Nuclear Energy

50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima

February 4, 2014 Harvey Wasserman, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

12. When the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Chief Medical Officer, Dr. John Gofman, urged that reactor dose levels be lowered by 90 percent, he was forced out of the AEC and publicly attacked, despite his status a founder of the industry. ... 24. Children born in downwind Ukraine and Belarus still suffer a massive toll of mutation and illness, as confirmed by a wide range of governmental, scientific and humanitarian organizations.

So. Koreans Chain Necks Together, Surrounded By Police

February 2, 2014 Staff, www.revolutionnews.com Resist! Human Rights, Nuclear Energy, South Korea

Korea’s rapid economic growth demands enormous amounts of electricity, and it’s that demand that has met the fierce resistance of the farmers of Miryang, a small city 47 kilometers northwest of Busan. To these mostly elderly farmers, the most visible effect of “development” is not cell phones, flatscreen TVs, or air-conditioning. It is the high-voltage transmission towers that have sprouted along the ridges of their mountain valley. Since October protests against the 765kV Power transmission tower’s have taken place. On Jan 25th Close to three thousand people, including labor and environmental activists from cities throughout South Korea, converged on the small city of Miryang to protest the building of high-voltage power lines connected to a nuclear power plant.

Stop Taxpayer Funding For GA Reactor

January 29, 2014 Nuclear Information and Resource Service, http://www.nirs.org/ Organize! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy

Nearly four years ago--in February 2010--President Obama announced that the Department of Energy would make an $8.3 Billion taxpayer loan to Southern Company and its partners for construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia. That loan still has not been granted. Why? Because the utilities want a sweetheart deal that would put all the risk on the taxpayers. And the White House's Office of Management and Budget has refused to go along. The deadline to complete this loan has been extended numerous times and is now this Friday, January 31, 2014. Even if you've acted before, raise your voice again now. It's time for the Department of Energy to withdraw this loan offer. Please tell Energy Secretary Moniz to stop this loan now.

New Leak Found In Fukushima Plant’s Wrecked No. 3 Building

January 19, 2014 Toshio Kawada, www.ajw.asahi.com Educate! Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

A new water leak, possibly from the effort to cool a crippled reactor, has been detected on the first floor of a reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Jan. 18. TEPCO said workers discovered by a video feed that water was leaking on the first floor of the wrecked No. 3 reactor building earlier in the day. If the leak is from water being used to cool the reactor, it would be highly contaminated and a new headache for TEPCO and the government. A series of leaks from storage tanks of water that had been used to cool the damaged reactors and problems with groundwater entering reactor buildings and mixing with radioactive water there has hampered the plant's decommissioning process.

Nine Women Arrested At Entergy HQ In Brattleboro

January 18, 2014 Marcia Gagliardi, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Environment, Nuclear Energy

Acting on their conviction that governments, regulatory agencies, and corporations fail to honor the public trust, nine women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group went to Entergy Corporation headquarters on Old Ferry Road to demand the immediate shut down of Entergy’s 42-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Brattleboro police arrested the women when they refused to move from the main headquarters door when Entergy officials ignored their demands. Lieutenant Jeremy Evans led the police detachment. The women were booked on site and released pending charges and a court date.

Fukushima, A Global Conspiracy Of Denial

January 6, 2014 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

f there is any government or non-government authority in the world that is addressing the disaster at Fukushima openly, directly, honestly, and effectively, it's not apparent to the outside observer what entity that might be. There is instead an apparent global conspiracy of authorities of all sorts to deny to the public reliably accurate, comprehensible, independently verifiable (where possible), and comprehensive information about not only the condition of the Fukushima power plant itself and its surrounding communities, but about the unceasing, uncontrolled release of radioactive debris into the air and water, creating a constantly increasing risk of growing harm to the global community. While the risk may still be miniscule in most places, the range of risk rises to lethal in Fukushima itself.

Cutting Corners At Fukushima With Duct Tape

January 5, 2014 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

When he climbed to the top of the 10-meter-high tank Uechi found white adhesive tape covering an opening of about 30 centimeters. After using a blade to remove the tape he applied a sealing agent on the opening and fit a steel lid fastening it with bolts. According to instructions he was to use four bolts, though the lid had eight bolt holes. According to the employee, his colleagues later told him that the use of adhesive tape was a usual practice to deal with the problem of sealing in radioactive water. “I couldn’t believe that such slipshod work was being done, even if it was part of stopgap measures,” Uechi told The Asahi Shimbun. Among other makeshift cost-cutting measures was the use of second-hand materials. Uechi also said that wire nets were used instead of reinforcing bars during the placement of concrete for storage tank foundations. In addition, waterproof sheets were applied along the joints inside flange-type cylindrical tanks to save on the sealing agent used to join metal sheets of the storage tanks. Rain and snow had washed away the anti-corrosive agent applied around clamping bolts, reducing the sealing effect, Uechi added.

71 US Navy Crew Sue TEPCO, Half Have Cancer

December 29, 2013 Brandon Baker, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Corporatism, Fukushima, Health Care, Nuclear Energy

After U.S. Navy sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan for four days, many returned to the U.S. with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, brain tumors and more. At least 71 sailors—many in their 20s—reported radiation sickness and will file a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant. The men and women accuse TEPCO of downplaying the danger of nuclear radiation on the site. The water contaminated the ship’s supply, which led to crew members drinking, washing their bodies and brushing their teeth with contaminated water. Paul Garner, an attorney representing 51 sailors, said at least half of the 70-plus sailors have some form of cancer.

Record Levels Of Radiation At Fukushima Detected

December 23, 2013 Staff, www.presstv.ir Educate! Energy, Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

TEPCO, the operator of crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said on Saturday that it found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of radioactive substances at the damaged reactor. The company added that the latest examination of groundwater around Reactor 4 has raised concerns about another leak at the site. The analysis of water samples taken from 25 meters beneath Reactor 4’s well has shown that there is radioactivity in the groundwater. Nuclear radiation exposure can cause serious health problems. The first signs of nuclear radiation exposure are nausea and vomiting. It can increase the probability of developing some other diseases, mainly cancer, tumors, and genetic disorders.

VIDEO: Urgent Message – Clean Up Abandoned Open Pit Uranium Mines

December 21, 2013 Crystal Zevon, www.searchingforoccupy.com Educate! Health Care, Indigenous Rights, Nuclear Energy, Uranium, Video

Throughout the West, particularly on tribal land, abandoned open pit uranium mines continue to emit radiation and toxic heavy metal dust into the air, land and water. These pit mines were created during the cold war frenzy when the Atomic Energy Commission stated that it would buy all of the uranium that could be mined. Corporations such as Kerr-McGee and Atlantic Richfield as well as local ranchers jumped on the chance to make money. When they were done, the pits were left behind with no remediation. The radiation and toxic heavy metals from the mine contaminate the food supply as livestock drink polluted water and plants grown in contaminated soil. People who live near the mines experience many health effects including high rates of cancer deaths and birth defects.

Fukushima Coverup: “Biggest Industrial Catastrophe In History”

December 14, 2013 Michael Welch, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

The guests on this week`s Global Research News Hour speak of cover-up. Yoichi Shimatsu spoke to the Global Research News Hour about the misleading statements coming from the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) about the explosions from March of 2011, the radiative effects, and the secretive role of Fukushima as a storage site for Plutonium and nuclear weapons. Hatrick Penry goes even further. Penry utilizes documents disclosed from unimpeachable documentary sources, attained through Freeedom of Information requests, to show that much more radiation was released into the atmosphere than is generally recognized.

Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Will Be Dumped Into Pacific Ocean

December 6, 2013 Mark Willacy, www.abc.net.au Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

The man in charge of the clean-up at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant says growing stores of contaminated water from the site will eventually have to be dumped into the sea. In an exclusive interview with the ABC (Australia), the chairman of the Fukushima Monitoring Committee, Dale Klein, has also admitted there are likely to be more blunders and slip-ups at the plant in the months and years to come. "I think the best word to use with Fukushima is challenging," the former chief nuclear watchdog in the US said. Since the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami sparked the nuclear disaster, TEPCO has been pouring millions of litres of water onto Fukushima's reactors to try and keep them cool. That radioactive water is now being stored in tanks at the site but already thousands of litres have leaked into the Pacific Ocean.

CNN Nuclear Propagandist Can’t Be Trusted

November 21, 2013 FAIR, www.fair.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Media, Nuclear Energy

CNN aired the pro-nuclear power film Pandora's Promise on November 7. The film was little more than propaganda (FAIR Action Alert, 10/25/13), brooking virtually no dissent from the views of the film's seven principal "stars"--one-time anti-nuclear environmentalists who now say the planet can only be saved from the ravages of fossil fuels by a rapid, large-scale investment in new, supposedly fail-safe "fast reactors." In advance of the airing, FAIR and RootsAction presented CNN with a petition signed by over 27,000 activists, demanding the news network present a more balanced discussion of the issue. How did CNN respond? By compounding the bias with a post-show roundtable, Nuclear Power: The Fallout From Fear, that featured a panel just as slanted as its title. Considering the bias of CNN's documentary, it's unsurprising to find that two of its chief funders are billionaire boosters of nuclear energy. Virgin's Richard Branson, who with US nuclear industry officials proposed a meeting with President Obama and then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu to lobby for IFR nuclear technology, is listed as the film's executive producer. Branson claimed at the time not to have any direct financial interest in nuclear power. The film's other billionaire funder, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is an investor in "advanced nuclear technologies," according to the website of his venture capital firm, Vulcan Inc.

A Climate Change-Fueled Revolution?

November 19, 2013 Michael Klare, www.tomdispatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Tar Sands, Wars and Militarism

Don’t be surprised if that green energy revolution erupts in your neighborhood as part of humanity’s response to the greatest danger we’ve ever faced. If governments won’t take the lead on an imperiled planet, someone will. None of us can predict the future, but when it comes to a mass rebellion against the perpetrators of global destruction, we can see a glimmer of the coming upheaval in events of the present moment. Take a look and you will see that the assorted environmental protests that have long bedeviled politicians are gaining in strength and support. With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods, fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life across the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging in increasingly bold protest actions. Sooner or later, government leaders are likely to face multiple eruptions of mass public anger and may, in the end, be forced to make radical adjustments in energy policy or risk being swept aside. In fact, it is possible to imagine such a green energy revolution erupting in one part of the world and spreading like wildfire to others. Because climate change is going to inflict increasingly severe harm on human populations, the impulse to rebel is only likely to gain in strength across the planet. While circumstances may vary, the ultimate goal of these uprisings will be to terminate the reign of fossil fuels while emphasizing investment in and reliance upon renewable forms of energy.

Fukushima Protester Jailed For 21 Days Speaks Out

November 18, 2013 MsMilkytheclown1, www.youtube.com Resist! Energy, Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear Energy, Video

Prof. Masaki Shimoji was Jailed for 21 days because he was speaking out against the way the Japanese government is handling the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster - burning debris, hiding test results, etc. He speaks out at a town hall in Berkeley, CA. "We are alarmed at the lack of testing currently in place to meet the present-and-growing threat of Cesium 134 and 137 contamination in our food supply. The time is past-due for a comprehensive response to radiation present in our food supply from the Fukushima disaster. " Alexis Lynn Baden-Mayer, Political Director, Organic Consumers Association. Now revealed there's 80 damaged spent fuel assemblies leaking radioactive materials in Fukushima storage pools — Kyodo: Removal attempt at Unit 4 starts later today — Japan nuclear official 'nervous', as one slip could result in monumental chain reaction (AUDIO) CBS News: 'Immense mystery' as sea stars being wiped out along West Coast, could be gone for generations — Bewildering disease is spreading and "no idea what's causing it, or how to stop it" — Timelapse shows all legs lost in 7 hours (VIDEOS) 'Anonymous' protests at California TV station over lack of Fukushima coverage — Show Host: I wonder if media paid not to report on it — Senior Scientist: Phony stories made up by National Propaganda Radio (NPR) Yale: Chief Arvol Looking Horse at U.N. to speak about Fukushima crisis and threat to future of humanity — 2001 Quote: "Contamination of our food and land now affecting way we think... disease of the mind has set in World Leaders... faced with chaos, disasters, diseases... end of life as we know it"?

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