2013
Sendai High Court Soon to Make a Decision: Let’s Make Our Voices Heard for the Rights of the Children of Fukushima.
April 14, 2013
New Campaign: Campaign for Evacuation of the Children from the Highly Contaminated Areas.
http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspot.jp/p/video-letters.html
April 13, 2013
Japanese workers entered Reactor #1 for the first time since 311.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVLI_utdTNM
April 12, 2013
Japan eyes 21 geothermal power plants.
http://www.ecoseed.org/business/asia/16348-japan-eyes-21-geothermal-power-plants
April 12, 2013
490 Bq/Kg of Strontium-90 measured from the soil of Fukushima nuclear plant.
April 12, 2013
All 7 inground ponds are leaking at Fukushima.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-pond-leak-of.html
April 12, 2013
430,000 Bq/Kg Cesium 134/137 measured from Japanese greenling and spotbelly rockfish, “4,300 times much as safety limit”.
April 12, 2013
U.S.’s Unspeakable Experiments: Hundreds of pregnant women fed nuclear material — Infants drinking radioactive lemonade — “Only thing I could think of was Nazi Germany” –Official.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/inhuman-radiation-experiments/
April 12, 2013
NRC sees no major risk in San Onofre restart!
http://www.power-eng.com/news/2013/04/12/nrc-sees-no-major-risk-in-san-onofre-restart.html
April 12, 2013
28,500 Containers Of Radioactive Waste, Containing 58 TRILLION Becquerels, Dumped Into English Channel.
April 12, 2013
Japan drafts new nuclear safety rules. Under the proposed rules there will be a ban on building reactors near active tectonic faults, which themselves will be redefined in a move that will make many more of them fit that definition.
At present, active faults are defined as those that have moved in the last 130,000 years, but the NRA will move the benchmark to any time in the last 400,000 years.
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2013/04/11/Japan_drafts_new_nuclear_safety_rules_862507.html
April 12, 2013
Risk of nuclear accident at crippled Fukushima still high. Tepco acknowledged it had added back-up power only to the reactors, despite repeated concerns raised over a pool meltdown.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10877030
April 12, 2013
IAEA Urges Nuclear Regulators To Enhance Safety Regulations. The International Conference on Effective Nuclear Regulatory Systems closed here Thursday, urging nuclear regulators worldwide to stress more of the safety regulations than post-accident emergency measures.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=941459
April 11, 2013
Radioactive water from Fukushima reactors to be dumped in Pacific? “It’s obvious they can’t keep storing it forever”.
April 11, 2013
Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking residents from outside the official evacuation zone might jam the roads and prevent others from escaping.
The report by the Government Accountability Office, which acts as the investigative arm of Congress, challenges a three-decade-old fundamental of emergency planning around American nuclear power plants: that preparations for evacuation should focus on people who live within 10 miles of the site.
April 11, 2013
NRC’s dismissal of a newly released Government Accountability Office report is disturbing.
http://www.app.com/article/20130412/NJOPINION01/304120026/Evacuation-plans-require-realism
April 11, 2013
The State of Nuclear Power in US: Bad and Worse.
New report says NRC is ill-prepared for massive meltdown, which former NRC chair says is likely.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/11-2
April 11, 2013
Ex-NRC Chair calls for phase out of aging US reactor fleet; suggests new “more distributed” mini-nuke replacements .
April 11, 2013
How can we boost distributed solar and save utilities at the same time?
April 11, 2013
Fukushima Falling Apart … Because Plant Operator Has No Incentive to Spend Money to Fix It.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/?s=fukushima
April 11, 2013
Nuclear plant still ‘extremely unstable’. Over the past three weeks, there have been at least eight accidents or problems.
April 11, 2013
Senator Boxer calls NRC “beyond irresponsible” as agency buckles on safety at San Onofre.
April 11, 2013
Tepco Faces Decision to Dump Radioactive Water in Pacific Ocean.
April 10, 2013
Pu-240 detected from soil in Takahagi city Ibaraki.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/04/spectrum-pu-240-detected-from-soil-in-takahagi-city-ibaraki/
April 10, 2013
TEPCO said that it will build 38 new aboveground steel tanks, with a combined capacity of 19,000 tons, by the end of May. Transferring the water to the new tanks will take until approximately the end of June, which means highly contaminated water will probably continue to leak into the ground until then.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/04/218735.html
April 10, 2013
Gas release from Hanford nuclear site covered up? — Continued for several days — “Spontaneous, not controlled” (VIDEO).
April 10, 2013
Interview with Cindy Folkers and Beth Brangan on food radiation permitted levels in the US.
April 10, 2013
How Should We Deal With Nuclear Waste?
We asked Jack Spencer, senior research fellow for nuclear-energy policy at the Heritage Foundation, Edwin Lyman, senior scientist in the global security program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Richard K. Lester, head of the department of nuclear science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to weigh in on the issue. Here are edited excerpts:
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-209284/
April 10, 2013
Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities.
http://grist.org/author/david-roberts/
Actual report: http://www.eei.org/ourissues/finance/Documents/disruptivechallenges.pdf
April 10, 2013
Water, Rats, Outages: Japan Nuke Plant Precarious.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/precarious-japan-nuke-plant-raises-safety-concerns
April 10, 2013
Tipping the Scale: The 3/11 Formula. Gundersen.
Former NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko was forced out of the NRC by Congress for not adequately supporting the nuclear industry. The NRC claims all nuclear plants are still safe, but how are they doing their math?
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/tipping-scale-311-formula
April 10, 2013
EPA Draft Indicates Radically Relaxed Radiation Guidelines.
“This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period.”
April 10, 2013
Fukushima remains unstable.
“It’s become obvious that Tepco is not at all capable of leading the cleanup. It just doesn’t have the expertise, and because Fukushima Daiichi is never going to generate electricity again, every yen it spends on the decommissioning is thrown away. That creates an incentive to cut corners, which is very dangerous. The government needs to step in, take charge and assemble experts and technology from around the world to handle the decommissioning instead.” -Muneo Morokuzu, a nuclear safety expert at the Tokyo University Graduate School of Public Policy
“The Fukushima Daiichi plant remains in an unstable condition, and there is concern that we cannot prevent another accident.” -Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority
April 9, 2013
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that it plans to send inspectors to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant next week to investigate progress in decommissioning the reactors there, as well as a slew of recent mistakes and equipment failures that have threatened the safety of the plant.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/04/218456.html
April 9, 2013
Study: Cesium, iodine and tritium in NW Pacific waters – a comparison of the Fukushima impact with global fallout.
The contribution of 137Cs, 129I and 3H released from the damaged Fukushima NPP to the sea has been remarkable, as it has considerably influenced their concentrations in surface seawater as well as in the water column of the NW Pacific Ocean.
The measured 137Cs concentrations in surface waters ranged from 1.8mBq L−1 to 3500mBq L−1, up to 3500 times higher than the global fallout background.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/6377/2013/bgd-10-6377-2013.pdf
April 9, 2013
Fukushima plant abandoning leaky underground pools.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/epa-relaxes-public-health-guidelines-
radiological-attacks-accidents/
April 9, 2013
Germany restarts nuclear waste storage search from scratch.
http://www.dw.de/germany-restarts-nuclear-waste-storage-search-from-scratch/a-16731928
April 9, 2013
Nuclear Safety Concerns? 5 minute VIDEO.
The former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that all 104 nuclear power reactors now in operation in the United States have a safety problem that cannot be fixed. We talk to Jim Riccio, Nuclear Power Analyst for Greenpeace USA.
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/ex-nuclear-head-raises-us-power-safety-concerns/515dd3e72b8c2a61a60001c7
April 9, 2013
A recent investigative report documented that GE has known this all along, that the units were faulty in design and hoped they could possibly fix them with changes later on. Instead of coming up with a working design they suppressed information, complaints from engineers were ignored and they wrote liability out clauses into contracts with local utilities that unwittingly bought these reactors. Court documents from a lawsuit between a Washington state utility and GE exposed the extent to which GE went to lie to utilities and the public about the faulty design of their reactors.
April 9, 2013
‘Irreparable’ safety issues: All US nuclear reactors should be replaced, ‘Band-Aids’ won’t help.
http://rt.com/usa/us-nuclear-reactors-should-replaced-592/
April 9, 2013
Mothers of Fukushima Trailer – How can the government stand by and do nothing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L94h124zMvA
April 9, 2013
Three of seven Fukushima tanks leaking radioactive water.
April 9, 2013
Only Fukushima Japanese food banned in Singapore now.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/SoShiok/Story/A1Story20130409-414530.html
April 9, 2013
Letter to Abe quoting health effects of Fukushima:
“Analysis based on the most inclusive data sets available reveals that radioactive fallout from the Fukushima meltdown is at least as big as Chernobyl and more global in reach.”
“400 to 500 times the amount of cesium-137 of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, has already been dispersed into the atmosphere.”
“It is unlikely that there is a threshold below which cancers are not induced.”
“A single becquerel of radiation has the potential to initiate cell damage ultimately leading to cancer and assorted illnesses.” “Radiation contamination is cumulative, with the greatest danger resulting from internal exposure through inhaling contaminated air, eating contaminated foods and drinking contaminated water. Thus, the longer one remains in a contaminated environment, the more likely one is to become sick.
“About 10 million people have been left in the areas that should have been designated radiation-controlled areas, and they are exposed to continual radiation every day.”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/09/voices/rosy-fukushima-health-report-faulted-by-experts/#.UWRRS44QEoI
April 8, 2013
According to MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), 67 Tera Bq/Km2 (67,000,000,000,000 Bq/Km2) of Te-129 was measured from rainwater in Gunma prefecture on 3/16/2011.
April 8, 2013
Am-241 measured in the atmosphere in Hitachi city Ibaraki, 100 km from Fukushima nuclear plant.
April 8, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update.
Michael Collins Radiation Update April 8, 2013: US EPA quietly obliterates radiation safety levels under new Obama EPA nominee’s draconian scheme; former NRC head says US agency rep “damaged significantly” in role of dice over nuke plant safety; SCE pushes June 1 San Onofre damaged nuke plant restart; Radiation Food Lab finds; huge rads in Japanese black fungus obtained by Team EnviroReporter.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_040813.mp3
April 8, 2013
Ex-Regulator Says Reactors Are Flawed.
April 8, 2013
Deadly levels of radiation found in food 225 miles from Fukushima: Media blackout on nuclear fallout continues
April 8, 2013
Ottawa’s planned nuclear liability limit too low: Greenpeace.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ottawa-s-planned-nuclear-liability-limit-too-low-greenpeace-1.1228769
April 8, 2013
EPA Relaxes Public Health Guidelines For Radiological Attacks, Accidents.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/epa-relaxes-public-health-guidelines-radiological-attacks-accidents/
April 7, 2013
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant finds second tank leak.
Japan’s nuclear regulator said on Sunday that up to 167 metric tons of contaminated water has seeped into soil from underground storage pools at the site of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after additional leaks were found.
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-205815/
April 7, 2013
16 Bq/Kg from rice miso produced in Nagago, sold in Osaka.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/04/16-bqkg-from-rice-miso-produced-in-nagago-sold-in-osaka/
April 7, 2013
From the Pacific Northwest to Fukushima: the long, tragic trail of failed General Electric Nuclear Plants.
April 6, 2013
A Fukushima native speaks out in NYC.
April 6, 2013
Plymouth selectman, Belinda Brewster, asks NRC to organize meeting of 104 nuke towns .-
April 6, 2013
Beyond Nuclear and others take action to lower radioactivity allowed in food – sign the petition!
“This is necessary because of continuing exposure to radiation from atomic bomb testing and routine releases from nuclear power, and in the wake of the ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima, where the reactors are still releasing radioactivity”.
April 6, 2013
What can be done about the Hanford leaking tanks and the risk that the tanks can explode.
http://www.hanfordchallenge.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Winter-2013-Newsletter-and-Site-Update.pdf
April 6, 2013
Fukushima: Massive Leaks and Radioactive Fallout Continuing On a Daily Basis…For Years On End.
April 6, 2013
The Nuclear Apocalypse in Japan (Coming to USA). YouTube on why loss of offsite power is the concern with the BWR. With Keith Harmon Snow
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKbj0nnFE8&feature=em-subs_digest
April 6, 2013
Fukushima tank springs major leak. 120 tons of radioactive water with an estimated 710 billion becquerels of radioactivity escape from underground facility
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/07/national/fukushima-tank-springs-major-leak/#.UWEEB44QEoI
April 5, 2013
Hanford’s Radwaste Tanks Leaking & Explosive, Waste Treament Plant Unsafe: Whistleblowers Vindicated.
April 5, 2013
15,000 Bq/Kg from the dust of vacuum cleaner in Tokyo, 230km from Fukushima plant.
April 5, 2013
Operator Edison wants to restart San Onofre Nuclear June 1, NRC has doubts they can get the paperwork done in time.
April 5, 2013
White House approves of major regulatory rollback on dirty bomb/nuclear power disaster clean up standards, setting dangerous precedent for all things nuclear.
April 5, 2013
Power has been restored to part of the cooling system at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, after it failed for the second time in a month.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22037345
April 4, 2013
NRC SEEKS PUBLIC COMMENT ON DRAFT ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT REVISED ‘STATION BLACKOUT’ RULE.
http://www.power-eng.com/news/2013/04/06/nrc-seeks-public-comment-on-draft-analysis-to-support-revised-station-blackout-rule.html
April 4, 2013
Japan nears deal in Turkey to export first post-disaster nuclear plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/business/AJ201304040065
April 3, 2013
Nuclear Power and Earthquakes with geologist Dr. Les Kanat and Gundersen.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/nuclear-power-and-earthquakes
April 3, 2013
Maddow on Hanford.(first 3 minutes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKu9G911ldE
April 3, 2013
Recent models suggest that more than half of released radioactive material from a nuclear disaster would be transported more than 1000 km from the site of release (Lelieveld et al. 2012).
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15502-uncomfortable-questions-in-the-wake-of-nuclear-accidents-at-fukushima-and-Chernobyl
April 3, 2013
Hanford nuclear waste tanks at risk of explosion.
http://rt.com/usa/hanford-nuclear-waste-tanks-288/
April 3, 2013
Almost third of US West Coast newborns hit with thyroid problems after Fukushima nuclear disaster. [Editor’s note: This study seems to have skipped use of a large cohort and graphs in this 9-page report. It has been suggested to EnviroReporter.com that this study “cherry-picked” the data and, in tandem with being scant on proofs, may not hold any real scientific weight. We include the report here not as an endorsement of the study’s findings but as only something for the reader to inspect themselves in order to determine if the work is weakly derived.]
http://rt.com/usa/fukushima-us-children-thyroid-291/
April 2, 2013
The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly – conclusion: the artificial radionuclides from Fukushima caused physiological and genetic damage to this species.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B68f83tqq7QuQkh5bWthU2JPMFk/edit
April 2, 2013
The Ministry of the Environment Thyroid Survey Follow-up: A Comparison Study or Not?
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2013/04/the-ministry-of-environment-thyroid.html?spref=tw
April 2, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Waste Tanks Could Explode, Agency Warns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/hanford-nuclear-waste-could-explode_n_3001134.html
Michael Collins Radiation Update April 1, 2013: April Fools Day is no joke. Arkansas reactor accident kills 1, injures 8, So Cal Edison insists on restarting damaged San Onofre reactor, UC Berkeley nuke department dismisses Geiger counters; LA City Council says no Rocketdyne transfer of NASA land until remediated to background; Boeing stages elaborate press stunt at Rocketdyne attended by its greenwashing and astroturfing collaborators and more.
April 1, 2013
56,100 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from the filter of air cleaner in Yokohama, 253km from Fukushima plant.
April 1, 2013
61,000 Bq/Kg from wild boar meat in Fukushima, the highest reading ever.
April 1, 2013
Fukushima meltdown appears to have sickened American infants.
http://grist.org/news/fukushima-meltdown-appears-to-have-sickened-american-infants/
March 31, 2013
44 countries restricting import of food from Japan. (Mexico and Canada lifted ban on importing).
March 31, 2013
U.S. nuclear plant suffers “significant industrial accident” — 8 injured, 1 dead — No ‘immediate’ threat to the public.
March 30, 2013
‘Energy pendants’ very popular on internet — Radioactive dose of 200 milliSv/yr detected, much higher than nuclear worker limit — To be worn around neck.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/03/29
March 30, 2013
Nuclear plant performance meeting to be followed by dry cask storage discussion.
March 29, 2013
Beyond Nuclear and others take action to lower radioactivity allowed in food.
March 29, 2013
680,000 Bq/Kg from the soil beside the agricultural reservoir in Okumamachi, Fukushima.
March 29, 2013
First anniversary of weekly antinuclear rallies outside prime minister’s office marked.
March 29, 2013
Utility that operates Fukushima cites own shortcomings as main cause of Japan’s nuclear crisis.
March 29, 2013
Stanford researcher maps out an alternative energy future for New York. New study finds that it is technically and economically feasible to convert New York’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one powered by wind, water and sunlight.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/march/new-york-energy-031213.html
March 28, 2013
490 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from “flurry of falling cherry blossoms in Tokyo” of 2012.
490 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from “flurry of falling cherry blossoms in Tokyo” of 2012
March 28, 2013
Tohoku Electric stops plans to build new nuclear plant near Fukushima.
March 28, 2013
Swiss supreme court stays closure of nuclear plant saying it is up to Switzerland’s nuclear safety inspection body, not the courts, to tackle problems ranging from cracks in the reactor shell, the risk of earthquakes or insufficient cooling facilities.
March 28, 2013
Study: Nuclear Plant Shutdown May Have Led to 4,319 Fewer Cancer Cases.
Note: According to the 2010 U.S. Census, over 18 million Americans live within 20 miles of a nuclear power plant and over 116 million live within 50 miles.
http://www.bmijournal.org/index.php/bmi/article/viewFile/115/82
March 28, 2013
ACT NOW! Sign the petition to STOP A MOBILE CHERNOBYL NO FUKUSHIMA FREEWAYS.http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/hlwtransport/mobilechernobyl.htm
March 28, 2013
US renewable energy production now tops nuclear power.
http://qz.com/68344/us-renewable-energy-production-now-tops-nuclear-power/
March 28, 2013
The death rate of elderly people evacuated from old people’s facilities around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has tripled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnmz5XXr27A
March 27, 2013
Renewed interest — and criticism — for small modular reactors.
March 27, 2013
NuScale Power begins fresh effort to secure federal funds for its nuclear technology
March 27, 2013
Watchdog groups oppose sending Hanford waste to New Mexico.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/03/27/2332119/watchdog-groups-oppose-sending.html
March 27, 2013
Environmental Groups say Department of Energy’s “preferred alternative” to send Hanford tank wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant a costly, unwise, and illegal red herring.
March 27, 2013
The government has put back by five years the deadline to build the first new nuclear power station in the UK since 1995.
http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/28/hinkley-nuclear-plant-put-back-five-years/
March 27, 2103
Google Street View sends cameras into Namie, an abandoned town in Fukushima where once 21,000 people lived.
March 27, 2013
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster is Japan facing a cancer time bomb?
March 27, 2013
Nuclear-free future not an option for UK energy strategy, says chief adviser.
March 27, 2013
Cost-minimized combinations of wind power, solar power and electrochemical storage, powering the grid up to 99.9% of the time.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759
March 27, 2013
Americans Want More Emphasis on Solar, Wind, Natural Gas.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161519/americans-emphasis-solar-wind-natural-gas.aspx
March 27, 2013
Death toll from Fukushima disaster to be 1,000 times IAEA estimate.
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/58986
March 27, 2013
TEPCO claims water around Fukushima reactors filtered out the cesium. Could water really exist at these high temperatures or is it just a bunch of hot air?
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/hot-air-0
March 26, 2013
Various Japanese corporations move their main departments out of Japan. (Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Panasonci, Hoya)
March 26, 2013
East japan Railway Company and Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank (5th largest bank in world) moving headquarters to Singapore.
March 26, 2013
Union of Concerned ScientisFission Stories #133: Mayflies, and Squirrels, and Rats…
http://allthingsnuclear.org/fission-stories-133-mayflies-and-squirrels-and-rats/
March 26, 2013
Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=28599
March 26, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update March 25, 2013: 700 sick sea lions in So Cal as cesium 134 & 137 found in store-bought San Diego tuna; NRC fails to require filters in post-Fukushima rules; 900 trillion Bq strontium 90 dumped in Pacific; “fission products” found 300 km from Fukushima Daiichi; Jeff & Michael work on why Cs-137 is moving across ocean and spreading out in an arc instead of just moving in Kuroshio Current; MC’s best & worst editors, Denise Anne being the best.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_032513.mp3
March 26, 2013
1.4 billion Bq/Kg of Co-60 measured from debris attached to the new fuel in SFP4.
March 25, 2013
The Case for Closing the Columbia Generating Station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFlPVVyF-Bg
March 25, 2013
6.1 Bq/Kg from Angelica keiskei produced in Miyakemura, 400km from Fukushima plant.
March 25, 2013
3.7 and 4.6 Bq/Kg from rice cracker and tangerine produced in Shizuoka, “360km from Fukushima.
March 25, 2013
Study: Air in New York after Fukushima disaster exceeded 3,400 μBq/m³ of Iodine-131 gas — Health impacts ‘minimal’ (MAP).
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-012-2043-0
March 25, 2013
White House Supports Rollback of Cleanup Standards for Nuclear Incidents.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/white-house-backs-rollback-cleanup-standards-nuclear-incidents/
March 25, 2013
Graphic: 900-mile-long “front” of most contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi moving across Pacific toward U.S., Canada (VIDEO).
Title: Powerpoint Presentation: Ken Buesseler
Source: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Day 1
Author: The Helen Caldicott Foundation
Date Presented: March 11, 2013
Ken Buesseler, Marine Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute At ~75:00 in:
“So how far and how fast [is the cesium traveling]? If you take a broader look at the Pacific Ocean and you look for a front of where you see the edge of the cesium moving. This goes to March 2012, about 180 degrees. This is actually based on samples, not models.”
http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#
March 25, 2013
Five Decades of Plutonium Production at Hanford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RE8aMFsfvs&feature=em-subs_digest&list=TLnPwxmPUSjIY
March 25, 2013
At least 10 million Japanese people still abandoned in high-radiation areas, says professor . Catastrophe released equivalent to 168 atomicHiroshima bombs.
http://www.naturalnews.com/039629_Fukushima_radiation_Japanese_population.html
March 24, 2013
Review of N.Y. Symposium: Myths of Fukushima.
http://www.ecoshock.info/2013/03/deadly-myths-of-fukushima.html
March 24, 2013
Nuclear Impact in India being ignored. Physicians report increased cancers around nuclear site — Birth defects, still births, spontaneous abortions on rise.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_nuclear-radiation-impact-being-ignored_1815210
March 23, 2013
Nuclear Power Special with Arnie Gundersen, Kirsten Iverson, Steven Starr.
Gundersen: After TMI, U.S. students kept in classroom with radiation levels off the scale — Yet kids of nuclear workers were evacuated.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/03/23
March 23, 2013
Up to 900 trillion becquerels of Strontium-90 into ocean from Fukushima plant.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/2039/2013/bgd-10-2039-2013.pdf
March 23, 2013
Significant volatile fission products” deposited 300 kilometers from Fukushima plant.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-012-2040-3
March 22,2013
Trans-border nuclear waste shipment meeting increased resistance.
March 22, 2013
San Onofre utility may seek nuclear plant license change.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/22/edison-sanonofre-idUSL1N0CE73C20130322
March 22, 2013
Cesium-134 and 137 activities in the central North Pacific Ocean after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/5223/2013/bgd-10-5223-2013-print.pdf
March 22, 2013
Study: Fukushima fallout at Canadian embassy in Tokyo was 225,000 Bq/m² — Far in excess of limit set for radiation control zones.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-012-2040-3
March 21, 2013
Fukushima blackout investigators examine dead rat.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303210068
March 21, 2013
Fukushima nuclear materials reported off China coast near Taiwan.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/20/c_132248125.htm
March 21, 2013
Petition NRC to revoke the operating licenses of dangerous GE Mark I & Mark II reactors.
On March 19, 2013, a majority of the five-member Commission voted to reject the agency’s Japan Lessons Learned Project Directorate and their senior staff’s recommendation to promptly Order to back fit all General Electric boiling water reactors with Mark I and Mark II containments with the installation of engineered high-capacity radiation filters on more robust severe accident capable vents on the Fukushima-style containment structures. Instead by majority vote (4-1), the Commissioners sided with the industry agenda for dangerous half measures that will potentially leave the downwind communities vulnerable to the uncontained releases of radioactivity in the event of an accident involving reactor core fuel damage and introduces undue, indeterminate and imprudent delay in addressing these aging reactors with dangerously flawed and vulnerable containment structures.
You can join Beyond Nuclear and safe energy organizations in petitioning the NRC to revoke these Fukushima-style reactors here in the United States by signing up here: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7285/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13397
Allison MacFarlane, who alone voted for the filters, wrote:
“My decision reflects, in part, my experiences during a recent trip the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. The visit required to the reactors required travel through deserted villages, full of abandoned homes and businesses overgrown with weeds, and past fallow fields, and unused industrial buildings, roads and railroad tracks, all of which emphasized the impact of the accident from a nuclear plant that was over 10 kilometers away.
Engineered filtered containment system can help protect the public and the environment by significantly reducing the amount of radiological effluent released from containment during a severe accident. All currently available information indicates that the ability to vent containment through filters would be an improvement to safety;
March 21, 2013
Over 3,000,000 Bq/m² detected on road near Fukushima plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqmLOLW7xxU
March 21, 2013
What are the Consequences of Siting a Nuclear Plant in a Seismically Active Area?
http://fairewinds.org/content/nrc-plays-keep-away
March 21, 2013
4.5 μSv/h on the soil of Nasushiobara city Tochigi, “officially it’s 0.151μSv/h”.
March 21, 2013
The fog that hit Tokyo on 3/10/2013 contained 4,362 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137.
March 20, 2013
UK approves first new nuclear power station in 18 years.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/346129#ixzz2OQeFiBQE
March 20, 2013
Judge Upholds Uranium Mining Ban on 1 Million Acres Near Grand Canyon.
March 20, 2013
Rat blamed for power cut at Fukushima nuclear plant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21867705
March 20, 2013
Power, cooling restored at Japanese nuclear plant.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10872438
March 20, 2013
Caldicott Foundation NY Symposium Video archives. (Click on presenter’s name in “Program” for direct access)
http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#
March 20, 2013
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Orders Power Plant Vent Upgrades, But Falls Short Of Requiring Filters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/nuclear-regulatory-commission_n_2914662.html
March 20, 2013
Fairewinds: Radiation release during massive power failure at Fukushima Daiichi — 24-hour outage is unconscionable, shows plant unstable.
http://fairewinds.org/content/fairewinds-responds-power-failure-fukushima-daiichi
March 19, 2013
Tepco to discharge ground water to the sea if it’s under 1,000 Bq/m3
March 19, 2013
Nuclear Regulator Majority Vote Disregards Agency Staff Safety Recommendation on Unreliable Mark I and II Containment. Decision requires hardened vent without filter.
March 19, 2013
Markey: NRC’s Delay of Fukushima Safety Measure is Irresponsible.
Instead of following the safety recommendations of its top experts, the NRC “chose to grant the nuclear power industry’s requests for more studies and more delays,” Markey said. Even after the study is completed there is no guarantee the NRC will require filters at U.S. reactors, Markey said
March 19, 2013
Stanford University graduate student Dan Madigan in Monterey. Tuna steaks he bought in San Diego tested postive for cesium-134 and cesium-37, waste products from Fukushima.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fukushima-radiation-
March 19, 2013
Power Restored After Shutdown Brings New Fears Of Fukushima Disaster.
March 19,2013
Fukushima Power Failure Disrupts Water Flow for Spent Fuel Pools.
March 19, 2013
Blackout Hints at Plant’s Vulnerability.
TOKYO — The stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant this week experienced its worst power failure since the disaster there in 2011, and though the plant’s operator said all electricity was restored by early Wednesday, the problem underlined its continuing vulnerability.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/world/asia/blackout-halts-cooling-system-at-fukushima-plant.html
March 18,2013
The radioactive density of SFP of reactor 1 is 24 billion Bq/m3, 5266 times much as reactor 4.
March 18,2013
[Analysis] The sudden blackout revealed the weakness of Fukushima plant, “Reactor4 has 4 days to go”.
March 18, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update March 18, 2013: Power failure at 4 Fukushima spent fuel pools with over 7,910 fuel rods; fire would destroy central Japan & Tokyo, electrical vulnerability of 103 American reactor’s pools with no NRC requirements for backup; ionizer HEPA machines a must.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_031813.mp3
March 18, 2013
Blackout halts cooling system at Fukushima plant. The affected system is intended to cool 3 pools containing about 2,100 spent rods from the plant’s number 1, 3, and 4 reactors.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20130319_01.html
March 18, 2013
Plan to attend March 22/23 Two Day Conference “Fukushima Not in the Northwest “.
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/535375/16614ba0ab/TEST/TEST/%7BVR_HOSTED_LINK%7D
March 17, 2013
Don’t Be So Sure Fukushima isn’t Chernoby?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/15/fukushima-isnt-chernobyl/
March 17, 2013
Review of N.Y. Symposium on the on Medical and Ecological Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident by Karl Grossman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYClI5orMY
March 17, 2013
Public Pays for Fukushima While Nuclear Industry Profits.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/public-pays-for-fukushima-while-nuclear-industry-profits/
March 16, 2013
Karl Grossman’s Commentary on the Japanese Nuclear Emergency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUx7gto8uj8
March 16, 2013
Radioactive schools: Over 8,000 Bq/Kg measured from 18 schools in Yokohama.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/03/over-8000-bqkg-measured-from-18-schools-in-yokohama/
March 16, 2013
740,000 becquerels per kilogram in Fukushima fish -radioactive cesium 7,400 times the government’s food safety standard.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303160048
March 15, 2013
Tokyo University of Marine Science,”8,000,000,000 ~ 93,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 can leak to the sea every single day.”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/03/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-may-still-be.html
March 15, 2013
Early estimates put the damages from the Fukushima disaster at up to US $250-billion.
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-15-00-fukushima-offers-a-lesson-in-liability
March 15, 2013
US solar installations grew by 76% in 2012
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/3/15/us-solar-installations-grew-by-76-in-2012.html
March 14, 2013
The Forestry Agency, “Internal exposure dose of cedar pollen is 0.206 μSv” in Japan.
March 14, 2013
1.8 Bq/Kg of Strontium-90 measured from rainbow smelt in Minamisoma city Fukushima.
March 14, 2013
Potential Cost Of A Nuclear Accident? So High It’s A Secret!
Catastrophic nuclear accidents, like Chernobyl or Fukushima, are very rare, we’re incessantly told. But when they do occur, they’re costly. In every way. So costly that the French government, when it came up with estimates, kept them secret. But the report was leaked: an accident at a single reactor in a thinly populated part of France could cost over three times France’s GDP. Financially, France would cease to exist as we know it.
http://maxkeiser.com/2013/03/14/potential-cost-of-a-nuclear-accident-so-high-its-a-secret/
March 14, 2013
Helen Caldicott on Fukushima.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWHtAqKJ6gc&hd=1
March 14, 2013
Japan urged to send out global SOS over Fukushima.
March 14, 2013
Mary Olson of NIRS and the Face of Radiatin: One Rad Fits All Not anymore – Actually Never Did.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/13/1193716/-One-Rad-Fits-All-Not-Anymore-Actually-Never-Did
March 14, 2013
INTERVIEW: Former U.S. nuke watchdog chair says regulators must stay independent.
In a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun in Washington, Gregory Jaczko, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), said it is crucial for a nuclear watchdog to stay independent from the nuclear industry.
“When we inspected nuclear plants in the United States after the Fukushima accident, we found many of the anti-terrorism measures had not been implemented appropriately the way they were designed. The plants would not necessarily have survived a tsunami or an earthquake, because the safety measures were designed to be used in the event of a terrorist attack.”
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303140050
March 14, 2013
Hidden NOAA animation shows ocean all along U.S. West Coast contaminated with Fukushima cesium by end of March 2011 (VIDEO)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
March 13, 2013
Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear interviewed on the Big Picture Two Years after Fukushima.
March 13, 2013
Steel frame now built around reactor #4 at Fukushima Daiichi.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/03/the-third-layer-of-reactor4-cover-was-completed/
March 13, 2013
Sickened Alaska animals getting more tests for Fukushima radionuclides — Oozing sores, bleeding, swollen internal organs, hair loss (PHOTOS)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130313/could-alaskas-mystery-seal-illness-be-arctic-sunburn
March 13, 2013
Why fossil fuel and nuclear interests trash renewable energy.
March 13, 2013
The Accident Is NOT Contained: Worse Than Ever?
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/2-year-anniversary-of-fukushima/
March 13, 2013
Australia has been urged to rethink its supply of nuclear material to other countries.
March 13, 2013
NRC released MHI documents show that Edison concealed San Onofre’s flawed steam generator design in order to avoid a public process.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/redacted-report-released-southern-california-edison-made-major-%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88-their-%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88-despite
March 13, 2013
Surge in renewable energy as solar panel prices plummet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/13/surge-renewable-energy-solar-panel
March 13, 2013
Interivew on important new documentary “Hot Water” about uranium mining and the nuclear industry.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/kuciniches-nuclear-in-hot-water-88771.html?hp=r11
March 13, 2013
Akio Matusmura’s talk at the N.Y. Symposium.
http://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_130320_Show_LoFi.mp3
March 13, 2013
Official worried about cyber attacks on US nuclear command and control.
March 12, 2013
Austrian Meteorological Agency”16,700 Peta Bq of radioactive gas Xenon 133 released at Fukushima – This is the largest civilian noble gas release in history, exceeding the Chernobyl noble gas release by a factor of 2.5.
March 12, 2013
Key Message: Allison M. Macfarlane, head of NRC, cited aging nuclear reactors, terrorist attacks and natural disasters, saying, “we don’t know everything about how the Earth behaves, and we must factor this into how we approach nuclear safety.”
“The current generation of reactors has already outlived the theory of geology that was prevalent when their sites were chosen…..they predate wide acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics — the view that the Earth’s crust is made up of plates that rub and slip against one another.”
March 12, 2013
Congenital hypothyroid cases in 5 U.S. states on Pacific ocean increased by +28% from 3/17 to 6/30/2011.
March 12, 2013
Former Prime Minister: Half the people in Japan were close to being evacuated after start of Fukushima crisis (VIDEO).
March 12, 2013
Norway Calls on the World to Ban Nuclear Weapons.
Last week, an extraordinary, historic event occurred. The government of Norway invited all the nations of the world to a two-day conference to discuss the humanitarian effects of nuclear war and to begin the process to ban all nuclear weapons. Over 130 nations showed up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-dear/norway-calls-the-world-to_b_2862919.html
March 12, 2013
Study: Up to 47 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 released into Pacific from Fukushima — Nearly 50 times original Tepco estimate.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/4127/2013/bgd-10-4127-2013.html
March 12, 2013
News coverage of N.Y. Symposium on Fukushima.
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/fukushima-two-years-later/5137a97178c90a6cfe0002e3
March 12, 2013
A personal reflection on Fukushima, from a Greenpeace radiation expert.
March 12, 2013
Warren Buffett and Google Aid Nuclear Energy’s Slide.
March 12, 2013
Study: Fukushima fallout detected in fish from Atlantic Ocean.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/4127/2013/bgd-10-4127-2013.html
March 12, 2013
Two years on, America hasn’t learned lessons of Fukushima nuclear disaster. America should not be depending on luck to save its citizens from Fukushima-like nuclear accidents.
One hundred and eleven million Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear plant. So far they have been lucky. Nobody can say how long that luck will last.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/12/fukushima-nuclear-accident-lessons-for-us
March 11, 2013
Even southern Tokyo is contaminated from Fukushima disaster.
March 11, 2013
Fairewind’s Arnie Gundersen Presentation at Helen Caldicott Foundation Symposium.
March 11, 2013
In U.S., nuclear energy loses momentum amid economic head winds, safety issues.
March 11, 2013
As of today, about 10 million people have been left in areas that should have been designated radiation controlled areas, and they are exposed to continual radiation every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clmHptj2RVo&feature=player_detailpage#t=478s
March 11, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update March 11, 2013: Two-year anniversary of Fukushima triple meltdowns and situation worsens in Pacific while air levels lower in SoCal; Caldicott Fukushima symposium in NYC reveals startling facts; rad-induced mutations migration; stiffer Radiation Station air cleansing & thanks to the brave folks who have helped us for 2 years!
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_031113.mp3
March 11, 2013
Fukushima two years later: How safe are US nuclear plants?
March 11, 2013
Fukushima, San Onofre and Our Health. Article concentrates on nuclear power plants’ radioactive emissions and their effects on our health.
March 11, 2013
The nuclear industry is in trouble. It’s being squeezed by low energy prices, plagued by poisonous waste piling up with nowhere to go, and hounded by watchdogs and renewed public concerns over the radiological nightmare that continues to unfold two years after Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2013/03/two_years_after_disaster_at_fu.html
March 11, 2013
A Map of All the U.S. Nuclear Plants That Almost Melted Down in 2012
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/03/map-nuclear-meltdown-near-misses/4944/
March 11, 2013
Nuclear Industry Withers in U.S. as Wind Pummels Prices.
March 11, 2013
Even France Can Go 100% Renewables.
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/10/even-france-can-go-100-renewables-graph/
March 11, 2013
On Fukushima Day, another door slams on U.S nuclear expansion. Beyond Nuclear hailed Monday’s decision by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to deny an appeal by UniStar, wholly owned by French utility, Électricité de France, for a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant site on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
March 11, 2013
WATCH the Symposium, in New York!Significant New Material on Fukushima to be Revealed Monday, March 11.
http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/57145
March 11, 2013
MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Fukushima local governments hesitant to plant rice.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130308004625.htm
March 10, 2013
Over 10,000 Bq/Kg measured from 10% of wild boar meat sample in Fukushima.
March 10, 2013
25 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137 from beef produced in Ibaraki – Japan.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/03/25-bqkg-of-cesium-134137-from-beef-produced-in-ibaraki/
March 10, 2013
Cpm703 Movie: “Cpm-703,” refers to the abbreviation of “counts per minute” and 703 million years, the half-life of the uranium-235 isotope. It is a physical manifestation of the damage done, and the movie, “Cpm-703,” tries to show the size of the problem for residents and farmers in affected areas. In Fukushima Prefecture alone, an estimated 160,000 people are still living in temporary accommodation.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303100036
March 10, 2013
Endorse “Unplug Nuclear Power” to mark the second year of the still-unfolding Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
March 10, 2013
Fukushima’s Future:
Two years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, and international interest in its impact is beginning to wane. But that impact continues to reverberate – and not only in public debate worldwide about the future of nuclear energy.
March 10, 2013
Fukushima forests found to be radioactive.
The government is already spending billions of dollars decontaminating various towns in Fukushima, but the forests continue to emit radioactivity, putting the residents at risk.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia-pacific/2013/03/201331053721166554.html
March 10, 2013
1-millisievert problem prevents return of Fukushima residents.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T130309003348.htm
March 10, 2013
The top U.S. regulator says American nuclear power plants are safer than ever, though not trouble-free. A watchdog group calls that assessment overly rosy.
….five of the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors were not performing at acceptable safety levels at the end of 2012.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/10/us-plants-safer/1976689/
March 10, 2013
Fukushima is already harming our children. some 38,000 children are already cursed with likely health problems…that we know of. A thyroid abnormality can severely impact a wide range of developmental realities, including physical and mental growth. Cancer is a likely outcome.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fukushima-is-already-harmi-by-Harvey-Wasserman-130310-602.html
March 10, 2013
Fukushima Seeks Revival in Radiation-Free Farms With No Soil.
March 10, 2013
Book Review: Fallout from Fukushima.
March 9, 2013
No doubt” quake crippled reactors — Could torpedo Japan’s attempts to restart nuclear plants.
March 9, 2013
Thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park Saturday, demanding an end to atomic power.
http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/protesters-in-tokyo-demand-end-to-nuclear-power/#ixzz2NBrcurup
March 9, 2013
The Japanese government aims for radiation levels below 0.23 microseiverts per hour as a long-term goal in the Fukushima cleanup. Throughout much of the grounds in Fukushima, the levels vary between 0.15 and 0.50 mSv/hr. In some hotspots, however, they exceed 13 mSv/hr.
March 9, 2013
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is calling on regulators to issue a progress report on their efforts to implement a raft of safety measures identified in the aftermath of the Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster.
March 9, 2013
The radioactive Japanese ghost towns still uninhabitable two years after tsunami destroyed the Fukushima nuclear plant.
March 9, 2013
The kamikaze crew of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
March 9, 2013
200,000 take part in Taiwan’s anti-nuclear protest.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201303090038
March 9, 2013
Fukushima Workers: Plant ‘set to collapse’ from another quake or tsunami — “Critically vulnerable… completely fragile”.
March 9, 2013
OP-ED: Nuclear Emptiness, Nuclear Hope. Schultz, Kissinger, Perry and Nunn, those quintessentially establishment figures, have just posted in the quintessentially establishment Wall Street Journal their fifth editorial since 2007 advocating urgent changes enabling the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/57103
March 9, 2013
Fukushima prefecture deleted the emergency radiation monitoring data of when reactor1 exploded.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/03/concealment-fukushima-prefecture-deleted-the-emergency-radiation-monitoring-data-of-when-reactor1-exploded/
March 9, 2013
Water is both the savior and the bane at Fukushima No. 1.
March 8, 2013
Fairewinds: Breaking News Secret bombshell report released — Confirms Edison knew of major problems at San Onofre nuclear plant.
https://www.facebook.com/fairewinds/posts/567558896596537
March 8, 2013
Southern California Edison officials on Friday disputed findings of a report from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that indicated both companies were aware of a design problem with steam generator tubes now blamed for an extended shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear station in California.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/09/utilities-nuclear-edison-sanonofre-idUSL1N0C0K4Q20130309
March 8, 2013
Thyroid screening shows higher cysts and nodules in children far from Fukushima.
Percentage of children found with nodules and/or cysts:
Fukushima Prefecture: 41.2%
Nagasaki, Aomori, Yamanashi: 56.6%
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/03/radioactive-japan-thyroid-control.html
March 8, 2013
Attacks on nuclear sites are best prevented by abolishing the plants
At the same time, spent nuclear fuel currently kept in storage pools should be moved to solid, air-cooled containers.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201303080043
March 8, 2013
They Profit, You Pay: The Shocking Nuclear Reality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-grayblock/they-profit-you-pay-the-s_b_2828475.html
March 8, 2013
Fukushima two years on — The plight of 300,000 displaced Japanese.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/345181
March 8, 2013
Two Years After Fukushima: Status of NRC Safety Reforms. A number of safety lapses at U.S. nuclear power plants last year occurred because the plants’ owners and often the Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to properly address problems, the Union of Concerned Scientists said Friday in a report.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/two-years-after-fukushima-status-of-nrc-safety-reforms/
March 8, 2013
The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety 2012 Report: Tolerating the Intolerable.
Download: The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety 2012: Executive Summary | The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety 2012: Full Report
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/safety/nrc-and-nuclear-power-safety-annual.html
March 8, 2013
1,140 Bq/Kg of Strontium-90 in the main gate of Fukushima plant, 8,950,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from vegetation.
March 8, 2013
Stress Emerges as Major Health Issue in Fukushima.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/stress-emerges-major-health-issue-fukushima-18681599
March 8, 2013
The continuing discovery of highly contaminated fish in the waters off Fukushima is also raising concerns that there are still cracks in the reactor buildings that are leaking irradiated water into the sea.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324034804578347834076295260.html
March 8, 2013
Fukushima disaster: Cameras monitor nuclear ‘ghost towns’ .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21714943
March 8, 2013
Rare tour of Fukushima reveals colossal decontamination efforts.
March 7, 2013
Governor: Leaks can’t be stopped at U.S. nuclear site — Will take years to begin removing radioactive sludge from leaking Hanford tanks (VIDEO).
March 7, 2013
982 Bq/Kg from Shiitake mushroom in Kashiwa Chiba.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/03/982-bqkg-from-shiitake-mushroom-in-kashiwa-chiba/
March 7, 2013
Columbia Generating Station gets a degraded rating from NRC.
March 7, 2013
Nuclear plant inspections need to improve: report.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/us-usa-reactors-inspections-idUSBRE9260XZ20130307
March 7, 2013
“Unplug Nuclear Power!” to mark second year of Fukushima catastrophe.
March 7, 2013
Three plants are categorized as having degraded cornerstones: Perry, Wolf Creed and Columbia Generating Station.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20130307/NEWS02/703079847/1003
March 7, 2013
Initial health consequences of Fukushima catastrophe are now scientifically verifiable.
http://www.ippnw.de/commonFiles/pdfs/Atomenergie/Fukushima/Health_consequences_Fukushima_en.pdf
March 7, 2013
Regulator and industry fight over unreliable containments at U.S. Fukushima-style reactors: Send a letter to NRC .
March 7, 2013
Radiation expert back from Fukushima: Radioactivity still very high… not declining — Health risk played down since it can’t be dealt with — Children’s playgrounds at 200 times normal levels.
http://www.dw.de/greenpeace-fukushima-victims-are-victims-once-again/a-16656631
March 6, 2013
Rubella case explosively spiking up “acceleratingly increasing since April 2011.”
March 6, 2013
Fukushima two years on: the largest nuclear decommissioning finally begins. Question marks remain about the plant’s safety, but the estimated $100bn, 40-year clean-up is now underway.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/06/fukushima-nuclear-decommissioning-plant-safety
March 6, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Waste May Be Shipped From Washington To New Mexico.
March 6, 2013
Inside Fukushima two years on: radiation levels too high to enter reactors.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9913146/Inside-Fukushima-two-years-on-radiation-levels-too-high-to-enter-reactors.html
March 6, 2013
How to Shut Down a Nuclear Power Plant – Riverkeeper Presented at Environmental Conference: includes Riverkeeper’s opposition to Entergy’s pending appeal of a landmark denial of a Water Quality Certification that is necessary to continue operating the plant.
March 6, 2013
Radiation levels within three of the reactor buildings at the Fukushima Nuclear plant in Japan are still too high for people to start decommissioning the reactors, two years on from the nuclear disaster.
March 6, 2013
Fairewinds podcast – Follow the Money. This week’s show is all about money. We look at how some utility owned U.S. nuclear power plants continue to drain the public’s pocketbook, sometimes to the tune of fifty million dollars a month, without generating a single watt of electricity.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/follow-money
March 6, 2013
A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 3: Cat and Mouse with a Nuclear Ghost – note: very Important information about the plume.
http://spoonsenergymatters.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/404/
March 5, 2013
Fukushima Special – Mother: “Everyone’s immune system has become weaker — The children’s bodies are changing” (VIDEO).
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/601630/n/Fukushima-Now
March 5, 2013
Fukushima – The Monster Under the Bed (comment piece about the collective denial).
http://www.zengardner.com/fukushima-the-monster-under-our-bed/
March 5, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Reservation: DOE Outlines Potential Impact Of Budget Cuts To Radioactive Waste Cleanup .
So far, these pollutants have been found from Hanford:
1. Plutonium
2. Enriched uranium
3. Nitric acid
4. Solvents
5. Europium-152
6. Chromium
7. Tritium, 2.5 to 13 Bq per litre found in Columbia River water
8. 4 times more Uranium than Radium
9. Strontium-90 in Columbia River fish
10. Technetium-99
11. Iodine-129
12. It also released directly into the air Iodine-131, Ruthenium-106 and Plutonium-cfcf13. Carbon Tetrachloride
All of these are carcinogenic.
March 5, 2013
Experts on Fukushima Plant: “It’s a pipe dream” — “Basically, we are groping in the dark” — “Like going to war with bamboo sticks” — “Like the fog of war”.
http://www.dw.de/greenpeace-fukushima-victims-are-victims-once-again/a-16656631
March 5, 2013
Lessons from Fukushima: Time to Stop Protecting the Nuclear Industry.
What impact has the Fukushima disaster had on the people of Japan?
March 5, 2013
Insight: Japan’s “Long War” to shut down Fukushima.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/05/us-japan-fukushima-idUSBRE92417Y20130305
March 5, 2013
Malaysia is going to lift import regulation about food from Japan.
March 5, 2013
Japan’s Tipping Point: “Will Japan Become Nuclear Free?”
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/japans-tipping-point-will-japan-become-nuclear-free.
March 5, 2013
Video: I know this sounds incredible… but there’s 40 miles of unlined trenches used for dumping radioactive waste at leaking U.S. nuclear site #Hanford. Interview with Gerry Pollett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcmboc-y-fY
March 5, 2013
In a Dateline special on The Nuclear Dilemma, Adrian Brown explores these ghost towns to see for himself the legacy of the nuclear disaster that followed 2011’s earthquake and tsunami.
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/episode/default/id/430/n/Tuesday-5th-March-The-Nuclear-Dilemma
March 4, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update March 4, 2013: Cal EPA’s Dept. of Toxic Substances Control on the hot seat since Boeing Meltdown Makeover’s first five articles hit stands in December. Director Debbie Raphael called before state senators for a grilling hours before show and promises cooperation with investigation of DTSC. Whitewash WHO Fukushima report and more.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_030413.mp3
March 4, 2013
The forests near Fukushima and Chernobyl likely have been changed forever. Truly unusual deformities in Fukushima – Forests may be evolving into different ecosystems – “There’s been a sudden, large change”.
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/radiant_wildlands/
March 4, 2013
Radionuclides are being released continuously into ocean from Fukushima plant — Coming from somewhere around reactor housings (CHART).
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/3577/2013/bgd-10-3577-2013.html
March 4, 2013
The Obama administration is encouraging NRC to be transparent and interact more with citizens. [Insert joke here]
March 3, 2013
Mind-boggling mistakes at leaking U.S. nuclear site — “The chances of a catastrophic event are real” -Former Governor (VIDEO).
The most contaminated nuclear site in the world is right here on the beautiful Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. At Hanford Nuclear Facility in Washington State, 56 million gallons of radioactive waste sit in underground storage tanks. Those tanks have already leaked more than one million gallons of a toxic brew of plutonium, enriched uranium, nitric acid, and solvents into the ground.
March 3, 2013
In 1995, the Director General of WHO Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, tried to inform on Chernobyl by organizing in Geneva an international conference with 700 experts and physicians. This tentative was blocked. The International Agency for Atomic Energy blocked the proceedings, which were never published. The truth on the consequences of Chernobyl would have been a disaster for the promotion of the atomic industry.
This film shows the discussions at the following WHO – Congress in Kiev in 2001, that lead to the fatal disregarding of internal radiation consequences throughout the nuclear world.
March 3, 2013
Ma calls for gradual nuclear reliance reduction in Taiwan.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/03/03/371932/Ma-calls.html
March 2, 2103
High concentration of Fukushima radioactive substances found in land animals — Frog with 6,700 Bq/kg outside evacuation zone.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/03/211999.html
March 2, 2013
Billions of Gallons Radioactive Waste Dumped & Leaking at Hanford!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOVvbaMgUI&feature=em-subs_digest
March 2, 2013
Meteor Capable Of Destroying Nuclear Reactors.
http://www.frenchtribune.com/teneur/1316407-meteor-capable-destroying-nuclear-reactors
March 2, 2013
The nuclear-meltdown threat in the States.
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20130302/LETTER/130309994/1020&ParentProfile=1061
March 1, 2013
Tepco started propaganda to downplay the risk of Tritium for discharging contaminated water to the sea.
March 1, 2013
US may face inevitable nuclear power exit.
http://yubanet.com/usa/US-may-face-inevitable-nuclear-power-exit.php#.UTVAnRn0QoI
March 1, 2013
Lobbying Flurry Precedes U.S. Vote on Fukushima Rules.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/lobbying-flurry-precedes-u-s-vote-on-fukushima-rules.html
March 1, 2013
Greenpeace slams WHO over Fukushima radiation.
http://www.euronews.com/2013/03/01/greenpeace-slams-who-over-fukushima-radiation/
March 1, 2013
Sign of things to Come. In China – Wind Surpasses Nuclear in Energy Production.
March 1, 2013
U.S. nuclear power plants very vulnerable to cyber attacks!
http://www.cyberwarzone.com/us-nuclear-power-plants-very-vulnerable-cyber-attacks
March 1, 2013
TV: Leaking radioactive material at U.S. nuclear site is “extremely reactive” and “always changing” (VIDEO)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/options-evaluated-leaking-hanford-tanks/nWcy6/
March 1, 2013
Hanford’s radioactive leaks don’t mean we need Mobile Chernobyl legislation.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/radioactivewaste/?SSScrollPosition=280
March 1, 2013
Top Economist: Nuclear power is over — “Frankly I think from a business perspective it’s over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwIvGJJ_dtU
February 28, 2013
New grassroots groups form to permanently shutdown Palisades.
February 28, 2013
Mass. Loses Pilgrim Nuclear Plant Relicensing Appeal.
February 28, 2013
French nuclear giant Areva loses $130M in 2012.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/28/3258925/french-nuclear-giant-areva-loses.html
February 28, 2013
510,000 bq/kg found in Fukushima greenling fish.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/02/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-510000bqkg-of.html
February 28, 2013
Four things you should know about the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
February 28, 2013
Canada to fund non-nuclear sources for medical isotopes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-nuclear-isotopes-idUSBRE91R1AE20130228
February 28, 2013
TEPCO fails to submit dose data on 21,000 Fukushima plant workers.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302280086
February 28, 2013
Japan to Begin Restarting Idled Nuclear Plants, Leader Says.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/world/asia/japan-to-begin-restarting-idled-nuclear-plants.html
February 27, 2013
Crystal River nuclear plant had flaw in safety procedures for over a decade.
February 27, 2013
Sen. Wyden expects draft nuclear waste bill ‘shortly’.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/285319-sen-wyden-expects-draft-nuclear-waste-bill-shortly
February 27, 2013
The Japanese basically lied about what happened with the reactors for months. They said they were trying to prevent a meltdown, when in fact they knew within the first couple of days Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi had melted down, and they actually melted through the steel containment vessels.
So there was a worst case scenario that they were trying to hide, they even knew that at that time enormous amounts of radiation were released over Japan and some of it even went over Tokyo […]
The melted core cracked the containment vessel, there really is no containment. So as soon as they pump the water in it leaks out again.
February 27, 2013
Rising doubts about Japan’s official radiation figures.
http://www.dw.de/rising-doubts-about-japans-official-radiation-figures/a-16631709
February 27, 2013
Flurry of films on Fukushima disaster — Shows authorities playing down health risks, not telling whole truth.
http://www.centredaily.com/2013/02/27/3517673/japanese-disaster-films-highlight.html
February 27, 2013
Paul Gunter talks to Seattle group about the problems with the NRC and Boiling Water Reactors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9hMYjYgTu4
February 27, 2013
Governor: Nuclear waste leaking at an estimated 1,000 gallons a year — “No available technology to plug the leaks” at Hanford.
February 26, 2013
After Fukushima, Tasks Remain for the American Nuclear Industry.
February 26, 2013
Over 1.0 μSv/h of ambient dose in Hitachi city Ibaraki, “100km from Fukushima”.
February 26, 2013
CBS News: U.S. nuclear waste leak a “major emergency problem” — Most dangerous substances known to science — “A ticking time bomb” (VIDEO).
CBS News contributor Michio Kaku, a physics professor at the City University of New York: It is scandalous […] we’re leaking nuclear waste dating all the way back to the Nagaski bomb […]
A toxic witches brew of chemicals, the most dangerous known to science like plutonium, enriched uranium, nitric acid and solvents. […] We have 56 million gallons worth of this toxic stuff. To get this into perspective, to get your head around this, imagine 80 Olympic-sized swimming pools containing the most toxic substance known to science of which two Olympic-size swimming pools have leaked right into the ground and eventually into the water table and, perhaps, even into people’s drinking water.
We have to immediate realize that this is a major emergency problem. The government promised 10 years ago that it’s under control. Now we realize it’s not. They have to take the waste, put it into new vats that are double, triple lined. They have to drill to assess how far the waste is. And it’s a ticking time bomb. In 15, 50 years — we don’t know when — it’s going to hit the ground table. When it hits the ground table, it will go right into the Columbia River, and remember, that’s one of the major rivers in the entire Pacific Northwest.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141753n.
February 26, 2013
At 40:00 in
Steven Starr, Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri/Senior Scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility: The Japanese basically lied about what happened with the reactors for months. They said they were trying to prevent a meltdown, when in fact they knew within the first couple of days Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi had melted down, and they actually melted through the steel containment vessels.
So there was a worst case scenario that they were trying to hide, they even knew that at that time enormous amounts of radiation were released over Japan and some of it even went over Tokyo […]
The melted core cracked the containment vessel, there really is no containment. So as soon as they pump the water in it leaks out again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GuviAEs_c_c#t=2187s
February 26, 2013
Post-Fukushima, Arguments for Nuclear Safety Bog Down. Is there any length the nuclear industry won’t go to avoid spending money on public safety? Apparently not.
February 26, 2013
The nation put at risk by nuclear power plants.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2013/02/26/2003555729
February 26, 2013
IAEA Director General says global team should help Japan dismantle Fukushima reactors.
http://japandailypress.com/iaea-director-general-says-global-team-should-help-japan-dismantle-fukushima-reactors-2624054
February 25, 2013
98.8 Bq/Kg of cesium from honey produced in Tochigi, Japan.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/98-8-bqkg-of-cesium-from-honey-produced-in-tochigi/
February 25, 2013
A Radioactive Start to Nuclear Talks, Days before sitting down with China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S., Iran made two announcements: that it had discovered new deposits of raw uranium and had identified locations for 16 nuclear power stations to add to the one it operates in Busheir.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-25/a-radioactive-start-to-nuclear-talks.html
February 25, 2013
Chernobyl copes with nuclear fallout a quarter-century on.
http://www.minnpost.com/global-post/2013/02/chernobyl-copes-nuclear-fallout-quarter-century
February 25, 2013
Insight: how much water is used at power plants?
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/52486
February 25, 2013
Survey: 45% of local Japanese leaders want nuclear phaseout; 35% say reactors are needed.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302250121
February 25, 2013
‘US nuclear power plants very vulnerable to cyber attacks’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTPxTI9ExE
February 25, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update
February 25, 2013: February 25, 2013: Fast-paced show with latest on Fukushima, Hanford, hot & cold wild boar & Consumer Watchdog report on California EPA’s Dept. of Toxic Substances Control abuses. DTSC director caught running to Boeing top lobbyist pursued by TV news.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_022513.mp3
February 25, 2013
Japan to rethink candidate sites for nuclear waste disposal. The Environment Ministry said Monday that it will restart the process to select candidate final storage sites for radioactive waste from the triple-meltdown disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant, because residents living near the current chosen locations are up in arms.
February 24, 2013
0.5μSv/h from the street dust in Edogawa Tokyo.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/0-5%CE%BCsvh-from-the-street-dust-in-edogawa-tokyo/
February 24, 2013
Radiation Leaking from Iran’s Nuke plant.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/radiation-reported-from-irans-nuclear-explosion/
February 24, 2013
Forgotten Fukushima-Japan Two Years After the Daiichi Accident.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/forgotten-fukushima-japan-two-years-after-daiichi-accident
February 24, 2013
Survey: No Japanese nuclear plants meet new safety standards. “None of Japan’s 16 nuclear power plants has satisfied the government’s proposed new safety standards, making them ineligible to be restarted in the near future”.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302240052
February 24, 2013
Radiation level offshore Fukushima river increased 95 times over one month before.
February 24, 2013
After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown – what it could look like if your local nuclear power plant melts down.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/24/divorce-after-fukushima-nuclear-disaster
February 23, 2013
Evacuate the Children!: Japanese citizens’ demonstration takes place in Shinjuku Tokyo.
February 23, 2013
Evacuate the Children of Fukushima.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/22/evacuate-the-children-of-fukushima/
February 22, 2013
6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130222/us-hanford-leak
February 22, 2013
Governor: 6 tanks leaking radioactive waste at Washington nuclear site.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/22/us/washington-nuclear/index.html
February 22, 2013
After Fukushima – It’s emerged that radiation surged to 700 times normal before people evacuated near Fukushima plant — Residents exposed to “high levels”.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130222p2a00m0na009000c.html
February 22, 2013
Six, Not One, Rad Waste Tanks Are Leaking at Hanford, Washington Governor Says.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/02/six-not-one-rad-waste-tanks-are-leaking.html
February 22, 2013
100% Renewable Energy: Becoming the New Normal?
February 21, 2103
Alarming that bluefin tuna near California still have Fukushima contamination.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/bluefin-tuna-radiation_n_2736221.html
February 21, 2013
7,500 Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 measured from wild boar in Fukushima, “Cesium measured from 100% of samples”.
February 21, 2013
Even in anti-nuclear Germany, radioactive waste is an intractable problem. A lesson for the world.
Abyss of Uncertainty: Germany’s Homemade Nuclear Waste Disaster
February 21, 2013
Tuna study hints Fukushima plant still emits radiation. (“hints”?)
http://www.straight.com/blogra/355281/tuna-study-hints-fukushima-plant-still-emits-radiation
February 21, 2013
Wind power in China leaves nuclear in its dust.
http://www.eco-business.com/news/wind-power-in-china-leaves-nuclear-in-its-dust/
February 21, 2013
Another casualty of the shale gas boom: Nuclear power.
February 21, 2012
Japan’s lesson for U.S. reactors: Disaster is possible.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/japans-lesson-us-reactors-disaster-possible
February 21, 2013
Mexican nuclear power plant completes $605m upgrade.
The company has replaced all equipment of units 1 and 2 with the latest generation of machines, thus enabling the nuclear power plant to operate at 120 per cent efficiency.
Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (LVNPP) is located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, in Alto Lucero, Veracruz, Mexico.
February 21, 2013
Powerful Lies: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster And The Radioactive Effects On Human Health.
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/powerful-lies-fukushima-nuclear.html
February 21, 2013
Letter: Toughen up or shut down nuclear plants.
http://www.nj.com/south-jersey-voices/index.ssf/2013/02/letter_toughen_or_shut_down_nu.html
February 21, 2013
High radiation bars decommissioning of Fukushima plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302210064
February 20, 2013
Sen. Wyden wants nuclear cleanup commitment from next Energy secretary.
February 20, 2012
CRITICAL MASS is a feature length documentary capturing the largest public debate on the uranium industry ever!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/critical-mass–3
February 20, 2013
Nuclear Waste Watch Position Statement.
http://www.nuclearwastewatch.net/position.html
February 20, 2013
Review: Short 2.45 minute review of how the Fukushima disaster may be affecting the ocean over the next 10 years – a computer simulation, produced by the Heimholtz Center for Oceanographic Research in Germany.
February 20, 2013
Scores of trips planned to truck Canada’s bomb-grade uranium to U.S.
February 20, 2013
Academic Journal: Fukushima catastrophe becoming turning point in world history — “Its long-term impact and meaning are impossible to repress”.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10308-013-0344-8
February 20, 2013
Fukushima’s victims show why Harper must update nuclear liability law.
February 20, 2013
Bluefin Tuna From The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Still Have Traces Of Radiation.
February 20, 2013
Fukushima health-survey chief to quit post.
http://www.nature.com/news/fukushima-health-survey-chief-to-quit-post-1.12463
February 20, 2013
Sen. Wyden Tours Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The nation’s most contaminated nuclear site — and the challenges associated with ridding it of its toxic legacy — will be a subject of upcoming hearings and a higher priority in Washington D.C
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sen-wyden-touring-hanford-nuclear-reservation-18542034
February 19, 2013
Watch: re Canadian Nuclear Liability Act (if you lose your home in a nuclear accident, the nuclear industry will not be held accountable).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyjYeG6yt2Y
February 19, 2013
Was Fukushima Rated Correctly on INES?
http://michelekearneynuclearwire.blogspot.ca/2013/02/was-fukushima-rated-correctly-on-ines.html
February 19, 2013
Nuclear Power Cannot Compete with Cheap Shale Gas. This revolution in the way North America produces its electricity is sending shock waves through the nuclear industry.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/shale-gas-is-killing-nuclear-power-15614
February 19, 2013
Solar Power Cheaper Than Nuclear In Cloudy Old England.
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/19/solar-power-cheaper-than-nuclear-in-cloudy-old-england/
February 19, 2013
Anti-nuclear activists kicked off a global campaign to urge governments to force makers of nuclear reactors to shoulder some of the cost of accidents.
February 19, 2013
A Strategy to Prevent the Next Fukushima- replacing some of the zirconium with a ceramic.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/a-strategy-to-prevent-the-next-fukushima/
February 19, 2013
The nuclear reality: lives in limbo after Fukushima.
February 19, 2013
Faults may be active under Aomori plant.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/19/national/faults-may-be-active-under-aomori-plant/
February 18, 2013
Volcano could cause disaster at Hanford nuclear facility (AUDIO) (Mt. St. Helen’s 128 miles from Hanford).
http://klcc.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=4261
February 18, 2013
Nuclear waste: too hot to handle?
THERE are 437 nuclear power reactors in 31 countries around the world. The number of repositories for high-level radioactive waste? Zero. The typical lifespan of a nuclear power plant is 60 years. The waste from nuclear power is dangerous for up to one million years. Clearly, the waste problem is not going to go away any time soon.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729040.100-nuclear-waste-too-hot-to-handle.html
February 18, 2013
Hopes winning documentary will highlight Pacific nuclear testing to European audience.
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=74092
February 18, 2013
Former Yucca Mountain Chief Questions Nuclear Waste Effort. New book: a book “Too Hot To Touch: The Problem of Nuclear Waste” just out from Cambridge University Press.
February 18, 2013
Gas vs Nuclear.
http://www.lbknews.com/2013/02/18/gas-vs-nuclear/
February 18, 2013
China starts first nuclear power plant since Fukushima.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1153044/china-starts-first-nuclear-power-plant-fukushima
Michael Collins Radiation Update February 18, 2013: Team EnviroReporter’s upcoming Fukushima radiation investigation given sneak peak, cost of decommissioning of Florida nuke plant while building new Georgia reactors & $640 billion blown on nuke weapons in coming decade.
February 17, 2013
Washington plutonium leak poses ‘long-term threat’.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/02/17/bc-nuclear-leak-hanford.html
February 17, 2013
Russians comment on radioactive decay and nuclear explosion in Chelyabinsk meteorite crash on YouTube.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_17/Russians-comment-on-Chelyabinsk-meteorite-crash-on-YouTube/
February 17, 2013
New greenpeace report:Fukushima Fallout: Nuclear business makes people pay and suffer.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/fukushima-fallout/
February 17, 2013
Chinese Companies Projected To Make Solar Panels for 42Cents Per Watt In 2015.
February 17, 2013
New high-level radioactive leak will reach Columbia River, says scientists — Fourth largest river in U.S.
http://www.king5.com/video?id=191620041&sec=548902
February 17, 2013
Fukushima governor asked the government to ease the 1mSv/y restriction. “Too strict to comply with.”
February 17, 2013
Are Whistleblowers being protected by the NRC? Probably not.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/are-whistleblowers-being-protected-nrc-not-really
February 17, 2013
‘No immediate risk’: Nuclear waste tank leaking in Washington.
http://rt.com/usa/news/nuclear-waste-tank-leak-hanford-400/
February 17, 2013
German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs! The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy.
http://inhabitat.com/german-village-produces-321-more-energy-than-it-needs/
February 17, 2013
Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc.
(farm is about 180 km from Fukushima Daiichi)
February 16, 2013
Another risk to nuclear power plants:
Be aware of long-term power grid disruption. A related major safety issue is the continued operation of nuclear power plant cooling systems that will be dependent on long term use of backup generators in the case of total electric grid failure and a possible lack of generator fuel.
http://www.tauntongazette.com/dcover/x206928096/LETTER-Be-aware-of-long-term-power-grid-disruption
February 16, 2013
Nuclear waste seeping from container in hazardous Washington state facility.
February 16, 2013
Over 5,000,000 Bq/m² of Cesium-137 in Fukushima City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvn8BPGYy68
February 16, 2013
Wind and solar power firms fight $100 million rule change. Wind and solar power firms in Canada say they’ll suffer a $100 million loss if power market rules are changed.
February 15, 2013
Leaky Tank at Hanford Nuclear Site Roils Waste Cleanup.
February 15, 2013
49 Bq/Kg measured from beef in Iwaki city Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/49-bqkg-measured-from-beef-in-iwaki-city-fukushima/
February 15, 2013
14 Bq/Kg from Pacific Cod distributed in Yokohama city
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/14-bqkg-from-pacific-cod-distributed-in-yokohama-city/
February 15, 2013
Nuclear power is far from safe or carbon-free – excellent rebuttal.
February 15, 2013
Radioactive Japan.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Wilcox_021513.mp3
February 15, 2013
Meteor: Another risk to nuclear power plants:
The area around Chelyabinsk is also home to “dozens of defense factories, including nuclear factories and those involved in production of thermonuclear weapons,” said Vladimir Lipunov, an astrophysicist at the Shternberg State Astronomy Institute.
note:Mayak nuclear plant — one of the largest nuclear facilities of Rosatom — is located in the area that was hit by the meteorite.
February 14, 2013
Press releases in U.S. all said no danger from radioactive fallout after Fukushima meltdowns — but transcripts tell another story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-witherspoon/fukushima-rescue-mission_b_2671853.html
February 14, 2013
The Barber of Fukushima: Brave couple move back, set up business after earthquake.
February 14, 2013
Nuclear Revival Dying in Europe as Power Prices Slump:
“Nuclear is too capital intensive, too time-consuming and simply too risky.”
February 14, 2013
Now over 44% of Fukushima children have thyroid abnormalities in latest tests.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2013/02/fukushima-thyroid-examination-part-4.html
February 14, 2013
Questions raised over testing methods for thyroid gland doses in Fukushima.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302140072
February 14, 2013
Wind energy positioning to shutter nukes.
February 14, 2013
10 Fukushima children believed to have cancer — 70% female — Several already had surgery for thyroid.
February 14, 2013
The UK government has been planning the development of a ‘next generation’ of nuclear power plants in the region for some time, but with the price of renewables falling quickly and the costs of nuclear rising, it is looking increasingly likely that the plans will have to be scrapped.
February 14, 2013
It’s the economics that will close existing nuclear power plants.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-239444
February 14, 2013
Fukushima disaster panel so far reports three young people have thyroid cancer.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/14/national/fukushima-disaster-panel-so-far-reports-three-young-people-have-thyroid-cancer/#.URxwI46tsoI
February 13, 2013
Issues of Radioactive Exposure are Considered Taboo on Japanese Media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHtbi1Q4aZ8
February 13, 2013
Roof Collapses at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. “The preliminary reason for the collapse was too much snow on the roof,” the agency said, adding that the radiation situation is “within the norm” and nobody was harmed in Tuesday’s incident.
February 13, 2013
Manager says safety issues are ignored at Hanford nuclear site.Donna Busche, a nuclear engineer and health physicist, files a suit alleging that executives tried to dissuade her from raising warnings about serious problems with the waste site’s design.
Donna Busche, the manager of environmental and nuclear safety for San Francisco-based URS Corp., alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that executives at the $13.4-billion project attempted to suppress her warnings and were working to fire her.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hanford-safety-20130214,0,3749477.story
February 13, 2013
This is what the wineries in the US would have to do it their local power plant melted down.
http://japandailypress.com/fukushima-brewers-band-together-to-promote-safe-sake-1323268
February 13, 2013
Chernobyl radiation unaffected after heavy snow causes partial roof collapse, Ukrainian officials say.
If the panels in the turbine hall have collapsed, then in principle there is no guarantee that the sarcophagus, built in 1986, will not start falling apart in the near future.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/chernobyl-radiation-unaffected-roof-collapse-article-1.1263037
February 13, 2013
Mayor of Geneva writes to Japanese Mayor.
February 13, 2013
Former Fukushima resident Kunitomo Tokuzawa visits his house with his mother, six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan and the release of radiation there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9Rxax7BnI
February 13, 2013
Issues of Radioactive Exposure are Considered Taboo on Japanese Media, Freelance Journalists point out in the Independent Media’s Symposium
February 13, 2013
Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team Receives a Message from Noam Chomsky.
February 12, 2013
90,500 Bq/Kg of cesium from the pollen of Japanese cedar in Fukushima.
February 12, 2013
25 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137 was measured from beef, which is produced in Hokkaido.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/cesium-measured-from-hokkaido-beef-again/
February 12, 2013
Potassium iodide pills available to residents near power plants (do you have your KI pills?)
February 12, 2013
If planning to flee to the Southern Hemisphere to avoid Fukishima Nuclear Contamination one had better read this :Environmental Effects of French Nuclear Testing.
http://cyberplace.org.nz/peace/nukenviro.html
February 12, 2013
Record numbers of sickened sea lion pups in So. California — “Something has changed” — “We are prepping in the back of our heads for the worst case scenario…”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323511804578298650830544818.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
February 12, 2013
A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: The Navy Life — Into the Abyss.
A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 2: The Navy Life – Into the Abyss
February 12, 2013
Fukushima child has radioactivity of 6,000 disintegrations per second inside body.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/6000-bqbody-from-a-child-in-da-te-city-fukushima/
February 12, 2013
Statement by President Obama about North Korea nuclear test.
February 11, 2013
Gone Fission: 11 Unfinished Nuclear Power Plants
http://weburbanist.com/2013/02/10/gone-fission-11-unfinished-nuclear-power-plants/
February 11, 2013
232,980 Bq/Kg Cesium 134/137 from leaf mold of Fukushima forest “Out of evacuation zone”.
February 11, 2013
Finnish nuclear reactor delayed further until 2016.
February 10, 2013
The UK government’s plan to build a new generation of 10 nuclear power stations suffered another severe blow this week when the British utility Centrica pulled out of the program, writing off a £200 million ($315M) investment in the process.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/uks-nuclear-plans-lose-traction-with-shift-to-renewables-15573
February 10, 2013
Texas Wind Power Transmission Set To Skyrocket As Energy Exec Hints At End Of Nukes.
February 10, 2013
Over 20,000 Bq/Kg was measured in soil in front of Harajuku station, Tokyo.
February 10, 2013
Japanese nuclear watchdog exec held 30 illicit meetings with power firms.
February 10, 2013
Japan offers help building Saudi nuclear power plants.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/11/business/japan-offers-help-building-saudi-nuclear-power-plants/#.URhUWo6tsoI
February 9, 2013
Russia rejected importing 2 cars from Japan, beta nuclides detected.
February 9, 2013
In a possible prelude to criminal charges, prosecutors have questioned Haruki Madarame, former chief of the now-dissolved Nuclear Safety Commission, about delays in announcing radiation fallout data when the Fukushima crisis began.
February 9, 2013
Radioactive Cesium and Heart Chapter 4: Pathophysiological Characteristics of Effects of Radioactive Cesium on Heart By Yury Bandazhevsky, Revised English translation by Yuri Hiranuma
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2013/02/radioactive-cesium-and-heart-chapter-4.html
February 9, 2013
Federal investigation into San Onofre nuclear plant announced.
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/55066
February 9, 2013
White House To Cut U.S. Nuclear Arsenal By A Third.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2013/02/white-house-to-cut-us-nuclear-arsenal.html
February 9, 2013
Mass. nuclear plant shuts down during snowstorm. The Plymouth nuclear power plant has lost power and has declared an emergency condition.
February 8, 2013
Fukushima Survivors To Sue Japan Government Over Role In Nuclear Disaster.
http://japandailypress.com/fukushima-survivors-to-file-lawsuit-against-government-and-tepco-0823026
February 8, 2013
142,000 Bq/Kg from rockfish in Fukushima plant port, “1420 times much as safety limit”.
February 8, 2013
New Panel for Decommissioning of Fukushima Reactors.
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/02/new-panel-decommissioning-fukushima-reactors
February 8, 2013
Five Russian nuclear power plants (NPPs) started the new year with new statistics of scrams, emergency repairs, and power reductions – incidents that not only affect a station’s economic performance but can serve as precursors to more serious accidents at the site.
February 8, 2013
Error at Ohi Plant Draws Scrutiny
, TEPCO Receives Another $7.4 Billion for Compensation, Investigator Accuses TEPCO of Lying During Earthquake Damage Inspection.
February 8, 2013
NRC confirmed that an expansive investigation is underway into the completeness and accuracy of information that Southern California Edison provided to the NRC related to the replacement of the steam generators.
February 8, 2013
Nuclear plants are paying customers to use power.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0208-exelon-div–20130208,0,2015410.story
February 7, 2013
Senator Boxer believes San Onofre knew about problems years earlier.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/sen-boxer-believes-san-onofre-knew-about-problems-years-earlier
February 7, 2013
“Retired Duke reactor may signal more U.S. nuclear shutdowns”.
February 7, 2013
Rep. Markey sent a letter to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane urging NRC to follow the recommendations of its technical staff and require filtered vents on some nuclear reactors in order to facilitate the prevention of the sort of hydrogen explosions that occurred during the Fukushima meltdowns.
February 7, 2013
Entergy Watch: UBS predicts “real retirement risk for units such as Vermont Yankee and FitzPatrick in ’13”.
February 7, 2013
Exelon cuts nuclear upgrade spending amid low gas prices.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/07/utilities-exelon-idUSL1N0B7CG320130207
February 7, 2013
Lyman Letter Urges NRC to Pursue Post-Fukushima Safety Upgrades.
http://allthingsnuclear.org/lyman-letter-urges-nrc-to-pursue-post-fukushima-safety-upgrades/
February 7, 2013
TEPCO misled Diet panel, averted quake-damage inspection at Fukushima plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302070058
February 7, 2013
Fukushima has become a buzzword for the anti-nuclear protesters across age groups in the fishing villages around the Kudankulam plant. Its ripple effect has coursed through coastal communities in other areas of Tamil Nadu as well as other states where nuclear plants are coming up.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130207/jsp/nation/story_16532815.jsp#.URPfOo6tsoI
February 7, 2013
The interview of Idogawa Mayor of Futaba Town after his resignation.
February 7, 2013
Why the Nuclear problem can’t be buried.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that the volume of radioactive waste on the planet already exceeds 345,000 tonnes – 50,000 tonnes in Canada, 70,000 in U.S.
http://thecanadian.org/item/1923-geology-101-why-nuclear-problem-can’t-be-buried
February 7, 2013
Senator Boxer Believes San Onofre Knew About Problems Years Earlier.
http://fairewinds.org/content/sen-boxer-believes-san-onofre-knew-about-problems-years-earlier
February 6, 2013
New model changes earthquake predictions
A new prediction model could change the thinking behind so-called “super quakes.” Physics professor Michio Kaku, of the City University of New York, speaks to the “CBS This Morning” co-hosts about the new model for predicting earthquakes.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140461n
February 6, 2013
Fallout level in Fukushima highest since May. 2012
25.7Bq/m2 Cesium 134 and 27.3Bq/m2 Cesium 137
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/fallout-level-in-fukushima-became-highest-since-may-2012/
February 6, 2013
Study: Major nuclear accident would cost France $580 billion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/07/us-france-nuclear-disaster-cost-idUSBRE91603X20130207
February 6, 2013
A Rebuttal to the January 11, 2013 Article by James Conca, “Like We’ve Been Saying — Radiation is Not A Big Deal,” Posted on Forbes Website.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2013/02/a-rebuttal-to-january-11-2013-article.html?spref=tw
February 6, 2013
I’d be very concerned if I lived around California nuke plant — “Just an experiment waiting to go wrong”. Arnie Gunderson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWrq4pzqyaw&hd=1
February 6, 2013
Appeal from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service:
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. Act below to stop this outrage! Deadline is February 11, 2013.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12406
February 6, 2013
San Onofre Nuclear Plant defects known to Edison & Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0207-san-onofre-20130207,0,3728522.story
February 6, 2013
The UK’s nuclear triple whammy is worse than you think.
February 6, 2013
Publication: The Triple Challenge facing Japanese Utilities.
http://issuu.com/greenpeaceinternational/docs/beyondnuclear/1
February 6, 2013
Study: Radioactive silver found inside all 47 cows tested from Fukushima evacuation zone.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553152/
February 5, 2013
What happened at Fukushima for 70,000 US Service Personnel Exposed To Radiation: Operation Tomodachi 3/11 .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kjuWYA4nQko#t=1140s
February 5, 2013
Japan NRA standards expected to require utilities to install filtered venting equipment at boiling water reactors.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302050044
February 5, 2013
SOS from Fukushima to the UN : Mother of Fukushima.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFn79MS2P4I
February 5, 2013
Japanese Judge: Already signs of major health hazard in Fukushima — Kids may end up like those around Chernobyl — Urgent need for evacuation (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOTXla8JotM
February 5, 2013
Fukushima NHK Documentary: The Threat Of Invisible Snow
(How do you decontaminate….just move the radioactivity from one spot to the next)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlnApG4bsz0&feature=player_detailpage#t=470s
February 5, 2013
Florida nuclear plant – Duke Energy – will permanently close — 60 years to decontaminate and dismantle.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130205/WIRE/130209798/2055/NEWS?p=all&tc=pgall
February 5, 2013
Mothers in Fukushima talks about their living condition referring to the safety standards for the food contamination.
February 5, 2013
The woman powering Japan’s nuclear hopes post-Fukushima.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/05/business/lady-judge-fukushima-japan-nuclear/
February 5, 2013
Arnie Gunderson on California Nuclear Power Plant Preparing to Restart the San Onofre Reactor.
February 5, 2013
Secret US report called Japan’s Fukushima response “FUBAR, or F−−−−− Up Beyond All Recognition” .
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302060007
February 4, 2013
Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump!http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/2/4/stop-the-great-lakes-nuclear-dump.html
February 4, 2013
Fukushima operator TEPCO projects $1.29 bn year net loss.
February 4, 2013
World Cancer Day – over 10 million people die of cancer every year. UN underscored its ramped-up efforts in providing the developing world with vital screening and therapy programmes. (editor’s note: what about getting rid of nuclear power plants and preventing many cancers?)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44067&Cr=non-communicable+disease&Cr1#.URgrCY6tsoI
February 4, 2013
Has Obama Abandoned His Commitment to a Nuclear Free World?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/04/has-obama-abandoned-his-commitment-to-a-nuclear-free-world/
February 4, 2013
Collins/Rense Interview: MacDonalds pledges to use Alaskan Pollack caught where tons of Fukushima debris coming ashore. Japanese children suffering from radiation.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_020413.mp3
February 4, 2013
Video: Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi NPS – Source IRSN ‘Most important’ source of radioactive releases into Pacific at Fukushima is Reactor 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMaEjEWL6PU
February 3, 2013
It has been 15 years since the federal government was legally obliged – but failed – to begin accepting waste from the country’s nuclear power plants.
February 3, 2013
Japanese elementary school girl “The integral dose of Fukushima reaches 60mSv/y. I think it’s just over.”
February 3, 2013
“A2” documentary about Fukushima children with thyroid cysts and nodules (TRAILER).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101796288
February 3, 2013
Ex-Tepco Worker: “Children in Fukushima are living in such dangerous conditions” — Clothes are contaminated… even more radioactive after 5 washes (VIDEO).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Ymf1xLErk
February 3, 2013
Fairewinds: Nuke Industry Double Standards?
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/nuke-industry-double-standards
February 3, 2013
Nuclear safety chief questioned over Fukushima disaster.
February 2, 2013
More signs of imminent nuclear test detected in N. Korea.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2013/02/02/43/0401000000AEN20130202001100315F.HTML
February 2, 2013
The Environment Ministry began removing debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake in Odaka Ward, Minami-Soma, in Fukushima Prefecture on Friday, in the government’s first attempt to clear debris in a former no-entry zone.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130201004630.htm
February 2, 2013
A look inside Fukushima today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CACtodLKdA&feature=em-subs_digest
February 2, 2013
Japanese Nuclear regulator sacked for leaking information to nuclear operator.
February 2, 2013
Nuclear plans in disarray after Cumbria votes ‘no’ to radioactive dump.
February 2, 2013
NRA safety rules may keep reactors offline for years.
February 1,2013
Journalists tour inside Fukushima Diaich. Fukushima forecast to be cleaned up and decommissioned by 2051.Highest radiation on tour found between Pacific Ocean and Reactor 3 — 1,370 microsieverts per hour (VIDEO)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/movie/feature201302012000.html
February 1, 2013
PROMETHEUS TRAP (3): Japanese ambassador felt something not right before State Department meeting.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302010004
February 1, 2013
Reject Nuclear Power – Here’s Why.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/reject-nuclear-power-heres-why/5321374
February 1, 2013
Osaka city started incineration of disaster debris.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/osaka-city-started-incineration-of-disaster-debris/
February 1, 2013
USA’s Blue Ribbon Commission has no idea what to do with 70,000 tons of nuclear waste.
February 1, 2013
NRC accuses Exelon of ‘deliberate’ deception.
February 1, 2013
Over 150 U.S. service members say Fukushima radiation has triggered medical issues — Now Defense Department abandons medical registry, leaving them on own.
February 1, 2013
Staggering number of cancers, illnesses, and birth defects” linked to nuclear waste? Over 700 cases found in only four square miles — “There’s something very wrong” –in St.Louis! (VIDEO)
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/358520/3/Cancer-map-may-show-enormous-St-Louis-cluster–
February 1, 2013
Fairewinds site under DDS attack! “Early this morning, Fairewinds Energy Education began experiencing a cyber attack. We have confirmed that this was a “Distributed Denial of Service” attack (DDoS).
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fairewinds-Energy-Education/215272951940460
February 1, 2013
US plans to bury 70,000 tons of nuclear waste. Currently there are 79 temporary sites for used nuclear waste located in 34 US states, The stock “is massive, diverse, dispersed, and increasing,” says the Oak Ridge report.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_01/US-plans-to-bury-70-000-tons-of-nuclear-waste/
February 1, 2013
Nuclear Output Hits Highest Since August Nationwide production climbed 0.7 percent to 95,544 megawatts, or 94 percent of capacity, the highest level since Aug. 8, 2012.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/nuclear-output-hits-highest-since-august-on-turkey-point.html
January 31, 2013
Japan Atomic Safety Rules May Keep Reactors Closed for Years
January 31, 2013
The chairman of the Fukushima accident council, “There’s no appropriate solution for reactor4″. Editor’s note: the best reason to demand that the U.S. get as much fuel out of the fuel pools as possible – because after a catastrophe there is not way to do it…..
January 31, 2013
A federal report is criticizing DTE Energy Co. for what it says are maintenance failures leading up to the June breakdown of a cooling water pump at the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/01/31/us-chides-dte-for-errors-before-fermi-2-pump-break/
January 31, 2013
The national body of state utility regulators and the nuclear industry asked a federal appeals court Thursday to reopen its review of their lawsuit over the US Department of Energy’s collection of a fee worth more than $750 million a year from nuclear utility customers for a waste program that no longer exists and to order the department to suspend that action.
http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/6102633
January 31, 2013
A year after the seaside San Onofre nuclear power plant was shut down, its owner says it will be safe to reopen. Activists express alarm.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Safe-to-Reopen-Nuclear-Plant-Edison-Says-189224991.html
January 30, 2013
U.S. gov’t concluded Fukushima disaster “could spread to a global scale.”
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301300006
January 30, 2013
Fire recommendations left to the nuclear power plants by the NRC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuRwxP3Sq5A
January 30, 2013
Japan plummets in press freedom list — “Almost zero respect for access to information related to Fukushima… Should sound an alarm”.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130130004387.htm/
January 30, 2013
Uranium – Blessing or Curse?
January 30, 2013
Tsunami Debris Problem Gets Worse in Alaska.
January 30, 2013
We Must Stop Investing in Our Extinction! End the Nuclear Lobby.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/30/end-the-nuclear-lobby/
January 30, 2013
Solyndra-like Issues Plague Vogtle Loan Guarantee. FOIA-Disclosed Documents Expose Inadequate Attention to High Risk Faced by Taxpayers, Problems with Loan Due Diligence and Apparent Political Interference.
http://www.cleanenergy.org/index.php?/Press-Update.html
January 30, 2013
Fukushima decontamination faces severe labor shortages.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130129004220.htm
January 30,2013
Anti-nuclear activists are stepping up to talk with neighborhood leaders as TVA’s Bellefonte Nuclear Plant inches toward being operational.
http://scottsboro.waff.com/news/events/90818-activists-speak-jackson-co-about-nuclear-power
January 29, 2013
Medical tests show exposure to “high levels of radiation” in Fukushima evacuees (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5IUzQy7qo
January 29, 2013
Watch 5 nuclear power station towers collapse in slow motion.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342349
January 29, 2013
Can Gas Undo Nuclear Power?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323644904578272111885235812.html
January 29, 2013
“They don’t even know the details of the inside of the torus room. Financially and technically, it is obvious that Tepco can’t handle it.
Since the very beginning of 311, it has been obvious that Tepco can’t handle everything only by themselves. It seems like they have to hide something so they are not forward in asking for more international help. The destiny of the entire world is in the hand of the amateur driver, Tepco.”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/column-amateur-doctor/
January 29, 2013
Japan atomic’s Tsuruga nuclear plant may be on active fault.
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/100712.php
January 29, 2013
What part of Fukushima do you NOT understand – song
http://sanonofresafety.org/2013/01/29/what-part-of-fukushima-do-you-not-understand/
January 29, 2013
New NRA rules tough on tsunami, could delay reactor restarts.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301290065
January 29, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for January 25th to January 28th, 2013
January 29, 2013
The Slow Demise of U.S. Nuclear Power” — 40 reactors could be closed.
http://www.investmentu.com/2013/January/us-nuclear-power-plants-going-the-way-of-coal-plants.html
January 29, 2013
Japan Speeds Up Fukushima Reactor Decommissioning.
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/01/japan-speeds-fukushima-reactor-decommissioning
January 28, 2013
U.S. frustrated with Japan’s initial response to Fukushima.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301280006
January 28, 2013
Tepco to discharge 2,000 ~ 3,000 Bq/ml (2-3 million Bq/l)
of tritium to the sea, “50 times much as legal limit”.
January 28, 2013
More nuclear cynicism: Fukushima’s decontamination scandal.
January 28, 2013
What’s happening at San Onofre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RuTE1_i-s&feature=youtu.be
January 28, 2013
Japan could shut down world’s largest nuclear power plant – Kashiwazaki Kariwa – over active fault threat.
January 28, 2013
Mitsubishi plans solar energy projects in Fukushima, Japan.
http://www.elp.com/articles/2013/01/mitsubishi-plans-solar-energy-projects-in-fukushima–japan.html
January 27, 2013
Paper: “U.S. military is still keeping quiet about” it — Women and children ordered to evacuate base 300 kilometers from Fukushima when radiation alarms went off after 3/11.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301280006
January 27, 2013
Radioactive tea leaves are exported from Japan to Hongkong.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/radioactive-tea-leaves-are-exported-from-japan-to-hongkong/
January 27, 2013
Nuclear weapons waste in your hip replacement?
January 27, 2013
240,000 Bq/m2 detected on road 80 kilometers from Fukushima disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/user/148production?feature=watch
January 27, 2013
North Korean leader vows to move ahead with nuclear test.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/27/north-korean-leader-vows-strong-action/
January 27, 2013
23,009,800 pounds of lethal nuke fuel…..
January 26, 2013
Since 1993, there have been 419 cases of smuggled or stolen nuclear materials worldwide. Today, about 1.6 million kilograms of highly enriched uranium and 500,000 kilograms of plutonium—enough to make more than 125,000 nuclear bombs—exist in nations across the globe.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-10-cases-of-nuclear-thefts-gone-wrong/?cat_orig=world
January 26, 2013
Heart breaking photo of the children of Fukushima – no child should live in a place where the air is not safe to breathe. They have the right to clean air and should be evacuated.
http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/
January 26, 2013
How Kan-do attitude averted the meltdown of Japan. Former Prime Minister Kan: Evacuation after Fukushima could have reached 50 million people. (editor’s note –SHOULD have….)
January 26, 2013
January 26, 1700 at 9:00 p.m. is when an estimated magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake and tsunami occurred on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coastline of Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and British Columbia.
http://www.crew.org/news-events/blog/313-year-anniversary-cascadia-fault-earthquake-tsunami-observed
January 26, 2013
[Ghost of Chernobyl ?] 1.5 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 from maple syrup in Canada.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/ghost-of-chernobyl-1-5-bqkg-of-cs-137-from-maple-syrup-in-canada/
January 26, 2013
0.07 ~ 0.10μSv/h on the second floor of Universal City station in Osaka,” double as before 311″. (Osaka is 348 miles from Fukushima – how far away is your nearest nuclear reactor?)
January 25, 2013
370 Bq/Kg from dried mushroom in Chiba, Japan “for sale.”
January 25, 2013
Idogawa Ex-Futabamachi mayor “I resigned because I can’t accept 20mSv/y standard. can’t take responsibility for future”.
January 25, 2013
Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission, Thousands of Centuries of Nuclear Waste.
January 25, 2013
Toshio Yanagihara at the United Nations Human Rights Council, NGO Information Meeting: Today, together with my friends, I am here to ask you to think about the people, especially the children, who are trapped in high radiation areas after the nuclear accident at the Fuksuhima Daiichi plant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iseUGiGAXh4&feature=player_detailpage#t=425s
January 25, 2013
Lawyer: Thyroid abnormalities in 55% of Fukushima girls tested age 11 to 15 (VIDEO).
January 25, 2013
“Death River”: Radiation detector goes over limit in Fukushima City — 430,000 Bq/kg of cesium (VIDEO) – if anyone thinks this disaster is under control or anywhere near over –they have to have their heads examined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHqGmZLtmVw
January 25, 2013
Radioactive cesium in calves found higher than mothers after Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/01/japanese-researchers-found-cesium-more.html
January 24, 2013
Futabamachi mayor, “Like in Auschwitz camp, our DNA is massacred in Fukushima prefecture just like guinea pigs”
January 24, 2013
House Republicans attack NRC staff recommendation for costly containment modification on U.S. Fukushima-style reactors.
January 24, 2013
Children of Fukushima talk to the UN Human Rights Council.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRVGpqwLS88
January 24, 2013
Tepco plans to dump contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean after removing radioactive substances to reduce contamination to legally permissible levels.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/01/205868.html
January 24, 2013
The nuclear power plant near Richland pushed a record 9.34 million mega-watt-hours of electricity onto the grid in 2012.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/24/2248503/energy-northwest-near-richland.html
January 24, 2013
Swiss want early nuclear phase out.
http://www.fierceenergy.com/story/swiss-want-early-nuclear-phase-out/2013-01-24
January 24, 2013
Applications to extend operation of aging Japan reactors put on hold in Japan.
January 24, 2013
Nuclear power plant causes freak snow storm in Pittsburgh.
January 24, 2013
TEPCO plans to dump water from Fukushima plant after cleaning it to “to legally permissible levels.”
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/01/205868.html
January 24, 2013
Fukushima town mayor resigns over post-disaster frustrations.
http://japandailypress.com/fukushima-town-mayor-resigns-over-post-disaster-frustrations-2422151
January 24, 2013
Activists Mobilize to Stop DOE Proposal to Recycle Nuclear Waste Into Consumer Goods. In a bizarre effort to recycle nuclear waste a federal government agency is proposing simply to incorporate it into everyday consumer products. The US Department of Energy or DOE last month put forth a plan to sell 14,000 tons of radioactive nuclear scrap metal from government facilities to various consumer manufacturing industries.
January 23, 2013
Fukushima city rice started being served for school lunch, “will serve if it’s under 20 Bq/Kg.
January 23, 2013
Distribution of Artificial Radionuclides in Abandoned Cattle in the Evacuation Zone of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054312
January 23, 2013
N. Korea warns it will conduct nuclear test, conduct more rocket launches, in defiance of UN.
January 23, 2013
Wyden joins three senators in nuclear waste policy group – signaling the topic could get attention this Congress.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/278905-wyden-to-join-ad-hoc-nuclear-waste-group
January 23, 2013
Japan’s nuclear regulatory authority on Wednesday decided not to accept applications from utilities seeking to extend the operation of reactors beyond 30 years under existing procedures, given that new regulations will be introduced in July.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/01/205562.html
January 23, 2013
The Energy Department’s Crazy Plan for Radioactive Scrap: Nuclear Weapons Waste in Your Water Bottle, Hip Replacement, Baby’s Toys, Jungle Gym?
January 22, 2013
Designers of nuclear plants should have more responsibility over plant design throughout the operating lifetimes of all their reactors, according to a new study by a working group of the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Nuclear_plant_design_needs_blue_sky_approach-2201136.html
January 22, 2013
[Column] What is Sv, Bq, Cesium, how and why it matters.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/column-what-is-sv-bq-cesium-how-and-why-it-matters/
January 22, 2013
Journalist Satoshi Kamata, one of the leading figures in anti-nuclear movement, said we should no longer listen to the three big lies of the government and bureaucrats. We feel responsible as a nation that contaminated the world by spreading radiation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVsJs-YUG8U
January 22, 2013
Japanese N-plants will have to use flame-retardant cables. What are the NRC rules for the U.S.?
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130121003528.htm
January 22, 2013
San Diego Unified School District believes restarting the defective Unit 2 nuclear reactor at San Onofre will have profound impacts on our children in San Diego Unified and the surrounding communities in the event of a nuclear accident regarding radiation contamination of air, water and food, evacuation plans, and long term viability of life in Southern California;
January 22, 2013
Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear.
January 22, 2013
An expert on the effects of longterm exposure to low doses of radiation says, point blank that the Fukushima Catastrophe is the worst nuclear disaster in history. He says that what is occurring in Japan is a virtual replay of what occurred in Chernobyl and surrounding Belarus, where the radioactive cesium destroyed the walls of the children’s developing heart muscles, affecting their electrical conductivity, resulting in early heart disease and deaths from same. The only difference between these two scenarios is that Fukushima is affecting far more people, which is why he calls it “the worst.” (11 minute video)
January 22, 2013
NYTimes: ‘Prophetic’ warning of Fukushima-type nuclear disaster
The accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011 alerted the American nuclear industry and its regulators to the possibility that operators at plants with more than one reactor might have to deal with more than one meltdown at a time in a flood, earthquake or other catastrophe.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/an-early-nuclear-warning-was-it-for-naught/
January 22, 2013
Number of people suffering seizures near Fukushima went up significantly after Japanese tsunami.
January 21, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update January 21, 2013: Superb 1 hour show with first half “Greenwashing” Rocketdyne VC Reporter newspaper expose where even after EnviroReporter.com blows the story wide open December 10, Boeing greenwashing maven Gary Polakovic gets press release into Northridge-Chatsworth Patch disguised as an article touting the polluted Santa Susana Field Laboratory as a scenic outdoor classroom. Newspaper coverage shows Boeing’s astroturfing and greenwashing plan is getting wider coverage just as the company deals with its grounded 787 Dreamliner and tries to project credibility during the crisis. Its greenwashing and astroturfing the lab undermines that. Then Fukushima meltdowns fiasco in Japan while Congress committee rejects NRC post-meltdowns safety plan & much more!
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_012113.mp3
January 21, 2013
India, Australia to Start Talks on Nuclear Energy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324624404578255222020981996.html
January 20, 2013
With the second anniversary of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster approaching, a storm is brewing again over the fate of Taiwan’s controversial fourth NPP.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201301200019&Type=aTOD
January 20, 2013
Fairewinds’ Arnie Gunderson looks at how difficult it is for the public to meaningfully participate in the NRC licensing process.
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/podcast_-_january_20_2013.mp3
January 20, 2013
5 Bq/Kg from Fukushima apple juice and 5.8 Bq/Kg from Miso.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/5-bqkg-from-fukushima-apple-juice-and-5-8-bqkg-from-miso/
January 19, 2013
Radioactive plume reached far south island Okinawa from 3/25 to 4/25/2011.
(1093 miles from Fukushima – how many miles are you from your nearest Nuclear power plant?)
January 18, 2013
Plutonium-239/240 measured from offshore Fukushima, Tepco “It’s within historical range, not from Fukushima.”
January 18, 2013
Greenpeace “Cesium from fish sold at supermarkets in Japan”. At 7.5 to 51 Bq/kg.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/greenpeace-cesium-from-fish-sold-at-supermarkets/
January 18, 2013
“Nothing About Us Without Us !” as IAEA sets up its operational base in Fukushima – Report on the Japan-IAEA Ministerial Conference.
“The more I learned about IAEA, the clearer it became to me what an obstacle this organization is for those of us who are striving toward the world without nuclear power.”
January 18, 2013
Record high radiation found in Fukushima fish — 2,500 times cesium limit – 254,000 Bq/kg.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/01/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-254000-bqkg-of.html
January 18, 2013
Uranium used to make atomic bombs dumped in landfill with no cover near major U.S. city — Experts: Waste “is becoming more radioactive” — EPA: It’s safe, leave it there (VIDEO)
January 18, 2013
Declassified Docs Reveal Genocide Caused by Chemtrail Testing. Zinc Cadmium Sulfide with Radioactive Particles. Sprayed Daily on Housing Project for Years.
January 18, 2013
The Medical and Ecological Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.
http://www.spyghana.com/the-medical-and-ecological-impacts-of-the-fukushima-nuclear-accident/
January 18, 2013
The latest in pro -nuclear films – important to know what the other side is saying.
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2013/01/18/nuclear-film-extravaganza/
January 18, 2013
UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns nuclear weapons, terrorists a rising threat.
January 18, 2013
Obama’s modest gains in nuclear security vision.
January 18, 2013
Japanese cleanup officials see how Hanford does it.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/18/2240847/japanese-cleanup-officials-see.html
January 18, 2013
Chilling Testimony”: Expert says public was put in great danger because of errors at California nuclear plant — KPBS: NRC hearing was a Catch 22
http://therenodispatch.blogspot.ca/2013/01/design-flaws-at-california-nuclear.html
January 18, 2013
Fukushima debris hits Hawaii.
http://rt.com/usa/news/fukushima-debris-hawaii-radiation-285/
January 17, 2013
Proposed New Nuclear Reactor At Fermi Plant Clears Hurdle.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/01/17/proposed-new-nuclear-reactor-at-fermi-plant-clears-hurdle/
January 17, 2013
The US House Energy Committee released a letter to the NRC trying to dissuade them from implementing the post Fukushima safety upgrades. All but 3 signatories of this letter trying to pressure the NRC had major nuclear industry funding. Part of what this protest is about is filtered vents the NRC is considering requiring.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=9305
January 17, 2013
2.27 μSv/h from dog paws in Tokyo. (148 miles from Fukushima)
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/2-27-μsvh-from-dog-paws-in-tokyo/
January 17, 2013
Tepco released the latest survey map of Fukushima plant, 200μSv/h from the west of Unit 4.
January 17, 2013
“Greenwashing” Rocketdyne in the Ventura County Reporter newspaper. Secret plan exposed after secret document posted online. Cover story is the first print coverage of Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover. Paper is target of phony media campaign but turns the tables in this fast-moving piece with new information about Boeing’s Gary Polakovic plan being implemented. This newspaper has been on the cutting edge of environmental journalism since December 2002 when VCReporter published Michael Collins’ first story for the most important newspaper weekly in the county where the Santa Susana Field Laboratory is located, Rocketdyne Ranch.
January 17, 2013
Video: “Going from bad to worse, day by day” at Fukushima plant — “The situation doesn’t improve at all”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbOzOEjth0&feature=player_detailpage#t=45s
January 17, 2013
9 utilities spent 2.4 trillion yen to sell public on nuke power.
“With advertising money, media organizations became dependent on utilities for revenue and found it hard to criticize nuclear power.”
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301170013
January 17, 2013
In a new development, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced that it will require all 26 boiling water reactors (BWR) in Japan—the same type those that experienced full nuclear meltdowns during the Fukushima disaster—to install filtered vents in order to contain large releases of radioactive material in case of a nuclear disaster. Significantly, NRA Commissioner Toyoshi Fuketa stated that idled BWRs without filtered vents will not be allowed to restart until they have been retrofitted, a process that could be both expensive and time-consuming for utilities.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/01/204639.html
January 17, 2013
It’s goodbye nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm this July. Not. Japan’s new government has reversed the previous administration’s course and will charge ahead with its nuclear plans on the most earthquake-prone island in the world.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/17/learning-from-fukushima
January 17, 2013
Vermont Supreme Court to hear arguments on nuclear power plant. Supreme court looking at a complaint that the plant has been disobeying orders from state utility regulators and should be shut down.
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_22389836/vermont-supreme-court-hear-arguments-nuclear-power-plant
January 17, 2013
The AP1000 nuclear reactor vessel targeted at Vogtle, Georgia has been discovered unprotected, stranded in Savannah Port since a December 15 shipment failure.
January 17, 2013
Industry, Activists at Odds Over Security Risks of Interim Waste Storage
“Dry cask containers are not strong enough to withstand impact from armor-piercing weapons”.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/industry-activists-odds-over-security-risks-interim-waste-storage/
January 17, 2013
Pilgrim nuclear power plant back online. That was Pilgrim’s third emergency shutdown in seven months.
http://www.patriotledger.com/business/x1665863424/Power-plant-in-Plymouth-back-online
January 17, 2013
U.S. House Energy and Commerce Commission Opposes NRC’s Requirement of Filtered Vents in BWRs in the US , says Fukushima Accident cannot happen in US.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/01/us-house-energy-commerce-commission.html
January 16, 2013
Watchdog Groups Add to Legal Criticism of Nuclear Waste Review.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/watchdog-groups-add-legal-criticism-nuclear-waste-review/
January 16, 2013
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) is set to drastically broaden the definition of active faults to cover those that moved 400,000 years ago or later in its new nuclear plant safety standards, according to a draft outline.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130116p2a00m0na015000c.html
January 16, 2013
In addition to “premium” peaches and apples from Fukushima’s contaminated middle third (Nakadori), pears and persimmons will be added to the exports to Thailand.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/01/radioactive-japan-fukushima-to-export.html
January 16, 2013
IAEA re-categorizes the operational status for 47 of Japan’s nuclear reactors. In an unprecedented move, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) retroactively re-categorized 47 Japanese nuclear reactors from “in operation” to “long-term shutdown” in its Power Reactor Information System. Thus, the global number of nuclear reactors listed as “in operation” drops from 437 to 390, a number not seen since Chernobyl-year 1986, when 391 operating units were on the list. Without a doubt, the step is a unique revision of world operational nuclear data — not to mention a solid recognition of the industrial reality in Japan.
January 16, 2013
San Onofre: Expert testimony shows how Edison’s failures led to nuclear crisis.
http://www.fairewinds.org/FOE-Press-Release-01-16-2013
January 16, 2013
San Onofre Petition Presentation by Fairewinds.
January 16, 2013
Top Engineer Calls for Stop Work at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant.
January 15, 2013
Two dozen groups rebut NEI, supplement comments to NRC on Nuke Waste Con Game.
January 15, 2013
Caldicott: “Terribly alarming what’s happening in Japan — Signs of radiation sickness reported in children after 3/11 — Lies are being fed to the people.”
“The Fukushima accident will never end. They have no idea how to clean it up because there’s never been three nuclear meltdowns in history.”
January 15, 2013
The first layer of steel framing for a cover that will allow removal of used fuel from Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 has been completed.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RSFukushima_4_frame_takes_shape-1501138.html
January 15, 2013
Even after almost two years of nonstop cleanup work, managing the flow of water contaminated with radiation continues to be one of site’s most significant challenges, [Masumi Ishikawa, TEPCO’s general manager for radioactive fuel management] said.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-01-15/fukushima-recovery-aided-srs-cleanup-technology
January 15, 2013
Potassium Iodide pills available to residents near nuclear plants in Illinois.
http://wqad.com/2013/01/15/potassium-iodide-pills-available-to-residents-near-nuclear-plants/
January 15, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for January 11th to January 14th, 2013.
January 15, 2013
Gundersen: U.S. gov’t to allow highly radioactive material from nuclear plants into silverware, other items?
Florida nuclear plant will likely be closed — Gundersen: “The dominoes are starting to fall”
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/podcast_-_january_13_2013.mp3
January 14, 2013
Rense/Collins interview. Last EPA milk testing results showed L.A. milk at .99 picocuries/litre – highest yet. Michael Collins Radiation Update January 7, 2013: High jet cabin readings 3.8 times expected radiation over California-Arizona border, down from 5 times a year ago; L.A. air dust for 6 days 92% above background but down 18% off April 2012 high; EnviroReporter‘s 2012 Year in Review
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_011413.mp3
January 14, 2013
Nuclear fears contaminate sales for Japan farmers.
http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Nuclear_fears_contaminate_sales_for_Japan_farmers_999.html
January 14, 2013
New Nuke Fuel Storage Proposal Gets Mixed Reaction in Congress.
http://www.snl.com/Interactivex/article.aspx?ID=16771712&CDID=A-16771712-13610&Printable=1
January 14, 2013
Study: 88% of cesium in radioactive ash might be at risk of being transported away from Japan landfills by wind and rain.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23303086
January 14, 2013
The question of whether Vermont’s only nuclear plant can continue operating without the approval of state regulators goes before a federal appeals court today.
http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/14/entergy-in-court-in-vermont-over-nuclear-plant/
January 14, 2013
Nuclear waste plan has 2048 goal. Hanford would keep material until feds find welcoming site.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jan/13/nuclear-waste-plan-has-2048-goal/
January 14, 2013
The Myth of Nuclear Necessity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/the-myth-of-nuclear-necessity.html
January 14, 2013
Ft. Calhoun Geo-Testing shows a dangerous potential.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/
January 13, 2013
[Black substance] Nuclear expert, “Melanized fungal cells manifested increased growth with radiation exposure”.
January 13, 2013
Gundersen: US nuclear plants at risk of ‘flood of biblical proportions’? — “They’re not designed against biblical floods” (AUDIO).
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/podcast_-_january_13_2013.mp3
January 13, 2013
“5 people died of acute leukemia in Soma city last year”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/express-5-people-died-of-acute-leukemia-in-soma-city-last-year/
January 13, 2013
Japanese testified on radiation hazards at Human Rights Council in Geneva.
January 13, 2013
Fukushima; NHK Documentary “Lives Slipped Away” –Video.
http://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/13/fukushima-nhk-documentary-lives-slipped-away-video/
January 13, 2013
The New Taipei City mayor said safety must be assured before the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant goes online, as activists launch a petition drive against it
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/01/13/2003552419
January 12, 2013
The incoming chairman of the Senate Energy Committee suggests that the Energy Department should stop billing utilities more in waste disposal fees than the department is actually spending on addressing nuclear wastes. And he wants the department to pay for moving some of the wastes out of spent fuel pools at the nation’s highest-risk reactors and into dry casks.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/come-january-another-try-on-nuclear-waste/
January 12, 2013
1,050,000 Bq/Kg from the soil beside reservoir in Fukushima, jumped up by 11 times since last summer
January 12, 2013
5 million tones of debris washed into the ocean, 1.5 million tones of them to reach west coast of the US.
January 12, 2013
Over 1,000,000 Bq/kg of cesium near Fukushima plant — 10 times higher than highest measurement in prior soil survey.
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASDG10033_Q3A110C1CR8000/
January 12, 2013
Nuclear watchdog to make secondary control rooms mandatory at power plants.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301120044
January 12, 2013
Bulgarians favorable to construction of new nuclear power plant: poll
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n296714
January 12, 2013
Defense counsel of Fukushima group evacuation lawsuit, “3 police officers died of acute leukemia in 40~50km area”.
January 11,2013
Fire breaks out at Texas nuclear power plant.
January 11, 2013
Cesium measured from 100% of wild boar samples in Fukushima, over 100 Bq/Kg from 19 of 20 samples.
January 11, 2013
Japan plans to organize International advisory team for decommissioning of Fukushima plant.
January 11, 2013
Fire breaks out at Texas nuclear power plant.
January 11, 2013
US National Cancer Institute I 131 Dose for Nevada Testing Site.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/01/us-national-cancer-institute-i-131.html
January 11, 2013
Argentina’s Atucha nuclear power plant to operate in June 2013.
January 11, 2013
Media Silent on Fukushima Radiation Impact in US.
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/01/11/media-silent-on-fukushima-radiation-impact-in-us/
January 11, 2013
Japan seeks to reverse commitment to phase out nuclear power.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/11/japan-reverse-nuclear-phase-out
January 11, 2013
The Department of Energy unveiled a new nuclear waste plan Friday strategy which calls for the creation of an interim storage site by 2021.
The Obama administration will ask Congress to approve the plan in hopes of opening a full-scale storage facility by 2025 — and a permanent geologic repository by 2048.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/11/energy-department-proposes-first-new-nuclear-waste/
January 11, 2013
Legal Expert: 3 police died of acute leukemia after being sent to Fukushima within 50 kilometers of plant.
January 11, 2013
China’s first new nuclear power plant being built since Beijing lifted a construction moratorium imposed on the industry to review safety following Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
January 10, 2013
Death rates spike among elderly evacuees from Fukushima.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301110086
January 10, 2013
Old US Gov’t Film: We must be very careful using radiation — Flies with white eyes, no wings, extra wings — Albino corn, distorted corn, stunted plants (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aoo2wvsojg
January 10, 2013
‘First Time’: Radioactive rice with more than double gov’t cesium limit found outside Fukushima Prefecture.
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2013011000693
January 10, 2013
Iranian Nuclear Power Plant Back At ‘Full Capacity’
http://www.payvand.com/news/13/jan/1089.html
January 10, 2013
Click onto this piece of art -Unsinkable, 2013
Depicts 67,000 mushroom clouds, equal to the number of metric tons of ultra-radioactive uranium/plutonium waste being stored in temporary pools at the 104 nuclear power plants across the U.S. These waste pools must be cooled with hundreds of thousands of gallons of constantly circulating water, and many plants have inadequate or nonexistent backup cooling systems in case of power loss. In the U.S. and around the world, the waste pools are under-protected, over-filled, and vulnerable to earthquakes, storms, malfeasance, and human error. In 1997 the Brookhaven National Laboratory estimated that a calamity at just one of these waste pools in the U.S. could cause 138,000 American deaths (more than the number of Japanese who died in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima), and contaminate 2,000 square miles of our land.
Currently, the waste pool in Reactor Unit 4 at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi plant is at risk for collapse. The building is unstable, and the cracked and leaking pool contains 262 tons of ultra-radioactive uranium/plutonium waste. For months, Fukushima has been experiencing numerous earthquakes from magnitude 4.1 to 6.2, sometimes several per day. If a magnitude 7 earthquake were to occur, causing the Unit 4 waste pool to rupture and drain, the resulting meltdown and fires could release ten times more airborne radioactive material than was released by the Chernobyl disaster. At that point humans could no longer enter or operate the facility, potentially leading to a chain reaction of meltdown events at Fukushima’s five other units, releasing 85 times as much radiation as the Chernobyl disaster.
The United States lies downwind of Fukushima, only a few days across the Pacific via the jet stream. The jet stream would carry radioactive material into the interior of the United States, eventually circling the globe and reaching the entire northern hemisphere within weeks or months. The amount of radiation released “would destroy the world environment and our civilization,” according to Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy.
http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#unsinkable
January 10, 2013
EDF and Chinese Firm Enter Talks to Build U.K. Nuclear Plants.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324081704578233441564200794.html
January 10, 2013
US and Russian Geopolitical Battle will Decide Fate of Czech Nuclear Power Plant.
January 10, 2013
Entergy Watch: Vermont Yankee, FitzPatrick, Indian Point, Palisades.
January 9, 2013
Court Seeks More Public Input on Nuclear Safety.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/court-seeks-more-public-input-on-nuclear-safety/
January 9, 2013
Book outlines efforts undertaken by anti-nuclear activists to oppose potential power plant.
This book is not about the merits of nuclear power in Alberta. The Fukushima disaster, the unwillingness of the community to host the project, soaring reactor costs and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL) repeated failures and eventual fragmentation put an end to that debate.
This is about the corrupt and self-serving practices of industry, governments and academia we encountered in Alberta while scrutinizing Bruce Power’s nuclear proposal. It is also a “how-to” book for communities who have to deal with major issues or threats.
http://www.prrecordgazette.com/2013/01/09/book-outlines-efforts-undertaken-by-anti-nuclear-activists-to-oppose-potential-power-plant
January 9, 2013
The installation of steel columns next to Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 marks the start of construction of a cover that will aid in the removal of fuel. This is the second cover to get underway at the site.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Second_cover_assembly_underway_at_Fukushima_090113a.html
January 9, 2013
U.S. Nuclear Regulators Divided on Costly Fukushima Rule.
The U.S. nuclear agency’s staff has recommended that the U.S. operators be required to upgrade emergency venting systems by installing filters that would capture radioactive particles. The filter requirement would be the most expensive imposed by U.S. nuclear regulators since Fukushima, at a cost of $16 million or more per reactor. With U.S. nuclear operators already contending with competition from power plants running on low-priced natural gas, the added expense could be “another chip away at the viability of the nuclear industry overall,” said Julien Dumoulin-Smith, a utility industry analyst with UBS.
January 9, 2013
Doctor wants more Fukushima residents to get followup full-body scans to count full body radiation levels. (see photo of the machine).
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20130110f1.html
January 8, 2013
Professor “cardiac insufficiency significantly increased after 311, it wasn’t seen after other great earthquakes”.
January 8, 2013
Media Silent on Fukushima Radiation Impact in US.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Media-Silent-on-Fukushima-by-Brian-Lynch-130108-588.html
January 8, 2013
9 PFP workers checked for radioactive exposure.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/01/08/2228635/9-pfp-workers-checked-for-radioactive.html
January 8, 2013
Progress Energy Florida officials still have not made a decision on whether to fix or shut down the single-unit, 860 MW Crystal River nuclear power plant in Florida.
January 8, 2013
Fallout spiked in Fukushima, highest reading in last 7 months.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/fallout-spiked-in-fukushima-highest-reading-in-last-7-months/
January 8, 2013
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that it has acquired a 38-acre piece of land owned by the operator of the former Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power plant for $900,000.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/01/08/news/doc50ecaf4eb444e432475107.txt
January 8, 2013
Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things WORSE
January 7, 2013
Rense-Collins interview: High jet cabin readings with 3.8 times expected radiation over California-Arizona border, down from 5 times a year ago; L.A. air HEPA dust for 6 days 92% above background but down 18% off April 20 highs & EnviroReporter‘s 2012 Year in Review highlights are some of the topics covered.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_010713.mp3
January 7, 2013
A French nuclear exit?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/sp-afn010713.php
January 7, 2013
Futaba mayor estimates 30 years before return.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130106002813.htm
January 7, 2013
Nine minute YouTube Review of what’s happening in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWd4wtJ1zCE
January 7, 2013
New packaging for radioactive waste claims to lower costs and speed up decommissioning.
January 6, 2013
Nuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation Levels Above DC Area.
January 6, 2013
Uprates increase U.S. nuclear capacity substantially without building new reactors.
January 6, 2013
Arnie Gunderson’s First Fairewinds podcast of 2013.
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/podcast%20-%20jan%206,%202013.mp3
January 6, 2013
Tepco plans to discharge contaminated water into the environment, “Getting permission of related departments”.
January 6, 2013
Dr. Caldicott to end 4 ½ years of radio shows “If you love this planet”.
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/index.html/
January 6, 2013
Professor: Cesium in wild mushrooms not caused by Fukushima accident. Mushrooms have fungal filaments called hyphae, which extend into the ground and act like roots. A hypha easily absorbs radioactive cesium in the soil of forests, making wild mushrooms more likely to build up cesium than vegetables. It is from nuclear weapons tests conducted by the Soviet Union and China from the late 1940s to the late 1960s, and from the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301060010
January 5, 2013
More Safety Violations at Ft. Calhoun.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=9090
January 5, 2013
Bluefin Tuna Off California Coast Tainted With Fukushima Radiation -(But Scientists Say It’s Okay To Eat)! LAist missed the story by over a year! We covered this ages ago. Unbelievable. This hokum outfit does not list ANY Fukushima or EnviroReporter.com news.http://laist.com/2013/01/05/bluefin_tuna_off_california_tainted.php
January 5, 2013
Double atomic bomb survivor tells story to help Fukushima victims.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201301050008
January 5, 2013
States have no confidence in NRC’s Nuke Waste Con Game.
January 5, 2013
NRC pleads insufficient funds to resume Yucca dump licensing proceeding.
January 5, 2013
209,695 Bq/Kg of cesium from the dust of a smoking area in Tochigi.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/209695-bqkg-of-cesium-from-the-dust-of-a-smoking-area-in-tochigi
January 4, 2013
Mayor: I visited Fukushima last year and Unit 4 could collapse at any time — A certainty if another big quake strikes (VIDEO).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqseXWOQLbE&feature=player_detailpage#t=75s
January 4, 2013
Gigantic tuna sells for record $1.76 million at Tokyo auction, tripling previous record – and not a word in the article re radiation!
January 4, 2013
UBS Investment Bank equity analyst: ‘Unlikely’ Entergy will continue Vermont Yankee.
January 4, 2013
CROOKED CLEANUP (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301040058
January 4, 2013
CROOKED CLEANUP (2): Some decontamination workers sorry for following orders.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301040073
January 4, 2013
CROOKED CLEANUP (3): Reporters document extent of shoddy decontamination practices.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301040076
January 3, 2013
New law to force stores to sell produce from Fukushima?
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/01/radioactive-japan-under-ldp-law-may-be.html
January 3, 2013
Study: Radioactive cesium in 25 of 26 food samples from Fukushima prefecture.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es304128t
January 3, 2013
24 Groups: NRC Rushing Nuclear “Waste Confidence” Process, Not Satisfying Court-Ordered Requirements.
Incomplete Process Should Trigger Continued Suspension of All Reactor Licensing, Re-Licensing
January 3, 2013
The Eternal Problem-Nuclear Waste Confidence-by RUSSELL D. HOFFMAN:
“I, on the other hand, didn’t like the word “confidence” since there’s nothing that warrants ANY confidence in this discussion, whatsoever. ”Waste Failure” would be more appropriate. Or “Waste Impasse” might be even better. Or better yet: ”The Intractable, Unsolvable, Filthy, Disgusting Mess We’ve Made” but I guess that would just be too accurate to a group where a “rapid disassembly” is the term for a core explosion that spews radioactive crud for miles around.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/03/nuclear-waste-confidence/
January 3, 2013
New Failure Understanding at Fukushima:
TEPCO admits in their recent report that containment cap gaskets likely failed and were possibly the route for hydrogen to escape into the refueling floor.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8698
January 3, 2013
Implications For Fukushima? The US And New Zealand Secretly Tested The First Tsunami Bomb.
January 3, 2013
Gov’t Map: Fukushima fallout transported directly to U.S. — Canada, Mexico avoided much of contamination after 3/11 (VIDEO).
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/fukushima/
January 2, 2013
In praise of … the Fukushima 50. In any other country, the workers who tried to prevent the plant from going into total meltdown would have been heroes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/02/fukushima-50
January 2, 2013
NY Times Op-Ed: International community can’t ignore nuclear reactor on fault line — Hundreds of thousands of lives depend on its safety.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/opinion/global/the-next-chernobyl.html?_r=1&
January 2, 2013
What Happened to the Fukushima 50?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9781000/9781635.stm
January 2, 2013
An edict issued Wednesday by Iranian authorities orders Isfahan’s one-and-a-half million people to leave the city “because pollution has now reached emergency levels,” the BBC reported.
http://freebeacon.com/iran-to-citizens-flee-isfahan/
January 2, 2013
More residents refuse nuclear benefits after Fukushima disaster.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201301020092
January 2, 2013
Japan sees largest population drop in more than a century.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201301020044
January 1, 2013
New nuclear reactor to be buried 100 feet under permafrost in middle of Alaska? (AUDIO)
http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/65245
January 1, 2013
Over 10 nuclear plants in Japan have flawed fire-prevention equipment: sources. – have you checked out your reactor?
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130101p2a00m0na004000c.html
January 1, 2013
MORE Faults under NUCLEAR Reactors Fukushima Update 1/1/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucRE_qnh1E&feature=em-subs_digest
January 1, 2013
INTERVIEW: Priscilla Star, founder of the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN) shares her passion and vision for a women-led meeting with a Michelle Obama.
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/50e9990f-8b8c-be00-a7a2-5ed485d32698.mp3
January 1, 2013
Norwegian scientists said yesterday that they have found record high radioactivity in a reindeer shot in eastern Norway, nearly one year after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union. Scientists said tests showed that meat from the animal carried 98,500 becquerels per kilogram (2.2 lbs), far above the safety limits of 6,000 set by health authorities and that it must be destroyed as unfit for human consumption.
Our Takeaway: An accident at a nuclear plant near Kiev in the Ukraine contaminates a reindeer several hundred miles away to more than 15 times safe levels. Were all foodstuffs and water within range of Chernobyl’s fallout also monitored for contamination and prevented from being consumed, or have people unknowingly consumed harmful amounts of radioactivity?
http://allthingsnuclear.org/fission-stories-123-rudolph-the-glow-in-the-dark-reindeer/
January 1, 2013
Fireproofing ‘inadequate’ at Japan nuclear reactors.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130101-fireproofing-inadequate-japan-nuclear-reactors
January 1, 2013
Contradictions over the recent Japanes election.
http://bluedolphine.blog107.fc2.com/blog-entry-978.html
January 1, 2013
Pursing Economic Growth, South Korea Accepts The Risks Of Nuclear Power Generation.
December 31, 2012
Gundersen: Integrity of concrete at Fukushima plant studied — Salt water making it easier for fuel pools to crack? (AUDIO)
Can the Humans Find a Way to Store Nuclear Waste?
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/NukeFree_F_12132012.broadband.mp3
December 31, 2012
Celebratory New Years Eve Show with Jeff and Michael recounting many of the discoveries and exposes discussed on the program in the last year including high rad readings in Michigan rain a year ago now slightly less with new tests of snow; “buckyball” revelations; chemtrail “scavenging” of Fukushima troposphere fallout and much more on America’s only weekly radiation report thanks to the Rense Radio Network and Rad News Digest created and maintained by Team EnviroReporter.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_123112.mp3
December 31, 2012
Fukushima Year in Review.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8796
December 31, 2012
Almost entire ground-level of Northern Hemisphere covered in radioactive fission product after 3/11 (GRAPHIC) — Study: “The impact of Fukushima radioxenon releases on the worldwide Xe-133 background must be investigated”.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-012-0578-1
December 31, 2012
Standing in Nuclear Waste: Challenging the Disposal of Yucca Mountain.
December 31, 2012
South Korea approves restart of troubled nuclear reactor.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/486953/s-korea-approves-restart-of-troubled-nuclear-reactor/
December 31, 2012
US was measuring radiation from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident from very early on.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/12/now-they-tell-us-us-nuclear-terrorism.html
December 31, 2012
Materials floating to North America from Japan could well be radioactive — There’s no monitoring going on (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npi5MHkfOrQ&feature=player_detailpage&noredirect=1
December 30. 2012
Report: Turkey begins testing all food from Japan for radiation — Imports suspected to be contaminated.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?ArticleID=101018&aType=haber
December 30, 2012
Can the Humans Find a Way to Store Nuclear Waste?
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/NukeFree_F_12132012.broadband.mp3
December 30, 2012
Former NRC Chairman in Fukushima: No excuse for any of us in nuclear arena to let this happen — I wish more people could come see it firsthand (VIDEO). At the end of the program, Jaczko says, “In the end, everyone has to keep in mind that the safety of the public is the number one responsibility, whether you are a power plant owner, whether you’re a worker at the power plant, or a local or state or national government official, everyone has to recognize that safety of the people is the most important issue.”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/12/radioactive-japan-former-nrc-chairman.html
December 30, 2012
Fukushima debris showing up on West Coast – NOAA tracking.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8808
December 29, 2012
Japan PM visits Fukushima as government considers nuclear restart.
http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/29/japan-pm-visits-fukushima-as-government-pledges-nuclear-restart/
December 29, 2012
US sailors sue Tokyo Power for masking radiation danger.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/29/us-sailors-sue-tokyo-power-for-masking-radiation-danger/
December 29, 2012
Demonstrators protest Abe Cabinet review of zero nuclear policy.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20121229p2a00m0na008000c.html
December 29, 2012
Atomic Energy Commission lied about secret meetings to prime minister’s office.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20121229p2a00m0na011000c.html
December 29, 2012
First electricity flows from Ningde nuclear plant in China.
http://www.world-nuclear news.org/NN_First_electricity_flows_from_Ningde_nuclear_plant_2912122.html
December 29, 2012
Nuclear Roulette: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth.
December 29, 2012
Reread: The Economist: the dream that failed.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/special-report-nuclear-energy
December 29, 2012
5,400 Bq/L of tritium was contained in atmospheric moisture from 3/17/2011 to the end of July in 20km area of Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/5400-bql-of-tritium-was-contained-in-atmospheric-moisture-from-3172011-to-the-end-of-july-in-20km-area-of-fukushima/
December 29, 2012
Search on for nuclear-waste solution. – Converting spent fuel into a plutonium-uranium mix comes with its own set of problems.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Search%2Bnuclearwaste%2Bsolution/7756590/story.html
December 29, 2012
GE Enters into 5 Year Wind Turbine Service Pact with Taiwan Power.
December 29, 2012
Major health issues in ill US Navy sailors who were exposed to Fukushima radiation –Attorney.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/world/asia/japan-fukushima-lawsuit/index.html
December 28, 2012
1,568,000 Bq/Kg of cesium from bagworm in Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/1568000-bqkg-of-cesium-from-bagworm-in-fukushima/
December 28, 2012
Greenpeace slams DOE chief’s plan to revive nuclear power program.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/331337/greenpeace-slams-doe-chiefs-plan-to-revive-nuclear-power-program
December 28, 2012
Fukushima Debris to Keep Hitting the Pacific Coast This Winter.
http://peakoil.com/enviroment/fukushima-debris-to-keep-hitting-the-pacific-coast-this-winter/
December 28, 2012
Announcing: Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima, March 11-12, 2013.
December 28, 2012
Quebec’s Gentilly-2 nuclear plant shuts down after 29 years. Chamber of commerce says it will keep fighting the closure.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/12/28/quebec-gentilly-2-closing.html?cmp=rss
December 28, 2012
Fukushima victims take a stand with human rights declaration.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212280021
December 28, 2012
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Thursday it would require Kansai Electric Power Co., operator of the Oi nuclear plant, to close it down if the fault beneath key equipment is found to be active.
December 27, 2012
4.84 Bq/Kg from towel hung on the second floor for 24 hours in Fukushima.
December 27, 2012
Feds do not consider San Onofre nuclear power plant safe.
http://rt.com/usa/news/san-plant-power-tubes-959/
December 27, 2012
The United States’ Nuclear Hypocrisy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ahmad-sadri/nuclear-nonproliferation_b_2372021.html
December 27, 2012
10 million Bq of cesium-134/137 is still released every single hour from reactor 1, 2 and 3.
December 27, 2012
Tokyo Almost As Irradiated As Fukushima.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/tokyo-almost-as-irradiated-as-fukushima.html
December 27, 2012
Fukushima graveyard with radiation dose of 380 microsieverts per hour (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzn36esoraI
December 27, 2012
Los Angeles prepares to fight Fukushima debris.
http://rt.com/usa/news/angeles-fukushima-debris-now-892/
December 26, 2012
Lawsuit: “Reactor itself” melted down, not only nuclear fuel rods — Japan gov’t “lying through their teeth about meltdowns”
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/26/53414.htm
December 26, 2012
Detrimental Impacts of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Continue.
http://ecowatch.org/2012/effects-fukushima-disaster/
December 26, 2012
Feds want more data on possible tube wear at ailing California nuclear
power plant.
December 26, 2012
Stuck indoors, Fukushima children have highest obesity rates.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212260025
December 26, 2012
Ishihara. Jr to be named the minister of Environment and nuc energy affairs (same person who tried to get Japanese citizens to stop monitoring and who wanted to build a nuclear plant near Tokyo Bay).
December 26, 2012
Significantly high readings coming from Hawaii on Dec 25 and Dec 26, 2012
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-231400
December 26, 2012
Millions sign online petition to protest nuclear power in Japan.
December 26, 2012
The shortage of contaminated water storage has become more serious
December 26, 2012
653 bq/kg measured in curtain in a room in Saitama, Japan.
December 26, 2012
Tanks for holding radioactive Fukushima liquid are too fragile and flimsy – breaking open much easier than expected.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212260032
December 26, 2012
[The Japan Times] German physician, “WHO downplayed health effects of nuclear crisis on Fukushima residents”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/the-japan-times-german-physician-who-downplayed-health-effects-of-nuclear-crisis-on-fukushima-residents/
December 25, 2012
[Chernobyl Cataracts ?] The percentage of Japanese students of vision worse than 1.0 became the highest ever since 1948survey started.
December 25, 2012
Geothermal likely to replace 25 nuclear power plants in Japan.
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2012/12/25/japan-geothermal-energy-2/#.UNuD946tsoI
December 24, 2012
Nuclear Power Plant Flood Risk: Sandy Was Just a Warm-Up.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13514-nuclear-power-plant-flood-risk-sandy-was-just-a-warm-up
December 24, 2012
Video – Trying to revive a Fukushima ‘ghost town’ – 25 miles from Fukushima Daiichi. (editor: Richland Washington is 12 miles from the Columbia Generating Station NNP – 50,000 people).
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/23/world/asia/eco-japan-fukushima-village-cleanup/
December 24, 2012
Rense-Collins Interview; Airline reading 380% higher than expected at that altitude – 17.5% times background.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_122412.mp3
December 24, 2012
Radiation back ground level was 0.036 μSv/h in Tokyo before 311.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/radiation-back-ground-level-was-0-036-μsvh-in-tokyo-before-311/
December 23, 2012
40,000 Bq/Kg from soil in Kiryu city Gunma”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/express-40000-bqkg-from-soil-in-kiryu-city-gunma/
December 23, 2012
54 Bq/Kg of cesium from wild boar in west coast of Japan
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/54-bqkg-of-cesium-from-wild-boar-in-west-coast-of-japan/
December 23, 2012
Experts call Japan cleanup effort meaningless — An endless task that’s simply spreading around radiation (VIDEO).
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2012/12/24/japan-ghost-town.cnn?iref=allsearch
December 23, 2012
Decontamination is for hiding the fact, fallout from Fukushima incinerator.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Birdhairjp?feature=watch
December 23, 2012
A Nuclear Waste Carol.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/23/a-nuclear-waste-carol/
December 23, 2012
The filibuster stopped dead the Northwest Power Bill, a bill designed to allow the federal government to underwrite the bonds to finance the construction of five nuclear power plants by a municipal authority, the Washington Public Power Supply System.
http://www.registerguard.com/web/opinion/29194100-47/plants-bill-filibuster-power-speaker.html.csp
December 23, 2012
North Korea rocket could carry nuclear warhead to US mainland:
December 23, 2012
NRC fails to enforce it’s own regulation.
http://fairewinds.org/content/nrc-fails-enforce-its-own-regulation
December 22, 2012
7.1 thousand trillion Bq of Cs-134/137 and 1.1 ten quadrillion Bq of Iodine-131 released to the sea from 3/26 to 9/30, 2011.
December 22, 2012
25 Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Replaced By Geothermal In Japan.
December 22, 2012
Fall-out level increasing in Fukushima city from 12/18/2012.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/fall-out-level-increasing-in-fukushima-city-from-12182012/
December 22, 2012
Head of national nuclear security agency stepping down from post next month.
December 22, 2012
Death toll estimate from Chernobyl now around 1.5 Million -Expert Yablacov (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgBgkZCobQ
December 22, 2012
Coming Home; A Mayor’s Quest to Revive a Fukushima Village.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MissingSky101?feature=watch
December 22, 2012
Construction of new reactors could get go-ahead from new government.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212220046
December 22, 2012
Japanese flee Fukushima nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa, plan class-action against radiation.
December 22, 2011
Thomas D’Agostino, NNSA Head, Stepping Down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/thomas-dagostino-nnsa-_n_2349500.html
December 22, 2012
Plutonium measured in 3/11 disaster debris.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/12/radioactive-japan-sanjo-citys-detection.html
and
http://www.city.sanjo.niigata.jp/common/000066430.pdf
December 21, 2012
0.1 bq/Kg of cesium measured from urine of children in Akita, Japan.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/0-1-bqkg-of-cesium-measured-from-urine-of-children-in-akita/
December 21, 2012
Regulators deny group’s request for San Onofre nuclear plant license review.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/12/21/35345/regulators-deny-groups-request-san-onofre-license-/
December 21, 2012
Bob Alvarez on who should manage the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/who-should-manage-the-nuclear-weapons-complex
December 21, 2012
Seawater leak shuts down Swedish nuclear reactor.
http://rt.com/news/swedish-nuclear-reactor-gothenburg-589/
December 21, 2012
Second nuclear power plant in Belarus possible.
http://news.belta.by/en/news/president?id=702568
December 21, 2012
Nuclear power: The ultimate near shore threat to the Great Lakes?
(There are 33 nuclear reactors in the Great Lakes region, many of them near the water’s edge such as Palisades in Michigan.)
December 21, 2012
Nuclear plants are nuked.
Today, commercial nuclear power is struggling to stay in the game.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-nations-nuclear-plants-are-nuked
December 21, 2012
Rats now being found in many places around Fukushima plant — Concern about biting cables, tripping electrical systems, spreading high level contamination.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8718
December 21, 2012
A Visit to Japan: Reflections from the Chairman MacFarlane.
A Visit to Japan: Reflections from the Chairman
December 21, 2012
Study: X-ray like images show radioactive contamination spread through leaves and grass collected from Fukushima to Tokyo (PHOTOS).
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10967-012-2343-4
December 21, 2012
Engineers warn: Two US nuclear plants may cause new Fukushima .
http://rt.com/usa/news/two-nuclear-nrc-facilities-604/
December 21, 2012
The latest outrage: 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.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12406/
December 21, 2012
Floating pier comes ashore in Washington — If experts don’t get to it today, next chance is early January (VIDEO)
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019948768_tsunamidock21.html
December 20, 2012
Tepco admits link between death and Fukushima disaster for 1st time.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121222a3.html
December 20, 2012
U.S. Approves Joint Purchases by Nuclear Power Companies.
December 20, 2012
TEPCO removes steel beam from pool at contaminated Fukushima plant.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/12/200556.html
December 20,2012
Indian Point Nuclear Threat Needs Senate Review, Engineers Contend.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/indian-point-nuclear-threat-oconee_n_2338549.html
December 20, 2012
More Fukushima nuclear pollution to hit U.S. starting in 2015 — Study: Impact strength of Cesium-137 on West Coast to be as high as 4 PERCENT.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11430-012-4520-2
December 19, 2012
Quake risk at Japan atomic recycling plant (MOX fuel plant).
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-quake-japan-atomic-recycling-experts.html
December 19, 2012
Post-Fukushima, here’s how one can get the energy mix right.
December 19, 2012
Nuclear tragedy finds a human face in Fukushima.
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/news/news-management/eng/a/article/1634/nuclear-tragedy-finds-a-h.html
December 18, 2012
Radioactive material measured from Fukushima honey “Higher than last year”.
November 2011 : 11 Bq/kg (Cs-134/137)
June 2012 : 22.85 Bq/Kg
June 2012 : 7.54 Bq/Kg
June 2012 : 5.05 Bq/Kg
July 2012 : 5.97 Bq/Kg
October 2012 : 30.2 Bq/Kg
October 2012 : 73.1 Bq/Kg
November 2012 : 97.2 Bq/Kg
November 2012 : 41.7 Bq/Kg
December 18, 2012
Fukushima plant situation ‘volatile,’ a year after cold shutdown declared.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212180087
December 18, 2012
Radioactive crops are mixed with non-radioactive crops in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NjEaUmQHQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=4264s
December 18, 2012
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-a-positive-note/a-16462720
December 18, 2012
Up a River Without a Cleanup – Government guts Rocketdyne cleanup imperiling L.A. River, misuse of $41.5 million EPA Rocketdyne study prompts calls for investigation
Part Five of EnviroReporter.com‘s special investigation “Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover.”
Long-awaited EPA study finds high radiation findings with cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239/240 hundreds to over 1,900 times background.
The federal EPA and DTSC ditch the agreement to cleanup SSFL to background levels of remediation.
Longtime activists call for investigation of the agency’s misappropriation of $41.5 million that was supposed to guide DTSC to cleanup to background.
Gary Polakovic, author Boeing’s plan to greenwash Rocketdyne, shows up at EPA meeting – confronts longtime cleanup advocate Dan Hirsch and embraces Boeing “third party” ally John Luker.
Rocketdyne sits at the headwaters of the Los Angeles River, and that waterway’s $2 billion revamp is in danger of derailment by the radioactive and chemical contamination continuing to ooze offsite. This could torpedo the 50-year Master Plan of the city of Los Angeles’ centerpiece.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/12/up-a-river-without-a-cleanup/
December 18, 2012
Gov’t Experts: No knowledge of what state melted fuel is in at Fukushima plant — Don’t know where it’s located — Persistent danger surrounds reactors — Collapses of facilities a threat.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212180087
December 18, 2012
Black substance with 43,000,000 (43 MILLION) Bq/kg of cesium in Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/43-million-bqkg-of-cesium-measured-from-black-substance/
December 18, 2012
Lights! Camera! Atoms! Sundance to debut pro-nuclear film.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/lights-camera-atoms-sundance-to-debut-pro-nuclear-film/8362
December 18, 2012
Action: Sign on to four principles on radioactive waste, including no more generation.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12372
December 17, 2012
Cesium measured in 100% of all rockfish in November and December at Fukushima.
December 17, 2012
Marion Pack on the many safety risks at the San Onofre nuclear power plant and how a Fukushima-type meltdown would contaminate Southern California.
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6651
December 17, 2012
UN atomic agency and Japan’s Fukushima prefecture to cooperate on nuclear safety.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43786&Cr=iaea&Cr1=#.UNe63Y6tsoI
December 17, 2012
The Environment Ministry says nearly 6,000 square kilometers of land across Japan have subsided by more than 2 centimeters in the last fiscal year. […]This level is judged to have a potential impact on buildings’ stability.
The ministry says Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture sank deepest by 73.8 centimeters, followed by Ichikawa in Chiba by 30.9 centimeters [Fukushima Prefecture NOT tested].
The ministry officials say the subsidence is attributable to last year’s March 11th earthquake. They have expressed concerns over the spread of subsidence and further damage to buildings.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121218_05.html
December 17, 2012
Fukushima reactors “a ticking time bomb” — “Catastrophe beyond comprehension” if major pipe break or quake. (VIDEO)
“Realize that we have 5 reactors in various states of degradation in the area. The accident is not over by any means. The accident could start up all over again if there’s a secondary earthquake or another pipe break. In a worst case scenario, if there is a major pipe break or secondary earthquake, they would have to evacuate the workers and because the pumps are not working at the site, it means that you have to manually, manually, insert the water over the reactors and without the workers you would be in free fall. At that point with an evacuation of all the workers, water levels would begin to drop, the reactors would then start to melt again and we would breach containment – that is the release of uncontrolled amounts of radiation in to the environment. And that is a catastrophe beyond comprehension.”
Question: “So why doesn’t the international community…get heavily involved before this catastrophe takes place?”
Answer: There’s no-one left in charge. People that used to be ‘responsible’ for events such as this no longer work there. Virtually all government branches have been trained to help corporations maintain market share. Literally every government and corporate level spends its time making money. As if it were like food, clothing, shelter or love and kindness. Thus, the CFIA, DFO and many, many agencies simply respond and react to markets. If something is destroying the environment or the planet, it’s ‘externalized’ and dismissed as irrelevant. So no-one’s in charge. We’re on our own. This is what its like to live in an insane culture. Sadly, it is likely to affect everyone who is exposed to it.
Jeff Jones (B.C. lawyer)
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/64868
December 17, 2012
Radiation no respecter of borders — Fukushima conference.
The conference re-emphasised the point that radiation does not respect national borders.
http://www.bdlive.co.za/world/asia/2012/12/17/radiation-no-respecter-of-borders–fukushima-conference
December 17, 2012
More Lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Containment Failures and the Loss of the Ultimate Heat Sink.
Arnie says there are three things that the NRC has ignored from the lessons from Fukushima and the NRC needs to acknowledge these:
1. The containment can leak.
2. A containment can be destroyed by a detonation shock wave – as happened at reactor #3 at Fukushima. NO reactor is built to withstand a detonation.
3. If the backup diesels get submerged under water, they will fail and this loss of the ultimate heat sink will cause a meltdown.
December 17, 2012
Rense and Collins: What it means for Southern California and the legal ramifications of EPA wasting $41.5 million while subverting the Rocketdyne cleanup with the help of Boeing and a cadre of astroturfers.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_121712.mp3
December 16, 2012
Destroyed Fukushima Unit 3 will never be reinforced over next 40 years (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C_3Va4VBWek&list=WL60CD6C2FD5A374DB#t=225s
December 16, 2012
In Japan, right-wing party scores landslide election win.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/16/japan-election.html
December 16, 2012
Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen discusses two recent safety equipment failures at operating nuclear plants in the United States. Just this week, a containment failure in New York State and an emergency cooling water failure in Tennessee prove yet again that Fairewinds previous analyses of nuclear plant weaknesses are correct. Arnie also discusses how containments are leak tested and how the NRC allows those containment leak tests to be manipulated.
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/deja-vu-all-over-again
December 15, 2012
Cover-up of true radiation levels Fukushima residents were exposed to? WHO accused of underestimating disaster’s impact on human health. The WHO report, published in May this year, on estimated radiation doses received by residents near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, was compiled mainly by officials related to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which promotes the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121216a4.html
December 15, 2012
Nuclear energy is out of date and dangerous.
December 15, 2012
Fukushima firm ‘neglected safety’.
The operator of the disaster-struck Japanese nuclear power plant has acknowledged that the company long neglected safety measures intended to avoid and manage severe accidents while it was obsessed with fixing minor safety problems to improve operational records.
The task force said on Friday that TEPCO just did not think disasters beyond their anticipation would occur, and failed to follow international standards and recommendations that could have mitigated the impact of the accident. The utility could have done more to back up its power and cooling systems, was short on emergency equipment such as fire engines and had treated crisis management drills as a formality, the group said.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/fukushima-firm-neglected-safety-16250995.html
December 15, 2012
IAEA, Fukushima agree to cooperate on decontamination, waste control.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/12/199461.html
December 15, 2012
M10 quake possible, says study — An hour of shaking — Tsunami lasting for several days.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121215a2.html
December 14, 2012
A study on the world wide transport of radioactive isotopes from Fukushima in the two months after the nuclear incident suggests that they were at official levels of contamination for 34,000 km2 of Japan, and that 2.8% of iodine radionuclides from the event were calculated to have reached the EU.
December 14, 2012
Radiation levels rise for 5th month straight in Fukushima city.
December 14, 2012
“In general one of the important takeaways from the Fukushima accident is the importance of a strong, independent regulator that operates transparently and is well-funded and has the backing of the government,” said NRC chair Macfarlane, in Japan to attend the weekends’ international conference on nuclear safety in Fukushima.
December 14, 2012
Japan’s ‘nuclear radiation projection’ had errors. Simulations at Fukushima were flawed.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/japans-nuclear-radiation-projection-had-errors_816717.html
December 14, 2012
Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority: Higashidori nuclear plant in Aomori may be on an active fault – restart unlikely.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/12/japans-nuclear-regulatory-authority.html
December 14, 2012
Decontamination produces 1.5 tones of contaminated soil per a household. Editor’s note: can you imagine trying to decontaminate your neighbourhood if your local reactor melted down?
December 14, 2012
Crackdown: Japanese professor’s arrest “extremely unjust” — Publicly opposed burning of radioactive debris.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/12/unjust-arrest-of-professor-opposing.html
December 14, 2012
Fukushima operator takes blame for world’s worst nuclear accident. The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant admitted that its lack of safety and bad habits were behind the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years.
December 14, 2012
New Study: “Depopulation with Rapid Aging” after Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Kazunobu Ishikawa MD1,2, Yukio Kanazawa MD3, Shigeto Morimoto MD4, Takashi Takahashi MD5
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.12012/abstract
December 13, 2012
BBC: “One of the most contaminated places on Earth” — Silence is deafening 10 miles from Fukushima plant — Nuclear power’s lie has been so tragically exposed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20707753
December 13, 2012
Macfarlane, who is leading a delegation of high-ranking U.S. officials to a meeting in Japan on improving nuclear safety, toured the stricken complex and praised assembled employees. She said,”The accident has profoundly changed the nuclear safety landscape and brought a new urgency to improving nuclear safety worldwide. We’ve learned a considerable amount from the accident, identified numerous specific technical issues that require renewed attention, and made measurable progress in implementing improvements. But there is more work ahead and we are committed to working with Japan and other international partners to ensure long-term sustainability in the nuclear safety enhancements made since the accident.
http://michelekearneynuclearwire.blogspot.ca/2012/12/dateline-fukushima-nuclear-complex.html
December 13, 2012
25,550 Bq/Kg of cesium from Matsutake mushroom, 10,980 Bq/Kg from wild boar from Minamisoma.
December 13, 2012
2 minutes utube against NUKES.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpT6ccDs0c&feature=youtube_gdata_player
December 13, 2012
Mark Jacobson from Stanford University talks against nuclear power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17n3YX-8JaI
December 13, 2012
A citizen’s oversight group, Hanford Challenge, is criticizing a newly-released 10,000 page Final Environmental Impact Statement on cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site. First impressions from Hanford Challenge find the government’s preferences for cleanup in the final
EIS, which cost taxpayers $85 million, fail to meet legal requirements and fall short on cleanup.
http://us1.campaignarchive1.com/?u=02e7bdc0ebbb1fb7666c2a8d6&id=fffb6613f8&e=8ad81633ca
December 13, 2012
Toxic Department:Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover:Enviroreporter’s special investigation into Rocketdyne Part 4
December 13, 2012
Ft. Calhoun Containment Structure Failures Admitted.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8671
December 13, 2012
Nearly two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is failing to keep a pledge to tap global expertise to decommission its crippled reactors, executives at nuclear contractors from the United States and Europe say. The result, they warn, is that a process expected to take more than 30 years and cost at least $15 billion could take longer and cost more as contracts are channeled through domestic heavyweights such as nuclear reactor makers Toshiba Corp and Hitachi Ltd, and general contractors such as Taisei Corp.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/13/us-fukushima-bidding-idUSBRE8BC1D120121213
December 13, 2012
Uranium miners still struggling to emerge from shadow of Fukushima. Uranium’s spot price has plummeted to nearly US$40 a pound (compared to a high topping US$135 in 2007).
December 13, 2012
Tepco: Bent rod found in Niigata’s spent fuel pool — Nuclear fuel rods touching — “Serious fuel failure accident” risked at Japan plant.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212130030.
December 12, 2012
Exelon to Employees: Tell Congress to End Wind Tax Credit.
Nuclear power giant Exelon is telling its employees to lobby Congress to end the production tax credit for wind power, which will expire at month’s end unless lawmakers vote to extend it.
December 12, 2012
Saskatchewan residents decry “gag order” agreement over Uranium Mining.
http://committeeforfuturegenerations.wordpress.com/
December 12, 2012
Operation Astroturf: Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover. Enviroreporter’s Special Investigation into Rocketdyne. Part 3
December 12, 2012
Military to continue bombing nuclear waste dumps in Hawaii.
December 12, 2012
Fukushima worker “Contaminated water might overflow due to the lack of tanks”.
Fukushima worker “Contaminated water might overflow due to the lack of tanks”
December 12, 2012
Tell NRC & Congress: Strengthen or Close GE reactors.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12339
December 12, 2012
Asahi: Tepco can’t find where huge amount of highly radioactive water is leaking at Reactor No. 2 — ‘Fractures’ in containment vessel suspected.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212120033
December 11, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 7th to December 10th, 2012.
December 11, 2012
Four reasons why we must be worried about reactor #4 at Fukushima (other than earthquake).
December 11, 2012
U.S. installed a record amount of solar so far in 2012.
December 11, 2012
Mayor of Litate-mura wants residents back by 2014. There are neptunium and plutonium in Iitate-mura’s soil, spiders are concentrating radioactive silver. Back in early April last year, IAEA said they had found 20 million becquerels/kg of iodine-131 from the soil.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/12/radioactive-japan-mayor-of-iitate-mura.html
December 11, 2012
Dirty Deeds: Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover. Enviroreporter’s Special Investigation into Rocketdyne: Part 2
December 11, 2012
Jordan shelves plans for nuclear power.
http://www.wind-works.org/FeedLaws/Jordan/JordanAdoptsFeed-inTariffs.html
December 11, 2012
Concrete reinforcement of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 is terribly deteriorating… now in a “dangerous state” — Cooling system stopped working, men helicoptered in.
December 11, 2012
BBC1 science show ‘downplayed impact’ of Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/11/bbc1-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster
December 11, 2012
Taipower to draft nuclear power plant decommission plan.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/12/11/2003549886
December 10, 2012
Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today’s electricity expenses, according to new research by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College.
http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2013/dec/renewable-energy-121012.html
December 10, 2012
Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover is a special five-part EnviroReporter.com investigation that reveals an extensive Boeing “media campaign” to bamboozle the press and public into thinking that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL or Rocketdyne) is safe enough to use as open space despite new evidence showing huge amounts of radiation and chemical contamination at the site.Enviroreporter’s Special Investigation into Rocketdyne Part 1. Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover – Greenwashing Rocketdyne.
December 10, 2012
Radiation in America – Interview with Jeff Rense and Milchael Collins. Collings explains Part 1 of new 5 part series “Boeing’s Meltdown Makeover”as news of concerted campaign to “greenwash” the Rocketdyne site above Simi Valley spreads.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_121012.mp3
December 10, 2012
FLEX, is the US nuclear industry’s method for meeting new Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules that will force 65 plants to get extra emergency equipment on site and store it protectively.
December 9, 2012
Living with the Mountain of Nuclear Waste.
http://sgnews.ca/blog/2012/12/06/under-the-volcano-living-with-mountain-of-radioactive-waste/
December 9, 2012
Nuclear plants in the US rethink disasters.
December 9, 2012
Japan Atomic may have to decommission plant as active fault found in Tsuruga nuclear plant.
http://news.yahoo.com/japan-atomic-may-decommission-plant-active-fault-found-100950629–finance.html
December 9, 2012
Rise of the machines: Hitachi joins robot race to dismantle Fukushima ruins. (this is how dangerous radiation is – only a non-human robot can get close).
http://rt.com/news/hitachi-fukushima-lifter-robot-643/
December 9, 2012
What are the consequences of siting a nuclear power plant in a seismically active area?
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/arnie%20podcast%2012-8-12-12.mp3_.mp3
December 9, 2012
6400 Bq/Kg from shimeji mushroom in Koriyama Fukushima, Cesium from 91% from the samples.
December 9, 2012
Hydrogen concentration of reactor1 at Fukushima still keeps increasing(see graph).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/hydrogen-concentration-of-reactor1-still-keeps-increasing/
December 9, 2012
32 quakes in 48 hours after M7.3 of 12/7/2012, it was 38 earthquakes after 3/9/2011 “39th quake was 311″
December 9, 2012
20 Bq/kg from Shizuoka tea leaves sold in Tokushima Shikoku.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/20-bqkg-from-shizuoka-tea-leaves-sold-in-tokushima-shikoku/
December 9, 2012
Professor seeing ‘increase in negative effects’ from Fukushima since last year — Report of insect with leg growing from head.
December 9, 2012
Fukushima workers report exploitation — Told to be like kamikaze — Large numbers leaving.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201212090052
December 9, 2012
“Especially Alarming”: Giant quake of magnitude 8 or greater could soon strike Japan — Japanese Gov’t calls for ‘continued vigilance’.
http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=141661&code=Ne2&category=2
December 8, 2012
Residents shocked by uranium facility that has been hiding in plain sight in Toronto, Canada.
December 8, 2012
M7.3 quake caused reaction inside Unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi — Indications are that something corium related is going on.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8584
December 7, 2012
[Column] Significant similarity between M7.3 of 12/7/2012 and M7.3 of 3/9/2011.
December 7, 2012
The Disastrous Status Of Fukushima Daiich.
Workers can’t work in Buildings 1, 2 and 3 because the radiation is too intense.
Steel is corroding from saltwater, threatening pipes and pumps which cool the remains of three destroyed reactors.
Radiation is crumbling concrete onto dust.
Zirconium cladding is so corroded from seawater that it is doubtful that SFP 1, 2, 3 and 4 can ever be emptied.
Corium under Building 4 has cracked the foundation and the building is sinking unevenly.
Ground water contacting corium in the mudrock below Buildings1, 2 and 3 becomes highly contaminated, and flows directly into the Pacific Ocean, killing the Pacific Seafood Industry.
Hawaii milk is so contaminated that farmers are feeding boron to their cows.
Two US cities on RadiationNetwork.com right now measure over 60cpm of radiation in the air.
TEPCO seems to have lost track of the corium from 3 nuclear plants.
And then there are the two earthquakes of 6.2 and 7.3 which hit just offshore since midnight…
http://rense.com/general95/disast.htm
December 7, 2012
One chapter on A Primer in the Art of Deception.
http://www.nonuclear.se/files/Zimmerman201102ch5-6Betrayal_of_Mankind.pdf
December 7, 2012
Fukushima safety scientists paid by nuclear operators.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-12-08/news/35672764_1_drinking-water-water-intakes-city-water.
December 7, 2012
Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world’s top academic group on radiation safety.
The potential conflict of interest is revealed in one sentence buried in a 600-page parliamentary investigation into last year’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant disaster and pointed out to The Associated Press by a medical doctor on the 10-person investigation panel.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10852528
December 7, 2012
A 7.3-magnitude quake has struck off Japan’s eastern coast, triggering a small tsunami and sparking evacuations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20638696
December 6, 2012
Fukushima worker – 2 workers have over 10Sv equivalent dose for thyroid, 1 worker has 678.8 mSv exposure.
December 6, 2012
Food regulation limit of US is 12 times more lax than Japan, US may import Japanese fishery products.
http://fukushima-diary.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bw-125-spot-simple.jpg
December 6, 2012
Hawaii DOH protest for action regarding depleted uranium on Big Island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3TGQCTH0E
December 6, 2012
Extreme radioactive contamination responsible for US’s fastest growing metro area. Tri-Cities combine for nation’s fastest-growing metro area, boosted by federal money to mop up Hanford.
December 6, 2012
70 years after first atomic reaction, anti-nuclear movement presses on.
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2012/12/06/70-years-after-first-atomic-reaction-anti-nuclear-movement-presses-on/
December 5, 2012
Risk and Danger at Mexico Nuclear Power Plant; Scientist breaks silence and Warns of Nuclear Threat—Is a Mexican Fukushima scenario underway?
http://alexanderbackman.com/laguna_verde_nuclear_threat.html
December 5, 2012
Fallout Figures Released: Over 4,000,000 Bq/m2 in major city — Contamination did NOT come from much talked about Iodine-131 or Cesium-137.
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/02/rpd.ncs320.abstract
December 5, 2012
Can you believe NRC quoted this?!
“Life improves slowly and goes wrong, fast. And only catastrophe is clearly visible,” Svinicki said, quoting Teller. NRC knows this but keeps the plants operating.
December 5, 2012
More than 80% of Fukushima homes still awaiting decontamination.
http://japandailypress.com/more-than-80-of-fukushima-homes-still-awaiting-decontamination-0519336
December 5, 2012
Industry leaders will have no problem closing nuclear reactors that don’t generate expected profits. D, Mangano and D. Sherman
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/05/double-your-trouble-with-nuclear-power/
December 5, 2012
“In a way, the last 24 hours have killed French nuclear finally because the cost makes it totally impossible to export and now you have one of the few partners actively withdrawing; it looks really bad,” said UBS analyst Per Lekander. […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/04/enel-edf-idUSL5E8N4DIJ20121204..
December 4, 2012
The dominoes are starting to fall in U.S. — I think we’ll see quite a few nuclear plants shutting down permanently (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xIRe-cKkt4
December 4, 2012
Research shows accelerated failure at Fukushima Daiichi.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?page_id=8544
December 4, 2012
UN Resolution Calls for Israel to Disclose Nuclear Arsenal
Regional outlier asked to join NPT and back vision of a ‘Nuclear-Free Middle East.’
http://news.yahoo.com/un-calls-israel-open-nuclear-facilities-032837550.html
December 4, 2012
Three reasons not to go to Japan – contaniminated food, radioactive black substance and Unit #4. Black substance with 240,000 Bq/Kg of Cesium was found in Japan. Fukushima Dairy says “If you have to go to Tokyo and come back, I strongly recommend you to change your shoes at the airport. Please don’t bring the black substance to out of Japan.”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/column-3-reasons-why-i-dont-go-back-to-tokyo/
December 4, 2012
Nuclear Power Whistleblowers Charge Federal Regulators With Favoring Secrecy Over Safety.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/nuclear-power-whistleblowers_n_2232108.html
December 4, 2012
Tepco moves up nuclear salvage schedule for Fukushima fuel rods to 2014.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121204a4.html
December 4, 2012
Japan weighs greener options after Fukushima.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/5c9f9a4c-3496-11e2-8986-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html
December 4, 2012
2012 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award goes to Fukushima nuclear catastrophe investigator Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa.
Dr. Kurokawa reported:”It was a profoundly man-made disaster—that could and should have been foreseen and prevented … And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response.”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/aaft-2as120312.php.
December 3, 2012
Fukushima apple is sold in western Japan, “22 Bq/Kg of cesium”.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/fukushima-apple-is-sold-in-western-japan-22-bqkg-of-cesium/
December 3, 2012
Study: Massive volcanic eruption in the cards for Japan
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201212030010
December 3, 2012
Proposed Darlington overhaul fails to plan for Chernobyl-scale disaster, critics charge.
December 3,2012
Gundersen: 70,000 shad in river before nuclear plant… now there’s 16, not 16 thousand, sixteen — We’ve essentially decimated the population (VIDEO). NO LINK – SORRY
December 3, 2012
UN official back from Fukushima exposes nuclear cover-up: “Large number of different cancers and other diseases” after Chernobyl are not reported — Tells Japan to pay attention (AUDIO).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-03/un-special-rapporteur-anand-grover-discusses-his/4404922
December 3, 2012
New 3/11 footage reveals “highly radioactive liquid” from Fukushima reactor leaked into sea.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121201003241.htm
December 3, 2012
UN expert:Japan’s view on Fukushima too optimistic.
December 3, 2012
Rense Radio and Michael Collins interview.
Sanonofre steam generators radiating 16 +times background.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_120312.mp3
December 3, 2012
Greenpeace balloon predicts the range of Ontario nuclear fallout.
December 3, 2012
Ten priests from around the world, including Thailand, the US, Japan and India, recently toured Fukushima prefecture, “There is ongoing and serious negligence by the Japanese government, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), and other responsible parties of providing timely and accurate information on radiation levels, proper health standards, and responses regarding appropriate lifestyles responses for the people living in these regions,” they said.
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2012/12/03/the-winds-of-fukushima/
December 3, 2012
TEPCO aims to end Fukushima No. 4 unit’s fuel removal in 2014.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/12/197178.html
December 3, 2012
Not much information comes out of Japan about Fukushima anymore, and the American MSM seems to have forgotten what watered down reporting they had done earlier. But the human suffering has begun in Japan, and even the Japanese government is trying to pretend it’s not happening.
December 2, 2012
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission met with Edison to discuss the fate of San Onofre – the closing of which cost Edison and partner San Diego Gas & Electric a combined $771 million.
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/275770.html
December 2, 2012
Nuclear Giant Exelon Back to Bullying Wind Energy.
http://thegreenmiles.blogspot.ca/2012/12/nuclear-giant-exelon-back-to-bullying.html#.UL0aNY6tsoI
December 2, 2012
Nuclear Power’s 70th Anniversary – Arnie Gunderson
http://www.fairewinds.org/sites/fairewinds.org/files/12-2-12%20podcast.mp3
December 2, 2012
Full Day coverage of A mountain of Waste 70 years high Chicago Conference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Swol0YyMKI&feature=player_embedded
December 2, 2012
Video:December 2nd 2012 – Hot rain eastern Ontario.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-2EMgjwV6s&feature=share
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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!
radar.weather.gov/Conus/full.php Check out this site to see the [possibly] radioactive clouds across USA