March 2 Energy News — geoharvey
Opinion: ¶ “California’s Primary Comes Amid A Dramatic Battle Over Nuclear Energy” • The California March 3 primary comes amid an atomic struggle whose outcome will hugely impact the nation and world, including the global climate crisis, the Green New Deal, and the outcome of the 2020 election. Ground Zero is the Diablo Canyon nuclear […]
How to run the National Electricity Market on 96 per cent renewables — RenewEconomy
Windlab simulation of 96% renewable NEM shows very high renewables penetration is possible with boosted wind and solar, firmed by existing hydro and readily achievable levels of storage. The post How to run the National Electricity Market on 96 per cent renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Victoria energy efficiency market rides wave of optimism, NSW hopes to follow — RenewEconomy
After an eye-watering rally, VEEC market settles in mid $30s awaiting government’s response. Meanwhile, a waiting game of sorts is also playing out north of the border. The post Victoria energy efficiency market rides wave of optimism, NSW hopes to follow appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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As If Nothing Had Occurred: Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs
March 1, 2020 Akihiro Ogawa Abstract: This paper argues the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has raised people’s awareness of concerns over radiation exposure as a form of social movement. One example is the Shinjuku demonstration, organized by the Network to Evacuate People from Radiation, which constantly advocates for protecting children from continuing radiation exposure. The group raised the issue that […]
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs
March 1, 2020 Koide Hiroaki Translation, with notes and references, by Norma Field Abstract: The Olympic games have always been used to display national might. In recent years, they have become tools for businesses, especially construction companies, which create, and then destroy, large public structures, leading to a colossally wasteful society from which they derive […]
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An Olympic-Sized Disaster Is Brewing in Japan — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs
Tokyo Electric Power Company demonstrates how to measure radiation of water processed in ALPS II (Multi-nuclide retrieval equipment) at the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant, Fukushima, January 22, 2020. February 24, 2020 The 2020 Summer Olympics are coming to Japan — despite two major health scares: radiation from the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima and, more recently, […]
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Poll: 57% oppose dumping water into ocean from Fukushima plant — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs
Tanks storing contaminated water occupy the site of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in August 2019. February 28, 2020 Fifty-seven percent of respondents to a poll in Fukushima Prefecture say they oppose the government’s plan to release tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant […]
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South Australia separates from NEM, again, as interconnector troubles return — RenewEconomy
South Australia again disconnected from the rest of the National Electricity Market, as another issue hits the Heywood interconnector. The post South Australia separates from NEM, again, as interconnector troubles return appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Germany hits record 61 per cent renewables for month of February — RenewEconomy
Throughout February German renewables regularly provided around 60% or more of the country’s electricity production – including more than a dozen days around or above 70%. The post Germany hits record 61 per cent renewables for month of February appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Carnegie looks to boost CETO 6 wave power efficiency, reliability and smarts — RenewEconomy
A sparsely-worded half-year results statement says Carnegie is continuing to progress its CETO 6 wave energy technology, with “innovation opportunities” and smart controls. The post Carnegie looks to boost CETO 6 wave power efficiency, reliability and smarts appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Tasmania boosts renewable hydrogen aspirations with $50m “action plan” — RenewEconomy
Tasmania eyes renewable hydrogen exports within a decade with $50 million, 10-year renewable hydrogen action plan. The post Tasmania boosts renewable hydrogen aspirations with $50m “action plan” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Australia’s early nuclear history – a scandalously crooked co-operation with Britain
The British also deliberately spread plutonium dust over the outback in so called safety tests. Although a number of Australians had knowledge they desperately wanted to share with the Australian people, the Australian government threatened these people with many years jail if they spoke out.
Australian service personnel and their health status records were treated and kept at the Maralinga Hospital. John Hutton was the only involved person to ever see his Maralinga file and actually get to retain a page from it. (He nicked it).
Australia and Britain perfected a medical regime in which medical responses to radiation induced syndromes were solved without documenting the actual diagnosis. The afflicted personnel, with the exception of Mr. Hutton, never got to read their own medical records, all of which disappeared when the British Bombardiers left Australia in the 1960s. And some say they took the Maralinga medical records with them. That’s very close collaboration, isn’t it?
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Part 1 of A Study of the “Report of the inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia” Australian Parliamentary Committee 2020. Nuclear History, 29 Feb 2020 “………..Australia cooperated with the United Kingdom in that nations’ successful attempt to duplicate the Manhattan’s Project plutonium bomb. Prime Minister Menzies, without the approval of ordinary Australians, agreed to the British request to detonate atomic bombs over and on Australia. This involved excluding the Australian Sir Mark Oliphant from participating in the Atomic Weapons Safety Committee (AWTSC). Instead following British desires, Australia appointed the Englishman Professor Titterton, a radar and timing expert, to that committee. Even though the Committee was not a British Committee, but one which was paid for by Australians, and which reported to, and was subordinate to, the Australian government. Titterton rose quickly to head the committee. Justice Jim McClelland, during the Royal Commission into the British Nuclear Bombing of Australia, concluded that Titterton deliberately with held important safety information from the safety committee, the Australian government and the Australian people. Justice McClelland found that Titterton was acting under security protocols imposed by Britain and the United States. And that this was counter to Australian interests and to the safety and security of Australians. The results of this deception against Australia continue to resonant in Australia today. Continue reading
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A Brief Study of Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors
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Burning waste or playing with fire? Waste management considerations for non-traditional reactors, Lindsay Krall &Allison MacfarlanePages 326-334 | Published online: 31 Aug 2018 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 74, 2018. Issue 5 at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00963402.2018.1507791?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rbul20
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Lindsay Krall is a post-doctoral Macarthur fellow at the George Washington University Institute for International Science and Technology Policy. Her research focuses on policies for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, particularly as they pertain to radionuclide transport in the environment, systems and organizations for waste storage and disposal, and the long-term behavior of spent fuels from advanced reactors. Allison Macfarlane is Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She directs the school’s Institute for International Science and Technology Policy Program and is the former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Macfarlane was a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future from 2010-2012.
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Nuclear energy-producing nations are almost universally experiencing delays in the commissioning of the geologic repositories needed for the long-term isolation of spent fuel and other high-level wastes from the human environment. Despite these problems, expert panels have repeatedly determined that geologic disposal is necessary, regardless of whether advanced reactors to support a “closed” nuclear fuel cycle become available. Still, advanced reactor developers are receiving substantial funding on the pretense that extraordinary waste management benefits can be reaped through adoption of these technologies. Here, the authors describe why molten salt reactors and sodium-cooled fast reactors – due to the unusual chemical compositions of their fuels – will actually exacerbate spent fuel storage and disposal issues. Before these reactors are licensed, policymakers must determine the implications of metal- and salt-based fuels vis a vis the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and the Continued Storage Rule.” end quote.Emphasis added for clarity. Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Bernardi need to consider the scientific and technical reality behind the gloss they want to disseminate.
Sign the petition- Fight To Stop A Nuclear Waste Dump In South Australia
Susan Craig Fight To Stop A Nuclear Waste Dump In South Australia, February 23 NO country so far has succeeded in building a permanent high level nuclear waste dump and no material has yet been invented that can withstand the corrosive action of nuclear materials for more than 100 years, This nuclear waste that “they” want to put in “our” South Australia, is intermediate/high level, 100% lethal and remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years and will be stored above ground in a wheat field less than 300kms from Adelaide as the wind blows. The danger will be with us now and forever and ever and ever and ever. Sign the petition NOW. https://www.markparnell.org.au/no_waste_dump_for_sa https://www.facebook.com/groups/941313402573199/
Greens Senator Hanson-Young calls for Senate Nuclear Waste Inquiry to meet in Whyalla, South Australia
 Nuclear bill referred to inquiry https://www.whyallanewsonline.com.au/story/6653019/nuclear-bill-referred-to-inquiry/?cs=1550&fbclid=IwAR3AvrninZlnLmX8r79QDkQopkBb5hXoWhguw106lCyiisCDdmWMy714MPM, Louis Mayfield 27 Feb 20,
The formal process for the federal government’s push for a nuclear waste dump in Kimba will be put under the microscope by the Senate Economics Committee, with a Greens Senator calling for hearing in Whyalla. On Thursday the Greens announced they would be referring the government’s legislation for the Nuclear Radioactive Waste Management Facility to a Senate Inquiry for ‘scrutiny of the laws and the process that led to this point’. South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young requested that the committee organise a public hearing in Whyalla and a visit to the federal government’s chosen site for the facility at Napandee.
“I have requested a hearing in Whyalla because it shouldn’t be left to the suits in Canberra to decide, anything less would be offensive to the communities involved,” she said. Senator Hanson-Young also claimed the site selection for the facility had been ‘dodgy from the start’.
“It’s ripped small communities apart and Traditional Owners have vehemently objected to the proposal,” she said. “It’s clear there isn’t broad community support for a nuclear waste dump in Kimba, despite what former Minister Matt Canavan would have everyone believe.”
“Port Augusta, Whyalla, Port Pirie and Port Lincoln and every town living along potential transportation route, should have been consulted and given an opportunity to have their say,” she said. “The Greens aren’t leaving it to the community of Kimba to hold the line on their own. A Senate Inquiry will give the entire proposal the scrutiny it needs.” The committee has resolved to report on the legislation in June, submissions to the committee are now open and will close at the end of March. |
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