tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11146385410094032024-02-18T21:16:22.821-08:00SOLARWINDPRONET - LINKING THE RENEWABLE THINKINGSolarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-88838703724760654592017-04-12T05:34:00.000-07:002017-04-12T05:34:28.748-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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North Korean Nasty Surprise Is about to Blow up - Can We Save the World from a Nuclear Nightmare?</h3>
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The Trump Washington Headquarters is underestimating the North Korean Military Capabilities. It may cause the death of millions!</h4>
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I wrote about North Korean Issue a few years back. Meanwhile the things have developed to a nasty and much more worrying and risky direction - now we are counting days to one of most horrible miscalculations by a superpower in human history.<br />
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<a href="https://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/04/kim-jong-un-could-be-good-leader-for.html" target="_blank">https://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/04/kim-jong-un-could-be-good-leader-for.html</a><br />
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USA will get beaten as in Pearl Harbor. Ignoring the fact that even one nuclear device is enough to fry electronics and paralyze a modern war machine and large area infrastructure for months or years is very dangerous policy.<br />
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altitude of 50 miles, for example, the affected area on the ground
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miles the ground radius would be about 900 miles. For an explosion at
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This is the approximate radius of EMP destruction of electric infrastructure for a nuclear device exploded in the altitude of 50 miles over the island of Ulleung-gun. (Map: Google Maps <a href="https://www.google.fi/maps/@37.4786148,126.3674441,6z?hl=fi" target="_blank">https://www.google.fi/maps/@37.4786148,126.3674441,6z?hl=fi</a>)</div>
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This type of EMP-strike would cause also long lasting environmental catastrophes when nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools would have meltdowns after loss of power and chemical industry processes would also experience fires and spills because of long outages. Death toll would be in millions without any nuclear missile hitting the ground.</div>
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We have no time to loose. Negotiations must be started immediately with help of China. USA must reduce their military threat during the negotiations as an act of good will.</h4>
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How to Avoid a Nuclear Conflict that Now Seems Unavoidable!</h3>
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<br />Make a Deal that is hard to resist by North Korea :</h4>
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1. US$ 100 Billion in twenty years to develop North Korea in cooperation with its now being leaders to a modern state, funded by USA, China, Japan, EU. Russia and G7 and UN.</div>
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2. China will take care of decommissioning of the nuclear weapons arsenal of North Korea</div>
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3. Decommissioning all the North Korean nuclear reactors in ten years. Taking care of nuclear waste and bomb grade uranium and plutonium.</div>
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4. Constructing a modern renewable energy power generation infrastructure with smart grids and distributed power systems for also the distant rural areas. Modernizing the food production and industry of the country. Modernizing the health care and education system. Modernizing the social security system.</div>
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5. Truth commissions (like in South Africa after apartheid and in other conflict areas with severe crimes against humanity and human rights). Channeling hatred, anger, bitterness to power reconstruction work. Positive future as source for amnesty and forgiveness.</div>
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6. General amnesty for citizen level actors guilty of crimes part of state operated violence. </div>
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7. Legal immunity against legal charges for the leaders of the country. Twenty years duty to cooperate in reconstruction of the country.</div>
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8. China central governed system would be the model to lead the country gradually to full democracy in 20 years.</div>
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9. The goal would be a Union of Two Koreas in 20 years. Two different countries with different economies and political systems but common destination of wider cooperation and increased trade and cultural change as well as scientific research. Both countries reduce their military power and mutual tensions. </div>
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10. The security and souverenity of both Koreas is guaranteed by China, USA, Russia, Japan and UN. These countries are following the disarmament of both countries so that the threat of aggression against each other or against third parties can be reduced.</div>
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This list is just a getting started menu. Diplomats and politicians must have now brain storms to create additive or alternative plans. But please, don't stay still and wait for the black swan to land. We know it is already flying.</div>
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-72470500652466909142016-03-24T15:00:00.000-07:002016-05-09T17:11:57.314-07:00We Almost Lost Brussels - Can We Really Afford Nuclear Power?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday ISIL-terrorists made a terrorist strike in Brussels, Belgium. Sad and disgusting!</h2>
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But...<br />...It could have been worse, a lot worse than that. Thousands of deaths and injured people. And hundreds of thousands of people could have been forced to leave their homes for decades. There could have been a large no-go-zone of thousands of square kilometers. Radioactively contaminated.</h4>
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...The terrorist group, that made the suicide-bombings could have realized their Plan-A: a strike against nuclear power plant of three reactors. It seems that they could have got help from the personnel of the NPP. Bombs and bomb vests were ready.<br />
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...They had to accept Plan-B and blow up themselves at airport and in a subway car. The police had earlier found one of their headquarters and arrested one member of their group. They had to change target and act quickly. So the nuclear power plant was saved - police and military had by then some glue what they had been planning and they had 140 special troops armed soldiers and policemen guarding the Belgian NPPs.<br />
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We have entered in the era of nuclear terrorism. We have been told that this kind of scenario is impossible or highly improbable to become reality. Nuclear industry keep on telling that nuclear power plants are safe and large scale nuclear accidents don't happen.</h4>
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But this seems to be a taboo. Nobody should talk about it - so the terrorists don't hear about it - and we'll be safe.<br />
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But they already have. WTC strike was also a Plan-B. Plan-A was to strike against US NPPs with passanger jet planes. But the mullahs were suspicious whether it would cause too many victims. And so they chose plan-B: WTC and Pentagon.<br />
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Environmental organisations have been warning about nuclear-terrorism for decades. It seems that politicians have not been willing to listen to them. I think they should. The alternative may be extremist-made Fukushima-2, somewhere in Belgium, France, Great Britain or even here in Finland. Can we really afford that? Or should we choose renewables and decommission our nuclear fleets before it is too late.<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-57644469539606020602016-01-22T13:33:00.000-08:002016-01-22T13:33:31.593-08:00Case Litvinenko and Hanhikivi-1 Nuclear Power Plant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Case Litvinenko</h3>
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Yesterday we got the Litvinenko Inquiry published <a href="https://www.litvinenkoinquiry.org/files/Litvinenko-Inquiry-Report-web-version.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.litvinenkoinquiry.org/files/Litvinenko-Inquiry-Report-web-version.pdf</a>. It was about the time!<br />
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The Litvinenko Case seems to be quite clear: two members of Russian FSB got rid of former FSB employee <i>Alexander Litvinenko</i> by giving him tea tainted with Polonium-210 - lethal radionuclide produced in nuclear reactors. There was still not 100% certainty of FSB being behind the murder or whether the two FSB officers were really quilty of this cold blooded murder. But it seems obvious that this is just the case.<br />
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And if this is the case so it is most probable that the 5 micrograms of Polonium-210 originated from a Russian nuclear reactor. A reactor owned and controlled by Russian ROSATOM. And the company is strictly under the rule of <i>Mr. Vladimir Putin</i>, the president of Russian Federation. As well as FSB is.<br />
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Hanhikivi-1 Nuclear Reactor and Case Litvinenko</h3>
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A terrorist attack made by a nuclear state using nuclear poisoning should be strictly condemned by all democratic societies. If that is not done, such countries continue to use this kind of dirty weapons as a means of their foreign policy. And it was not only Litvinenko that was targeted: tens of thousands of innocent people were possibly harmed by super-poison Polonium-210: </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"British Airways later published a list of 221 flights of the contaminated aircraft, involving around 33,000 passengers, and advised those potentially affected to contact the UK </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Health_(United_Kingdom)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Department of Health (United Kingdom)">Department of Health</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> for help." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko</a></span></div>
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But there is big money involved - the Fortum gas power plants in Russia, worth billions of euros - which were indirectly mentioned by Mr. Putin when he thanked Finns for the continuation of Hanhikivi construction. <a href="https://www.fortum.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Investors/Fortum%20in%20Russia.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.fortum.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Investors/Fortum%20in%20Russia.pdf</a></div>
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And the fear of loosing these investments forced Finnish government (and obviously also Fortum) to continue with a project that will bring big losses to Finnish people, towns, cities and taxpayers.</div>
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A suspected murderer as a member of Russian Duma</h3>
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The situation is even more complicated as the other of main suspects of the murder of <i>Litvinenko</i>, Mr. <i>Andrey Lugovoy</i>, enjoys immunity from prosecution because his membership of the Russian Duma. </div>
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But should a country like Finland be making nuclear deals with a country that uses energy as geopolitical weapon? Or should we be accepting the policy of making and threatening other countries with radioactive dirty bombs <a href="http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/naval/submarines/2015/11/13/russia-leaks-dirty-bomb-submarine-drone-state-tv-broadcast/75710806/" target="_blank">http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/naval/submarines/2015/11/13/russia-leaks-dirty-bomb-submarine-drone-state-tv-broadcast/75710806/</a> and customized murdering weapons by a powerful nuclear arms state neighboring us? Or should we put moral before money?</div>
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We have a strange theater play going on in Finland. It's called Fennovoima Hanhikivi -1 nuclear power plant.</h2>
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The latest news tells us that Finnish ownership of Fennovoima NPP-company has risen over 60% because of a new owner <i>Migrit solarna energija</i> <a href="http://www.migrit-energija.com/en/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.migrit-energija.com/en/index.html</a> from Croatia with a 9% piece of cake! Finnish ownership! Yes, indeed!</h4>
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Shareholders have invested huge Euro 26. 000 (Yes, correct, you just read it: twenty six thousand euros) on the company, which would be one of the main owners of a 8 Billion euro NPP with 9% ownership!<br />
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Well, you guessed right again! There will be Russian money behind the company. Lots of Russian money. Laundry? Who knows. My gut feeling is that there isn't everything OK on this case. Smells like geopolitics. Smells like Moscow driven we want it - we'll get it -project. Smells like a <i>Rosatom-FSB-overseas -project.</i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhogS27-8PJQgwvwq4SWlELIjeVrW4Oq42oGaPwpDwYU7Id8RYKEOOCKKTNb_ycwPYw-4EaePlbSANf8_C5timep_RlmPbbZ8TubFkciSXheqYkHRBIAbXdTx08rflddXoIohZFmPbtfhE/s1600/HK-1-puzzle-med.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhogS27-8PJQgwvwq4SWlELIjeVrW4Oq42oGaPwpDwYU7Id8RYKEOOCKKTNb_ycwPYw-4EaePlbSANf8_C5timep_RlmPbbZ8TubFkciSXheqYkHRBIAbXdTx08rflddXoIohZFmPbtfhE/s400/HK-1-puzzle-med.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">English Wikipedia tells about FSB:</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Finland is starting an Energy Renewal! Old energy policy has reached dead end.</span></div>
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The Energiaremontti2015 campaign, which translates as “energy renewal or renovation 2015”, has gathered support from all Finnish parliamentary parties. The campaign was published today, and is also backed by an excited group of supporters from companies and the scientific community nationwide. Young candidates from all parliamentary parties support the campaign.</div>
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They have a common message: Renew our Energy! Let’s seize the opportunities provided by the breakthrough of new energy technologies and renewable energy and make them a <span style="background-color: white;">competitive advantage for Finland.</span></div>
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The aim of the campaign is Finland’s transition to a 100 % renewable, energy efficient and smart energy system. The change starts right now, and it must be ready by 2050. The use of coal in electricity and heat production must be stopped by 2025 and the use of oil and natural gas by 2035. By 2050, transportation must also operate on renewables only. The campaign does not call for prematurely closing currently operational nuclear reactors nor for revoking permits already given to new reactors.</div>
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The campaign was initiated by citizens who are excited about the possibilities that new energy provides. “Finland has been hitting the breaks when it comes to energy policy, relying on obsolete assumptions about energy. It’s finally time to take some bold steps towards a new energy future”, says Campaign Manager Piia Kuosmanen.</div>
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Updating our energy system will bring new clients to Finnish companies that can then hire new employees. When the domestic market is working, our most competitive energy solutions can compete on the world market, bringing vital export opportunities.</div>
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Professor Peter Lund, who studies new energy systems in Aalto University, supports the campaign: “Energy and climate issues are the biggest challenges of our time. They can’t be solved by looking back but by investing in new energy opportunities. It’s high time for Finland to step into the new era of energy thinking. Favoring Finnish products brings us jobs, exports and growth, also when it comes to energy. At the same time we can solve pressing climate challenges.”</div>
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A group of politicians supporting the campaign demand that the goal to go 100 % renewable is written in the next government’s program. “Finland as a nation needs a common energy vision that extends from the left wing to the right wing of politics. This vision must be a Finland that is 100 % renewable. Change has to start now”, the group says in their statement. </div>
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-16043910013570540032014-12-05T15:38:00.001-08:002014-12-05T15:43:13.131-08:00Could Countries that Do Not Have Nuclear Weapons Have a Counter Strike Possibility After Being Attacked with Nuclear Weapons?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After the mankind has opened the Pandora's box of nuclear age it seems quite clear that the only thing that keeps us avoiding nuclear war is the threat of a nuclear counter strike. This balance of fear is maintained by nuclear states controlling each other not least with treaties and agreements reducing their arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.</h2>
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But for me, personally, being a pacifist by heart, it has been of great concern when nuclear states like USA or Russia have directly or indirectly mentioned the possibility of a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against countries that do not necessarily have nuclear weapons.<br />
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<i>Especially the situation in Ukraine has been reminding us of the possibility of first use of nuclear weapons against a nation that does not own one.</i> The new military doctrine of Kremlin mentions nuclear weapons as a possible countermeasure in a situation where the existence of the Russian state is threatened by attack with conventional weapons. But it is left open when this kind of situation could occur - this can be freely translated by the Russian government. And what makes me to worry about it is how some Russian military leaders have taken the possibility of using nuclear weapons as a part of the political discussion on Ukrainian war.<br />
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But should the countries with no nuclear weapons arsenal start gaining the Bomb?</h3>
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There is evidence of a nuclear renaissance based on some government's will to create a nuclear weapons arsenal of their own. For some Arabic countries the threat they believe to occur because of Israeli or Iranian nuclear arms it seems obvious that they are participating on nuclear programs having their own Bomb in mind. And there are many countries around the world that are secretly the friends of the Bomb, though officially they have nothing to do with it. Their nuclear power is only for peaceful purposes. So does Iran also claim. Who believes these promises.<br />
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<b>Building up new nuclear reactors is creating new nuclear weapons states.</b><br />
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<i>And I can understand the point behind this thinking: why should only the U.S.A. , China, Russia, India, France, the UK, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, Iran have nuclear weapons? Why not others? </i>Russians and Americans did not ask anybody for permission to build up their Bombs. Nor did the others. Why should us?<br />
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Well, we have gone way too far that road to turn back - or have we?<br />
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We could just make a little imaginary exercise: we could think what will happen, if the countries without nuclear weapons were creative enough to find out their very own possibility of counter strike (in the case their land has been targeted with a nuclear strike) without having their own nuclear weapons.</div>
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<i>All they have to do is realize, how they could cause an equivalent economical loss to the nuclear invader, than the strike causes them. And there is a clever and simple - as well as much cheaper than creating your own nuclear arms program - way to do it.</i></div>
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You just train, say a few hundred commandos, to attack the nuclear power plants and spent nuclear fuel pools for the possibility that some government would run a nuclear attack on your country.</h3>
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Then you have only to officially announce of having this kind of special force. That's it. <i>No nuclear state is so stupid that it risks of attacking with nuclear weapons such a country, that is capable of having a counter strike with conventional weapons / special commandos that will cause hundreds of billions to thousands of billions of dollars loss to the target country and leave more severe radioactive fallout than after a limited strike with nuclear weapons.</i></div>
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But is it against international treaties about warfare to attack nuclear reactors or spent fuel pools?</h3>
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Sure it is, but as well the nuclear strike against any country is.<i> And if it is remained as a counter strike threat, it is as ethical as having nuclear weapons ready to be launched if someone attacks you with nuclear missiles.</i> This is only fare for the poor countries that have no possibility to produce their own nuclear bombs....</div>
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-24987648460901214752014-10-11T16:03:00.000-07:002014-10-11T16:03:48.669-07:00Finland - 20 years behind others - in energy politics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Finland is seen as a country of leading technologies and a superior schooling system. And I'm proud to be Finnish for many reasons.</h2>
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But there is one sector in our society that has never left 1970'ies. And it is the centralized power generating policy.</h4>
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We are hearing the same arguments about cheap base load power generated in nuclear power plants year after year. The same thesis and phrases we are used to hear for many decades.<br />
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Nuclear power is out.<br />
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<a href="http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/WNISR2014.html#_Toc268768688" target="_blank">http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/WNISR2014.html#_Toc268768688</a><br />
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It is out without state (taxpayers) subsidiaries. <i>Hinkley Point</i> is the last fortress of nuclear industry to survive, asking for common money to be paid for their save-the-earth nuclear nightmare: world-record-expensive new Areva-reactors. And the case is not yet closed....<br />
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But solar power is the answer. And wind. And geothermal. And tidal waves. And bio-energy. </h3>
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We have high quality science. We have skilled scientists. We have talented professors demanding energy change. <a href="http://energiapolitiikka.fi/" target="_blank">http://energiapolitiikka.fi/</a> We have over 60 % of our citizens opposing the construction of Fennovoima nuclear power plant. Most of Finns are interested in solar energy and other renewables. But our government is showing green light to Fennovoima and nuclear power in general, keeping on shouting the old mantras of 70'ties about cheap power for the industry, while gaining the most expensive one.<br />
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"ROSATOM's Mission is to maintain national interests in defence, nuclear safety and nuclear power by achieving global leadership in advanced technologies, competencies and innovations."</h2>
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This mission statement on ROSATOM's own website should have been read with care by Finnish politicians and ministers long ago. </h3>
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The owner and operator of<i> Olkiluoto NPP, TVO</i>, pays a hard bill of about 100 million euros for planning costs for <i>Olkiluoto-4</i> nuclear reactor. The company was just today denied the licence to construct the 4th reactor of <i>Olkiluoto NPP</i> in <i>Eurajoki</i>, South-Western Finland.</div>
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And they have to manage to run a super-expensive <i>OL-3 EPR-reactor</i>, having electricity price somewhere between 65-120 e/MWh, while Nordic market price for power varies somewhere between 25-39 e/MWh. And the reason for building nuclear power was <i>'cheap power for the industry'</i>.....</div>
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Finnish government (all parties but the green movement) are giving a false signal to the Russian people and to president <i>Vladimir Putin</i> by accepting cooperation with a Russian state owned nuclear weapons company that is governed by - <i>Mr. Putin. </i>If we are willing not to accept the Russian invasion on Ukraine, so we shouldn't be playing atomic games with the Russian army nuclear arms manufacturer - and funding it's activities. It is a risky and rough way to go and it seems that most part of the funding for the <i>Fennovoima-ROSATOM NPP</i> project is coming from Finnish taxpayers, EU-citizens. <i>The recent polls show that 2/3 of Finns are against Fennovoima-ROSATOM plan</i>. Private money and plenty of energy companies and consulting companies have found it to be too expensive, risky and unprofitable to be realized.</div>
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<i>Olkiluoto-3</i> Fiasco should be ringing the alarm bells for the nation. The 10 billion euro project is not scheduled to be generating power to the grid before late 2018 - the original deadline for on grid was 2009. Nobody knows if it will be finished by this latest time estimate. I hope not. I have written about it several times before on my blogs: <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/12/olkiluoto-3-epr-to-cost-at-least-85.html" target="_blank">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/12/olkiluoto-3-epr-to-cost-at-least-85.html</a> and <a href="http://solarwindpronet-suomi.blogspot.fi/2013/05/tehdaan-olkiluoto-3-ja-4-voimaloista.html" target="_blank">http://solarwindpronet-suomi.blogspot.fi/2013/05/tehdaan-olkiluoto-3-ja-4-voimaloista.html</a> .</div>
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By the way, I Highly appreciate the outcome of our Minister of the Environment <i>Ville Niinistö </i>on <i>Fennovoima-Rosatom</i> issue! He's a brave man and a honest, good politician! Wishing him Good Luck! <a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/vihreat_lahtee_hallituksesta_jos_ydinvoimalupa_hyvaksytaan/7472441" target="_blank">http://yle.fi/uutiset/vihreat_lahtee_hallituksesta_jos_ydinvoimalupa_hyvaksytaan/7472441</a> (in Finnish).</div>
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According to YLE-news, Finnish president <i>Sauli Niinistö</i> will be meeting the president of Russian Federation, <i>Vladimir Putin</i> tomorrow in Sochi, Russia. <a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/niinisto_and_putin_to_meet_friday/7411362" target="_blank">http://yle.fi/uutiset/niinisto_and_putin_to_meet_friday/7411362</a><br />
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The Ukrainian crisis is one of the most severe conflicts ongoing at the moment on our planet, and one highly related with energy issues. I have been writing about this on my previous blog article last March, <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2014/03/finnish-government-to-force-fennovoima.html" target="_blank">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2014/03/finnish-government-to-force-fennovoima.html</a><br />
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<b>Russian Federation is a great country</b>, one of leading powers of the future world, and a land of opportunities and one rich of natural resources. This should be admitted by everyone and overlooked by no-one.<i> Russian people are famous of being friendly and warm-hearted to their quests, where ever they come from. Sharing and caring belong to the Russian national tradition.</i><br />
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So I see no reason not to believe the negotiations to bring good fruit: the Russian people is willing to live in peace with its neighbors, as well as its leaders do.<br />
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And the Ukrainian people is willing exactly the same - live in peace, co-operate and trade with Russia. But they will ride on their own horse, their own way, and be independent. And they have the right to do so.<br />
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<i>It's regrettable that things have escalated to civil war in Ukraine</i>. But more than anything else we need now good solutions, win-win structures that can be accepted by every player of the game which of a great deal is<i> innocent civilians not willing to play this kind of ugly war game.</i><br />
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The winter is coming. Houses of civilians in eastern Ukraine are badly damaged, electric power is lost, water and sewage systems don't function etc. This problem must now be addressed by international community. But fighting must come to an end before that. The sooner the better.<br />
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I would like to ask you if you are interested in <i>getting back the good reputation of Russian Federation that it had among western countries before the Ukrainian crises</i>? And getting back the respect of wider audience in Russia? The economy is as important for Russia as it is for Europe or the U.S.A. - <i>would you like to take a quick way to win back what has been lost and achieve a little bit more?</i><br />
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Russia could be winner as well as Ukraine and other European countries. We could turn this demanding situation into a good end. And turn a new, brighter page in the history of European - Russian relations and whole the mankind.<i> You, Mr. Putin, are a key player.</i><br />
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We had a rental agreement with former Soviet Union after the WWII to let Hankoniemi in Southern Finland as a military base for the Soviet Union for some decades. Soviet leaders found later on that arrangement unnecessary and terminated the use of that military base before the original deadline of that agreement. The key words were <i>co-operation</i> and<i> trust</i> of political leaders of both Finland and Soviet Union.<br />
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I think nobody seriously denies the fact that Crimean is very important to Russia. But the means to reach that strategic goal could be rethought. How about 50 year agreement with Russian Federation and Ukraine about renting the area for Russian military base on Crimean peninsula? The rest of the peninsula could be demilitarized zone like Ahvenanmaa (Åland) in Finland. UN could be controlling that both sides respect the agreement and that the Russian population on that area is respected and treated equally with Ukrainian and other nationalities. Crimean peninsula could be declared also <i>a free trade zone</i> to boost the economy on the area. So Russia would have its military base and capability to keep its defensive power on the area. And the international community could once again see Russia as a responsible and trustworthy companion.<br />
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You know very well as every wise leader on this planet today that <i>oil, gas, coal and nuclear power are each a no option to mankind if we like to survive</i>. We have perhaps<i> five to fifteen years</i> to turn the CO2 -emissions into a sustainable level. And there <i>we need renewable energy, masses of renewable energy.</i> Russia is a great country with massive potential to produce renewable energy and also manufacture means to generate it for others.<i> Russia could be among the leaders in new technology</i>. But for that we need international co-operation. Finland have clean technology know-how, so does Germany and many other European countries. But as well we need China and the U.S.A. to join the common fight against greenhouse effect. And in the future African countries as well as India, Australia and Southern America will be joining the front to fight climate change.<br />
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<i>The Ukrainian people including Russian speaking East and South-East Ukraine need an energy change. Being dependent on Russian natural gas is no good for Russia nor for Ukraine in the long run.</i> They need heating and power for winter and it could be organized by international co-operation including Russian efforts.<i> Bio-energy and solar and wind power </i>should be the main power mix of the future Ukraine. <i>Natural gas could be as backup for some decades</i>. Building solar and wind power takes only a few years and it will be boosting local economy greatly giving working opportunities to tens of thousands. <i>Russia could be part of the solution and learn how to make the energy change that is needed also in Russia. </i>Time for oil, coal and gas economy is simply running out, and you know it, Mr. Putin.<br />
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The world is creating the energy change to renewables quicker than anybody thought, people around world are more than ready for it:<br />
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<i>Selling nuclear reactors for power generation will be in five years like trying to sell steam engines to automotive industry.</i> it's simply outdated, risky and far too expensive way to generate power. And selling reactors for nuclear weapons grade plutonium production is not a good deal either. We really don't need Vietnam or Egypt to have nuclear weapons, or any other (new) country. We don't need any new nuclear reactors in Finland, neither Fennovoima-Rosatom, nor Olkiluoto -TVO-Areva. We have enough power without NPPs and the majority of Finnish people are opposing Hanhikivi-1 and other new NPPs.<br />
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<i>Now it could be time for Russia to enter into wind power era and start large projects with technical leaders on that area.</i> We have know-how of arctic wind generation in Finland - <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 18.9px; text-align: justify;">our best generators are running up to -30 degrees centigrade (Sensors specified for -40°C) while southern manufacturers stop at -20.</span>. There are plenty of arctic areas suitable for large scale wind power generation like Siberia, northern U.S.A. and Canada. There could be a big market for Russian industry in the future. And biomass or bio-gas heat and power generation could be another sustainable clean tech market for the Russian industry to enter in the near future.<br />
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But we need to stop fighting in Ukraine first. We need to get everyone understand that Russia is a powerful country that has its own important interests and that it is also taking care of its international responsibility to respect the other states on the area. Everyone involved on Ukrainian crises has made mistakes but solving the crisis is based on new positive steps everyone must now take to reach the goal: just, quick and lasting peace on the area.<br />
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I hope you will have a good meeting with president Putin! I hope that you will appreciate the opinion of Finnish people when according to new opinion polls 2/3 of Finnish people are against the building of Hanhikivi-1 nuclear reactor. People in Finland want to see renewable energy projects - surely in co-operation with Russian companies also. And Finnish people is surely wishing for a peaceful solution to Ukrainian crises - a solution that is acceptable for both Ukraine and Russia.<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-33783247120894521522014-05-26T11:24:00.000-07:002014-05-26T11:24:20.246-07:00How to Reach 100% Renewable Energy Goal?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, most people are saying "You're a dreamer! Never in a Real World!" if you try to speak about <i>energy change</i> being possible in the near future to 100 % renewable, clean energy.</h2>
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How about the winter and heating, or how about the high temperatures and peak consumption? Wind doesn't always blow and the sun refuses to shine every day! We'll have the grid down and that would be a catastrophe! Our industry needs cheap, constant power supplies - and renewables just don't fit there!<br />
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<b>Over and over again I keep hearing this stuff. And it is quite natural</b> - <i>people aren't just used to think that wind and solar power together with geothermal and wave power generation as well as biogas and biomass based combined heating/power generating systems have become a profitable, large scale industry in just a couple of recent years.</i> And the decision makers and CEOs of the powerful energy industry are mainly offline on this process. Everything has changed so quickly. No time to think.<br />
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<b>A professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University,<i> Mark Jacobson</i>, has made with his research group a road map for the U.S.A. to enter to a new renewable energy era.</b><br />
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His group gives the tools to make The United States running 100 % with renewable energy by 2050. And this is how it works:<br />
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If you consider this as pure fantasy or theory, it could be quite useful to find out what others have done - in real life - during the last five years when most of the countries have been only speaking about the climate change.<br />
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In Northern Germany, in <i>Schleswig-Holstein</i>, They are going to reach the goal of 100% renewable energy in a few years and they'll rise the goal up to 300% to be reached by 2020.<br />
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And the little Scottish isle of <i>Eigg</i> is reaching already 85-90% renewable energy generation and is aiming to 100 % in the near future.<br />
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And nearly a third of US new electricity came from solar - a trend that continues.<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-85416240899615881492014-04-24T10:36:00.001-07:002014-04-24T10:36:58.083-07:00Apple - A Global Leader - Also in Renewable Energy!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Apple showed some statistics (adding it to their mega profits just announced) where they show how their 3 -year program succeeded to transform this leading mobile / IT-company from bad guys of Greenpeace black list to the best example of almost zero-carbon / renewable energy user that generates most of energy it is using.</b><br />
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LINK - the9billion: <a href="http://www.the9billion.com/2014/04/21/apple-now-73-percent-powered-by-clean-energy/" target="_blank">http://www.the9billion.com/2014/04/21/apple-now-73-percent-powered-by-clean-energy/</a><br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-91843082519086841242014-03-13T15:17:00.000-07:002014-03-13T15:17:55.693-07:00WIPP - Mess: a Bad Signal for Finnish "Onkalo" and other Nuclear Waste Disposal Plans - BREAKING: AREVA Withdrawing from Olkiluoto-3 EPR Constructing Site?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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( LINK - Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant</a> ) in New Mexico, U.S.A. a few weeks ago. <i>Several WIPP - workers were contaminated with Plutonium and Americium isotopes.</i> The plant has been releasing Plutonium and Americium since the incident and the latest estimates tell 1 % of radionuclides to bypass WIPP filtering system instead of 0,13 % initially announced. The nearest city of Carlsbad, situated 42 km from the site, has also received small amount of Plutonium and Americium airborne particles. There is no detailed plan yet when the facility is able to return to normal operation because of high radiation levels inside the WIPP-plant.<br />
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LINK - W-N-N: <a href="http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-WIPP-radiation-under-investigation-2702144.html" target="_blank">http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-WIPP-radiation-under-investigation-2702144.html</a><br />
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LINK - RADCAST: <a href="https://www.radcast.org/updates-on-wipp/" target="_blank">https://www.radcast.org/updates-on-wipp/</a><br />
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LINK - ABQJOURNAL: <a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/363325" target="_blank">http://www.abqjournal.com/363325</a><br />
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This nuclear waste dump is also calculated to be safe for 100 000 years. But is it really? Three studies show that inner copper cylinders containing the spent fuel may corrode in 1 000 years instead of 100 000 years promised by the industry. And now after 7 years of operating WIPP we have this one-million -year-event happening! Is nuclear engineer / geologist this clever?<br />
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<i>Making big losses - 500 million euros last year, most of it from Finnish Olkiluoto-3 NPP -project</i> <i>- the company is rumored abandoning or freezing Olkiluoto EPR- construction site</i> which is causing the project additional delays. The last estimate for Olkiluoto-3 to be finished is somewhere between 2018 to 2020, according to Finnish Kauppalehti:</div>
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LINK - (French) LE-VEILLEUR:<a href="http://www.le-veilleur.com/articles.php?idcat=2&idrub=23&id=1636" target="_blank">http://www.le-veilleur.com/articles.php?idcat=2&idrub=23&id=1636</a><br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-60019919489030908442014-03-02T14:28:00.000-08:002014-03-02T14:28:28.542-08:00Finnish Government to Force Fennovoima to Abandon Agreement with Russian Rosatom due to Russian Illegal Military Operation in Ukraine?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After last days illegal military operation run by Russian Army in Ukraine there is a good reason to believe that Finnish Government is taking the initiative to freeze the negotiations of Finnish Fennovoima nuclear power company with Russian military nuclear complex Rosatom.</h3>
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There has been a lively discussion whether Finns should allow Rosatom to enter Finnish energy markets, especially when we are dealing with such a sensitive and important technology for national security as nuclear power generation.<br />
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It would be a clear signal to Russia if Finnish Government, backed up with the Finnish Parliament, would announce that nuclear reactors capable of producing raw material for nuclear weapons must not be bought from a country that is running an illegal war and aggression against a smaller neighbor country - against UN resolutions.</h3>
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<i>According to Finnish law it is illegal for any Finnish company to sell weapons or military material to any country that is involved in a war. This is just what Rosatom is doing: it is helping Russia to build its nuclear strike ability by manufacturing raw materials to nuclear weapons.</i><br />
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And if you dig deep enough you will find the basic reasons for increasing tensions in Ukraine and in other former Soviet Union republics in the energy sector.</h3>
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Russia is blackmailing the poorer independent republics with threatening to shut the gas pipes. During the winter it is a serious threat. Also Germany has felt the Siberian freezing winds a couple of times.<br />
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<i>But the world is quickly changing, and that must Mr. Putin also recognize, the sooner, the better! Renewable energy is cutting the rope of Russian gas and oil around Germany's neck pretty fast. Windy and sunny days are now giving more than half of the electricity Germany produces, and they have coal just in case....</i><br />
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Imagine if Ukraine had a large scale renewable energy project funded by EU, the U.S.A and China. Imagine if they would produce 50 % of their energy with Wind, Solar and Biomass.</h3>
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<i>This would boost their economy and give them lower unemployment rates. And it would cut their dependence on Russian gas and oil. Mr. Obama, Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Xi Jinping, please receive this call! </i><br />
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And the same with other east European countries. True independence comes with regional, renewable energy production. And it could benefit the economies of their partners by giving their renewable energy utility suppliers plenty to sell.<br />
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What about Russia then? Mr. Putin, please think twice! You could have a win - win situation.</h3>
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And I don't mean now war - there you'll loose in the end - but pulling your troops back and offering Ukraine a new fair deal: let's create a new, independent Ukraine - that kind of Ukraine that the people living there really want. <i>Russia could also </i><i>be </i><i>funding renewable energy projects - together with western countries and China - and benefiting also by gathering experience and know-how for the future energy change of the great, innovative new Russia that was quick to learn of its mistakes of the past (and present).</i><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Olkiluoto BWR:s of TVO are quick to melt down if total SBO (station black out) occures Arts photo: JS / CF</span></strong><br />
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<strong>As we think about the two Northern European Countries of high standard of living - Finland and Sweden</strong> - and read the news about Finland being the leading country in education, and knowing Sweden to have a long history of defending human rights,<em> it is quite astonishing to find out the hidden scaletons of secret Swedish nuclear weapons programs </em><a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/10/the-secret-swedish-nuclear-arms-program.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/10/the-secret-swedish-nuclear-arms-program.html</a><br />
<em>or their nuclear power plants import to countries blacklisted by the western world because of their Bomb projects</em>. <br />
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Link - UTNE: <a href="http://www.utne.com/community/rumsfeldcompanysoldnuclearweaponequipmenttonorthkorea.aspx#axzz2fBlrNAX1">http://www.utne.com/community/rumsfeldcompanysoldnuclearweaponequipmenttonorthkorea.aspx#axzz2fBlrNAX1</a><br />
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LINK - THEGUARDIAN:<br />
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/09/nuclear.northkorea">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/09/nuclear.northkorea</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The famous super-expensive but not super-safe EPR Olkiluoto-3 in Eurajoki, Finland. Melt-through in 7-8 hours by total SBO, according to European Stress Test for Nuclear Reactors. Photo: JS / CF</span><br />
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<strong>And the first nuclear reactor to be built inWestern Europe after <em>Chernobyl</em> was the problem-cost-leader; famous<em> Olkiluoto-3</em> in Finland </strong> <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/12/olkiluoto-3-epr-to-cost-at-least-85.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/12/olkiluoto-3-epr-to-cost-at-least-85.html</a> . Actually our parliament made the decision to allow the construction of this plant just a few weeks after Swedish <em>Forsmark-1</em> had been 14 minutes to LOCA (loss of coolant accident) according to German officials, after having almost total station blackout for over 20 minutes. It was later given INES-2 label, some experts saw it as the worst nuclear accident in the world after <em>Chernobyl</em>. <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/10/thirty-five-minutes-to-meltdown-most.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/10/thirty-five-minutes-to-meltdown-most.html</a><br />
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LINK - SPIEGEL :<br />
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/nuclear-scare-how-close-did-sweden-come-to-disaster-a-430458.html">http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/nuclear-scare-how-close-did-sweden-come-to-disaster-a-430458.html</a><br />
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LINK(Swedish) - DN:<br />
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<strong>Still Finns got their Olkiluoto-3 EPR built, our nuclear watchdog, STUK, didn't see any problem with beeing only minutes or hours away of our very own Nordic Chernobyl.</strong> But STUK was guided by <em>Jukka Laaksonen</em> <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/03/one-year-has-passed-since-great-japan.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/03/one-year-has-passed-since-great-japan.html</a> who instantly after being pensioned started selling reactors recruted by Rosatom, the Russian nuclear reactor -company.<br />
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LINK (Finnish) - TALOUSELÄMÄ:<br />
<a href="http://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/venalaisten+pestaama+stukin+exjohtaja+myontaa+rosatomilla+on+poliittisia+tehtavia/a2094302">http://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/venalaisten+pestaama+stukin+exjohtaja+myontaa+rosatomilla+on+poliittisia+tehtavia/a2094302</a><br />
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<strong>So the Western World Nuclear Renessance was started by Finnish companies, nuclear regulatory authorities and well lobbed parliament of Finland</strong>. No real discussion was held publicly. Just like in <em>Fukushima prefecture</em> in Japan or in Japanese <em>Nuclear Village</em>. It was simply stupid to speak about the possible risks of nuclear power. If you did, you lost all your credibility, you were a <em>person non grata</em>.<br />
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<strong>So when our Minister of Environmental Issues Mr. <em>Ville Niinistö</em> recently estimated that <em>Fennovoima, Rosatom NPP-project in Pyhäjoki</em>, would be abandonned during the next half year because of economical reasons</strong>, it was a sign of new realistic post-Fukushima thinking among our leading politicians. Are we finally starting to learn from our "dark" past?<br />
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LINK (Finnish) -TALOUSELÄMÄ: <br />
<a href="http://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/fennovoiman+ydinvoimala+kaatuu+hintaan++uusi+laskelma+julki+tanaan/a2158029">http://www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/fennovoiman+ydinvoimala+kaatuu+hintaan++uusi+laskelma+julki+tanaan/a2158029</a><br />
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<strong>Finnish nuclear power plants are woulnerable against worst case scenarios.</strong> <em>Total station blackout would cause a melt through accident in Olkiluoto BWR 1-2 reactors in 2 hours</em>: the <em>nuclear fuel would be exposed after half an hour</em>, the <em>reactor core would start melting down in one hour</em> and it would<em> melt through the reactor pressure vessel in two hours</em> according to EU stress tests for nuclear reactors. In addition to total station blackout the loss of ultimate heat sink - seawater cooling - would cause a melt-through in two to three hours:<br />
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<em>And the one called the most safest nuclear reactor in the world - Olkiluoto-3 EPR built by Siemens-Areva</em> - would have a <em>core melt through in 7-8 hours</em> after a total blackout and loss of seawater coolant:<br />
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<strong>So if we count the severe accidents from <em>Three Mile Island</em> via <em>Chernobyl</em> to <em>Fukushima</em>, it can be estimated that in the case of a serious accident, the people living around<em> Olkiluoto 1-3</em> would be given no information about the real situation before a melt-through, or multireactor melt-through would be a fact.</strong> <em>Two hours is a very short time to evaluate and inform about the situation</em>. In <em>Chernobyl</em> it took several days to admit the severity of the accident also among the nuclear scientists. <em>In Japan it took Tepco and the Japanese Government months to admit the multireactor melt-throughs, although they occurred during the first hours or days of the crisis.</em><br />
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<em>An excellent article about the Fukushima Daichi NPP accident is recently written by the former prime minister of Japan, Mr. Naoto Kan:</em><br />
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LINK - HUFFINGTONPOST: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naoto-kan/japan-nuclear-energy_b_4171073.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naoto-kan/japan-nuclear-energy_b_4171073.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Last year Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen told renewables and clean tech to be the magic key to positive change. Fennovoima is not clean tech! Photo: JS / CF</span> </div>
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<strong>So, it seems that Finnish and Swedish politicians (and perhaps the majority of ordinary people) have not learned anything about the risks of nuclear power.</strong> No word of possible accidents or safety has been mentioned while discussing this week about Fennovoima -project. Unrealistic economical idealism about nuclear power being cheap seems to be again the main topic.<br />
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(Here's some realism: LINK -INDEPENDENT: <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21587782-europes-electricity-providers-face-existential-threat-how-lose-half-trillion-euros">http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21587782-europes-electricity-providers-face-existential-threat-how-lose-half-trillion-euros</a> )<br />
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Our government is acting like a group of irrresponsible teenagers backing up this <em>Fennovoima 8.6 Billion Euros</em> maniac investment: <em>last year the same ministers spoke about renewable energy to be the backbone of Finnish economy and one of our main employers in the future.</em> ( <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/09/minister-of-economic-affairs-jyri.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2012/09/minister-of-economic-affairs-jyri.html</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">and in Finnish</span> <a href="http://solarwindpronet-suomi.blogspot.fi/2012/09/ministerit-linjasivat-uusiutuvat.html">http://solarwindpronet-suomi.blogspot.fi/2012/09/ministerit-linjasivat-uusiutuvat.html</a> ) <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Last autumn also Minister Jutta Urpilainen saw renewable energy and distributed energy generation through intelligent grids as well as green technology as answer for Finland's problems. Now she demands Fennovoima -plan to be quickly to be run forward. Well, what we need is a break here! Photo: JS / CF </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan sharing his lessons of Fukushima nuclear disaster last year in Tokyo Photo: JS / CF</span></div>
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LINK - HUFFINGTONPOST: <br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-witherspoon/former-nrc-chair-emergenc_b_4060780.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-witherspoon/former-nrc-chair-emergenc_b_4060780.html</a><br />
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LINK - WICKEDLOCAL: <br />
<a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/plymouth/news/x1843605621/-FUKUSHIMA-ONGOING-LESSONS-Not-in-the-playbook?zc_p=0">http://www.wickedlocal.com/plymouth/news/x1843605621/-FUKUSHIMA-ONGOING-LESSONS-Not-in-the-playbook?zc_p=0</a><br />
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LINK -RIVERKEEPER:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">There is a black swan lurking behind every nuclear reactor (also behind Finnish and Swedish reactors)</span></strong></div>
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<strong>The immortality-inwoundability syndrome should be left behind.</strong> (<em>S*)it can happen here. Statistically, it will happen here.</em> We still have the opportinity to choose if that risk is worth taking or not.<em> But to do that, we need some honest information.</em><br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-16598664970395440582013-09-24T10:16:00.001-07:002013-09-25T00:27:43.379-07:00Fukushima Daichi Accident Getting Worse Day by Day <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The operator of Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, Tepco, is struggling every day to contain the accident. But the more they try, the more new problems occure. Recent weeks we have been hearing about highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean. And there are millions of liters more to come.<br />
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Tepco doesn't tell everything they know and everything they should tell to Japanese authorities and international organizations having the role of a watchdog of the nuclear industry. And what is the most important they deny the right to know what is going on there from the great audience, Japanese citizens and people everywhere in the world. This is not a Japanese matter any more, this is a global catastrophe, an event that is affecting somehow every single human being on this planet earth.<br />
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Senior cheaf engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education and former executive of nuclear industry Arnie Gundersen estimated a few weeks ago that whole the Pacific Ocean would have in five years 5 to 10 times as much man made radioactive isotopes such as cesium 134, Cs137, Sr90 and plutonium as it had after the nuclear weapons testing during 1950ies - 1970ies. Whole the water mass of our largest ocean will be radioactively contaminated by crippled Fukushima plant. That will cause whole the ocean food chain to be contaminated for decades. And hundreds of millions even billions of people are and will be affected. And statistically even low level radiation will cause hundreds of thousands or millions of people getting genetic damage, cancer and other health problems, some of them lethal. But it takes decades and the connection between radioactive contamination and getting sick is hard to prove. It can be seen statistically but is it enough? <br />
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I wrote this upper first part of this blog post as a draft almost two months ago, but the situation has not been changing any better by now. The contaminated water keeps on flowing to the Ocean - although Prime Minister Abe keeps on telling us the tainted water is all contained in the harbor of Fukushima Daichi (scientists say 40% of the water in harbor is mixed with the ocean sea water daily) and no-one have injured because of the Fukushima nuclear accident and never will (still huge increase in thyroid gland cancers have been found among the children and youth in Japan after FD-accident). And the situation is fully under control. So says Mr. Abe. Three out of four Japanese citizens and most of the experts disagree with him. But at least he got the Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo. Well, if the city will not be evacuated by then!<br />
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There is a real risk of huge radioactive fallout in addition to the 300 to 400 tons of tainted water seeping daily to the ocean now. The removal of spent fuel from the badly damaged spent fuel pool of reactor 4 is a very risky business. According to nuclear power specialists it may cause uncontollable criticality or a prompt criticality explosion if two nuclear fuel rods move too close each other during the removal, or corroded nuclear fuel rods or racks break and the fuel pellets drop to the bottom of the pool. This is all because of bended and corroded fuel racks and rods. And Fairewinds Cheaf Engineer Arnie Gundersen said that Tepco had admitted that the protective Boron of fuel rods had decayed away - adding Boron in pool water doesn't protect against unintented criticality if fuel rods get too close to each other. And the result of this could be radioactive fallout over 15 000 times more severe than that of the Hiroshima bomb, or 50-100 times as severe as Chernobyl. Fukushima Daichi (and Daini) could be forced to be abandonned because of extreme radiation. And then the cooling down of reactors and all spent fuel pools could be compromized. Tokyo and half of Japan would be in danger to be evacuated. And the fallout would be worldwide.<br />
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Tepco is to begin the removal of those fuel rods in October - November this year.<br />
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The former Chairman of NRC Mr. Gregory Jaczko was giving a Speech yesterday in Japan. He was also commenting this harsh situation at Fukushima Daichi NPP. The speech can be watched here:<br />
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Let's hope the worst scenario doesn't happen! International help is needed in Japan. Tepco can't cope with such a huge task to decommission six reactors, spent fuel ponds and one thousand leaky tanks of contaminated water - and 300 tons of tainted groundwater contaminating the ocean each day. Nor doesn't the Japanese government seem to be able to handle the situation. The time is running short.<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-64236410409486362742013-05-25T00:36:00.000-07:002013-05-25T00:36:34.910-07:00Been Busy with My Book and Documentary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Last month I have been busy writing a fiction book about a nuclear power plant accident in Finland.</strong> I hope people could understand better what the risks of nuclear power mean if they see them to become reality in your everyday life. It may be too hard for the people to see the documentaries and read the news articles of Japanese victims of NPP accident or hear the interviews of Chernobyl children or their parents. They just don't receive the information because of the pain involved. But when you have a story where fiction and facts are interacting, it may be easier to read. And after that you may see that one day your life can be affected by a nuclear disaster in a way that you really don't want things to happen. I hope this will generate energy discussion on a national level in Finland.<br />
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<strong>The other thing I have been involved in for the last weeks has been recording and editing the English version of my video documentary <em>"The Battle of Our Energy Future" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPL_q3XOSWA&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPL_q3XOSWA&feature=plcp</a> </em></strong>. I have only a few days left before the deadline to get it ready and copied for <em>CMS VATAVARAN <a href="http://www.cmsvatavaran.org/">http://www.cmsvatavaran.org/</a> </em> environmental film festival in India . I'm not really sure if I can manage to catch the deadline.<br />
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But being too busy for blogging I have still been following intensively energy news. Let's hope I'll find more time for blogging during this summer.<br />
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Have Nice, Sunny, Windy and (some) Rainy Renewable Summer Days!<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-25633073081777346022013-04-13T11:54:00.000-07:002014-12-29T15:19:35.962-08:00Nuclear Accident in France Would Cost 1 to 5.8 Trillion Euros - Study Kept Secret for Years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>According to a IRSN-study made by French government in 2007, a severe nuclear accident in one of the nuclear power plants in France, at <em>Dampierre</em>, would cost <em>1 Trillion - 5.8 Trillion Euros</em> - that is -<em> 1,000 - 5,800 Billion Euros.</em></strong><br />
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LINK - BUSINESSINSIDER: <a href="http://au.businessinsider.com/potential-cost-of-a-nuclear-accident-so-high-its-a-secret-2013-3">http://au.businessinsider.com/potential-cost-of-a-nuclear-accident-so-high-its-a-secret-2013-3</a> (Update - 30.12.2014: This link has been taken down. The same story you can find from this link: <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-14/potential-cost-nuclear-accident-so-high-it%E2%80%99s-secret" target="_blank">http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-14/potential-cost-nuclear-accident-so-high-it%E2%80%99s-secret</a> )<br />
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<em>The results of the study were so frightening that the french government decided to keep the study secret.</em> France produced then 85% of its electrical power by nuclear power plants and the reality was too rough to be published. <em>The study says 5 million people would be forced to be evacuated from their homes and the contaminated area would cover London, Munich and Genova and be affecting the lives of 90 million people.</em><br />
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<em>Study's estimate of cancer deaths was over 28,000 and almost 27,000 additional cancers and other diseases would be caused by this kind of accident.</em><br />
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<strong>The study was not published until now and the estimates of economical effects were downgraded to 430 Billion Euro in the new version of the study.</strong> But after downscaling the estimate, the author of the study still said that real accidents cause extremely high costs: for example the now ongoing <em>Fukushima nuclear disaster will ultimately end up at least 1 Trillion Euro bill.</em><br />
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<em>The author of the study pointed out that no country - not France, nor Japan - can pay the costs of a bad nuclear accident.</em> The people suffering of it are simply not paid by anyone.<br />
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<em>It's about a time to begin to face the truth - nuclear power can cost much, much more than we can afford.</em><br />
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A very good video, really worth watching, can be found here:<br />
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On this (26 min.) video a senior US official tells why now it's time to leave nuclear era behind. If you still believe in nuclear power, please watch and listen to this 86-year old wise man!<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-82689494578399673492013-04-13T10:02:00.000-07:002013-04-13T10:02:29.664-07:00The Largest Wind Park in the World Is Being Planned in Sweden - 2500 MW, 700 Mills<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>While Fennovoima and TVO are still dreaming of new nuclear reactors, several thousands of Megawatts wind parks are being planned in Finland and Sweden in addition to Danish windparks.</strong> The latest news tell about a plan to build <em>700 wind generators</em> with combined capacity of <em>2500 MW</em> on the Swedish cost. The offshore park would be the biggest in the world and the building should start in 2014 or 2015. The company behind the plan was shown green light by the Swedish environmental court in the beginning of this year. Finnish wind power companies are seeing realistic to have about <em>1000 MW</em> new wind power capacity during 2020ies in Finland.<br />
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According to wind power industry new offshore power is already cheaper than new nuclear power, so we'll see what kind of effect these kind of large wind parks will have to profitability of planned new nuclear power plants on nordic power market. Signs of overcapacity and sinking power prices has been recently seen in Germany and Central Europe while new wind power and solar PV-plants have been writing new rules for the energy game.<br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-48623764398766662912013-04-05T18:48:00.000-07:002013-04-05T18:48:49.610-07:00Kim Jong Un Could Be a Bad Leader for North Korea - If He Thinks He Can Win a Nuclear War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>A few days ago I wrote in this blog about <em>Kim Jong Un</em> to be possibly a good leader for North Korea. </strong><a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/04/kim-jong-un-could-be-good-leader-for.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/04/kim-jong-un-could-be-good-leader-for.html</a><br />
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<strong>But all this only IF</strong> he is really willing to negotiate with US and South Korea of peace and stability in the area. And<strong> if</strong> he is using threatening as a means of driving through his reforms to modernize his country and make it more democratic. <strong>If</strong> all this harsch rhetoric is needed for getting enough power to reduce the influence of old-fashioned party and military men who are now controlling the country. And <strong>if</strong> he is capable of preventing war with South Korea and the U.S.A. And <strong>if </strong>he is capable of avoiding civil war in North Korea.</div>
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And<strong> IF</strong> US and South Korean officials and political and military leaders understand what is really going on there.<br />
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<em>I have to admit that after reading more recent news and watching some more North Korean propaganda videos I had to write this article.</em><br />
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<strong>It is possible that <em>Kim Jong Un</em> has a dream of a united Korea ruled by him.</strong> <em>It may be that the U.S.A. and other leading countries have underestimated North Korean Army's ability to conduct a military surprize that could lead the whole peninsula under their command. </em>Or then both Koreas would be totally destroyed by US nuclear IC missile attack.<br />
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<em>I just read some articles about North Korean nuclear strategy being concentrated in creating a EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapon that is capable of destroying modern communication and military devices of US and South Korean troops located in Korean Peninsula.</em> If North Korea would use its mid-range missiles and small nuclear warheads (which it declares to have) for generating a EMP-pulse over Korean Peninsula by detonating those little nuclear warheads 40-50 km above South Korea, it could begin a 3-days war, have 100 000 US hostages and hundreds of thousands of South Koreans as POW. All the modern arms systems would be ruined by the EMP but old North Korean tanks and weapons would function just fine. South Korea would be under North Korean command in a few days.<br />
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<em>The only way to win that war for the US army would be sacrificing hundreds of thousands of their own citizens and soldiers and even more South korean Citizens and North Korean civilians by striking with their intercontinental strategic missiles with nuclear warheads to North Korean targets.</em> But this could be a zero-possibility just because of the hostages that North Korea could have been captured during the short war. No developed country would kill this much of own people for a single victory.<br />
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After reading that American high officier had warned about this kind of possibility a few years ago I had to admit that this could really happen. And when I watched a North Korean propaganda-video which was made in the beginning of this year <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mzpMhNXKt4E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mzpMhNXKt4E</a> this kind of strategy could be seen in this 'United Korea in three days' -film. They mentioned that electricity in Seoul and everywhere in South Korea would be off after North Korean attack. Despite of being propaganda, the film was quite clearly describing a situation where EMP strike could have been the first military act and immediately after that a full scale war with conventional weapons would give north victory very quickly.<br />
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So here is one example what happens when little countries get help to start their own nuclear reactors. It is needed only international tensions and lack of democracy and you get the leaders of the country making their own bombs. And a little more tensions and missunderstandings, then you'll get a nuclear war.<br />
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Stop building new nuclear reactors! Without nuclear reactors we would not have nuclear arms. The more reactors, the more nuclear bombs. They are <em>always </em>connected.<br />
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For Korean Peninsula; I'm sorry I have no answers, only quesses. No good ones.<br />
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Let's hope the first of my scenarios of <em>Kim Jong Un</em> <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/04/kim-jong-un-could-be-good-leader-for.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/04/kim-jong-un-could-be-good-leader-for.html</a> would be more true than this <em>war-hero</em> possibility. Next weeks will tell us.<br />
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We'd better to pray!<br />
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<strong>I know that most people think this must be a joke. But it isn't. I'm serious. Kim Jong Un could be, and I think he is willing to be, a good leader for his country. </strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Could Kim Jong Un be creating a new peaceful North Korea by adapting renewable energy policy?</em> Photos: Jukka Seppälä / Creator's Fingerprints</span><br />
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Well, after having said this I 've got plenty of enemies. Many people may think me being crazy.</div>
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Last year, after the death of his father <em>Kim Jong Il</em>, <em>Kim Jong Un</em> was having a TV show where Disney-like characters were having a performance on the stage. At the same time as <em>Mickey</em> and <em>Winnie</em> were dancing on North Korean TV broadcast, long banned american style of food like hamburgers were officially shown to be eaten in North Korea.</div>
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LINK - HUFFINGTONPOST : <br />
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I think this was kind of asking for cooperation with the western world and a sign of good will. But what was the response? I think people were laughing at this and Disney was sewing North Korea for a stolen Copyright.<br />
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And now - <em>Kim Jong Un</em> is threatening the US army and South Koreans with a nuclear strike having declared war and cut hot lines of early warning in case of misunderstanding.</div>
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<strong>There is one very strong sign and message hidden in North Korean policy. They named <em>Pak Pong Ju</em> for Prime minister. And he seems to be a man of reforms in economy, supporting Chinese style of market driven socialism.</strong></div>
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I think this is a clear indicator that the country will go on talks with US and South Korea in the future. <em>But China must not be left out of the scene.</em><br />
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<strong>Let's imagine</strong> Mexico was having a civil war in 1950ies where Northern Mexico capitalist revolutionists were receiveing support and arms from US government. The southern part of Mexico was fighting to remain the communist society they had on the whole Mexico area before the capitalist gerillas started US aided revolution. The southern Mexico communists were fighting with Chinese weapons and having Chinese army soldiers and fighter jets to help them. The parties could not achieve peace so they made a ceasefire and divided the country to North Mexico and South Mexico.</div>
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<em>Decades passed but the country remained divided:</em> China helped and supported the communist South Mexico and US aid was received in capitalist North Mexico. But Southern part was having more natural resources and with a massive support of China it evolved to a wealthy communist market economy. The northern part was poorer and couldn't get as much support from US government which was having budget cuts and other economical issues. But they did get some nuclear reactors and military support. And they bagan to develop their own nuclear weapons with the US government silently agreeing, though they were officially warning about the nuke program.</div>
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<em>Every year the Chinese army participated the joint military exercise with South Mexico</em> and sometimes North Mexico opened fire and showed their military power by sinking some South Mexican military ships with US silently agreeing in the background.<br />
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<em>The economical situation in North Mexico being desperate</em> and millions of people having not enough food to eat <em>they still were obliged to keep their dignity by investing all their resources to arms development.</em> And the yearly military exercise of China and South Mexico is to be held once more near the US coast. This time the young leader of North Mexico is warning South Mexicans and China more eagerly than before to gain the support of his own army leaders and leading companies and capitalists and gathering enough power to make the inavoidable reforms the country is facing in the near future, to take some communist elements to their economy to get it work better.<br />
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<strong>But when he is threatening China with a nuclear strike, China sends some new stealth bombers, capable of carrying nuclear bombs, to Southern Mexico to drop dummy bombs.</strong> And after that China brings a powerful navy fleet to US-Mexican coast loaded with nuke-bombers and missiles and <em>threaten strike back with full force if North Mexico or its allies attack South Mexican battle forces or targets.</em><br />
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<strong>Well, what do you think, how would the US government act in a situatuation where Chinese nuclear battle force would be carried to the very shore of the U.S.A. ?</strong><br />
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I hope that North Korea, the U.S..A., South Korea and China will stay calm and avoid any additional provocative acts. This may be a historical moment to restart negotiations and solve the Korean Peninsula problems. It may take decades but it is still possible. But every party in this game need now to respect each others - I mean really respect. If they fail in doing that, the game that follows will be called the <em>World War III.</em> We can't afford it!<br />
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When I wrote that <em>Kim Jong Un</em> could be a good leader I really meant it. And here are some things that could make him a best man for Norh Korea:<br />
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1. Start negotiating of a full scale energy shift to renewables to make North Korea to be among the first countries in the world with 100 percent renewable energy economy. I think that Germany, Denmark and Finland could be participating this process with a great pleasure cooperating with North Korea and training their experts in developing their own industry of PV solar cells production and wind and wave energy research. We could jointly make this country a winning economy to boost also the nearby countries to make their own energy shift to safe and sustainable renewable energy. Also China and Japan could share their technology know how in such a friendly win-win project.<br />
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2. Negotiate with the U.S.A and South Korea together with China and Japan to quarantee the safety and independance of North Korea and give both the Korean peninsula countries a good possibility of ecologically sustainable economical growth and wealthy. <br />
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3. Negotiate about turning the huge military machines of both of the countries into more police-force-like safety and security institutions that could have very important role in helping their own people and government and if asked also the neighbour countries in case of nature forces cause large scale catastrophes like earthquakes,storms, tsunamis and volcanic events. And of course helping to minimize the impact of industrial accidents often combined with natural disasters.<br />
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4. Make an initiative of agricultural revolution using means of modern biological farming. No GM food but understanding the ecological processes of sustainable acriculture in Korean Peninsula area. Japan could be one of the best friends in achieving good results in agriculture.<br />
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5. Renew the law and punishment system so that no valuable human resources would be wasted in jails or camps but the people who have new ideas and different thinking could be having an important role in developing North Korea to one of the most leading countries in the world.<br />
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6. Take good things of every leading country in the world and combine them to Korean way of thinking and Korean culture. There are plenty of things to be adapted from China, Germany, Cuba, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Israel, Japan, Russia, South Korea e.t.c. and even from the U.S.A. And I'm sure that North Koreans have also lots of good things to give the world.<br />
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7. Announce the people of North Korea, the leading communist party and whole the world that North Korea is now beginning a new era - a revolution for peaceful development and cooperation of the countries in the area on win-win basis.<br />
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I hope the tension will give up and a peaceful progress will follow in Asia. China must be welcomed to developing work too. We must create a chain of winners instead of confrontation. And renewables could be fueling that process.<br />
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<strong>There is no trouble with Finnish nuclear power companies to Think Big.</strong><em> Fennovoima and Olkiluoto-3-4 projects are a clear sign of ability to Think Big when everyone else in the world is thinking small about nuclear power investments</em> (if you don't count China, Russia, North Korea and other politically and from a military point of view centralized countries, and of course Iran , Saudi-Arabia, Arab-Emirates and all the other countries willing to have their own bomb). But realism has something to do with businesses, I have heard. And during the Vaasa Energy Week, <a href="http://energyvaasa.fi/energy_week/index.php">http://energyvaasa.fi/energy_week/index.php</a> last week in Vaasa, I heard many specialists on renewable energy telling that <strong><em>the real business is now in renewables</em></strong>. <em>New wind power is half the price of new nuclear power.</em> Solar is getting cheaper. The main problem with renewables seems to be that sometimes the price for generated energy gets too low due to overproduction.<br />
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<em><strong>So when a Finnish company is continuing its efforts to build a brand new nuclear power plant in Hanhikivi -area in Pyhäjoki, it is struggling with raising constructing costs</strong> - the estimate now shows the plant to be costing 8-9 Billion Euro</em> - a slightly smaller unit than <em>Olkiluoto-3</em> which may break 10 Billion Euro limit if it gets ready for power generation in 2015-2020. I hope not. This spending money on old-fashioned and unsecure way of generating power should be abandonned straight away. The investments should be made for creating smart grids for wind and solar power generation.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">New onshore wind power is even cheaper than new coal power in Australia according to Christian Kjaer (EWEA) <em>Photo: Jukka Seppälä/Creator's Fingerprints</em></span><br />
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<strong>In Vaasa some experts on renewable energy were just wondering why Finland is spending 2 Billion Euro for constructing old technology power grids, while Germany is investing Billions on constructing smart grids.</strong> Yesterday I saw on TV news that <em>Fingrid </em>had invested almost two Billion Euro for "securing the grid" as they said. They had built a new 110 Million Euro gas turbine power plant for fast peak power generating in Forssa, southern Finland.<br />
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Our <em>Minister of Trade and Economy</em> Mr. <em>Jan Vapaavuori</em> was ponting out that this power plant was needed for securing grid beacuse of increasing wind and solar power generation. But the news reporter knew better the reason: <em>this kind of fast to maximum power PPs are made to secure Olkiluoto-3 and other big nuclear power plants if they go suddenly offline.</em>The need of additional 1600 MW of power generating capacity in 10 minutes or less is compromizing the grid unless you build this kind of fast PPs. In the end of 1970ies we had<em> Inkoo 1000 MW coal power plant</em> to secure our grid if our NPPs should have emergency shutdowns: in half an hour that 1000 MW could be fully achieved if needed. Those power plants were just kept most of the time idling and they were expensive to have. Nowadays these fast supply PPs are mostly gas turbine powered. They are expensive to have but a must if you have large power generating units like <em>Olkiluoto-3</em>. Of course they can be used for backing up wind or solar power, but nordic hydro power does that job more easily and cheaper. And by constructing smart grids with storing capacity quick changes in power output or demand can be managed though it needs much R&D to be fully realized in a large scale.<br />
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<strong>The message I hope Finnish power industry and leading politicians should now understand </strong><em>is that every Billion Euro investment on old technology is giving our European, Asian and American competitors more advance for their projects. If we are trying to remain in centralized DDR-like power generating thinking we'll end up with watching them winning the multi-billion global renewable projects that we could have technology and know-how to win.</em><strong> <em>It's a question of HOW and WHERE to Think Big</em></strong><em>. Now it's time to Think Big - Renewables!</em><br />
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<em>JPS</em>Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-47979559986743075502013-03-17T03:30:00.000-07:002013-03-17T03:30:46.156-07:00NRC Finally Admits Solar Storms Can Threaten Nuclear Power Plants Causing Multiple Meltdowns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>The Sun was quiet - not at all stormy during the historical Venus Transit last year. But solar storms could trigger geomagnetic storms that may be capable of causing months long blackouts and multireactor meltdowns - a possibility NRC is now gathering more information of for better estimating the risk and possible means of dealing with it. </em>Photo: Jukka Seppälä/Creator's Fingerprints</span>
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<strong>NRC says it cannot rule out the possibility of severe solar storms causing geomagnetic storms that may cause multiple nuclear meltdowns in US nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools.</strong> Further investigation is needed to better estimate the real risk, but there may occur some new regulations and means of securing the US NPPs against long blackouts caused by geomagnetic storms.<br />
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<strong>I hope this new information makes it easier for the other nuclear regulators of the world to realize and re-estimate the dangers of long blackouts for the nuclear industry.</strong> I'm waiting the reaction of Finnish nuclear regulatory authority - STUK to study the new information available about severe solar storms and months long blackouts.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>At least one <strong>"Black Swan"</strong> is just now being indentified by <strong>NRC</strong> ( US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) - the voulnerability of NPPs against severe geomagnetic storms. </em>Photo: Jukka Seppälä/Creator's Fingerprints</span><br />
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<strong>As energy blogger I have written about this issue from the very beginning of my blogging. <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2011/10/welcome-to-solarwindpronet.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2011/10/welcome-to-solarwindpronet.html</a> </strong> <em>I see this question to be a real "Black Swan" <a href="http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/01/the-renewable-energy-revolution-is-here.html">http://solarwindpronet.blogspot.fi/2013/01/the-renewable-energy-revolution-is-here.html</a> until sufficient structural changes and backup systems are provided to secure our electrical grids and transformers - and NPPS and spent fuel pools - against long blackouts caused by solar storms or other such events affecting power grids.</em><br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-14493314633704482762013-03-12T12:39:00.000-07:002013-03-12T12:39:35.575-07:00Former Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan Has A Message to The World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Mr. Naoto Kan tells his Experiences as Prime Minister during the FD Nuclear Disaster on a new video.</em> Photo: Jukka Seppälä/Creator's Fingerprints</span>
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<strong>The second anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster has revealed many good articles and videos about this worst accident of our industrial history.</strong> One of them is this excellent video speech which the former Prime Minister of Japan, Member of the House of Representatives, Mr. <em>Naoto Kan</em> has given for <em>Helen Caldicott Foundation</em> "Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident" that is being held in New York the 11th and 12th March 2013. <em>Mr. Kan</em> could not attend the Meeting but gave his speech via video. The video behind the following link is 16 minutes - worth watching!<br />
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<span lang="">On the video <em>Naoto Kan</em> explains his experiences as prime minister during the FD -crises and how it affected his way of thinking about nuclear power. He reveals that <em>50 million people would have been evacuated for decades if the worst case scenario had happened. </em>Well, that's something really to think about.</span><br />
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Solarwindadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075701369232995029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114638541009403.post-35090253751636017332013-03-06T06:09:00.000-08:002013-03-06T06:09:00.020-08:00The Russian Asteroid Could Have Killed Tens of Thousands of People and Caused A Worldwide Nuclear Fallout<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>There are plenty of space rocks moving ten times faster than bullets through our solar system. Thousands of potentially hasardous asteroids are estimated to circle around us crossing the earths path in space. It's a question of timing whether they will hit or not. This bright spot in the picture is not an asteroid - it's our fellow planet Venus.</em> Photo: Jukka Seppälä/Creator's Fingerprints</span><br />
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<strong>It was a big surprize.</strong> The scientists admitted it was an <em>extraordinary rare event. That two relatively large asteroids came so close to the earth in 24 hours time from different directions.</em> And the other, smaller one actually hit the atmosphere. And it is also rare for an object this big to evaporate and explode high in the air without hitting the earth. And the bigger space rock, 45-60 meters long, just passed by. This time. We were lucky. This time.<br />
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LINK - TELEGRAPH: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9874662/Russian-meteor-exploded-with-force-of-30-Hiroshima-bombs.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9874662/Russian-meteor-exploded-with-force-of-30-Hiroshima-bombs.html</a><br />
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<strong>Scientists say that if this 15 meter wide smaller asteroid had striken the earth and exploded there, it would have been equivalent to 20-30 hiroshima bombs.</strong> <em>It could have killed tens of thousands of people nearby. If hit into a major city it could have killed millions.</em><br />
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</span><strong>And the radioactive fallout.</strong> <em>It would have been far more worse than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It would have been far worse than Harrisburg. More worse than Chernobyl. Worse than Fukushima.</em><br />
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<strong>Well, we were lucky as well as the Russians were.</strong> We got some more time for preparations. One day a 15-50 meter or bigger asteroid is going to strike our planet. We'd better get rid of nuclear power as quick as possible. The nuclear industry said that a core meltdown accident would be as impossible as an asteroid strike to some nuclear power plant. <em>Now we have had five nuclear reactor meltdowns - and been very near to a catastofical asteroid strike straight to a nuke concentration.</em><br />
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