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2/24 - Russians seize Chernobyl, gamma radiation spikes detected.
3/4 - Russian forces shell Zaporizhzhya, largest nuclear power plant in Europe, leading to fires dangerously close to reactor.
3/9 - Russians cut power to Chernobyl needed to keep cooling system operational; currently running on backup diesel generators.
Tell me how safe nuclear technology is again.
240 Greenpeace Activists Take Action Against Ageing Nuclear Reactors in Europe
240 Greenpeace Activists Take Action Against Ageing Nuclear Reactors in Europe
By Isadora Wronski / Eco Watch
Photo Credit: Greenpeace International
Last week, 240 Greenpeace activists from national and regional offices took action across Europe to highlight the risk of aging nuclear reactors.
In Switzerland, about 100 Greenpeace activists from six different countries entered the station at Beznau. They climbed the superstructure of the reactor and hung banners demanding…
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Behind the White House
Yesterday afternoon I found myself near "The Hill". I've been in the District (as the locals call it) for over a month now, but because of frequent and persistently frigid temperatures, I hadn't yet made it to the typical tourist sights.
As yesterday was sunny and a bit above freezing, I decided to take a stroll by the White House, the most iconic DC artifact. I came upon it quite suddenly. One second I was in a bland financial district and the next minute there it was, just standing in front of me like some old street sign. In my head I remembered it being bigger, but it actually appeared quite modest. It looked as if it was crouching down and could stand up at any moment to reveal its true stature to the world.
I came upon it from the backside, where you have to walk through a small park with a statue of Andrew Jackson on horseback, not unlike the one in New Orleans’ Jackson Square. As I came nearer I slowed my pace; I felt like I was intruding onto someone's private property. I saw a tent set up with homemade anti-nuke signs strung around it, and felt reassured; if people were camping here surely I could stroll through.
Behind the White House was an odd sight. There were maybe six people on the street, only three of them actually looking at the White House. There was the non-proliferation activist, scrawny, over-tanned and ancient, whose signs read "Chernobyl in your backyard?" and "Dismantle All Nukes!". There were a bunch of black squirrels around her, which made me think that she was feeding them. She would have looked very lonely without the squirrels. There was a police officer with a bulletproof vest on, and a large handgun at his side. He had a massive Doberman on a leash that was sniffing profusely at a small tree. The squirrels stayed away from them.
When I moved closer to the fence, there stood a man wearing a blue beret, who I thought, like me, was admiring the President’s residence. He was actually preaching to it, with a bible held firmly in his hand. God told him to inform Obama about the Israelites, he said. I walked a few blocks east to a Barnes & Noble and bought a book on Cambodian history.
People rally to denounce the Japanese government direction to resume nuclear power plants, in front of the national Diet in Tokyo on December 22, 2013.
Thousands of protesters marched in the Japanese capital calling on the government to shun nuclear power, a day before the second anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in 25 years.
[不要核四、五六運動] 第24集 - PISCO 樂團 (by antinucleartw) Here is the short set that team P!SCO played last Friday at the nuke protest. Simple acoustic format, they sounded good. No rowdy tunes or dancing all night, tho. =)
[不要核四、五六運動] 第23集 - 江松霖 (by antinucleartw) A mini set from Jiang Songlin aka Xiaosong from the anti-nuke rally last week. She sounds great! That looks like a 3/4 size guitar; perfect size, I think. A regular dreadnought would be a little big and a jumbo size would be ridiculous! =D
Taiwan has recently made it to international headlines with a kung-fu episode live in the parliament. Lawmakers from the two major political parties fought for the vote on whether a referendum should be held on completion of the 4th nuclear power plant (known as Nuke 4)which is located very close to the metropolitan Taipei area.
In addition to the safety issues of managing so many nuclear power plant on a small island like Taiwan, evidences have shown a sustainable, thorough and transparent construction and project management process has been put in place by the government.
Is there really a need for a 4th nuclear power plant in Taiwan? The answer is no. And this answer is not just from me. Many civil groups have actively talking to people on the facts and risks of having 4 nuclear power plants on this island.
Some key facts: In a recent poll conducted by Taiwan Trend Research:
72.1% of the participants are against nukes in Taiwan
68.6% of the participants are NOT aware of the high threshold of the referendum. Only 12.1% of the participants know the correct threshold of the referendum.
Though there is 50.9% of the participants agree a referendum is needed to resolve the controversy of Nuke 4 completion, Those who got the referendum threshold correct are mostly against the referendum.
At the moment, the KMT government is so busy to impose the referendum - a faulty and unreasonable system that is difficult to hold and impossible to pass even held.
This issue should not be decided by a referendum.
More about Anti-nukes movements in Taiwan: Anti-nukes protest 09 March 2013 Taiwan stages mass ‘No Nuke’ rally - 09Mar2013
