Symposium：Nuclear Regulation Authority, Nuclear Lapdog, Hotdog or Watchdog?

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 Nuclear Regulation Authority,  Nuclear Lapdog, Hotdog or Watchdog?

Nuclear Regulation Authority
   
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Regulation_Authority
   
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (English name) (Japanese name: 原子力規制委員会, Genshiryoku Kisei Iinkai, which means Nuclear Regulation Commission, which is also a Japanese translation of the name of the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission^?) is an administrative body of the Cabinet of Japan established on September 19, 2012 to ensure nuclear safety in Japan.^[1] Its first head is Shunichi Tanaka.^[2] It is part of the Ministry of the Environment.


 原子力規制委員会

    http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%9F%E5%AD%90%E5%8A%9B%E8%A6%8F%E5%88%B6%E5%A7%94%E5%93%A1%E4%BC%9A_(%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC)


  Nuclear Regulation Authority  : Watchdog or Lapdog?

Watchdog or Lapdog?

 

Chairperson at Nuclear Regulation Authority

田中俊一 (Syuniti Tanaka)

原子力規制委員会委員長

 

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E4%BF%8A%E4%B8%80_(%E7%89%A9%E7%90%86%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85)

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http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2014121702000235.html

2014年12月17日

"Conformity" Takahama approves an examination document with the base deficiency at an accident, too

 

The Nuclear Regulation Authority approved an examination document that Kansai Electric Power Takahama Nuclear Power Plant 3, the fourth unit (Fukui) adapted to a new regulation standard of the nuclear power generation at a regular meeting of 17th. After the opinion offer from the nation, it is decided formally. But I am building the measures bases at the time of the accident, and there is uneasiness on the road to carry the personnel required and material of the support to. The nuclear power plants such as Mihama, the big meal are located in the outskirts and are hard to say to have been considered enough how you cope when you suffered from it at the same time.

As for the nuclear power generation that judged that regulation committee meets a new standard, it becomes the second next to Kyushu Electric Power Sendai (I do not do it hold) nuclear power generation (Kagoshima). It may operate again in the next spring at the earliest.

 There was the examination assuming 1, Takahama, the second unit being stopping, but Kansai Electric Power proposed a policy aiming at re-operation of The Takahama Nuclear Power and Kyushu Electric Power Sendai Nuclear Power. Examination may start it again.

 The regulation committee member began examination in response to application from Kansai Electric Power with the enforcement of the new standard in last July. Even if the preparation and counterterrorism, the pressure of the furnace on natural disaster such as an earthquake and a tsunami, the tornado increased by the examination, filter-tip vent (exhaust) facilities to protect a storage container, the maintenance of the work procedure for the accident convergence were demanded.

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IAEA：delete and tamper with the document.　

IAEA which behaves like a bad doubtful Syndicate // IAEA：delete the document

http://matuoka777isenokamikaze.blogspot.jp/2014/12/iaea-which-behaves-like-bad-doubtful.html



IAEA：delete and tamper with the document.　
（資料を改竄,削除する）

☆" The accident at Chernobyl was approximately 400 times more potent than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. ''☆

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http://nuclear-news.net/2014/01/01/japanese-citizens-fukushima-soil-samples-seized-by-ukrainian-state-no-fukushima-testing-allowed-in-this-country-iaea-lapdog/

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The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry

Japanese citizens Fukushima soil samples seized by Ukrainian State – No Fukushima testing allowed in this country?? IAEA lapdog??

h/t ; http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/carrying-radioactive-samples.html

Voice of Russia,

 

1 January, 2014

 

The luggage of a Japanese citizen flying from Frankfurt to Kyiv exceeded the acceptable radiation levels more than twice. It turned out that the man was carrying a mixture of clay and soil taken from the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the nuclear disaster.

The radioactive luggage was found at the Borispol airport, the press service for the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service reported.

An inspection of the luggage yielded two plastic containers with a mixture of clay and soil weighing a total of 12 kilos. The radiation levels in the containers exceeded the acceptable levels more than twice.

The Japanese man said the mixture of clay and soil was taken on the territory of the Fukushima nuclear power plant during the nuclear disaster. He said he was carrying it to the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University.

The containers have now been seized and will be provided to representatives of the state-run enterprise Radon for further tests and disposal.
 

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Just a quick bit of dot connecting here… Arclight2011
 

Plans of Ukraine on Management of Disused Sealed Radioactive …

www.iaea.org/…/NE/…/1.3_Ukraine_DSRS_management_Eng.pdf‎

IAEA, Vienna. State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management. 1.3 … SSE. “Ukrainian State. Corporation. “Radon”. Ukrainian radiological training.

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Russia's nuclear company Rosatom sends third expedition to monitor Fukushima radiationIn "Japan"

Fukushima News 3/22/14:Radiation High in Fukushima Reservoirs Outside Evacuation

For Japanese citizens and the world trust in nuclear industry is banrupt

January 1, 2014 - Posted by arclight2011part2 |

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Fukushima News 3/22/14:Radiation High in Fukushima Reservoirs Outside Evacuation Zones

MissingSky101

Published on 22 Mar 2014

Radiation high in Fukushima reservoirs

 State and local government officials say they have detected radioactive substances exceeding government safety limits in soil at the bottom of agricultural dams and reservoirs in Fukushima Prefecture.

 The agriculture ministry and the Fukushima prefectural government found 8,000 becquerels or more per kilogram of radioactive substances in 568 out of the 1,940 dams and reservoirs they inspected between last June and December.

 108 were in the evacuation zones around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and 460 were further away.

 Officials detected 370,000 becquerels per kilogram in the soil of a reservoir 58 kilometers away from the plant.

 It is the highest reading so far recorded outside the evacuation zones, and more than 46 times the government limit of 8,000 becquerels for radioactive waste.

 The state government is obliged to dispose of radioactive waste beyond this limit.
Prefectural officials say rain may have carried radioactive substances into the waters from surrounding forests.

 Water from the reservoir with the highest reading outside the evacuation zones is being used for rice paddies nearby. But officials say they have not found radiation levels exceeding food safety limits in locally-produced rice, probably because radioactive substances in the soil barely dissolve in water.
The head of an association of residents says officials have told them they will not be exposed to radiation as long as there is water in the reservoir.

 But he says they fear radioactive levels may surge if it dries up. He is urging the state government to address the problem as soon as possible.

Fukushima residents wavering over radioactive wastes facilities:
Okuma Town is home to Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. The town’s radiation levels are so high that much of it is designated as “no-entry zone”. The entire Koirino district is part of the proposed site for intermediate storage facilities. NHK asked the evacuees from this community whether they accepted this.

Fukushima Evacuee: 50% of class with nosebleeds at same time — Immune system problems reported by many families (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/fukushima-evacuee-…

Evacuee from Outside Fukushima: “There’s a black dust absolutely everywhere” that’s highly radioactive — Gov’t would not evacuate children because they’d have to certify it was safe to return, and they could not — “It’s an ongoing crisis” (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/evacuee-very-highl…

Gundersen: Terrifying cancer data for Fukushima — “Statistics are astounding especially for young girls” — “Growing concern around cancer risk” (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/gundersen-terrifyi…

3 Years after #Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Bags Used to Store Contaminated Soil Were Meant to Last 3 Years
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2014/03/3-y…

More Fukushima radiation revelations: Amy Goodman
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/ind…

Contaminated water storage already 91% full / Could be overflowing by this coming June
http://beforeitsnews.com/japan-earthq…

UN Investigator urges Fukushima to broaden health testing
http://japandailypress.com/un-investi…

Japanese Ex-PM Naoto Kan says Fukushima disaster unresolved, criticizes Abe administration
http://japandailypress.com/japanese-e…

Fukushima disabled lose job after nuclear disaster, become famous through handicraft
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03…

State to feds: ‘We mean business’ at Hanford
http://www.king5.com/news/hanford/Ins…

Radioactive mouse hunt at Hanford
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnew…

New Mexico Waste Dump Disaster Could Poison Entire Region
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=16028

Vt Yankee violates protocol in bomb scare
http://www.timesargus.com/article/201…

Nuclear waste buildup relentless
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014…

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For Japanese citizens and the world trust in nuclear industry is banrupt

http://nuclear-news.net/2014/03/12/for-japanese-citizens-and-the-world-trust-in-nuclear-industry-is-banrupt/

Deadly Fukushima Crisis Further Corrodes Viability of Nuclear Energy,Tuesday, 11 March 2014   By H Patricia Hynes, Truthout | Op-Ed At the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear power plant reactor meltdowns, the disaster’s consequences continue to unfold. One should be a global switch from nuclear power to renewable energy sources.
The mainstream media moved on some time ago from Fukushima – and left most of us in the dark about this worsening nuclear tragedy, as if there were nothing more to mourn and no lessons to learn……..
A few thousand residents who have been allowed to return to their town Odaka find themselves alive in a dying region: “People don’t believe it is safe to visit here. They won’t believe our produce, our livestock, our fish are safe,” reported one rueful resident.
So difficult has been their fate that, by late 2013, 1,600 nuclear refugees had died of insufficient medical services, the exhaustion of relocating, suicide and, likely, heartbreak. More than 35 percent of some 38,000 Fukushima children examined have cysts or nodules on their thyroids, as compared with 1 percent of a control group of Japanese children. In a callous move to keep schools open in Fukushima, the Japanese government raised the “permissible” level of radiation for children. Japanese children now can be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously allowed, a level comparable to the yearly limit for German workers.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water from the site have emptied and continue to leak via groundwater into the Pacific Ocean at the rate of 400 tons per day. Radioactive cesium, a carcinogen that bioaccumulates in animal, fish and human tissue, has been found throughout mainland Japan, in fish off the coast of Fukushima (thus closing that industry) and in large migratory fish such as Bluefin tuna off the coast of California. A plume of radioactive water from Fukushima is expected to reach the West Coast of the United States in early 2014. Tragically, there is no solution in sight to trapping and treating the cesium-, tritium- and strontium-contaminated groundwater before it reaches the Pacific Ocean. “The situation at the reactor site is progressively deteriorating, not stabilizing,” stated an international group of experts in their urgent appeal for international action to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
In the wake of this $250 billion disaster, Japan closed all of its 54 nuclear power plants. An extraordinary (and embattled) act in a country that is dependent on nuclear energy for one-third of its electricity and is planning to achieve 50 percent nuclear-powered electricity by 2030. Japan had lulled its citizens into complacency with nuclear safety myths. Naoto Kan, prime minister at the time of the Fukushima meltdown, has since rejected nuclear power, saying ‘”there is no [other industrial] accident or disaster that would affect 50 million people”‘ like a nuclear accident. An unprecedented anti-nuclear citizen movement ignited in Japan after Fukushima and has persisted, with a strong majority of the population opposing nuclear power in the face of the current conservative and militaristic government’s determination to restart the offline nuclear power plants.
Radioactive waste is the nuclear industry’s nightmare, most currently so in Fukushima Dai’ichi, where intensely radioactive spent fuel rods lie in a warped and sinking structure and at risk of a catastrophic fire if another (and potentially likely) earthquake strikes the region. For this reason, the US State Department advised Americans soon after March 11 to evacuate to at least 50 miles from the plant.

TEPCO, the plant operator responsible for the cleanup of Fukushima nuclear power plants, has bankrupted the trust of Japanese citizens and the world,,,,,,,,,.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21551-deadly-fukushima-crisis-further-corrodes-viability-of-nuclear-energy

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Deadly Fukushima Crisis Further Corrodes Viability of Nuclear Energy

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  This article  by permission , Joseph Peterson, Truthout Community Liaison

From :

Truthout Community Liaison.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21551-deadly-fukushima-crisis-further-corrodes-viability-of-nuclear-energy

Tuesday, 11 March 2014 09:08 By H Patricia Hynes, Truthout | Op-Ed

Reporters wear personal protective gear while touring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, November 7, 2013. Engineers are preparing to extract more than 1,500 nuclear fuel rods from reactor No. 4, a unit that was badly damaged by an earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. (Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi / Pool via The New York Times)

At the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear power plant reactor meltdowns, the disaster's consequences continue to unfold. One should be a global switch from nuclear power to renewable energy sources.

The mainstream media moved on some time ago from Fukushima - and left most of us in the dark about this worsening nuclear tragedy, as if there were nothing more to mourn and no lessons to learn.
Three years ago - on March 11, 2011 - the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated northeast Japan, killing and injuring more than 20,000 people and crippling the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear power plant. Three of the plant's six reactors suffered hazardous core meltdowns and hydrogen gas explosions, releasing radionuclides into the air, soil and Pacific Ocean. More than 300,000 people eventually were evacuated from the region and remain today "nuclear refugees," living with the same trauma, fear, sense of displacement and loss of livelihood and social roots as war refugees. A few thousand residents who have been allowed to return to their town Odaka find themselves alive in a dying region: "People don't believe it is safe to visit here. They won't believe our produce, our livestock, our fish are safe," reported one rueful resident.

So difficult has been their fate that, by late 2013, 1,600 nuclear refugees had died of insufficient medical services, the exhaustion of relocating, suicide and, likely, heartbreak. More than 35 percent of some 38,000 Fukushima children examined have cysts or nodules on their thyroids, as compared with 1 percent of a control group of Japanese children. In a callous move to keep schools open in Fukushima, the Japanese government raised the "permissible" level of radiation for children. Japanese children now can be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously allowed, a level comparable to the yearly limit for German workers.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive water from the site have emptied and continue to leak via groundwater into the Pacific Ocean at the rate of 400 tons per day. Radioactive cesium, a carcinogen that bioaccumulates in animal, fish and human tissue, has been found throughout mainland Japan, in fish off the coast of Fukushima (thus closing that industry) and in large migratory fish such as Bluefin tuna off the coast of California. A plume of radioactive water from Fukushima is expected to reach the West Coast of the United States in early 2014. Tragically, there is no solution in sight to trapping and treating the cesium-, tritium- and strontium-contaminated groundwater before it reaches the Pacific Ocean. "The situation at the reactor site is progressively deteriorating, not stabilizing," stated an international group of experts in their urgent appeal for international action to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

In the wake of this $250 billion disaster, Japan closed all of its 54 nuclear power plants. An extraordinary (and embattled) act in a country that is dependent on nuclear energy for one-third of its electricity and is planning to achieve 50 percent nuclear-powered electricity by 2030. Japan had lulled its citizens into complacency with nuclear safety myths. Naoto Kan, prime minister at the time of the Fukushima meltdown, has since rejected nuclear power, saying ‘"there is no [other industrial] accident or disaster that would affect 50 million people"' like a nuclear accident. An unprecedented anti-nuclear citizen movement ignited in Japan after Fukushima and has persisted, with a strong majority of the population opposing nuclear power in the face of the current conservative and militaristic government's determination to restart the offline nuclear power plants.

Radioactive waste is the nuclear industry's nightmare, most currently so in Fukushima Dai'ichi, where intensely radioactive spent fuel rods lie in a warped and sinking structure and at risk of a catastrophic fire if another (and potentially likely) earthquake strikes the region. For this reason, the US State Department advised Americans soon after March 11 to evacuate to at least 50 miles from the plant.
TEPCO, the plant operator responsible for the cleanup of Fukushima nuclear power plants, has bankrupted the trust of Japanese citizens and the world.

An independent, commissioned Japanese investigation determined that the nuclear disaster was "man-made," in that collusion between the nuclear industry and government agencies responsible for regulating nuclear safety resulted in lapses in basic safety requirements. TEPCO ignored - at the people's peril - the forecasts of an earthquake of this magnitude. It did not warn people immediately of the direction of the plumes of radioactivity - causing some to evacuate directly into its pathway - and it lacked adequate evacuation plans. Further, a Stanford University study found that "Japanese plants were relatively unprotected" against floods and tsunamis when compared with plants in other countries. And, yet, whether for technological hubris or for political face-saving or both, neither the company nor the Japanese government has sought or welcomed international engineering assistance in their technologically challenged project to remove and rehouse 1,533 spent fuel rods from a severely damaged cooling pond structure in reactor 4. The earthquake-compromised rods embody the radiation equivalent of 14,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

Fukushima is a mirror to the world of nuclear nightmare: core meltdowns still not understood or under control; precariously perched fuel rods threatening catastrophe throughout Japan and beyond; hundreds of thousands of nuclear refugees and desperate nuclear workers living in anomie; ongoing radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean; and collusive government and industry locked in an entitled estate of denial and secrecy against the will of the country's citizens.

Promoting nuclear power as a "low-carbon" alternative to fossil fuels - as some prominent climate change scientists are doing - is a myopic bargain with the devil. New generations of safer nuclear power plants that purportedly would reduce the risk of ruinous Fukushima-like accidents are decades away from market readiness, too late for stemming the climate change juggernaut. Much more far-sighted is the charismatic former prime minister of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, an erstwhile nuclear power promoter. Since Fukushima, he calls for abandoning nuclear power, given its mammoth costs and Japan's seismically active coast, and for his country to unite in creating a renewable society unparalleled in the world. Such a social movement, he foresees, would lift the country's public spirit and recharge its economy.

Scrapping nuclear power has palpably sped the transition to efficiency and renewable energy. In 2012, Fukushima prefecture signed an agreement to build the country's largest solar park, and in 2013 Fukushima announced plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm - both part of the prefecture's plan to generate 100 percent of its electricity using renewable sources by 2040. Countries in Europe with the most ambitious solar and wind goals are phasing out nuclear power (Germany) or have adopted a no-nuclear power policy (Denmark and Portugal).

As for the United States, we have enough resource capacity to power the United States with solar and wind. Wind energy in the Great Plains and solar energy in the Southwest could meet current electrical energy needs more than a dozen times over, and this estimate does not include the capacity of offshore wind. Critically acclaimed studies, among them one conducted by researchers Jacobson of Stanford and Delucchi of the University of California-Davis, have laid out a roadmap for energy policy in the next two to four decades, using solely a mix of energy efficiency, wind, water and solar technologies.
In July 2012, an under-the-radar research laboratory within the US Department of Energy (DOE) - the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - released an initial investigatory report on the potential for renewable energy. The report is, in DOE's words, "the most comprehensive analysis of high-penetration renewable electricity of the continental United States to date." The major finding of the Renewable Electricity Futures Study supports a nuclear-free, zero-carbon renewable energy future:

Renewable electricity generation from technologies that are commercially available today, in combination with a more flexible electric system, is more than adequate to supply 80% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while meeting demand on an hourly basis in every region of the country.

The age of renewables will arrive when fossil fuels and nuclear power decline irreversibly, predicted German economist and renewable energy pioneer Hermann Scheer, stimulating renewables to increase irreversibly. The path to this age of renewables is political will forged by the will of the people - a struggle reinforced by Fukushima that ensues today in Japan and worldwide. 
 
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Nuclear watchdog says two reactors in Kyushu safe to switch back on

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http://sowetourban.co.za/afp/?afp-story-id=7379

 

Japan nuclear watchdog says two reactors safe to switch back on

Japan’s nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that two atomic reactors were safe enough to switch back on, marking a major step towards restarting the country’s nuclear plants which were shuttered after the Fukushima crisis.

                                         

An anti-nuclear protester holds a placard reading "Sendai NO" during a rally in Tokyo on July 16, 2014

But fresh protests — and accusations that the regulator is a puppet of the powerful atomic industry — have highlighted the challenges Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces in bringing back a technology that many Japanese have forever sworn off.
Abe has been trying to convince a wary public that the world’s third largest economy needs to return to an energy source which once supplied more than a quarter of its power.

 

Graphic Japan’s non-operational nuclear power plants. The country’s regulator on Wednesday approved the restart of two reactors

Widespread anti-nuclear sentiment has simmered in Japan ever since an earthquake and tsunami more than three years ago caused a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant — the worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl.
Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) officials Wednesday issued a more than 400 page safety report on the Sendai plant in southern Japan, technically giving its operator the green light to switch on its reactors — the first since Japan ushered in tougher regulations last year.
But any restart was unlikely before autumn at earliest, following a month-long public consultation period and winning agreement from local communities.
Business groups have backed Abe’s push to bring nuclear power plants back online after Japan’s energy bills soared when it was forced to turn to pricey fossil fuels.

Kyushu Electric Power’s Sendai nuclear plant at Satsumasendai city in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, September 20, 2013

Some of the country’s utilities — including Sendai’s operator Kyushu Electric Power — have also received billions of dollars in bailout money to rescue their finances which suffered when the plants went offline.
NRA chairman Shunichi Tanaka said Wednesday that the Sendai plant would have to operate under some of the toughest safety standards in the world.
“But it is often misunderstood when we talk about safety… we can never say there is zero risk,” he told reporters in Tokyo.
“We’ve said many times that we screened whether the (plant’s) safety measures satisfied the government standards, to lower the risk as much as possible.”

- ‘Controversial decisions’ -
At a public meeting to finalise their decision, Tanaka and his colleagues were met with shouts of “shame on you!” from a small band of protesters, while demonstrators also gathered outside the Sendai plant.

Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks during a press briefing in Tokyo on July 16, 2014

“The NRA has yielded to the enormous pressure of the nuclear industry and the Abe government… instead of putting the safety of people first,” said Kazue Suzuki from Greenpeace Japan.
Following the meltdown at Fukushima, the country’s nuclear reactors were switched off. Two reactors were briefly restarted last year but all of Japan’s nuclear plants are currently offline.
Complicating matters, there was no clear roadmap on who would make the final decision to restart reactors, especially if there was strong local opposition.
“It’s a problem that the decision-making system is not clear,” said Tomoaki Iwai, a politics professor at Nihon University.

Anti-nuclear demonstrators stage a rally in Tokyo on July 16, 2014 to protest against re-opening the Sendai nuclear power plant operated by Kyushu Electric Power Company

“Because no one wants to take responsibility for a controversial decision like this, probably the prime minister will make the final call.”
Still, Abe is facing opposition with one local assembly calling for the Sendai site to be decommissioned, while an anti-nuclear politician won a tight election at the weekend

- Battle lines drawn -

Former parliamentarian Taizo Mikazuki, 43, squeaked out a Sunday election win to become governor of Shiga prefecture, beating a candidate backed by Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
The region borders on Fukui prefecture, host to 13 idled reactors, and where the battle over nuclear power could see its biggest fight.

Anti-nuclear demonstrators stage a rally in Tokyo on July 16, 2014

Mikazuki has demanded that Tokyo ask for his approval before any reactor restarts in neighbouring Fukui.
Japan lies in one of the world’s most seismically active areas and is regularly hit by powerful earthquakes.
Worries about whether Japan’s nuclear plants could withstand another disaster came into focus at the weekend as an earthquake struck near the crippled Fukushima nuclear site.
No major damage was reported, but seismologists said the quake was an aftershock of the tremor that sparked 2011’s deadly tsunami, and warned of more to come.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake in March 2011 saw a monster tsunami slam into Japan’s Pacific coastline, leaving about 18,000 dead or still missing.
The huge waves swamped the Fukushima plant, sending reactors into meltdown and spewing radioactivity across the adjacent farming region. The area could remain a no-go zone for decades.
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NRC: Lapdog or Watchdog? - May 15, 2013  

2013/05/17 に公開

Kevin Hurley talks with Arnie and Maggie Gundersen about the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's (ASLB) decision to hold public hearings about restarting the San Onofre Nuclear Plant. "This whole issue is about the public's right to know. The nuclear industry and the NRC have developed a process to keep the public out," Arnie says. "Was there a safety risk? Yes," Maggie says, "There was a significant safety risk to the 8 million people in that area of southern California. Was there a radiation release? Yes. It was minor, but it could have been so much more."

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NRC: Lapdog or Watchdog? (Arnie & Maggie Gundersen 05152013)  

2013/05/16 に公開

http://fairewinds.org/content/nrc-lap...

NRC: Lapdog or Watchdog?
Kevin Hurley talks with Arnie and Maggie Gundersen about the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's (ASLB) decision to hold public hearings about restarting the San Onofre Nuclear Plant. "This whole issue is about the public's right to know. The nuclear industry and the NRC have developed a process to keep the public out," Arnie says. "Was there a safety risk? Yes," Maggie says, "There was a significant safety risk to the 8 million people in that area of southern California. Was there a radiation release? Yes. It was minor, but it could have been so much more."

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NUCLEAR EDUCATION & AWARENESS:
The Place You Must Always Remember to Forget - Nuclear Waste the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ3dT7...
People & Power - Danger Zone: Ageing Nuclear Reactors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1hEM7...
Stop Nuclear Welfare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaE2r...
Jeremy Rifkin - a brighter perspective on nuclear industry (keep watching - it's in English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgFyYk...
'Kill Nuclear Power Before It Kills Us' - Top Nuclear Executive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1R4j...
Wyden at Senate Energy on rising sea level: This is a wake-up call for nuclear policy makers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSfrP...
Revisiting Gundersen: NRC's Nuclear Emergency Planning for the US Has NO Basis in Reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfS-z...
American Nuclear Tragedy: A Little Known Nuclear Facility in Paducah, Kentucky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1BLMo...
Dirty Little Secret of Paducah Kentucky (Dr. Helen Caldicott)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5I2...
Going Nuclear: What is the Future of Nuclear Energy in the U.S.? (Arnie Gundersen on Aljazeera)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvL5v...
Internal vs. External Radiation Exposure Explained (Arnie Gundersen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9l3nP...
Nuclear 101 - Advantages & Disadvantages of Splitting Atoms to Boil Water
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/nuc...

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「大震災後のエネルギー政策（Japanese Energy Policy after March 11）」  

2011/07/27 にアップロード

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Foreign Press Center/Japan
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プレス・ブリーフィング:「大震災後のエネルギー政策」
（2011年7月27日）
豊田正和・（財）日本エネルギー経済研究所理事長

Press Briefing:"Japanese Energy Policy after March 11" (July 27, 2011)
Mr. Masakazu Toyoda, Chairman & CEO of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan