Nuclear Grim Reapers and Liquidators join The Big Six Energy Bash
Kick Nuclear and friends, dressed up as Nuclear Grim Reapers and Liquidators, joined hundreds of environmental and social justice activists at The Big Six Energy Bash in central London, targeting EDF and the other energy fat cat corporations at the UK Energy Summit.
See http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/content/nuclear-grim-reapers-and-liquidators-join-big-six-energy-bash.
Japan to Nationalize Fukushima Utility (TEPCO)
Japan is set to nationalize Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, under a ¥1 trillion ($12.6 billion) bailout plan approved Wednesday. The government has separately committed ¥2.4 trillion in taxpayer money to meet compensation payments arising from the accident. But estimates of the payments that Tepco might have to pay out have reached many tens of billions of dollars, making further government support likely.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/business/global/japan-to-nationalize-fukushima-utility.html?_r=2&hp.
The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
The spent fuel in the hobbled unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi not only sits in an elevated pool outside the reactor core’s reinforced containment, in a high-consequence earthquake zone adjacent to the ocean — just as nearly all the spent fuel at the nuclear site is stored — but it’s also open to the elements because a hydrogen explosion blew off the roof during the early days of the accident and sent the building into a list.
See http://www.alternet.org/health/155283/the_worst_yet_to_come_why_nuclear_experts_are_calling_fukushima_a_ticking_time-bomb?page=entire+.
Japan shuts down last working nuclear reactor
All 50 reactors now closed for maintenance after 2011 tsunami but government faces major public opposition to reactivation.
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/05/japan-shuts-down-last-nuclear-reactor.
Anti-nuke activists resume hunger strike in India
Update: Nearly 500 women from the coastal hamlets around KKNPP joined the fast with 24 activists who were observing the fast-unto-death stir since May 1.
See http://www.dianuke.org/koodankulam-pmane-announces-indefinite-hunger-strike-from-starting-may-day/.