Japanese Professor Compares Use of Nuclear Power to Use of Nuclear Weapons and Considers Both to Be Crimes Against Humanity

Professor Yuki Tanaka of Peace Institute Hiroshima University calls use of nuclear power and following accidents "a crime against humanity" and says it to be comparable to use of nuclear weapons. He tells how the Hibakusha - the survivors of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki regret that they had accepted or supported the use of nuclear power.

He also admits that Japan has not had open discussion about the Japanese war crimes during the World War II. These things must be discussed and learned of before the nation can go on building a new national identity.

LINK - PROFESSOR TANAKA YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh8khyHXvN4&feature=player_embedded


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Now it's Official: Japan Is Abandoning Nuclear Power Latest 2040

The Japanese Hydrangea revolution or Ajisai Revolution after the flower Hortensia ajisai is achieving some of its goals: the shut down of all  nuclear reactors in the country

Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE told tonight that Japan is going to shut down all of its nuclear power plants latest 2040. Reneweable energy and energy saving as well as natural gas will be the means to cover the lacking power generating capacity when the NPPs will go shut down.

According to YLE-news Japan is taking some nuclear power plants in use during the energy-shift after security check ups has been made.

LINK (Finnish) - YLE: http://yle.fi/uutiset/japani_luopuu_ydinvoimasta/6294957


Today we got also news that In addition to Germany, Italy, Belgium, and now Japan by 2040 that will be shutting all their nuclear reactors during the next decades also Switzerland will close reactors by 2034 and  France which has been the nuclear promotor of Europe has also made a decision to reduce its nuclear power by 23% by 2025. And the province of Quebec in Canada announced also this week its plans to shut down all its NPPs.

LINK- ENFORMABLE: http://enformable.com/2012/09/nuclear-industry-takes-big-hit-as-former-nuclear-powers-reveal-plans-to-sharply-reduce-nuclear-dependence/


Some pro nuclear experts have wondered if US reactors have to be shut down by 2018 because of recent court decision to force NRC to cancel the operating licences of US nuclear power companies if they can't safely arrange spent fuel storaging. There is no existing way to store the huge amount of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is now staying dangerously in spent fuel pools at nuclear plants. A terror attack or long time loss of external power would make the fuel overheat and burn with a continent wide radioactive fallout as a result. The industry is now having a rough way to walk. Let's hope they'll pay the bill without ordering a new round.

LINK - ENENEWS:

http://enenews.com/pro-nuclear-advocate-within-5-years-there-will-be-no-nuclear-power-in-u-s-unless-something-is-done-fuel-pools-will-fill-up-without-yucca-theres-nowhere-for-old-material-to-go-v


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Terrorist Attacks On Nuclear Power Plants Possible

Spent fuel pools and reactors could be an easy targit for terrorists but lethal for large amount of people even thousands of kilometres away. A model of Boiling Water Reactor that has SFP on the top of the reactor building just as in crippled Fuklushima Daichi reactors. (photo: Jukka Seppälä/Creator's Fingerprints)

According to recent news of a lawsuit against Entergy companys Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York, their anti-terrorist drills have failed giving at least 50 percent success for the mock terrorist intruders to reach their goal. Also the security cameras have been offline for days and other severe security issues have been revealed to the court. Entergy representative denies the security of the plant being compromized  and claims Indian Point to be "in fact the most secure nuclear plant in the nation".

Well, let's hope that isn't true!

LINK - POUGHKEEPSIEJOURNAL: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20120913/NEWS/120913008/?nclick_check=1

It is widely known that nuclear power plants and spent fuel pools are the easiest and most deathliest targets for potentional terrorist groups in the world. For example according to a Finnish science columnist Risto Isomäki Al Gaida gave up their first plan to attack US nuclear plants because it would have caused too many millions of deaths of Americans - instead they attacked WTC- towers and Pentacon.

We should relocate all of our spent nuclear fuel from pools on nuclear plants and put them  inside dry casks or fuel pools located deep under the earth, cavens in bedrock, well guarded and secured - and of course, the nuclear industry would be paying for all of it, not the tax-payers.

Meanwhile, let's hope and pray that terrorist groups and individuals have it clear in their minds that by attacking nuclear facilities they would endanger the future of all mankind, not only of their enemies.

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Finnish Fennovoima Nuclear Power Plant Plan In Trouble

Like this TVO Olkiluoto-3 NPP under construction, the Hanhikivi plant would most likely to be costing much more than predicted - a general trend in nuclear industry

Finnish Fennovoima Company aiming to build a new nuclear power plant at Hanhikivi Area in Pyhäjoki is facing growing troubles when part of the companies that have been funding the project are withdrawing from the plan and giving up their funding.

According to YLE-news, the professor in Aalto Univesity of Helsinki, Peter Lund estimates it is possible that more companies responsible of funding the NPP will be withdawing from the project in the future - because of economical reasons.

If one of the main funders of the plan - German owned E.ON - decided to leave the project as it did with the new nuclear power plant projects in Great Britain, it would mean the end of the planned Hanhikivi nuclear power plant.

Let's hope that E.ON will respect the German Government decision to end nuclear era and make a decision to concentrate in clean energy in the future. The money invested in nuclear energy would be in better use in wind, solar, biomass or wave energy projects. Only the real risky money finds its way to nuclear these days - if you don't believe, ask TEPCO how profitable it is to clean up nuclear power accident contamination and  cool down, take care of and decommission the crippled reactors for forty years to come. New studies estimate the probability of a reactor core meltdown accident for any single NPP to be over 1 % (based on real reactor reactor accidents compared to total running hours of the reactors).

LINK (Finnish) - YLE:

http://yle.fi/uutiset/fennovoiman_rahoitus_vaikeuksissa/6290995

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Japan May Be Abandoning Nuclear Power Totally By 2030s

The National Diet of Japan is under a hard pressure of the majority of Japanese citizens to abandon nuclear power in near future

According to news agencies and newspaper articles it is now obvious that Japan is making a decision next weekend to completely abandon nuclear power by 2030s. This would happen by neglicting all new plans to built new reactors and limiting the maximum reactor running age to 40 years. So the old reactors would be stopped "naturally" due to ageing.

Japan would increase its efforts to use natural gas but especially renewable energy, energy saving and intelligent power grids in achieving the goal to become a totally nuclear free nation.

LINK - ECONOMICTIMES: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/16362582.cms?prtpage=1

LINK - ENFORMABLE: http://enformable.com/2012/09/japans-new-energy-policy-does-not-rely-on-nuclear-power/

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An Interview of Iori Mochizuki, the Author of Fukushima Diary

There is a fresh interview available of Iori Mochizuki, blogger and the author of  famous Fukushima Diary (www.fukushima-diary.com). On the interview Iori-San tells about his decision to evacuate from contaminated Japan and many urgent issues concerning Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident. On the same audio podcast the interviewer Libbe HaLevy of  Nuclear Hot Seat (http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/) tells the recent news of nuclear world. Worth listening!

Link: Interview (downloudable MP3,  31.6MB, 34.34 minutes) - NUCLEARHOTSEAT:

http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/nuclear-hotseat-64-fukushima-diarys-iori-mochizuki-nrc-denies-license-to-calvert-creek/

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A 100 % Renewable Possibility

There are some individuals in the scientifical community that dare to think in a new way despite of criticism. Every new wave of technology needs its own Guttenberg or Einstein. Only time will tell if Professor Mark Z. Jacobson  and Research Scientist  Mark A. Delucchi will be becoming such messengers of change in the sector of energy technology.

They are the authors of a study of Stanford University 2009 that finds it possible to produce all the energy that is globally needed with Wind, Water and Sunlight (WWS). No coal or nuclear power, oil or gas is needed. No biomass is needed. Only those three natural, renewable sources are enough for all the warming of houses and water, electricity, transportation and traffic.

This sounds too good to be true. But the researchers have their firm calculations. With the WWS -technology already existing we can generate the energy needed for the whole world. If we want to. And the cost would be the same or less than with coal, oil and nuclear. Without pollution or bad accidents that risk the lives of thousands of people.

LINKS:

STANFORD EDU/SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/sad1109Jaco5p.indd.pdf

JUST BRIEFLY - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030&page=5


An Excellent Google-video (2012) tells it all -
"POWER THE WORLD WITH WIND, WATER AND SUNLIGHT" - Mark A. Ruffalo, Marco Krapels and Mark Z. Jacobson -YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sLt5gNAQs

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