Radiation Bulletin: July 1st-7th 2013


Summary

rabull-grayGoodness, There were more major stories out of Japan this week than most of the world gets in months! Probably the biggest news was the fact that sometime in September, Japan will once again be without a single nuclear power station. While TEPCo also announced plans to open up another facility, but was forced to also delay those plans as well! Then the story that cesium reaching the highest they’ve been since the main days of the disaster. New Fires, a secret pluthermal deal with the US, another rat problem and Helen Caldicott’s symposium rounded the top news. Taiwan’s nuclear scam referendum continues to spark opposition. A couple of German journalists were in arrested in India, a radiation release secret was exposed, while an activist wrote a piece saying that the nuclear push in India is about to collapse. A floating windmill arrives in Japan while the biggest offshore wind system of it kind went online in the UK. Revelations that French atmospheric tests were substantially higher than previously acknowledged came out. A lot of interesting political upheaval in Europe took place, including stories out of Chernobyl, while to our border to the north the proposed waste dump continues to stir controversy.

Vogtle got its DOE loan extension. New reactors in the Northwest were proposed! A scandal with the Texas dump hit, while editorials are starting to mount about the new HLW legislation grow with the plans including a new agency to manage the process as well as an intermediate storage plan. The sequestration budget cuts is effecting all kinds of DOE funding, especially cleanup. A wrongful death suit was file at Arkansas one, where a worker died earlier this year. An interesting story on the costs of cleaning up the N-weapons mess, for example six years ago the estimate stood between $270-330 billion… Waste issues will grow across the country, with locals in South Carolina coming together to make plans to bring waste there. While an excellent story points out that there are over 3,500 n-weapons still awaiting dismantlement while 2/3rds of DOE’s budget still goes for weapons and is as high as it ever was, not to mention a $136,000 fine at Hanford for its contractor and the continued leaks going on there. Last, its still a fact that Southern Californians are paying for San Onofre, as well as surviving the huge heat wave that hit the state with temperatures as high as 129 degrees.

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