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Electricite de France SA, Europe’s biggest power producer, fell the most in five months in Paris trading after Bank of America Corp. cut its rating on the stock on concern earnings from nuclear generation will fall short. EDF (EDF) fell as much as 5.5 percent, the biggest intraday decline since Nov. 29, and was down [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– May 17, 2013
Brazil and Argentina agree to jointly build two nuclear research reactors [...] The atomic agencies of the two countries have closely collaborated since 2008. Argentina provides Brazil 30% of the Molybdenum 99 (Mo99) radioisotopes which are indispensable in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Since 2011 both countries agreed to move forward on greater integration, [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– May 14, 2013
Greenpeace International, the prominent environmental organization, and other activists have condemned a $22-billion deal between Turkey, France and Japan to construct the second Turkish nuclear reactor. The Anatolia News Agency reported over the weekend that Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Japanese leader Shinzo Abe signed an agreement in the Turkish capital of Ankara [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– May 7, 2013
New Delhi: In a big step towards securing India’s nuclear deterrence capabilities, the reactor on board the indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant is set to become operational within three weeks. The submarine, which is over 100 metres long, has been undergoing trials in Visakhapatnam for the last three years . Dr VK Saraswat, the chief [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– May 4, 2013
The nuclear industry enjoys a subsidy of at least £2.3bn a year and is in line for more public support under government plans to offer guaranteed prices for low-carbon power, a new report says.The research, commissioned by the environmental audit committee of MPs, risks inflaming the already heated debate about public support for new atomic [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– April 24, 2013
Electricite de France SA, Europe’s biggest nuclear operator, faces “uncertainty” about how long it can operate its French reactors, the country’s regulator said. “We are a long way from making a decision,” on whether EDF will be able to operate its nuclear reactors beyond 40 years, Pierre-Franck Chevet, head of the Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– April 17, 2013
Anders Pape Møller and Timothy A. Mousseau Twenty nuclear accidents at the official International Nuclear Event Scale of 4 to 7 have occurred between 1952 and 2011 (Lelieveld et al. 2012). The risk of another major accident during the next 50 years is high and it has been estimated that some 30 million people could [...]
By norma field
– April 9, 2013
[...] Lawmakers are weighing new energy laws designed to spur 110 billion pounds ($165 billion) of investment in generators and grids by 2020. The draft includes support for low-carbon projects such as nuclear and renewables, and plants that capture emissions. The experience of France and Finland, where new reactors have overshot budgets and schedules, has [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 4, 2013
Nuclear ships and nuclear subs pose a huge risk to all life on the planet. In the video above, we can see a massive nuclear powered and weaponized Navy carrier being pulled out of harbor, ready to go to sea. [...] Comparing Contaminated Zones Around Chernobyl And Fukushima Ocean Radiation Released; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/comparing-contaminated-zones-around.html [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 27, 2013
L’Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) a rendu publiques ses estimations du coût d’un accident nucléaire en France, mais l’étude étant introuvable et les hypothèses, non diffusées, l’ensemble repose sur un socle d’histoires toutes plus discutables les unes que les autres. Patrick Momal, économiste à l’IRSN, auteur de cette étude fantôme, a expliqué [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 25, 2013
Many citizens do not want nuclear power. They know it is both far too dangerous and far too expensive. UK governments have largely supported nuclear power as well as nuclear weapons. Many citizens do not want nuclear weapons because they know they are insanely dangerous, and they want to live without the constant threat of [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 18, 2013
The Secretary-General condemns the underground nuclear weapon test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) today. It is a clear and grave violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions. It is deplorable that Pyongyang defied the strong and unequivocal call from the international community to refrain from any further provocative measures. The Secretary-General [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 12, 2013
INFOGRAPHIE – Pour la première fois, des économistes ont réalisé une évaluation précise des coûts qu’entraînerait en France une catastrophe nucléaire comparable à celle survenue au Japon en 2011. Un peu moins de deux ans après la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima, au Japon, l’Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) a publié les conclusions [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 10, 2013
French industrial groups are up in arms as their once-celebrated nuclear-energy edge evaporates. After decades when their factories churned out everything from steel, glass and chemicals with one of the cheapest power prices in Europe thanks to the country’s 58 nuclear reactors, French companies’ competitive advantage is being whittled away as the U.S. embrace of [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 8, 2013
By William Boardman Is that a Fukushima in your pants, or are you just hot all the time? In something of a stealth maneuver during the 2012 holiday season, the US Department of Energy set about to give every American a little more radiation exposure, and for some – a lot, by allowing manufacturers to [...]
By norma field
– February 7, 2013
[...] Power from Africa There are many voices in the European media, which say France is intervening in Mali for the sake of its energy supply. That is not surprising since 80% of France’s electricity is from nuclear power, and the region of West Africa is rich with uranium deposits. Neighbouring Niger, which is the world’s fifth-largest uranium producer, accounts for 33% of France’s uranium supply, [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 7, 2013
There’s little hope that the 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel dispersed across the United States will ever be recycled, according to a recent study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory—so nearly all existing waste will go into the earth. In a study completed late last year, Oak Ridge officials determined that the U.S. is [...]
By norma field
– February 1, 2013
Iran has denied foreign media reports of a major explosion at one of its underground uranium enrichment sites. The deputy head of Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) called the reports “Western propaganda” designed to influence forthcoming nuclear talks. Reports in Israeli and Western media said a blast at the Fordo facility near Qom had [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 28, 2013
A top French minister and the chief executives of French utility EDF and reactor builder Areva are visiting Saudi Arabia this weekend to build a case for selling French nuclear reactors to the oil-rich country. Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg will meet with Saudi officials and with representatives of EDF and Areva, who opened a joint [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 19, 2013
[...] The Australian official pointed out that the UAE is going to require 800 tonnes of Uranium to operate its four reactors by 2020. We export 7,000 tons a year, this accounts for more than 10 per cent of our exports and if we even get one-third of those this will give a boost to [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 16, 2013
Just a few years ago, the US nuclear renaissance seemed at hand. It probably shouldn’t have been. Cost overruns from Finland to France to the US were already becoming manifest, government guarantees were in doubt, and shale gas drillers were beginning to punch holes into the ground with abandon. [...] Even without Fukushima, the verdict [...]
By norma field
– January 15, 2013
福島を訪問したヨーロッパ緑の党パスカル・ドゥラン事務局長へのインタビュー ●「福島を訪問するのは今回が初めてですか？」 そうです。そして私がヨーロッパ緑の党の事務局長として行う最初の外遊でもあります。フランスでエネルギー政策の転換に関する議論が始まっている今 の時期に福島を訪問することは大きな意味があります。IAEAが日本、それも福島で会合を開いている今この時に、ここ福島にいることが重要なのです。 IAEAが福島で会合を開くなどということは、品位を欠く行為と言わざるを得ません。 ●「今日、何を御覧になりましたか？」 一番に心に思い浮かぶのは、住民関係者が口々に語った（日本政府が福島の住民に対して行った避難の可否等に関する）信じられない内容の決定と、市民 らの口をふさぐ「秘密の掟」です。住民たちの証言によれば、汚職も蔓延しています。お金にものを言わせて一部の人々の口をふさいでいるのです。 私たちは福島で事故が起きて以来、素早く情報を入手していました。だから現状については既に知っていました。しかし関係者からの証言を聞いて問題の 程度があまりにもひどいことに驚いています。福島原発での事故処理作業の開始以来、線量計を取り上げて請負労働者に放射線被曝量を偽るよう要求するという 話を耳にしました。人を殺すというところまでやるとは思いませんでした。 [...] ●元の記事：「ラ・プロヴァンス紙記者による福島同行記録」／ラ・プロヴァンス（12月15日） (« Carnet de bord d’une journaliste de La Provence à Fukushima », La Provence, 2012.12.15) http://www.laprovence.com/article/monde/carnet-de-bord-dune-journaliste-de-la-provence-a-fukushima 続きは ヨーロッパ緑の党、福島でのIAEA国際会議に抗議「福島での原子力会合開催は品位を欠く行為」その２／ラ・プロヴァンス（12月15日） 関連記事 ヨーロッパ緑の党、福島でのIAEA国際会議に抗議「福島での原子力会合開催は品位を欠く行為」その１／ラ・プロヴァンス（12月15日）
By kojimaaiko
– December 28, 2012
MILAN/PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – French power group EDF received a new blow on Tuesday when Italy’s biggest utility Enel announced its has pulled out from a project to build a next-generation nuclear reactor in northern France. The French state-owned utility said earlier this week stricter regulation in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster has [...]
By norma field
– December 5, 2012
「たとえ非常に低い放射線レベルでの被ばくであっても、生命体には有害な影響がある」 米サウス・キャロライナ大学のティモシー・ムソ―教授（生物科学、注）と仏パリ南大学のアンダース・ミュラー教授（動物生理学）らは11月8日、過去40年間に出版された5千以上の関連論文を分析した結果、放射線被ばくに関しては「安全レベル」に該当する「しきい値」は存在せず、低放射線による被ばくであっても、免疫機能、生理機能、染色体における突然変異、疾病の発生率等において統計上有意な確度で有害な影響が引き起こされると指摘、『生物学レビュー』（Biological Reviews）に発表した。 [...] 今回の調査は、天然の放射線量が比較的高いイランのラムサール、ケニアのモンバサ、フランス南部のロデーヴ、中国の陽江等で個別に実施された放射線被ばくの影響調査に関する結果を集め、「メタ分析」（過去に行われた複数の研究結果を統合し、より信頼性の高い結果を得るための分析手法）を実施したもの。個々の調査では放射能被ばくによる染色体の損壊、ダウン症を含む疾病の発生率、男女の出生比率等への影響などが分析されている。 「天然の放射線量が高いこれらの地域では、『被ばくによる影響が明らかに目に見える形では起きていない』とか、『影響があったとしても、小さかったり被害者の集中する地域が限られている』、といった理由で、『低放射線量による被ばくの悪影響はおそらくないだろう』と考える傾向があります。」 [...] 「今回のデータは又、被ばくに『しきい値』など無いことを非常に明確に証明しました。そしてもっと本当のことを言えば、このように低レベルの放射線による被ばくであっても健康への悪影響が現れるのですから、被ばくを防ぐための規制を設ける際の考え方を（より厳しい方向に）変えなければならないのです。特に、原発や医療被ばく、飛行場のエックス線検査など、自然界には無い形で出された放射能によって人々が被ばくする場合には。」 全文は「低放射線被ばくで深刻な健康被害」仏米科学者が学術誌に発表／サイエンス・デイリー
By norma field
– November 29, 2012
As the mood in Japan, Germany, Italy and even France hardens, China is restarting a £170bn reactor programme and India is looking to atomic power to shore up its creaking grid A nuclear fuel pellet the size of your little finger provides more energy than 800 kilograms of coal or 650 litres of oil – [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 28, 2012
PARIS–A leak at the reactor No. 1 of Electricite de France SA’s (EDF.FR) Flamanville plant late Wednesday didn’t trigger any environmental damage or threatened the health of any employee, the French nuclear safety regulator Autorite de Surete Nucleaire said Thursday. The ASN defined it as a level 1 incident on the International Nuclear Event Scale, [...]
By kojimaaiko
– October 25, 2012
The leader of the SNP has said that if his party won power in an independent government it would make nuclear weapons illegal. Alex Salmond told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that Trident, which currently resides at Faslane Naval base on the Clyde, would have to go. He also said a go-alone Scotland would remain [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 21, 2012
日本代表のＧＫ川島永嗣（２９スタンダール） が当地で、東日本大震災の被災地に向けた会見を開いた。フランス国営テレビが、川島の腕が４本ある合成写真を映し「福島（第１原発事故）の影響」と発言し たことに対して「冗談にもならない」と反発。さらに「福島には、いまだに家に帰れない人もいるんです。世界中の人々が日本を救って欲しい」と訴えかけた。 初冬を迎え周囲の木々が紅葉した練習場から会見室に入ってくると、川島はしっかりした口調で語った。日本代表として出場した１２日フランス戦後、 フランス国営テレビが、自身の腕が４本ある合成写真を放送。司会者が「福島（第１原発事故）の影響ではないか」と発言したことは現地でも大きな波紋を呼ん でいる。 川島 私たち日本人にとって、それは冗談では済まされないことです。非常に悪いジョークだ。福島には今でも家に帰れない人がいる。家を失ってしまった人もいる。私だけでなく、日本にとって、重要な問題なのです。世界中の人々に、日本を救って欲しい。 被災地の光景が浮かんだのだろう。英語で話すと感極まった表情になり、目頭を熱くした。昨年夏に仙台、冬には原発から近い福島県相馬市、今夏にも岩手を訪問。帰国すれば、必ず被災地へ足を運ぶ。 川島 原発の被害は、目に見えるものではない。常におびえている人がいる。子供たちは外で遊ぶこともできず、心おきなく（サッカーの）練習もできない。当たり前のことが、当たり前にできない。復興だけでなく、心の傷は簡単には癒えないのです。 この日の会見は、自ら希望して開いた。自分の口で言いたかったのだという。 続きは 川島「福島を救って」涙目会見で訴え ♢ 当サイト既出関連記事： ♦「日本も福島の犠牲者も揶揄していない」 「福島の影響」仏司会者は発言修正せず via J-Cast News ♦ 国営テレビが謝罪文書＝サッカー川島選手の合成画像放映で via Yahoo. News (時事通信） ♦ 川島の腕４本に合成「原発影響」と仏ＴＶ via 日刊スポーツ
By kojimaaiko
– October 19, 2012
「日本も、福島の犠牲者も揶揄したことは決してない」――バラエティー番組でサッカーのGK川島永嗣選手の腕が4本に合成された写真を「福島の影 響」と揶揄した件をめぐり、この発言をしたフランス人の司会者ローラン・リュキエ氏が2012年10月17日（現地時間）、ツイッターでコメントした。 原発も、ポリティカリーコレクト（言葉狩り）もやめに 日本在住のフランス人女性のものと見られるアカウントから、今回の件で「日本に住むフランス人であることを恥ずかしく思う」とコメントを寄せ られたことを受け、リュキエ氏は「恥ずかしく思う必要なんてない。ユーモアがまだ表現の自由とされる国の出身であることを誇りにしようじゃないか」と返 信。つづけて、「日本、ましてや福島の犠牲者を揶揄したことは決してない」「ゴールキーパーがチェルノブイリの近くのウクライナ人でも、フッセンハイム （原子力発電所）の近くのフランス人でも、同じ冗談を言っただろう」と語り、発言は原発を問題視したもので、「日本」や「福島」だけをことさら取り上げて 揶揄したわけではないと強調した。そして、「この場にふさわしくない論争をやめるためにも、全ての原発も、ポリティカリーコレクト（言葉狩り）もやめにし よう」などと呼びかけた。 続きは「日本も福島の犠牲者も揶揄していない」 「福島の影響」仏司会者は発言修正せず ♢ 当サイト既出関連記事： ♦ 国営テレビが謝罪文書＝サッカー川島選手の合成画像放映で via Yahoo. News (時事通信） ♦ 川島の腕４本に合成「原発影響」と仏ＴＶ via 日刊スポーツ
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 18, 2012
【パリ時事】フランス国営テレビ「フランス2」が番組中、サッカーの日本代表GK川島永嗣選手を東京電力福島第1原発事故と結び付けてやゆし、日本大使 館が抗議した問題で、フランス2のジャン・レベイヨン社長は16日、「おわびの意を表する」などとした謝罪文書を日本側に伝達した。 （中略） レベイヨン社長は訪仏中の玄葉光一郎外相と日本大使館に送付した文書で、番組の司会者が「決して日本と福島第1原発事故の被害者に失礼なことをするつもりはなかった」と釈明。日本に敗れた仏代表をからかう意図だったと強調した。 この問題は16日に行われた日仏外相の戦略対話でも触れられ、玄葉外相がファビウス外相に「残念な放送があり、日本でも報じられている」と指摘。ファビウス外相は「気分を害した人には申し訳ない」と表明した。 全文は国営テレビが謝罪文書＝サッカー川島選手の合成画像放映で ♢ 当サイト既出関連記事： ♦ 川島の腕４本に合成「原発影響」と仏ＴＶ via 日刊スポーツ
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 17, 2012
Hundreds of protesters converged on the proposed site of two new nuclear ‘mega-reactors’ at Hinkley Point in Somerset over the weekend. [...] Today a mass trespass on the site was carried out, with more than 50 protesters scaling the fences and scattering symbolic wild flower seeds in order to ‘reclaim’ the land. Green Party Leader [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 8, 2012
‘Stress test’ of 145 nuclear reactors expected to reveal hundreds of defects, with Güenther Oettinger likely to adopt upgrades [...] Almost all of the EU’s nuclear plants need some form of upgrade or repair, ranging from minor updates to substantial overhauls, but none requiring closure, according to the tests. One issue found in some plants [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 4, 2012
[...] French daily Le Figaro claims that none of France’s 58 nuclear power plants met standards outlined by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Some 19 French reactors have no seismic measuring instruments, and some have inadequate safety and rescue equipment, the paper said. Gunther Oettinger, European Commissioner for energy, is due to present the report, [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 3, 2012
While the media are rushing to announce the “full stop” of Japan’s nuclear power production 2039, little attention has been paid to two much less publicized moves. The first is the restarting of Japan’s nuclear export industry, especially its targeting of former colonial areas in South East Asia. The second is even more discreet. It [...]
By norma field
– September 27, 2012
By Harvey Wasserman As demonstrators from the Coalition Against Nukes prepare to descend on Washington DC and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the world’s third-largest economy has taken a landmark step toward Solartopia. A pro-nuclear Japanese government has announced it will phase out all commercial reactors by 2040. It comes as atomic power continues to plummet [...]
By norma field
– September 17, 2012
The film about impact of the Fukushima disaster on a Japanese family premieres in Toronto on Friday. TORONTO — Metropolitan Films have snached up French distribution rights to The Land of Hope, a drama from Japanese director Sion Sono set in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The film, which Metropolitan secured from Japan’s [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 16, 2012
(Reuters) – France will close its oldest nuclear power plant, Fessenheim, at the end of 2016, President Francois Hollande said on Friday, bringing the closure date forward by a few months. “The Fessenheim power plant … will close at the end of 2016, Hollande said, speaking a few days after a steam leak triggered a [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 14, 2012
（抜粋） フランス通信が伝えたところによりますと、バト大臣は、9日日曜、「ドイツ国境近くのフェッセンハイムの原発がまもなく閉鎖される」と語りました。 また、「この原発の閉鎖は、フランスのオランド大統領がこの原発を閉鎖するという約束を実現していることを示している」としました。 この報告によりますと、オランド大統領は、稼動から35年が経ったこの原発を2017年までに、閉鎖すると約束したということです。 環境保護を訴える人々は、地震多発地域にあるこの原発の閉鎖を常に求めていました。 全文はフランスが、同国の最古の原発を閉鎖 ♢ 当サイト既出関連記事： ♦『仏 原発の町で閉鎖訴える集会』 via NHKニュース ♦ 2 injured in steam blast at French nuclear plant via The Atlanta Journal Constitution ♢ 関連記事： ♦ スペイン政府発表＝「最古の原発閉鎖確定!」via onaironaironair
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 10, 2012
PARIS — A steam blast at France’s oldest nuclear plant Wednesday left two workers with slight hand burns and revived calls to reduce the country’s heavy reliance on nuclear power. Nuclear safety authorities said there was no threat of radioactive leaks and that the incident at the Fessenheim plant in eastern France appeared minor. It [...]
By norma field
– September 5, 2012
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – A chemical reaction at the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in eastern France injured several people and triggered a brief fire alert on Wednesday, local government and fire service officials said. The incident, sparked by a chemical reaction, was quickly brought under control, the officials at the local government prefect’s office and [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– September 5, 2012
France may be hit by a shortage of generating capacity a year earlier than forecast because of the planned closing of outdated fossil-fuel plants and two nuclear reactors, grid operator Reseau de Transport d’Electricite said.Power supply will be assured until 2015, from when as much as 7.6 gigawatts of coal and heating fuel-fired power generators [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 5, 2012
The last time federal officials assessed cancer rates in the communities surrounding nuclear power plants, they concluded that radiation releases were insignificant and health risks, if any, were too small to measure. TheU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been relying on the results of that 1990 National Cancer Institute study ever since to inform the public [...]
By norma field
– August 24, 2012
A leaked report has raised new fears that Murorua Atoll, the site of French nuclear testing in the Pacific, is in danger of collapsing. Murorua e Tatou says the issue was detailed in a leaked report from the Ministry of Defence to the French government dated March 2010. The Nuclear Association’s president, Roland Oldham, told [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– August 19, 2012
… The cracks, which possibly date back to the reactor’s construction some 40 years ago, were discovered using ultra-sound during inspections in June and July. Belgium’s nuclear regulator, the federal agency for nuclear control (FANC), said the reactor is in shutdown mode for inspections and its fuel has been discharged. The reactor poses no threat [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– August 17, 2012
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has awarded nuclear-service contracts valued at $3bn to six foreign companies. Under the ENEC fuel supply programme, US-based ConverDyn will provide conversion services; Canada’s Uranium One will provide natural uranium; and URENCO, headquartered in the UK, will provide enrichment services for nuclear plants at Barakah, which is under construction in [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– August 17, 2012
… The nuclear industry also brings benefits for those around it. The operating Hinkley Point B reactor employs several hundred people from the area. Another 200 or so spend their days working on two 1950s-era Magnox reactors that look like big blue jack-o-lanterns. Those reactors were taken out of service in 2000 but still require [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– August 8, 2012
As the 67th anniversary of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing approaches, the prefecture is trying a new tactic to achieve the goal of global nuclear disarmament. A prefectural official told The Japan Times on Tuesday that Hiroshima will conduct its own research and analysis of nuclear disarmament around the world and grade each country on its commitment [...]
By norma field
– August 4, 2012
New Delhi: The Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu has run up against new hurdles. This time, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to know from the Department of Atomic Energy who will pay if there is a mishap at the power plant. The PM, who is also the Minister for Atomic Energy, is questioning [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– August 2, 2012
Des militants anti-nucléaires ont attendu en vain mercredi matin en gare de Versailles le convoi de matières nucléaires italiens destinées à l’usine de traitement de La Hague (Manche), dont ils ont perdu la trace après son passage dans l’Yonne. Selon Areva, ce convoi “suit son cours normal en suivant l’itinéraire initialement prévu”, et ne devait [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– July 25, 2012
( Reuters) – Britain’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will convert four tonnes of plutonium from German nuclear plants stored in the UK into mixed oxide fuel (MOX) that will be used to power reactors, as part of a swap deal announced on Friday. The deal will also make German utilities’ plutonium available in France for [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– July 13, 2012
Phnom Penh (The Nation/ANN) – Nuclear weapons states will not sign the protocol of the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone treaty (SEANWFZ) at this week¿s Asean meeting as many of them still have reservations, Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said yesterday. Nuclear powers including the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom were [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– July 10, 2012
There was a time when nuclear weapons were a significant part of our national conversation. Addressing the issue of potential atomic annihilation was once described by nuclear theorist Herman Kahn as “thinking about the unthinkable,” but that didn’t keep us from thinking, talking, fantasizing, worrying about it, or putting images of possible nuclear nightmares (often [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– July 10, 2012
Areva SA (AREVA) Chief Executive Officer Luc Oursel is seeking fresh talks to sell nuclear reactors to China, halted in the wake of last year’s nuclear accident in Japan and amid questions about the new French government’s energy stance. The Chinese “aren’t worried but they are legitimately asking questions about the continuity of the French [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– July 8, 2012
Resources for Teaching & Activism The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists CNIC (Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center) 原子力市民情報室 Fresh Currents: Japan’s Flow from a Nuclear Past to a Renewable Future Fukushima Response Japan Focus Know Nuclear Waste Teaching Ideas: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – NYTimes.com NEIS (Nuclear Energy Information Service) Nuclear Illinois NEI (Nuclear Energy [...]
By Masaki C.
– June 11, 2012
CHICAGO — Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba and his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, agreed Sunday to strengthen nonnuclear energy cooperation. [...] At the meeting, Genba proposed that bilateral cooperation on energy be expanded to green technology, and the two ministers agreed on the importance of doing so, a Japanese official said. France relies on nuclear power [...]
By kojimaaiko
– May 22, 2012
RENNES, France (AFP) – Radioactive cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following two small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks, officials said. A reactor at the power plant in Penly on the English Channel near the port of Dieppe shut down automatically after two small fires broke out [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– April 5, 2012
By Gabrielle Hecht Abstract Uranium from Africa was, and remains, a major source of fuel for atomic weapons and power plants throughout the world. Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb, for example, came from the Belgian Congo. During any given year of the Cold War, between 20 percent and 50 percent of the Western world’s uranium [...]
By norma field
– March 19, 2012
Thousands of people formed human chains in Germany and France to protest the use of nuclear power on Sunday, the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters that crippled the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, while protesters also gathered at antinuclear rallies in New York and California. [...] In France, a country [...]
By norma field
– March 19, 2012
福島原発事故から1年を迎えた3月11日、原子力からの脱却を求める約6万人のフランス市民たちは、リヨン市とアヴィニョン市の間235キロの距離を「人間の鎖」で結んだ。 ＜ルモンド紙からの参考画像＞ http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2012/03/11/une-chaine-humaine-contre-le-nucleaire-entre-lyon-et-avignon_1656172_3244.html ● 1枚目：原発の前で手をつなぎ「人間の鎖」を作る市民たち。 ● 2枚目：鎖に参加する緑の党エヴァ・ジョリー大統領候補。 原子力に反対する市民たちはこの日のパフォーマンスの場所に、14の原発と複数の原子力施設を抱え「フランス国内で最も原子力に染まった」ローヌ地方の谷の一角を選んだ。 「私たち市民は、原子力をやめて将来のエネルギー政策を自分たちの手に取り戻すために、自ら行動を起こす準備ができています。たとえ原子力の問題が、これまで決して民主的な議論の対象になって来なかったとしても、です。」 「原子力をやめる会」（Sortir du nucléaire）のローラ・アモはこう述べる。 「フランスには、例外となる責任があるのです。」 人間の鎖の先頭に立ったアモは、こう付け加えた。 「原発ロビーは（「原発」という）この産業の『宝』を守ろうとするでしょう。そして、そのためにはどんな嘘をつくことも厭おうとはしないのです。」 国道7号線に刻み付けられた「鎖」の中に、まだ学生のマリーンという少女がいる。マリーンは「フランスの原子力施設全てに対する不安」を表現するためにやって来た。 続きは「福島を忘れない」フランス市民6万人がつなぐ235キロの「人間の鎖」／ロイター（3月11日）
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 13, 2012
Prague – French company Areva, one of the three bidders for a multi-billion Temelín expansion contract, promised to subcontract 70 percent of the works to Czech firms. The French company signed contracts with 14 Czech firms that will be subcontracted if Areva wins the contract. Areva’s contenders, US company Westinghouse and Russian consortium Rosatom, have [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 6, 2012
FESSENHEIM, France — The protesters who periodically descend upon this rural village say the aging nuclear power station here, in the woods beyond the cornfields, is a calamity in waiting. Candidates for France’s presidency differ on the future of nuclear power. They note that its twin reactors, the country’s oldest, were built 30 feet below [...]
By norma field
– February 9, 2012
Japan’s nuclear tragedy is igniting a debate in France , which generates more than three-quarters of its electricity from nuclear energy. And while that nation’s presidential candidates are squaring off on the issue, an independent audit agency there may have settled the dispute for them. The country’s powerful nuclear sector has the unflinching support of [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 8, 2012
France is supportive of South Africa’s nuclear energy plans, assured French Foreign Ministry secretary-general Pierre Sellal in Pretoria on Thursday afternoon. The European power is a leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. (Secretary-general is equivalent to a director-general in South Africa.) “Our industry is ready to contribute to the nuclear programme to be [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– February 6, 2012
PARIS — France’s failure to make a definite decision about its energy future has left it with little choice but to extend the life of its existing nuclear power plants, an independent government agency said Tuesday. The French Court of Audit noted in a report that with 22 of France’s 58 nuclear power plants due [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 31, 2012
The incidence of leukemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the country, a study by French health and nuclear safety experts has found. But the study, to be published soon in the International Journal of Cancer, fell short of establishing a causal [...]
By norma field
– January 13, 2012
GRIGNAN, FRANCE — In France, where three-quarters of the electricity is nuclear, you are rarely far from a reactor. Even in the most famous French terroirs, a bulky power plant sometimes squats just across a river or over a hill. From Burgundy to Bordeaux, from the Loire Valley to Languedoc, the crushing of grapes is [...]
By norma field
– January 11, 2012
Jan 9 (Reuters) – Czech power company CEZ will likely scale back its nuclear expansion tender because of new legal restrictions on public procurement, a decision that would reduce the potential size of the deal by some $15 billion. A company spokesman said CEZ was likely to drop an option to build three new reactors [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 9, 2012
AFP – Cuba’s iconic revolutionary Fidel Castro warned that the world was on an “inexorable” march into the abyss this year because of climate change and the threat of nuclear war. In an article published Thursday — Castro’s first since November 2011 — the 85-year-old retired leader also took aim at the United States and [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 6, 2012
Is France’s long, proud, and at times defiant affection for nuclear energy finally beginning to wane in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster? While it’s still too early to pronounce France’s nearly four decade love affair with nuclear power finished yet, there are signs the doubts over atomic energy that arose elsewhere following the Fukushima [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– January 4, 2012
Depuis trop longtemps, le débat sur le nucléaire et sur sa place prépondérante (74 %) dans la production énergétique française se résume à un affrontement caricatural. D’un côté, les promoteurs de cette filière – EDF, Areva et plusieurs générations d’ingénieurs X-Mines – défendent la modernité et l’excellence technologique pour le plus grand bien de l’indépendance [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 4, 2012
A team of energy experts, engineers and architects wants to free the French of their nuclear dependence by 2050. In an election year, the appeal to energy austerity is attracting attention from left to right. It’s all in the name. Since last autumn, the French organization negaWatt has been staging its own Tour de France [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 4, 2012
PARIS—France’s nuclear-safety watchdog ordered immediate upgrades to nuclear reactors to guard against natural disasters, which Électricité de France SA said could require €10 billion, or roughly $13 billion, in additional costs. In a review following last year’s Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire concluded that no plants needed to be shut [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– January 3, 2012
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Saturday it has proposed a new round of talks on its nuclear program with six world powers that have been trying for years to persuade Tehran to freeze aspects of its atomic work that could provide a possible pathway to weapons production. The country’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, said [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– December 31, 2011
Readers of this space know that it’s frequently addressed the United States’ multi-faceted energy problem — multi-faceted in that it involves both supply and demand issues. The U.S.’s two biggest energy form problems? We use: 1) too much oil and 2) too much coal. Each has triggered a host of environmental, health, economic and related [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– December 26, 2011
PARIS, Nov 25 (Reuters) – France will go ahead with a controversial project to build a 60th next-generation nuclear reactor, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday, as he stepped into a heated pre-election debate over France’s dependence on atomic power. During a visit to Pierrelatte near the Tricastin nuclear power plant in southern France, the [...]
By snasser
– November 28, 2011
BERLIN (AP) — German police cleared a sit-in of thousands of protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste and detained 1,300 people Sunday, officials said. Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country early Sunday, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz said. Those who refused to [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– November 27, 2011
By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: November 24, 2011 WASHINGTON — The only American-owned company capable of enriching uranium is asking for government help to modernize its plant and remain in business. USEC, formerly the United States Enrichment Corporation, wants to build a new plant in Ohio. That leaves Congress with a stark choice. It can [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– November 26, 2011
PIERRELATTE, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday it would be madness to reduce his country’s huge reliance on nuclear power, despite worldwide wariness after Japan’s Fukushima disaster and protests this week over the dangers of waste. As countries — including neighboring Germany — renounce nuclear energy in the wake of the tsunami-triggered meltdown [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– November 25, 2011
DANNENBERG, Germany (AP) — Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at police, setting a vehicle on fire, as skirmishes intensified Friday after a shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France crossed into Germany on its way to a controversial storage site. The clash broke out in the afternoon between about 400 riot police and 300 demonstrators in [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– November 25, 2011
Riot police have used tear gas on hundreds of nuclear protesters in northern France trying to head off the departure of a train carrying recycled uranium to Germany. Some 300 protesters clashed with police on Wednesday in fields in the village of Lieusaint, outside Valognes, site of the rail depot where the train loaded with [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– November 23, 2011
By GéRALDINE AMIEL And MAX COLCHESTER PARIS—France’s opposition Green and Socialist parties sealed an electoral alliance over the weekend, saying they would reduce the country’s longstanding reliance on nuclear energy if they have an opportunity to form a coalition government after the spring 2012 presidential election. The alliance came after weeks of tumultuous negotiations because [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– November 20, 2011
Le caviardage, sur ordre de François Hollande, de l’accord de mandature signé mardi 15 novembre après-midi par Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts (EE-LV) et le Parti socialiste a eu au moins un mérite : mettre pour une fois l’ensemble des écologistes dans le même état d’esprit, la sidération. Le soir même, François Hollande a passé un coup de [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– November 17, 2011
As the great Mahatma Gandhi (nearly) said, ”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they spy on you, then you win”. That’s pretty much the chain of events that lead to today’s conviction by a French court of French state electricity company, Electricité de France SA (EDF) for spying on us. The [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– November 10, 2011
Even as India debates the pros and cons of the Kudankulam nuclear power project, several developed countries have already resolved to scrap their nuclear plants, experts at an energy conclave said on Monday. Addressing the 14th regional conclave of the Madras Management Association (MMA) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) on “Energy as a factor [...]
By snasser
– November 2, 2011
Jordan has warned Japan that if the Diet fails to ratify a bilateral civil nuclear cooperation accord by yearend, a Japan-France consortium will miss out on the chance to win a lucrative contract to build the country’s first nuclear power plant, diplomatic sources said Saturday. Khaled Touqan, Jordan’s energy and mineral resources minister, met with [...]
By norma field
– October 23, 2011
The Government is committed to the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra and is awaiting completion of French review of safety aspects of the EPR design, the Minister for External Affairs, Mr S.M. Krishna, said on Thursday. The French firm Areva is providing six EPR units for the proposed nuclear plant which is to come up [...]
By snasser
– October 21, 2011
India and France on Thursday discussed military contracts and civil nuclear safety during an interaction between External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his visiting counterpart, Alain Juppe. France, which has been awarded a multi-billion contract for setting up nuclear power plants in western India, agreed to step up cooperation between the civil nuclear regulatory boards [...]
By snasser
– October 21, 2011
フランスの活動家数千人が、同国の7都市でデモを行い、同国の全ての核活動を停止するよう要請しました。 フランス通信が伝えたところによりますと、フランスの核活動に反対する900団体、およそ2万5千人が、脱原発連合によって組織された15日土曜の行進に参加したということです。 このデモ行進の参加者らは、軍事、非軍事を問わず、政府による全ての核活動の停止の必要性を強調し、フランス政府の核政策の継続を非難しました。 続きはフランスで脱原発デモ ◇ 当サイト既出関連記事： ・Post-Fukushima, France breaks silence on nuclear safety via The Hindu
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 17, 2011
For a country as given to debate and argument as France, there has been a deafening silence surrounding the choice of nuclear as the prime source of energy. With a population of 62 million, France boasts 59 nuclear reactors — the highest per capita in the world, with over 75 per cent of its electricity [...]
By snasser
– October 15, 2011
BRUSSELS — Pooling energy — in the form of coal — was a foundation for European unity in the early 1950s. But in their quest for energy security and low-carbon growth, members of the present-day European Union seem anything but unified. The most striking divergence is over nuclear power. Germany shut seven reactors, left another offline, and [...]
By snasser
– October 15, 2011
By MAX COLCHESTER PARIS—When he goes to vote in Sunday’s Socialist Party primaries, Christian Bataille will vote against one of his principles: the pro-nuclear Socialist lawmaker will support a French presidential hopeful who has vowed to phase out atomic power. “It’s a bit contradictory,” said Mr. Bataille, who has headed a French parliamentary commission on [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 15, 2011
(Reuters) - France still plans to build a 60th nuclear reactor at home despite delays and is eyeing a raft of possible deals for atomic power plants in Europe and emerging countries, French Energy Minister Eric Besson told Reuters on Monday. The radiation leaks at Japan’s quake-hit Fukushima power plant in March have not ended interest [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– October 10, 2011
September 23rd, 2011 [翻訳] Publico.es has revealed details of the Marcoule nuclear complex explosion in France. The deceased worker was significantly irradiated. His family was not allowed near the body, an autopsy was not done an the body delivered for the funeral in a radiation shielded sealed coffin. The workers body remained in the building [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– October 9, 2011
Agence France-Presse Posted at 10/01/2011 9:49 AM | Updated as of 10/01/2011 9:49 AM A limited amount of plutonium has been detected in soil outside Japan’s troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant which was crippled by the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster, the government said Friday. It was the first time plutonium had been found in government [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 30, 2011
Last Updated : 30 Sep 2011 11:58:29 PM IST Manmohan Singh’s pet project, the India-US nuclear deal, on which he staked the survival of UPA-I, hasn’t quite turned out to be the blessing it was touted to be. Apart from the concerns voiced by the inhabitants of areas where the nuclear power stations are expected [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 30, 2011
◇ ルモンド紙は有料ですので、日本語抄訳ブログから抜粋。 労働組合によれば、フランス電力公社、アレバ社、原子力委員会（CEA）が管理する原子力発電所の維持管理業務のうち、80%を下請け作業員が担っている。 「我々は、原子力セクターにおける（被曝、化学物質の取り扱い、労災事故、長距離移動といった）業務上リスクの80％を負わされている3万５千人の下請け労働者たちが、このように劣悪な契約条件のもとで働かされていることを容認できない。」 続きは「私たちは奴隷じゃない」原発で働く下請け作業員の労働条件改善を求め、大手労働組合がフランス全土で抗議行動 (LeMonde.fr avec AFP, « Nucléaire : la CGT réclame un vrai statut pour les salariés de la sous-traitance », Le Monde, 2011.09.22) http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2011/09/22/nucleaire-la-cgt-reclame-un-vrai-statut-pour-les-salaries-de-la-sous-traitance_1576156_3244.html
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 24, 2011
By Qiu Quanlin (China Daily) ZHUHAI, Guangdong – In a major step to strengthen nuclear engineering cooperation, China launched a nuclear engineering and technology institute with France on Wednesday. The institute, based in Zhuhai, a coastal city in South China’s Guangdong province, is a joint project between the Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-sen University and five [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 14, 2011
パリ控訴院（日本の高等裁判所に相当）は9月7日、1986年4月26日に起きたチェルノブイリ原発事故の直後、フランスを通過した放射能雲による 被曝の危険性についての警告を怠ったとして「悪性の詐欺罪」に問われていた当時の保健省 放射線防護中央局（SCPRI）の局長ピエール・ペルラン教授（87歳、注１ http://franceneko.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/04/41-cc0e.html）について、甲状腺がんを発症した患者の訴えを退け「免訴」の判決を行った。 被告側は、教授を詐欺罪に問うにはあらかじめ国民と教授の間に契約関係が設立している必要があったと主張していた。これでペルラン教授に関する審理は実施されないこととなり、本件は事実上棚上げとなる。 ペルラン教授は、「チェルノブイリの放射能雲はフランスの国境で止まる」「チェルノブイリ原発事故による放射性降下物による健康被害は無い」などと 述べて、フランス国民に体する葉もの野菜や牛乳などの汚染食品の摂取を控えるための呼びかけを行わず、予めヨウ素剤の配布も行っていなかった。フランスで は、当時の被曝により大量の甲状腺およびその他のがん患者が発生した。 続きはチェルノブイリ原発事故によるフランス国内での被曝責任者ぺルラン教授、免訴―「国の責任放棄」「原発ロビーの圧力」高まる甲状腺がん被害者の怒り／ルモンド紙（9月7日） ◇ルモンド紙出典記事（有料です） (Hervé Morin, « Nouage de Tchernobyl : non-lieu pour le Pr Pellerin », 2011.09.08) http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=1167232 (« Nouage de Tchernobyl : non-lieu général », 2011.09.08) http://www.lemonde.fr/web/recherche_breve/1,13-0,37-1167198,0.html (Le Monde.fr & AFP « Tchernobyl: Joly dénonce un Etat “au-dessus des lois », 2011.09.07 ) http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2011/09/07/tchernobyl-joly-denonce-un-etat-au-dessus-des-lois_1569052_3244.html
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 13, 2011
There is a risk of a radioactive leak after a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, media reports say. One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste, Le Figaro newspaper said. It is a major site involved with the [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– September 12, 2011
PARIS – The French nuclear safety body and local authorities say an explosion has rocked the Marcoule nuclear plant in southern France. It was not immediately clear how serious the accident was. Regional fire officials tell French daily Le Monde there is a risk of a radioactive leak following the explosion, but no contamination has [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– September 12, 2011
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