NOTE: The other night we had a family dinner at a first-class local seafood restaurant in Hobart Tasmania, The Drunken Admiral. Highly recommended but I would not recommend one item on the menu. That is the “Japanese Trawler King Prawns”. Even though I love king prawns we all passed up on that particular delicacy for [...]
From the website of Akio Matsumura: http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html Also See additional information at: http://akiomatsumura.com/category/nuclear Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly [...]
So, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency is being investigated for being in a nice cozy relationship with the nuclear industry regulator (and promoter) that has endangered nuclear safety. No surprise to those who have been seeing ARPANSA being too close to other industry sectors. How about widening the investigation to include how [...]
From Richard Bramhall, LLRC: Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl (BBC Radio 4, 26 April 2011 20.00 – 20.40) You can listen here. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b010mckx ) This programme expressed the IAEA / WHO view that there has been no observable impact on health except for thyroid cancers caused by a failure to distribute stable iodine, and [...]
Essential listening for the latest on the Fukushima crisis
From Radio Ecoshock: The Worst Problems In The World: Alex Smith, of Radio Ecoshock, interviews nuclear industry expert Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Associates. Smith notes that the nuclear accident at Fukushima Japan is far from over as three reactors continue to meltdown. Smith adds that now there is a storm of international worry about nuclear [...]