Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Japan: Kan Considered Evacuation of Tokyo in Wake Nuclear Disaster, but Feared Chaos and Collapse of the State
September 30th, 2011Via: ABC: Japan’s former prime minister Naoto Kan has revealed he contemplated evacuating as many as 30 million people from Tokyo and surrounding areas during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Speaking to Japan’s Kyodo News, Mr Kan, who was prime minister during the nuclear crisis, said evacuations on such a scale may have led to Japan […]
U.S. Secretly Asked Japan to Help Dump Nuclear Reactors at Sea
September 29th, 2011Via: Asahi: The United States secretly sought Japan’s support in 1972 to enable it to dump decommissioned nuclear reactors into the world’s oceans under the London Convention, an international treaty being drawn up at the time. Countries working on the wording of the pact wanted to specifically prohibit the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. […]
Michigan: Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Venting “Low” Level Radioactive Steam
September 27th, 2011Via: Michigan Messenger: Entergy’s Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven is venting radioactive steam into the environment as part of an unplanned shutdown triggered by an electrical accident. This shutdown, which began Sunday evening, came just five days after the plant restarted from a shutdown that was caused by a leak in the plant’s cooling […]
Japan: Radioactive Zone Bigger Than That Left by Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
September 27th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. Takako Harada, 80, returned to an evacuated area of Iitate village to retrieve her car. Beside her house is an empty cattle […]
Japanese Government to Invite Foreigners Who Have Large Facebook and Twitter Networks to Tohoku So That They Can Tell Their Followers “Japan Is Safe”
September 19th, 2011Do they get to bring their own dosimeters? Via: EX-SKF: Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have started to make preparations for inviting people from overseas who disseminate information via the social media such as Facebook and Twitter, as part of the countermeasures against “baseless rumors” that have damaged sales of Japanese agricultural products and tourism […]
Siemens Exits Nuclear Business
September 19th, 2011Via: The Local: German industrial giant Siemens is turning the page on nuclear energy, the group’s CEO Peter Löscher told the weekly Der Spiegel in an interview published on Sunday. “We will no longer be involved in overall managing of building or financing nuclear plants. This chapter is closed for us,” he said, explaining that […]
U.S. Unable to Account for 36k Pounds of Its Own Weapons Grade Uranium and Plutonium
September 15th, 2011This is madness. Via: Business Insider: Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material. The Government Accountability Office report says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border […]
Utility Paid $200K for Positive Web Stories on Fake News Site
September 14th, 2011Via: CBS News: A Southern California water utility paid nearly $200,000 in taxpayer dollars for glowing coverage from a website that boosted its profile on Google, according to a newspaper report. The Los Angeles Times reports that officials from the Central Basin Municipal Water District used public funds to have a consultant produce promotional stories […]
Explosion at French Nuclear-Waste Plant Leaves One Dead, 4 Hurt
September 12th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: An explosion at a nuclear-waste plant in the south of France left one person dead and four people injured, according to Electricite de France, which operates the site. EDF said there was no radioactive or chemical leak at the plant at Marcoule in Le Gard. The fire at a furnace at the plant […]
Blackout Stretches from Orange County Down Into Mexico
September 9th, 2011Via: NBC San Diego: As night fell in San Diego County, millions of residents were left in the dark, wondering when power would return after a failure in the system created a cascade effect, knocking electricity out all the way to Orange County and down into Mexio. A glimmer of hope came in the darkness […]
