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Hosono: Stop storing spent nuclear fuel rods in reactor buildings January 16, 2012

Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of the nuclear disaster, will ask electric power companies to stop storing spent fuel rods inside their reactor buildings, a setup that compounded the crisis at the Fukushima plant.

“We should come up with various ways to store them,” Hosono said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun on Jan. 14.

Spent fuel rods have primarily been stored in pools installed in buildings that house reactors at many of the nation’s nuclear power plants.

But the crisis that unfolded at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant following a blackout triggered by the March 11 quake and tsunami showed the problems with this arrangement.

After a hydrogen explosion destroyed the roof of the building housing the No. 4 reactor on March 15, the storage pool containing the radioactive spent fuel was exposed to the atmosphere. The pool contained enough spent fuel to be used in two reactors.
(complete story) ajw.asahi.com

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Now there is SOPA and a internet blackout is being discussed to protest this legislation. In December 2011, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales initiated discussion with editors regarding a potential knowledge blackout, a protest inspired by a successful campaign by the Italian-language Wikipedia to block the Italian DDL intercettazioni bill, terms of which would have infringed the encyclopedia's editorial independence. Editors and others[98] mulled interrupting service for one or more days as in the Italian protest, or alternatively presenting site visitors with a blanked page directing them to further information before permitting them to complete searches.[99][100]
Computer scientist Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet and Google vice president, wrote House committee chairman Lamar Smith, saying "Requiring search engines to delete a domain name begins a worldwide arms race of unprecedented 'censorship' of the Web," in a letter published on CNet.
On November 18, 2011, the European Union Parliament adopted by a large majority a resolution that "stresses the need to protect the integrity of the global Internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names."
On December 15, 2011 a second hearing was scheduled to amend and vote on SOPA. Many opponents remain firm on their opposition to the act after Lamar Smith proposed a 71-page amendment to the bill to address previously raised concerns. NetCoalition, which works with Google, Twitter, eBay, and Facebook, appreciated that Lamar Smith is trying to address the issues with the bill, but says it nonetheless cannot support the amendment. Darell Issa, a Republican who proposed an alternative to SOPA, stated that Smith’s amendment, "retains the fundamental flaws of its predecessor by blocking Americans' ability to access websites, imposing costly regulation on Web companies and giving Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice broad new powers to police the Internet".Markham Erickson, executive director of NetCoalition, told FoxNews that “a number of companies have had discussions about [blacking out services]” last week and discussion of the option spread to other media outlets.
In December 2011, film and comics writer Steve Niles spoke out against SOPA, commenting, "SOPA does more than go after so-called 'piracy' websites...SOPA takes away all due process, shuts down any site it deems to be against the law without trial, without notification, without due process...Nobody seems to give a ****, or either they’re scared. Either way, very disappointing. I guess when it affects them they’ll get mad… I know folks are scared to speak out because a lot of us work for these companies, but we have to fight. Too much is at stake."

News: Sopa plans set to be shelved as Obama comes out against piracy legislation en.wikipedia.org I remember the Org board shock & discussion the day Bill Clinton spoke in support of this type of measure last year. This was at the time of the successful uprising against dictators last year. As you all know I am a firm believer in the new power pouring into the peoples hands... so of course I am in favor of anything i can do to voice support of freedom - in the most liberal sense. @lilly point is at the center - Washington is running scared and trying to find anyway possible to curb the global power of social media, such as this blog. @lilly i have put a message out to a twitter contact for list. but have not heard back yet. I will put out a general question on twitter.

maybe this one? www.scribd.com

Here is wiki's list: en.wikipedia.org another list: www.scribd.com

@lillymunster Yeah, go figure...guess they don't want us to steal their million$ ad campaigns. Idk, like "radiation means beautiful eyes" lol

There is another pernicious action, one that would affect this blog: long with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: RWA, the Research Works Act. This is a bill to, it says, "ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector", where the important phrase is "private sector" — it's purpose is to guarantee that for-profit corporations retain control over the publication of scientific information. Here are the restrictions it would impose: (more) scienceblogs.com

Heading out, be back tonight. Open to the outcome - for us joining blackout. Still, it would be my leaning. Thanks for your consideration :)

@lillymunster I've only recently logged on tonight so a bit confused about the objective of this form of protest against SOPA. Not being American I haven't really been following the arguments, but I can't see blacking out this blog helps anyone in any way

@lillymunster re RWA exactly

@lillymunster as I understand it the concerns in the UK are that US leg would restrict freedom here, I can't see our Coalition Government being keen on that, despite the 'piracy' argument.