Friday, April 8, 2016

Ex-EPA scientist publishes Wyoming fracking study that agency abandoned

Study stands by initial finding of contamination.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/ex-epa-scientist-publishes-wyoming-fracking-study-that-agency-abandoned/

UN And U.S. Sanctions Target North Korea: Impacts For Asia And Beyond

By Nancy Fischer, Aaron R. Hutman, Moushami Joshi, Matthew Oresman, Jenny Sheng, Woon-Wah Siu | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Thursday, April 7, 2016 4:00 PM

The United Nations and United States recently took significant new steps to expand sanctions on North Korea. http://breakingenergy.com/2016/04/07/un-and-u-s-sanctions-target-north-korea-impacts-for-asia-and-beyond/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=28214117&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--eDRkbjj83i_Sl5clz3rSimLulTcfFU9TNUA2h3jdo4TDXbsiUuPnfVNFa7rYp7bqVt4KLLzl_thGpt8lchzdmIt47jg&_hsmi=28214117

Kazakhstan – United States Special Commission On Energy Partnership

By U.S. Department of Energy, Thursday, April 7, 2016 5:00 PM

On April 6, 2016, the Kazakhstan – United States Energy Partnership Commission held a meeting at the Energy Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, co-chaired by Energy Minister K.A. Bosumbayev and Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz. The Republic of Kazakhstan was represented at the session by officials from the Energy Ministry and the Foreign… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2016/04/07/kazakhstan-united-states-special-commission-on-energy-partnership/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=28214117&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8OGGuN-yh9VJuHZt4Zi7fAyueCXpUOPVlZS0iV7EVCNB4Au3TQmbEFQxwN0taSoxWojUROrPJnNxHCpL8hgQRK95bnIQ&_hsmi=28214117

Amec Foster Wheeler, CNEC Sign Nuclear Reactor Deployment Agreement

http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2016/04/amec-foster-wheeler-cnec-sign-nuclear-reactor-deployment-agreement.html?cmpid=enl-poe-weekly-april-08-2016&cmpid=enl_PE_Weekly_2016-04-08&eid=288118515&bid=1363722

Gundersen: Nuclear Engineer: “Alarm bells” are going off over Fukushima plume coming to US West Coast

Nuclear Engineer: “Alarm bells” are going off over Fukushima plume coming to US West Coast

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on Fukushima@5, Mar 7, 2016 (emphasis added): Massive amounts of radiation continue to enter Japan’s water and air, and the Pacific Ocean, daily… Due to its triple meltdowns and the unmitigable radioactive releases, Fukushima Daiichi will continue to bleed radiation into the Pacific Ocean for more than a century… There is no road map to follow with directions to stop the ongoing debacle…
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on KPFA, Mar 30, 2016: [Univ. of California] Berkeley’s nuclear program has been in the forefront of the pro-nuclear propaganda for decades, and since Fukushima has been aggressively downplaying the significance of it. So, whatever comes out of Berkeley, I just attribute to a very pro-nuclear faculty… [Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is] measuring 1,000 miles offshore [of the US West Coast] and… picking up 10 becquerels per cubic meter [Bq/m3]. At my point, that’s when my alarm bells go off is 10 [Bq/m3]… That plume is still coming, the Pacific is a huge place and to think that a disaster on the opposite side of the world can be detected and begin to contaminate California, I think that the monumental shattering conclusion [is] radiation knows no borders… So this ‘dilution is the solution to pollution’ is what I think Berkeley believes in. What you can be sure of is that somebody’s going to die from the radiation that’s in the Pacific, but you just won’t know who it is – and they’re counting on that. The nuclear establishment is saying, ‘Well, we can smear that out in a broader epidemiological study.’
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on CCTV, Apr 5, 2016: We’re looking at newspaper coverage from the last couple of weeks and it’s clear that the plant continues to hemorrhage.
Fairewinds Japan Speaking Tour Series No. 1, Feb 12, 2016:

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen: [T]he Fukushima power plants… continues to bleed into the Pacific every day. But what no one is paying any attention to is that the entire mountain range that runs 100 miles up and down this coast is also contaminated. And as much radiation is pouring out… into the Pacific from the mountain range because it’s so contaminated, as from the Fukushima site… in fact, they’ve got an entire state pouring radiation into the Pacific. So what’s in the Pacific? Off of California, they’re finding radiation at what I would consider significant levels… in a cubic meter of ocean water, they’re finding 10 radioactive decays every second… So a cubic meter of water, if you’re in a dark room, would have 10 flashes of light every second, and that’s going to go on for 300 years. So we have contaminated the biggest source of water on the planet, and there’s no way to stop it.
Maggie Gundersen, founder of Fairewinds: So are you saying that the contaminated water problem is hopeless? Is there nothing we can do to slow it down?
Arnie Gundersen: It used to be that scientists believed dilution is the solution to pollution. But I think we’re finding with the biggest body of water on the planet, that you can’t dilute this stuff. And we’re going to begin to see this bio-accumulation, which is all the fish that are in the ocean are going to uptake the cesium and the strontium and become more and more and more radioactive…

Interviews: KPFA | CCTVhttp://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-alarm-bells-going-fukushima-radioactive-plume-west-coast-people-will-die-radiation-flowing-across-pacific-weve-contaminated-biggest-source-water-planet-stop-video?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29

Rejection of an antinuclear appeal to stop Sendai station operation becomes the dominant story… A Tokyo M.D says public education on radiation continues to be inadequate… Tepco’s “Ice Wall” is progressing “largely smoothly”… and more. http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601199/tech-slowdown-threatens-the-american-dream/