By Harvey Wasserman | EcoWatch | March 16, 2015 Four years after the multiple explosions and melt-downs at Fukushima, it seems the scary stories have only just begun to surface. Given that Japan’s authoritarian regime of Shinzo Abe has cracked down on the information flow from Fukushima with a repressive state secrets act, we cannot know […]
RT | February 22, 2015 Another radioactive water leak in the sea has been detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility’s operator TEPCO announced. Contamination levels in the gutter reportedly spiked up 70 times over regular readings. The sensors are connected to the gutter that pours rain and ground water from the plant […]
By Oliver Tickell | Ecologist | February 18, 2015 The discovery of over 16,000 cracks in two Belgian reactor vessels may have global implications for nuclear safety, says the country’s nuclear safety chief. He and independent experts are calling for the immediate checks of nuclear reactor vessels worldwide. Thousands of cracks have been found in […]
By HARVEY WASSERMAN | CounterPunch | February 17, 2015 As the world’s nuke reactors begin to crumble and fall, the danger of a major disaster is escalating at the decrepit Davis-Besse plant near Toledo, Ohio. Now the plant’s owners are asking the Ohio Public Utilities Commission to force the public to pay billions of dollars over the next 15 years to subsidize […]
By JOHN LAFORGE | CounterPunch | February 11, 2015 A high-level radioactive waste “parking lot” — proposed for West Texas — poses both terrible and unnecessary risks for people throughout the country — Texas in particular — and should not be built. That’s the position of a coalition of public interest groups that declared its […]
By Jim Naureckas | FAIR | January 27, 2015 “US, India Move Forward on Nuclear Energy Deal” read the headline at the top of USA Today’s front page (1/26/15). Moving forward–that sounds good, doesn’t it? The subhead was “Obama makes progress on the 1st day of his 3-day visit”–making progress also generally being seen as […]
RT | January 22, 2015 Austria plans to take the European Commission to court over its approval of state subsidies to the $24-billion nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C, which is set to become the UK’s first new nuclear reactor in two decades. Last October, the EU approved a UK state subsidy request for the […]
RT | January 15, 2015 The UK government has refused to reveal whether the National Security Council approved or discussed China’s investment in a proposed £24.5 billion nuclear power plant in the UK, Hinkley Point C, citing “national security.” Despite a BBC Freedom of Information request for information regarding China’s expected 30-40 percent stake in […]
Press TV – January 15, 2015 US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Bulgaria to end its dependence on Russia for energy. Kerry made the remarks on Thursday in meetings with Bulgaria’s president, prime minister and foreign minister in the capital Sofia. Bulgaria must move toward “diversifying supplies and distribution and increasing connectivity […]
