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NUCLEAR RESTARTED IN JAPAN, by Asami Sato
Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell
On Saturday the 16th June, the Prefecture of Fukui (in the West of Japan) officially gave its consent to the Prime Minister for two reactors at the Ohi nuclear power station to be restarted. The dates are set for the 8th July for reactor…
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DISMANTLING UNCERTAIN, ECONOMIC DISASTER GUARANTEED, by François Leclerc
Guest post. Translated from the French by Tim Gupwell.
It’s already well established that Tepco, the operator of Fukushima, is in control of very little in the devastated nuclear plant. Not the ongoing, endemic contamination of the atmosphere and of the sea, not the status of nuclear fuel reduced to a state of three coriums…