Tag Archives: Capitalism

Standing on Shaky Ground: Taiwan via ABC News

Posted on 2013/04/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A massive earthquake and series of tsunami triggered 2011’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and exposed major shortcomings and widespread complacency in safety and preparedness but the shockwaves reverberated well beyond Japan. Further along the fault lines of the Pacific Rim of … Continue reading →

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Tous Cobayes? / All of us guinea-pigs now? / 世界が食べられなくなる日 via YouTube

Posted on 2013/04/10 by kojimaaiko

(Trailer with English subtitle) (日本語字幕付き予告編） 参考リンク　遺伝子組み換え作物と原発、危険性似ている、福島で撮影　仏映画監督（東京新聞）via facebook

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Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Activists Losing Ground Since Fukushima Disaster via The Daily Beast

Posted on 2013/03/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Fukushima who? Only two years after the devastating nuclear meltdown, Japan is set to reopen idled reactors. Lennox Samuels on why nobody seems to mind. […] It’s not as if anyone has shrugged off “3/11.” The 2013 anniversary was marked … Continue reading →

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EDF confirms it wants 40-year contracts to build nuclear plants via The Guardian

Posted on 2013/02/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

French-owned firm in talks with ministers over long-term subsidy guarantees as Ofgem warns of steep hike in energy prices Electricity firm EDF has confirmed it wants the UK government to sign 40-year contracts to support building new nuclear reactors in … Continue reading →

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Cameco Profit Drops 50% on Lower Prices; 2018 Forecast Reduced via Bloomberg

Posted on 2012/11/12 by kojimaaiko

Cameco Corp. (CCO), the world’s third- largest uranium miner, reported a 50 percent drop in third- quarter profit, excluding one-time items, as the price of the raw material in nuclear-reactor fuel dropped. Profit declined to C$52 million ($52 million), or … Continue reading →

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Doubts cast over Japan nuclear phase-out via The Financial Times

Posted on 2012/10/25 by kojimaaiko

It has only been a month since Japan declared that it would close down its nuclear industry by the end of the 2030s, but already a contentious plan to complete several partially built reactors is sowing doubts about the government’s … Continue reading →

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Germany’s energy transition could save €570bn by 2050 via Energy Line News

Posted on 2012/10/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Germany could save around €570 billion (£460.2 billion) by 2050 if it sticks to its plans of replacing nuclear with renewable sources. That’s according to researchers at the Renewable Energy Research Association, whose claim follows the nation’s plan to shut … Continue reading →

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Ontario to waste $27 billions on electricity via The Bulletin

Posted on 2012/10/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Why would Ontario spend $33 billion rebuilding Darlington when we can get replacement power from Quebec at one-fifth the cost? Hydro Quebec announced that it will not proceed with its proposed Gentilly-2 Nuclear Re-Build Project. According to Hydro Quebec, the … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power hard to justify in cheap gas world: GE via Reuters

Posted on 2012/07/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

(Reuters) – Nuclear power has become hard to justify as the shale gas revolution creates an abundance of natural gas that makes it the fuel of choice to back up renewables, the chief executive of General Electric told the Financial … Continue reading →

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UK Billionaire Richard Branson Urges Obama to Help Develop Fast Reactors via Nuclear Industry News

Posted on 2012/07/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Along with the president of the American Nuclear Society, Virgin Records founder and serial entrepreneur Richard Branson is urging the Obama administration to fund research into integral fast reactors. … Branson is not the only billionaire promoting fast neutron reactors … Continue reading →

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