Japan

The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb

Posted Mon, 07/05/2012 - 5:37pm by DanV
Via AlterNet - By Brad Jacobson
 
Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S.
May 4, 2012  |  

Concerns mount over the growing threat from Fukushima’s spent fuel - will the experts’ warning call be heard?

Posted Mon, 07/05/2012 - 5:33pm by Anonymous

Via Bellona - Vladimir Slivyak, 06/05-2012 - Translated by Maria Kaminskaya:

MOSCOW - More than a year since the catastrophic nuclear and radiation disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, concerns loom ever larger over the site as experts warn with increasing worry of the unstable condition of the cooling pond at Unit 4, where spent nuclear fuel holds ten times the amount of radioactive cesium that was blown into the atmosphere with the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl. Russia would be well served to join their call for action – will it?

Speech for Nagasaki Day Ceremony in London by Kick Nuclear's Dan Viesnik

Posted Wed, 31/08/2011 - 1:55pm by DanV

Nagasaki Day Ceremony, Battersea Park Peace Pagoda, London
– Tuesday 9th August, 2011

Notes from speech by Dan Viesnik (Kick Nuclear and Trident Ploughshares)

- 66 years since manmade nuclear disasters at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 5 months since nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the worst since Chernobyl, 25 years ago

- Russian ambassador to Japan, in Hiroshima for a ceremony to remember the annihilation of the city in 1945, said that while Hiroshima was a disaster caused by humans, the Fukushima nuclear crisis is “a disaster by natural causes.” [1]

Joint Statement on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster On the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Posted Tue, 26/04/2011 - 12:00am by admin

(Endorsed by 87 Japanese NGOs)

April 26, 2011

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, precipitated by the huge earthquake and ensuing tsunamis that hit eastern Japan on March 11, has created fear of radiation exposure and radioactive contamination not just in Japan, but throughout the world.

Statement by Scientists and Engineers Concerning Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Posted Sat, 23/04/2011 - 12:00am by admin

Our Views of the Accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Plants after the Earthquake

From: The Group of Concerned Scientists and Engineers Calling for the Closure of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
Toda Building, 4th Floor, 1-21 Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0004
http://kkheisa.blog117.fc2.com/

Over ten days have passed since the Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake hit the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011. The progress of cooling the reactor cores is slow. The situation remains serious, and we do not yet know how this catastrophic accident will end.

Citizens' Groups Demands Concerning Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Posted Mon, 04/04/2011 - 12:00am by admin

Today civil society groups handed the following demands to officials from the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. The appeal was initiated by Phase Out Nuclear Energy Fukushima Prefecture Network and Citizens' Nuclear Information Center and was signed by 258 groups and 1010 individuals.

Mr. KAIEDA Banri
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

April 4, 2011

Urgent Demands Regarding the Nuclear-Earthquake Disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants

CNIC Statement Concerning Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Safety Commission's Response

Posted Thu, 31/03/2011 - 12:00am by admin

Nuclear Safety Commission: We want action rather than lip service to 'learning lessons'
Demands by Citizen's Nuclear Information Center

Many people are wondering, "What is the Nuclear Safety Commission doing?" At last it has come out in public. It is reported that the chairperson of the Nuclear Safety Commission has stated regarding the accident countermeasures, "We left that up to the initiative of TEPCO," and concerning earthquake safety, "They couldn't have designed it if a decision hadn't been made about the criteria." This is an evasion of responsibility.

Petition Concerning Radiological Impact of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Posted Mon, 28/03/2011 - 12:00am by admin

The Honorable KAN Naoto, Prime Minister of Japan
The Honorable HOSOKAWA Ritsuo, Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare

We respectfully submit the following demands, which summarize the queries we made to the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare during negotiations on March 28, 2011.

1. The Ministry's call for the "active voluntary evacuation" of residents living within a 20 km to 30 km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Stations is irresponsible. Immediately issue a directive to evacuate that area and enlarge the evacuation zone commensurate with radiation doses.

Statement Concerning Evacuation from Area Surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (No. 3)

Posted Sun, 20/03/2011 - 1:00am by admin

We Urge the Japanese Government to Take the Following Actions Regarding the Crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Plants:

Despite strenuous efforts, there is an increasing danger that large amounts of radioactive material might be released from Unit No. 3, which is loaded with fuel containing plutonium. We are particularly concerned about the people currently within the 20-30 km zone from Fukushima Daiichi, who have been instructed to stay indoors until further notice. These people should be evacuated as quickly as possible far away from the nuclear plant.

Statement on the Current Crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants: Message from the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (No. 2)

Posted Fri, 18/03/2011 - 1:00am by admin

On March 15, we stated,
“The recent accidents at Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plants are severe and beyond the scope of nuclear-reactor design conditions. An extremely serious situation is continuing.”
Unfortunately, this statement remains true today.