International Atomic Energy Agency reports radiation release from Japanese nuclear reactor
Japanese authorities also today informed the IAEA at 04:50 CET that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is on fire and radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere.
Japanese Earthquake Update, International Atomic Energy Agency, 15 March 2011 Continue reading
Barry Brook reassures Australians that the Fukushima nuclear plant is safe
The plant is safe now and will stay safe……If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets
Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a Simple and Accurate Explanation, Brave New Climate, Barry Brook, 13 March 2011, [Barry Brook quotes Josef Oehmen, a PhD Scientist, whose father has extensive experience in Germany’s nuclear industry.] Continue reading
Nuclear power still clean and green, despite the antinuke lobby?
we don’t have to sacrifice our efforts to provide safe clean and green nuclear power.
Disaster as divine retribution The Age Boris Johnson March 15, 2011 To take Japan’s quake and tsunami as a sign we should abandon nuclear power would be a further catastrophe…… Continue reading
General Electric and other nuclear companies not worried
The chief executive of General Electric Co, which has built a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, said there was no change in his company’s plans for India
India’s N-plan may take a hit; equipment suppliers not worried Economic Times 15 march 11, Japan’s nuclear crisis will create obstacles for India’s atomic energy programme, but this has not dented the optimism of equipment suppliers such as GE and India’s Larsen and Toubro Continue reading
China to go ahead with nuclear plans, India troubled
But the [USA-India nuclear supply]pact included an unusual liability clause that makes nuclear power plant suppliers, not just operators, liable if accidents occur.
Despite American pressure to change that provision, the Japan disaster could encourage Indian legislators to keep it in place.
G.E. and Westinghouse have said they will stay out of the Indian nuclear market unless the country changes its liability law...
Emerging economies move ahead with nuclear plans, New York Times, by Heather Timmons and Vikas Bajaj, 15 March 11, NEW DELHI — Despite Japan’s crisis, India and China and some other energy-ravenous countries say they plan to keep using their nuclear power plants and building new ones. Continue reading
Japanese nuclear accident has become critical
With radiation levels around the facility up, TEPCO suspects the core of the No.2 reactor has partially melted, a critical nuclear safety situation
Stay indoors: Japanese PM’s order to residents beyond nuclear reactor evacuation zone after blast Sydney Morning Herald, Glenda Kwek March 15, 2011 Radiation levels near a quake-stricken nuclear plant are now harmful to human health, Japan’s government says after explosions and a fire at the facility. Continue reading
Australia’s uranium industry dream bubble about to burst
AUST URANIUM STOCKS CONTINUE TO SLIDE, Business Spectator, 15 March 11, Reuters Shares in Australian uranium miners fell further as Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened and several countries said they would reconsider their position on nuclear power. Continue reading
Australian may be victim of Japan radiation poisoning
Aussie survivor fears radiation poisoning , THE AUSTRALIAN, Greg Stolz, March 15, 2011 THE agony continues for an Australian teacher who may have radiation poisoning from a Japanese nuclear plant explosion, despite her safe arrival back home yesterday.
Hospital tests performed on 27-year-old Emily Peck have not yet revealed whether she was exposed to the fallout from the Fukushima reactor. She may have to be referred to a nuclear radiation specialist in Brisbane…..http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aussie-survivor-fears-radiation-poisoning/story-fn84naht-1226021386547
U.S. Navy worried about crew’s exposure to radiation
The US navy confirmed it had moved the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, support ships and aircraft operations away from Fukushima’s vicinity after the carrier’s instruments detected a plume of low-level radiation from the damaged plant equivalent to a month’s normal exposure..
Fuel rods exposed at Fukushima nuclear plant THE AUSTRALIAN, Peter Alford, 15 March 11, ANOTHER nuclear safety crisis has erupted at the earthquake-crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant as fuel rods that became exposed yesterday afternoon might have started melting down. Continue reading
Pro nuclear stand by Liberal MPs and Labor’s Paul Howes
Opposition Deputy Leader Julie Bishop and Shadow Energy and Resource Minister Ian Macfarlane both did their part to keep nuclear power on the agenda yesterday, with Bishop taking the strongest stance, that “nuclear power is the only low-emission technology currently capable of supplying the constant energy we need for large cities and industry”. ….AWU secretary Paul Howes is still agitating in that direction, saying this issue should still be weighed up “unemotionally”.
A vanishing vision of nuclear power,Business Spectator, Rob Burgess, 15 Mar 2011
On both sides of politics, those who envisage an Australian nuclear power industry are watching that ambition vanish into the distant future. Continue reading
Australian uranium companies optimistic about future
Paladin supplies uranium to American and Asian nuclear plants, and while it has several exploration projects in Australia and Canada, he said the Japanese incident was ”hardly likely” to affect the business.
”It’s not going to have much significance in the long term,” he said……. Mr Crabb said it was ”ghoulish” and ”inappropriate” for anti-nuclear campaigners to be using the Japanese incident for political purposes…baser instincts, such as fear, may have a larger bearing on the market
Reactor reaction wipes $1.5bn from uranium holdings Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Ker March 15, 2011
MORE than $1.5 billion was wiped off the value of uranium stocks yesterday as the market reacted savagely to the nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan.
As explosions rocked Japan’s ailing Fukushima nuclear plant, the market seemed convinced the incident would harm ambitions for uranium to play a bigger role in energy production around the world. Continue reading
Japan’s nuclear power history littered with problems
Japan’s history of civilian nuclear power generation is also littered with problems,
Japan’s Nuclear Half-Century New Matilda, 15 March 11, All eyes are on Fukushima but this is not an isolated crisis. Mark Pendleton looks at how nuclear accidents have shaped contemporary Japan Continue reading
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