UNDT August 20, 2012 - Digital Journal - Nuclear power: Ten incidents worldwide in ten days - Over a ten days period, between August 8 and August 18, ten nuclear incidents were recorded worldwide. These included events in the USA, UK and Japan. The safety or otherwise of nuclear power depends to divide opinion with strong advocates in both camps. Without re-running this debate, the world's news has seen ten nuclear power related incidents occur over a ten day period during August 2012. The first incident occurred on August 8 and continued until August 18. The events were compiled by the website The Watchers.
August 20, 2012 - Waste Management World - Mobile Plasma Arc Gasification to Treat Radioactive Fukushima Suits - Reno, Nevada based mobile plasma arc gasification technology developer, Vision Plasma Systems (PINKSHEETS: VLNX) has reached an agreement with Cell Runner Inc. of Japan for the sale of two of its Arc Master I Units for use in the treatment of contaminated waste hazmat suits at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Vision Plasma said that the initial units will be used to remediate over 5000 suits used daily by cleanup crews working in the Facility, at a cost of $5.8 million per unit. Cell Runner of Japan is an intermediary technology provider to many commercial businesses and government agencies. Pending review of this initial performance of the ArcMaster I units' remediation capabilities, the developer said that it was optimistic that it win orders for as many 23 more units on current Cell Runner proposals. According to Vision Plasma the Arc Master I mobile unit has the ability to be deployed on site to safely dispose of the rubberised contaminated overalls, eliminating the need for costly transportation and the risk of any hazardous radiation exposure to the environment. The company explained that contaminated hazmat suits used by the workers in and around the disaster area have been stockpiled for over a year, unable to be incinerated or disposed of by any traditional process.