US senator calls for a stop to re-licensing nuclear power plants
US Sen. Sanders: Slow down on nuclear relicensing Bloomberg, BusinessWeek 21 march11, MONTPELIER, Vt.U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling for a moratorium on the licensing of new nuclear plants and relicensing of existing ones, as well as other steps that would put the brakes on what’s been touted as a nuclear renaissance in the United States…. US Sen. Sanders: Slow down on nuclear relicensing – BusinessWeek
Viability of USA’s nuclear power now called into question
“Today everybody is worried about the spent fuel pools………..New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking a review of the Indian Point power plant, about 40 miles north of New York City. More than 21 million people live within 50 miles of the plant……
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said the crisis called into question the viability of nuclear power in the United States.
Nuclear crisis may affect placement of US reactors, Google News 21 march 11, “………The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said his agency will again review how U.S. nuclear plants store spent-fuel from nuclear reactors. Continue reading
Britain likely to stall plans for new nuclear reactors
“Globally, this undoubtedly casts a shadow over the renaissance of the nuclear industry. That is blindingly obvious.”
Chris Huhne: Britain may scale back nuclear plans after Japan disaster. telegraph, 21 march 11 Britain may scale back its plans to build a new generation of nuclear plants in the wake of the Japanese disaster, the Energy Secretary indicated on Sunday. Continue reading
US Senator Graham has touching faith in nuclear industry
“I have a lot of faith in the nuclear industry, and I feel safe living five miles away from a nuclear power plant,”…Graham said, adding that the nuclear industry needs to do a better job explaining itself…….
US Sen. Graham: I have faith in nuclear power – BusinessWeek, 18 March COLUMBIA, S.C.U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Thursday that Japan’s nuclear crisis shouldn’t cause a halt in the construction of new nuclear power plants in this country. Continue reading
Nuclear power for Indonesia, despite earthquakes, tsunamis, and corruption
But experts are worried – not only about Indonesia’s regular earthquakes, one of which triggered a massive tsunami in December 2004, but also about weak government institutions and corruption.
Indonesia insists nuclear plans are safe | beyondbrics |March 17, 2011 by Anthony Deutsch Indonesia will go ahead with a feasibility study for a nuclear power plant, even as China has put plans on hold in the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis. Continue reading
Ever increasing hidden subsidies to nuclear lobby in USA
U.S. Nuclear Subsidies Mask Real ‘Costs and Risks,’ Scientists Say, Sunshine State News, Kenric Ward’ March 17, 2011 A report issued just days before Japan’s nuclear-reactor crisis warned that U.S. government subsidies to the industry inject financial instability.”Government subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past 50 years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away,” stated the study by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The report — “Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies” — argues that tax breaks and other government-engineered deals fuel a continued rise in costs as the nuclear power lobby demands evermore support from taxpayers.
“Piling new subsidies on top of existing ones will provide the industry with little incentive to rework its business model to internalize its considerable costs and risks,” concluded the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union.
Alternatively, the UCS report recommended adopting market-oriented approaches to uranium mining royalties and waste- management financing, and incorporating the costs of preventing nuclear proliferation and terrorism into economic assessments of new reactors.
The Obama administration is currently proposing $54 billion in new government-backed loan guarantees to facilitate the construction of new nuclear power plants.
U.S. Nuclear Subsidies Mask Real ‘Costs and Risks,’ Scientists Say | Sunshine State News
German government turning against nuclear power
Mrs. Merkel told parliament Thursday, acknowledging that nuclear plants may be switched off faster than her government had planned….Mrs. Merkel says she wants to speed up the build-up of renewable energies, and the accompanying extension of electricity grids…..
Merkel Getting More Anti-Nuclear as State Elections Loom WSJ, By Bernd Radowitz March 17, 2011Upcoming state elections and opinion polls seem to have transformed German Chancellor Angela Merkel into an anti-nuclear warrior. Continue reading
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s lax rules for re-licensing nuclear plants
Entergy merely had to prove that it had a program to manage the aging reactor……NRC’s rubberstamp of this old and leaking nuclear reactor says more about the Commission and its deference to the nuclear industry than it does about the battle over Vermont’s energy future. The NRC ‘s standard for renewal is now so lax that the Commission could relicense the Chicago Pile.
License Renewal Vote Says More About NRC Than Vermont Yankee Greenpeace USA by jim riccio – March 11, 2011 Yesterday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) decided to end the legal proceeding on the license renewal for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and said that the agency expects to issue the renewed license soon.
While discouraging, this should not come as a surprise. The NRC has renewed every reactor license since Yankee Rowe withdrew its application in the early ‘90s and threw the nuclear industry’s efforts to run aging reactors another 20 years into chaos.
So why did Yankee Rowe withdraw and Vermont Yankee receive NRC approval?
Simple, after Yankee Rowe shut down the NRC gutted its renewal rule. Yankee Rowe had to prove that it met the original terms of its operating license; not so Vermont Yankee. Entergy merely had to prove that it had a program to manage the aging reactor.Now you might think that the series of screw ups at the reactor: the turbine fire, the cooling tower collapse and the never ending leaks of radiation into groundwater, would give the Commission reason to question running the reactor another 20 years. But NRC’s rubberstamp of this old and leaking nuclear reactor says more about the Commission and its deference to the nuclear industry than it does about the battle over Vermont’s energy future. The NRC ‘s standard for renewal is now so lax that the Commission could relicense the Chicago Pile.
License Renewal Vote Says More About NRC Than Vermont Yankee | Greenpeace USA
USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves extending life of old nuclear reactor
The state argues that the plant is too old to be reliable, an area over which it has jurisdiction….The governor who took office in January, Peter Shumlin, has said repeatedly that the plant was designed to close at the end of 40 years and that it should be closed then.
Showdown on Vermont Nuclear Plant’s Fate, NYTimes.com, By MATTHEW L. WALD : March 10, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday rejected all challenges to extending the operating license of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, setting up a confrontation between the reactor’s owner and the Vermont Legislature, which has blocked a state certificate needed to keep the plant running. The commission voted 4 to 0, with one recusal, to allow its staff to issue the renewal. Continue reading
83 MPs join opposition to nuclear garbage shipment across Great Lakes
We’re talking about nuclear garbage, and we’re going to have a highway of nuclear garbage. This shipment is going to be the first of many if we allow it to happen,”
Groups urge feds to stall ‘nuclear garbage’ shipment Eighty-three MPs sign petition Montreal Gazette, By CARMEN CHAI, Postmedia News March 9, 2011 Continue reading
Despite political turmoil, Egypt to go ahead with nuclear power
Egypt says to press ahead with nuclear tender CAIRO, March 9 (Reuters) – Egypt’s Electricity Minister said the country would go ahead with a tender for the construction of its first nuclear power plant despite recent political unrest, a government Facebook page reported on Wednesday. Egypt says to press ahead with nuclear tender | Energy & Oil | Reuters
Public and political opposition to extending life of Germany’s nukes
Polls suggest a majority of Germans oppose Merkel’s plans to push back that phase-out.
Opposition-led states file lawsuit against nuclear power extension | Germany | Deutsche Welle Andre Bowen, 28.02.2011 Opposition parties from five Germans states are taking the national government to court over plans to extend the lifespan of Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants, insisting that their approval is required. Five German states led by opposition parties filed a lawsuit in the country’s highest court on Monday, arguing that the government’s extension of the lifespan of nuclear power plants should have needed their approval. Continue reading
Lack of knowledge by Iowa lawmakers, about energy sources
There are other, cost effective ways to make and use electricity. Regrettably, blind enthusiasm prevents legislators from seeing this is possible and that it may be a better path to create jobs and meet our demand for electricity.
Iowa Legislators are Enthusiastic about Nuclear Power, Blog for Iowa, by Paul Deaton, 26 Feb 2011, “……….Why are Iowa’s legislators so enthusiastic about nuclear power? We have created a functional meritocracy around the generation of electricity, in which the power to influence the legislators goes to those with the most knowledge about it, the electric utilities…. Continue reading
Under pressure from nuclear lobby, Spain extends life of reactors
With much propaganda, but no truth or accurate information, the nuclear lobby was quick to proclaim everywhere that the recently adopted Law of ‘Sustainable’ Economy now allows the Spanish government to ‘extend the life of nuclear plants beyond the 40 years hitherto permitted’.
Spain’s nuclear spin | Greenpeace International, 26 Feb 2011, We are living in troubled times in Spain thanks to nuclear energy. The incoherence and inconsistency of the socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero about nuclear energy in the last few weeks has plunged us into confusion. The nuclear lobby is taking advantage of this situation, proving the Spanish proverb that ‘in troubled waters, fishermen gain’. Continue reading
Egypt’s nuclear plant delayed because of political instability
Unrest delays Egypt nuclear power plant tender.larabia.net 20 Feb 2011 The instability in Egypt has delayed the tender for the country’s first nuclear power plant, a state-owned newspaper reported on Saturday.”It has been decided to postpone the international tender for the construction … of the first nuclear power plant in al-Dabaa until the stabilization of the situation in the country,” al-Ahram said.The tender process, due in January, has been delayed to “guarantee the greatest number of companies” from different countries take part to ensure “real competition,” it said…….The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces warned on Friday that it will no longer tolerate protests that disrupt Egypt’s economy…..Unrest delays Egypt nuclear power plant tender
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