Fukushima clean up costs hit $58 billion
The clean-up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could cost five times more than estimated, figures have revealed, as Tokyo Electric Power said today that steam had been seen again in a reactor building. The government-backed National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology said decontamination work in Fukushima prefecture will cost up to 5.81 trillion yen($58 billion dollars), far more than the 1 trillion yen the government has so far allocated. This figure doesn’t even include the costs of properly disposing of all the contaminated materials, continuing to deal with the Fukushima reactors and the contaminated water leaking into the Pacific Ocean, or adequate compensation for the 160,000 victims of the disaster who still haven’t been treated fairly by Fukushima’s owner TEPCO or the government.
82 year old nun about to be sentenced as a terrorist
In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility. In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and trespassed onto the property. Y-12, called the Fort Knox of the nuclear weapons industry, stores hundreds of metric tons of highly enriched uranium and works on every single one of the thousands of nuclear weapons maintained by the U.S. Describing themselves as the Transform Now Plowshares, the three came as non-violent protestors to symbolically disarm the weapons. They carried bibles, written statements, peace banners, spray paint, flower, candles, small baby bottles of blood, bread, hammers with biblical verses on them and wire cutters. Their intent was to follow the words of Isaiah 2:4: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” These non-violent peace activists now sit in jail as federal prisoners, awaiting their sentencing on September 23, 2013.
gNewSense 3.0 released
With the help of GNU Linux-libre and various other people helping to check and hack on freedom issues, a new major version that aligns with the Free Software Foundation’s freedom guidelines as well as Debian’s quality standards has been released. You’ll find that the look has changed from previous releases, marking the change from Ubuntu to Debian as a base. It also support 3 architectures now: i386, amd64 and mipsel(Lemote Yeeloong).
http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/. [everything is good. but their naming sucks]