30,000 protestors demonstrate against nuclear power in Taiwan
On Sunday, tens of thousands of Taiwanese marched through the capital city, chanting slogans urging the government to cease the construction of the nuclear power project. Organizers said over 30,000 people took part…
Safe energy organizations heed former NRC chairman’s call to revoke operating licenses of nuclear reactors
At the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington, DC on April 8th and 9th, former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko called for the phase out of all 103 operating reactors…
Japan adopts new set of nuclear safety rules
On Wednesday, officials from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority approved a new set of nuclear safety guidelines for utilities to follow in order to prepare for emergencies and natural disasters, the new rules will…
South Korea nuclear safety probe expanded to all of nation’s nuclear sites
South Korea recently shut down two of its nuclear reactors after having found that the safety certificates for replacement parts had been forged, but mentioned that the problem would be investigated at 5…
Software allows users to identify and measure Alpha, Beta, and Gamma particles with a $20 webcam
Measuring radioactivity has a long history and innumerable academic and commercial applications in nuclear safety, defense, medicine, biology, material sciences, etc. That may soon change, now anyone can start their own virtual lab…
Japan nominates radiation physicist to head new nuclear safety regulator
The Japanese government has been working to appoint a new nuclear regulatory body in Japan, which was supposed to be the deciding authority on restarting nuclear reactors, and is months delayed from its…
The need to protect nuclear whistleblowers
Vis-a-vis the recent news that the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station (SONGS for short) is going to start up again with new steam generators, much attention has focused on these two reactors that…
Prominent Japanese seismologists speak out against “severe setback in safety standards”
When Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and three other cabinet ministers agreed to restart two suspended nuclear reactors at the Oi power station in central Japan they said that the central government “had…
San Onofre may need neighborly boost to continue to keep out the ‘unwelcome mat’
At a public meeting Monday night in San Clemente, officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission blamed faulty computer modeling by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as the most likely cause of the unacceptable amount…
Japan admits another case of withholding reliable and important information from the public
The Japanese government released a new report this week which blasts the response to the 2011 Fukushima disaster. It says that the tsunami estimates were well below the bounds of realistic expectation, the…
Spy vs. Spy: Stuxnet, Good-Guys and Bad-Guys
On June 1st of this year the New York Times reported that President Obama himself participated in the “Stuxnet” cyberattack against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, beginning very shortly after he took over the executive…
Japan’s obsession with restarting Ohi reactors lacks “scientific basis”
The explosions that destroyed the reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant renewed concerns for the safety of the nuclear industry that were echoed by governments around the world. The Japanese government is…
Japan panel investigating unanswered questions surrounding the Fukushima disaster
A Japanese Diet-appointed panel is investigating the details surrounding the Fukushima nuclear disaster to try to determine who is telling the truth about a key phase in the Fukushima nuclear disaster: politicians or…
TEPCO admits to having ignored more warnings of Fukushima Daiichi tsunami risk
Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted to JiJi Press reporters on Tuesday that it was aware a tsunami could cause a total blackout 5 years before last March’s disaster, but did not act on…
March 16th, 2011 – Merrill Lynch VP asks former USNRC director “What do you make of the Japanese reactor situation?”
Merril-Lynch Vice President George Vassiliou is a Financial Advisor in the Washington DC Merrill Lynch office. He focuses on total wealth management and provides solutions for multidimensional personal and business finances and planning….
NRC Deputy Director in hot water over management of nuclear safety inspections
On April 10, 2012, the NRC issued a Red Significance Determination Process finding and a Notice of Violations for three violations to Omaha Public Power District as a result of inspections at the…
Japan yet to admit the true cost of nuclear disaster and realize the lessons learned
This week, the central government approved a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) public bailout for TEPCO, however the bailout may still not be enough as compensation costs balloon. The Fukushima nuclear disaster…
US nuclear industry initial order in response to Fukushima Disaster consists of 300 pieces of portable equipment
The nuclear power industry has met a deadline to order a variety of backup, readily-deployable safety equipment to handle “extreme events,” such as the tsunami-generated Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, according to the…
China and Japan to review nuclear safety – Kazakhstan and Japan form nuclear fuel agreement
Japanese Minister Goshi Hosono and China’s minister of environmental protection, agreedto create a dialogue mechanism between Japan’s “future” nuclear plant regulatory body, and its counterpart within the Chinese Environmental Protection Ministry. “It is…
Newly-released Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission paper warns ‘Safety Consequences… are quite severe”
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission released Discussion Paper DIS-12-03, Fitness for Duty: Proposals for Strengthening Alcohol and Drug Policy, Programs and Testing [HTML] [PDF] , which drew immediate knee-jerk criticism from some of the…
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