Nuclear Power & Radiation

"Japan Fukushima Probe Says Reactors Unready for Natural Disaster"

"A government-appointed inquiry into Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis raised doubts on Monday about whether other atomic plants were prepared for massive disasters despite new safety rules, and delivered a damning assessment of the regulators and the station's operator."

Source: Reuters, 07/23/2012

"Nuclear-Free Movement Attracts New Breed To Massive Tokyo Rally"

"Despite being orchestrated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, novelist Kenzaburo Oe and other prominent figures, the Sayonara Nukes 100,000 Rally held on the July 16 national holiday in Tokyo often looked and felt like conventional old-left demonstrations.

The rally to demand a nuclear-free Japan drew a large number of labor union members, consumer and other old-time activists, waving flags of their organizations, among the estimated 170,000 participants in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.

Source: Asahi Shimbun, 07/17/2012

"Delays, Cost Increases at Nation's New Nuclear Projects"

"Despite promises from the nuclear industry to regulators and consumers that they learned from mistakes of the past, the nation's first two nuclear reactor projects built from scratch in 30 years are headed toward hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns and months, if not years, of delays."

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 07/13/2012

"Groups: U.S. Shares 'Mindset' Behind Japan's Nuclear Disaster"

"WASHINGTON, DC -- The same 'man-made' problems underlying last year's nuclear disaster in Japan exist today in the United States, warn five U.S. groups responding to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission's report to Japan's Diet, or parliament."

Source: ENS, 07/13/2012

"Radioactive River Mud Threatens Lakes, Tokyo Bay"

"Lakes across eastern Japan are being contaminated with radioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and scientists are warning of a growing problem in Tokyo Bay.

Radioactive mud carried down rivers is slowly accumulating in the lakes, in some cases making fish and shellfish dangerous to eat.

Source: Asahi Shimbun, 07/06/2012

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