Reactor Core May Be Breached at Damaged Fukushima Plant

According to Bloomberg reactor core no 3 may have cracked.

The core we are talking about is the one with the plutonium fuel. That makes this a disaster not just compared with Chernobyl but many, many times worse.

 

 

In case you still believe the Egyptian revolution was won by the people.

Mubarak is gone but Suleiman Israels friend and an old CIA asset specialised in torturing foreigners brought to Egypt by his old boss so I’m not surprised that the “New” Egyptian government made protesting a criminal act.

The Egyptian cabinet approved yesterday a decree-law that criminalises strikes, protests, demonstrations and sit-ins that interrupt private or state owned businesses or affect the economy in any way.

The decree-law also assigns severe punishment to those who call for or incite action, with the maximum sentence one year in prison and fines of up to half a million pounds.

The new law, which still needs to be approved by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, will be in force as long as the emergency law is still in force. Egypt has been in a state of emergency since the assassination of former president Anwar Sadat in 1981.

Since former president Hosni Mubarak stepped down on 11 February, Egypt has witnessed escalating nationwide labour strikes and political protests. Amongst those protesting have been university students, political activists, railway workers, doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, journalists, pensioners and the police force.

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Foreshore and seabed law and 2300 billion profit what’s next?

I have only lived here for 5.5 years and consider myself to be a newby on all matters Politic in New Zealand. I may have studied John Key more than most but the complicated and convoluted relationship between Pakeha and Maori is a mystery to me onther than that even I can see that for the Anglo Saxon elite, like anywhere else in the “Empire” the indigenous people are a mere spot on the landscape to be eradicated lovingly absorbed into the bosom of the Empire upon condition of the cessation of asserting their own culture and ownership of the land, coast and seabed their ancestors lived on of course.

The entire foreshore and seabed issue was a magnificent example of how the empire goes about its business. I was not in the country when labour signed the seabed and foreshore act and don’t want to comment on that since it is of little consequence on what will happen in the near future.

What I do want to bring under your attention is the following:

On the 7 of March the following article appeared in the Taranaki daily times announcing that an estimated $ 2300 billion worth of Iron ore was to be mined along the West coast of the North Island.

On the 8 of March the Standard wrote that the Foreshore law had been brought forward under cover of the earthquake.

And yesterday it was announced that the new law had been voted for and accepted.

Lastly, I haven’t read the actual law but I will now and I wouldn’t be surprised to find a few small print niggly rules about how big business can assert their power with loads of money while those trying to protest our coast and fisheries can not. Especially now that the right to financial help for a lawyer if you can not afford one is being cut as we speak.

 

 

 

 

Update: First radioactive fall out reaches Europe or why air new zealand’s CEO Rob Fyfe is full of shit

On (Date) Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe told the Main stream media that news papaer articles and exitable Internet rumours made the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster look much worse than it really was and that we should all stop worrying about nuclear energy as the IAEA knew whats best and that they said it was all going to be OK. Well we are not. It is a simple as that. For starters Nuclear fall out has entered the Northern Jet stream and will spread around the entire northern hemisphere and while you might think that that is OK because it will stay there

For those of you still believing this crap I would like to advise you to watch this presentation of Dr. Helen Caldicott about the dirty industry that sells itself as clean and green and sustainable.

For those of you wanting to know what is really happening here are a few articles you should have been seeing in your news papers and when you have read them maybe you are motivated enough to confront Rob Fyfe on his Bullshit and demand that the government will start to check the stuff we import from Japan.

 

 

 

Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter

I admire Webster Tarpley. His memory for details and inside details is awesome and I couldn’t stand in his shadow for his ability to strategise and I can’t stand in his shadow were it concerns predicting the course of history. He correctly predicted Obama’s “election” and the subsequent  attacks on sovereign Nations under the guise of protecting the population and local revolutions. He predicted  the attack on Libya and is predicting attacks on Syria and Iran. WWIII in short.

By Webster Tarpley

On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Acting under UN Security Council resolution 1973, US naval forces in the Mediterranean on Saturday night local time fired 112 cruise missiles at targets which the Pentagon claimed were related to Libya’s air defense system. But Mohammed al-Zawi, the Secretary General of the Libyan Parliament, told a Tripoli press conference that the “barbaric armed attack” and “savage aggression” had hit residential areas and office buildings as well as military targets, filling the hospitals of Tripoli and Misurata with civilian victims. Zawi accused the foreign powers of acting to protect a rebel leadership which contains notorious terrorist elements. The Libyan government repeated its request for the UN to send international observers to report objectively on events in Libya.

The attacking forces are expected to deploy more cruise missiles, Predator drones, and bombers, seeking to destroy the Libyan air defense system as a prelude to the systematic decimation of Libyan ground units. International observers have noted that US intelligence about Libya may be substandard, and that many cruise missiles may indeed have struck non-military targets.

Libya had responded to the UN vote by declaring a cease-fire, but Obama and Cameron brushed that aside. On Saturday, France 24 and al-Jazeera of Qatar, international propaganda networks hyping the attacks, broadcast hysterical reports of Qaddafi’s forces allegedly attacking the rebel stronghold of Bengazi. They showed a picture of a jet fighter being shot down and claimed this proved Qaddafi was defying the UN by keeping up his air strikes. It later turned out that the destroyed plane had belonged to the rebel air force. Such coverage provided justification for the bombing attacks starting a few hours later. The parallels to the Kuwait incubator babies hoax of 1990 were evident. Qaddafi loyalists said Saturday’s fighting was caused by rebel assaults on government lines in the hopes of provoking an air attack, plus local residents defending themselves against the rebels.

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Who is Muammar Al-Qadhafi: Read his Speech to the UN General Assembly

Perhaps an interesting read for those curious enough and trying to have an open mind. Difficult I know but why not give it a try.

Address by Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi, Leader of the Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

The President (spoke in Arabic): The Assembly will now hear an address by the Leader of the Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi, Leader of the Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall.

Colonel Al-Qadhafi (spoke in Arabic): In the name of the African Union, I would like to greet the members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and I hope that this meeting will be among the most historic in the history of the world.
In the name of the General Assembly at its sixtyfourth session, presided over by Libya, of the African Union, of one thousand traditional African kingdoms [trans.] and in my own name, I would like to take this opportunity, as President of the African Union, to congratulate our son Obama because he is attending the General Assembly, and we welcome him as his country is hosting this meeting.

This session is taking place in the midst of so many challenges facing us, and the whole world should come together and unite its efforts to defeat the challenges that are our principal common enemy — those of climate change and international crises such as the capitalist economic decline, the food and water crises, desertification, terrorism, immigration, piracy, man-made and natural epidemics and nuclear proliferation. Perhaps influenza H1N1 was a virus created in a laboratory that got out of control, originally being meant as a military weapon. Such challenges also include hypocrisy, poverty, fear, materialism and immorality.

As is known, the United Nations was founded by three or four countries against Germany at the time. The United Nations was formed by the nations that joined together against Germany in the Second World War. Those countries formed a body called the Security Council, made its own countries permanent members and granted them the power of veto.

We were not present at that time. The United Nations was shaped in line with those three countries and wanted us to step into shoes originally designed against Germany. That is the real substance of the United Nations when it was founded over 60 years ago.

That happened in the absence of some 165 countries, at a ratio of one to eight; that is, one was present and eight were absent. They created the Charter, of which I have a copy. If one reads the Charter of the United Nations, one finds that the Preamble of the Charter differs from its Articles. How did it come into existence? All those who attended the San Francisco Conference in 1945 participated in creating the Preamble, but they left the Articles and internal rules of procedures of the so-called Security Council to experts, specialists and interested countries, which were those countries that had established the Security Council and had united against Germany.

The Preamble is very appealing, and no one objects to it, but all the provisions that follow it completely contradict the Preamble. We reject such provisions, and we will never uphold them; they ended with the Second World War. The Preamble says that all nations, small or large, are equal. Are we equal when it comes to the permanent seats? No, we are not equal.

The Preamble states in writing that all nations are equal whether they are small or large. Do we have the right of veto? Are we equal? The Preamble says that we have equal rights, whether we are large or small.

That is what is stated and what we agreed in the  Preamble. So the veto contradicts the Charter. The permanent seats contradict the Charter. We neither accept nor recognize the veto.

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Germany’s Libya Contribution: Merkel Cabinet Approves AWACS for Afghanistan

Much is made from the German’s refusal to help out in Libya. That they would not help is of course just rubbish but what to do if you suspect you’re population doesn’t buy the involvement in yet another criminal war of aggression? Exactly, you help out in another already accepted war so your criminal mates can free up resources for the new war. Problem solved.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government approved a plan to send AWACS surveillance planes to Afghanistan in order to free up NATO capacity for operations in Libya. The trans-Atlantic alliance looks set to take over control of the ongoing bombardment of forces loyal to dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

The government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel elected not to take part in the United Nations-approved military operations in Libya. On Wednesday, however, her cabinet voted to increase Germany’s role in surveillance flights over Afghanistan in an effort to free up NATO AWACS planes for ongoing air strikes in North Africa.

The decision, said Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière, is a “political sign of our solidarity with the alliance.” When it comes to standing by its NATO allies, he added, the government doesn’t “require instruction from anyone.”

Wednesday’s decision came in the form of a new draft mandate for Germany’s involvement in Afghanistan. It calls for up to 300 German troops to man AWACS surveillance flights over Afghanistan in support of ongoing operations there. The new mandate, which would not increase German troop presence in Afghanistan from its current maximum of 5,350, must now be approved by the federal parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin. The center-left Social Democrats, the largest opposition party, have already signaled their likely approval of the measure. A vote on the issue could take place as soon as Friday.

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China Moves To Save Libyan Leader As Russia Warns Of ‘All Out War’

The shit thing is that if a bunch of thiefs and robbers strike it rich other thiefs and robbers want part of the loot or else!.

China and Russia did not vote at the UN meeting which spawned the “Attack and destroy” “no Fly” zone in Libya.

That doesn’t mean they were against it, it just means they were hedging their bets. Libya a huge country with the biggest oil reserves of the kind the West and the rest of the industrialised countries needs are in Libya and the best thing? Only 6.5 million people to dispense with!

An “urgent” dispatch from Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Mikhail Fradkov to President Medvedev that is circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Chinese warship Xuzhou is preparing to offer protection to Libyan leader Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi and his family to protect them from assassination from the US-led air assault on that North African Nation.

In what this report calls a “stunning betrayal” by the West, Russian leaders say their abstention in the United Nation Security Council vote to establish a no-fly zone over Libya to protect its civilian population from both Gaddafi and rebel forces is, instead, being used by the West to engineer their takeover of Libya’s vast oil and water resources, and which we had previously warned about in our March 8th report, “Global Resource War Warned Has Begun Between East-West.”

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Japanese Nuclear Plant Operator Plagued by Scandal

This according to der Spiegel.

For years, Tepco, the operator of the Fukushima power plant, has been widely criticized for deadly accidents and improper inspections. The Fukushima disaster is the tragic nadir in a history of poor management at the company’s nuclear facilities.

It must have been a difficult day for Tsunehisa Katsumata. In 2003, the then-president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, gave a speech addressing what, until then, had been the biggest scandal in the history of Japan’s largest energy utility company. In 29 incidents the year before, nuclear power plant maintenance documents had been falsified and Tepco had been forced to take 17 nuclear reactors temporarily offline as a result. Tepco CEO Hiroshi Araki and four other top executives resigned.

In unflinching words, Katsumata took his company to task for its shortcomings and announced no less than a new corporate culture, one with a strict code of ethics and a policy of open and honest communication with the public. Today, though, those words must ring hollow to the people who have received high levels of radiation following the accident at the Fukushima I power plant, and to those who have been evacuated and may never be able to return to their homes located near the plant again.

The tone of Katsumata’s speech was clear: The numerous past incidents were in no way isolated mistakes made by individual employees. Instead, they were the result of a corporate culture at Tepco that had allowed hair-raising breaches in safety to occur.

A Nuclear Division Spins out of Control

“First, we must admit that we had no clear rules to judge whether equipment was fit for service,” Katsumata states in his speech, which is still available on Tepco’s website today. He said that there were no rules addressing the fact that machinery and equipment generally wear away or crack with the passage of time, so equipment was used as long as such flaws didn’t pose “safety hazards.”

And therein lies the problem: When something was unclear, Tepco engineers apparently made arbitrary decisions. “They repeatedly made personal decisions based on their own idea of safety,” Katsumata said. But it is clear that those ideas of safety weren’t stringent enough. “Nuclear division members tended to regard a stable supply of electricity as the ultimate objective,” he said.

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Fukushima Engineer Says He Helped Cover Up Flaw at Dai-Ichi Reactor No. 4

Private business is business for profit. Do I need to say more? This from Bloomberg.

One of the reactors in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have been relying on flawed steel to hold the radiation in its core, according to an engineer who helped build its containment vessel four decades ago.

Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 reactor while working for a unit of Hitachi Ltd. (6501) in 1974. The reactor, which Tanaka has called a “time bomb,” was shut for maintenance when the March 11 earthquake triggered a 7-meter (23-foot) tsunami that disabled cooling systems at the plant, leading to explosions and radiation leaks.

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No kidding: Concern in Tokyo over quality of drinking water

The news that Japan is worried about the amount of radio active iodine isotopes in the drink water of Tokyo must be the understatement of the millennium

Just so you know for drinking water to become so contaminated that it becomes a health hazard radio active particles have to land in it. In Japan that means the particles had to have been airborne. In fact according to Lanthanide who comments on the Standard the distance over which those particles would have to be transported a significant explosion if nuclear bomb type strength would have been needed, in fact here it is from the man himself:

For significant amounts of radiation to reach Tokyo, which is quite far away, radiation would need to reach very high into the atmosphere. This would require much more than the current hydrogen explosions, you would need something on the order of a nuclear explosion (as in, atomic weapon explosion) which requires the fuel to reach super-criticality. Weapons grade uranium, the type required for an atomic bomb, is 90% U235 enriched. The type used in nuclear fuel is only 3-4% enriched. Super-criticality simply isn’t going to happen, unless somehow all of the U235 managed to get itself together in a lump. Even so, nuclear weapons explode the way they do because of very precise engineering (perfect spheres of fuel, ‘gun’ ignition systems etc) to ensure super-criticality is reached before the fuel can blow itself apart, such a physical arrangement of fuel happening by chance in a reactor is practically nil.

The distance between Tokyo and Fukushima is 238.34 km to be precise and the amount of particles in the air must have been quit high for enough particles to land in the water to make it unsafe for infants to drink.

What this means is that there are enough particles in the water for a significant amount of infants, who are much more susceptible to the destructive effect of radiation because their bodies are growing and there is an awful lot of cell activity going on in their tiny bodies, to become contaminated with the radioactive particles.

What this also means is that there are an awful lot of particles floating in the air which can be breathed in by everybody and which in the future will cause cancer. The radioactive particles are iodine which has a half life of some 8 days and which when inhaled have a tendency to be absorbed by the thyroid causing thyroid cancer.

 

 

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Ohh oops: Gaddafi’s ‘Long War’: Million weapon handout to fight US & allies

Not the action of someone scared of his own people huh? Now, it’s not Gaddafi but the actual government which has decided to do this but apparently thousands of people are willing to be a human shield for Gaddafi too. So one million people with guns given to them by the government of Libya and people willing to die for the “tyrant”. Could it be the US and NATO have misjudged the situation?

BP to start drilling off Libyan coast. Hmmm.

If you don’t smell a rat here I don’t know what does. Could it be that Libya did not want BP to start drilling for oil in the Mediterranean after their previous deep water adventure ended so disastrously and is this why the US and NATO are attacking Libya now?

The tortuous saga of BP, the Gulf of Mexico, the Lockerbie bombing and an America which feels itself badly wronged took another turn yesterday when it emerged that the oil company is about to start drilling at an even greater depth in, of all places, Libyan waters.

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Nuclear Apocalypse in Japan

This article written by Keith Harmon Snow is a sobering assessment of the reality on the ground in Japan concerning the Fukushima reactor meltdown.

As the sun set over quake-stricken Japan on Thursday 17 March 2011, we learned that four of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth, that the fire is burning out of control at Reactor No. 4′s pool of spent nuclear fuel, that there are six spent fuel pools at risk all told, and that the sites are too hot to deal with. On March 16 Plumes of White Vapor began pouring from crippled Reactor No. 3 where the spent fuel pool may already be lost. Over the previous days we were told: nothing to worry about. Earthquakes and after shocks, tidal wave, explosions, chemical pollution, the pox of plutonium, contradicting information too obvious to ignore, racism, greed — add these to the original Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death. The situation is apocalyptic and getting worse. This is one of the most serious challenges humanity has ever faced.

The U.S. nuke industry is blaming Japanese experts, distancing itself from the monster it created. Instead of sending nuclear or health experts to assistance the Japanese people in their time of desperate need, US President Barack Obama first sent teams of intelligence agents and FEMA trained military grunts with special security clearances. The Pentagon floated a naval strike force led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan off the coast of Japan: advertised as a ‘humanitarian’ operation, the strike force was repositioned after it was partially irradiated. Can we trust officials and the corporate news media to tell us what is happening in an honest, timely, transparent manner? Are there precedents to the nuclear crisis in Japan? What is the U.S. defense establishment really concerned with here?

Humanity now faces a deadly serious challenge coming out of Japan — the epicenter of radiation. Intentional efforts to downplay or dismiss this catastrophe reveal the immaturity of western civilization and some of our most acute human pathologies, including our worship of technology and our psychopathology of denial. The widespread distortion and cover-ups to protect private profits, national and corporate interests, to fool and betray the people, are unacceptable. Here are some of the deeper whats and whys and hows — some technical issues and the kinds of questions people need to ask — about the nuclear apocalypse unfolding on planet earth. Prayers are not enough. It’s time to question everything, to put politics aside, to take personal action to halt nuclear expansion and defend ourselves from this industrial juggernaut.

PRO-NUKE ANTI-NUKE NO NUKES

I know something about technology, and science: I have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering — with honors — from one of America’s top Engineering schools. Before 1990 I worked in classified programs for General Electric — the maker of the nuclear reactors now irradiating Japan. I worked at GE Aerospace Electronics Laboratories: low-level classified government programs in communications, radars and missile guidance systems for Ronald Reagan’s infamous Star Wars (Strategic Defence Initiative) programs.

From 1990 to 1993 I taught English at Japan’s big Soga Shosa (trading houses) like Mitsubishi and Sumitomo Corporations, and meanwhile I biked the rivers, swam the beaches, hiked the mountains and studied the culture of Japan. Japanese corporations were paving the shorelines and rivers with concrete, sinking giant tetrapods off shore. One corporation even developed these giant rubber bladders — the size of football-fields — sunk offshore, which could be pumped full of seawater to provide a giant barrier against tsunami’s. Of course, the profit margins for these corporations supplying these bags were huge, but I wonder what happened to the technology, if these were ever deployed, and where.

For the first 34 years of my life I was in favor of nuclear power. This changed when I saw young people in the United States put their bodies on the line to protest the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Station operations in Tennessee (1994). The commitment and integrity of these young people made me rethink my nuclear bias.

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Naked Aggression: ‘Libya assault planned months ahead’

Air NZ boss: Nuke threat overplayed. Oh really?

I understand why Air NZ CEO rob Fyfe wants us to believe that the nuclear threat is “overplayed”. It would mean the end of what is quit possibly one of the most lucrative destinations for Air NZ.

Denial however is not something New Zealanders can afford themselves if they want to avoid the huge contamination taking place in the Northern Hemisphere.

Here are some things you ought to know in order to make up your mind about what is really going on in Japan and the US for that matter.

• Aeroplanes contaminated with Nuclear fallout including individual people have arrived in the US.
• Food in the fukushima region Japan is contaminated with radioactive fallout and can not be eaten any more.
• Radio active iodine has been found in Tokyo indicating that Radio active fallout has been dispersed as far away as Tokyo meaning that aeroplanes taking of from Tokyo will bring Radio active particles with them to their destinations.
• According to ABC/NBC the plume with Nuclear fall out has now reached the Atlantic ocean. This I would like to emphasise is just the first and lowest radiation levels as these are the radiation which escaped in the early stages of the Nuclear calamities in the Fukushima. Added to that this means that a nuclear cloud has travelled over the entire landmass of the US of A.
• On 20 March the Daily mail announced that the workers at the Fukushima powerplant were still battling to gain control over the runaway reactors. Pressure was building again in reactor number three but water pumped into reactors number 6 and 7 appeared to have cooled down the fuel rods somewhat but they still admitted that the reactors might have to be doused with water for months (that is a lot of water with radioactive fallout going back into the oceans) before the reactors could be buried under concrete. In the same article it mentioned that radio active produce imported from Japan has been found in the Taiwan.
• It pays to remember that the IAEA it an organisation whose primary goal is to promote nuclear energy.

If I were an employee of Air NZ working in Tokyo I would download that page and sue the idiot if I survived long enough.

Oh oops, the Arab league withdraws it’s support for the no fly zone over Libya

It appears that the west promised the Arab league that the no fly zone would be just that; a no fly zone so when they started the indiscriminate bombing of Libya the Arab league seems to have withdrawn its support.

Max Keiser: Episode 130

Max Keiser is always a blast and I’ve decided to link to his RT show as he explains so eloquently why we; the peasants, are getting so screwed.

Back from holiday and it’s not looking good

Update: Hundreds flee in Japan after Shinmoedake volcano begins spewing ash, boulders.

I’m currently in the third week of a well deserved holiday and in fact was a way last week in the first holiday trip for six years but when I came back found the world a vastly changed place.

It appears we are currently looking at the possibility of 6 nuclear power plant meltdowns at the same time after a 9.1 earthquake hit Japan on Friday. Apart from the horrific loss of life and the destruction of entire towns the Japanese government saw fit to build two huge nuclear power plants (in fact several clusters of N. power plants) on a seismic active plateau in what can only be described as the most foolish attempt at energy interdependency in the entire existence of the universe and now it seems just about all of them are on the verge of a meltdown.

I lived in Europe at the time of Chernobyl and I remember the mayhem which for some reason mysteriously stopped at our borders (Yep, the wind just dropped and the rain just happened not to land our our soil) but not only that all the countries around us just happened to mysteriously escape the same nuclear fall out poisoning. We still don’t know where it went.

The same seems to be happening world wide again. Don’t expect your news papers to give an accurate picture of the fall out patterns, every country will be spared in its own news outlets and to be honest who really wants to know the truth about what a nuclear power plant meltdown really means but just so you know; New Zealand will no longer be nuclear free.