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Japan Environment & Nuclear Disastor

Japan Environment & Nuclear Disastor. Kingston Chap 10 and 11. Kingston’s Main Topics. Kyoto Dream – world leadership Think globally act locally Greenwashing – how green is green Renewable Energy Koyazumi and LDP Whaling Japan’s Green Revolution Nuclear Follies. Kyoto Dream.

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Japan Environment & Nuclear Disastor

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  1. Japan Environment & Nuclear Disastor Kingston Chap 10 and 11

  2. Kingston’s Main Topics • Kyoto Dream – world leadership • Think globally act locally • Greenwashing – how green is green • Renewable Energy • Koyazumi and LDP • Whaling • Japan’s Green Revolution • Nuclear Follies

  3. Kyoto Dream • High energy efficiency • Reasonable carbon footprint https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/11174-How-green-is-China-s-high-speed-rail-

  4. Greenwashing • Japan is one of the largest oil-, natural gas- and coal-importing countries. Between 2011 and 2015, the share of coal in Japanese electricity production increased significantly to cope with the closure of nuclear power plants following the Fukushima disaster.

  5. More Coal -- 2018 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/bucking-global-trends-japan-again-embraces-coal-power

  6. Or less coal??? 2019 PM. Abe wants to show global leadership… for how long???

  7. Nuclear Follies

  8. were • 20 Plants Retired • Plants currently on line • 25 Plants not operating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan

  9. Nuke Follies Tokaimura: Japan's Neutron "Bomb" • How It Happened The Tokaimura factory completes one step in the process of making reactor fuel rods. The workers are supposed to remotely mix uranium oxide, enriched to 18.8 percent fissile U-235, with nitric acid. This high concentration of U-235 raises the risk of criticality, and the mixing team was doing it by hand using an illegal manual.

  10. Nuke Follies Tokaimura: Japan's Neutron "Bomb" • At 10:35 a.m. the men, using buckets, poured 35 pounds of the uranium -- eight times the proscribed amount -- in a tank where it formed a critical mass and started a chain reaction. Repeatedly for the next several hours, this mass fissioned and blew apart, producing neutrons and gamma radiation, then reformed in the tank to start another reaction.

  11. Nuclear Follies Tokaimura: Japan's Neutron "Bomb“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiYZSKtZb7k

  12. Whistleblowers Problem becomes how to handle the whistleblower.

  13. Renewable Energy • Continues to in fits and starts • Solar remains at about 2% • FIT (Feed in Tariffs) recently cut

  14. January 2019 https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00377/cloudy-outlook-for-solar-energy-companies-in-japan.html

  15. https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2018101400333/solar-power-output-halted-for-2nd-day-in-kyushu.html?cx_recs_click=truehttps://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2018101400333/solar-power-output-halted-for-2nd-day-in-kyushu.html?cx_recs_click=true

  16. Whaling • Supposed scientific studies • Black eye for Japan • 2019 switched to commercial in coastal waters

  17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE_20110311.pnghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE_20110311.png

  18. Tsunami • Earthquake • Ousting Kan – Nuclear Village • Genkai Scandal • SPEEDI – System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information • Tsunami Risk 869ad historical evidence • Where to go from here?

  19. BBC Documentary – Sept. 2011 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xstkas

  20. Step by step slide show of disastor http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12732015

  21. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12889541

  22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7MopHfBBg

  23. Recent Look at Fukashima 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFv5yY7pMgQ

  24. Citizen Science safecast.org

  25. Background https://blog.safecast.org/

  26. Tokaimura: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/tnnlp4/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-headlines---rad-to-the-bone

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