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- US May Face Inevitable Nuclear Power Exit (PHYS.org)

- Plastic Bags, Tape, Broomsticks Fix San Onofre Nuclear Plant Leak (ABC 10News – Video, Photo)

- Radioactive leak found at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant (RT, May 17, 2013):

Investigators have discovered a half-inch long crack around a nozzle on one of the tanks of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, and have attributed the crack to the water leakage that spilled radioactive water into Lake Michigan on May 5.

The plant, which is located on the shore of the great lake and operated by Entergy, was shut down after the water tank exceeded its site threshold and leaked. Authorities say the crack led to about 79 gallons of “slightly radioactive water” spilling from the Palisades plant into the lake, WOOD-TV reports.

The leak came from a 300,000-gallon injection and refueling tank, which floods and cools the nuclear reactor with borated water during refueling outages. It also removes heat from the reactor when there is a loss of coolant by sourcing the safety injection system.

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Tags: Energy, Environment, Global News, Health, Lake Michigan, Michigan, NRC, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, Radiation, Technology, U.S.

- WHAT ABOUT THE ONGOING THREAT OF FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT ? (Veterans Today, May 14, 2013)

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation

- ZDF Bureau Chief: Very high radioactive dose of 65 microsieverts per hour in Fukushima City — “Informed officials 3 month ago, nothing happened until today!” — Many children pass by everyday (PHOTO) (Enennews, May 17, 2013)

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Fukushima City, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, ZDF

- It’s the middle of May! Two inches of snow, one month’s rainfall in a day and 65mph winds hit Britain (Daily Mail, May 15, 2013):

Up to 2in snow reported in Princetown, Devon, and Rhayader, Powys

And 3in snow fell on high ground in Shropshire near Welsh border

Month’s rain in 24 hours to 7am today in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire

Slates come off roofs and trees block roads in Devon and Cornwall

Today and tomorrow will see mixture of sunshine and showers in UK

England and Wales will be mainly dry on Saturday but wet on Sunday

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global News

- Monsanto and other GM firms are winning in the US – and globally (Guardian, May 14, 2014):

If you have a feeling that genetically modified (GM) foods are being forced upon the population by a handful of business interests and vociferously defended by the scientists that work in the agriculture industry or at the research institutions it funds, you might be onto something.

The zeal with which GM proponents evangelize transgenic seeds (and now, transgenic food animals) is so extreme that they are even pouring vast sums of money to defeat popular efforts to simply label GE foods – like the nearly $50m spent to defeat the popular 2012 ballot measure to label GE foods in California, Proposition 37. What’s more, it’s not just happening in the United States. I am the head of Food & Water Watch, and we have spent months looking at the extent to which the US State Department is working on behalf of the GM seed industry to make sure that biotech crops are served up abroad whether the world wants them or not.

Our report analyzes over 900 State Department diplomatic cables from 2005 to 2009 and reveals how far the US government will go to help serve the seed industry’s agenda abroad, knowing that resistance to GMOs worldwide is high.

Here are some of the tidbits gleaned from our comprehensive look at the cables: Continue reading »

Tags: Agriculture, Barack Obama, Environment, Food, Global News, Government, Monsanto, Obama administration, Pioneer, Politics, U.S.

- Russian Scientists: ‘We Could Face Cooling Period For 200-250 Years’ (Climate Change Dispatch, April 29, 2013):

Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless. –The Voice of Russia, 22 April 2013Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease. The 11-year cycle doesn’t bring about considerable climate change – only 1-2%. The impact of the 200-year cycle is greater – up to 50%. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years. The period of low solar activity could start in 2030-2040 but it won’t be as pervasive as in the late 17th century. –Yuri Nagovitsyn, Pulkovo Observatory St.Petersburg, The Voice of Russia, 22 April 2013

“There are no grounds to claim that global warming will continue till the end of this century,” said academician Vladimir Kotlyakov, head of the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Early signs of cooling are already there and the trend may pick up in coming years.” “Human activity and industrial discharges do have a great impact on environment, but forces of nature are far more powerful,” said the scientist, who has studied Antarctic ice cores that are hundreds of thousand years old. “Climate moves in natural cycles of warmer and colder, drier and more humid times.” –Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu, 22 April 2013

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, NASA, Science, Solar Cycle

What could possibly go wrong?

POLLINATION IN CHINA:

- Insanity: US Approves Bee Death Pesticide as EU Bans It (Natural Society, May 12, 2013):

Corporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to report the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly dangerous pesticide that the European Union recently decided to ban over fears of environmental devastation. Not only have neonicotinoid pesticides been linked repeatedly to mass bee deaths, also known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), but the continued use of such pesticides threatens other aspects of nature (and humans) as well.What’s even more amazing is that the decision not only comes after the EU publicly discussed the major dangers surrounding the use of the pesticides, but after the USDA released a report surrounding the continued honeybee deaths and the related effects — a report in which they detailed pesticides to be a contributing factor. Just the impact on the honeybees alone, and we now know that these pesticides are killing aquatic life and subsequently the birds that feed upon them, amounts to a potential $200 billion in global damages per year. We’re talking about the devastation of over 100 crops, from apples to avocados and plums.

And there’s countless scientists and a large number of environmental science groups speaking out on this. The EPA has no lack of information the subject. And sure, there are other contributing factors to bee deaths, there’s no question about that. We have an environment right now being hit with Monsanto’s Roundup even in residential areas, we have chemical rain, we have insane amounts of EMF — but it’s pretty clear that neonicotinoid pesticides are at least a major contributing factor. And beyond that, they have no place in the food supply to begin with.

The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) details the EU ban that came right before the EPA acceptance of the death-linked  pesticide: Continue reading »

Tags: Agriculture, Bees, CCD, colony collapse disorder, Environment, EU, Europe, Food, Global News, Government, Health, Law, Obama administration, Pesticides, Politics, U.S.

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- Suddenly No Solution For 56 Million Gallons Of Highly Radioactive Toxic Waste Leaking Into The Ground

- Hanford Nuclear Waste: New Proposed Storage Site Prompts New Criticism

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- Radioactive Waste Is Leaking From Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation

- Hanford Nuclear Cleanup May Be Too Dangerous, Future Of Storage Plant Uncertain (Huffington Post/Scientific American, May 9, 2013):

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down. The federal government’s current attempt at a permanent solution for safely storing that waste for centuries—the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant here—has hit a major snag in the form of potential chain reactions, hydrogen explosions and leaks from metal corrosion. And the revelation last February that six more of the storage tanks are currently leaking has further ramped up the pressure for resolution.

After decades of research, experimentation and political inertia, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) started building the “Vit Plant” at Hanford in 2000. It’s intended to sequester the waste in stainless steel–encased glass logs, a process known as vitrification (hence “Vit”), so it cannot escape into the environment, barring natural disasters like earthquakes or catastrophic fires. But progress on the plant slowed to a crawl last August, when numerous interested parties acknowledged that the plant’s design might present serious safety risks. In response, then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu appointed an expert panel to find a way forward. Because 60 of the 177 underground tanks have already leaked and all are at increasing risk to do so, solving the problem is urgent. Continue reading »

Tags: Contamination, Environment, Global News, Government, Hanford, Health, Nuclear, Radiation, U.S.

Don’t miss:

- A terrible silent tragedy is happening in Fukushima! The lone horseman of Itate speaks out! (Nuclear News, May 7, 2013)

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation

Added: 30.04.2013

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Society