Three months later, flood problems keep nuclear reactor closed
The nuclear plant has been shut down for nearly three months. According to the NRC it won’t be allowed back on-line until it passes several rigorous safety inspections.
OPPD: Duration of 2011 Flood “Unprecedented in Nuclear Industry”, Missouri News Horizon, by Joe Jordan, 27 July 1 1, Officials with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) and the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) met in Omaha today, as the NRC continues to examine OPPD’s flood safety plans at the Fort Calhoun Station.
In the midst of record flooding on the Missouri River, the NRC’s Kriss Kennedy says, “It’s not clear what we’re going to see when the waters recede.” Kennedy added, “There’s a potential long-term impact on the equipment.” Continue reading
USA’s secret efforts to prevent Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal
Get rid of coal, and benefit health, climate, and economy
it would be a mistake to view air pollution regulations only through an economic lens. The EPA says that the new cross-state border rule will provide $280 billion in public health savings at the cost of roughly $2.5 billion a year in plant upgrades — and many of those upgrades are already underway. Crunch the numbers that way and it seems like economic folly not to take action. Industry also has a habit of overestimating just how expensive clean air will really be
Coal Kills Every Day’: Michael Bloomberg Pledges $50 Million to Fight the Coal Industry, TIME, By BRYAN WALSH , July 21, 2011 “………now Bloomberg is taking on an even bigger and more pervasive American industry: coal. On July 21, the New York mayor announced that his charitable foundation would be donating $50 million over four years to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. The purpose of the gift is simple: to help the nation’s largest environmental group push back against one of the world’s biggest sources of air pollution, plant by plant. “Coal kills every day,” Bloomberg told TIME. “It’s a dirty fuel.” Continue reading
USA and Japan want Mongolia as toilet for their nuclear wastes
So for now US, Japan will humbly ask Mongolian people to please let us use your toilet in exchange to their uranium which is said to last for another 80 years only, not for 100,000 years.
MONGOLIA – Our Nuclear Waste Disposal Site? For US and Japan, ALLVOICES, Ulaanbaatar : Mongolia | Jul 21, 2011, BY northernlight Kyodo Japan reported on July 18 that Mongolia-US-Japan drafted the pact for the ‘comprehensive fuel services’ in which Mongolia supplies uranium and nuclear fuel to other countries (such as US and Japan) and receive the nuclear wastes
Nuclear Power Plants are liken to ‘Condos without toilets.’ Continue reading
Nukes in Space – a Recipe for Disaster
an accident in which plutonium is released by a space device as tiny particles falling to Earth maximizes its lethality. A millionth of a gram of plutonium can be a fatal dose. The pathway of greatest concern is the breathing in plutonium particle..
As the NASA Environmental Impact Statement puts it: “Particles smaller than about 5 microns would be transported to and remain in the trachea, bronchi, or deep lung regions.” The plutonium particles “would continuously irradiate lung tissue.”
“A small fraction would be transported over time directly to the blood or to lymph nodes and then to the blood,” it continues. Once plutonium “has entered the blood via ingestion or inhalation, it would circulate and be deposited primarily in the liver and skeletal system.” Also, says the document, some of the plutonium would migrate to the testes or ovaries.
What Could Truly End the Space Program: A Nuclear Disaster Overhead , OpED News, By Karl Grossman 21 July 11, Between November 25 and December 15 NASA plans to launch for use on Mars a rover fueled with 10.6 pounds of plutonium, more plutonium than ever used on a rover. Continue reading
Watts Bar nuclear plants – a history of safety flaws
Guity’s reports showed that hundreds of cables had been installed incorrectly at Watts Bar. They demonstrate that the TVA cared very little about regulations…
Safety Concerns Cloud US Nuclear Renaissance, Spiegel Online, By Ullrich Fichtner, 21 July 11, Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan “…….. A nuclear engineer who was born in Iran in 1942, Guity is a disappointed American today. “Time bombs,” he says, sounding very bitter. “We are sitting on a bunch of ticking time bombs.”……. Continue reading
Mismanagement in nuclear decommissioning industry
IG reports question management of contractors at nuclear sites, I Watch News, By Corbin Hiar, 21 July 11, The Center for Public Integrity Serious contractor-related problems at facilities that handle nuclear material have been disclosed by two new audits.
The most serious issues were raised in a report by the Department of Energy’s inspector general on the decontamination and decommissioning of K-25 , a massive World War II-era nuclear enrichment facility that is a part of the East Tennessee Technical Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Continue reading
Military Industrial Complex makes sure NASA uses nuclear, not solar, technology
There’s more to it. For many decades there has been a marriage of nuclear power and space at NASA. The use of nuclear power on space missions has been heavily promoted by the U.S. Department of Energy and its predecessor agency, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and the many DOE (previously AEC) national laboratories including Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. This provides work for these government entities. Also, the manufacturers of nuclear-powered space devices–General Electric was a pioneers in this–have pushed their products. Further, NAS has sought to coordinate its activities with the U.S. military. The military for decades has planned for the deployment of nuclear-powered weapons in space.
What Could Truly End the Space Program: A Nuclear Disaster Overhead , OpED News, By Karl Grossman 21 July 11,“…..As to why the use of a plutonium-powered rover on Mars–considering that NASA has successfully used solar-powered rovers on Mars–the NASA Environmental Impact Statement says that a “solar-powered rover”would not be capable of operating over the full range of scientifically desirable landing site latitudes” on this mission. Continue reading
Radiation exposure to be estimated for 61,000 US personnel in Japan
Military to Calculate Radiation Exposure in Japan, Military.com July 20, 2011, by Seth Robson , YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The U.S. military plans to calculate radiation doses received by each of the approximately 61,000 U.S. personnel living and working in Japan during this year’s nuclear disaster, according to the U.S. Pacific Command’s top surgeon. Continue reading
Nuclear Regulatory Commission rubber-stamps another nuclear plant re-licence
Hope Creek nuclear plant’s license extended to 2046, Newsworks, By Monika Zaleska, July 20, 2011 The Hope Creek nuclear plant in South Jersey’s Salem County can now operate until 2046. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission renewed the 1,060-megawatt plant’s license Wednesday.
A watchdog group, Unplug Salem, which is campaigning to close Hope Creek and the two nearby Salem plants, is not happy about the decision.
Norm Cohen, a group coordinator, claims the 25-year-old plant is out of date and unsafe. He says the state should move toward wind and solar energy instead of renewing nuclear licenses.
The Hope Creek reactor is the same model as the plant that melted down in Japan following the catastrophic tsunami and earthquake in the spring…….http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/23437
Will the Nuclear Regulatory Commission relicense Fermi plant until 2045?
DTE seeks license extension for Fermi 2 nuke plant, DTE Energy has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the company to operate the Fermi 2 nuclear plant until 2045, Michigan Messenger, By Eartha Jane Melzer | 07.21.11
Fermi 2, located in Monroe County on Lake Erie, is a 1,140 megawatt plant that has the same GE Mark 1 design as the Fukushima, Japan power plant that melted down this spring following an earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading
Squabble dividing Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners along partisan lines
Split Within Nuclear Regulatory Agency, NYT, By MATTHEW L. WALD 21 July 11, WASHINGTON — A majority of the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission is signaling that it wants to move slowly on at least some new recommendations from its staff on how to reduce the chance of a Fukushima-type accident at an American reactor despite calls by its chairman for swift action.Three commissioners are resisting a proposal by the chairman, Gregory B. Jaczko, that the commission act promptly on all the recommendations, which were issued last week by a team of six senior staff members…… Continue reading
Jobs and savings, in renewable energy for Wisconsin
The report found the state could see $2.7 billion in investment from renewable energy projects, while aggressive move to deploy energy efficiency could save Wisconsin residents $5.9 billion on their electric and natural gas bills..
Report: Greener energy policies will create more Midwest jobs, Journal Sentinel, By Thomas Content, 19 July 11, One week after a report found Wisconsin ranked 13th in the nation in green jobs, a new report projects the state would add another 11,500 jobs if it adopted more aggressive policies supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency. Continue reading
Whistleblower sceptical on safety of Tennessee nuclear plant
You’ll have to pardon Ann Harris if she’s heard it all before. She’s won a record six whistle-blower lawsuits against Watts Bar over issues like millions of feet of faulty electrical cable, and says she’s paid a price for speaking out…..
VIDEO http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/19/earlyshow/main20080633.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody Fukushima-type disaster inevitable in U.S.?, CBS News, Armen Keteyian, 19 July 11, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was to meet Tuesday to discuss sweeping new safety recommendations, after having just finished inspecting all 104 U.S. nuclear plants in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
On “The Early Show,” CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian spotlighted one of those facilities’ post-Fukushima inspection reports.
Watts Bar, in Spring City, Tenn., is the last nuclear plant to be licensed in the U.S., and a textbook study of the pros and cons of nuclear power. It provides electricity to some 9 million people in seven states, yet is dogged with a long history of safety issues and whistle-blower lawsuits — including six by a 71-year-old great-grandmother named Ann Harris…. Continue reading
Opposition growing to Manhattan Project Atomic Parks
Anti-Nuke Groups to Fight Manhattan Project Parks, ABC News, By JERI CLAUSING Associated Press, ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. July 18, 2011 (AP) Anti-nuclear activists are lining up against legislation to create national parks at Los Alamos National Laboratory and two other sites where the world’s first nuclear bombs were developed, calling the plan an expensive glorification of an ugly chapter in history.
“It is a debasement of the national parks idea,” said Greg Mello, a co-founder of the anti-nuclear watchdog, Los Alamos Study Group……http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=14098560
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