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@Edano Scotland has declared itself anti nuke and Wales I believe but England is maybe not 'gelled' enough to make a sustained stance against it

but the french as well.... :(... too long ago.

@lillymunster true, there must be a historical reason, probably connected to the two world wars...

if aliens watch us they will be astonished of how stupidly we burn and poison our beautiful unique planet, while the sun provides us with everything we need....

This is what I have for the article so far.

German power giant Siemens has announced a complete withdrawal from nuclear power activities. The worldwide corporation cited the social and political change going on in Germany right now as a major factor in their change of business strategy. Siemens also cited the Fukushima disaster as a motivating factor in their business decision. Since the Fukushima disaster Germany decided to abolish all nuclear power plants over the next decade and put all efforts into alternative energy. Siemens ended a contract with Russia's Rosatom to build nuclear power plants and earlier ended a nuclear contract with Areva that cost them a considerable sum in penalties.

"The (nuclear) chapter is closed for us," Peter Loescher told weekly Der Spiegel in an interview published on Sunday, calling the decision an "answer" to Germany's clear political and social stance over atomic energy.


“German industrial giant Siemens is turning the page on nuclear energy, the group's CEO Peter Loescher told the Der Spiegel weekly in an interview published on Sunday.
"We will no longer be involved in overall managing of building or financing nuclear plants. This chapter is closed for us," he said, explaining that Siemens would restrict its activity to double-use technology.

"We will from now on supply only conventional equipment such as steam turbines. This means we are restricting ourselves to technologies that are not only for nuclear purposes but can also be used in gas or coal plants."...


Siemens will now be focusing heavily on their renewable energy efforts. The German effort to have 35% renewable energy production by 2030 is certainly a motivating factor. Expect more projects like their north African solar generation project.

Still, the drastic change in a huge worldwide corporation is stunning. Siemens obviously sees the future and conditions for nuclear power to be a losing proposition. Giant corporations don't make such massive changes if they don't benefit the profits and future of the company.

@Edano LOL! because he had a bomb program?

@elainekirk Thanks. Did I get everything in there?

@lillymunster it reads greats

Thanks. I will set it to post to the site Monday morning. Will try to get one on the changes in Germany for tuesday

Areva is hitting hard times. They discontinued some uranium mining and I think they let some staff go.. There was a news story about major changes to deal with the slowdown in nuclear power. With the French govt. so heavily involved in Areva I wonder what it will do to govt finances.

the french don't have enough coal in their country:

"As a direct result of the 1973 oil crisis, on March 6, 1974 Prime Minister Pierre Messmer unexpectedly announced what became known as the 'Messmer Plan', a huge nuclear power program aimed at generating all of France's electricity from nuclear power. At the time of the oil crisis most of France's electricity came from foreign oil, and while it was strong in heavy engineering capabilities, France had few indigenous energy resources.

The announcement of the Messmer Plan, which was imposed without public or parliamentary debate, also led to the foundation of the Groupement des scientifiques pour l'information sur l'énergie nucléaire (Association of Scientists for Information on Nuclear Energy), formed after around 4,000 scientists signed a petition of concern over the government's action, known as the Appeal of the 400 after the 400 scientists who initially signed it.

The plan envisaged the construction of around 80 nuclear plants by 1985 and a total of 170 plants by 2000. Work on the first three plants, at Tricastin, Gravelines, and Dampierre started the same year and France installed 56 reactors over the next 15 years" en.wikipedia.org

@Edano, can you check the urinalysis section on Busby's website and let me know the medical relevance of the testing he is doing? Some of it sounded like junk as in urine wouldn't be the way to detect but you would know better than I.

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@lillymunster i will try.

this is the best analysis of areva I could find www.economist.com

@lillymunster yup methinks that liquifaction may be more wdespread than the industry imagined ;)

this is interesting they are bridges many built with latest technology and the damage they suffered in the quake/tsunami yet tepco would have us believe that the npp escaped unscathed docs.google.com

@elainekirk they survive on the illusion of Japanese technology superiority, that is all they needed. :-)

Busby's other page is asking for money for his non profit where he is currently the only person in it. translate.googleusercontent.com

@Edano what about his hair testing? I had not heard of that, can anything actually be detected? He is claiming uranium will show up in hair.

@Edano so you can see body contamination but not make any determination of amounts?

but hair is quite well for estimating the time and duration of incorporation. you can detect every joint in the last half year in the hair.

funny, he does not mention that it is a chemical lab. he suggests it is medical.