Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011
1st July, 2011
A prominent Liberal Democrat has called for Chris Huhne to resign immediately as energy and climate change secretary after emails were released detailing his officials’ efforts to co-ordinate a PR response to the Fukushima disaster with the nuclear industry. Civil servants in the energy and business departments were apparently trying to minimise the impact of the disaster on public support for nuclear power.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2011
Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima
30th June, 2011
British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami inJapan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.
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Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2011
Steven C.Jones
20th June, 2011
By way of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occured in 1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst nuclear disaster on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster has 5 nuclear reactors burning, 2 in partial meltdown and 3 in full meltdown- and they’ve ALL been uncontrollably burning since March 11th. Its been over 3 months and this nuclear disaster remains completely out of control. In fact, some industry estimates cite the possibility that these meltdowns will be contained (optimistically) in 1-3 years, at the very earliest.
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2011
13th June, 2011
Berlusconi waves goodbye to nuclear power after big turnout for Italian referendum
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi waved goodbye to nuclear power as Ministry of the Interior figures confirmed that the turnout national referendum was sufficient to repeal a law setting out plans for new plants.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on May 17, 2011
Serge Sargentini
5th May, 2011
Contrarily to what we could think, the disaster of Fukushima Daiichi is just beginning: a new poisoning of the planet Earth is in progress. While many governments are finally becoming aware that the safety of the nuclear reactors cannot be reliable and are thus adopting a radical political change, on the other hand the Japanese people just begin to discover and to assess the extent of the environmental disaster of Fukushima Daiichi.
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Posted by seumasach on May 14, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on May 11, 2011
11th May, 2011
The 22-strong ethics commission set up by Chancellor Angela Merkel to debate the pros and cons of nuclear energy in Germany seems likely to recommend that all nuclear power stations in the country be taken from the grid within the next decade – at the latest.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011
8th May, 2011
The first map of ground surface contamination within 80 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows radiation levels higher in some municipalities than those in the mandatory relocation zone around the Chernobyl plant.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011
Vivian Norris
9th May, 2011
I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushima. Here is what he wrote:
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Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011
9th May, 2011
A vulnerable Japanese nuclear power station is to be closed amid safety fears.
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