Former federal regulator: Plans for Fermi 3 nuclear reactor could lead to job loss
Former Federal regulator: plans for Fermi 3 nuclear reactor could lead to job loss Consumers would pay for new plant with higher rates The Michigan Messenger By Eartha Jane Melzer 4 May 09 Construction of a new nuclear power plant in Michigan could cost the state jobs, according to Peter Bradford, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner who toured the state last month.
“No state has ever succeeded in improving its jobs picture by building unnecessarily expensive power plants,“ he said in a phone interview. “The reason is the impact of high rate on the customers in commercial and industrial class.”………………..
Bradford pointed to recent events in Missouri as “practical proof” that new nuclear plants are not in the interest of industry. Last week the AmerenUE company, which already operates one nuclear plant near the state capital in Jefferson City, canceled its plans to build a second when the Missouri legislature refused to pass a law that would have allowed company to pass on construction costs to ratepayers.
According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the project was dropped after large industrial customers including Noranda Aluminum, Anheuser Busch-InBev and Monsanto joined with AARP to successfully oppose the legislation.
Michigan law already allows utilities to pass on construction costs to ratepayers………………………
“In the near term, nuclear power is likely to be one of the more expensive options for getting electric power,” said Greg White, a liaison with the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth.
“Our policy in Michigan is to try and find the lowest-cost options first.”…………………….Generally speaking, energy efficiency programs will reduce electric rates and renewable energy projects will stabilize rates, but, White added: “One of the challenges we face is that almost anything we do is going to have, in the near term, a cost increase.”
Groups: Fermi 3 nuclear plant would create pollution
Groups: Fermi 3 nuclear plant would create pollution
BY TINA LAM • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • May 5, 2009 MONROE –
– Environmental groups told federal regulators today that a new Fermi 3 nuclear plant is not needed and would cause new air and water pollution. That includes warm water and phosphorus that could add to algae blooms already happening in recent summers in western Lake Erie…………….………………..The groups, including Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra club, also questioned the evacuation plans for 3,000 workers who would be at Fermi 2 and Fermi 3 and said new roads will be needed to handle workers from both nuclear plants in case of an accident.
A three-judge panel of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is hearing the environmental groups’ concerns as a step in the licensing of a proposed 1,500-megawatt nuclear plant. The panel will decide which concerns might need more thorough public hearings.
The plant won’t get a license for several years, after its new design is certified.
Groups: Fermi 3 nuclear plant would create pollution | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Senate panel set to mark up transmission, nuclear plans Wednesday
Senate panel set to mark up transmission, nuclear plans Wednesday
May 4, 2009
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee meets Wednesday to mark up bills on federal transmission siting authority, financing of “clean” energy projects and managing the nation’s nuclear waste……………
……….A major pillar of the Democrats’ agenda is expanding the nation’s power transmission system, an issue that lawmakers have wrestled with over the past few years……………..
……….Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has emphasized the importance of using the lines primarily for renewable energy…………………..……………..Republican Senators worry that the lack of a strategy for nuclear waste will dampen utilities’ enthusiasm to build the 26 reactors whose applications are currently being reviewed at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission………………..
…….And some senators may not be content with having reprocessing merely considered as one of the options for the commission……….…………………..critics oppose such a move, citing proliferation concerns of the separated plutonium — which could be used for a dirty bomb or a nuclear weapon if considerably enhanced — and the example the United States would set for the rest of the world if it blessed such a policy. There are environmental concerns as well as the process generates considerably more intermediate nuclear waste.
The economic plan of such a facility — which would likely cost upward of $25 billion to construct — is also a point of contention, as a reprocessing facility would not eliminate the need for a permanent geologic repository so the cost is compared to the need to build a second or third repository, as opposed to just one repository.
Senate panel set to mark up transmission, nuclear plans Wednesday – NYTimes.com
Nuclear-Waste Storage: Solve Radioactive Enigma |
Nuclear-Waste Storage: Solve Radioactive Enigma
The Ledger.com , May 5, 2009
.Taxpayers forked over a great deal of money to build the Yucca Mountain NuclearWaste Repository, which the federal government now has no plans to use. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says taxpayers should get some of that money back.In fact, Washington’s decisions regarding high-level nuclear waste disposal have been so slow and so political that a bill such as Graham’s is needed to force politicians to take responsibility for this safety issue for the generations.The United States needs a place to store or dispose of its spent commercial reactor fuel. Nuclear power plants use up fuel. Those spent fuel rods are highly radioactive. Right now, they are simply piling up at the nuclear power plants that used them.
The nation also needs a method to dispose of surplus plutonium from the nuclear-weapon-production process and from dismantled bombs
Nuclear-Waste Storage: Solve Radioactive Enigma | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL
State Sues Over Nuclear Waste
State Sues Over Nuclear Waste
3WCASX-TV NEWS Montpelier, Vermont – May 5, 2009
The state of Vermont is suing the federal government over nuclear waste at Vermont Yankee.
Highly-radioactive spent fuel from the reactor is stored at the nuclear plant in Vernon. The safety of spent fuel is governed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but it is not one of the factors the NRC will review as it considers whether to grant Vermont Yankee a license extension. The state wants to change that and is joining a federal lawsuit to force the NRC to consider spent fuel safety in the relicensing process.
State Sues Over Nuclear Waste – WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-
Fears Taliban could gain Pakistans nuclear weapons
Fears Taliban could gain Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
Australian Broadcasting Corporation LATELINE
Broadcast: 05/05/2009
Pakistan says its nuclear arsenal is secure but the US is not sure. The Taliban’s resurgency in the country has the Pentagon’s alarm bells ringing and the two countries’ presidents will meet on the threat in Washington………….Analysts say the US administration has every right to be concerned about Islamic militants getting a hold of nuclear weapons.
…….RASPAL KHOSA: The Americans have actually had a covert program where they’re assisting the Pakistanis with hardening of their facilities and training personnel in nuclear safety. But we must remember that Pakistani is also the state that gave us the A.Q. Khan network and they’ve got a history of proliferating nuclear material.KAREN BARLOW: A.Q., or Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, confessed to secretly sending nuclear material to Libya, North Korea and Iran over two decades. Karen Barlow, Lateline.
Lateline – 05/05/2009: Fears Taliban could gain Pakistans nuclear weapons
Radioactive leaks – Scotsman.com News
Radioactive leaks
06 May 2009As the British nuclear submarine fleet based at Faslane on the Clyde had a series of serious safety breaches in 2004, 2007 and 2008 involving repeated leaks of radioactive waste from broken pipes etc , I hope that medical records will be kept on local residents and workers to find out if there is an increase in cancer and leukaemia because of the radiation. In July 2007, I read that the Common Services Agency of the NHS was trying to stop the local rates of child cancers
A WILLS Dulverton RoadRuislip, Middlesex
Erosion of the Yucca Mountain Crest
From: Elsevier Environmental New Network May 5, 2009 09 Erosion of the Yucca Mountain Crest
Amsterdam — The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier’s journal Geomorphology and recently included in the Research Highlights of Nature, shows that there may be erosion of the crest.
Kurt Stüwe of the University of Graz, Austria, together with his colleagues, used a simple numerical landscape evolution model to explore the rate of erosional decay of the Yucca Mountain crest. The model they used is well established in the expert literature, but Kurt Stüwe and his coauthors used it for the first time for a subject of economic relevance………………..
Amsterdam — The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier’s journal Geomorphology and recently included in the Research Highlights of Nature, shows that there may be erosion of the crest.
Kurt Stüwe of the University of Graz, Austria, together with his colleagues, used a simple numerical landscape evolution model to explore the rate of erosional decay of the Yucca Mountain crest. The model they used is well established in the expert literature, but Kurt Stüwe and his coauthors used it for the first time for a subject of economic relevance.
Green Technology and Environmental Science News: ENN — Know Your Environment
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements Science News By Janet Ralof
Collectively, Americans now receive more than twice as much radiation each year as in the 1980s. That’s according to a new tally by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
Of course, the operant word here is collectively. NCRP isn’t saying every individual is getting twice as big an annual radiation dose, only that if you sum up doses to the entire population each year, that big figure has doubled and more over the past two decades or so…………………..the increase stems largely from an increase in medical procedures that rely on radiation — from conventional diagnostic X-rays and CT scans to radiotherapy for cancer………………………Airline crews receive the highest average occupational exposures to radiation — a little more than 3 millisieverts annually. (The source: cosmic rays — mainly protons, alpha particles and atomic nuclei — encountered flying high above the atmosphere.) What about nuclear-plant workers? They sustain annual radiation doses about one-third smaller…………………..
– Families of nuclear test vets sought
Families of nuclear test vets sought journal
Live.co.uk May 5 2009 by Phil Doherty, The JournalDESCENDANTS of servicemen who took part in the British nuclear tests are being sought for a major study into their health.The British Nuclear Test Veterans’ Association need as many children and grandchildren as possible to take part in the Ministry of Defence research to see if they have suffered genetic damage from radiation.This follows promises by Veterans Minister and North MP Kevan Jones to address the long-term concerns of servicemen that their children have been damaged indirectly by the bomb tests in the 1950s and 60s………………….The study by the MoD will also look for genetic damage to the veterans and follows a major New Zealand research that showed their nuclear test servicemen were effected physically by their exposure to radiation. Up to 20,000 British servicemen and their Commonwealth counterparts took part in a range of atomic and nuclear bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific and Montebello Island, Maralinga and Emu Island in Australia.
According to the BNTVA, descendants of veterans are more likely to be born with disabilities and birth defects.
For decades the MoD denied there was a problem but the New Zealand study undermined this position.
JournalLive – News – Today’s News – Families of nuclear test vets sought
Fears Taliban could gain Pakistans nuclear weapons
Fears Taliban could gain Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 05/05/2009
KAREN BARLOW: A.Q., or Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, confessed to secretly sending nuclear material to Libya, North Korea and Iran over two decades. Karen Barlow, Lateline.
Lateline – 05/05/2009: Fears Taliban could gain Pakistans nuclear weapons
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