It took over three years before the US acknowledged that a partial meltdown happened at Three Mile Island. A half year after Fukushima its still not clear what caused not one but three reactors to have full meltdowns, at least 3 hydrogen explosions, the undisclosed deaths of workers, billions of dollars of damages and radiation contamination that will effect the region far into the future. Here’s the additional details that played a major part in what happened.
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NHK WORLD English Fukushima assembly OKs reactor decommission The assembly of Fukushima prefecture has adopted a petition calling for the scrapping of all 10 nuclear reactors in the prefecture. The prefecture hosts two Tokyo Electric Power Company-run nuclear stations, one … Continue reading
Potassium iodide
Tuesday night, October 18th, was at least a partial victory for
us in this final meeting the city held in a series of three meetings on
Lessons Learned from Fukushima. It was clear from the beginning that the
council wo…
The 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 readingCity Council will be meeting Tuesday at 6pm/City Hall after a 4 month long investigation into “Lessons Learned From Fukushima”. The Staff Report recommends a series of letters supporting existing initiatives already underway to the higher…
Continue readingIn the words of a great American, Trust But Verify…
San Clemente City Council, Where we can see live radiation readings on the city site?
San Clemente City Council, Do you support the TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT?
Trust Bu…
Downwinders refers to individuals and communities who are exposed to radioactive contamination…
Nuke Plants + Fault Lines + Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingJen Tucker San Clemente Disaster Guru #FAIL
Jen Tucker, SC’s emergency preparedness guru, as a rule,
paints a “no worries, we’ve got it covered” spin to a potential
SONGS hiccup (nuke-jargon for “OMG Chet, it’s happening!!!”)
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Continue readingSan Clemente: Are Regulators And The Nuclear Industry Applying The Valuable Lessons Learned From Fukushima? from Fairewinds Associates
Who is Arnie Gundersen?
Arnie is an energy advisor with 39-years of nuclear power engineering experience. A forme…
Continue readingSONGS and NRC spoke. Now it’s our turn,
to speak, listen and learn the Truth about
SONGS, and why the plant must close, now.
SCGreen has compiled an impressive group
of speakers from the nuke-industry, who oppose
nuclear generation of e…
Continue readingA film depiction of the USGS ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario
Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushima… Any Questions?
Nuke Plants + Fault Lines + Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingPropaganda ends where dialogue begins.
Come be part of this very important conversation about your future and the future of California after the big one hits…
1. San Clemente City Council T…
Continue readingOFFSITE NOTIFICATION TO COUNTY AGENCY DUE TO INADVERTENT WASTEWATER DISCHARGE
“This notification is for San Onofre Units 2 and 3, and is being made in accordance with 10CFR50.72(b)(2)(xi) to report a notification to another government agency regard…
Continue readingSan Clemente California Fukushima USA
In the past 60 years there have been numerous military and nuclear power plant accidents which resulted in radiation poisoning to the public. Three of the biggest disasters were at Three Mile Island (USA), Cher…
Continue readingHealth Physicist & Nuclear Consultant Questions the Role of ICRP, IAEA & WHO at Fukushima Symposium … Continue reading
Into Eternity
How NOT to Learn the Lessons From Fukushima.
As a San Clemente City Manager or Council Member:
1) Exclude the public from voicing their serious safety concerns about SONWGS despite the fact that it was the public that demanded this …
Continue readingNews Release – Energy Commission Approves More Than $3.6 Million in Loans for Energy Efficient Upgrades For Immediate Release: September 7, 2011 Media Contact: Sandy Louey – 916-654-4989 Energy Commission Approves More Than $3.6 Million in Loans for Energy Efficient … Continue reading
Breaking News: Melt OUT was predicted on 3/11 | Fukushima Diary Breaking News: Melt OUT was predicted on 3/11Posted by Mochizuki on September 5th, 2011 · No Comments http://nanohana.me/?p=4545 On March 11, at 22:35, the Cabinet received advice predicting that … Continue reading
News: September 7, 2011 | Fukushima Diary [Japan decides against evacuating Fukushima Prefecture residents] Nothing less than criminal.. The Japanese government has decided to cancel the order to evacuate the residents of several populated areas in the Fukushima Prefecture that … Continue reading
A matter of risk: Radiation, drinking water and deception | khou.com Houston A matter of risk: Radiation, drinking water and deception khou.com Posted on September 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM Updated yesterday at 12:24 PM It’s the water you drink, … Continue reading
Do not turn blindly away, We have seen what happens, While there is still time…
Your voice is needed. Tonight 6 pm 100 Avenida Presidio San Clemente City Council Meeting.
Nuke Plants + Fault Lines + Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any…
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Direct evidence that the dangers of nuclear power have been underestimated.
Atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides from Fukushima
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Nuke Pla…
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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
In an excellent 17 minute presentation on July 15th PBS’s Need to Know laid out the details of the controversial 2008 discovery of the Shoreline Fault just 300 yards from Diablo Canyon. Here’s the presentation. Watch the full episode. See … Continue reading
The 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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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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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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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.
In August 1984 Diablo Canyon was illegally licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Here is an original article written in February 1985 documenting what happened.
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) … Continue reading
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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Activists 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.
By a anonymous contributor 23 June 2011 Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, the meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima continues to alarm people all around the world. The world witnessed the events virtually live … Continue reading
In the Fifties and Sixties the movement against Nuclear Death focused mainly on the military use of Nuclear energy. It was promoted mainly by the German Communist party and its allies, and a layer of left trade-unionists and Social Democrats. … Continue reading
Trip Jennings | The New Mexican Posted: Monday, June 27, 2011 – 6/28/11 A spokesman for Los Alamos National Laboratory said emphatically Monday afternoon that hazardous and nuclear materials on-site aren’t threatened by the fast-moving Las Conchas Fire. The spokesman … Continue reading
Introduction The present survey was conducted in 47 countries across all continents by leading polling companies associated with WIN?Gallup International. Over 34,000 adult men and women representing various sections of society were interviewed across the globe. In the context of … Continue reading
Two Nebraska nuclear stations sitting on the Missouri River floodplain have been in serious danger since early June when a thousand year flood forced the US Army Corps of Engineers do controlled flooding on the river for the entire summer. The story was heavily managed (censored) by the US national media.
The weekly Radiation Bulletin has been published since 1985 by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse (SF California USA).
Every week up 1,000 nuclear news stories are published around the world. The Mainstream media just doesn’t want you know that there are battles over nuclear power and the nuclear fuel taking place around the world. The regular Radiation Bulletin is on vacation, however, here’s a modified weekly review of Global Coverage on the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl.
Continue readingOn April 12th the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Thomas Cochran presented their findings on the radiation impacts from Fukushima before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. It is commendable that Cochran testified that “It is not credible to … Continue reading
On March 21st and April 14th 2011 the California State Senate held two post Fukushima hearings on the safety of nuclear power in California. The first hearing in the days when Fukushima was still news generated major media in California while the 2nd hearing was nearly empty, not even our representatives showed. A promised hearing on emergency planning never took place.
This is a review of those hearings.
Continue readingJapanese workers braved radiation for temp job
KAZO, Japan — The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and
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Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato has expressed anger at the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co., saying both “betrayed” the people of Fukushima Prefecture with repeated assurances about the safety of nuclear
Continue readingDeconstructing Nuclear Experts
By Chris Busby
3-29-11
Since the Fukushima accident we have seen a stream of experts on radiation telling us not to worry, that the doses are too low, that the accident is nothing like Chernobyl and so forth. They appear on television and we read their articles in the newspapers and online. Fortunately the majority of the public don’t believe them. I myself have
Continue readingCNIC Press Conference re Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant At CNIC’s press conference on Saturday night (March 26) an important new perspective on the course of events at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was presented by Mitsuhiko Tanaka. Tanaka … Continue reading
The 3-10-11 9.0 Tohoku earthquake has shook the nuclear world to its knees. An event that was predicted to never occur by every pro-nuclear apologist on the planet just did. The incident at Fukushima wasn’t an event on par with … Continue reading
It is urgent that the general public understand that you will be getting very mixed statements about what amount of radiation is safe vs. what isn’t. When events like this come into play you will be hearing two things: … Continue reading
I was appalled at the NRC chairman Jaczko’s press briefing yesterday when asked point blank how many nuclear reactors in the US were near faults… Instead of answering the question he said that all reactors near faults designed withstand both … Continue reading
The nuclear disaster in Japan is moving very fast. For people who have been historically concerned about this issue, it can be terrifying to get a real handle on just what kind of scale of disaster we are looking at. … Continue reading
I’ve made some major changes to how the newsletter is designed As a result of these changes, I’m now posting them to the website rather than to this blog. The new design has been streamlined so that an average reader … Continue reading
The weekly Radiation Bulletin has been published since 1985 by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse (SF California USA). It is produced using a combination of social bookmarking and programming.
Every week up 1,000 nuclear news stories are published around the world. The Rad Bull distills this down to a more digestible 100 stories. The Mainstream media just doesn’t want you know that there are battles over nuclear power and the nuclear fuel taking place around the world.
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