Will a Failed Solar Loan Guarantee Kill New Nukes?,
By Harvey Wasserman, 6 Oct 11, Republicans up in arms about the infamous failed federal $535 million loan guarantee for the Solyndra solar panel producer are finally tasked to apply the same standards to nuclear power.
If that happens, there will be no more commercial reactors built in the United States.
Unlike solar power, atomic energy cannot attract private capital. So if the GOP succeeds in dragging down the entire federal energy loan program, the “Nuclear Renaissance” could be definitively done. Continue reading
Nuclear Regulatory Commission report on dangers of spent fuel pools
Nuclear agency urged to review spent fuel pools,Forbes, By MATTHEW DALY , 10.05.11, WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should take immediate steps to improve the safety of pools containing radioactive waste stored at U.S. nuclear plants, an internal report released Wednesday said.
The report by NRC staff elevates the importance of spent-fuel pools, saying current regulations do not require instruments measuring water levels to be operable in case of accident. Water levels at spent-fuel pools were a key issue after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear plant in Japan…..
USA nuclear companies up against India’s Nuclear Liability Law
India-U.S. Nuclear Growth May See More Delays, WSJ, By ERIC YEP MUMBAI – U.S.-based companies hoping to cash in on India’s plans to increase its number of nuclear reactors could face more delays despite the government’s efforts to bring the country’s liability rules for nuclear accidents in line with global norms.
U.S. companies had expected big contracts to flow from India’s nuclear expansion after a New Delhi-Washington agreement in 2005 and a subsequent waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group on the transfer of nuclear technology to India.
But last year India’s parliament passed a liability law making both equipment suppliers and reactor operators liable to accident compensation claims, stalling the entry of companies like GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Westinghouse Electric Co. Continue reading
Anti nuclear protest rally in Toledo, Ohio
Anti-nuclear activists rally in Promenade Park, By Dick Berry,TOLEDO, OH (WTOL), 1 Oct 11 – Anti-nuclear activists rallied Saturday in Downtown Toledo’s Promenade Park. They called for the closure of nuclear power plants like Davis Besse and production of more green energy.
The keynote speaker was Democratic Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kusinich. He says Americans need to ditch nuclear power and develop less expensive forms of energy, such as wind and solar technology.
“We could create millions of jobs doing that. We have to look at how we can get our energy going again, protect the jobs we have now and get our economy going again using new energy development.”….
“The technology is there with wind and solar. It’s just a matter of us having the political will to do it” says Michael Leonardi of the Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy…. http://www.wtol.com/story/15596725/anti-nuclear-activists-rally-in-promenade-park
Lengthy and costly cleanup of uranium contaminated site
Largest abandoned uranium mine cleanup on Navajo Nation announced An important milestone in the effort to clean up of Navajo trust lands contaminated by historic uranium mining will be achieved in the cleanup of the Northeast Church Rock Mine in New Mexico., Mineweb, Dorothy Kosich, 30 Sep 2011 RENO, NV – The U.S. EPA announced Thursday it has approved a plan to clean up 1.4 million tons of radium and uranium contaminated soil at the Northeast Church Rock Mine, the largest and highest priority uranium mine on the Navajo Nation. Continue reading
General Eclectric warns on nuclear reactors and earthquakes
GE warns nuclear reactors could struggle in earthquake, October 02, 2011, NJ.com. By Eliot Caroom/The Star-Ledger A manufacturer of dozens of boiling water nuclear reactors in the country, including many on the East Coast, warned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last year and reiterated last week that earthquakes could hinder its reactors from shutting down. Continue reading
“Independent” nuclear expert Meserve paid by nuclear industry
Frequent Media Nuclear Expert On Payroll Of Multiple Nuclear Power Companies , Simply Info, September 16th, 2011 This article came out through US news services yesterday frequently quoting a nuclear expert who is claiming newer commercial nuclear power plants are safer or superior to plants like Fukushima. Richard Meserve, the expert in the article claims because Fukushima was built in the 1970′s and that newer plant designs would be much safer.
The bulk of the US power plants were built in the 60′s and 70′s just like Fukushima. The word for word line about newer plants being safer is a standard line from the commercial nuclear power industry. The article cites’s Meserve’s credentials as being a former NRC head and as a consultant to the IAEA. After some research it is clear that this doesn’t even scratch the surface of Meserve’s real allegiances or who who signs his substantial paychecks. Continue reading
In USA nuclear industry spending up big on lobbying
In April through June, NEI lobbied Congress, the Commerce Department, the Defense Department, the Executive Office of the President, the Departments of Transportation, Energy, State and Homeland Security Department, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to the report the NEI filed July 19 with the House clerk’s office….
Nuclear group spent $580,000 lobbying in April, May, June 2011 Forbes, By The Associated Press, 09.30.11, NEW YORK — The main trade group for the nuclear power industry, the Nuclear Energy Institute, spent $580,000 in the first quarter lobbying federal officials about financial support for new reactors, safety regulations and other issues, according to a disclosure report. Continue reading
Nuclear plant in Georgia leaking radioactive water to ground
Radioactive water found under Ga. nuke plant, Forbes, By RAY HENRY , 09.30.11, ATLANTA — Radioactive water has been found underneath a Southern Co. nuclear power plant in southeast Georgia, but officials said Friday that the leak does not pose an immediate threat to public health and is unlikely to contaminate any drinking water.
The Atlanta-based Southern Co. learned of the leak beneath Plant Hatch in Baxley on Wednesday when it identified radioactive tritium in two test wells about 25 feet below the ground, said Dennis Madison, a utility vice president who oversees the plant. Workers guided by ground-penetrating radar were planning to dig Friday to identify the source of the leak…. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/30/business-multiutilities-us-plant-hatch-leak-georgia_8710682.html
USA Republicans push for nuclear loans, but attack solar ones
GOP senator: Energy Dept. dragging feet on uranium plant loan guarantee,THE HILL, By Ben Geman – 09/30/11 Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) is pressing the Energy Department to approve a long-sought loan guarantee for an Ohio uranium-enrichment plant amid planned layoffs and “demobilization” of the project if the financing agreement isn’t forthcoming.
USEC Inc. is seeking a conditional approval of its $2 billion loan-guarantee application to the Energy Department for the American Centrifuge Plant.
Portman’s comments come as Republicans are attacking the White House over the $535 million loan guarantee granted in 2009 to solar panel maker Solyndra, which collapsed and filed for bankruptcy several weeks ago.
But while the DOE loan-guarantee program is now under attack from many Republicans who say it exposes the folly of “green jobs” efforts, multiple GOP lawmakers have pushed DOE to provide financing for projects in their states through its various loan programs….http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/184775-gop-senator-presses-energy-dept-to-speed-up-uranium-plant-loan-guarantee
Nuclear plant crew supervisor falsified safety records
2nd man charged for fake records at TVA nuke plant, Bloomberg, By BILL POOVEY, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 28 Sept 11, A second contractor employee at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant has been charged with falsifying electrical cable inspection records … Continue reading
Colorado uranium mine still leaking radioactivity – Cotter ordered to stop this
Colorado regulators order Cotter to do more to stop uranium contamination of water.By Karen E. Crummy, The Denver Post 29 sept 11 Uranium-laden water from a contaminated mine is still flowing into Ralston Creek, leading state regulators Wednesday to demand that the mine’s owner divert creek water away from its facility and find the source of the contamination…… Continue reading Radioactive danger in flooding – report on uranium proposal for Pittsylvania County
flooding increases the risk of radioactive contamination, whether it’s a catastrophic event or long-term “chronic” release of contaminants into the water,
Report highlights flooding at proposed uranium site, News Advance 29 Sept 11 An environmental group is calling for more water studies of a proposed uranium site before legislators debate whether to lift the state moratorium on uranium mining. Continue reading
Deceptive advertising from Entergy, about Indian Point nuclear power plant
Entergy forgot to mention that Indian Point has radioactive air and water emissions and leaks….
residents of three counties adjacent to Indian Point have thyroid cancer rates among the highest in the United States.
Indian Point Nuclear power Plant raises concerns, Times Union.com, Tom Ellis, September 27, 2011 A full-page ad in the Aug. 18 Times Union touted the benefits of Indian Point, a 49-year-old, three-unit nuclear power station where two 1970s-vintage reactors still operate. The plant is 25 miles north of the Bronx and 35 miles from midtown Manhattan. The ad was paid for by Entergy, owner of Indian Point. Continue reading
USA government beholden to nuclear lobby
In Germany, where electoral realities have forced to the government to take an honest look at nuclear safety, market realities have delineated a path away from nuclear power and toward a renewable energy economy. In the US, where government is not only insulated from popular opinion but also beholden to corporate largess, elected officials, regulators and industry work hand-in-hand to perpetuate dangerous, expensive and inefficient technologies (while, on Capitol Hill, House Republicans vote to slash already threadbare programs meant to encourage renewable energy development).
In Post-Fukushima Reality, What Is the Future, and Who Is Winning It?, TruthOut, 28 September 2011 by: Gregg Levine, “…… nuclear power has never gotten off the ground in Australia for a rather basic reason: it is not supported by a majority of its people…..
What the public wants, however, (as some recent events in the US seem to indicate) is not always what the public gets. Also required is a mechanism for the electorate to impose their will. Continue reading
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