How Finland is betting on nuclear power, and its waste

The world's first nuclear waste repository is being built off Finland's west coast on the island of Olkiluoto. Highly radioactive waste will soon be buried deep underground there.

Nuclear phase-out: A bad idea in times of climate protection and energy scarcity?

 

At the end of March, Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke of the Green Party used just a few words to put an end to the dispute that has kept the country in suspense for years: "The risks of nuclear power are ultimately uncontrollable; that's why the nuclear phase-out makes our country safer, and avoids more nuclear waste."

Is nuclear energy making a comeback?

Europeans are facing substantial increases in energy bills driven by Russia curbing gas supplies to the continent.

Natural gas prices continue to rise in Europe and are now about 10 times more expensive than a year ago.

Can a nuclear disaster at Zaporizhzhia be averted?

Shelling has intensified around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine in recent days, raising fears of a disaster at Europe’s largest nuclear facility.

Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the attacks.

Russia controls the facility but Ukraine is operating it.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator: Can the JCPOA be revived?

 

Iran and world powers resumed talks aiming to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal.

Following the Iranian elections in June, a new negotiating team is representing the Islamic republic in the Vienna talks. So what are their top demands? And are they realistic?

What is the legacy of Japan’s Fukushima disaster?

 

Japanese media report the government is planning to release contaminated water into the Pacific.

It has been nearly 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Japan is still struggling to manage its consequences.

One of the most serious challenges involves some 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water that is still being stored near the site.

Returning to Fukushima | Explorer

The Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant in Fukushima suffered a meltdown in 2011. Now, Japan has a plan for residents to return to the area.

The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power

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When Moron's Are Put In Charge

If your appointed as a government minister there's an assumption that you might have some working knowledge  of what your ministry does.  Motoo Hayashi whose ministry deals with regulating nuclear power plants in Japan admitted he didn't know a damn thing about the issue.

Then there is Shigeru Ishiba Minister of Local Economic Revitalization who managed to introduce legislation that had been passed a year earlier.

Why are these two clowns in charge of anything.  How hard is it to figure out your about to read the wrong bill to the Diet or have some limited understanding of what your ministry actually does?

      

It was an embarrassing day at the Diet on March 15 for a pair of government ministers, with minister for local economic revitalization Shigeru Ishiba reading out a year-old (and already passed) revisions bill, and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Motoo Hayashi admitting a knowledge shortfall on nuclear power during Diet meetings.
Ishiba made his slipup at a House of Representatives special committee meeting, where he was supposed to read out a regional revitalization law revision bill, but instead read out revisions that had been passed last year. The content of the two documents is furthermore very different, with the present revisions bill concerned mainly with the creation of new subsidy types for local bodies' revitalization efforts.