via theecologist.org / September 28, 2015 / Radiation can be carried long distances by marine currents, concentrated in sediments, and carried in sea spray 16km or more inland, writes Tim Deere-Jones. So Fukushima poses a hazard to coastal populations and any who eat produce from their farms. So what are the Japanese Government and IAEA doing? Ignoring the problem, and failing to gather data. Review of the official Japanese marine … Continue reading →
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Lucas Hixson, the website Enformable’s creator and Beyond Nuclear Board Member, recently returned from a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine. Here is Enformable’s first in a series of editorials the website is posting as we approach…
Continue readingvia EyeWitness News / September 23, 2015 / A Japanese nuclear expert says close to 85 percent of the Japanese population do not trust the use of nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Dr Tatsujiro Suzuki says the public’s mistrust largely stems from the widely held belief that the government has not been transparent about its nuclear policies. In his lecture on nuclear energy policies at the University of … Continue reading →
Continue readingBy Makoto Takada / Asahi Shimbun / September 24, 2015 / Local government officials, evacuees and students are saving personal documents and other historical materials from destruction in a municipality rendered a virtual “ghost town” by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Tomioka town government, which now operates from Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture, has asked residents for help in the preservation project, saying materials kept at a museum alone cannot show … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Youtube / September 24, 2015 / This documentary on the Fukushima Art Project chronicles artist Ai Weiwei’s investigation of the site as well as the project’s installation process. In August 2014, Ai Weiwei was invited as one of the participating artists to originate artwork for the Fukushima Nuclear Zone by the Japanese art coalition Chim↑Pom， as part of the project they initiated called Don’t Follow the Wind . Ai … Continue reading →
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#NRC cancels health study around nuclear plants, including #SanOnofre – The Orange County Register http://t.co/QhVMFNKlRv
— AA Clearinghouse (@AAClearinghouse) September 18, 2015
San Onofre Operators Exposed on #NBC: Massive Contamination at Pristine Beach http://t.co/TcxQu7J2dB #nonukes #climate #security #sec #law
— Cecalli Helper (@Cecalli_Helper) September 22, 2015
The most common wind direction for most of the year was North (Orange County) except in the spring (April-June) when it was to the south (San Diego County).
In 2012, there were 29 incidents of effluent monitoring instruments being out of service for more than 30 days. In 2013 there were 22 such incidents.
It is interesting to examine NRC documents on batch releases after the reactors were shut down (Jan., 2012) compared to when they were in full operation. There were 3 batch releases of gaseous effluents in when Units 2 and 3 were in operation in 2011 (total 44.2 hours). In 2012 (after it was shut down) there were 6 such releases totaling 43.1 hours.
Liquid radioactive batch releases in 2011 totaled 518 hours at 740,000 gal per minute. In 2012 after operation ceased, releases went on for 335 hours at 612,000 gal per minute.
The NRC claims that it cannot afford the $8 million to carry out the cancer study proposed by the National Academy of Sciences. For 2016, the NRC has requested $1.032 billion of which 90% will be paid for by the nuclear industry it is supposed to be regulating. The NRC spends $25 million/year on travel expenses. In 2015, the nuclear industry gave the NRC $43 million for “outreach” and “policy support.”
Ask your local representative to tell the NRC,
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
“NO effluent releases at any time in cases of effluent monitoring instrument failure”
Aging Nuke Dumps On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
#NRC cancels health study around nuclear plants, including #SanOnofre – The Orange County Register http://t.co/QhVMFNKlRv
— AA Clearinghouse (@AAClearinghouse) September 18, 2015
San Onofre Operators Exposed on #NBC: Massive Contamination at Pristine Beach http://t.co/TcxQu7J2dB #nonukes #climate #security #sec #law
— Cecalli Helper (@Cecalli_Helper) September 22, 2015
The most common wind direction for most of the year was North (Orange County) except in the spring (April-June) when it was to the south (San Diego County).
In 2012, there were 29 incidents of effluent monitoring instruments being out of service for more than 30 days. In 2013 there were 22 such incidents.
It is interesting to examine NRC documents on batch releases after the reactors were shut down (Jan., 2012) compared to when they were in full operation. There were 3 batch releases of gaseous effluents in when Units 2 and 3 were in operation in 2011 (total 44.2 hours). In 2012 (after it was shut down) there were 6 such releases totaling 43.1 hours.
Liquid radioactive batch releases in 2011 totaled 518 hours at 740,000 gal per minute. In 2012 after operation ceased, releases went on for 335 hours at 612,000 gal per minute.
The NRC claims that it cannot afford the $8 million to carry out the cancer study proposed by the National Academy of Sciences. For 2016, the NRC has requested $1.032 billion of which 90% will be paid for by the nuclear industry it is supposed to be regulating. The NRC spends $25 million/year on travel expenses. In 2015, the nuclear industry gave the NRC $43 million for “outreach” and “policy support.”
Ask your local representative to tell the NRC,
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
“NO effluent releases at any time in cases of effluent monitoring instrument failure”
Aging Nuke Dumps On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
The Davis-Besse “White Wash of 2012,” applied 40 years too late, backfired by locking water in the walls, which now worsens the Shield Building cracking every time it freezes!
A 38-year old atomic reactor, that has had more close calls with catast…
Radio and t.v. news anchor Thom HartmannTelevision news host Thom Hartmann of “The Big Picture” on RT (photo, left) interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog Kevin Kamps on the latest from Fukushima Daiichi: historic floods after Typhoo…
Continue readingRT hosted Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, who described the Japanese government’s attempt to resettle nuclear evacuees in radioactively contaminated towns like Naraha as a futile effort to create the “illusion of normality.” T…
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#NRC cancels health study around nuclear plants, including #SanOnofre – The Orange County Register http://t.co/QhVMFNKlRv
— AA Clearinghouse (@AAClearinghouse) September 18, 2015
San Onofre Operators Exposed on #NBC: Massive Contamination at Pristine Beach http://t.co/TcxQu7J2dB #nonukes #climate #security #sec #law
— Cecalli Helper (@Cecalli_Helper) September 22, 2015
The most common wind direction for most of the year was North (Orange County) except in the spring (April-June) when it was to the south (San Diego County).
In 2012, there were 29 incidents of effluent monitoring instruments being out of service for more than 30 days. In 2013 there were 22 such incidents.
It is interesting to examine NRC documents on batch releases after the reactors were shut down (Jan., 2012) compared to when they were in full operation. There were 3 batch releases of gaseous effluents in when Units 2 and 3 were in operation in 2011 (total 44.2 hours). In 2012 (after it was shut down) there were 6 such releases totaling 43.1 hours.
Liquid radioactive batch releases in 2011 totaled 518 hours at 740,000 gal per minute. In 2012 after operation ceased, releases went on for 335 hours at 612,000 gal per minute.
The NRC claims that it cannot afford the $8 million to carry out the cancer study proposed by the National Academy of Sciences. For 2016, the NRC has requested $1.032 billion of which 90% will be paid for by the nuclear industry it is supposed to be regulating. The NRC spends $25 million/year on travel expenses. In 2015, the nuclear industry gave the NRC $43 million for “outreach” and “policy support.”
Ask your local representative to tell the NRC,
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
“NO effluent releases at any time in cases of effluent monitoring instrument failure”
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
Participants in the PowerDC rally against Exelon’s takeover of Pepco took a group photo before marching to DC Mayor Muriel Bowwer’s officeBeyond Nuclear staff joined with allies in the PowerDC coalition at the Wilson Building — housing the Executi…
Continue readingBy Akira OIKAWA / via asia.nikkei.com / September 14, 2015 / The Sendai No.1 reactor, Japan’s first active reactor in about two years, has resumed full-scale commercial operations. As safety screening progresses, other suspended reactors are expected to follow, but mostly in the western part of Japan. All 43 reactors in Japan are light-water models. “Light water” simply means normal water. Light-water reactors are further categorized into boiling-water and pressurized-water … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia RT.com / September 15, 2015 / The first batch of radioactive groundwater filtered below “measurable limits” at Japan’s tsumani-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has been dumped into the ocean, as TEPCO seeks to ease toxic water building-up at the site. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) that operates the crippled nuclear plant released its first 850 tons of filtered radioactive groundwater by sundown on September 14. This is a part … Continue reading →
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear decries misleading reports about decontamination in press release today:
TAKOMA PARK, MD, September 14, 2015 — Reports in the press today that “formerly contaminated” groundwater has been dumped from the stricken Fukush…
Beyond Nuclear today released a statement denouncing the NRC’s willingness to squander money on white elephants and protracted licensing proceedings while canceling a vital cancer study around nuclear facilitiies:
TAKOMA PARK, MD, September 11, 2015 &m…
As reported by the Guardian:
The heavy rain, which is expected to spread north on Friday, has also caused additional leaks of radioactive water at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Powe…
Continue reading“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the ‘Linear No-Threshold’ (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theor…
Continue readingAs reported by Politico:
Senate Democrats on Thursday successfully blocked a measure meant to kill President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, dealing a decisive defeat to Republicans’ attempts to derail the controversial agreement and en…
The Ecologist leads, “The well-founded idea that nuclear radiation is dangerous even at the lowest levels is under attack, writes Karl Grossman. Three determined nuclear enthusiasts have filed petitions to the NRC calling on it to apply the doctrine of…
Continue readingEntergy’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor (NRC file photo).The subject line above is Scott Stapf of the Hasting Group’s Tweet pointing to an article at Syracuse.com. The dirty, age-degraded, dangerous, expensive, uncompetitive Fukushima Daiichi twin design …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear today decried the outrageous decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to cancel a study that would have examined cancer incidence and mortalities and the connection to U.S. nuclear facilities.
“Study after study in …
via rte.ie / September 5, 2015 / The Japanese government has lifted the evacuation order for the first town near the crippled Fukushima reactors, more than four years after ordering mass relocations near the tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant. Among communities where the entire population was forced to evacuate after the nuclear crisis started in March 2011, Naraha is the first town to allow all of its residents to return home permanently. It … Continue reading →
Continue readingAs reported by AP:
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s counter-intelligence agency says the number of Russian spies remains high and they are particularly interested in the country’s nuclear program.
The agency, also known as BIS, says in …
A FirstEnergy ratepayer (Shutterstock). In fact, AARP has spoken out forcefully against the FirstEnergy bailout, as at PUCO public comment hearings in Akron, OH — FirstEnergy’s hometown — in Jan. 2015.Should we laugh or cry? David Roberts…
Continue readingAs reported by Christine Legere at the Cape Cod Times, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ranked Entergy’s Pilgrim atomic reactor in Plymouth, MA near Boston as tied for the worst performing in the country.
It is tied for worst p…
A Beyond Nuclear letter to the editor just published at the Cleveland Plain Dealer begins:
To his credit, PUCO chair Andre Porter prioritized safety, in addition to reliability and cost, when it comes to Ohio’s electricity supply (“PUCO Chair Andre…
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) became the 34th senator to support the Iran nuclear agreement, which means President Obama has the votes to sustain his promised veto of any legislation that would attempt to scuttle the deal. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)As r…
Continue readingOPG wants to dump Ontario’s radioactive wastes less than a mile from the shore of Lake Huron!Beyond Nuclear has submitted yet another round of public comments to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and Can…
Continue readingAs reported by the Chicago Tribune, Illinois-based Exelon Nuclear has warned its employees that layoffs may lie ahead, as five atomic reactors in the state continue to hemorrhage money.
Exelon has been buffeted recently. The Washington, D.C. Public …
Photo compliments of Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear-Free CommitteeJim Provance, Columbus Bureau Chief for the Toledo Blade, has reported on “Protests greet FirstEnergy rate request hearings.”
The protest took place at the HQ of PUCO, the Public Utilities Co…
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Exelon must decide by the end of September whether or not Quad Cities’ two reactors will continue operating past May 2017 — the current cut off for their electricity generation capacity commitments. The dirty, d…
Continue readingWith gun violence proliferating at an alarming rate across the United States, federal authorities with Nuclear Regulatory Commission are now investigating a security breach at Exelon’s LaSalle nuclear power plant involving the theft of two handgu…
Continue readingLogo courtesy of Public Citizen’s Energy and Climate ProgramThe Washington, D.C. Public Service Commission has voted unanimously to reject Exelon Nuclear’s attempted takeover of the Mid-Atlantic electric utility Pepco. This blocks the acquisition…
Continue readingvia news.yahoo.com / August 21, 2015 / Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power has halted the ramp-up of power output from its Sendai No. 1 nuclear reactor due to a problem with a pump in the plant’s secondary cooling system, a spokesman said on Friday. Kyushu Electric last week began the restart of the Sendai plant, the first of Japan’s reactors to begin operation under new safety standards introduced in the wake … Continue reading →
Continue readingBy Kunihiko Yoshizawa and Toru Asami / via The-Japan-News.com / August 22, 2015 / On July 31, the Tokyo No. 5 Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution announced its decision that former Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (pictured), 75, and two other former company executives “should be indicted” in connection with the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster. In this case the “will of the people” has … Continue reading →
Continue readingby Ian Fairlie CounterPunch.org August 20, 2015 Official data from Fukushima show that nearly 2,000 people died from the effects of evacuations necessary to avoid high radiation exposures from the disaster. The uprooting to unfamiliar areas, cutting of family ties, loss of social support networks, disruption, exhaustion, poor physical conditions and disorientation can and do result in many people, in particular older people, dying. Increased suicide has occurred among younger … Continue reading →
Continue reading“Japan’s weather agency on Saturday told thousands of residents near a southern city to prepare for a possible evacuation as it upgraded a volcanic eruption warning.” As if nature itself was snubbing nuclear power, seismic activity around the…
Continue readingAugust 15, 2015 via TheGuardian.co.uk Japan’s weather agency on Saturday told thousands of residents near a southern city to prepare for a possible evacuation as it upgraded a volcanic eruption warning. Officials raised their alert to its second-highest level after picking up increasing seismic activity around the volcano Sakurajima, which sits just off the coast of Kagoshima, a city of more than 600,000 people. Activity has spiked since Saturday morning, … Continue reading →
Continue readingMargaret Harrington, host of “Nuclear-Free Future Conversation” on Channel 17/Town Hall Meeting Televsion in Burlington, VT, interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on the Iran Nuclear Deal announced on July 14th, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bo…
Continue readingvia RT.com / August 11, 2015 / Protesters rallied outside Japan’s Sendai nuclear plant and its company’s headquarters to demonstrate against the planned restarting of operations, over four years after the Fukushima disaster that left the entire world horrified. One major concern about the resumption is that no evacuation plans – in case of a Fukushima-style catastrophe – have been disclosed to locals. “There are schools and hospitals near the … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Truth Out / August 11, 2015 / Japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor to generate power since 2013. And that’s really bad news. Remember what happened in 2011? Why Japan closed all of its reactors abruptly and why we’re still tracing the spread of radioactive material across our Pacific Coast and into the atmosphere? First there was an earthquake that did significant damage to that island country – … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia Phys.org / August 11, 2015 / Japan on Tuesday ended a two-year nuclear shutdown in the energy-hungry country, sparked by public fears following the 2011 Fukushima crisis, the worst atomic disaster in a generation. Utility Kyushu Electric Power turned on a reactor at Sendai, about 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) southwest of Tokyo, at 10:30 am (0130 GMT). The 31-year-old reactor—operating under tougher post-Fukushima safety rules—was expected to reach full … Continue reading →
Continue readingIn an op-ed published in the Miami Herald, the Executive Directors of Greenpeace U.S.A. and Sierra Club (Annie Leonard and Michael Brune, respectively), and the President of Friends of the Earth U.S.A. (Erich Pica), have listed the many reasons why nuc…
Continue readingvia ZeroHedge.com / August 8, 2015 When the words “mothballed”, “nuclear”, and “never been done before” are seen together with Japan in a sentence, the world should be paying attention… As TEPCO officials face criminal charges over the lack of preparedness with regard Fukushima, and The IAEA Report assigns considerable blame to the Japanese culture of “over-confidence & complacency,” Bloomberg reports, Japan is about to do something that’s never been … Continue reading →
Continue readingDr. Gordon Edwards, President, CCNRDr. Gordon Edwards, President of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (photo, left), has prepared the following backgrounder in response to the Reuters article, reprinted at Voice of America, about th…
Continue readingBy Jun Hongo via Wall Street Journal August 3rd, 2015 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it successfully removed the largest piece of debris from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant’s Unit 3 reactor, which had fallen inside the spent-fuel pool following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. According to Tepco, the company used two 600-ton cranes to lift the 20-ton fuel-handling machine, which was sitting on top of more than 500 fuel … Continue reading →
Continue readingAs reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ameren Corp. has officially cancelled its proposed new reactor, Callaway 2, by withdrawing its license application from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Ameren has previously suspended the project in M…
Continue readingTsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of Tepco at the time of the accident. Credit Franck Robichon/European Pressphoto Agency As reported by Jonathon Soble in the New York Times, a review panel of private citzens has — for the second time — overruled …
Continue readingby Kentaro Hamada and Osamu Tsukimori via Reuters July 31, 2015 A Japanese civilian judiciary panel on Friday forced prosecutors to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) (Tepco) executives for failing to take measures to prevent the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The decision is unlikely to lead to a conviction of the former executives, after prosecutors twice said they would not bring charges, but means they will be summoned … Continue reading →
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