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Freezing Fukushima: The Solution
Posted on September 6, 2013 | No Comments"Utilizing new technologies, we will freeze the 100-square miles surrounding the devastated plant, surgically remove it, towing it by barge to the Arctic where it will remain frozen, rendering it harmless. Comments regarding global warming will be addressed in a private conference at a later date."
Nuclear: Vermont Yankee to Close, 22 Fukushimas Still Threaten US
Posted on August 30, 2013 | No CommentsThe Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country and the subject of heated battles over the decades, will close late next year. This would leave the US with 99 operating reactors. Four reactors in Georgia and South Carolina are under construction, and the Tennessee Valley Authority is finishing a fifth in Tennessee. But the industry is in a period of rapid decline.
Japan: “Office Farming” Greens Tokyo’s Urban Jungle
Posted on August 29, 2013 | 6 CommentsSophie Feng writes on one answer to disaster-prone Tokyo's interest in food health and security. Corporate Ecology is mixed with the move toward Agricultural Urbanism, greening the sterile downtown office world for workers and visitors.
Fukushima Meltdown: Flush the Radiated Mess into the Pacific
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 4 CommentsAlmost two and a half years after the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the head of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) raised concern on August 5 about the continued flow of radioactive water from the plant going into the Pacific Ocean, telling Reuters, "Right now we have a state of emergency." Hmm, yes, sounds about right.
Edison’s Reef: A Not So Glowing Report — By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 27, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhile large fish fail to thrive at Southern California Edison's artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente, California, mitigation mandated by the California Coastal Commission to repair destroyed kelp beds at their San Onofre Nuclear Plant (called SONGS), a wider marine mammal crisis is ongoing. Could radiation released from SONGS be the culprit in both cases?Dr. Helen Caldicott: Human Scientific Hubris Caused Fukushima Nuclear Meltdowns
Posted on July 6, 2012 | No CommentsIn March, 2012, physician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott spoke in Los Angeles on energy, environmental health, and the effects of the Fukushima meltdowns on the Japanese people. Meanwhile, a parliamentary panel confirms insititutional negligence and human scientific hubris caused the disaster.
Nuclear Fission: In the Beginning, It All Looked So Simple
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsNuclear Regulatory Commission & Edison host a town hall to discuss San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station's (SONGS's) status in its current Shut Down mode, due to systemic tube leaks in its new reactors. The experts scratch their heads as to why.
Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA and Beyond – Dr. Mark Sircus
Posted on June 7, 2012 | No CommentsRight after Chernobyl blew its top, Edward Teller said on the ABC Evening News in late April 1986, “The chances of a real calamity at a nuclear power station are infinitesimally small. But should it happen, the consequences are impossible to imagine.” Now after Japan's Fukushima disaster, radiation continues to spread across the Pacific to North America with unimaginable consequences.
Fukushima Update: Hot Japanese Bluefin Tuna, Served Glowing
Posted on May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments"Yes, Madam, the tuna is marinated at sea during its long migration from Japan to here in both Cesium-134 and Cesium-137. It's so good, it glows."
San Onofre Shake Rattle and Leak: A Life Epicentric
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 1 CommentEdison estimates a $65 million cost to replace the failed steam generators, with an overall $100 million associated losses. Edison has already backed off assertions of a June opening, due to lingering safety concerns. Meanwhile, an earthquake study moves forward, albeit with less outside oversight than that of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.
China Syndrome Redux or Godzilla Lives? By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 1 CommentUpdate from Fukushima: cooling water pours in, instantly drains out highly radiated, through unknown openings, workers can't locate, due to extreme radioactivity, as more quakes persist. Could things get worse? Seems so.
Keeping Our Lights On and Nukes Off – A Plan – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 12, 2012 | 1 CommentThere's no way on God's green earth, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) can fix 19,454 (per dome) rotting pipes, without a plumbing overhaul of nuclear proportions, keeping its creaky ol'double boilers shut down for years, or maybe decades. Good.
Nuclear Nano-Gnat Infestation
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhen we see a giant plume, shooting out the top of a failed reactor in full meltdown, those clouds are full of nuclear fleas, mixing with the air we breathe.
Dr. Cousens: Holistic Approach to Overcoming Radiation
Posted on April 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsPersonal and collective action items to protect ourselves from the ongoing worldwide radiation pollution from Gabriel Cousens MD.
Impending Nuclear Storm: News Beyond Fukushima – 6 April 2011
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThreats: Mounting stresses on the containment structures filled with radioactive cooling water made vulnerable to rupture; explosions from the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater, and fuel rods continuing to melt.Japanese Nuclear Disaster Worsens
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 1 CommentJapanese officials have admitted that nuclear rods inside three of the Fukushima reactors are melting.Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Disaster Unfolds
Posted on March 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsJapan's earthquake and tsunami have triggered meltdowns at several nuclear reactors, increased radiation levels, evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people in the face of radiation exposures already being reported.
