Russian nuclear submarine collides with fishing boat
Nuclear submarine collides with fishing boat ABC News, 23 Sept 11, A Russian nuclear submarine collided with a fishing boat off the country’s Pacific coast, damaging the outer shell of the naval vessel but causing no radiation leak, Russian news agencies reported overnight. Continue reading
Florida’s nuclear power project – long delay, skyrocketing costs
the online date, if the reactors ever even come online, has bumped back to 2021 and 2022 and the estimated cost has skyrocketed to upper estimates of $22.5 billion!…
Round 3 – Florida Paying for Risky Nuclear Costs, Clean Energy Footprints, 22 Sept 11, Last month, SACE again participated in the nuclear cost recovery hearings for Progress Energy Florida (PEF) and Florida Power & Light (FPL) at the Florida Public ServiceCommission (PSC) in Tallahassee. This is the third consecutive year that these Florida utilities have asked the PSC to approve millions of dollars in ratepayer increases to pay in advance for proposed nuclear power projects that have an uncertain future, especially in a post-Fukushima world.
Utilities gained this ability in 2006 when the Florida Legislature passed anti-consumer legislation. SACE has intervened on behalf of Florida consumers every year to highlight the risks of these proposed nuclear power projects and the resulting unfairness in charging Florida ratepayers in advance. And every year the PSC has unfortunately granted the utilities’ wishes in full.
Could the third time be the charm? The PSC is set to vote in just over a month, on October 24, 2011. Continue reading
Doubts on safety of Koodankulam nuclear project, and of others too
“there should be a moratorium on all further nuclear activity, and revocation of recent clearances for nuclear projects”, given without regard to India’s ramshackle infrastructure and largely untested emergency procedures…
The issue is far larger than just Koodankulam. There are lingering doubts about the safety measures being reliable, workable and effective….
Discordant voices on safety of nuclear power, THE HINDU, B.S.RAGHAVAN, 22 SEPT 11, Following the agitation, including mass fasting, by the people of Idinthakarai, the village adjacent to the Koodankulam atomic power project, who are in panic over the possibility of the occurrence of a disaster similar to the one at Fukushima and consequent dangers from radiation, there has been a cacophony of voices over the pros and cons of nuclear power. Continue reading
60,000 Japanese rally in Tokyo against nuclear power
The huge turnout even surprised the participants, hinting that the crisis had finally stirred something in the nation’s normally passive psyche……Flaws, construction errors in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant
Insider cites sloppy work at Iranian nuclear plant, SMH, DOUGLAS BIRCH and GARY PEACH, September 23, 2011 A Russian engineer who worked on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant during the final stages of construction says inexperienced workers, poor oversight and layers of bureaucracy contributed to a rash of equipment failures that delayed the reactor’s startup for almost a year. Continue reading
Nuclear watchdog groups press NRC chairman to release damning internal dissent
Public interest groups call for nuclear regulators to halt the AP1000 reactor approval process FOE, 16 June 11, Jim Warren, NC WARN, 919-416-5077 Tom Clements, Friends of the Earth, 803-240-7268, tomclements329@cs.com
Citing more design mistakes and omissions, public interest groups call for nuclear regulators to halt the AP1000 reactor approval process
Watchdog groups press NRC chairman to release damning internal dissent
DURHAM, N.C. — In a legal motion filed today, watchdog groups pressed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to terminate the approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design. The groups said that a growing list of mistakes and omissions — and a 19th version of the experimental design filed just this week by the company — prove that the “rulemaking” process to approve the ever-changing design is legally “null and void.” Continue reading
Georgia, USA, awaiting huge government loan guarantee for new nuclear reactors
A Giant Nuclear Project Awaits Its Federal Loans, NYT, By MATTHEW L. WALD, 23 Sept 11, Federal help for energy projects has taken it on the chin lately, with Solyndra, the California solar manufacturer championed by the Obama administration, declaring bankruptcy after taking $528 million in loans from the Treasury.
But a much larger federal loan guarantee for an energy project is expected soon: $8.3 billion in loan guarantees announced last year by President Obama for two nuclear reactors in Georgia…..
The commission issued a final safety evaluation last month that drew fervent objections from anti-nuclear groups.
A few years ago, when the price of natural gas, a competing fuel, was high and many people predicted that the federal government would impose a price on carbon dioxide emissions, the nuclear industry thought Vogtle would be in the vanguard of a new generation of reactors in a so-called nuclear renaissance. Then natural gas prices declined and the impetus faded. And concerns about nuclear safety have grown since the disaster in March at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant…. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/a-giant-nuclear-project-awaits-its-federal-loans/
Iran ‘s offer to stop enriching uranium
Iran offers to halt enrichment, if West provides uranium, Dawn.com, 22 Sept 11, WASHINGTON: Iran has offered to stop its production of low enriched uranium, provided the West gives it the nuclear material, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published in Thursday’s New York Times…. Continue reading
Nuclear radioactive leaks in the UK
Nuclear leaks in the UK
Windscale, Cumbria, 1957: Fire at a military plutonium reactor spread radioactive contamination over large parts of England and Europe
Dounreay, Caithness, 1963-84: Tens of thousands of radioactive particles from old reactors contaminated the shoreline and the seabed
Sellafield, Cumbria, 1983: The government advised people not to swim or use beaches along 10 miles of coastline after a radioactive leak from a reprocessing plant
Chapelcross, Dumfriesshire, 2000-05: 126 radioactive particles from defunct reactors found on the shore of the Solway Firth
Sellafield, Cumbria, 2006-11: 1,233 radioactive particles and pebbles contaminated by historic leaks found and removed from nearby beaches
Dalgety Bay, Fife, 1990-2011: Hundreds of radioactive remnants from the luminous dials of second world war aircraft removed from foreshore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/21/scottish-nuclear-leak-clean-up?newsfeed=true
UN Report – pro nuclear, yet with many warnings
Today, 22 Sept 11, a special UN meeting will examine responses to Fukushima and the role/safety of nuclear power.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon commissioned a multi-agency report to help guide this discussion.
It is available via http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/energy/hlm/UN-system-wide-study.pdf
Comments on the United Nations system-wide study on the implications of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Dave Sweeney – September 2011
The report has been primarily drafted by the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency and is framed with the assumption that nuclear power is here to stay – Nuclear power has been and will remain a significant contributor to meeting global energy needs (16)
Within this flawed context there is much value and campaign utility in the report. Continue reading
Nuclear terrorism threat highlighted by 9/11 and Fukushima
The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment notes that “One important lesson of the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents is that what can happen as a result of an accident can also happen as a result of a premeditated action.”
They explain that terrorists will be searching for the “weakest link”, observing that “the dramatic developments associated with the Fukushima disaster might awaken terrorist interest in this path to nuclear terrorism.”
The 9/11-3/11 connection, By TILMAN RUFF, 21 Sept 11, Special to The Japan Times MELBOURNE — ”……..Where was the fourth airliner on Sept. 11, 2001, headed? It crashed in a Pennsylvania field as passengers and crew fought the hijackers, but what was its target? The White House or Capitol Hill is generally thought most likely, though some scholars have concluded that when it crashed, flight UA93 was heading for the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Continue reading
Nuclear power cannot cope with climate change
nuclear cannot take the heat… rather than being a solution to climate change, nuclear is actually significantly undermined by climate change. .
Australian Parliament, Senate speech, Senator Christine Milne, 21 Sept 11“……..On climate change, there is this ridiculous assertion that nuclear energy is required to address climate change. It is actually the opposite. In this report [UN Report on Nuclear safety ] it states that the assumptions that need to be reviewed are regarding the types of accidents that are possible. The report says that an assessment of those accidents was way too modest and that they need to look at the possible effects of climate change in relation to nuclear energy. Continue reading
USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission changed safety rules to benefit nuclear company
a decision by the NRC that “exempted” Indian Point from fire safety requirements that had been on the books for 30 years. ……And the “exemption” was granted in complete secrecy
NRC Cooks the Books at Indian Point, Policy Shop , 21 Sept 11, Richard Brodsky The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe opened the eyes and minds of most Americans to the dangers of Indian Point, and real mismanagement by the NRC. The NRC is supposed to ensure American nuclear reactors are not operated dangerously. There’s been widespread concern that the NRC isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do. Now we can prove it. Continue reading
Dounreay nuclear plant’s radioactive pollution of Scotland’s North coast seabed
“Once again, we see the nuclear industry causing a problem it can’t solve, and dumping the cost and consequence on the rest of us,”
Scottish nuclear fuel leak ‘will never be completely cleaned up’ The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has abandoned its aim to remove all traces of contamination from the north coast seabed Rob Edwards guardian.co.uk, 21 September 2011 Radioactive contamination that leaked for more than two decades from the Dounreay nuclear plant on the north coast of Scotland will never be completely cleaned up, a Scottish government agency has admitted. Continue reading
India’s new Nuclear Regulator will be a tame instrument of government
“This is an unprecedented directive which coerces and demands obedience from the Regulatory Authority.
CPI-M flays nuclear safety authority bill, The Economic Times, 21 Sept 11, NEW DELHI: The CPI-M on Wednesday denounced the proposed Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill and asked the government to “set up a genuinely independent nuclear safety regulatory authority”. Continue reading 1 This Month
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