Nuclear Power on Collision Course With Japanese Public
by Tina Gerhardt / The Indypendant / July 25, 2012 / On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by a massive earthquake–measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale –and a tsunami with waves up to 65 feet high, leading to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Some Fukushima workers may have been illegally recruited
via The Asahi Shimbun / July 25, 2012 / Subcontracted staff at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are working for as little as 30 percent of the daily rates paid by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on...
View ArticleMainichi Op-Ed: Japan needs major shift in energy policy to cut ties to...
via Mainichi Daily / July 26, 2012 / A major shift in the nation’s energy policy is needed if Japan is to reduce its reliance on nuclear power. Not only must the scope of energy conservation be...
View ArticleAnti-nuclear ‘human chain’ to surround Diet building
via Japan Today / July 29, 2012 / Thousands of people are expected to form a “human chain” around Japan’s Diet building on Sunday as part of demonstrations aimed at ending nuclear power after last...
View ArticleOECD: Nuclear Expansion on Track Despite Fukushima
via JapanToday / July 30, 2012 / Strong expansion of nuclear power as a carbon-free energy source in Asia is expected to press ahead despite the Fukushima accident in Japan that soured sentiment in...
View ArticleCorbett Report: Fukushima’s Biggest Secret
Along with the tragic loss of life, the destruction of homes, farms, businesses and property, and the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami exposed the...
View ArticleHow Cozy Are The Nuclear Industry & The NRC?
Let Fukushima be a warning to those that would let the fox guard the henhouse. Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas... Any Questions? PLEASE Turn off a light for...
View ArticleJapan could become world’s second biggest solar power nation
by Robert Gilhooly / New Scientist / August 2, 2012 / WITH nuclear power on the ropes in Japan, it could be solar power’s time to shine. Minamisoma City in Fukushima prefecture has signed an agreement...
View Article68% of Japanese At Hearings on Nuclear Power Want Its Complete Abolition
via The Japan Times / August 5, 2012 / Around 70 percent of citizens who wished to air their views on the future of nuclear power at public hearings held by the government wanted to discuss its...
View ArticleFukushima Hot Springs Town to Build Geothermal Plant After Quake
By Chisake Watanabe / Bloomberg / August 7, 2012 / Hot springs operators in Tsuchiyu, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Fukushima’s stricken nuclear station in Japan, plan to build a...
View ArticleCorbett Report Radio: The Thorium Solution with John Kutsch (Video)
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View ArticleBelgium shuts down nuclear plant over safety fears
by James Fontanella Khan / via The Irish Times / August 10, 2012 / BELGIUM HAS temporarily shut down one of its seven nuclear power plants after the country’s atomic energy regulator discovered...
View ArticleJgov says entire Fukushima Daiichi and Daini plants should be written off
via The Japan Times / August 18, 2012 / National policy minister Motohisa Furukawa has said that reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the nearby No. 2 power station should never be...
View ArticlePay for Play? – Nuclear industry’s shady payments since Fukushima crisis
via The Asahi Shimbun / August 20, 2012 / The nuclear power industry has made behind-the-scenes payments to the tune of at least 3.18 billion yen ($40 million) to six local governments hosting...
View ArticleIAEA: Fukushima slowed nuke growth
via UPI.com / August 20, 2012 / The Fukushima Daiichi disaster slowed but didn’t reverse the expansion of nuclear power in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in Vienna. The U.N. agency,...
View ArticleDespite all the numbers, energy policy questions fall short
by Eric Johnston / The Japan Times / August 23, 2012 Numbers, numbers everywhere. So what are we to think? That’s the question activists, academics and members of the public are asking as they follow...
View Article#Antinuclear Japan: Nearly 90% Favor “Zero Nuke” Policy
via ex-SKF / August 22, 2012 / That’s the number from analyzing 7,000 comments from the public on the national energy policy. 80,000 more to go. The committee members who have been analyzing the public...
View ArticleOp-ed: The Nuclear Mafia Derails Democracy in Japan
by Richard Wilcox / via DissidentVoice.org / August 31, 2012 / End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. – Bruce Springsteen, “Factory” Bring us the...
View ArticleJapan Strives to Go Nuclear-Free
by Hiroko Tabuchi / via The New York Times / August 29, 2012 / As Japan moves to cut back on nuclear power after last year’s disaster in Fukushima, it is running into a harsh economic reality: the cost...
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