Monthly Archives: May 2013

TEPCO told to freeze soil around reactor buildings to block groundwater via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2013/05/31 by norma field

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will implement a “difficult” proposal to use walls of frozen soil to reduce the amount of groundwater flowing into reactor buildings at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A government committee working on measures … Continue reading →

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TVA suffers blow, loses biggest customer via the timesfreepress.com

Posted on 2013/05/31 by norma field

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is losing its biggest customer today amid growing concerns about rising industrial power rates. USEC Inc. is shutting down its Paducah, Ky., gaseous diffusion plant, ending uranium enrichment at the 61-year-old plant … Continue reading →

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25,000 nuclear waste shipments through town each year via the Pahrump Valley Times

Posted on 2013/05/31 by norma field

Pahrump Town Manager Bill Kohbarger said he had two different impressions before and after a special presentation on the transportation of radioactive nuclear waste through the heart of Pahrump. On Tuesday evening, Nye County Nuclear Waste Repository Office consultant Dr. … Continue reading →

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Our Endangered Nuclear Weaponeers via The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 2013/05/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

It takes a nuclear weaponeer to stop a nuclear weaponeer. And I should know.   In the 1990s, I designed nuclear bombs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In the 2000s at Los Alamos, I ran one of the largest programs … Continue reading →

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Rising radioactive spills leave Fukushima fishermen floundering via Reuters

Posted on 2013/05/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but … Continue reading →

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全国ぜんこく５０基き廃はい炉ろなら「特とく損そん１．７兆ちょう円えん以上いじょう」　超党派ちょうとうは議連ぎれん　via 朝日新聞あさひしんぶん

Posted on 2013/05/30 by norma field

超党派ちょうとうはの国会こっかい議員ぎいん６１人にんでつくる「原発げんぱつゼロの会かい」は、原発げんぱつの廃はい炉ろを進すすめるための２法案ほうあんの骨子こっし案あんを策定さくていし、３０日にち公表こうひょうした。法案ほうあん提出ていしゅつに向むけ、与野党よやとうに意見いけんを求もとめる。 　骨子こっし案あんは、廃はい炉ろを決きめた場合ばあいに国民こくみんや電気でんき事業じぎょう者しゃの負担ふたんを減へらすことが目的もくてきの法案ほうあんと、周辺しゅうへん地域ちいきの振興しんこうを図はかる特措とくそ法案ほうあん。電気でんき事業じぎょう者しゃが廃はい炉ろに必要ひつような費用ひようを賄まかなえるように、交付こうふ金きんの交付こうふや借かり入いれの債務さいむ保証ほしょうをする指定してい法人ほうじんを置おくことなどを盛もり込こんだ。 全文ぜんぶんはこちら。

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Indian Point agenda pushed by Entergy ‘front’ groups, political money, report charges via Newsday

Posted on 2013/05/30 by norma field

Entergy Corp. has showered political donations on friendly Westchester County politicians and used two “front” groups staffed by affiliated executives, consultants and lobbyists in an effort to muster support for the license renewal of the two working reactors at its … Continue reading →

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Iowa Farmers Oppose Nuclear Power via Blog for Iowa

Posted on 2013/05/30 by norma field

About 100 people gathered at the Wilton Community Center last night to view a screening of the documentary, “The Atomic States of America,” hosted by the group Saving America’s Farmland and Environment (S.A.F.E.). Attendees also heard an update from two … Continue reading →

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Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous via Scientific American

Posted on 2013/05/30 by norma field

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the … Continue reading →

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Enel calls on Slovakian government to back nuclear projects via Power Engineering

Posted on 2013/05/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Enel SpA says it may have to halt work on nuclear power development in Slovakia unless the government approves a plan to increase financing for the project. Slovenske, the company’s Slovak unit said in a statement that the government must … Continue reading →

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