Trip Jennings | The New Mexican Posted: Monday, June 27, 2011 – 6/28/11 A spokesman for Los Alamos National Laboratory said emphatically Monday afternoon that hazardous and nuclear materials on-site aren’t threatened by the fast-moving Las Conchas Fire. The spokesman … Continue reading
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Introduction The present survey was conducted in 47 countries across all continents by leading polling companies associated with WIN?Gallup International. Over 34,000 adult men and women representing various sections of society were interviewed across the globe. In the context of … Continue reading
Two Nebraska nuclear stations sitting on the Missouri River floodplain have been in serious danger since early June when a thousand year flood forced the US Army Corps of Engineers do controlled flooding on the river for the entire summer. The story was heavily managed (censored) by the US national media.
The weekly Radiation Bulletin has been published since 1985 by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse (SF California USA).
Every week up 1,000 nuclear news stories are published around the world. The Mainstream media just doesn’t want you know that there are battles over nuclear power and the nuclear fuel taking place around the world. The regular Radiation Bulletin is on vacation, however, here’s a modified weekly review of Global Coverage on the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl.
Continue readingOn April 12th the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Thomas Cochran presented their findings on the radiation impacts from Fukushima before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. It is commendable that Cochran testified that “It is not credible to … Continue reading
On March 21st and April 14th 2011 the California State Senate held two post Fukushima hearings on the safety of nuclear power in California. The first hearing in the days when Fukushima was still news generated major media in California while the 2nd hearing was nearly empty, not even our representatives showed. A promised hearing on emergency planning never took place.
This is a review of those hearings.
Continue readingJapanese workers braved radiation for temp job
KAZO, Japan — The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and
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Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato has expressed anger at the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., saying both “betrayed” the people of Fukushima Prefecture with repeated assurances about the safety of nuclear
Continue readingDeconstructing Nuclear Experts
By Chris Busby
3-29-11
Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don’t believe them. I myself have
Continue readingCNIC Press Conference re Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant At CNIC’s press conference on Saturday night (March 26) an important new perspective on the course of events at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was presented by Mitsuhiko Tanaka. Tanaka … Continue reading
The 3-10-11 9.0 Tohoku earthquake has shook the nuclear world to its knees. An event that was predicted to never occur by every pro-nuclear apologist on the planet just did. The incident at Fukushima wasn’t an event on par with … Continue reading
It is urgent that the general public understand that you will be getting very mixed statements about what amount of radiation is safe vs. what isn’t. When events like this come into play you will be hearing two things: … Continue reading
I was appalled at the NRC chairman Jaczko’s press briefing yesterday when asked point blank how many nuclear reactors in the US were near faults… Instead of answering the question he said that all reactors near faults designed withstand both … Continue reading
The nuclear disaster in Japan is moving very fast. For people who have been historically concerned about this issue, it can be terrifying to get a real handle on just what kind of scale of disaster we are looking at. … Continue reading
I’ve made some major changes to how the newsletter is designed As a result of these changes, I’m now posting them to the website rather than to this blog. The new design has been streamlined so that an average reader … Continue reading
The weekly Radiation Bulletin has been published since 1985 by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse (SF California USA). It is produced using a combination of social bookmarking and programming.
Every week up 1,000 nuclear news stories are published around the world. The Rad Bull distills this down to a more digestible 100 stories. The Mainstream media just doesn’t want you know that there are battles over nuclear power and the nuclear fuel taking place around the world.
Continue readingWhat nuked up week its been. On the personal front I had to help a friend into the hospital who was dying. He had no family and has spent the last several years in a small space I provided for … Continue reading
What will the oil spill spin doctors do? In this oped, I will once again suggest, as I’ve been doing for years that there are no issues left to win in this world except the battle against the corporate media … Continue reading
It would seem that Chernobyl has become a global embarrassment to the media these days! Only the Los Angeles Times cared to cover the 24th anniversary or the more delicate release by the New York Academy of Science’s exhaustive investigation … Continue reading
No Nukes and happy Earth Day! I’m going to start out here with an editorial comment. The international corporate run media has a global agenda to promote and frame the push to build nuclear reactors worldwide. Just days before the … Continue reading
This is a two week addition of the news. Sorry, but I’ve had a rather severe medical emergency that put me in the Emergency Room at the local hospital twice. I’m doing a bit better after treatment for a rather … Continue reading
The FORUM “A People’s History of Radioactive Waste” will teach the public about Radioactive Waste Problems and what can be done about them. It will convene at 12:30 on Saturday June 5 – and run through a Keynote (TBA) that … Continue reading
A bit of a slowdown compared to last week. Just a few breaking stories with most news about ongoing events that have already seen the light of day. I wanted to follow up the scary breaking story last week about … Continue reading
Just way over the top! Talk about getting buried… This is late coming out due to all of the major stories that hit last week. Before I get started with start, we have one story of particular interest, the possibility … Continue reading
Its always appropriate to point out just how hard it is to put a stake through the heart of a vampire. A few more stories to piss them off this time around. Portugal and Indonesia came out against development of … Continue reading
What a relief! Obama’s nuclear swine flu outbreak has finally started to slow a bit. Its clearly not over with however, has France’s President can attest to as he was sacking the head of Areva, calling for rich nations to … Continue reading
From: Philippe Brousse – Directeur du Réseau Sortir du nucléaire Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire” French Nuclear Phaseout Network Press release – Urgent Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident … Continue reading
Nuclear quagmire!!! The last week of news continues to escalate. Its taken several hours more than usual to put this newsletter together. Obama’s version of nuclear change wasn’t what a whole lot of us were expecting. So the fallout continues … Continue reading
Talk about a Twilight Zone of a week. Once I weeded out the huge amount of redundant stories, it wasn’t a very busy week. Biggest chunk of content was as expected, the huge new push for reactor development across the … Continue reading
As expected. The national and many local media outlets around the country is having a huge field day promoting nuclear after Obama’s photo-op. But then that’s not the only news this last week. As usual, when the public is watching … Continue reading
After the last couple of weeks, this last one was very slow news wise. News yes, and a more than a bit of foul stuff. Expect a lot of we did it kind of PR stuff, onward to victory news. … Continue reading
A very busy week indeed, with several big stories breaking internationally. The stop story IMHO, is the news about Russia dumping nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea near Sweden! This is a breaking story, but if it is true, it … Continue reading
The Free Press — Independent News Media – Harvey Wasserman January 30, 2010 Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than … Continue reading
What a week. Obama goes nuclear just in time to shake up things. But let’s do the big picture. The UK investigation of the Iraqi invasion is no bigger story out there. For anyone in the U.S. with cable TV, … Continue reading
The major news this last week comes from France as Sarkozy had to call in EDF and Areva over a growing internal battle. The fallout over France’s failure to win the $40 billion UAE reactor construction contract continues as the … Continue reading
The nuclear industry gets slammed again. The state of Florida blocked funding for new reactors. Nuclear waste issues raised its head worldwide this last week with stories on 3 continents. The biggest story was out of Tennessee where a Norwegian … Continue reading
Nuclear News continues to slow down. Even the number of PR stories promoting more reactors has taken a dive. That’s not to say that they’ve disappeared, either as I’ve put a few pro-nuclear stories in the mix here. Note, that … Continue reading
As was expected the last week was a vacation week for most Americans so the volume of news was low. However, what happened was nothing of the sort. The news was mostly pretty bad stuff. The lead story has to … Continue reading
FreePress As the Copenhagen climate talks collapsed, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory moved us closer to a green-powered Earth.It happened in upstate New York, where the Unistar Nuclear Energy front group asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay … Continue reading
Introduction: I used to do regular versions of this, but have lapsed due to ongoing health problems. If you are like most Americans and just want the big splashy one liner stories during the last year, skip the intro. However, … Continue reading
Anybody have a best of the year list of articles? What’s your pick for the top nuclear stories for 2009? I’m considering putting together a special addition of the bulletin just to put the year in perspective. In a major … Continue reading
This was a fairly busy week in terms of important news. Its kind of hard to actually call what happened in Denmark important at this point as it is more than clear that we’ve lost a major chance to change … Continue reading
I’m more than a bit late in getting this out and so I’m only gonna make a couple of quick comments and you are on our own… The bad news is of course the Kerry-Lieberman campaign in the senate. Good … Continue reading
Strategy sessions are part and parcel to the nuclear industry’s frontal attack on the planet and the US public. The industry’s capacity to get its point of view heard by the general public is legend, and of course it comes … Continue reading
The nuclear world continues to be rocked by economics, safety problems and scandals. At the top of the news this last week was Japan’s formal release of its secret deal with the U.S., illegally hiding the fact that the Japanese … Continue reading
EPA’s Secret Plan to Raise Public Radiation Exposure Levels Challenged WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2009 (ENS) – Public employees have filed a lawsuit demanding documents related to the U.S. EPA’s plans made “in secrecy” to allow public exposure to increased … Continue reading
The hidden cost of Britain’s new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= The desert, with its towering … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving! This was a small news week, however, many stories that hit were powerful wacks to the the nuclear industry, like the South-Texas CPS scandal where the utility was caught lying to the public over the real construction costs. … Continue reading
A modest week in the news. Boy, I wished somebody else knew how to work with social bookmarks! On the international scene, the British Labour Party announced their latest, brand new push to build 10 new reactors. A Turkish court … Continue reading
What a difference a week can make in the news! Even as Maryland was busy locking in a devastating new nuclear nazi agenda over letting France drive this country’s nuclear agenda, Areva and EDF took one of its worst beatings … Continue reading