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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.
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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!
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