World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/16-14

Fukushimas Nuclear Martyrdom and Occupational Hazards of the Atomic Age
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/16-11

No Nukes Is Good Nukes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/16

From Japan (Again): A Warning to the World
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/16-2

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Ban Nuclear Energy and the Bomb, Time for True Renewables Only
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=nuclear_ban

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Learning from Disaster? After Sendai

By Richard Falk

There is a lack of credibility based, especially, on a long record of false reassurances and cover ups by the Japanese nuclear industry, hiding and minimizing the effects of a 2007 earthquake in Japan, and actually lying about the extent of damage to a reactor at that time and on other occasions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27697.htm



Japans Growing Nuclear Calamity Compounded By History of Neglecting Safety, Downplaying Accidents

Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreyev put the blame on corporations and United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, saying they had 'willfully ignor[ed] lessons from the worlds worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industrys expansion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27694.htm



Dangers Of General Electrics Mark 1 Reactors Known For 40 Years

The New York Times reported this week that the Mark 1 nuclear reactors were developed in the 1960s by General Electric.

http://bit.ly/iejmnP



GE Scientist Quit Over Troubled Reactors Design

Scientist Dale Bridenbaugh and two colleagues at General Electric quit their jobs in the 1970s to express their concern about the companys Mark 1 nuclear reactor - the design of the troubled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/GEScientistQuitOverTroubledReactor-sDesign/2011/03/16/id/389647



Nuclear Disaster 'Will Have Political Impact as Great as 9/11'

The nuclear disaster in Fukushima makes it hard to ignore the vulnurabilities of the technology. It could spell the end of nuclear power.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,750810,00.html


From Information Clearing House



US raises new alarm over Japan nuclear crisis

MSNBC

03/16/11

The United States expressed increasing alarm Wednesday about the the threat posed by Japan's nuclear crisis, with its top nuclear energy chief suggesting that one crippled reactor was in danger of a complete meltdown. The U.S. urged Americans to evacuate a wider area around the plant. Other governments advised their citizens to leave the country altogether. Amid the controversy, Japans military dropped water from two helicopters onto another crippled reactor...

http://tinyurl.com/6yfmcvl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=renewable+energy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Alvarez
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Chen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amy+Goodman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Falk
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