As the fifth anniversary of the onset of the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, Mary Olson, director of NIRS Southeast office in Asheville, NC and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates are on a five-week speaking/listening tour of Japan. Safe Energy is posting Olson’s “tour diary”,...
http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/17/indian-point-leak/ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for Indian Point nuclear power plant to be shut down after officials discovered that a radioactive material known as tritium was leaking into the groundwater. On Feb. 6, Cuomo ordered an investigation into the leak after Entergy, the company that operates the...
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/09/nrc-experts-warn-dangers-nuclear/ Seven top Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) experts have taken the brave rare step of publicly filing an independent finding warning that nearly every U.S. atomic reactor has a generic safety flaw that could spark a disaster. The warning mocks the latest industry push to keep America’s...
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/05/5-years-after-fukushima/ On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami, which in turn produced equipment failures and the release of radioactive material at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The disaster is the single largest release of radioactivity into the ocean and...
Beyond Nuclear, in a press release today, decried the absence of reasonable plans to prevent and protect against a nuclear disaster in the U.S., five years after the March 11, 2011 triple meltdowns began at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. More than 32 million Japanese have been...
Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists | March 10, 2016 10:38 am | Comments http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/10/fukushima-wake-up-call-nrc/ On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 50-foot tsunami triggered meltdowns at three of six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. It was the one...
Day Four at the ICJ: Aspirational Rhetoric vs. Real Actions By Rick Wayman and Jackie Cabasso India presented oral arguments today at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the nuclear disarmament case brought by the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). India has challenged the jurisdiction...
Day Three at the ICJ: What Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? The United Kingdom presented oral arguments at the opening session of the Marshall Islands vs. United Kingdom case today at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Marshall Islands filed an application against...
From: "Rick Wayman, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation" <rwayman@napf.org> Day Two at the ICJ: Where Is Pakistan? Observers arived at the Interntioal Court of Justice this morning expecting to hear the first in a series of four days of oral arguments in the Marshall Islands vs. Pakistan nuclear...
From: "Rick Wayman, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation" <rwayman@napf.org> Day One at the ICJ: Marshall Islands Shines Against India It was an historic day at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as oral arguments in the first-ever contentious cases on nuclear disarmament began at the ICJ. The Republic...