The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved Southern Nuclear’s combined construction and operating license (COL) for the two-reactor Plant Vogtle expansion in Georgia. Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company, will build two Westinghouse Electric Co. AP1000 reactors at the site near Augusta, Ga. See NEI’s website for more information: http://bit.ly/Az4orB.
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r3VOLt23 04.01.2012
Japan Experts: Unknown if radiation will decrease over time —
May rise again as highly contaminated debris comes from mountains :: Antinuclear town councillor found shot dead in car, Japan :: South Korea: Radioactive store-bought seaweed measures 0.81 microSv/hr — 20 microSv/hr on tissue used to wipe car hood (VIDEOS)
AP: Local Alaska officials concerned Fukushima radiation sickened seals — “There may be some surprises” says prof… But “gut feeling” not connected
Greenpeace files complaint against French nuclear group
’US government does not seek confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz, but…’
Reactor Operator: FOIA response shows US knew in March that Spent Fuel Pool No. 3 leaking — “Flooding of pool may not be possible due to damage” (VIDEO)
They Will Grow Rice Again This Year in Fukushima
Jumping Fences
Local Japan official found with shotgun blast to chest — Lectured against nuclear power after Fukushima
EDF Energy cuts Scottish nuclear output after storm
’Fantasy’ plans of doubling nuclear capacity would cut global carbon emissions by just 4 percent — Need one new plant each week for two decades
Leak, 2nd partial shutdown raise concerns about quake damage at North Anna nuke plant
New Year’s Update: Fukushima Timeline website now live — Feedback requested
Fukushima Whistleblower: Container vessel melting like honeycomb — “Can you believe it is out of the container vessel”? (PHOTOS)
IEEE: Fukushima gives credence to anti-nuclear argument — Clear that nuke power will decrease in coming decades — Will not positively contribute to reducing greenhouse gases
Nuclear numbers down despite connections
Spain selects site for waste storage
Reactor dome installed at Changjiang 1
Japan Times: Boiling antinuclear sentiment may lead to all of nation’s reactors being idled
Iran ‘recommends’ US stay out of Persian Gulf
Reports: Fukushima women losing their hair — Resemblance to chemotherapy? (PHOTOS)
NRC Staff Train Students in Africa
Nuclear watchdog urges French plants to boost safety
FORUM: Discussion Thread for Jan. 3 — Jan. 9, 2012
”It’s Leaning”: Japan nuclear engineer concerned about collapse of Reactor No. 4 — Oxidation must have weakened building material… MORE
2 nuclear safety panel members got 7.1 mil. yen donation from industry BEFORE assuming duties at the watchdog
TEPCO says water level in tank at Fukushima nuclear dropped due to quake
Iran nuclear crisis: France wants ’stricter’ sanctions
New Year despair for Japan’s nuclear refugees
Report from Fukushima (2) Minami Soma: A Woman Speaks Out on Her Health Problems in Post-Accident Fukushima
What happens the day after Iran gets the bomb?
Wrap-up of nuclear news 2011
Strange: Animals went mad and began attacking humans after exposure to high radiation levels, says Chernobyl scientist — Dogs, foxes, wolves, hogs (VIDEO)
Obama govt doing a balancing act with sanctions on Iran
In UK’s slow economy, renewable energy is coming up trumps
Britain’s nuclear veterans continue their fight against Ministry of Defence, for compensation
Despite public opposition, Spain’s aging nuclear plant may stay open
Reality Inside #Fukushima I Nuke Plant (2): 10% of Workers Are Yakuza-Sourced
Fukushima Reactor 4 Leaning
http://nukene.ws/story/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-leaning%E2%80%9D-japan-nuclear-e…
Virginia North Anna Plant 2nd Partial Shutdown
http://nukene.ws/story/leak-2nd-partial-shutdown-raise-concerns-about-quake-d…
Spain Waste Site – Villar de Cañas
http://nukene.ws/story/spain-selects-site-waste-storage/20120103
Changjiang Nuclear Reactor Dome Installed
http://nukene.ws/story/reactor-dome-installed-changjiang-1/20120103
Fukushima, Japan Hair Loss
http://nukene.ws/story/reports-fukushima-women-losing-their-hair-%E2%80%94-re…
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Walt Tamosaitis, nuclear waste whistleblower and Tom Carpenter, attorney and executive director of the non-profit group Hanford Challenge, talks with Rachel Maddow about safety concerns at the site and the penalties he has suffered as a consequence of speaking about his concerns.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has questions about the a design by Westinghouse for a new reactor. Regulators say the AP1000 doesn’t meet some safety standards. Meanwhile, 14 projects have been put on hold until Westinghouse can prove otherwise. Clean Skies News’ Executive Editor Margaret Ryan has more.
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Rep. Nadler defends his amendment to ensure that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the ability to enact critical safety rules for nuclear safety, free of industry influence or bureaucratic red tape. He offered the amendment to HR 3010, a bill which would impede the ability of regulators to protect American families from everything from tainted food and unsafe drugs, to predatory financial schemes, polluted air and water, dangerous workplaces — and, nuclear accidents. Republicans voted almost unanimously to defeat this amendment and pass the underlying bill, which threatens the common-sense, cost-effective rules that protect the health and safety of the American people.
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Controversial expert witness and former nuclear industry CEO Arnie Gundersen talks about current events as well as reflecting on his path from senior vice president of Nuclear Energy Services, with involvement with 70 nuclear power plants, to blacklisted whistleblower, sued for defamation and losing his home in the process.
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The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than seventy anti-nuclear groups which have acted to oppose nuclear power and/or nuclear weapons in the USA. The movement has delayed construction or halted commitments to build some new nuclear plants.
Anti-nuclear campaigns that captured national public attention in the 1970s involved the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, and Three Mile Island. More recent campaigning has related to several nuclear power plants, the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository, the Hanford Site, the Nevada Test Site, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and transportation of nuclear waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Some scientists and engineers have expressed reservations about nuclear power, including: Barry Commoner, S. David Freeman, John Gofman, Amory Lovins, Arjun Makhijani, Gregory Minor and Joseph Romm.
Unit 1 had its license temporarily suspended following the incident at Unit 2. Although the citizens of the three counties surrounding the site voted by a margin of 3:1 to permanently retire Unit 1, it was permitted to resume operations in 1985. General Public Utilities Corporation, the plant’s owner, formed General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation (GPUN) as a new subsidiary to own and operate the company’s fleet of nuclear facilities, including Three Mile Island. The plant had previously been operated by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), one of GPU’s regional utility operating companies. In 1996, General Public Utilities shortened its name to GPU Inc. Three Mile Island Unit 1 was sold to AmerGen Energy Corporation, a joint venture between Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO), and British Energy, in 1998. In 2000, PECO merged with Unicom Corporation to form Exelon Corporation, which acquired British Energy’s share of AmerGen in 2003. Today, AmerGen LLC is a fully owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation and owns TMI Unit 1, Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, and Clinton Power Station. These three units, in addition to Exelon’s other nuclear units, are operated by Exelon Nuclear Inc., an Exelon subsidiary.
General Public Utilities was legally obliged to continue to maintain and monitor the site, and therefore retained ownership of Unit 2 when Unit 1 was sold to AmerGen in 1998. GPU Inc. was acquired by First Energy Corporation in 2001, and subsequently dissolved. First Energy then contracted out the maintenance and administration of Unit 2 to AmerGen. Unit 2 has been administered by Exelon Nuclear since 2003, when Exelon Nuclear’s parent company, Exelon, bought out the remaining shares of AmerGen, inheriting First Energy’s maintenance contract. Unit 2 continues to be licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a condition known as Post Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS).
Today, the TMI-2 reactor is permanently shut down and defueled, with the reactor coolant system drained, the radioactive water decontaminated and evaporated, radioactive waste shipped off-site to a disposal site, reactor fuel and core debris shipped off-site to a Department of Energy facility, and the remainder of the site being monitored. The owner says it will keep the facility in long-term, monitored storage until the operating license for the TMI-1 plant expires at which time both plants will be decommissioned. TMI-1’s current license expires in 2014. On January 8, 2008, AmerGen Energy Corporation, the operator of TMI-1, submitted a license renewal application to the NRC. If the license is renewed, TMI-1’s license will be extended to 2034.
The China Syndrome is a 1979 thriller film which tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.
The movie was written by Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges. It was directed by Bridges.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lemmon), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Fonda), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (George Jenkins, Arthur Jeph Parker) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The film was also nominated for the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Lemmon won Best Actor for his performance. The movie’s script won the 1980 Writers Guild of America award.
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Controversial expert witness and former nuclear industry CEO Arnie Gundersen talks about current events as well as reflecting on his path from senior vice president of Nuclear Energy Services, with involvement with 70 nuclear power plants, to blacklisted whistleblower, sued for defamation and losing his home in the process.
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Post Fukushima: All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men…
http://fairewinds.com/content/post-fukushima-all-kings-horses-and-all-kings-men
Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen testifies to the NRC Petition Review Board detailing why the 23 BWR Mark 1 nuclear power plants should be shut down following the accidents at Fukushima. True wisdom means knowing when to modify something and knowing when to stop. Sometimes, all the King’s horses and all the King’s men should not try to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Archived webcast of Beyond Nuclear’s emergency enforcement petition to NRC on Mark 1s now available
The archived webcast of Beyond Nuclear’s October 7th, 2011 NRC Petition Review Board meeting on its 10CFR2.206 emergency enforcement petition is now available. Beyond Nuclear was joined by numerous allies from various grassroots anti-nuclear groups who live in the shadows of General Electric Mark 1 boiling water reactors — identical twins to the design at Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/nrc/2011/10/11/archived-webcast-of-beyond-nuclears-emergency-enforcement-pe.html
excellent new source for Fukushima Updates
http://fukushimaupdate.com/
*Note: Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
Half-life of some radioactive elements
[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years
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Agenda 21, Read it.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held two public environmental scoping meetings at the Port Gibson City Hall in Port Gibson, Mississippi on June 19, 2008. The meetings are part of NRC’s review of an application submitted by Entergy Operations Inc (EOI) for a combined license (COL) for construction and operation of a new nuclear power plant at it Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS) site in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The first meeting was held at 1 p.m. and the second meeting was held at 7 p.m. The NRC presented an overview of the COL environmental review process and described how the process will be implemented for the review of the GGNS COL application. AAEA participated in the meetings.
The proposed new reactor, designated GGNS Unit 3, would be located within a 2,100 acre site, situated approximately 6 miles northwest of Port Gibson, Mississippi. EOI currently operates one reactor, GGNS Unit 1 on the site and plans to construct Unit 3 adjacent to the existing reactor. Plans for a unit 2 never happened, but to avoid confusion, the proposed unit is being designated Unit 3. The construction site cleared for GGNS Unit 3 covrs approximately 234 acres within EOI’s 2,100 acre site.
EOI submitted the application for the COL by letter dated February 27, 2008. The application was accepted for docketing on April 24, 2008.
Videographer: Sandy N. McDonald, III
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