How does energy efficiency create jobs? | Grist How does energy efficiency create jobs?2Default badge avatar for A.C.E.E.E. by A.C.E.E.E. RSS feed 18 Nov 2011 5:35 AM This post was written by Casey Bell, senior economic analyst at the American … Continue reading
A case study in how media bias works against clean-air rules | Grist A case study in how media bias works against clean-air rules8Grist admin avatar badge avatar for David Roberts by David Roberts RSS feed 17 Nov 2011 3:45 … Continue reading
The push is on to discredit clean energy investment | Grist There’s always been a tension in U.S. culture between two competing narratives. On one hand, Americans like to think of themselves as pioneers, innovators, forward thinkers — the country … Continue reading
2 ex-TEPCO workers re-elected as assemblymen in Fukushima towns / Mainichi Daily / November 21, 2011 / Two former employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, have been re-elected as t…
Continue readingReuters / November 17, 2011 / France needs to upgrade the protection of vital functions in all its nuclear reactors to avoid a disaster in the event of a natural calamity, the head of its nuclear safety agency said, adding there was no need to close an…
Continue readingvia LifeBoxCompany.com Many people have written me and asked more or less the same question: “What would you do to help heal the Japanese landscape around the failing nuclear reactors?” The enormity and unprecedented nature of this combined natural…
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Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
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This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and state documents.
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingFuture cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden / Mainichi Daily / November 20, 2011 Even if the worst nuclear accident in 25 years leads to many people developing cancer, we may never find out. Looking back on those early days of radiation horror, t…
Continue readingAction plan with #NukeFreeCal a new phone campaign to Governor Brown no relicensing of Ca nuclear power plant’s 916- 445-2841 gov.ca.gov/m_contact.php stand for and with the people’s for safety governor. California does not need to be the next …
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Fukushima saw fewer births after nuclear disaster / NHK / November 18, 2011 / A survey in Fukushima Prefecture shows the number of births fell by 25 percent in the 3 months following the accident at the nuclear power plant. The Japan Association of Obs…
via ex-SKF / November 17, 2011 / Yomiuri Shinbun may have made a fool of itself by summarizing the finding by a university researcher regarding the biological half-life of radioactive cesium in a very exaggerated (and inaccurate) way. If you read the a…
Continue readingvia Enformable.com / November 11 , 2011 / Without the revival of Fukushima Prefecture there will be no restoration of trust and confidence in Japan. In reviving the prefecture it is vital that we hear the opinion of a large number of Fukushima resident…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / November 17, 2011 / Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, …
Continue readingExperts on iodine in Europe: Something very unpleasant has happened — Either serious accident or reactor emergency required venting radioactive substances / via ENEnews.com / November 17, 2011 / ANALYSIS: European radiation safety agencies detect tra…
Continue readingWind direction forecast was concealed after the explosion of reactor 1 / Fukushima-Diary.com / November 17, 2011 / Immediately after reactor 1 had its hydrogen explosion on 3/12/2011, the wind direction forecast of meteorological bureau was concealed. …
Continue readingtheworld.org / November 15, 2011 / CLICK HERE TO LISTEN The nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is considered the second worst nuclear disaster in history. A new report by a group of American nuclear experts describes in detail what h…
Continue readingSmartphone geiger counter developed / Daily Yomiuri / November 16, 2011 A manufacturer in Otamamura, Fukushima Prefecture, has developed a geiger counter that allows users to display radiation readings on a smartphone. Sanwa Corp. was to release the pr…
Continue readingFukushima-Diary.com / November 15, 2011 / Although there are so many people to suffer from nosebleeds, diarrhea, fatigue or coughing,it has been denied, bashed, and labeled as harmful rumor. A twitter user made a map to put each low dose symptom into J…
Continue readingFukushima-Diary.com / November 15, 2011 / Fukushima is the sea version of Chernobyl Chernobyl had radiation drift in the jet stream in the sky. Fukushima leaks radiation into the sea. I therefore think the core problem is not the contamination of Japan…
Continue readingParts of Japan too radioactive to farm, say int’l researchers / JapanToday.com / November 15, 2011 / Farmland in parts of Japan is no longer safe because of high levels of radiation in the soil, scientists have warned, as the country struggles to…
Continue readingnf2045.blogspot.com / November 13, 2011 / Experts then, experts today. Is it any different today as we see many medical specialists telling us that international standards for radiation exposure are needlessly much too low? Just relax, breathe it all i…
Continue readingAssessment of individual radionuclide distributions from the Fukushima nuclear accident covering central-east Japan Norikazu Kinoshitaa,1,2, Keisuke Suekia, Kimikazu Sasaa, Jun-ichi Kitagawaa, Satoshi Ikarashia, Tomohiro Nishimuraa, Ying-Shee Wonga, Yu…
Continue readingCesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident Teppei J. Yasunaria,1, Andreas Stohlb, Ryugo S. Hayanoc, John F. Burkhartb,d, Sabine Eckhardtb, and Tetsuzo Yasunarie aUniversities Space Research Associati…
Continue readingvia YouTube user AluminumStudios: RELATED: Review by Nika – Fukushima-Diary.com Antinuclear-plant protesters rally in Fukuoka – Japan Times
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 14, 2011 / Reactor 4: A young worker standing to listen to Goshi Hosono, Minister in charge of the accident, speak: Both photos were taken by the AP photographer David Guttenfelder. For more high impact photos, go to cryptome.org …
Continue readingThe readings at the Fukushima Medical University close to the damaged nuclear power plant make grim reading Technology Review / November 14, 2011 / Today, an insight into the conditions in the region surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant soon a…
Continue readingTaking thyroid tests to the children in Fukushima / NHK / November 14, 2011 / Doctors in Fukushima Prefecture are hitting the road to improve children’s’ access to thyroid tests in an effort to spot possible health problems associated with …
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)and state documents.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingex-SKF / November 12, 2011 / A woman in a public forum asked a question to the two panelists: Why did my friend die? The event was held in Sapporo City on November 6, 2011. Her friend was a member of the special rescue unit of the Fire Department (prob…
Continue readingFukushima’s Radiant Media Junket / BagNews / November 12, 2011 / Oh, are there photos from yesterday’s Fukushima media junket orchestrated by TEPCO and the Japanese Government. (The NYT ran 14 pics, The Daily Mail used 18, CBS ran 31.) Getty photog…
Continue reading[youtube lC11-uynV1Q nolink] Think Progress: From It By Public Lands Team on Nov 4, 2011 at 3:13 pm By Jessica Goad, Manager of Research and Outreach, Center for American Progress Action Fund. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress … Continue reading
via Euronews: RELATED: Fukushima plant workers’ base of operations opened to media – Mainichi Daily Fukushima plant opened to journalists – NHK
Continue readingGov’t updates radiation maps with data on six new prefectures / Mainichi Daily / November 12, 2011 The government has released soil radiation maps covering a much broader swath of Japan than previous releases, covering six new prefectures. The ne…
Continue readingFukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant / Fairewinds.com / November 11, 2011 / Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant from Fairewinds Associates on Vim…
Continue readingvia YouTube: EDF fined €1.5m for spying on Greenpeace / The Guardian / November 10, 2011 France’s state energy firm EDF has been fined €1.5m by a Paris court for spying on Greenpeace. Its head of nuclear production security in 2006, Pascal Du…
Continue readingCanadian Collaborative for Radiation Awareness & Monitoring “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead) What is the Canadian Collaborative…
Continue readingby Lisa Grossman / New Scientist / November 8, 2011 / The Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan plans to revise its criteria for determining if a damaged nuclear power plant is poised to start a dangerous, “critical” chain reaction of fissi…
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Continue readingTEPCO to monitor xenon at Fukushima plant / NHK / November 10, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO says that it will install devices to detect radioactive xenon and determine any occurrence of nuclear criticality. Radioactive xenon was detected …
Continue readingScientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths.
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Continue readingSmaller increase in children’s weight in Fukushima / NHK / November 7, 2011 A survey shows that some children in Fukushima Prefecture have smaller average weight gains this year compared to the year before. A pediatrician says the results indicat…
Continue readingTEPCO begins removing cesium from spent fuel pool / NHK / November 7, 2011 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing radioactive cesium from water in the spent fuel pool of one of the damaged reactors. Tokyo Electri…
Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 4, 2011 / Much recent discussion has occurred regarding the recent developments at Reactor 2.If sustained criticality is occurring inside (or outside) of the containment, then there is constant danger of cr…
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