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Nuclear Power Costs Enter Uncharted Territory
Nuclear Power Costs Enter Uncharted Territory Many international businesses are hoping to cash in on disposal of nuclear waste. (StefrogZ via Flickr) LONDON—If you want a job for life, go into the nuclear industry—not building power plants, but taking them down and making them safe, along with highly-radioactive spent fuel and other hazardous waste involved. […]
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disaster a generation earlier. But Fukushima is arguably worse than Chernobyl. There were […]
One Step Closer to Blackouts
One Step Closer to Blackouts On Thursday 24th March, Longannet Power Station closed down. This 2.4 GW, coal fired giant, was the beating heart of Scottish Electricity supply. The station opened in 1970 and was arguably past its sell by date. The Scottish supply is now based on nuclear, wind and imports with a little […]
Five Years After Fukushima, 16 U.S. Cleanup Ships Are Still Contaminated With Radiation
Five Years After Fukushima, 16 U.S. Cleanup Ships Are Still Contaminated With Radiation The Fukushima disaster was over five years ago, and may have been largely forgotten by the general public and the media (perhaps because the Japanese olympics are just four years from now), but its effects still linger. Perhaps nowhere more so than […]
Analysis: The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Analysis: The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster © Noboru Hashimoto/Corbis/Pool Five years ago, on 11 March 2011, a large region of Japan was shaken for three minutes by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The movement was so severe that the country moved a few metres east, the local coastline dropped, and it triggered a tsunami which killed […]
The Next Fukushima? Active Fault Line Discovered Directly Below Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
The Next Fukushima? Active Fault Line Discovered Directly Below Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Five years after the Fukushima disaster, things are getting worse. As we reported last week, “the fuel rods melted through their containment vessels in the reactors, and no one knows exactly where they are now. Tepco has been developing robots, which can […]
Fukushima Five Years Later: “The Fuel Rods Melted Through Containment And Nobody Knows Where They Are Now”
Fukushima Five Years Later: “The Fuel Rods Melted Through Containment And Nobody Knows Where They Are Now” Today, Japan marks the fifth anniversary of the tragic and catastrophic meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan, killing 20,000 people. Another 160,000 then […]
What Happens to Nuclear Power Plants Following an EMP?
What Happens to Nuclear Power Plants Following an EMP? ReadyNutrition guys and gals, we have covered some bases on the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) and how to prepare the home and supplies against it. One of the major problems with the EMP is not just what will not work regarding unshielded equipment, but what will happen […]
‘Shocking how many people died in Fukushima’ – documentary director to RT
‘Shocking how many people died in Fukushima’ – documentary director to RT © Carlos Barria / Reuters Five years ago a killer tsunami knocked out the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, spewing radiation and forcing 160,000 people to flee their homes. Authorities in Japan want locals to think “nothing happened,” documentary director Jeffrey Jousan told RT. […]
Indian Point: Fukushima’s Mini-Me
Indian Point: Fukushima’s Mini-Me Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant New York continually leaks radioactivity into the Hudson River. This has been going on for years. Seriously! Meanwhile, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo agrees with advocacy groups such as Riverkeeper, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and The Sierra Club to close Indian Point. Why? Environmentalists claim the […]
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million […]
Japan Hits Demographic Tipping Point With First Official Population Decline In History
Japan Hits Demographic Tipping Point With First Official Population Decline In History As troubling as Japan’s deflationary, and now negative interest rate, economic quagmire is, the biggest threat facing Japan has little to do with its balance sheet and everything to do with its demographics, for the simple reason that not only is Japan’s population […]
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis
Fukushima’s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis March 11th is the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan’s NHK broadcaster recently conducted a poll of how citizens feel about nuclear power. According to NHK’s poll results, over 70% are in favor of completely or partially abandoning nuclear power plants. Nothing too surprising about that, but […]
Fukushima Mon Amour
Fukushima Mon Amour Is the crisis in Fukushima over or just beginning? You might be forgiven for scratching your head at that one. Nearly five years after the nuclear meltdown triggered by the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, one of the planet’s worst radioactive catastrophes has almost completely faded from both the media and public […]
Plutonium’s global problems are piling up
Plutonium’s global problems are piling up The nuclear fuel carriers Pacific Heron and Pacific Egret in port at Barrow-in-Furness, England, before setting sail for Japan. Image: CORE Increasing worldwide stockpiles of surplus plutonium are becoming a political embarrassment, a worrying security risk, and a hidden extra cost to the nuclear industry. LONDON, 22 January, 2016 − Two […]
