Epic Nuclear Vote in Japan:  Fukushima update 11/29/12
Channel: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 2012-11-30

Parties battling over nuclear policy
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121129_11.html
Japan's political parties are stepping up debate over the country's nuclear policy in the run-up to next month's Lower House election.
Shiga Prefectural Governor Yukiko Kada launched a new anti-nuclear party on Wednesday. She is joined by 49 lawmakers from the opposition People's Life First party.
Kada told reporters that her party aims to phase out nuclear power by 2022, by creating a program to improve energy efficiency and to separate power generation from power distribution.
The ruling Democratic Party has pledged efforts to achieve zero reliance on nuclear power in the 2030s, and that it would allow only reactors confirmed safe by the Nuclear Regulation Authority to restart.
The opposition Communist and Social Democratic Parties want all nuclear plants shut down.
The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party has pledged to establish the best energy mix for Japan within 10 years. It says it would be irresponsible to decide now whether to eliminate nuclear power, considering its impact on people's lives and the economy.
The LDP also says it will decide within 3 years whether to restart the country's nuclear reactors.
Among the so-called third force movement, the Japan Restoration Party, whose leader is former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, advocates zero reliance on nuclear power, and calls for cutting off power grids from existing power companies to encourage participation of new distributors.
Your Party wants full liberalization of the power industry, which it claims would result in the shutdown of all nuclear plants in the 2020s.
The deputy head of the Japan Restoration Party, Toru Hashimoto, has voiced skepticism about the nuclear phase-out policy of Kada's new party.
Hashimoto said the new party's claims are largely the same as his party's, but Japanese politicians today cannot achieve what they've said.
Nov. 29, 2012 

Japans nuclear meltdown threatens life world wide (special thank you to BeautifulGirlbyDana on Youtube for that very well done segment)  Please subscribe here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evrSxcU2Y28&list=UL
PS: note the date on the video...

TEPCO chief questioned over nuclear plant problems
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121129_37.html
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has questioned the president of Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, about its nuclear safety policy.
Naomi Hirose met the chief of the authority's secretariat, Katsuhiko Ikeda, on Thursday.
Ikeda is said to have demanded in the 30-minute closed meeting that TEPCO's management play an active role to ensure safety at its nuclear power stations.
Ikeda reportedly cited a recent series of problems and legal violations reported at the firm's nuclear plants.
Among them is damage to spent fuel assemblies found at TEPCO'S Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture.
Ikeda reportedly asked Hirose about TEPCO's in-house safety system and how management is engaged.
After the meeting, Ikeda said the key to organizational reform lies in how management aggressively tackles the challenge and ensures that rank-and-file workers share its intentions.
Hirose apologized for the firm's problems and said reforming the nuclear power sector is TEPCO's top priority.
He said the firm will take specific steps to make its top officials' ideas clear to all employees.

Global temperatures rising.  Thanks nuclear fallout.

Oyster Creek in New Jersey, Nuclear power plant pinhole leak could have been MUCH Bigger Quickly!  http://enenews.com/ap-leak-at-njs-oyster-creek-nuclear-plant-gundersen-a-larger-issue-than-the-nrc-and-exelon-is-letting-on

Nuclear Event in Iran  (NOTE: Unconfirmed)
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20121129-37344-IRN

MHI, Hitachi to launch thermal power joint venture 
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121129_42.html

NEC to bid for US storage battery business
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121129_19.html

Japanese researchers develop solar-cell textile
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121130_07.html

Also, not included here: Again: Tepco edits image of Fukushima Unit 4 — Still attempting to hide something at bottom of reactor building (PHOTO)
http://enenews.com/again-tepco-edits-image-fukushima-unit-4-trying-hide-bottom-reactor-building-photo

I had to cut this one out due to time.
S.Korean envoy in China to discuss missile issue
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121129_27.html