Archive for category: Nuclear Energy

• 

  Japanese Literature After Fukushima: A Dialogue

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Society and Culture April 26, 2012 1:36 pm

  A dialogue between noted translator Motoyuki Shibata and Hideo Furukawa, one of Japan’s hottest young novelists. Novelist Hiromi Kawakami and haiku master Minoru Ozawa provide further comments.

   
• 

  The mad global nuclear rush- Giddy speed, zero preparation

  Nuclear Waste, Safety and Accidents April 24, 2012 10:19 pm

  It is possible that the protogonists of nuclear technology will soon succeed in effacing the memory of Fukushima from the public mind, by taking advantage of the fact that the hydrocarbon resources of the world are fast depleting and by flaunting the anti-carbon climate concerns of the global community, to push the world towards a nuclear future.

   
• 

  Media, Academia Join Forces to Downplay Dangers of Nuclear Power

  Media and Censorship March 11, 2012 12:24 pm

  The NEJM authors and others who propagate myths about the minimal casualties from Chernobyl and other accidents feed into a mindset that is leading to disastrous policy decisions. The only way to correct course is to identify the myths and the mythmakers.

   
• 

  Fukushima and the struggle for a sustainable world

  Environment and Climate Change March 9, 2012 5:49 am

  On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster it would thus be sensible to remind ourselves of what we really want.

   
• 

  The Darker Reality of India’s Nuclear Power Goals

  Radiation and Health March 1, 2012 12:50 pm

  The fishermen protesting the Kudankulam NPP could be doing their fellow countrymen a greater service than they currently realize.

   
• 

  Media Coverage on Koodankulam in Chennai: A Content Analysis

  Koodankulam, Media and Censorship January 10, 2012 11:07 am

  The comparative research focused on the newspaper coverage of protest events in the city of Chennai. Four English-language dailies were studied – the Times of India, The Hindu, The New Indian Express and Deccan Chronicle, across a period of eight weeks.

   
• 

  Fukushima has exposed Japanese media’s true colors

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Media and Censorship January 9, 2012 4:25 pm

  Says Abe: “The government’s whole strategy for bringing the plant under control will have to be revised. The evacuees will never be able to return. They can’t clean up the radiation. Will the media report this? I’m waiting for that.”

   
• 

  Cancer: The Epidemic of the Nuclear Age

  Radiation and Health January 2, 2012 11:07 am

  Is Cancer Epidemic in America? by RUSSELL D. HOFFMAN Courtesy: CounterPunch A friend and I were looking back at 2011. She remarked about all the cancer she’s seen this year. Last month she lost a close friend — a woman in her 30s. Another friend, 40, has bladder cancer for [...]

   
• 

  Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe: John Bellamy Foster’s notes from Zucotti Park

  Environment and Climate Change December 20, 2011 4:42 pm

  This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011. It was based on a talk delivered the night before [...]

   
• 

  The nuclear safety question: Dr. A Gopalakrishnan

  Safety and Accidents December 20, 2011 8:23 am

    Hearing a recent PIL against India’s current nuclear policy and the need for an independent nuclear regulator, the Supreme Court wanted to know about a few examples of an independent regulatory mechanism. Top nuclear expert A Gopalakrishnan presents the French , the Canadian, and the U.S.models (Editorial Comment in DNA) [...]

   
• 

  What Future for Nuclear Power in India?: C. E. Karunakaran

  Environment and Climate Change, India's Nuclear Expansion, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents December 13, 2011 7:57 pm

  For very many years I have been a supporter of nuclear power plants, on the premise “Bomb No, but Power Yes”.

   
• 

  Deploying Renewable Energy to eliminate the chances of Nuclear Accidents

  India's Nuclear Expansion, Safety and Accidents, Society and Culture December 8, 2011 7:39 pm

  The proponents of nuclear power have been saying that it is cheap, green and can be a major part of the future energy policy.

   
• 

  Nuclear Power Goes Rogue

  Industry and Lobbies December 7, 2011 8:00 am

  Post-Fukushima, the market for nuclear power is changing latitudes. Here’s what’s at stake: As the full cost of the Fukushima nuclear accident continues to climb—Japanese officials now peg it at $64 billion or more—nuclear power’s future is literally headed south. Developed countries are slowing or shuttering their nuclear-power programs, while [...]

   
• 

  Solar energy in India now costs 38% less

  Environment and Climate Change December 5, 2011 5:29 pm

  India, the world’s third-largest energy consumer, is cutting solar-power costs to a record by forcing project developers into auctions, helping avoid the spiraling renewable-energy subsidies that have hurt Europe. The lowest bid in India’s latest national auction on Dec. 2 came from Solairedirect SA, France’s second-largest producer, which offered to [...]

   
• 

  Don’t nuke the climate change debate: nuclear is not green

  Society and Culture December 4, 2011 6:48 am

  Nuclear power cannot provide a solution to the climate change crisis. Concerns about global warming and climate change have been exploited by the nuclear industry to promote atomic energy by dubbing it “clean”, “carbon-free” and environment-friendly.

   
• 

  Nuclear Unaccountability: Shankar Sharma

  Industry and Lobbies, Media and Censorship, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents, Society and Culture December 2, 2011 12:52 pm

  As they say “War is too important to be left to the Generals”, the decision on Nuclear Power is too critical from the perspective of the overall welfare of our communities to be decided by a handful of people in the nuclear establishment.

   
• 

  Passive safety system: actively vulnerable

  Safety and Accidents December 1, 2011 8:32 am

  AERB: Mera Joota Nahin hai Japani

   
• 

  Deeper meltdown at Fukushima than thought

  Fukushima Latest News, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents December 1, 2011 8:21 am

  Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactor than previously thought, to within a foot from breaching the crucial steel barrier, a new simulation showed Wednesday.

   
• 

  Nuclear Energy – A project of descending darkness

  Koodankulam, Nuclear Energy, Safety and Accidents, Society and Culture November 28, 2011 10:37 am

  The anti-nuclear movement is starting to gather some momentum in India, particularly after the experience of the anti-nuclear protest at Koodankulam

   
• 

  Gorleben: lessons that India can’t afford to waste

  Nuclear Waste, Society and Culture November 27, 2011 6:21 pm

  While Germany struggles with the nuclear waste menace, Indian policy-makers are oblivious of the risk amid massive expansion of nuclear projects.