Monthly Archives: December 2012

原発停止中も燃料課税　９道県、税収確保へ動く via 日本経済新聞

Posted on 2012/12/07 by

　原子力発電所が立地する地方自治体で、停止中の原発に核燃料税を課す動きが目立ってきた。全13道県のうち９道県が課税を決めたり前向きに検討したりしている。原発の再稼働が読みづらい中で、運転状況にかかわらず税収を確保する仕組みが広がりつつある。防災対策を担う関係自治体の財政難を映す半面、税を納める電力会社の負担は増す。 （無料会員登録制）全文は原発停止中も燃料課税　９道県、税収確保へ動く “>原発停止中も燃料課税　９道県、税収確保へ動く

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Illegal hiring practices discovered at Fukushima via Japan Daily Press

Posted on 2012/12/07 by

In a survey conducted by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), it has been discovered that nearly half of the subcontract workers at Fukushima No 1 Nuclear Power Plant have been hired illegally. They received work assignments from companies that are … Continue reading →

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70 years after first atomic reaction, anti-nuclear movement presses on via Midwest Energy News

Posted on 2012/12/06 by

CHICAGO — At 3:25 p.m. on Dec. 2, 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi oversaw the first controlled self-sustaining atomic chain reaction on a squash court below the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field. Exactly 70 years later, on an unseasonably warm Sunday … Continue reading →

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Japan Scientists Took Utility Money via AP

Posted on 2012/12/06 by

(TOKYO) — Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world’s top academic group on radiation safety. The potential … Continue reading →

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A people’s truth via Aeon

Posted on 2012/12/06 by

The vast Hanford nuclear site was supposedly safe for its neighbours. Now they are fighting the experts for their story to be told Kate Brown 03 December 2012 Tom Bailie grew up on a dryland farm in Mesa, Washington, just … Continue reading →

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Last 24 hours have ‘killed’ French nuclear – analyst via Reuters

Posted on 2012/12/05 by

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 … Continue reading →

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ASHES TO HONEY: Documenting the movement against nuclear power in Japan! via Zakka Films

Posted on 2012/12/05 by kojimaaiko

For 28 years, the people of Iwaishima Island, living in the middle of the beautiful Inland Sea, have been opposing a plan to build a nuclear power plant. The island has a 1000-year history during which people have preserved their … Continue reading →

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ＰＣウイルス:原子力機構の３台が感染、情報漏えいか via 毎日新聞

Posted on 2012/12/05 by kojimaaiko

日本原子力研究開発機構は５日、茨城県東海村の本部のパソコン３台がコンピューターウイルスに感染し、情報が漏えいした疑いがあると発表した。パソ コンは研究上の不正の告発を受け付ける業務用。感染後、約１３００回、インドとメキシコのサイトに接続履歴があったという。告発者の個人情報が流出した可 能性がある。核物質の情報は含まれていない。 機構によると、１１月１４日、告発窓口を確認する問い合わせメールがあり、職員がアドレスを返信する と、添付ファイル付きのメールが送られてきた。職員がファイルを開いた際に感染したという。職員が情報共有のためにメールを転送した別のパソコン１台も感 染。これと別に、機構のアドレスにも同様のメールが届き感染した。同２９日にセキュリティー業者から指摘があり発覚した。 全文は　ＰＣウイルス:原子力機構の３台が感染、情報漏えいか

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Distributed Power and Incentives in Post-Fukushima Japan via Japan Focus

Posted on 2012/12/04 by

Andrew DeWit This paper documents the fact that distributed power is a rapidly expanding and quickly evolving market with important implications for Japanese and global energy futures. It also shows that Japan has an excellent opportunity to grow a robust … Continue reading →

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Final Shipment of Original Steam Generator to Utah to Begin via Business Wire

Posted on 2012/12/04 by

WHAT: Southern California Edison (SCE) is about to begin shipping the last of four retired steam generator lower assemblies from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station via truck to a disposal site in Clive, Utah. As at the plant, safety … Continue reading →

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