Japan:
¶ Japan needs both to maintain a diverse energy mix and to diversify fuel sources. [The Japan Times]
¶ The upcoming elections in Japan have political parties arguing over energy in general, and nuclear energy in particular. [Utility Products]
World:
¶ A Scottish company selling solar panels has reported a ten-fold growth in sales over the past year. [Herald Scotland]
¶ The UK is bringing its energy plant to parliament. It will provide for the renewable energy legally required to meet 2050 carbon targets, but does not specify the shorter-term targets. It will add to the tariff on consumers’ bills, providing a modicum of support for renewable energy. [Wall Street Journal]
… Media prognosticators talk about effects from their own points of view. The actual cost to consumers may go down because of renewable additions. [The Week UK]
… Various environmental organizations are not happy with the bill. [Financial Times]
¶ Two days after the Indian Solicitor General told the Supreme Court that nuclear waste from Kudankulam would be dumped in abandoned mines at Kolar Gold Fields, an Indian cabinet minister clarified that there are no plans to put the waste anywhere in India. [Times of India]
US:
¶ Connecting the dots from different articles, ENEnews shows recent articles on inland tsunamis on lakes should be taken as warnings that Fukushima-like disasters could hit nuclear reactors on lake banks. There are 33 such reactors on the banks of the Great Lakes. [ENEnews]
¶ Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging Congress to enact legislation to prevent the NRC from relicensing nuclear plants more than ten years before their current licenses expire. [Worcester Telegram]
¶ Bechtel, which is building a plant in Hanford, Washington to treat high-level radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production, may have committed safety and health violations, an investigation found. [Big News Network.com]
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