Report: Nuclear lobby infiltrated universities + New International Report Shreds Fukushima Scenario

[stockholmer]

http://www.fr-online.de/wirtschaft/stiftungsprofessuren-die-atomlobby-unterwandert-universitaeten,1472780,11089362.html

translation

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Paper: Frankfurter Rundschau

Date: November 2, 2011

Headline: The nuclear lobby infiltrated universities

German nuclear companies finance about 30 professors – and thus largely determine, what is being discussed at universities. <...> Finance: the four largest German energy companies for information on this newspaper at universities nationwide about 30 endowed professorships. The universities are funded in part known for studies on the debate about nuclear energy, the nuclear phase and the cost of renewable energy. <...>

The energy group EnBW holds eleven endowed professorships at German universities. <...> In the past year, as the EMI was given together with other institutions of the federal government commissioned to examine the future of Germany’s energy supply – a report of vital importance. <...>

“The EMI looks like a stealth subcontractors of Eon and RWE,” says the vice group leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, Baerbel Hoehn. <...> “With the funding of more than 30 endowed professorships tried the utilities to influence public debate. <...>”

You have to do it so well reinforced with covert PR activities and spin, because the nuclear companies would hardly be perceived as credible, said Hohn. At least the University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld has no problem to be assisted by the Society for Nuclear Service. The business segment of society: Disposal of radioactive waste. The theme of the Chair: disposal.

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New International Report Shreds Japan's Carefully Constructed Fukushima Scenario

http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/New-International-Report-Shreds-Japan-s-Carefully-Constructed-Fukushima-Scenario.html

Japan’s six reactor Fukushima Daichi nuclear complex has inadvertently become the world’s bell-weather poster child for the inherent risks of nuclear power ever since the 11 March Tohoku offshore earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered a devastating tsunami that effectively destroyed the complex.

Ever since, specialists have wrangled about how damaging the consequences of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami actually were, not only for the facility but the rest of the world.

The Fukushima Daichi complex was one of the 25 largest nuclear power stations in the world and the Fukushima I reactor was the first GE designed nuclear plant to be constructed and run entirely by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO. Needless to say, in the aftermath of the disaster, both TEPCO and the Japanese government were at pains to minimize the disaster’s consequences, hardly surprising given the country’s densely populated regions.

But now, an independent study has effectively demolished TEPCO and the Japanese government’s carefully constructed minimalist scenario. Mainichi news agency reported that France’s l’Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, or IRSN) has issued a recent report stating that the amount of radioactive cesium-137 that entered the Pacific after 11 March was probably nearly 30 times the amount stated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in May.

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the report

http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/20111027_Accident-fukushima_impact-rejets-radioactifs-milieu-marin.aspx

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Japan Times Column: “As the public – possibly worldwide – sickens over time, the truth will leak out” about Fukushima

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20111101ad.html

Regardless, the awful truth is: ‘We Japanese don’t lie. We just don’t tell the truth.’”

“This is not sustainable. Post-Fukushima Japan must realize that public acceptance of lying got us into this radioactive mess in the first place.”

“For radiation has no media cycle. It lingers and poisons the land and food chain. Statistics may be obfuscated or suppressed as usual. But radiation’s half-life is longer than the typical attention span or sustainable degree of public outrage.”

“As the public — possibly worldwide — sickens over time, the truth will leak out.”

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Tepco blames ‘spontaneous’ and ‘natural’ nuclear fission for radioactive xenon… What about the 14,000% increase in Krypton-85?

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111102-724928.html


“Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) said Thursday the detection of radioactive xenon at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant, indicating recent nuclear fission, was not the result of a sustained nuclear chain reaction known as a criticality, as feared, but a case of ‘spontaneous’ fission, Kyodo News reported.” <...>

“The utility known as Tepco has been analyzing the phenomenon” <...>

Xenon at Fukushima Isn’t From Critical Reaction, Tepco Says, Bloomberg, November 3 at 11:14 pm ET: http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LU2CZ46JIJVF01-1QA16TJB2BO7FJJR1ONB13793S

<...> “The discovery of xenon, announced yesterday, at the plant was caused by “natural” nuclear fission, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the company known as Tepco, said today at a press briefing in Tokyo.” <...>

AS EX-SKF noted, http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/11/reactor-2-cv-gas-analysis-on-november-2.html the xenon increase in recent days has been relatively minor.

Rather it is the 140-fold increase in Krypton-85 http://enenews.com/just-in-krypton-85-up-over-14000-in-a-day-at-reactor-no-2-kr-85-used-to-detect-plutonium-separations over the past day that needs to be addressed by Tepco and the Japan gov’t.

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*JUST IN* Boric acid apparently NOT working to stop chain fission reactions because Xenon still being detected — Tepco says this is reason why they claim ‘spontaneous’ fission, not sustained criticality

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Fukushima_xenon_from_spontaneous_decay_0311111.html

The origin of xenon in the containment of Fukushima Daiichi 2 is currently considered to be spontaneous fission, a process of radioactive decay not involving any chain reaction.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) was able to clarify the matter somewhat today, having been unsure of a previous trace detection of xenon. Subsequent work by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the presence of the element, which is among a range of elements found after heavy atoms undergo fission.

The usual chain reaction of fission in a nuclear power reactor is initiated by a source of neutrons and sustained by a specific arrangement of fissile elements and moderating water. Spontaneous fission, however, occurs naturally from time to time in heavy elements of above 230 in atomic mass without any external stimulus and not usually causing any subsequent fissions.

Tepco said it considered the source of the xenon to be spontaneous fission on those grounds that it had injected boric acid to the reactor vessel to reduce the likelihood of chain fission reactions but was still able to detect xenon. Temperature and pressure data from the unit also showed no change around the time of the xenon's discovery in another indication that chain reactions were not taking place.


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another day, another dose:nuke:

[Octafish]

1. Kicked and Recced and it stayed at zero.

Seems there's no hiring freeze when it comes to defending the indefensible.

[villager]

2. Got it to one -- this site's increasingly desperate nuclear apologists can only silently unrec

A sustained conversation defending the indefensible becomes impossible...

[dtexdem]

3. Got it up to 2. The Old Fission Hole is being shown up for the hazard it is.

The hazard many of us have long thought it was.

[villager]

4. and some -- doing the nuclear lobby's work here -- don't like that!

n/t