UN Special meeting on Fukushima 9-22

logoThe United Nation’s will be conducting a special meeting on September 22nd concerning the tragic events in Japan and the following meltdowns at Fukushima. This special meeting is will likely be highly controversial in terms of how the UN and its internal structure which places the International Atomic Energy Agency at the top of the UN hierarchy. It is urgent that the general public call for NGO’s and the US representatives don’t whitewash what has and is happening at Fukushima.

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Radiation Bulletin: DOE/Fuel Cycle Sept 5th – 11th 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Radiation Bulletin: US/Cal News: September 5th – 11th 2011

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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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Government Documents: September 5th – 10th 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Radiation Bulletin: DOE/Fuel Cycle News Aug 29th – Sept 4th 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Radiation Bulletin: Cal./US News August 29th – Sept 4th 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Radiation Bulletin: Government Docs: Aug 29th – Sept 2nd 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Radiation Bulletin: DOE/Nuclear Fuel Cycle News August 22nd – 28th 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Radiation Bulletin: Government Docs: Aug 22nd – 26th 2011

radbullThe 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.

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DOE – Fuel Cycle News: August 15th – 21st 2011

radbullThe 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.

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Resolution of the All India Anti-nuclear Convention


Anti-nuclear activists from across India Met on August 10th to call for the closure of that country’s nuclear infrastructure. As the nature and extent of Fukushima continue to be censored by the global media, the back story out of Japan has ignited a global campaign with the recent meetings and organizing are just getting underway

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Report: Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World

wwThe World Watch Institute released a detailed review of nuclear power around the world. The report shows that nuclear is declining and is no longer competitive with or as desirable as renewables or energy efficiency.

Fukushima has put a damper on public support for nuclear worldwide as shown by a number of polls. As the 6th month anniversary of Fukushima approaches, we can expect the nuclear industry to unleash a global campaign to promote itself, on a par not seen in years. As the radiation, lies and deceit leak out of Japan, it will be important for the alternative media to compile what’s happening and why the nuclear nabobs need to be put in their place.

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The Diablo Blockade

This is the detailed Story of the Abalone Alliance’s historic 18 day blockade at Diablo Canyon. It is still the largest act of civil disobedience at a commercial US nuclear reactor when over 1900 arrests took place. Its being posted in remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the blockade’s September 10th, 1981 action.

The Alliance was formed in June of 1977 and at its peak was made up of groups from across California, with the goal of stopping Diablo Canyon from operating. On the last day of the blockade a newly hired 25 year old PG&E engineer discovered that the seismic supports were put in upside down. See the previous article for more details on this dramatic discovery!

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Diagram Goof Delays Diablo

Just as the Abalone Alliance’s historic 20 day blockade at Diablo Canyon was coming to an end, a 25 year old, newly hired engineer discovered that Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) had built seismic bracing for unit one upside down. The dramatic error took place after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had given the go ahead to load and start operation of Diablo Canyon unit one. It would force PG&E to do 3 more years of work and over $3 billion repairing the critical error and hundreds of more problems that were also found.

Here is the Abalone Alliance’s article of the design errors in its October 1981 Newsletter.

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PG&E’s Hole in the Head

This is a wonderful tale about PG&E’s attempt to build what would have been the largest nuclear complex in the world a short distance from the epicenter of the 1906 quake that devastated San Francisco. Maybe folks forget that it was PG&E and its newly formed company’s gas lines that burned the city down in 1906. But opposition to PG&E’s plans in 1958 would become the first anti-nuclear power campaign in US history.

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Cal Nukes on Faultlines: Shut Them Down Now!

The California Energy Commission (CEC) will be holding hearings on July 26th concerning the state’s long term power needs. Last spring the CEC sent out data requests to both Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) concerning safety related issues at their nuclear facilities. The CEC list of questions was extensive. Both PG&E and SCE have replied to CEC’s data request and those documents were publicly made available for review on July 14th. It should be noted that PG&E did not respond to a single question, but instead submitted 36 seismic reports several hundred pages long.

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Nuclear Roulette: new book puts a nail in coffin of nukes

ImageActivists are suspicious of “studying the problem” that puts off action in favor of endless talk (or publishing). Culture Change went beyond studying the problem soon after its founding in 1988: action and advocacy must get to the root of the crises to assure a livable future. Also, information overload and a diet of bad news kills much activism. So it’s hard to find reading material to strongly recommend. But the new book Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against the “Nuclear Renaissance” is must-have if one is fighting nukes today.

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