Daughter of deceased priest leads reconstruction prayers at makeshift shrine in Fukushima / Mainichi Daily / February 20, 2012 / NAMIE, Fukushima — The daughter of a priest here who was killed in the huge tsunami triggered by the March 11 Great E…
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Daughter of deceased priest leads reconstruction prayers at makeshift shrine in Fukushima / Mainichi Daily / February 20, 2012 / NAMIE, Fukushima — The daughter of a priest here who was killed in the huge tsunami triggered by the March 11 Great E…
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There is no official word yet, but the rumor from insiders at the plant is that the problem with the new generators may be very time consuming and difficult to resolve. It seems that the
tubes have been conf…
(Total shutdown continues due
to failing new
generators which cost us $680 Million)
I asked this question of a whistle blower who was a licensed nuclear
operator at San Onofre and got the following exp…
Japan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge / Toronto Sun / February 18, 2012 / A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was ro…
Continue readingvia DailyMotion / February 15, 2012 / Japanese Gov’t Appointed 9 College Beauty Queens… ??? sievert311 MORE ON THIS STORY: Fukushima Ambassadors to “Eat and Support East Japan”
Continue readingby Brennan David / Columbia Daily Tribune / February 18, 2012 / A Columbia-based coalition has joined 36 groups across the county in a petition that would expand emergency evacuation zones around nuclear reactors. The formal request to the Nuclear Regu…
Continue readingFukushima USA
TAKE ACTION NOW:
Email these people. Ken Alex (nuclear point man for Gov Brown) at http://www.cp-dr.com/contact < span=””>>; Lori Donchak ; Tim Brown ; Bob Baker ; PatBates@ocgov.com, This a sample letter ab…
Continue readingby Caroline Lucas, Rebecca Harms, and Dany Cohn-Bendit / The Guardian / February 17, 2012 / Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit are co-presidents of the Greens/EFA group in the European parliament On 11 March last year, Japan was hit by massive earthqu…
Continue readingBefore you read this, I’d just like to point out that this is DAY 17 without any nuclear power coming from San Onofre, and the lights are still on. I think maybe they need us more than we need them.
Mayor and Councilmembers,
After coming so far …
Continue readingYokosuka groups object to disaster debris burial / NHK / February 17, 2012 / Residents in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, are objecting to a plan to bury incinerated disaster debris from eastern Japan at a site in their neighborhood. Representatives of 10 commun…
Continue readingby Linda Sieg and Yoko Kubota / via Reuters / February 17, 2012 / Nearly a year after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger crisis forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo a…
Continue readingby Yoko Kubota / via Reuters / February 17, 2012 Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people…
Continue readingOnly 10 prefectural governments willing to accept quake rubble / Mainichi Daily / February 17, 2012 Only 10 prefectural governments are actively considering accepting rubble from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged areas of northeastern Honshu, while 26 ot…
Continue readingby Edoardo Magnone / ScienceDirect.com / February 15, 2012 / Abstract Suppose there is a scientist that writes a paper for a peer-reviewed journal. How likely is it that a natural disaster will terminate, change, suspend or discontinue some aspect of t…
Continue readingvia whoi.edu / February 16, 2012 / The March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radioactivity releases from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants resulted in the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history. In a spe…
Continue readingLatest occured 2 hours ago centered 15km from plant at depth of 10km via ENEnews.com / February 17, 2012 / Title: Earthquake Information Source: Japan Meteorological Agency Date: Feb 17, 2012 04:29 JST 17 Feb 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M2.9 1 02:42 JST 17 …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 16, 2012 / The Japanese government is going to make these young women eat food from the nuclear-disaster affected Tohoku and Kanto to support the recovery. This is simply beyond my comprehension. Some on Twitter call it “stu…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / February 15, 2012 / Follow-up to Radiation spikes throughout Greater Tokyo Area on Feb. 14 — One of highest seen in months (Gov’t Data) Title: National radioactivity concentration Source: atmc.jp Date: Feb. 15, 2012 Graphe…
Continue readingvia Reuters / February 16, 2012 / A state bailout fund for Tokyo Electric is likely to agree to less than 50 percent voting rights despite its planned 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) capital injection but will seek more if the troubled utility does not …
Continue readingDocuments show Japan, U.S. at odds over IAEA nuclear inspections / Mainichi Daily / February 16, 2012 / TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan and the United States clashed with each other over nuclear inspection provisions with the International Atomic Energy Ag…
Continue readingSeiichi Nakate on March 11 Nuclear Accident: “We Weren’t Told About Anything, and Cover-Up and Safety Propaganda Engulfed Fukushima” / via ex-SKF / February 15, 2012 / Mr. Nakate is the head of “Fukushima Network to Protect Chil…
Continue readingby James Burgess / via HuffingtonPost.com / February 14, 2012 / As the radioactive clean-up following the disaster at Fukushima gets under way, the close relationship between the nuclear industry and the Japanese government becomes more obvious. I say …
Continue readingThermometers a Hot Topic at Fukushima Daiichi / Wall Street Journal / February 15, 2012 / Fukushima Daiichi operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday said that one of the thermometers attached to its No. 2 reactor was almost certainly on the blink. …
Continue readingJapan group seeks local referendum on nuclear power / Reuters / February 14, 2012 / TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A group of Japanese activists submitted a petition to the western city of Osaka on Tuesday seeking a referendum on scrapping atomic powe…
Continue readingby Takeo Miyazaki and Kunihiko Yasue / Daily Yomiuri / February 15, 2012 / A fierce tug-of-war between the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. over the utility’s management is becoming more apparent as the government seeks a level of control …
Continue readingby Arnie Gundersen / Fairewinds.com / Feb 6, 2012 / New Containment Flaw Identified in the BWR Mark 1 from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Fairewinds shows that the nuclear industry’s plan to vent the containment at Fukushima Daiichi could …
Continue readingTaro Nishijima / Daily Yomiuri / February 14, 2012 / LOS ANGELES–The impending arrival of debris swept into the Pacific after the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake has many residents of the West Coast of the United States and Hawa…
Continue readingChris Meyers / Reuters / February 13, 2012 / OKUMA, Japan, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Back home for just three hours, a tearful Miyoko Takeda sorted through her belongings. She left behind the kimonos she once wore as a traditional dancer, fearful they m…
Continue readingNew Fukushima scare blamed on faulty thermometer / Reuters / February 13, 2012 / (Reuters) – A scare over temperatures rising near danger level in a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers are battling to prevent a resurgence of…
Continue readingby CommonDreams / via prd34.blogspot.com / February 3, 2012 / An upcoming study shows the future for birds and insect life around Fukushima has been badly damaged, an ominous sign of things to come. The study, set to be published next week in Environme…
Continue readingSurfing For Change, created and hosted by Kyle Thiermann is a free youtube series and is on a mission is to shatter the myth that activists don’t have any fun.
If you want to get in touch with Kyle, Tweet: @Surfing4ChangeAging Nuke Plants On Fault …
Continue readingFor all of those within 100 miles of San Clemente, please try to make an appearance at our City Council Meeting tonight!
6:00pm at City Hall 100 Avenida Presidio (Oral Communications Part 1 – not
very long)
Please show (friendly, respectful, qui…
Continue readingTemperature Soars Inside Fukushima Reactor
TOKYO – The temperature of a reactor at
Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has soared and remained
mysteriously high Monday, despite more water being pumped through it.
The facility’s …
Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear on the radiation leaks at San Onofre.
Did you know that 75% of Nuke plants leak radiation into the surrounding environment? Google it!
San Onofre: “It’s Just That Broken”
San Onofre Radiation Fallout Map
The …
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The 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.
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 readingWhat does a Banana have in common with a Nuke plant?
Nothing.
Ones waste will need to be cooled, guarded & bureaucrated for 500,000 years.
The other you feed to your children.
Questions? Watch this video below.
Aging Nuke Plants On F…
Continue readingThere is a very serious problem going on at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station but all we hear from SCE & NRC is the same old story they always say “everything is safe, very little if any radioactivity was released,”you will be fine co…
Continue readingIf you have not read the ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954
(http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/treaties/atomic-energy-act/trty_atomic-energy-act_1954-08-30.htm), I would not only encourage you to do so I would ask you and your colleagues to rec…
via SimplyInfo.org / January 27, 2012 / Japan is now down to 3 operating nuclear reactors. With an estimated 30% of their electricity coming from nuclear power there were considerable concerns about meeting the power demand. Last summer Japan institute…
Continue readingvia nf2045.blogspot.com / February 1, 2012 / A couple weeks ago I was interviewed on Corbett Report Radio by independent radio journalist James Corbett (see also his blog Fukushima Update). After the interview, I thought of dozens of ways I could have …
Continue readingACTION ALERT: This my letter the city of San Clemente this morning, if you live in a 100 mile area I hope you while join in writing them now. Email at: George” Dear George and members of the city Council,Yesterday’s emergency shutdown at SONGS i…
Continue readingBy REBECCA SMITH Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday. Experts said upgrading the plants to withstand more substantial …
Continue readingRadioactive water spills into containment dome, yet there is no danger
to the public, officials say.
http://sanclemente.patch.com/articles/operators-shut-down-san-onofre-one-reactor-unit-as-a-precaution#_=
Here we go again. The public rela…
Continue readingNUCLEAR CRISIS–9 MONTHS ON / Focus on radiation screenings ended up claiming patients’ lives : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) NUCLEAR CRISIS–9 MONTHS ON / Focus on radiation screenings ended up claiming patients’ lives The Yomiuri Shimbun … Continue reading
29 Fetuses Found at Uranium Site | News | The Moscow Times 29 Fetuses Found at Uranium Site26 January 2012The Moscow Times Workers uncovered three large jugs filled with the bodies of 29 fetuses as well as other assorted body … Continue reading
The 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.
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 readingWatch Nuclear Aftershocks on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Travel to three continents to explore the debate about nuclear power: Is it safe?
What are the alternatives? And could a Fukushima-style disaster happen in the U.S.?
One man’s fear mon…
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