Council members plan to pass a resolution at the next regular meeting calling for the closure of the plant on Routenike running shoes 9 South in Lacey Township. It's not the first time the council has come out against the troubled plant.
"We've always taken a strong position," Council Vice-President Carmen J. Amato Jr. said after the meeting. "We want it closed immediately. Now we are also concerned about natural disasters."
Varano said that Japanese nuclear experts were now comparing the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex to the Soviet Chernobyl disaster in the 1980s.
"It's at the Chernobyl category level in Japan and that's pretty scary," the mayor said.
The Township Council last year passed a resolution call on the state to mandate that Exelon install cooling towers at the plant, instead of the current system of drawing water from Barnegat Bay.
Varano has said Berkeley Township officials have been "at the forefront" of Ocean County municipalities calling for the nike running shoes plant's closure, dating all the way back to the years when the late Bill Zimmermann Jr. was mayor.
Township officials also opposed the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision in April 2009 to allow the then-40-year-old plant to operate for another 20 years, he said.
Council members last night also followed up by unanimously passed a resolution in support of two bills sponsored by 9th-District legislators Senator Christopher J. Connors , Assemblyman Brian Rumpf and Assemblywoman Diane Gove to establish the New Jersey Coordinating Council on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Generating Facilities.
The legislation - S-866 in the state Senate and A-296 in the state Assembly - calls for mechanism to monitor and coordinate decommission plant to ensure they comply with federal and state regulations.
"Whereas the bills find that decommissioning of a nuclear power generating facility involves significant issues of public nike running shoes health, safety and welfare of the residents of the State of New Jersey..." the resolution reads.
Edith Gbur, a Berkeley resident and president of the Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch, thanked Varano and council members for agreeing to pass a resolution at the next meeting to close the plant.
"I would like to thank the mayor and council for reaching this decision and calling attention to the fact that Oyster Creek should be shut down now," Gbur said.
Resident William Gumper said during the public portion of the meeting that there were "two sides to this issue."
"I tend to stand in the middle,"Gumper said. "We do need electricity, unless we are going to light our homes with candles."
Higher-than-normal radiation levelsnike running shoes in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster do not represent a risk for Ontario residents, Energy Minister Brad Duguid said Tuesday.
"I understand that there is and there has been some detection of some minor increases in radiation," Duguid said. "But it's not anywhere close to something that would be of any impact in terms of human health. And it's not something that Ontario residents need to be overly concerned about."
The issue was raised Tuesday at Queen's nike cheap mens acg sandalsPark by provincial New Democrats, who pointed to Environmental Protection Agency reports from Vermont and other U.S. states that show elevated contamination in milk and drinking water in recent days.
NDP leader Andrea Horwath called the news "disconcerting."
Duguid did not say where and when the increased radiation was found.
"They have had similar readings, I believe, in the United States," he said. "In terms of specifics of those readings they may be available on the federal websites."
The energy minister's office distributed information from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and Health Canada on normal background radiation and some radiation that may "have been carried by the wind" from Japan to this country.
Ontario's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Arlene King, played down the impacts of the elevated levels.
"Based on current information, I am of the view that there is no health risk for Ontarians from the damaged nuclear facility in Japan," she said in a statement issued late Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the Canadian Nuclear nike cheap mens acg sandals Safety Commission reported that monitors in Ontario, New Brunswick and British Columbia have all detected minute traces of radioactive iodine suspected to be from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
"The risk that food and energy price increases will start an inflationary spiral is much greater in emerging and developing economies than in advanced economies," the IMF said in its world economic outlook report.
The IMF, however, maintained its growth forecast for the Korean economy at 4.5%--the same as its projection in October. In its latest report, the fund said it expects the economy to expand 4.2% next year.
The Washington-based multinational organization urged Asian policymakers to accelerate their efforts to raisecheap nike mens acg sandals 2011 rates and allow their currencies to appreciate further to curb inflation.
"Real interest rates remain far below precrisis levels in many of these ( Asian) economies, and the extent of expected tightening seems limited relative to what is needed," it said. "In addition to more rapid tightening of policy rates, greater exchange rate flexibility will be an important component of policy tightening."
The IMF's revised outlook for Korean inflation and call for speedier monetary tightening Asia-wise came a day before the Bank of Korea holds a rate review meeting Tuesday, where it is expected to stand pat following a 25-basis-point hike to 3.00% last month.
Consumer price inflation in South Korea rose to a 29-month high of 4.7% on year in March, accelerating from 4.5% in buy Reebok ZigTechFebruary and remaining above the BOK's target range of 2% to 4% for a third straight month.
The BOK, which now expects gross domestic product to expand 4.5% this year, with consumer price inflation at 3.5%, is expected to unveil new growth and inflation forecasts Wednesday.
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The only dilemma is that those who are used to owning a system find it difficult to let go. The Tunisian and Egyptian presidents couldn't compromise either.
The situation in Syria is more difficult and much more serious because the regime rejects the idea of compromise. It seems unaware of the danger surrounding it and insists on interpreting the events as foreign conspiracies.
The solution to Syria's problems is strictly internal and should therefore be resolved internally. Time still allows for reconciliation by responding to some of the people's demands, particularly the reform of the security apparatus.
Libya's stalemate can be still be overcome
Now that the Libyan crisis is nearing its seventh week, the international community is wondering if it's still possible to quell Col Muammar Qaddafi's offensive through the no fly zone resolution.
Although Nato forces were able to destroy the regime's air forces at the start of operations, Col Qaddafi has proved that he is still capable of thwarting the rebels using military ploys that made Nato target the rebels with friendly fire twice in one week.
In light of this, the US and the European Union are persuaded that a ground intervention in Libya, which was out of the nike mens acg sandals 2011 question only a few weeks ago, is now in an advanced stage of study and a ground landing could be ordered in a few days.
Germany has already agreed to send forces into Libya to defend humanitarian passageways, which suggests that other EU members could soon follow suit.
"The motives don't matter as long as the objective is to put a swift end to the crisis through inevitable military confrontations with Col Qaddafi forces," suggested the writer.
"Things change in this type of crisis, especially as the air raids proved insufficient to defeat the regime. New ideas, such as ground intervention for humanitarian aims, are required."
Future scenarios are known. Nato forces could be reinforced while "analysts" go on talking about "the price" Libya will pay through oil contracts with "liberating" states.
Offer of dignified exit for Saleh will expire
The popular uprising in Yemen is at a decisive moment, said Hussam Kanafani, a columnist with the Emirati daily Al Khaleej.
Protestors amassing in the streets are closer than ever to realising their goal of toppling the president Ali Abdullah Saleh, especially given the GCC initiative that urges him to step down and hand Fivefingers Kso-Vibram fivefingers Kso onlineover power to the vice president or a temporary council. The initiative gave the green light to start searching for an alternative, despite Mr Saleh's obstinacy.
Yemen's president has gradually lost all the support he relied on to withstand popular protests. It began with the tribes, when his own, Hashed, urged him to respond to the people's demands, followed by his former ally, theAl Islah party.
Then, it was the turn of the army, as major general Ali Mohsen al Ahmar, the commander of the first armoured division and Saleh's half-brother announced his defection. He was followed by others, causing a rift within the armed forces.
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Three of the six reactors at the plant were damaged when the tsunami that followed the magnitude 9 earthquake March 11 knocked out cooling systems. Hydrogen explosions have blown apart the building surrounding units 1 and 3, the No. 2 reactor is believed to be leaking highly radioactive water and the spent fuel pools of units 1, 3 and 4 have been an ongoing concern for authorities.
Radioactive particles have been spread across much of the surrounding area, and Japan has dumped thousands of tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean to make room for more dangerously contaminated water now flooding the basements of the units' turbine plants.
Sunday, engineers used a flying drone to peer into the damaged reactors in hopes of getting a better look at the units and hopefully the pools of spent fuel inside, company spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said. Images captured by the drone are expected to be released Monday, he said.
And the controversial dumping of less-contaminated water from a waste treatment facility has been completed, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced Monday. A total of 9,070 metric tons of water was discharged into the Pacific Ocean in the past week, the agency reported -- less than the 10,000 tons originally expected.
Tokyo Electric plans to use the facility to contain some of the water that has flooded the turbine plants behind units 1 through 3, a critical first step toward restoring normal cooling. The company is now using remote-controlled heavy machinery to clear away debris outside the plant and has begun the process of laying new pipes to start pumping radioactive water into the waste reservoir.
One worker fell ill during the work on Sunday, the company said. The subcontractor, a man in his 30s, was taken to a hospital and diagnosed with exhaustion, Tokyo Electric said. He had been working four-hour shifts since March 23, Tokyo Electric said, and it was unclear whether he had received a day off.
The worker was exposed to 4.82 millisieverts of radation, cheap nike mens acg sandals 2011 but no radioactive substances were found on his body. His cumulative exposure is 16 millisieverts, well below the 250-millisievert limit for workers in the plant. He was with a group of 30 subcontractors working in the area, and was wearing protective gear, the company said.
Meanwhile, two of the world's largest concrete pumps were en route to Japan as part of the effort to help resolve the crisis. Although the pumps were built to pump concrete, they can be modified to pump water at high pressure, with a 230-feet reach and "pinpoint accuracy," said Bill Dwyer, vice president of sales and marketing for manufacturer Putzmeister America.
"It allows workers to work from a greater distance," Dwyer said. One pump is set to arrive in Japan on Monday and the second on Tuesday, he said.
Workers have been pouring hundreds of tons of fresh water a day into the three damaged reactors and the spent fuel pools of units 1-4 to keep them cool until normal circulation systems can be restored. The No. 2 reactor is believed to be leaking highly radioactive water, some of which had been spilling into the Pacific until Wednesday. Runoff from shore is also believed to be carrying some radioactivity to the sea.
The radioactive particles now in the water are dispersing into the ocean. But concentrations of radioactive iodine-131 remained 25 times higher than the Japanese legal standard in water sampled 16 kilometers (10 miles) south of the plant on Saturday.
That's down from 93 times the limit on Wednesday, according to sampling data released Sunday. Levels of longer-lived cesium-137, Reebok ZigTech online which takes 30 years to lose half its radioactivity, remained nearly six times the legal limit but well below levels reported earlier this week.
The week-long discharge was billed as an emergency measure, but it infuriated Japan's fishing industry and drew protests from neighboring South Korea. And the crisis spurred more than 2,000 people to march against nuclear energy in Tokyo on Sunday.
"I was just a couch potato critic, but here we are today with friends for the first time, and I'm sure it's the first time for a lot of people today," said Karima Asuma Stickan, one of the protesters.
Protesters marched from the park, ringed with cherry blossoms, to Tokyo Electric's headquarters and on to the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry, which regulates Japanese nuclear power plants. Makiko Mikami told CNN that no one believes they're getting enough answers from either the utility or the government.
"The problem is, I think I'm not sure they know the whole picture themselves," Mikami said. "If they know, they should share that information with us. And if they don't, they should admit that they're scared as well."