Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down By Ice Problems – wbztv.com
Problems Shut Down Pilgrim Nuclear Plant
Dec 22, 2008 3:30 pm US/EasternIce PLYMOUTH (WBZ) The weekend’s wintry weather caused problems at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. The plant automatically shut down on Friday evening when ice jammed some transmission equipment.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down By Ice Problems – wbztv.com
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Regulators spot another blunder at nuclear plant
Regulators spot another blunder at nuclear plant
Backup battery was not connected properly for years Sign On San Diego By Mike Lee2:00 a.m. December 23, 2008 Federal regulators yesterday cited another lapse at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, this time because the plant’s staff didn’t notice that a backup battery for safety systems was inoperable between 2004 and 2008.
The poorly connected battery is the latest in a string of mistakes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found at the power plant, which is run by Southern California Edison and includes San Diego Gas & Electric as a minority owner.
Other problems include falsified fire-safety records that the commission made public in January. At the time, Edison officials said they had fired or disciplined seven workers over the past two years for safety and security violations, including one who skipped hourly fire checks for five years.
Regulators spot another blunder at nuclear plant
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Air Force nuclear unit fails inspection – CNN.com
Air Force nuclear unit fails inspection
WASHINGTON (CNN) By Barbara Starr
CNN Pentagon Correspondent 19 Dec 08 — For the fifth time this year, a U.S. Air Force nuclear weapons unit failed an inspection, this time because of failure to document its handling of nuclear missiles and other critical issues, Air Force officials said……………………..The inspection report found the maintenance unit failed to document tests conducted on missiles correctly, including tests on safety devices. The inspector general told the unit the failures indicated either a “lack of competence” or “disregard for procedures,” according to a source who has seen the report.
Additionally, failures included having some personnel on duty without proper medical clearance and failure to inspect radiation detectors.
Other units that failed inspections this year included two bomb wings and two missile units.
Air Force nuclear unit fails inspection – CNN.com
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Security of N power plants under review after Mumbai attacks
Security of N power plants under review after Mumbai attacks
Press Trust of India Chennai/Kalpakkam, Dec18 (PTI) The security of the nuclear power plants across the country was being reviewed in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks and any additional measures required to protect them would be put in place, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said today.
Security of N power plants under review after Mumbai attacks
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http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=237643&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31269
Nuclear watch
Gulf Daily News 15 Dec 08 By GEOFFREY BEWMANAMA
PREVENTING terrorists from exploiting the nuclear power industry is the biggest challenge facing the Middle East, a top British official said yesterday. Defence Secretary John Hutton said effective international inspection and regulation of the developing sector would be crucial to maintain security and prevent almost certain disaster………………………….he expansion of civil nuclear power also increases the risk of sensitive technologies falling into the wrong hands or being applied for military purposes.
“Nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East would be a disaster for regional and global security.”…………….”Nuclear weapons proliferation is a first order security threat that must be dealt with now and not be brushed under the carpet.”
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=237643&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31269
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Jellyfish: The Jellyfish Are Coming
The jellyfish are coming
13 Dec 08 They are gelatinous, pulsating, tentacled, and sometimes deadly. And they seem to be appearing in ever-increasing swarms across the oceans of the world. In recent years, massive blooms of stinging jellyfish and jellyfish-like creatures have overrun……………And proving that jellyfish can be political animals, knots of jellyfish have done the work of anti-nuclear activists: they have disabled nuclear power plants by clogging intake pipes.
Jellyfish: The Jellyfish Are Coming
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Reid submits testimony against rail line to Yucca – Las Vegas Sun
Reid submits testimony against rail line to Yucca
LAS VEGAS SUN Dec 4, 2008 – “….text of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ‘s testimony ,………………..’Nevadans and their leaders have not been reassured that Yucca Mountain will safely contain nuclear waste. We haven’t been reassured that transporting nuclear waste through our communities, over our grazing land, and past our schools and businesses can be done without incident. The Federal government has had more than two decades to reassure us, yet we still point to myriad safety and security flaws that have brought the Yucca project to its knees…………………..Nevadans will not benefit from this rail line – shipping nuclear waste through our state will hurt our economy many more times than it will help.
Stating that this railroad is for general freight is misleading subterfuge. It is forum shopping of the worst kind……………………Transportation may be the Achilles heel of the Yucca Mountain project. It is extremely costly, affects millions of Americans and almost all of the states, is fraught with danger from terrorism, sabotage and accidents, and has potential to greatly impact states, cities, and local communities all across the nation.
Reid submits testimony against rail line to Yucca – Las Vegas Sun
Nation & World | Feds to fine Hanford contractor $385,000 | Seattle Times Newspaper
Feds to fine Hanford contractor $385,000
RICHLAND — The U.S. Department of Energy plans to issue a $385,000 fine to Bechtel National, the contractor building a nuclear waste treatment plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation………
……..The largest portion of the fine, $220,000, will be for failing to improve quality. The rest will cover problems related to piping used in “black cells,” or areas that will be so radioactively hot that workers cannot enter them during the 40 years the plant may operate.
Nation & World | Feds to fine Hanford contractor $385,000 | Seattle Times Newspaper
NTI: Global Security Newswire – WMD Panel Advises Dramatic Steps to Stem Nuclear Spread
WMD Panel Advises Dramatic Steps to Stem Nuclear Spread
NTI Dec. 2, 2008By Elaine M. Grossman Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — The United States should strengthen the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency and take other steps to prevent non-nuclear states from acquiring atomic weapons, a bipartisan panel said in a report released today (see GSN, Dec. 1)………………….some commissioners said this week that the group’s most substantial findings might be those pertaining to preventing the spread of nuclear technologies. The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism echoed a recent U.S. intelligence projection that a biological weapons attack could be more likely in the years to come, but a nuclear detonation could prove even more catastrophic………….Several specific proposals advocated by the WMD panel attempt to reduce the risk that civil nuclear power programs could contribute to illicit atomic weapons development efforts.
For example, by discouraging the use of financial subsidies for nuclear energy, the group hopes the market might push growing nations toward embracing alternative energy sources. The commission also urges Washington to agree with its international partners on a “date certain” for ending the civilian use and export of highly enriched uranium, and to declare a moratorium on commercial reprocessing.
NTI: Global Security Newswire – WMD Panel Advises Dramatic Steps to Stem Nuclear Spread
Palo Verde shuts down reactor due to leak
Palo Verde shuts down reactor due to leakby Ryan Randazzo – Nov. 24, 2008 12:08 PMThe Arizona RepublicOne of the three reactors at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station shut down Friday to fix a cooling-system leak, reducing output during what was shaping up to be a banner year at the facility.
U.S. Space Command reveals fire at nuclear missile silo : NewsHerald.com
U.S. Space Command reveals fire at nuclear missile silo
NEWSHERALD November 17, 2008Freedom NewspapersCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A fire in a Wyoming missile silo last spring exposed more problems in the oversight of the nation’s nuclear ICBM fleet………………………
The command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, released an accident investigation report on the silo fire Oct. 30, but had made no previous announcement of the incident. The Air Force has been under fire for months for failure to properly safeguard nuclear weapons in other incidents that led to the firing of the service’s top civilian and military leaders and discipline for several officers linked to nuclear problems.
The fire occurred May 23 at an undisclosed location outside Cheyenne, Wyo, where the Minuteman III missile is stored, ready for firing in an underground launch facility……………
John Pike, a nuclear expert with the think-tank GlobalSecurity.org said that the findings or the accident investigation, which revealed that duct tape was being used as a repair material in the silo, are cause for serious concern.
“The notion that you’re patching up your H-bombs with duct tape is not encouraging,” Pike said. “You also have to wonder if you have this sloppy activity that is revealed by a fire happened, how much other sloppy activity has not detected.”
U.S. Space Command reveals fire at nuclear missile silo : NewsHerald.com
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EUobserver
EU-Russia summit to ignore nuclear safety concerns
PHILIPPA RUNNERT 14 Nov 08 EUOBSERVER BRUSSELS – EU concerns about Russia’s nuclear safety and human rights standards will not get much attention in Nice on Friday as French President Nicolas Sarkozy celebrates his role in ending the Georgia war.
Two internal documents on EU-Russia relations prepared by the European Commission and EU diplomats ahead of the summit point to mounting environmental concerns about Russia’s defunct nuclear submarines and ageing power plants.“More than 200 nuclear reactors and some 20,000 spent fuel elements coming from dismantled submarines and icebreakers are stored in poor conditions,” in north west Russia, the EU analysis paper – seen by EUobserver – says.
“Russia has prolonged the lifetime of its first generation nuclear reactors, some of which are of the Chernobyl type and close to the EU’s border,” it adds, noting that an EU-Russia nuclear safety group last met in 2005.
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New Yankee discoveries raise doubts about NRC: Rutland Herald Online
New Yankee discoveries raise doubts about NRC
RUTLAND HERALD November 14, 2008By Susan Smallheer Herald Staff BRATTLEBORO — The discovery of more degraded wooden support beams in Vermont Yankee’s cooling towers — this time in the reactor’s only safety dedicated cell — raised questions Thursday about how thorough a special Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspection was this summer.Workers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant had to immediately replace five deteriorated major support columns in the one safety-related cell of the reactor’s two cooling towers during the plant’s recent refueling outage, according to the NRC.
New Yankee discoveries raise doubts about NRC: Rutland Herald Online
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Nuclear group warns about construction | ajc.com
Nuclear group warns about construction
ajc.com Associated PressTuesday, November 04, 2008Columbia —- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is warning the nuclear industry to be careful in its construction oversight after finding problems earlier this year at the Savannah River Site.Specifically, the Greenville News reported Sunday, the warning addresses bad concrete and faulty reinforcing steel in the foundation of the Savannah River plant. The site will produce nuclear reactor fuel from weapons-grade plutonium……………………………..A spokesman for AREVA, one of the private partners building and operating the plant, had no comment on the report.
Problems with concrete at a nuclear plant under construction in Finland, according to the NRC, “caused lengthy construction delays and had a negative impact on public confidence.”
In France, officials encountered a series of problems with steel reinforcing bars in construction of a new reactor site there. The French agency overseeing the project “considers the main issue to be the licensee’s quality management system,” the NRC reported…………….
Tom Clements, Southeast nuclear campaign coordinator for the environmental group Friends of the Earth, said the problems discovered at the MOX plant appear to be “endemic” to nuclear industry construction.
“It doesn’t bode well for the rest of the project or other such projects, nationally,” he said.
Nuclear group warns about construction | ajc.com
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Derailment prompts uranium transport concern – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Derailment prompts uranium transport concern
ABC News 5 Nov 08An environment group says a BHP Billiton proposal to transport uranium yellowcake through the Northern Territory should be reconsidered in light of a train derailment near Katherine.
Four carriages left the tracks west of Katherine yesterday and investigators are trying to determine the cause.
Justin Tutty from the No Waste Alliance says BHP’s proposal would see a trainload of radioactive material a day on the same rail line.
“We already have yellowcake coming from South Australia, but BHP’s proposal is something different,” Mr Tutty said.
“We are talking about huge volumes, up to 5,000 tonnes a day, a train movement every day of finely particularised concentrate.
“I don’t think the Territory is equipped to deal with a derailment or a collision involving this radioactive material.”……………………
“We have our eye on the NT Government’s inquiry into the transport of dangerous and hazardous materials in relation to the proposal for a nuclear waste dump,” he said.
“We are concerned about safety regarding the transport of nuclear waste, but this is a whole new ball game.
“This is far greater volumes, daily movements, and we are talking about a radioactive dust.”
Derailment prompts uranium transport concern – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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