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Showing posts with label IAEA. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Nuclear Hotseat #292: Chernobyl/Fukushima Mutations – Mousseau + Small Modular Reactors w/Don Safer
Monday, July 4, 2016
The biggest Conflict of Interests of all time – mutantdaisys
And so it comes to pass. We have now reached the point where ‘neutrality’ or an ‘unbiased’ viewpoint can be bought, edited or suppressed with agreements made between two public agencies. One of the best example of this is the agreement struck on 28 May 1959 between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The effect of this agreement has been to give the IAEA an effective veto on any actions by the WHO that relate in any way to nuclear power, and so prevent the WHO from doing their proper job in investigating and warning of the dangers of nuclear radiation on human health...
more: The biggest Conflict of Interests of all time – mutantdaisys
Thursday, September 3, 2015
‘Political rhetoric, not science’: Greenpeace slams IAEA Fukushima report — RT News
“Nobody knows how much radiation citizens were exposed to in the immediate days following the disaster. If you don’t know the doses, then you can’t conclude there won’t be any consequences. To say otherwise is political rhetoric, not science,” said Kendra Ulrich, senior global energy campaigner with Greenpeace Japan.
On Monday, IAEA said that despite uncertainties about the radiation doses incurred by children immediately after the accident, “an increase in childhood thyroid cancer attributable to the accident is unlikely.”
read more: ‘Political rhetoric, not science’: Greenpeace slams IAEA Fukushima report — RT News
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Fukushima Report Dangerously Downplays Ongoing Health Risks: Greenpeace | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
"The IAEA report actively supports the Abe government’s and the global nuclear industry’s agenda to make it appear that things can return to normal after a nuclear disaster."
... In a press statement, Greenpeace Japan seized on the information gap.–
"The IAEA concludes that no discernible health consequences are expected as a result of the Fukushima disaster, but admits important uncertainties in both radiation dose and long-term effects," said Kendra Ulrich, senior global energy campaigner with Greenpeace Japan. "Nobody knows how much radiation citizens were exposed to in the immediate days following the disaster. If you don’t know the doses, then you can’t conclude there won’t be any consequences. To say otherwise is political rhetoric, not science."
The IAEA report conveniently comes as pro-nuclear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe systematically seeks to lift evacuation orders and re-start the country's nuclear program.
"The IAEA report actively supports the Abe government’s and the global nuclear industry’s agenda to make it appear that things can return to normal after a nuclear disaster," Ulrich said. "But there is nothing normal about the lifestyle and exposure rates that the victims are being asked to return to."
In July, Greenpeace Japan charged that the IAEA "has sought to downplay the radiological risks to the population since the early days in 2011. In fact, it produced two documents that can be said to have laid the foundation and justification for Abe’s current policy of de facto forced resettlement."
Exploring the political dynamics further, Ulrich wrote at the time:
Over four years after the triple reactor core meltdowns and exploded containment buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the majority of the Japanese public has remained opposed to any nuclear restart. The country has been completely nuclear-free for nearly two years, thanks in large part to significant public opposition, in spite of the massive pressure from nuclear utilities and the Abe government on local city governments.However, these utilities are massively powerful and the Abe government is wholly in bed with them.
In an effort to reduce public opposition, Abe has been pushing forward the pro-nuclear agenda to 'normalize' a nuclear disaster. If the public can be convinced that less than five years after the worst nuclear disaster in a generation, citizens can go home and return to life the way it was before the disaster – with no additional health risks – then that is a powerful argument against the majority of Japanese citizens who oppose nuclear reactor restarts...
complete article: Fukushima Report Dangerously Downplays Ongoing Health Risks: Greenpeace | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Nuclear Hotseat #119: Joseph Mangano Shreds IAEA's Straitjacket on WHO's Radiation Reports | Nuclear Hotseat
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| Nuclear Hotseat #119: Joseph Mangano Shreds IAEA's Straitjacket on WHO's Radiation Reports | Nuclear Hotseat |
INTERVIEW: Special feature interview with Joseph Mangano of Radiation and Public Health Project (www.radiation.org) on how the International Atomic Energy Agency’s straitjacketed and muzzled “epidemiology” makes it impossible for the World Health Organization to ever present honest information on the dangers of nuclear radiation. Based on an analysis of the IAEA’s fatally flawed “science” by the late Dr. Rosalie Bertell. Infuriating, jaw-dropping — and the underlying reason why the nuclear-industrial complex continues to get away with putting the future of all planetary life at risk.
PLUS:
- Activists rise up against NRC waste “confidence,” proposed nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron, and the EPA’s dramatically weakened radiation guides – the New (Gina) McCarthyism?
- Japanese PM Shinzo Abe-Baby has ongoing “Mission Accomplished” complications from his “The situation is under control!” claims to the International Olympic Committee;
- And isn’t it odd that Russia, China and Korea are doing a better job of protecting their citizens than the US?
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VIDEO EXTRAS:
Former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Gregory Jaczko in Japan speaking out on Fukushima dangers re: Spent Fuel Pool 4 at Japanese Foreign Correspondents Club.
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Nuclear Hotseat is the weekly international news magazine keeping you up to date on all things anti-nuclear. Produced and Hosted by Three Mile Island survivor Libbe HaLevy, each podcast contains the week’s international nuclear news, at least one expert interview, ways to protect physical health of yourself and your loved ones from the dangers of radiation exposure, and activist opportunities.
Among the nuclear experts interviewed by Nuclear Hotseat in its first two years:
- Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer, head of Fairewinds Energy Education
- Dr. Helen Caldicott, founding President, Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Dr. Janette Sherman and Joseph Mangano, authors of “An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume from Fukushima: Is There a Correlation?”
- Karl Grossman, Journalist, host of “Enviro Close-Up”
- Daniel Hirsch, Nuclear Policy Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz
- Alice Slater, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Mochizuki Iori, blogger, Fukushima Diary
- Nuclear Whistleblowers
- …and many more.
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Nuclear Hotseat #118: The WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance and its Lies about Int'l Nuclear Health Stats
How the World Health Organization came under the domination of the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency – the first of two exclusive Nuclear Hotseat reports on the unholy alliance that underlies our global misunderstandings of the dangers of nuclear radiation.
INTERVIEW: Special full-length interview with Alison Katz of Independent WHO on the history, politics and criminal negligence of the World Health Organization. She is a sociologist and psychologist who worked for WHO for 18 years and now is a spokesperson for the organization that wants WHO to do its job regarding nuclear dangers and international public health. Even if you think you understand this issue, you will be shocked by the specific instances where WHO has abdicated its power. You’ll also be inspired by an international tactic Katz proposes that has the potential to turn this issue around.
Podcast - LISTEN > Nuclear Hotseat #118: The WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance and its Lies about Int'l Nuclear Health Stats | Nuclear Hotseat
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Fukushima: A disaster manufactured in the imperial boardrooms of capital
They may not live in castles anymore, but the glass-plated skyscrapers that tower over the great cities of the world, in faceless anonymity, still signify the imperious domain of the ruling elite. It is from these places, not the featureless depths of the earth’s roiling crust, which were the decisive cause of the triple nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant on 11th March 2011...
full article: Fukushima: A disaster manufactured in the imperial boardrooms of capital
Thursday, May 24, 2012
"Chernobyl" - The New York Academy of Sciences
Cover: Pine trees reveal changes in wood color, density, and growth rate following irradiation from the Chernobyl disaster. T.A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina (2009)
This is a collection of papers translated from the Russian with some revised and updated contributions. Written by leading authorities from Eastern Europe, the volume outlines the history of the health and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. According to the authors, official discussions from the International Atomic Energy Agency and associated United Nations' agencies (e.g. the Chernobyl Forum reports) have largely downplayed or ignored many of the findings reported in the Eastern European scientific literature and consequently have erred by not including these assessments.
Chernobyl | The New York Academy of Sciences, 2009
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もうすぐ日本語版出てきます。必見。覚えておきましょう。
The best reference of Chernobyl DisasterJAPANESE translation is now ON STORE from Apr. 26, 2013, 27 years after the accident.
From Iwanami, one of the most reliable publisher in Japan.
http://chernobyl25.blogspot.jp/2013/ 02/blog-post.html
see also
Greenpeace Report - “Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated,” 2006
"A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers."
Our report involved 52 respected scientists and includesinformation never before published in English. It challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering.
The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000.
The report also looks into the ongoing health impacts of Chernobyl and concludes that radiation from the disaster has had a devastating effect on survivors; damaging immune and endocrine systems, leading to accelerated ageing, cardiovascular and blood illnesses, psychological illnesses, chromosomal aberrations and an increase in foetal deformations.
The real face of the nuclear industry
Each one of these statistics has a face. Many people are paying a price for the negligence of a dirty and dangerous industry... (photos)
Greenpeace statement on the anniversary of Chernobyl, from Executive Director Gerd Leipold
These powerful images are a timely reminder that human lives are more than just numbers. For each statistic there is a person paying the ultimate price. Anyone who doubts the dangers of nuclear power should visit the exhibition and see for themselves one of the reasons why we oppose nuclear power. Twenty years on, every nuclear power plant bears the legacy of the nuclear industry's victims; and every nuclear power plant represents the threat of becoming the next Chernobyl.
more > Greenpeace Chernobyl Anniversary statement | Greenpeace International
Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
new: Nuclear Power Crimes & #RE_TOOL NOW
New pages on this blog (listing at top right)
Nuclear Power Crimes Against Humanity & Environment& NO NUKES | #RE_TOOL NOW
please post your thoughts & comments on these pages
• Nuclear Power Crimes Against Humanity & Environment
regarding bringing this issue before the The International Criminal Court (ICC) and United Nations (UN).
- nuclear power follows a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts which cause great suffering, and serious injury to body and to mental health
nuclear power relies upon inherently dangerous technology - no operator can truly guarantee safety (as has been proven...) | nobody has the right to shackle future generations with nuclear waste for any reason whatsoever
• NO NUKES | #RE_TOOL NOW - comments please
- wind, solar, and biofeul are ALL GOOD BUSINESS with plenty of money to be made right away - also geo and wave - there are lots of possibilities and opportunities - even algae, biogas etc
- investors need to pull out of oil, coal, gas and nuclear ASAP and get on track for climate change
- we can build a strong sustainable economy without nuclear power that will be healthy for the planet and its inhabitants
- nuclear power is immoral and criminal - it is no cure for climate change
its time to change our M.O. - "We do not support construction of new nuclear reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis. Available renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than nuclear power."
NO NUKES | RE-TOOL NOW
Friday, May 4, 2012
OCCUPY NUCLEAR | CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
#OccupyNuclear
+++ NUCLEAR POWER IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE ENTIRE ECOSPHERE +++
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FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE - MORAL & DECENTRALIZED CLEAN POWER - NO MORE #FRACKING, NO MORE #COAL, NO MORE NUKING IN OUR BACKYARDS!
#RE_TOOL NOW – (twitter) - #wind #solar #electric #biofeul ALL GOOD BUSINESS
with plenty of money to be made right away – investors need to pull out
of #oil #coal #nuclear asap and get on track for #climatechange and
a strong #sustainable #economy that is #healthy for the planet
whats up: Nuclear Power = Crime Against Humanity
> coming: petition UN IAEA US NRC ICC & more #Nuclear Power is a Crime Against Humanity; resources must devoted to decommissioning containment
Nuclear Power Industry is a Crime Against Humanity!
By Francis Boyle
Sunday, 20 March 2011 09:11
Dear Friends: I have now had the opportunity to review my information sources. I have already sent to you the basic thrust of my analysis: Namely, that the Japanese Nuclear Power Industry constitutes a Crime against Humanity as defined by Article 7 of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, to which Japan is a party. The same holds true for the Nuclear Power Industries in all the other countries of the World. You have the text of Rome Statute Article 7 below, which is directly on point...
ICC Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:….
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack; …
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Friday, April 27, 2012
video refresher course: NIE CHCEMY ATOMU W NASZYM DOMU !!! -NUCLEAIRE: STOP AU MASSACRE! -NUCLEAIRE: OMS - AIEA: ARRETONS-LES!
video refresher course
if you by chance don't like the music please hit mute and don't miss the slide shows :)
Miraho -Nie chcemy atomu (DiesProduction).avi
25 lat po wybuchu w Czarnobylu Polska zamierza kontynuowac budowe elektrowni jadrowych w kilku lokalizacjach , z tej okazji skunkheads wyraza swoj sprzeciw wobec polityki atomowej .
NIE CHCEMY ATOMU W NASZYM DOMU !!!!
25 years after the explosion at Chernobyl, Poland intends to continue building nuclear power plants in several locations, on this occasion skunkheads expresses its opposition to nuclear policy.
WE DO NOT WANT atom in our house!!
NUCLEAIRE : STOP AU MASSACRE !
NUCLEAIRE : OMS - AIEA : ARRETONS-LES !
pour en apprendre plus c'est ici :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukCYeAZYGKg
Ce film révèle qu'au coeur de la civilisation occidentale, riche et technologiquement avancée, un crime scientifique programmé se perpétue depuis 25 ans sous de hautes responsabilités, dans l'indifférence générale et la désinformation. Un accord signé par l'OMS et l'AIEA, promotrice de l'industrie nucléaire, condamne sciemment des millions de cobayes humains à expérimenter dans leur corps des pathologies nouvelles dans le vaste laboratoire à ciel ouvert des territoires contaminés par Tchernobyl.
Cette vidéo est mise en ligne sur la chaîne d'IndependentWHO, un collectif créé en 2007 et qui lutte pour que l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) remplisse sa mission de protection des populations touchées par la contamination radioactive.
Pour plus d'informations :
independentwho.org
This film reveals that at the heart of Western civilization, rich and technologically advanced, scientific programmed a crime has been going on 25 years in senior positions in the general indifference and misinformation. An agreement signed by WHO and the IAEA, promoter of the nuclear industry, knowingly condemns millions of human guinea pigs to experiment in their bodies new diseases in the vast open-air laboratory of the territories contaminated with Chernobyl.
This video is posted on the chain IndependentWHO, a group created in 2007 and fighting for the World Health Organization (WHO) fulfills its mission of protecting the people affected by radioactive contamination.
on a lighter note
Rankin & Dub Ainu Band "You can't see it, and you can't smell it either "
"You can't see it, and you can't smell it either - 誰にも見えない、匂いもない 2011- "
By Rankin Taxi & Dub Ainu Band
Words & Music: Rankin Taxi
with much respect
M.U.S.E. - KOAN
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
America's Nuclear Time Bombs
Marks to Market: America's Nuclear Time Bombs
During the nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan's northeast last March, the world watched in horror as conditions in the plant deteriorated by the day. Despite public reassurances that the situation was under contra, we now know that three of the plant's reactors actually begun meltdown within hours and that plans were being made at the highest levels of the Japanese government to evacuate Tokyo, the world's most populous metropolitan area.
In effect, the world was given a crash course in cascading nuclear failure.
What many do not know is that the damaged reactors were designed by General Electric, rely on 40-year-old containment technology, and are substantially similar to 32 reactors currently operating around the world, including 23 in the United States.
This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, presenting you with the history of and GE’s role in development of boiling water reactors and the Mark 1 containment vessel system used in the damaged Fukushima reactor which has been focus of fierce criticism for at least 40 years, and the criminal complicity of government regulators in failing to enforce their own policies and regulations on these aging reactors, not only in Japan, but in the US as well.
The EyeOpener- Marks to Market: America’s Nuclear Bombs
Tuesday, 28. February 2012 by Sibel Edmonds - Fukushima, the Criminal Complicity of Governments & What May Be in Store for US Reactors
NO NUKES | RE-TOOL NOW
Saturday, January 14, 2012
free downloads | anti-nuclear art
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fukushima art
The "outer building" surrounding Unit 3 of Fukushima I explodes due to the ignition of built up hydrogen gas on March 13, 2011. This is the reactor which has the extremely dangerous plutonium-laced MOX fuel.
the attached file is suitable for 4x6 high resolution photo prints - please print some and pass them around - no nukes!
whats more: fukushima art -Einstein said, "The splitting of the atom changed everything save man's mode of thinking; thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe." He also said, "Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water."
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Friday, January 13, 2012
☢ RAGE AGAINST NUCLEAR ☢
NUCLEAIRE : STOP AU MASSACRE!
a really great slideshow with Rage Against the Machine's "Killing In The Name" as its soundtrack
more rage -
NUCLEAIRE : OMS - AIEA : ARRETONS-LES !
e film révèle qu'au coeur de la civilisation occidentale, riche et technologiquement avancée, un crime scientifique programmé se perpétue depuis 25 ans sous de hautes responsabilités, dans l'indifférence générale et la désinformation. Un accord signé par l'OMS et l'AIEA, promotrice de l'industrie nucléaire, condamne sciemment des millions de cobayes humains à expérimenter dans leur corps des pathologies nouvelles dans le vaste laboratoire à ciel ouvert des territoires contaminés par Tchernobyl.
e film reveals that at the heart of Western civilization, rich and technologically advanced scientific programmed a crime has been ongoing for 25 years in senior positions in the general indifference and misinformation. An agreement signed by WHO and the IAEA, promoter of the nuclear industry, knowingly condemns millions of human guinea pigs to experiment in their bodies new diseases in the vast open-air laboratory of the territories contaminated with Chernobyl.
This video is posted on the chain IndependentWHO, a group created in 2007 and fighting for the World Health Organization (WHO) to fulfill its mission of protecting the people affected by radioactive contamination.
For more information:
www.independentwho.info
Cette vidéo est mise en ligne sur la chaîne d'IndependentWHO, un collectif créé en 2007 et qui lutte pour que l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) remplisse sa mission de protection des populations touchées par la contamination radioactive.
Pour plus d'informations :
www.independentwho.info
flashmob -
Mort subite au trocadero, Flashmob Anti-nucleaire Paris Trocadero 2011e
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whats up: 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | NUCLEAR "SAFTEY" = NUCLEAR THREAT
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
"Mission Accomplished" delusion | Radioactive Dumping
TEPCO Believes Mission Accomplished & Regulators Allow Radioactive Dumping in Tokyo Bay
Is the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that Fukushima is stable when it is not? Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen outlines major inconsistencies and double-speak by the IAEA, Japanese Government, and TEPCO claiming that the Fukushima accident is over. Dynamic versus static equilibrium, escalated dose exposures to the Japanese children and nuclear workers, and the blending of radioactive materials with non-contaminated material and spreading this contaminated ash throughout Japan are only a small part of this ongoing nuclear tragedy.
Fairewinds updates on Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
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there can and will be
no cold shutdown
of the Fukushima plant
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Friday, August 26, 2011
"DON'T DIG HERE" | Musicians United for Safe Energy | Nukes, Earthquakes & Hurricanes
Musicians United for Safe Energy
MUSE VIDEOS
DON'T DIG HERE
Written by: James Raymond
Performed by: David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Raymond, Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, Dean Parks and Jeff Pevar
Produced by: Russ and Nathanial Kunkel
KOAN
The MUSE concert began with solemn acknowledgement of the recent Fukushima disaster. This video connected the nature of a Koan's teaching enlightenment to the need to raise energy consciousness as an introduction to the stage performance by Kitaro.
Video Created by Andrew Thomas
FACE THE FIRE
There are many ways that you can donate to help the efforts of MUSE. Here, Rosemary Butler offers her latest recording for download with all proceeds going directly to the clean and safe energy movement.
Video Created by Andrew Thomas
DINOSAURS
How long is nuclear waste a lethal danger? Consider this...Video Created by Andrew Thomas
Musicians United for Safe Energy
Harvey Wasserman at MUSE Concert
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On August 7th, thousands gathered at Shoreline Amphitheater for a day of music, inspiration, education and activism. Between the seven hours of stage performances, the audience saw a collection of videos about the issues, and ways to become engaged in the cause. For everyone who couldn't be there, we're happy to present these videos online.
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CSN, BONNIE RAITT, JACKSON BROWNE ROCK AGAINST NUKES
August 19, 2011 - by Barry Walters, Rolling Stone Magazine
Tom Morello, Jason Mraz join all-star benefit in wake of Japan disaster
"I'm so happy to be here, my dimples are locked," a beaming Bonnie Raitt said during her set at the August 7th all-star concert benefiting MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy), the activist group Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and John Hall created in 1979 to promote alternatives to nuclear power..."
NukeFree.org
In August 2007, musicians Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash, along with longtime energy activists and colleagues, Harvey Wasserman and Tom Campbell, helped organize NukeFree.org as an on-going grassroots campaign and website working to defeat up to $50 billion in proposed loan guarantees for building new atomic reactors. Had these guarantees gone through, there would be virtually no chance of stopping the construction of dozens of new atomic reactors all over the United States.
Garnering support of scores of other artists/musicians and aligning with scientists and environmental groups, in just one month NukeFree.org was able to gather over 120,000 signatures on a petition presented to Congress. In a stunning victory shared with grassroots non-profit safe energy organizations, the proposed loan guarantees were pulled from the 2007 Energy Bill.
But the fight isn't over. Today the nuclear power industry is desperately trying to build new reactors in the United States, and to prolong the operation of the 104 currently licensed to operate here. And since the nuclear industry can't get private financing, they continue to go after state and federal funding for new plants. It is our commitment to stop that from happening. Going forward, NukeFree.org is committed to preventing the construction of new nuclear reactors and helping to pave the way for an energy economy based on renewables, efficiency and conservation. Toward that goal:
∑ The NukeFree.org website serves as an information hub providing up-to-the minute news on the most important nuclear power industry battles taking place across the country. We work closely with other groups monitoring energy issues and will let you know where key battles are shaping up and how you can help stop further funding for the nuclear power industry. It is also a resource providing background and references to learn more about nukes and alternative energy technologies.
∑ NukeFree.org works with the environmental / scientific communities to keep musicians, artists and others educated about nuclear and safe energy issues, as well as advising people how they can best impact energy legislation - using their voices and resources to support positive new green proposals and fight against boondoggles like the nuke loan guarantees.
Together we can make a difference!
The answer to global warming and so many of our economic problems is with renewables, energy efficiency and conservation. Help us again move beyond the fifty-year failure of atomic energy into a bright, prosperous green-powered future.
No Nukes!
Your contacts for NukeFree.org are:
Harvey Wasserman, Senior Advisor and Website Editor: windhw@mac.com
Mary Skerrett, Program Director and Outreach Coordinator: mary@nukefree.org
BREAKING NUKE NEWS @ NukeFree.org
8/26/11
• Bloomberg: East Coast Reactors Brace for Hurricane
Nuclear Reactors on East Coast Brace for Hurricane Irene's Wrath: Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- More than a dozen nuclear reactors along the U.S. East Coast are being prepared for potential loss of power and damage from high winds and storm surges as Hurricane Irene bears down on the region.
Nuclear plants in Irene's path continued to operate as workers secured loose equipment, checked diesel fuel supplies for backup generators and stowed cots and food for workers who may be stranded during the storm.
At Dominion Resources Inc.'s Millstone nuclear station, which sits on a narrow peninsula in the Long Island Sound near Waterford, Connecticut, workers were examining flood barriers and submarine doors designed to keep reactors dry from a hurricane's storm surge.
"That's part of our storm preparations: ensuring those flood barriers are in place, ready to do their job," said Ken Holt, a spokesman for Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion, in an interview yesterday... more
• Huffpo: East Coast Quake Forces Nuke Review
Bill Chameides: All Shook Up on the East Coast: What does the quake mean for nukes?
| Nuclear Safety in the Wake of Recent Quakes Given the disaster that befell Japan's Fukushima nuclear plants following the earthquake-induced tsunami last March, questions of how our East Coast nuclear power plants withstood Tuesday's shakes naturally arise... |
With a magnitude of 5.8 and a depth of 3.7 miles, the quake, which hit near the heretofore little known Mineral, Virginia, about 38 miles from Richmond, was the most powerful in the eastern United States in about 70 years. The last of a similar size hit New York state in 1944... more
• Earthquakes and Nuke Expansion
Earthquakes and the Expansion of Nuclear Power Plants
The August 23, 2011 (5.9 magnitude) earthquake on the east coast prompted no less than 10 nuclear plants in four states to declare “unusual events,” according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) . (The NRC defines an “unusual event” as a term used to denote that “something out of the ordinary” has happened.) The NRC reported that after the quake, the North Anna and Surry plants in Virginia; the Hope Creek, Oyster Creek and Salem plants in New Jersey; the Susquehanna, Three Mile Island, Peach Bottom and Limerick plants in Pennsylvania; and the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Maryland all declared such “unusual events.”
The east coast temblor and the nuclear “events” that followed should remind us that, despite hopes that Fukushima would spell the end of nuclear power, the so-called “nuclear renaissance” is alive and well.
In the aftermath of the March 11 triple-reactor meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, stories and opinion polls trumpeting Japan’s “growing anti-nuclear sentiment” flourished in both the corporate-owned and alternative media. When Germany’s Angela Merkel announced that her country would reject nuclear power and begin shuttering its old plants, the headline spanned newspapers across the globe.
Less widely reported is that, even as Germany, Japan and a handful of other countries -- among them, Italy, Switzerland and some ASEAN member states -- are rejecting or at least reconsidering their commitments to nuclear power, many more (including the US) are still on the nuclear fast track.
Russia, India, Brazil, some Middle Eastern oil economies and a host of developing countries number among those still hot to go nuclear. And the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported recently that more than 60 new countries have expressed “strong interest” in nuclear power -- among them, Iran, which is very close to commissioning its first reactor. The IAEA further promised that global use of nuclear energy will continue to increase for decades -- despite the ongoing crisis at Fukushima... more
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EAST COAST EARTHQUAKE
The Associated Press: Quake prompts review of nuclear plants in 6 states: WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say nuclear plants from North Carolina to Michigan are under increased scrutiny after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the East Coast.
Quake raises safety concerns as nuclear plant shut
| Reuters: (Reuters) - The largest earthquake to hit the East Coast of the United States in 67 years raised concerns on Tuesday about the safety of the country's nuclear power plants.
East Coast earthquake's epicenter near a nuclear plant - latimes.com: magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook the East Coast on Tuesday was centered near a nuclear power plant, raising concerns that the facility could have been damaged.
North Anna Power Station, located about 10 miles from the epicenter, is running its safety systems on backup generators after the quake knocked out the plant’s outside power source.
David McIntyre, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the two reactors at the plant stopped generating power automatically after the quake.
Dominion's North Anna Nuclear Plant Loses Power After Quake: Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Dominion Resources Inc.'s North Anna nuclear power plant was operating on backup diesel generators after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake knocked out its offsite power.
North Anna's twin nuclear reactors automatically shut down during the earthquake, whose epicenter was less than 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the plant, about 85 miles southwest of Washington, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
One of the plant's four diesel generators, which are powering the reactors' cooling systems during the blackout, stopped working as a result of a coolant leak, Roger Hanah, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said in an interview. Dominion Resources Inc. called a fifth standby generator into service to replace the broken unit, Ryan Frazier, a spokesman for Richmond-based Dominion, said in an e-mail.
HURRICANE IRENE
U.S. Nuclear Reactors Weather Storm - Bloomberg
By Julie Johnsson - Aug 28, 2011 3:23 PM PT
More than a dozen nuclear plants in the path of Hurricane Irene along the U.S. East Coast safely weathered the storm’s passage without losing power to their reactors, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Two reactors were taken offline because of the storm; one in New Jersey as a precaution and one in Maryland after damage from storm-blown debris triggered an automatic shutdown.
Constellation Energy Group Inc. (CEG)’s Calvert Cliffs plant, near Lusby, Maryland, was the only station to suffer damage from Irene, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in an e- mailed statement. Constellation declared an “unusual event, the lowest of four emergency classifications, after Irene’s winds sent a piece of aluminum siding crashing into the main transformer at the site...
Risk to nuclear plants in hurricane's path may not be what you think | iWatch News
...If the power goes out along the Eastern seaboard for a long period of time, there is a risk that nuclear plants’ backup generators could run out of fuel. Or, Riccio added, the backup power could fail like one of them did Tuesday after the earthquake knocked out electricity to the North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia...
One Million Lose Power as Irene Takes Aim at New York - Bloomberg
Aug 28, 2011 12:02 AM PT
Exelon Corp. (EXC)’s Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey shut down its reactor as a precaution ahead of the storm, and other reactors reduced power.
Consolidated Edison said it will decide between 2 a.m. and 10 a.m. today whether to cut power to a swath of Lower Manhattan because of possible flooding from the torrential rains expected from the storm. Power may be cut from south of the Brooklyn Bridge, to Broadway, said John Miksad, the company’s senior vice president of electric operations.
Nuclear reactors near the coast in New Jersey and Connecticut began powering down as a precaution, said David McIntyre, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Reducing power will allow the plants to shut down faster and more efficiently if it becomes necessary.
Exelon shut down its Oyster Creek nuclear reactor in New Jersey as of 5 p.m. local time in anticipation of hurricane- force winds at the plant, the company said in a statement...
Hurricane Irene knocked a nuclear reactor offline at Calvert Cliffs
August 28, 2011 | Posted: 2:10 AM
Hurricane Irene sent a nuclear reactor offline late Saturday night. That's according to the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group.
Costellation says a heavy gust of wind knocked a large piece of aluminum siding from the building. The siding came in contact with a main transformer.
The company says all employees are safe, but an "Unusual Event" was declared. An Unusual Event is the lowest of the 4 emergency classifications.
Costellation says the facility is safe and there is no impact to neighbors...
Nuclear Reactors on East Coast Brace for Hurricane Irene's Wrath
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- More than a dozen nuclear reactors along the U.S. East Coast are being prepared for potential loss of power and damage from high winds and storm surges as Hurricane Irene bears down on the region...
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