Germany decides to abandon nuclear power by 2022

Europe's economic powerhouse, Germany, is to abandon nuclear energy over the next eleven years - drawing up an ambitious plan in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster to replace atomic power with renewable energy sources.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she hopes the transformation to more solar, wind and hydroelectric power becomes a test case for other countries. (AP) via ynetnews.com

might that have something to do with a man made disaster AKA terrorist attack?

Fukushima Sabotaged by Stuxnet Virus?

Now we know who caused the Nuclear Meltdown in Japan  ...the Joooooooooooos!.. ......I could of predicted this...

that's_offensive!

become a fake Truther and make these libels before everyone else. Then I could be bigger then Charlie Sheen! oh... and btw this Starbuck's Latte Bitch is wrong. All six nuclear generators were made by G.E. not Siemens. 

here is the truth:Hours after a 8.9 magnitude earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami struck Japan, Jewish and Israeli humanitarian groups pledged help - jpost.com

Stuxnet:_It's_the_real_thing!!!!! to those who are annoyed that I am giving exposure to a complete lunatic.... don't blame me... This was already going viral.  just sit back and laugh at this bimbo.

Japan's Bonds Fall on Cost of Quake Recovery; Futures Rise as Stocks Slide

Argentina & Saudi Arabia Seek Nuclear Partnership

The Saudi government has tasked the head of the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy with drawing up a cooperation agreement with Argentina regarding the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Source: 'Okaz, Saudi Arabia, March 29, 2011

via challahhuakbar.blogspot.com

not sure this is a good thing. Argentina is very close to going to war over the Falklands again

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Rebuilding JAPAN is CHEAP compared to U.S. debt

FUKUSHIMA, Japan – The toll of Japan's triple disaster came into clearer focus Monday after police estimates showed more than 18,000 people died, the World Bank said rebuilding may cost $235 billion and more cases of radiation-tainted vegetables and tap water turned up.

via news.yahoo.com

images of Godzilla as seen in One Crazy Summer via angelfire.com

U.S. NATIONAL
DEBT
CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 21 Mar 2011 at 03:30:18 PM GMT is:



The estimated population of the United States is 310,241,378

so each citizen's share of this debt is
$45,896.83.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of

$4.12 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!

Japan's Bonds Fall on Cost of Quake Recovery; Futures Rise as Stocks Slide

Bond futures jumped for a second day after Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the danger of further radiation leaks from a damaged nuclear power station is rising. The cost to protect against Japan’s nonpayment soared to a record and stocks tumbled as the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant was rocked by two further explosions today. The Ministry of Finance will sell 1.1 trillion yen ($13.5 billion) of 20-year bonds tomorrow.

“It remains unclear whether the stance of investors can remain the same in this difficult situation with few clues to the scale of damage” caused by the earthquake, said Keiko Onogi, a fixed-income strategist at Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. in Tokyo. “I’ve been looking for a positive catalyst for the auction but can find little at this moment.”  via bloomberg.com
It seems that Godzilla is getting the remake treatment yet again. Just 10 years after the latest reboot.  release in 2012. via sequelbuzz.blogspot.com
this is the real Godzilla.  As Beck noted on FOX NEWS. not a NUCLEAR meltdown, but a financial one. Japan will sell American bonds to recover. So who will buy our debt?

Looting in Japan... not what you think! You would too... DON'T LIE!

MMMM.... Beer...When a tsunami blasted through Kirin Brewery's seaside facilities here, it tipped over giant beer-storage tanks and spread a blanket of beer bottles, barrels and other goods across the port. The beverages that spilled out were then hit a second time: by a surge of thirsty residents.  Witnesses say hundreds of people carted off beer, coffee, juice and other goods that had escaped Kirin's massive warehouse when the tsunami waters receded. "All kinds of people came and were taking things away, they kept coming until everything was gone," on Saturday, said Makoto Igarashi, who manages a gas station

SENDAI, Japan via online.wsj.com

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New York nuke plant seismic review gets top priority | don't get worked up... it is Reuters reporting

U.S. regulators have promised to make the Indian Point nuclear power plant near New York City their top priority in a review of seismic risk at U.S. nuclear plants, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.  By Dan Wiessner via reuters.com

The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, is seen from across the Hudson River, April 6, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Mike Segar

Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium

Thorium could be a much safer option for China which has been unsettled by the nuclear crisis in Japan where fears over radiation levels are rising

via telegraph.co.uk

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Israel to dispatch medical delegation to Japan

The Israeli medical delegation
will establish a medical clinic
geared to handle the casualties and refugees
concentrated in the Miyagi prefecture,
six hours north of Tokyo

The field hospital Israel is establishing in Japan is the first to be set up by any nation offering outside assistance, Israel’s Ambassador to Japan Nissim Ben Shitrit said Monday, and the Japanese are extremely appreciative. via mfa.gov.il

Ben Shitrit said the hospital was being established at Minamisanriko, a fishing city 290 miles north of Tokyo, that was utterly overwhelmed by the quake and tsunami and where some 10,000 people are dead or missing. A five-strong Israeli team “is setting up the surgery right now,” the ambassador said. “They are evaluating the needs today, so that a larger team can be dispatched.”

via jpost.com

Bibi is against Israeli Nuclear Civilian Energy

[The situation in Japan] certainly caused me to reconsider the projects of building civil nuclear power plants,” said Netanyahu. “I have to tell you I was a lot more enthusiastic about it than I am now. In fact, you'd have to give me a very good argument to do it. And fortunately we found natural gas… So, I think we'll go for the gas. I think we'll skip the nuclear.

When asked about whether he was sad to see former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leave office, Netanyahu said that “Egypt under Sadat, and then under Mubarak, kept the peace and I think that is something extraordinary valuable. And I think the first order of the day is to make sure that any future government in Egypt maintains the peace. The fact that we had these 30 years with Egypt, 20 years with Jordan, of a real peace, is something that I can appreciate.”  via israelnationalnews.com
what a horrible thing for Israel to have to reject such wealth as nuclear energy, but the Israelis will do wonders with the gas they found

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Nuclear Boy

The president parties while the world burns

If the world is in crisis, you wouldn’t know it by watching President Obama’s spring break. Between golf, basketball and the president’s upcoming trip to Rio de Janeiro, the White House is projecting a disinterested aura of business as usual. For this administration, “tuned-out” is the new normal.

You offend!

The Mideast crisis is continuing, and Hillary Rodham Clinton has been the one taking the 3 a.m. phone calls. The secretary of state has been dealing with political reform in Egypt, a military crackdown in Bahrain and the continuing civil war in Libya. However, she is hampered by a chief executive who can’t make up his mind which course of action would best secure his place in history. It’s no wonder she took the opportunity to tell CNN she had no interest in continuing in the job in a theoretical Obama second term.

For the president’s part, he did manage to squeeze in a phone call to the kings of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to express his “deep concern over the violence in Bahrain” and stress “the importance of a political process as the only way to peacefully address the legitimate grievances of Bahrainis.” After this exercise in talking-point leadership, Bahrain’s crackdown continued apace. Mr. Obama’s views simply don’t matter to a world that views him as weak.

The news from Japan grows direr as the nuclear crisis intensifies. The Obama administration has shown considerably less interest in responding to this disaster - actually three disasters: earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear meltdown - than it did to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. This is strange given the possibility for a monumental nuclear catastrophe and destabilizing the world’s third-largest economy, which also happens to be one of America’s best friends. A radioactive plume is set to hit the U.S. West Coast on Friday, and on Thursday President Obama said - twice - that “we do not expect harmful levels of radition to reach the U.S.”Either way, it certainly won’t pose a threat to the president, who by this weekend will be safe with his family on Brazil’s beaches.

Congress continued to debate a stopgap federal budget during the week, and on Tuesday the national debt scored a one-day $72 billion jump. Given the critical importance of the debate, it would be reasonable to expect Mr. Obama to be working hard to find a way out of the fiscal mess he largely created. The president, predictably, was nowhere to be found. Sen. Joe Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, scored the president for his “failure to lead” on the budget issue, and Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, said the president was “absent from this debate.” Vice President Joe Biden, who was supposed to be representing the White House in the congressional budget wrangle, instead took a trip to Russia.

None of this is meant to suggest Mr. Obama hasn’t been productive. He laughed it up at the Gridiron Club dinner, took a stand against schoolyard bullying and spoke on the radio about Women’s History Month. Over the weekend, he played his 61st round of golf as president and finalized his March Madness bracket picks, predictably avoiding controversy by choosing the four top seeds for the Final Four. On Monday, he attended a gathering of potential big-money donors at the St. Regis hotel that Democratic Party officials insisted was not a fundraiser. Sure, it was not a fundraiser; and the White House isn’t coming across as disconnected, weak, passive and paralyzed either.

(WaTi) via eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com

Radiation Fears Threaten Relief Effort

Reuters

Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a resident through Kesennuma City on March 15.

TOKYO—An evolving nuclear crisis in quake-hit Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, could add misery to hundreds of thousands of quake victims by possibly forcing relief organizations to withdraw their operations.
"The Japanese Red Cross Society is committed to rescue any victims, including those of nuclear radiation," JRCS spokesman Mutsuhiko Owaki said. "But we cannot send rescue workers to places where there is a clear risk of radiation exposure," he added, indicating that the group will have to limit its operations to areas where such risks are low.

via online.wsj.com

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Japan asks U.S. for help cooling nuclear reactors

By Ayesha Rascoe and Phil Stewart

The No.3 nuclear reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is seen burning after a blast following an earthquake and tsunami in this handout satellite image taken March 14, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Digital Globe/Handout

WASHINGTON

(Reuters) - The United States is ramping up assistance to help Japan avert a major nuclear meltdown, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Washington wrestled with the risks of radiation exposure to aid workers.
The Japanese government has asked for more equipment to cool down three reactors damaged by last week's massive earthquake and tsunami, which triggered the worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.

The Fukushima complex, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, is trying to avoid a major radiation leak. Explosions at two reactors on Saturday and Monday sent a huge plume of smoke billowing above the plant.

"We continue to provide assistance where we can," Gregory Jaczko, head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said at a White House press briefing.

"In particular, they have asked for additional types of equipment that will help provide water and other resources to ensure that the reactors continue to be cool."

The commission has already sent two experts to Japan, and Jaczko said it plans to send out another team of experts soon.

RADIATION EXPOSURE

The nuclear crisis has posed some risk for workers attempting to battle the crisis. The Pentagon was trying to take precautions while moving ahead with relief efforts.

It was forced to reposition eight U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, after they got caught 115 miles downwind of the Fukushima nuclear complex.

Seventeen Americans on helicopter missions were exposed to the equivalent of a month's worth of normal radiation, even though they were 60 miles away from the nuclear plant.

"The immediate action was to get out of the area," said Commander Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the Seventh Fleet.

Asked about what steps the military was taking to avoid any more exposure, Davis said: "We're keeping a very close eye on which way the wind is moving."

He said the radiation risk would not stop rescue efforts.

"It's something we have to take into account -- it complicates things. But it's absolutely something we can mitigate," Davis said.

The ships in the area were the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group, which includes the cruiser USS Chancellorsville, the destroyer USS Preble and the combat support ship USNS Bridge.

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Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant.

Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. http://xrl.us/Suicide