UN’s Atomic Regulator Funds Terror Fight While Fukushima Response Starved

[jpak]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/un-s-atomic-regulator-funds-terror-fight-while-fukushima-response-starved.html

Nine months after the worst nuclear disaster in decades, the world’s atomic-energy watchdog has yet to dedicate additional money to improve reactor safety.

The delay has prompted the U.S. to call for the International Atomic Energy Agency to prepare a budget for its so-called action plan and to clarify how it will respond to future nuclear emergencies. The United Nations-funded agency said the allocation will be determined after a team draws up the “main activities associated with the action plan,” according to a Dec. 5 statement to Bloomberg News. Money wasn’t included in the IAEA’s budget agreed to in September.

The agency classifies safety as one of its top three priorities, yet is spending 8.9 percent of its 352 million-euro ($469 million) regular budget this year on making plants secure from accidents. As it focuses resources on the other two priorities -- technical cooperation and preventing nuclear- weapons proliferation -- the IAEA is missing an opportunity to improve shortcomings in reactor safety exposed by the Fukushima disaster, said Trevor Findlay, a former Australian diplomat.

“The IAEA did not seize the opportunity of this dreadful event to advance the agency’s role in nuclear safety,” said Findlay, who is finishing a two-year study of the Vienna-based agency at Harvard University. Director General Yukiya Amano “has been tough on Iran and Syria, but not when it comes to nuclear safety.”

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So - what international agency is fighting renewable energy terra threats?

oops - none

nevermind

:D

[unspokenhermit]

1. UN’s Atomic Regulator Funds Terror Fight While Fukushima Response Starved

Well we have seen the similar course of actions for other disasters taking place in other country. There is always too much bureaucracy to release the fund or approve any attempt to support the situation.

The American organization DATAPOKE released a new report concerning the estimated contamination at upper altitudes. The report indicates concentrations orders of magnitude higher than at surface level.

http://www.datapoke.org/blog/8/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-radioactive-contamination-dispersion-utilizing-chino-m-et-al-source-terms/

The report includes dispersion images but I can’t figure out how to post them here?

http://www.datapoke.org/partmom/a=40