8/4/2011 Fracking Radiation Targeted By DOE, GE

Source: Forbes
Date: Aug. 3 2011 - 10:05 am
by: Jeff McMahon

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The Department of Energy and General Electric will spend $2 million over the next two years to remove naturally occurring radioactive materials from the fracking fluids produced by America’s booming shale-gas industry. The New York State Department of Health has identified Radium-226 as a radionuclide of particular concern in the Marcellus Shale formation deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains. ... Read full article here

8/4/2011 Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima: What Are the Implications?

Source: Fairewinds Associates
Date: 8/4/2011
by: Arnie Gundersen


TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite.

8/4/2011 Japan to fire top nuclear officials in wake of disaster

Source: Associated Press via The Raw Story
Date: Thursday, August 4th, 2011
by: Agence France-Presse

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years erupted at Fukushima.
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8/2/2011 Bernie Sanders: Nuclear Safety Now

Source: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders via NuclearFreePlanet.org
Date: 8/2/2011

Uploaded by Bernie Sanders on Aug 2, 2011

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today pressed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to aggressively implement task force recommendations on reactor safety in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis.

Editor's Note: Here is a map of the controversial Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant run by Entergy which the Vermont Senate voted to block from being re-licensed for operation in February 2010 due to tritium leaks, lies by plant officials and other safety issues.

View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map

Entergy has filed a Federal lawsuit against Vermont's veto law which allows the state to block the re-licensing of Vermont Yankee, so that the utility can continue operation of the nuclear power plant. The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), a federal agency, has already approved a 20 year license renewal for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant as of March, 2011. Recently there has been bad news about fish near the nuclear power plant being contaminated by strontium-90.  Vermont Yankee's current license to operate expires March of next year.