fukushima
Posted by petespeller — 5 March 2012 at 6:57pm
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This Sunday is the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. This natural disaster left 20,000 people dead and missing and thousands more homeless. The tsunami also flooded the back-up generators that were powering the cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, causing several of the reactors to go into meltdown.
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In response to the publishing today of Mike Weightman's final report into the lessons from the Fukushima tragedy, Louise Hutchins, Greenpeace Senior Energy Campaigner said:
“This looks like a rushed report, before the full implications are known about the Fukushima disaster. It's designed with one objective - to give the green light to a new generation of nuclear power stations, irrespective of the safety, environmental or rising financial costs of those nuclear stations. This is government complacency.
So while our European counterparts like Germany turn their backs on nuclear and are instead driving their economies towards a green sustainable future powered by renewable energy, creating much needed new jobs in the process, our government ploughs on blindly in the face of the economic facts that make nuclear ever more expensive and a bad deal for Britain.”
Notes for editors:
The Government set the deadline for Dr Weightman’s final report significantly ahead of the major international comparable reviews into the implications of Fukushima.
- 31 December - ONR's final report on EU stress tests.
- April 2012 – Independent peer review of the national reports on the EU stress tests
- March 2012- UN action plan on nuclear safety
- August 2012 - The Convention on Nuclear Safety meeting to consider the lessons of Fukushima.
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Ahead of Chris Huhne’s publication on Tuesday of the Office of Nuclear Regulator’s final report into the implications of Fukushima. Louise Hutchins, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner said:
"It’s not really clear what Dr Weightman’s final report is for. The government already jumped the gun and gave the green light to new reactors in Britain without bothering to wait for Dr Weightman’s final conclusions on lessons from the Fukushima disaster.
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In response to the news of the Radioactive leak at Dounreay, Louise Hutchins, Greenpeace Energy campaigner said:
"This is a chilling reminder that Britain's nuclear industry, despite all it's assurances, is not able to keep its plants secure. Even as they are decommissioned and even after billions in tax payers' money has been thrown at them.
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Greenpeace
UK has today served legal
papers on the government for unlawfully failing to take into account the
implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in
their future planning for the building of new nuclear power stations at sites in
Britain.
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