Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, [...]
INDIA: Fukushima Won’t Stop World’s Largest Nuclear Facility
April 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Apr 29, 2011 (IPS) – While the Fukushima tragedy has not deterred India from going ahead with building the world’s largest nuclear power facility at Jaitapur on the western coast, the government has announced a tighter safety regime for its ambitious nuclear power [...]
U.S. Nuclear Plants Confronted 14 Serious Failures in 2010
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By J Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – A new report reveals that in 2010 nuclear plants in the United States experienced at least 14 "near misses", serious failures in which safety was jeopardized, at least in part, due to lapses in oversight and enforcement by U.S. [...]
U.S.: Poll Finds Support for Freeze on Nuke Plants
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Andrea Lunt NEW YORK, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – The United States government has been accused of failing to read growing public concern about the future of the country’s atomic energy programme, as the crisis at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant continues to unfold. Although President Barack [...]
Fukushima Disaster Impacts India
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis MUMBAI (IDN) – Uncertainty looms large over India’s ambitious civilian nuclear programme as a consequence of the triple disasters that have struck Japan. For one, the civilian nuclear agreement, which New Delhi and Tokyo were negotiating, is certain to be indefinitely delayed. Also, operationalisation of [...]
Who Controls the Nuclear Control Agencies?
March 23, 2011 By
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 23, 2011 (Tierramérica) – As Japan struggles to confront a nuclear disaster that could be the worst in history, it seems clear that any discussion about the safety of nuclear energy should address the independence of regulatory agencies. On Apr. 26, [...]
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Despite Japan’s Crisis, Vietnam Aims to Win Region’s Nuclear Race
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – Vietnam’s race to build nuclear power plants has barely skipped a beat despite the troubling scenes unfolding in Japan, where a nuclear nightmare has gripped the country for over a week. It places the Southeast Asian nation at odds [...]
JAPAN: Vulnerability and Uncertainty Prevail In Wake of Nuclear Disaster
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – Accidents at four nuclear power reactors hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima have left thousands of residents in the vicinity facing an uncertain future as they prepare for evacuation orders to protect them from dangerous radiation contamination. [...]
Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Arouses French Fears
March 17, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy PARIS, March 17, 2011 (IPS) – Until the nuclear crisis started unfolding in Japan last week, most French citizens did not doubt that the country’s 58 nuclear reactors were safe enough to continue operating for scores of years to come. They ignored the evidence gathered [...]
Japan Races to Cool Stricken Reactors
March 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* TOKYO, Mar 16, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Workers battling to contain the crisis at Japan’s quake- stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were briefly moved to a bunker because of a rise in radiation levels, local media have reported. The level of radiation at the plant surged to [...]
