Nuclear Energy

Vermont Activists: Shut Nuclear Plant Down Today

September 19, 2013 Shut It Down Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

Making good on their promise to continue demonstrating at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant until an uncontaminated green field stands in place of the still-operating nuclear reactor, nine members of the Shut It Down Affinity Group chained themselves to the gate and spray painted the words “Shut It Down Today” on Entergy’s driveway. Entergy announced in August that the power plant will close in December 2014.

Typhoon Hits Japan As Fukushima Operator Releases Water Into Sea

September 17, 2013 Staff, www.afp.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan Monday, leaving two people dead and forcing the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to release rainwater with low levels of radiation into the ocean. The typhoon also hit the northeast, including the Fukushima area, bringing heavy rain to areas near the broken plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO). Workers were pumping out water from areas near tanks storing radioactive water, from which leaks are believed to have seeped into groundwater. "But we decided to release the water into sea as we reached a conclusion that it can be regarded as rainfall after we monitored levels of radiation," TEPCO spokesman Yo Koshimizu said. According to the spokesman, one litre of the water contained up to 24 becquerels of strontium and other radioactive materials -- below the 30 becquerel per litre safety limit imposed by Japanese authorities for a possible release to the environment. However, it was unknown how much water was released to sea under the "emergency measure," Koshimizu said.

Endless Fukushima Catastrophe

September 16, 2013 Helen Caldicott, www.rt.com Educate! Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

As we publish this a tremendous storm, tropical storm Man-yi, is hitting the area with rains and a typhoon near the Fukushima plant creating more complications for the clean-up of the facility and raising fears of more catastrophe. As the escape of radiation at Fukushima seems virtually unstoppable, there are still steps that governments all over the world should take to prevent worst case consequences. One of them would be canceling the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Scientific estimates predict that the radioactive plume travelling east across the Pacific will likely hit the shores of Oregon, Washington State and Canada early next year. California will probably be impacted later that year. Because the ongoing flow of water from the reactor site will be virtually impossible to stop, a radioactive plume will continue to migrate across the Pacific affecting Hawaii, North America, South America and eventually Australia for many decades.

Former Chair Of NRC Says Shut Down All Reactors In U.S.

September 9, 2013 Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins, www.otherwords.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

The first thing to remember about nuclear power is that it’s not safe. Just ask Japan. The second thing to remember is that nuclear power isn’t cheap. Connecticut draws half its juice from nuclear reactors and has the second-highest rates in the country, after Hawaii. The third thing to know is that everybody lies about it. The power plant designers lie, the builders lie, the utility companies lie, the regulators lie, and the politicians lie. Take Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the utility that ran the reactors in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture that failed after a tsunami and earthquake struck. TEPCO still won’t admit just how serious a disaster that was and continues to be. But kids living downwind are already getting thyroid cancer, fish in the nearby sea are no longer safe to eat, and radioactive tuna are cruising the California coast. As with the Chernobyl disaster, tens of thousands of people may never be free to return home.

Fukushima To Impact West Coast In Months

August 31, 2013 Staff, enenews.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Nuclear Energy

Fukushima radioactive plume being tracked toward U.S. West Coast [...] The radioactive plume from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster will reach U.S. shores within 3 years of the date of the incident, Australian researchers say. [...] “Observers on the West Coast of the United States will be able to see a measurable increase in radioactive material three years after the event,” researcher Erik van Sebille said in an ARC release Wednesday. “However, people on those coastlines should not be concerned as the concentration of radioactive material quickly drops below World Health Organization safety levels as soon as it leaves Japanese waters.”

Closing Vermont Yankee: “Most Dangerous Year Ever Lies Ahead”

August 28, 2013 Raymond Shadis, www.newenglandcoalition.org Educate! Nuclear Energy

“New England Coalition is most grateful that in a year the motive energy of the core reaction will be cut off and the core decay heat dissipated some few weeks later. If waste fuel is then expeditiously moved from Vermont Yankee’s elevated spent fuel pool to hardened dry cask storage,” said New England Coalition technical advisor, Raymond Shadis, “there will be no risk of another Fukushima on the banks of the Connecticut.” “With an antiquated, increasingly frail Entergy Vermont Yankee running at extended power uprate we have a very dangerous year to traverse. Add the fact that Vermont Yankee’s most in demand, most skilled employees will be leaving in droves well in advance of the closing and the remaining demoralized employees will be busy reading the help-wanted pages instead of the gauges, and it is likely to be Vermont Yankee’s most dangerous year of operation ever,” he said.

Nuclear Retreat Continues: Vermont Yankee To Close

August 27, 2013 Kevin Zeese, ww.PopularResistance.org Organize! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

The movement against nuclear energy had another major victory with the announcement today that Vermont Yankee will be closing. There have been nuclear plants closed or cancelled all over the country including Duke Energy cancelling two plants in Florida, Electricite de France pulling out of the U.S. entirely, EDF had plants planned in Calvert Cliffs, Maryland and Nine Mile Point, New York, Con Edison announcing the closure of San Onofre, CA and USEC Inc. closed uranium enrichment at the Paducah, Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. This is all coming as a result of consistent pressure by activists, over several decades along with renewed vigor of a grassroots green movement. There continues to be need for more work as the Congress is considering a Mobile Chernobyl involving nuclear waste across the country. And, people are continuing their work to close other nuclear power plants, and need your help.

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 004

August 17, 2013 Acronym TV, www.youtube.com Resistance Report Chelsea Manning, Egypt, Nuclear Energy, Police abuse, Racism

Stories covered in the Resistance Report: Egypt: What Role Did The U.S. Play in the Military Coup? Wherein I ask ret. Col. Ann Wright if the U.S. is behind the Military Coup in Egypt. Dream Defenders Declare Victory 31 Days and 30 nights, and the work have just begun. Moral Monday's Power Change something is happening here. And here. And here, and.... Stop and Frisk Declared Unconstitutional! Sorry Bloomberberg, but you suck! Fukushima: Japan's Apocalypse Continues Armageddon NOW! Bradley Manning Apology: An Interview with Alexa O'Brien. What does Manning's Apology really mean?

After Disaster, Deadliest Part Of Japan’s Nuclear Clean-up

August 14, 2013 Aaron Sheldrick and Antoni Slodkowski, www.reuters.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 metric tons (440.92 tons) of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hirosihima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large earthquake hit the area. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is already in a losing battle to stop radioactive water overflowing from another part of the facility, and experts question whether it will be able to pull off the removal of all the assemblies successfully.

Fukushima: Uncontainable

August 13, 2013 Stephen Lendman, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

Japan’s apocalypse continues. Emergency conditions persist. No end in sight looms. Fukushima’s radioactive discharges can’t be stopped. They continue. They’re uncontainable. At issue is by far the worst environmental disaster in history. It’s multiples worse than Chernobyl. It’s an unprecedented catastrophe. It’s reason enough to abolish nuclear power. According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, about 300 tons of radioactive groundwater flow into the Pacific daily. It’s done so since Japan’s March earthquake and tsunami triggered Fukushima’s meltdown. Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) says water’s getting over and around “chemical walls.” It can’t be stopped.

There is No Way to Stop Fukushima Radioactive Water Leaking Into the Pacific – Expert

August 11, 2013 Evgeny Sukhoi, www.voiceofrussia.com Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

The rate at which contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant is worse than previously thought, an Industry Ministry official said Wednesday as PM Shinzo Abe pledged to step up efforts to halt the crisis. The Voice of Russia contacted Arnold Gundersen, founder and president of Fairewinds Associates, to discuss the crisis and its possible solutions. The expert suggests radioactive material will continue to leak into the global seas unless the plant is surrounded with a trench filled with zeolite. Even then however, toxic material will still flow into the Pacific through underwater routes.

Video: Fukushima Waste Still Leaking Into the Pacific

August 11, 2013 RT, www.youtube.com Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

"Most likely the nuclear cores have entered the earth. It's beyond containment right now," says Paul Gunter, director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Reactor.org. It's been two years since an earthquake and tsunami took down a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, but have any new regulations been installed to prevent future disasters? Paul Gunter speaks with RT's Erin Ade.

Major Victories In Stopping Nuclear In US

August 4, 2013 Michael Mariotte, www.nirs.org Organize! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

Duke Energy cancelled its two proposed new reactors in Levy County, Florida. Here is a great write-up in the Tampa Bay Times about the cancellation. And here is another piece from the same paper that should be required reading for any state lawmaker who thinks forcing ratepayers to pay in advance for new reactors is a good idea. You'll like it--they won't. On Tuesday, Electricite de France announced that it is pulling out of the U.S. nuclear market entirely. You might remember that EDF wanted to build new reactors at Calvert Cliffs, Maryland and Nine Mile Point, New York. But NIRS beat them in NRC licensing proceedings, and its subsidiary, UniStar Nuclear, was denied a license on foreign ownership grounds.

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