Tepco May Seek More Government Funds for Fukushima Clean-Up Cost

Tokyo Electric Power Co. may ask the government for more funds to cover decontamination and reactor decommissioning costs from last year’s nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant. The utility known as Tepco estimates it may cost about 10 trillion yen ($125 billion) to decontaminate areas around the plant, the Mainichi newspaper reported, citing […]

7,700 Gallons of Oil Spilled from Phillips 66 Refinery in NJ

Some 7,700 gallons of fuel spilled from Phillips 66’s 238,000 barrels-per-day Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, after Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. East Coast a week ago, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday. The refinery, a major gasoline producer in the region, was shut ahead of Sandy and remained idle even though electrical […]

Joe Rogan: Hurricane Sandy, Peak Oil, Glimpses of Apocalypse

Audio taken from episode #279 – Duncan Trussell, Brian Redban Joe and Duncan talk about Hurricane Sandy, sudden climate changes, peak oil, and the glimpse of apocalypse we see when natural disasters hit civilization.

Another Reason to Welcome Out the Age of Oil…

A new study by UCLA scientists has shown that even brief exposure to ultra-fine particles found near freeways is enough to boost the tissue inflammation that exacerbates asthma. Air pollution particles one-thousandth the width of a human hair incited inflammation deep in the lungs. peak oil blues

Radioactive Fish Near Fukushima Suggest Ongoing Contamination

The fish off Fukushima remain radioactive more than a year after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami triggered three meltdowns at the Daiichi nuclear power plant. In fact, bottom-dwelling greenling fish caught in August 2012 bore the highest levels of radioactive particles seen to date—25,000 Becquerels per kilogram. (A becquerel is a unit of the rate […]

How many people have ever been born?

How many people have ever been born? @newscientist

World population explosion

The world’s population reached the seven billion mark in 2011 and is likely to rise by another two billion by the middle of this century. The rapid increase is attributed to people living longer, with healthier children being born and more of them surviving into adulthood. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the […]

U.S. nuclear plant declares “alert” after Sandy storm surge

Exelon Corp declared an “alert” at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said, warning that a further water rise could force the country’s oldest working plant to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods. The alert — the second lowest […]

Sandy cuts East Coast fuel supply; refiners, pipelines shut

The supply of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel into the U.S. East Coast ground almost to a halt on Monday as Hurricane Sandy forced the closure of two-thirds of the region’s refineries, its biggest pipeline, and most major ports. Benchmark New York Harbor gasoline futures jumped as much as 11 cents a gallon As traders […]

Hurricane Sandy May Score a Direct Hit On Spent Fuel Pools at Nuclear Plant

New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut Nuclear Plants In Path of Storm Preface:  We hope and expect that the severity of the hurricane is being overblown, and that the nuclear plants in the Northeast will ride out the storm without any incident.   We noted Friday that more than a dozen nuclear plants are near Hurricane Sandy’s […]

Kunstler: Apocalyptoween

      With little to do while waiting for something possibly very bad to happen people tend to get jokey. That was how I felt about the election until Hurricane Sandy came along. For one thing, I happened to travel (by car – how else?) last week from Bennington through Brattleboro, Vermont, and down […]

Fish Near Fukushima Still Contaminated

Elevated levels of cesium found in fish off Japan’s east coast 18 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster suggest a “continuing source” of radiation in the ocean, a new study has revealed. Marine chemist Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reviewed official Japanese data on radiation levels in fish, shellfish and seaweed collected […]

More than a Dozen Nuclear Plants Near Hurricane Sandy’s Path Brace for Impact

Bloomberg reports: “Because of the size of [Hurricane Sandy], we could see an impact to coastal and inland plants,” Neil Sheehan, a spokesman based in Philadelphia for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said by phone today. “We will station inspectors at the sites if we know they could be directly impacted.” The NRC met earlier […]

Family planning, lower birth rate

  Thomas Edward Malthus, an English scholar influential in political economy and demographics, lived from 1766 to 1834. In six editions of “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” his major theory was that population sooner or later would be decreased by famine, disease, and wars — “population does invariably increase when the means of […]

Japan Struggling to Store Nuclear Water

Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tonnes of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water treatment team has said. About 200,000 tonnes of radioactive water, enough to fill more than 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools, are being stored in […]

The Peak Oil Crisis:The End Game

It is becoming clearer all the time that mankind is approaching a major turning point in its tenure on this planet. Recent reports on the speed with which our climate is deteriorating suggest that much of our earth will become uninhabitable sometime within the next 100 to 200 years. Small pockets of humanoid DNA may […]

Hoax? Researcher Claims “Explosions” Witnessed at Fukushima Reactor

Conspiracy websites are buzzing with claims that spent fuel pools at the Fukushima nuclear reactor have exploded, with radiation levels off the charts, although the story appears almost certainly to be a hoax. A post currently circulating on numerous websites quotes a “researcher” named Michael Eckstein who purportedly lives 50 miles from Fukushima in Japan. “Explosions and […]

Full Planet, Empty Plates

More than 150 data sets accompany Lester R. Brown’s latest book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. These tables and graphs help to explain the precarious situation in which humanity finds itself, as the world leaves an era of food surpluses and enters one of food scarcity. Here are some highlights […]

Fracking & Groundwater Contamination: Are EPA Tests ‘Shoddy Science’?

  When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the latest follow-up tests of water surrounding natural-gas-drilling sites near Pavillion, Wyo., October 10, they appeared to confirm how water can be contaminated by hydraulic fracturing. The operator of the gas field in question, Encana Corp., last week re-asserted it is not responsible for any chemicals found […]

Japan confirms explosion, leakage at nuke plant

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano confirmed on Saturday there has been an explosion and radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (TEPCO) (9501.T) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.       “We are looking into the cause and the situation and we’ll make that public when we have further information,” Edano said. “At present, […]

Nuclear Update: Fukushima Unit 4 Is Sinking (Unevenly) … Fracking Now Allowed within 500 FEET of Nuclear Plants

Fukushima Update: Unit 4 Is Sinking … Unevenly … And May Begin Tilting The spent fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4 is the top short-term threat to humanity, and is a national security issue for America. As such, it is disturbing news that the ground beneath unit 4 is sinking. Specifically, Unit 4 sunk 36 […]

Water: Source Of International Conflict And Weapon Of War

Over the next 10 years the world population will be nearly 8 billion from less than 7 billion now and by 2050 it will be more than 9 billion. The size of the global economy will grow four times larger than it is today. The share of low and middle income country in the world […]

Global Water Crisis, US Eyes Canada’s Great Lakes

The number of people living in areas affected by severe water stress is expected to increase to almost four billion people…   OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 The Stockholm International Water Institute has kindly provided some statistics we should all be aware of: The 10 largest water users (in volume) are India, China, the United […]

Radiation level is picking up in Tokyo

According to the report of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, radiation level is picking up in Tokyo. The precipitation is 0.5mm/10min, wind is coming from north at 3.0m/s. fukushima-diary

Is the world heading towards Doomsday?

There is no secret in the fact that the population of our world is growing. From 3 billion in 1960, it now stands at just over 7 billion and by the middle of the century, if you accept the worst-case scenario, it could be nearly 11 billion. Putting aside for a minute the problem of […]

Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse

Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a prominent Japanese official. During a recent interview, Mitsuhei Murata, the former Japanese Ambassador to both Switzerland and Senegal, explained that the ground beneath the plant’s […]

Fracking’s Dark Side Gets Darker: The Problem of Methane Waste

Fracking for oil in North Dakota is so lucrative that when natural gas bubbles up alongside the oil, most oil companies simply view it as waste. It’s cheaper, in the short term, to burn the gas than it is to build the infrastructure to pipe and sell it–so they burn it. Across the North Dakota […]

Is the core still inside of Fukushima Reactor?

On 10/12/2012, Tepco measured radiation level in retained water of PCV1. The cesium level was lower than water retained outside of PCV, Suppression chamber, inside of the reactor building though core is supposed to be inside of PCV.     Related article..11.1Sv/h in penetration tip of reactor1, “The higher it goes in PCV, the higher the […]

Task Force to Kick Start Population Goals

Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women’s rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe that we are still having this discussion today.” They were there to mark the launch of a new 26-member high-level task force to galvanise support behind the goals of […]

State of the Earth: Still Seeking Plan A for Sustainability

The state of the planet is grim, whether that assessment is undertaken from the perspective of economic development, social justice or the global environment. What’s known as sustainable development—a bid to capture all three of those efforts in one effort and phrase—has hardly advanced since it was first used in the 1980s and the world […]

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