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Kakrapar Nuclear Plant Is Likely Undergoing A Loss-Of-Coolant Accident: Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/kakrapar-nuclear-plant-is-likely-undergoing-a-loss-of-coolant-accident-dr-a-gopalakrishnan/

Earthquake threat to California may be greater than thought, warn scientists | World news | The Guardian

Earthquake threat to California may be greater than thought, warn scientists | World news | The Guardian

Warning on Hinkley Point nuclear reactor safety | Plymouth Herald

Warning on Hinkley Point nuclear reactor safety | Plymouth Herald

Nuclear power market still suffers from Japan’s Fukushima disaster

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nuclear-power-market-still-suffers-from-japans-fukushima-disaster-2016-03-11

Governments Fail to Learn Lessons of Fukushima Disaster 5 Years On

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160312/1036162155/states-fail-learn-fukushima-lesson.html#ixzz42iabkRWY

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160312/1036162155/states-fail-learn-fukushima-lesson.html

Japanese Utilities Plunge After Court Injunction on Reactors

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/kansai-electric-plunges-after-court-injunction-on-takahama

Surprise nuclear strike? Here's how we'll figure out who did it | Science | AAAS

Surprise nuclear strike? Here's how we'll figure out who did it | Science | AAAS

Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/radioactive-waste-still-leaking-five-years-after-fukushima-nuclear-disaster.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

Free EPRI Technical Report: Seismic Evaluation Guidance: Spent Fuel Pool Integrity Evaluation

Free EPRI Technical Report: Seismic Evaluation Guidance: Spent Fuel Pool Integrity Evaluation

Direct URL:
http://www.epri.com/abstracts/Pages/ProductAbstract.aspx?ProductId=000000003002007148

Canada’s First Ministers Issue Declaration on Clean Energy, Climate Change

Canada’s First Ministers Issue Declaration on Clean Energy, Climate Change
Renewable Energy World Editors
March 8, 2016 | Post Your Comment
	Canada's First Ministers last week released a declaration on clean growth and climate change they say will move the country toward a pan-Canadian framework that would meet or exceed Canada’s international emissions targets. Full Article http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/03/canada-s-first-ministers-issue-declaration-on-clean-energy-climate-change.html?cmpid=renewablesolar03122016&eid=288118515&bid=1336798

Don’t Bring Nevada’s Solar Nightmare to New Hampshire

Don’t Bring Nevada’s Solar Nightmare to New Hampshire
Teddy Stanowski
March 10, 2016 | Post Your Comment
	I have been following New Hampshire’s solar discussions closely because I am a victim of poor solar policy decisions that led to massive job loss in my home state. I lost my solar job in Nevada days before Christmas. Full Article http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/03/don-t-bring-nevada-s-solar-nightmare-to-new-hampshire.html?cmpid=renewablesolar03122016&eid=288118515&bid=1336798

What Football Does to the Brain

What Football Does to the Brain

Fukushima at Five Years: Rampant Radiophobia Ham-strings Japan’s Recovery

Fukushima Commentary3/11/15 –

Fukushima at Five Years:

Rampant Radiophobia Ham-strings Japan’s Recovery
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-commentary.html
Rampant radiophobia infects millions of Japanese citizens, and it is allowed to fester virtually unabated. Its impact has reached the point of national catastrophe… not one caused by Mother Nature. But rather, a calamity fostered from fear itself.

http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-commentary.html

Is Fukushima's exclusion zone doing more harm than radiation?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35761136

Why haven't world leaders learned the most useful lessons from Fukushima? - Atomic Insights

Why haven't world leaders learned the most useful lessons from Fukushima? - Atomic Insights

Why haven’t world leaders learned the most useful lessons from Fukushima?

http://atomicinsights.com/havent-world-leaders-learned-useful-lessons-fukushima/

Lindsey Graham on MOX: ‘Somebody should be fired’

http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20160310/AIK0101/160319944

Nuclear energy booming in Asia

Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, India and China have embraced nuclear power. Other countries in the region also want to build more plants - even in high-risk areas prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.

http://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-energy-booming-in-asia/a-19110848

U.S. Nuclear Regulation Five Years After Fukushima

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9903a974-b788-4b57-a796-08be14bdd879

Fukushima Should Have Served as Wake-Up Call for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

https://ecowatch.com/2016/03/10/fukushima-wake-up-call-nrc/

UCS Fukushima 5th anniversary rag

The Union of Concerned Scientists has posted "Preventing an American Fukushima", once again lambasting the NRC for (what they want the world to believe) not protecting America's public health. Infamous antinuke Ed Lyman is the author, and asserts that the NRC's post-Fukushima regulatory changes are insufficient to keep all possible nuke accidents from happening. But, the diatribe is little more than the tired UCS position that the NRC is run by the utilities, needs massive overhaul, and etc.

http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/03/Preventing-American-Fukushima-full-report.pdf

Inside the Wrecked Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Facility 5 Years After Disaster

http://abcnews.go.com/International/inside-wrecked-fukushima-nuclear-reactor-facility-years-disaster/story?id=37551399

The Dirty, Deadly Front End of Nuclear Power -- 15,000 Abandoned Uranium Mines

The Dirty, Deadly Front End of Nuclear Power -- 15,000 Abandoned Uranium Mines

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35179-nuclear-power-in-our-world-today

Japan a ‘model of disaster preparedness’, says UN chief

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/1923089/japan-model-disaster-preparedness-says-un-chief

It's Been 5 Years Since The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, But Things Haven't Even Started Limping Back To Normal

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/world/it-s-been-5-years-since-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-but-things-haven-t-even-started-limping-back-to-normal-251824.html

Ex-Japan PM: nuclear power remains unsafe and too costly

Naoto Kan, who presided over country during Fukushima disaster in 2011, cautions over plans to build new UK plants

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/japan-naoto-kan-nuclear-power-unsafe-fukushima

Robot death at Fukushima: Bots sent to repair damage at nuclear power plant have died

http://www.firstpost.com/world/robot-death-at-fukushima-bots-sent-to-repair-damage-at-nuclear-power-plant-have-died-2669968.html?utm_source=fp_hp

Inside Control Centre of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/03/inside-control-centre-of-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant/

US regulatory structure no hindrance to new technology

US regulatory structure no hindrance to new technology
The USA's nuclear regulatory structure will not hinder the implementation of new advanced reactor technology, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Stephen Burns told the regulator's annual public conference this week. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-US-regulatory-structure-no-hindrance-to-new-technology-1103167.html
 

Chinese collaboration for accelerator-driven systems

Chinese collaboration for accelerator-driven systems
A strategic cooperation agreement to develop accelerator-driven systems has been signed between China General Nuclear and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Such systems could be used to transmutate used nuclear fuel or run subcritical nuclear reactors powered by thorium. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Chinese-collaboration-for-accelerator-driven-systems-1103164.html

European Commission clears EDF, CGN partnership

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-European-Commission-clears-EDF-CGN-partnership-1103165.html

Time to look again at radiation safety

Time to look again at radiation safety
Five years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi, the scientific community is ready to assess what the real health consequences have been and put them into perspective with other risks in our lives, Gerry Thomas says.http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/V-Time-to-look-again-at-radiation-safety-1103161.html

Book Review ‘The Profiteers,’ by Sally Denton By T. J. STILES

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The Looming Swedish Nuclear Phase Out: An Energy Crisis in the Making

The Looming Swedish Nuclear Phase Out: An Energy Crisis in the Making

Posted: 09 Mar 2016 10:48 PM PST

Sweden is faced with the possible shutdown of its entire nuclear generating capacity. This could result in grid instability, price hikes and much higher greenhouse gas emissions, writes Rauli Partanen, an independent analyst and author on energy and the environment.read morehttp://theenergycollective.com/energy-post/2323616/looming-swedish-nuclear-phaseout-energy-crisis-making

Government Forecasts Continue to Underestimate Renewable Energy Growth

Government Forecasts Continue to Underestimate Renewable Energy Growth

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 12:37 AM PST

In its first release of the monthly Energy Infrastructure Update for 2016, the FERC reports five new “units” of wind and six new units of solar accounting for 100 percent of new electrical generation brought into service for January, with 468 megawatts (MW) and 145 MW respectively.read more
http://theenergycollective.com/globalwarmingisreal/2323675/government-forecasts-continue-underestimate-renewable-energy-growth

New Webcast: What You Should Know About the Clean Power Plan
New Webcast: What You Should Know About the Clean Power Plan Will the Clean Power Plan be upheld in court? Will states be able to meet their emission targets? Is a trading system for carbon credits a viable option? Our experts will answer these and many other questions during this free webcast. • Compliance Options • State Perspectives • Legal Challenges and Possible Outcomes • EPA Jurisdiction and Authority Register Now – Watch March 18, 2016 at 1:30 PM EDT / 12:30 PM CDT / 10:30 AM PDT / 5:30 PM GMT Need More Details?		March 18, 2016 1:30 PM EDT 12:30 PM CDT 10:30 AM PDT 5:30 PM GMT Register now>> SHARE: MOBILE FRIENDLY All webcasts are available on any mobile device including iPads, tablets and phones!
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Why the success of the Paris climate agreement requires an atmospheric monitoring network

http://thebulletin.org/why-success-paris-climate-agreement-requires-atmospheric-monitoring-network9211

Fukushima Future Studies: five years later, what have we learned?

ABSTRACT

The aftermath of the failure of two reactors in the spring of 2011 at Fukushima, Japan, involves more than background radiation or cleanup. In addition to deciding “safe” levels of radioactivity, regional authorities must also deal with the needs of those who were forcibly evacuated – and whether, five years later, the evacuees even want to return to their old homes. To overcome these and other problems, Fukushima University set up its “Fukushima Future Studies” program, which aims to learn about the long-term effects of a nuclear power plant accident, with an emphasis on hands-on, practical matters. In this interview, William McMichael, an assistant professor who runs part of the core curriculum of Fukushima Future Studies, talks with Bulletin Associate Editor Dan Drollette Jr.

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2016.1145907

Fukushima, five years on by John Mecklin

Fukushima, five years on

John Mecklin

http://thebulletin.org/fukushima-five-years9224

US NRC Blog Update: Making Recent Safety Enhancements Part of the NRC Routine

Making Recent Safety Enhancements Part of the NRC Routine

Leave a comment Posted by Moderator on March 11, 2016

Stephen G. Burns
Chairman
The NRC has made great strides to enhance U.S. nuclear power plants’ already robust safety measures in the five years since the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. We took swift action after the accident in 2011, ordering a variety of upgrades to plant safety. Now we’re to the point of incorporating this work into our ongoing inspection and oversight processes.

NRC Chairman Stephen Burns (right) stands with Jim Meister, Exelon’s Vice President for Operations Support, near new portable equipment at the Braidwood nuclear plant.

A key lesson from the accident was that plants must be prepared for events not contemplated when they were designed and constructed. Plants’ strategies to address external events must be flexible enough to deal with variety of circumstances.
Substantial progress has been made towards completing NRC-directed upgrades to address this lesson. Plants are far better prepared for severe events now than they were in 2011.
About half of U.S. commercial reactors have completed integrating portable pumps, generators and other resources and procedures to maintain key safety functions. By the end of the year we expect every U.S. plant to have the physical resources. Almost all the plants will have all their procedures available, and the rest will have most procedures ready to go. The industry also has two national rapid response centers up and running in Phoenix and Memphis with portable equipment that can be dispatched within 24 hours to anywhere in the country if additional help is needed.
More than three quarters of the plants have completed installing equipment to better monitor their spent fuel pools, and we expect every U.S. plant to finish that work by the end of the year. The bulk of the remaining safety-significant work should be done in 2017.
I’ve personally been to nearly a dozen plants since becoming Chairman and have seen first-hand the work that has been done at these sites. The operators of the plants have taken this work very seriously and the amount of equipment purchased and plant modifications made is quite impressive. Equally impressive is the thoroughness reflected in the procedures and training developed to make sure their people are ready and able to spring into action should the worst happen.
The NRC’s requests for U.S. plants to re-examine earthquakes and flooding hazards are also bearing fruit. Every plant has updated its understanding of potential earthquakes at its site. A quarter of the plants have finished their earthquake-related work. The rest are looking at whether their new quake hazard affects risks to a plant’s ability to safely shut down.
While improving flooding hazard information has proven more complex, more than half of the plants have updated their understanding of flooding sources. All the plants will continue examining any risk changes due to revised flooding estimates.
Our next step is to inspect the work that’s been done and to ensure the plants maintain all of that progress. We’re adapting our inspections and other processes to cover these enhancements. We’ve given our Resident Inspectors the handbook for the first of these inspections, in this case looking at the newly integrated portable equipment and resources. The first of those checks was done a few days ago. We’re also updating our assessment process for inspection findings to cover the post-Fukushima upgrades.
Moving examination of these upgrades into our everyday oversight ensures we – and the plants – are vigilant in maintaining this important progress. Our onsite inspectors will keep a constant eye on these upgrades, with help as needed from our regional and headquarters staff.
The NRC has met the challenges raised by the Fukushima accident promptly while maintaining day-to-day safe plant operations. We’ll work hard every day to make certain plants also stay focused on maintaining the progress we’ve made.

After Five Years, What Is The Cost Of Fukushima?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/10/after-five-years-what-is-the-cost-of-fukushima/#12d6cef56016

Fukushima: They Knew By Greg Palast

Fukushima: They Knew
By Greg Palast
The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN. 

"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN On the Fifth Anniversary of the meltdown, the con continues 
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=eeebc64555&e=4ee9199723

Former Nuke Officials Can Enter Facilities | The Daily Caller

Former Nuke Officials Can Enter Facilities | The Daily Caller

U.S. Senate appropriators to debate funding for, and future of, the MOX program - Post and Courier

U.S. Senate appropriators to debate funding for, and future of, the MOX program - Post and Courier

Ruling to halt Takahama nuclear reactors irrational, ignores top court precedent - Chicago Tribune

Ruling to halt Takahama nuclear reactors irrational, ignores top court precedent - Chicago Tribune

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NatGas Generation to Surpass Coal in 2016: EIA

The EIA on Tuesday released its March Short-Term Energy Outlook, which projects natural gas will fuel 33.4 percent of the country’s power generation in 2016 compared to coal’s 32 percent. http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/03/natgas-generation-to-surpass-coal-in-2016-eia.html?cmpid=enl-poe-weekly-march-11-2016&cmpid=enl_PE_Weekly_2016-03-11&eid=288118515&bid=1336220

Duke Energy Tests New Battery Technology

The hybrid ultracapacitor-battery energy storage system (HESS) will demonstrate extended operational life, rapid response, real-time solar smoothing and load shifting. http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/03/duke-energy-tests-new-battery-technology.html?cmpid=enl-poe-weekly-march-11-2016&cmpid=enl_PE_Weekly_2016-03-11&eid=288118515&bid=1336220

European Commission approves French-Chinese deal to build $25.5bn nuclear project in UK

http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/26797666-european-commission-approves-french-chinese-deal-to-build-255bn-nuclear-project-in-uk/

EDF's U.K. Nuclear Project Raises Questions, State Auditor Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-11/edf-s-u-k-nuclear-project-raises-questions-state-auditor-says

What Jewish Law Says About Crumbling Indian Point Nuclear Plant

Read more: http://forward.com/opinion/335647/what-jewish-law-says-about-crumbling-indian-point-nuclear-plant/#ixzz42axVewqc

http://forward.com/opinion/335647/what-jewish-law-says-about-crumbling-indian-point-nuclear-plant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Main

Taiwan planning to send nuclear waste overseas for reprocessing

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201603110018.aspx

Reactor at Jinshan nuclear power plant shuts down

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/03/11/2003641326

China to boost nuclear fuel reserves to feed new reactors - Yahoo News

China to boost nuclear fuel reserves to feed new reactors - Yahoo News

“Waters Of The U.S.” Rule Still Subject To Nationwide Stay, For Now

“Waters Of The U.S.” Rule Still Subject To Nationwide Stay, For Now

By Lela Ames, Bradford De Vore, Deborah Israel | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:00 PM

Would you consider this a “Water of the United States” subject to the Clean Water Act?http://breakingenergy.com/2016/03/10/waters-of-the-u-s-rule-still-subject-to-nationwide-stay-for-now/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=27180723&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8gI9qMdO0IPuy1FeDenxo6eL-CKhpVqMjrJcFtPh37qYDa5HgMlJSQww7loipddESJ5yUTsT4Xqv7IniMDaJZGhpl8Kg&_hsmi=27180723

Fukushima Update 3/10/16

Fukushima Update 3/10/16 –

The Japanese Press has obsessed on the court order to shutter Takahama unit #3, relegating a considerable amount of good news about Fukushima to the journalistic trash heap. We cover the Fukushima news first, followed by a review of the Takahama news reports.

http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates.html

Fukushima relocations were unjustified, kneejerk reaction: UK academics

Fukushima relocations were unjustified, kneejerk reaction: UK academics

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/fukushima-relocations-were-unjustified-kneejerk-reaction-uk-academics?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2016-03-10_PM

Residents rejoice over court order to halt Takahama nuke plant reactors

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160310/p2a/00m/0na/017000c

Court questions new NRA safety standards

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002802038

Deep Dive: What is Resource Adequacy?

http://northwestcleanenergy.com/2016/03/10/deep-dive-what-is-resource-adequacy/

The Effects of Fukushima Linger after Five Years, but Not from Radiation

The Effects of Fukushima Linger after Five Years, but Not from Radiation

Terrestrial Energy, General Fusion, Among Canada's Grant Recipients - News - Nuclear Power News - Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Plant News, Jobs, and Careers

Terrestrial Energy, General Fusion, Among Canada's Grant Recipients - News - Nuclear Power News - Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Plant News, Jobs, and Careers

Nuclear's share of primary energy to rise, says BP

Nuclear's share of primary energy to rise, says BP

Five Years From Fukushima: Where Are We Now?

Five Years From Fukushima: Where Are We Now?

http://www.atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com/

The Looming Swedish Nuclear Phase Out: An Energy Crisis in the Making

http://www.theenergycollective.com/energy-post/2323616/looming-swedish-nuclear-phaseout-energy-crisis-making

The ANS response to the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident March 11, 2016

The ANS response to the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima

nuclear accident March 11, 2016

http://fukushima.ans.org/inc/docs/Fukushima_5th_Anniversary-ANS_Response-March_9.pdf

Reactor at 1st nuclear power plant taken offline | Society | FOCUS TAIWAN - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

Reactor at 1st nuclear power plant taken offline | Society | FOCUS TAIWAN - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

Takahama injunction delivers body blow to Japan’s nuclear power industry

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/10/national/takahama-injunction-delivers-body-blow-to-japans-nuclear-power-industry/#.VuHaRymGhRk

ANS Nuclear Cafe Update March 10

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Vermont Yankee to scale back emergency plan, affecting 7 Massachusetts towns

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/vermont_yankee_scales_back_eme.html

7 Top NRC Experts Break Ranks to Warn of Critical Danger at Aging Nuke Plants

https://ecowatch.com/2016/03/09/nrc-experts-warn-dangers-nuclear/

Don't let the planet Bern: Column Ted Nordhaus

Don't let the planet Bern: Column

Ted Nordhaus
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/10/bernie-sanders-energy-plan-anti-emissions-reduction-nuclear-natural-gas-column/81500436/

ExxonMobil and Climate Change: A Story of Denial, Delay, and Delusion, Told in Forms 10-K (1993-2000) | Climate Science Watch

ExxonMobil and Climate Change: A Story of Denial, Delay, and Delusion, Told in Forms 10-K (1993-2000) | Climate Science Watch

Greenpeace & Stanford Publish Fukushima Impacts And Lessons

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/08/greenpeace-stanford-publish-fukushima-impacts-lessons/

NRC Commissioner Ostendorff Not Seeking Another Term

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/03/nrc-commissioner-ostendorff-not-seeking-another-term.html

China’s nuclear reactor designed by US-based Westinghouse to start running from June 2017, after 3-year delay

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1922647/chinas-nuclear-reactor-designed-us-based-westinghouse-start

ISIS Reports North Korea’s IRT Reactor: Has it Restarted? Is it Safe?

ISIS Reports

North Korea’s IRT Reactor: Has it Restarted? Is it Safe?

http://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/north-koreas-irt-reactor-has-it-restarted-is-it-safe/#When:21:20:44Z

Bill Gates explains why China will build the first fourth generation nuclear plant

Bill Gates explains why China will build the first fourth generation nuclear plant

http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/03/bill-gates-explains-why-china-will.html

Germany's 'energy transition' still faces challenges

Germany's 'energy transition' still faces challenges
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Five_years_after_Fukushima_Germanys_energy_transition_still_faces_challenges_999.html

Fukushima mistakes linger as Japan marks 5th anniversary

Fukushima mistakes linger as Japan marks 5th anniversary

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Fukushima_mistakes_linger_as_Japan_marks_5th_anniversary_999.html

Invigorating Japanese energy and environmental policy five years after Fukushima

Invigorating Japanese energy and environmental policy five years after Fukushima
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Invigorating_Japanese_energy_and_environmental_policy_five_years_after_Fukushima_999.html

After Five Years, What Is The Cost Of Fukushima?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/10/after-five-years-what-is-the-cost-of-fukushima/#383f97df6016

Fukushima Five Years Later: Focused on Operational Excellence

Fukushima Five Years Later: Focused on Operational Excellence

http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2016/03/fukushima-five-years-later-focused-on.html

Nuclear Energy Institute: US Nuclear Energy Industry Even Safer Since Fukushima

Nuclear Energy Institute: US Nuclear Energy Industry Even Safer Since Fukushima

http://www.electricenergyonline.com/detail_news.php?ID=568254&titre=Nuclear+Energy+Institute:+US+Nuclear+Energy+Industry+Even+Safer+Since+Fukushima&cat=%3b52

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Alive and Well

The Nuclear Arms Race Is Alive and Well

An upcoming ballistic missile test demonstrates that efforts to maintain the nuclear balance between Russia and the United States are continuing undeterred.

https://www.stratfor.com/sample/analysis/nuclear-arms-race-alive-and-well

Fukushima nuclear plant 'will leak radioactive water for four more years'

As Japan prepares to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, the problems at stricken power plant are far from over, with contaminated water problems unlikely to be fixed before 2020

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/12189613/Fukushima-nuclear-plant-will-leak-radioactive-water-for-four-more-years.html

China Will Lead Continued Growth In Nuclear Generation, Says BP Report

China Will Lead Continued Growth In Nuclear Generation, Says BP Report

10 Mar (NucNet): Global nuclear energy generation will increase at a rate of 1.9 percent a year between 2016 and 2035, mostly driven by growth in Asia where China’s annual growth rate could be above 11 percent, a report by British Petroleum (BP) shows.

http://www.nucnet.org/all-the-news/2016/03/10/china-will-lead-continued-growth-in-nuclear-generation-says-bp-report

North Korea's Kim says country has miniaturized nuclear warheads

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-kim-idUSKCN0WA2QM

Abe says Japan 'cannot do without' nuclear power

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/31068162/abe-says-japan-cannot-do-without-nuclear-power/

Over 45 countries considering embarking upon nuclear power programmes

http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/26657284-over-45-countries-considering-embarking-upon-nuclear-power-programmes/

Radiation fears keep Japan's nuclear refugees from returning

http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/world/article/Radiation-fears-keep-Japan-s-nuclear-refugees-6878852.php

Why Solar Giant SunEdison Might Be Doomed

Why Solar Giant SunEdison Might Be Doomed

Once one of the biggest names in solar, the troubled energy company faces lawsuits, huge debts, and possible bankruptcy.

by Richard Martin https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600999/why-solar-giant-sunedison-might-be-doomed/#/set/id/601005/

EDF: Operators today can barely cover their variable costs

EDF CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy’s claim that “operators today can barely cover their variable costs” highlights the challenge nuclear utilities are facing in the energy market – they are forced to sell their electricity at a loss.
Utilities therefore must reduce their operating and maintenance costs in an effort to ensure their long term profitability. Driving down utility’s variable costs, the Nuclear Power Plant Optimisation Summit Europe (14-15 April, Brussels) is the industry’s answer to falling power prices and renewable subsidies.
You can find out more about how to join the key players in the nuclear industry right here
Here’s just a few of the key players you’ll hear from at the summit:

• Exclusive insights and case studies from Jyrki Holappa, Fleet Development, Fortum, Alexander Lindqvist, Fleet Development, Vattenfall and Mark Droesbeke, Head of Corporate Nuclear Department Reliability & OE, Electrabel

• Updates from the leading European Regulators such as Benoit De Boeck, General Manager, BELV and Marcus Gustavsson, SSM

• International case studies on outage performance from Harri Varjonen, IAEA

Let me know if you have any questions.
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John Furness
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Nuclear Energy Insider
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How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)

Watch this and you'll better understand why manufacturing jobs will never be what they once were.

 

TESLA Assembly plant, Fremont, California - Fascinating

Once upon a time this was science fiction.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=0

Pentagon Protects Nuclear Modernization Programs in FY17 Budget

Pentagon Requests $322 billion for Nuclear Modernization in '17

Presented with arguments pro and con either keeping 5,500 troops in Afghanistan or removing all US forces, 56 percent nationwide favored keeping forces deployed in Afghanistan.
“Given all the talk about increasing the defense budget, we were surprised to find how much Americans are not sold on increases, including a majority of Republicans nationwide,” said Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation and president of Voice Of the People, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to give citizens greater influence in policy making, in a prepared statement.
The survey also presented the overall budget in various contexts, and gauged the relative levels of surprise among respondents. When the $573 billion of 2015 defense spending was compared with other discretionary spending, 56 percent nationally said it was more than they expected, versus 35 percent who answered it was just about what they expected, and 8 percent who said it was less.
When compared with entitlement programs, those percentages shifted to 32, 40 and 27 percent, respectively.
And when presented as a historic percentage of US gross domestic product, only 18 percent thought the defense budget was more than expected, 28 percent in line with expectations, and 54 percent lower than anticipated. http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/budget/2016/02/10/pentagon-requests-322-billion-nuclear-weapons-17/80166570/

Pentagon Budget Seeks To Leverage R&D Investments

Pentagon Budget Seeks To Leverage R&D Investments

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy’s Program for Public Consultation conducted the survey, which is designed to present information, offer competing arguments about how to use resources, and then ask for policy recommendations, in an effort to put respondents in the shoes of a policymaker.
The survey also asked about funding levels for specific programs. After learning that it would save $6 billion this year and $97 billion through 2037, a nationwide majority (54 percent) and majorities in every state subset favored cancelling the F-35 joint strike fighter program in favor of upgrading current fighters. http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/budget/2016/02/13/pentagon-budget-seeks-leverage-rd-investments/80293508/

Survey: US Voters Favor Cutting Carrier, F-35, Overall Defense Spending

Survey: US Voters Favor Cutting Carrier, F-35, Overall Defense Spending

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/budget/2016/03/09/survey-us-voters-favor-cutting-carrier-f-35-overall-defense-spending/81499100/?platform=hootsuite

WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans favor cutting the US defense budget in five out of seven key areas, including nuclear weapons and missile defense, according to a new University of Maryland survey released March 9.
Nationally, a majority supports modest budget cuts to air power ($2 billion), ground forces ($4 billion), naval forces ($2 billion), nuclear weapons ($3 billion) and missile defense ($1 billion). No majority emerged for either cutting or increasing the budgets of the Marine Corps or Special Ops forces.
In total, a majority of respondents would cut the defense budget by $12 billion. When broken down by party, a majority of Republican respondents would leave the defense budget as is, while the majority of Democrats would cut it by $36 billion (including $11 billion cuts to both air power and ground forces), a larger cut than the $20 billion cut supported by a majority of Independents.
The survey, which was in the field from Dec. 20 to Feb. 1 and used 2015 figures, polled 7,126 voters across the US, with smaller samples taken in California, Florida, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. The margin of error for the larger national group was plus or minus 1.4 percent, while for the state subsets, it ranged from 3.9 percent to 5.0 percent. (You can take the survey here.) http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/budget/2016/03/09/survey-us-voters-favor-cutting-carrier-f-35-overall-defense-spending/81499100/?platform=hootsuite

Energy News Roundup: E.On Report Record Losses, Chevron’s Record LNG Project & Japan Closes More Nuclear Reactors

Energy News Roundup: E.On Report Record Losses, Chevron’s Record LNG Project & Japan Closes More Nuclear Reactors

By Conor O'Sullivan, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 2:00 PM

German energy firm E.On has said its annual net losses more than doubled in 2015 to €7bn after it wrote down the value of its loss making power plants by €8.8bn. [BBC News] Chevron Corp.’s Gorgon natural gas project off Australia’s northwest coast boasts the world’s biggest carbon dioxide storage facility and will cost the… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2016/03/09/energy-news-roundup-e-on-report-record-losses-chevrons-record-lng-project-japan-closes-more-nuclear-reactors/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=27133163&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_GbEnK3cRozI2aeE1FokIru3lUqtaQIbU7En6nAaxIkisPNJnL-gs6RoLbVwoWTPQoc5KwGf9kohTOB9zwoYC1FWTVzQ&_hsmi=27133163