Japan Earthquake 2011 Danger of Nuclear Disaster

Japan Earthquake 2011 Danger of Nuclear Disaster


Japan earthquake and tsunami: State of emergency after nuclear power plant crippled | Mail Online
Six-mile exclusion zone placed around crippled nuclear reactor as radiation hits 1,000 times safe level
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365333/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-State-emergency-nuclear-power-plant-crippled.html


NUKE PLANT: Japan PM Orders Wider Evacuation, As Radiation Levels Hit 1000X Normal
http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-2011-3


Japan Declares "Nuclear Emergency Situation" 11.03.11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJ8zXchM58


Japan earthquake: Danger of nuclear disaster after Fukushima plant failure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmjRG3m6Dw


Japanese officials admit partial nuclear meltdown now underway at nuke power plants
Sunday, March 13, 2011
http://www.naturalnews.com/031686_nuclear_meltdown_Japan.html


For those in Taiwan, China or other regions who are concerned about the possibility of radioactive fallout from Japan, be sure to read up on potassium iodide, which can prevent radioactive fallout from destroying your thyroid gland. Potassium iodide, however, does not "shield" your entire body from radiation. It merely prevents it from being concentrated in one place in your body.


Japan crisis 'worst since WWII'
12 March 2011 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12723092


Help support those devastated by the massive quake, tsunami in Japan
March 13, 2011
http://www.naturalnews.com/031685_tsunami_emergency_aid.html


Nuclear reactor meltdown narrowly averted at the Fukushima power plant near Tokyo
March 12, 2011
http://www.naturalnews.com/031680_nuclear_meltdown_Japan.html


Greenpeace: Japan nuke crisis could be 'devastating'
(AFP) March 12, 2011
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hnTbvh4BxZxn3erbR_tyIcYBF0SA?docId=CNG.3dd45eb241c8502e6bdf77a2885cc060.e51


Radioactive fallout from Fukushima approaching same levels as Chernobyl
http://www.naturalnews.com/031836_radioactive_fallout_Fukushima.html


Fukushima radioactive fallout nears Chernobyl levels
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20285-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-nears-chernobyl-levels.html


Ominous smoke plumes, contaminated water and food, neutron beams -- but everything is just fine in Japan, suggest authorities
http://www.naturalnews.com/031835_Fukushima_neutron_beams.html


Lethal in Japan - the real story on radiation
According to Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, "DU dust-like particles can enter human bodies, and once taken into the body, they will become tens of millions times more hazardous. Newly released data indicate that low-level radiation is more likely to cause biochemical abnormalities than intensive high-level radiation. It is wrong to make light of the hazard of low-level radiation."
http://www.naturalnews.com/031823_Japan_radiation.html

China Daya Bay Nuclear Plant

China Daya Bay Nuclear Plant


China Nuclear Plant Workers Exposed to Radiation, South China Post Reports
By John Duce - Nov 16, 2010 7:44 AM GMT+0800
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-15/china-nuclear-plant-workers-exposed-to-radiation-south-china-post-reports.html


Daya Bay workers exposed to radiation Leak equivalent to two X-rays, plant boss says
Martin Wong and Cheung Chi-fai 
Nov 16, 2010
Workers at the Daya Bay nuclear power station were exposed to radiation equal to two chest X-rays after a flaw developed in a pipe carrying hot water from one of the station's two reactors....
http://www.ecfchina.com/news/43036.shtml
http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/china-nuclear-plant-workers-exposed-to-radiation-south-china-post-reports.html
http://ffggippsland.blogspot.com/2010/11/china-nuclear-plant-workers-exposed-to.html

Daya workers in radiation scare but CLP denies harm
Dennis Chong 
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=105003&sid=30313465&con_type=1

Nuclear energy policy by country

Nuclear energy policy by country 
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Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-nuclear_future 


Nuclear-free zone 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-free_zone 


Nuclear power by country 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country

Nuclear Energy Opposing Viewpoints

Nuclear Energy Opposing Viewpoints


Selected Anti-nuclear articles
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/topic.php?id=22


The Myths of Nuclear Power
by Martin Empson, September 2006
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9820


Nuclear plants are never safe: Shut them all down
3/15/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24183


Nuclear power isn't green and it won’t save the planet
by Martin Empson
3/22/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24288


Nuclear disasters: it’s not if but when
by Sadie Robinson
3/22/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24287


Can renewables provide all our energy?
by Martin Empson
3/29/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24354


Japan's nuclear nightmare
Frontline article by Martin Empson, April 2011
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11610


Handing over more power to nuclear firms increases hazards
4/05/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24455


Can nuclear ever be safe?
4/12/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24495


Chernobyl: The day we almost lost Europe
4/12/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24496


Nuclear radiation: Hazardous for billions of years
4/12/2011
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24497


The End of Nuclear Power
Roland Kupers
The price of nuclear power has been escalating steadily for decades. 
4/25/2011
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rkupers2/English


Why Is George Monbiot Shilling for Nuclear Power?
That said, I think the pro-nuke crowd, now including George Monbiot, is making two grave errors. 
The first is claiming that low levels of radiation are safe.
Monbiot seems just as political in supporting nuclear energy as Caldicott is in opposing it. In fact, this seems a common theme among many pro-nuclear ‘environmentalists.
http://www.briangordon.ca/2011/04/why-is-george-monbiot-shilling-for-nuclear-power/


Vandana Shiva on India's Anti-Nuclear Protests & Challenges George Monbiot on His Support of of Nuclear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxldwz1NT9A


Vandana Shiva on the Defense of Nature and the Arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYm3ihxjsfI


Earth Day Special: Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow on the Rights of Mother Earth
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/22/earth_day_special_vandana_shiva_and


The Nuclear Meltdown of George Monbiot
APRIL 18TH, 2011
http://www.green-blog.org/2011/04/18/the-nuclear-meltdown-of-george-monbiot/


Vandana Shiva Challenges George Monbiot on His Support of Nuclear Power
4/22/11 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/democracy-now/vandana-shiva-challenges-_b_852662.html


Nuclear apologists play shoot the messenger on radiation
Helen Caldicott
April 26, 2011
George Monbiot and others are distorting evidence of the dangers of exposure.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nuclear-apologists-play-shoot-the-messenger-on-radiation-20110425-1du2w.html


Top 10 Great Works of Nuclear Cinema
The public needs to watch these 10 movies to fully comprehend the threat of nuclear power.
August 18, 2011 
http://www.alternet.org/story/151994/top_10_great_works_of_nuclear_cinema/

Nuclear Power in China

Nuclear Power in China
Updated 10 December 2010
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf63.html


China claims new nuclear technology
China state media claims scientists have mastered a key technique to reprocess spent uranium
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 January 2011 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/03/china-claims-new-nuclear-technology


China Ready to Reprocess Nuclear Fuel
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 3, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/world/asia/04china.html


Construction schedule on Chinese third-generation nuclear plants races ahead of European models
Local experience and long working hours speed progress
Harold Thibault
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 28 December 2010 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/28/china-areva-taishan-nuclear-thibault


China: new tech eases uranium-supply worry
Jan. 4, 2011
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-new-tech-eases-uranium-supply-worry-2011-01-04


China hails nuclear tech breakthrough
Global Times 
January 04 2011
http://www.globaltimes.cn/www/english/sci-edu/china/2011-01/608461.html


Nuclear fuel sources may last 3,000 years: officials
Global Times 
January 04 2011
http://business.globaltimes.cn/industries/2011-01/608391.html


China claims new nuke technology
Beijing News.Net
Tuesday 4th January, 2011 (ANI)
http://www.beijingnews.net/story/727355/ht/China-claims-new-nuke-technology


WikiLeaks cables reveal fears over China's nuclear safety
Cables highlight US lobbying and say that cheap, out-of-date technology is 'vastly increasing' risk of nuclear accident
8/25/2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/25/wikileaks-fears-china-nuclear-safety

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US power plants vulnerable to cyberattack

US power plants vulnerable to cyberattack
By Joseph Menn in San Francisco
October 11, 2011
ft.com


Assault on the electricity grid could be devastating, writes Joseph Menn


Hundreds of thousands of people in darkness, hospitals in chaos, a banking system under siege – a cyberattack on the US electricity grid could have catastrophic consequences.


http://easss.com/nuclear


When federal researchers discovered that outside hackers could take control of the generators used to produce electricity in the US and destroy them, analysts warned that a co-ordinated assault on the grid could blackout large regions and cause devastation akin to scores of hurricanes striking at once.


Regulators asked utilities to fix that design flaw, as they have with others discovered later.
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Now, four years since that first warning, experts say that power plants – along with financial institutions, transportation systems and other infrastructure – have become even more vulnerable.


“The next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyberattack that cripples our power systems, our grid, our security systems, our financial systems, our governmental system,” Leon Panetta, US defence secretary, said at his June confirmation hearing.


The economic damage from a single wave of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure could exceed $700bn – or the cumulative toll of 50 major hurricanes ripping into the nation simultaneously, wrote Stanton Sloane when he was chief executive of SRA International.


Sceptics argue that the dangers are being talked up by those eager to be hired to help. Other countries, such as the UK, are also exposed, but officials agree that the US is the most vulnerable to cyberattack because its companies and people are so dependent on the internet.


How a grid attack could unfold


Many of the utilities that generate the electricity essential for preserving food and maintaining social order could be shut down by even a small team of committed hackers, researchers say. Attacks on military communications, banks and telecoms companies could be even easier, recent espionage cases suggest.


“There are still huge holes in security in energy and other systems, because they were not designed at the beginning with security in mind,” said retired Lt. Gen. Harry Raduege, a former commander of the US military’s network operations task force who is now with Deloitte.


The utilities say that they have a good record on reliability and are improving. But a joint security “road map” issued last month by the US industry and its regulators conceded that threats are evolving “faster than the sector’s ability to develop and deploy countermeasures”. The plan aims to deploy cyber-secure systems by 2020.


In the US and other countries, the grid is divided up by regions, which in theory should limit potential damage to a single region at a time. But a prolonged blackout in New York, Washington or other major hubs could still have a devastating impact – with pronounced food shortages after a week – and malicious software that works in one region could also work in others.


Infrastructure defence in the US is complicated by a patchwork of regulation and ownership and the fact that it is almost always the private sector – not the government – that pays for security upgrades. In other countries, such as China, the government has more control of utilities and a more direct hand in private commerce.


But the US is also perhaps the best equipped offensively. It is widely believed to have been behind the Stuxnet attack last year, which destroyed Iranian nuclear equipment after spreading virally through holes in Microsoft and Siemens software.


Many saw Stuxnet as the dawn of a new era in warfare, the first evidence of the fact that the US, China and others had both great capabilities and vulnerabilities. Since that attack, the Stuxnet code has been circulated in hacking forums. About 85 per cent of the world’s utility networks have been infiltrated by criminals and spy agencies in the past year, up from just over 50 per cent before the discovery of Stuxnet, security company McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies found in a survey this year.


But most alarming for the US defence establishment is the lack of security around the electricity grid. Many power plants, as well as factory floors and pipelines, rely on automation equipment that can be reprogrammed remotely yet do not require even the authentication imposed on average computer users, said John Pollet of Red Tiger Security, which has carried out security assessments on more than 150 facilities: “There is a systemic problem” across all manufacturers of the gear.


Some control systems can be located with special Google searches and then ordered to shut down or speed up, potentially blowing up a power or water treatment plant, presentations at Black Hat hackers conference showed in August. Many of these control systems were designed before the age of widespread internet connections.


The scale of the broader threat has been made clear by the fact that Chinese hackers have penetrated US agencies and tech security companies, including antivirus software company Symantec and other groups that guard federal networks.


This espionage is not only an enormous threat, but it also suggests that serious acts of cyberwarfare would be easy to carry out. “In the cyber realm, the reconnaissance is operationally the more difficult task,” said Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA. “Living undetected on a network is far more difficult than disrupting or destroying it once you are inside.”


Even when weaknesses in critical equipment are publicly reported – such as the master password for a Siemens system that was discovered this summer – a diffuse regulatory structure makes it difficult for US officials to do anything about it. 


The North American Electric Reliability Corp, an industry regulator, doesn’t have control over all utility operators and has been reluctant to adopt stringent safety measures, said Joe Weiss, an author of a book on threats to the grid.


Those struggling to bolster the nations’ defences are only too aware that in cyberspace, the attacker always has the advantage. They only need to find one hole to infiltrate an entire system, while those seeking to protect it need to plug all their security gaps – a seemingly impossible task. That is why cyber ”is an offense-dominant space”, Robert Butler, just-departed Pentagon cyber policy chief, told the Financial Times.


The difficulty of creating an impregnable defence is pushing western governments to work harder on offense. The US spends 90 per cent of its cyber spending on defence and only 10 per cent on deterrence, the opposite of the balance for traditional arms, said Gen. James Cartwright, vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He argues that the ratio needs to be flipped. The US needs to convince people that if they attack, “we have the capability and capacity to do something about it”.