Let ’em come: Defiant Iran challenges Israel. ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News | 11/2/2011 12:00:00 AM | İpek Yezdani - ipek.yezdani@hurriyet.com.tr Iran is fully prepared for war, the Iranian FM tells the Daily News in a defiant response to a new missile test and a strike debate in Israel.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi responded fiercely to Israel’s testing of an advanced ballistic missile yesterday, saying the country was “always ready for war.” Israeli defense officials said the military successfully test-fired an advanced missile from a base outside of Tel Aviv yesterday. Foreign news reports said the test involved firing a long-range Jericho missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran. “Iran has always been threatened by Israel. “We are very confident of ourselves. [HH] ‘Iran, Turkey and Syria belong to same family’ “Iran, Syria and Turkey are members of the same family.
How Germany Phased Out Nuclear Power, Only To Get Mugged By Reality. Berlin, Germany—For years, environmentalists in America have looked longingly to Germany.
There, across the Atlantic, lay a small, cold, gray country whose solar energy production dwarfed big, sunny America’s, a nation that last year pledged to get 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by mid-century while Americans proved unable to agree on energy legislation even a fraction as ambitious. Yet in bowing to the country’s strong anti-nuclear movement, Germany appears to have suddenly gone off track: Within the last year the country has gone from a net exporter of electricity* to a net importer, and the carbon intensity of the energy it purchases has risen as well.
Now, with its energy politics in turmoil, Germany is serving as a very different sort of model for environmentalists: how not to go green. Nuclear, Oil, Gas, Renewables - All on Table. Ever have one of those moments when you turn on the car and the radio is playing your favorite song?
I had one the other day, only it wasn't a song that was playing. It was noontime talk radio, and an energy investment expert was being interviewed and taking listener questions. This guy's view of the energy industry was nearly identical to mine. Mobile. Hank Silverberg, wtop.com WASHINGTON - The disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant last March and the earthquake near Virginia's North Anna nuclear plant last month have sparked new debate over the safety of nuclear power.
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has been running radio commercials on WTOP and other stations across the country which spokesman Scott Peterson says are designed to ease fear created by the recent quakes. "What we want to do is to really communicate very upfront with people when it comes to safety of U.S. plants," he says. There are 104 operating nuclear power plants across the country. "We are looking at what we can do to protect them even more against extreme events whether they are earthquakes, floods, hurricanes or tornadoes," Peterson says. Learning from a near-death experience?
Tokyo (photo: Sprengben) Here is the most startling couple of paragraphs that I have seen in the news this week: Former Prime Minister [of Japan] Naoto Kan said in an interview with Kyodo News that he learned shortly after the nuclear crisis erupted at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that around 30 million people in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures may have to be evacuated in a worst-case scenario.Kan told Kyodo that he contemplated the chaos that would have ensued if such a measure had been taken. ”It was a crucial moment when I wasn’t sure whether Japan could continue to function as a state.”
The man who was Prime Minister of Japan just a few weeks ago, and (crucially) during the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima accident, is telling us that the Fukushima accident was an event of the order of the Cuban missile crisis for the nation of Japan. ALERT Japan nuke expert Fukushima / Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground.
Shunning Nuclear Plants at Home, Japan Pursues Building Them Overseas. Radioactive waste piling up in Japan. Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant! Should the US government be building more nuclear weapons?
Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don’t appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against the construction of a new nuclear weapons plant in their community. The massive plant, 1.5 million square feet in size, is designed to replace an earlier version, also located in the city and run by the same contractor: Honeywell. The cost of building the new plant—which, like its predecessor, will provide 85 percent of the components of America’s nuclear weapons—is estimated to run $673 million. From the standpoint of the developer, Centerpoint Zimmer (CPZ), that’s a very sweet deal.
In payment for the plant site, a soybean field it owned, CPZ received $5 million. Kansas City residents, however, had greater misgivings. Taking the lead, the city’s peace and disarmament community began protests and demonstrations against the proposed nuclear weapons plant several years ago.