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Japan nuclear plant rubble - Fukushima Daiichi plant's No 3 reactor building

Hiding the meltdowns in Fukushima

I read recently that the Japanese nuclear crisis at Fukushima continues. Amazingly, if you read newspapers in Australia on a daily basis (as I do) you probably wouldn’t know it. Thankfully, The Guardian has a report on the latest on crisis – and the scary news that authorities may have tried to hide the fact [...]

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Japanese nuclear emergency now catastrophic

Japanese nuclear emergency now catastrophic

I’ve written about why nuclear energy is not appropriate for Australia. Nuclear energy is unsafe. It turns already dangerous, stressful disasters into atomic catastrophes. We are now learning just how catastrophic. Food exports could be halted from areas near the Fukishima nuclear plant if tests find further contamination. The tainted milk was found 30km from [...]

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The nuclear energy spectre

A topic of conversation that has recently come up in my social circle is nuclear energy, a debate largely inspired by the attempts by ghost of the Howard Government Nuclear energy lobby (led by Ziggy Switkowski). A fear expressed to me was that the climate change committee that Labor and the Greens Party will set [...]

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Most subsidies still go to dirty, polluting fossil fuels

Most subsidies still go to dirty, polluting fossil fuels

Another report from the New York Times tells how in the US, most government subsidies for energy research goes to polluting fossil fuels and unsafe nuclear energy: Despite a lot of promises, no one so far has wanted to pay the extra costs to make wind and solar more than a trivial energy source. Research [...]

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Alternative energy funded funneled to dangerous nuclear

Alternative energy funded funneled to dangerous nuclear

The New York Times reports that money is being funneled to dangerous nuclear energy over safe, clean and unlimited solar and wind energy projects: Scientists are hoping to expand the range of sunlight’s wavelengths that can be absorbed, and to cut the amount of energy the cells lose to heat. One goal is to make [...]

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