Japan tests radioactive water discharge

On June 12, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began testing the discharge system it intends to use to release radioactive water into the Pacific ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site.  It used regular, uncontaminated water for the test, which was discharged through an under-sea tunnel system. TEPCO will spend two weeks testing…

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Obscene spending on nuclear weapons

The United States spent $43.7 billion on its nuclear weapons program in 2022, according to the new ICAN Report — Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending. That’s $83,143 a minute and more than all of the other nuclear armed states combined. The next highest spender was China at $11.7 billion followed by Russia at $9.6…

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Consent-based or bribery?

The US Department of Energy on June 9 announced it will direct $26 million to “groups of university, nonprofit, and private-sector partners” who will help communities decide that they want to be the recipients of the country’s irradiated reactor fuel. Having abjectly failed to find any safe, long-term radioactive waste management “solution” — possibly because…

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This is why nuclear power is irrelevant

According to Construction News: “There is an increasing chance that the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project could take longer and cost more to complete than planned, it has emerged. In a presentation to investors to coincide with its first-quarter results, client EDF said: ‘The risk of additional delays and budget overruns is increasing.’” This simply serves to further…

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Experts say nuclear power bad for climate crisis

A panel of leading independent experts concluded in a Congressional briefing (video) June 2, that attempts to use nuclear power to help curtail the climate crisis has failed, and current nuclear subsidies should, instead, go to renewables. In fact, continuing nuclear steals resources from real climate solutions. Further, shutting down current dangerous reactors doesn’t mean…

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Fukushima dumping threat makes U.S. groups ask FDA for tighter food standards

As Japan prepares to release 1.3 million tons of Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an increasing number of countries continue to voice strong opposition. A report released Monday by Fukushima operator, TEPCO, showed that fish caught off the harbor at Fukushima contained 180 times the level allowed in Japan of radioactive…

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Fukushima fish too radioactive for human consumption

According to a report issued on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the catastrophically ruined Fukushima nuclear reactors, “fish caught in the harbor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan far exceed safety levels for human consumption.” The content of cesium 137, a radioactive isotope that is a common byproduct…

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Mayors call for action against nuclear war

At the close of its 91st Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on June 5, 2023, the final business plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a new resolution, titled, “Calling for Urgent Action to Avoid Nuclear War, Resolve the Ukraine Conflict, Lower Tensions with China, and Redirect Military Spending to Meet…

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Destruction of Nova Kakhovka dam jeopardizes Zaporizhzhia NPP cooling

June 9, 2023 , UPDATE:  Ukrainian operators at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station (still under Russian military occupation) warn that the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir behind the breached Nova Kakhovka Dam has dropped below 42 feet and that the nuclear reactor’s cooling water pumping station is no longer capable of pumping water up…

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