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Reactor Reax Top Stories - No Credible Path for Nuclear Power

Catch the latest news about nuclear energy and its accompanying hazards.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In this week's roundup of nuclear-related stories, an Op-Ed writer opines that we have seen the future of industrial policy and it doesn't work, and an editorial writer suggests that the latest round of nuclear power plants probably won't mean the beginning of a 'nuclear renaissance'.

These stories and many more are in this week's Reactor Reax.

Reactor Reax- Weekly Roundup of Nuclear-Related Articles

New reactors means no lessons learned...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - After decades of no activity, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted to award a license to a group to build two reactors in Georgia.

Fallout from Fukushima No. 1 on rise

Radioactive materials released from reactor 1 decreased to one-fifth the level in December, but the amount of materials from the other two each increased by 10 million becquerels per hour

(KYODO) - The amount of radioactive materials released from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has risen this month compared with December, Tepco said.

Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide

Tepco Admits that Radiation Levels from Fukushima.

(KYODO, Japan) - The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago.

Israel orders deportation of Japanese Student, fearing he`ll `settle down` after studies

Israel’s Immigration Authority decided not to extend Koji Yamashiro’s visa, needed to complete his doctorate at the Hebrew University.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Koji Yamashiro finished his B.A. and M.A. in the Dept. of Jewish Thought in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, and won a presidential scholarship for his doctoral studies.

But Israel's Immigration Authority is concerned that Yamashiro fwill not want to leave the country once he is completes his studies.

Activists have their Say in Court for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

A retired Navy nuclear submarine commander testified that national security strategy based on the threat of nuclear annihilation is dangerous...

(SEATTLE) - Peace activists made their case for the abolition of nuclear weapons, specifically the Trident nuclear weapons system, while on trial in a Kitsap County courtroom on January 4th and 5th for blocking the entrance to a local nuclear weapons base.

The ten defendants in two separate trials were charged with being “pedestrians on Roadway Unlawfully,” a traffic infraction.

Reactor Reax: Nuclear Industry Report

Examining the risks and ongoing situations that today define nuclear power and energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This week in Reactor Reax we hear more about the ongoing problems in Japan based on the recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture.

An LA Times report details the short-circuiting of the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction.

Recently the Constitution took a severe beating in Congress as part of the `war on terror`

I can’t imagine John Chafee or Lincoln Chafee casting votes like these. Sadly, in 2006 Rhode Islanders replaced Senator Lincoln Chafee with Sheldon Whitehouse.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - The Senate approved the indefinite military incarceration of suspected American citizens. No evidence, charges, trial or other aspects of due process would be required.

You might be suspected of being an “insurgent” depending on your ancestry or your physical appearance. (Recall the shameful incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II.)

Confronting Fukushima`s Nuclear Contamination `Dead Zone` in Media Images

The images from those who have ventured into the contaminated areas offer a shocking look at what has become of this once-vibrant city

(LOS ANGELES) - Just imagine the Road from Dover, Delaware to Philadelphia, or on to New York - being in a "dead" zone. That is the story in Fukushima prefecture in Japan.

The Only Way To Oppose and End Nuclear Power, Is By Unifying Our Global Community

Beyond the UN Special meeting on Fukushima - All out effort now to help our Japanese activist friends thwart this latest high stakes play to usurp their abilities to end nuclear power in their country.

(ARCATA, Calif.) - What has just occurred at the UN always happens when ingrained power faces 'showdowns' over any loss of their domain.

Fukushima has exposed the worst of nuclear radiations to mankind, including overwhelming evidences of gross malpractices by the industry, government and its regulatory agencies, enough to bring repudiation by a huge majority of our worlds citizenry.