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20 May 2025 Japan’s Fukushima nuclear wastewater ‘pose major environmental, human rights risks’ – UN experts via RNZ […] In August 2023, Japan began discharging wastewaster from about 1000 storage tanks of contaminated water collected after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 … Continue reading

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A new study from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability finds that construction costs run over budget for more than 60% of energy infrastructure projects worldwide via BU Institute for Global Sustainabililty

By Laura Hurley Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. Yet every single one of these projects runs the risk of higher-than-expected construction costs or time delays. … Continue reading

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Statement on the 39th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster/チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故39周年に関する声明via Ecohome (Belarus) /エコホーム(ベラルーシ)

Statement on the 39th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster On April 26, 2025, we mark 39 years since the largest man-made disaster of the 20th century — the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This tragedy cast a … Continue reading

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As Dutton champions nuclear power, Indigenous artists recall the profound loss of land and life that came from it via The Conversation

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s promise to power Australia with nuclear energy has been described by experts as a costly “mirage” that risks postponing the clean energy transition. Beyond this, however, the Coalition’s nuclear policy has, for many First Nations peoples, raised the spectre of the … Continue reading

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Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments via The Guardian

In September 1956, Cpl Eldridge Jones found himself atop a sunbaked roof at an old army camp about an hour outside San Francisco, shoveling radioactive dirt. Too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam, Jones never saw combat. Instead, he … Continue reading

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Australia declines to join UK and US-led nuclear energy development pact via ABC News

Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles told parliament on Tuesday that the government would not sign an agreement the UK and US governments announced overnight. “For Australia, pursuing a path of nuclear energy would represent pursuing the single-most expensive electricity option … Continue reading

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Australia mistakenly included on list of countries joining US-UK civil nuclear deal, British government says via The Guardian

The UK government has conceded that Australia was mistakenly included on a list of countries that were expected to sign up to a US-UK civil nuclear deal. The Albanese government flatly denied media reports on Tuesday that it would join … Continue reading

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Chernobyl-area land deemed safe for new agriculture via Nuclear Newswire

Tue, Sep 24, 2024 More than 80 percent of the territory that has been surveyed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant “can be returned to agricultural production,” said Valery Kashparov, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology (UIAR) of the National University … Continue reading

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長崎「体験者」の医療拡充 なぜ被爆者と認めないのか【社説】via 中国新聞

2024/9/22 国の援護区域外で長崎原爆に遭ったため被爆者と認められていない「被爆体験者」に関して、岸田文雄首相はきのう、医療費助成を拡充し被爆者と同等にする救済策を発表した。全ての体験者を対象とし、年内に開始するという。  同時に体験者の一部を被爆者と認めた長崎地裁判決について控訴する方針を示した。控訴期限が24日に迫る中、被告の長崎県知事、長崎市長と公邸で面会して伝えた。  救済策は高齢化が進む体験者に支援が行き渡る点で異論はない。だが「被爆者並み」というなら、なぜ被爆者と認めず線を引き続けるのか。岸田氏が長崎原爆の日に体験者へ約束した「合理的な解決」とは到底胸を張れまい。  現行の医療費助成は被爆者援護法の枠外で、被爆体験によるうつ病、不眠症などの精神疾患とその合併症や、胃がんなど7種類のがんが対象。申請時や毎年1回の精神科受診を必要としている。対象は約6300人とされる。  救済策は精神疾患の条件をなくし、遺伝性や先天性の疾患などを除く全ての疾病を助成の対象とする。被爆者と同じく医療費の窓口負担はなくなるが、特定の疾病罹患(りかん)で支給される被爆者向けの手当は対象外だ。  地裁判決は、援護区域外の一部地域に放射性物質を含む「黒い雨」が降ったとの判断を示した。提訴した体験者44人(うち4人死亡)のうち、死亡2人を含む15人を被爆者と認めた。29人の訴えは退けたため、新たな線引きが生じてしまう格好になった。  面会に同席した武見敬三厚生労働相は、「黒い雨」が降ったとの事実認定が先行の最高裁判決とは異なることなどから「援護法の公平な執行は困難で控訴せざるを得ない」との考えを示した。  これには納得できない。「疑わしきは救済」という援護法の趣旨に沿えば、放射線による健康被害を否定できない限り被爆者と認めるのが筋だ。広島高裁が3年前、広島原爆の援護対象区域外で黒い雨を浴びたとされる原告全員を被爆者と認めた判決は、その原点に立ち返ったと言えよう。  菅義偉前首相はこの高裁判決を受け入れて上告せず、同じような条件下にある人を被爆者として救済する方針を示した。被爆地広島が地盤の岸田氏は当時、上告断念を働きかけていたはずだ。  一方で、国は高裁判決が内部被曝(ひばく)の健康影響を広く認めるべきだとした点は受け入れなかった。体験者に援護対象が広がること、そして東京電力福島第1原発事故の被害認定に波及するのを恐れたからではないか。今回の救済策はその姿勢と変わっていない。  武見氏は「高齢の方が多くいるので速やかに対応した」と強調したが、原爆被害は国が起こした戦争でもたらされたことを忘れては困る。  広島と長崎、被爆者と被爆体験者が分断されたままでいいはずがない。退任を控えた岸田氏による全面解決への期待は大きかった。控訴せず、被爆体験者が被爆者かどうか、これ以上争わなくて済む政治判断をすべきだった。 出典

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Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers via NPR

September 20, 20241:40 PM ET By C Mandler Three Mile Island, the power plant near Middletown, Pa., that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, will reopen to power Microsoft’s data centers, which are responsible for powering the … Continue reading

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