Portrait of the current NRC Commission. Pictured from left to right: Commissioner Jeff Baran, Commissioner Kristine L. Svinicki, Chairman Stephan (sic) Burns and Commissioner William C. Ostendorff. (Please note, Chairman Burns’ first named is correctly…
Continue readingSuccessul resistance to TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands crude oil pipeline must now shift to fend off the dumping of TransCanada’s radioactive wastes on the Great Lakes shore!
As reported by the Associated Press, on Feb. 24th, President Obam…
via channelnewsasia.com / February 25, 2015 / The operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it had found a pool of highly contaminated water on the roof of a plant building and that it had probably leaked into the sea through a gutter when it rained. The finding comes four years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc’s Fukushima … Continue reading →
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwest Michigan.As reported by Jim Hayden at the Holland Sentinel, nearly two dozen security guards and security department supervisors at the Palisades atomic re…
Continue readingPG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, near San Luis Obispo, CAAs reported by a Friends of the Earth news release, subtitled “Friends of the Earth [FOE] petition says NRC illegally let PG&E alter nuclear plant’s license,” a 9th Circuit feder…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor in Plymouth, MA on Cape Cod Bay, south of BostonAs reported by Peter J. Brown at Wicked Local Wellfleet, concerns continue to simmer downwind of Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor (photo,…
Continue readingvia japantimes.co.jp / February 18, 2014 / Aichi Prefectural Police arrested a construction firm executive on Wednesday for sending a 15-year-old boy to help clean up radioactive waste outside the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant. The police said the boy, who is from Kitanagoya, Aichi Prefecture, was sent to Fukushima to cut contaminated leaves and scrape up dirt in the disaster zone last July. Japan’s labor law prohibits people under 18 … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia fukushimaminponews.com / February 13, 2015 / The number of Fukushima residents who remain evacuated as a result of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, including those who have evacuated voluntarily, totaled 118,862 as of January this year, falling below the 120,000 mark, according to figures announced by the prefectural government on Feb. 12. The number of evacuees staying within the prefecture … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia japantimes.co.jp / February 21, 2015 / The Fukushima prefectural government may in the coming week approve the delivery of radioactive soil and other waste at interim storage facilities that are under construction, sources said Saturday. Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori may declare the acceptance during a meeting with Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki, who plans to visit the prefecture around Wednesday, according to the sources. The prefectural government has begun discussing … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia the-japan-news.com / February 21, 2015 / The nation’s first mass production of drones will kick off this year at a plant near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, drone expert Kenzo Nonami and product prototype manufacturer Kikuchi Seisakusho Co. said Friday. Kikuchi Seisakusho plans to produce 400 unmanned surveillance aircraft at its plant in Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture. “Fukushima is a suitable production site given its need … Continue reading →
Continue readingNRC file photo of VY, located across the Connecticut River from New Hampshire, in Vernon, VT, just 8 miles upstream of the Massachusetts state line.As reported by Robert Audette of the Associated Press, the State of Vermont Department of Public Ser…
Continue readingVT Gov. Peter Shumlin, who also serves as the chairman of the Democratic Governors AssociationAs reported by the Mountain Times of Killington, VT, Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT) is calling on the State of Vermont Legislature to join him in passing maj…
Continue readingEntergy’s Palisades atomic reactor, on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert, MI, has the worst embrittled RPV in the U.S., vulnerable to catastrophic failure due to PTS.As revealed in a new report from Greenpeace Belgium, micro-cracking in Belgian atomic …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Exelon’s Ginna atomic reactor on the shore of Lake Ontario, in Ontario, NY, 20 miles northeast of Rochester.As reported by Barry Cassell at PowerEngineering, Exelon Nuclear is seeking approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissi…
Continue readingNRC file photo of North Anna Units 1 and 2, located on the shore of Lake Anna in Mineral, VAAs reported by the Augusta Free Press (of Waynesboro, VA), a coalition of 15 groups (including the People’s Alliance for Clean Energy, and the Sierra Club VA Ch…
Continue readingIn this Feb. 6, 2014 aerial photo is a view of Lake Huron looking south towards Port Huron, Mich., right, and Sarnia, Ont., left. Waukegan and Lake County are protesting a plan to store nuclear waste in Lake Huron. (Carlos Osorio, AP)As reported by the…
Continue readingFirstEnergy’s dirty, dangerous, and uncompetitive Davis-Besse atomic reactor, with Lake Erie in the backgroundHarvey Wasserman, author of Solartopia, asks this question in an article posted at EcoWatch.
Continue readingDr. Ernest Sternglass, 91, Emeritus Professor of Radiological Physics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, passed away in Ithaca, NY on February 12, 2015. He was a prominent, published scientist and anti-nuclear activist, whose early w…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2 on the Lake Erie shore. Fermi 3 would be built immediately adjacent to Fermi 2 — ironically enough, on the very spot where Fermi 1 had a partial core meltdown in 1966!U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rulings regar…
Continue readingForbes magazine’s February 11, 1985 cover story headlined “Nuclear Follies.” The business investment journal wrote “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a d…
Continue readingBy Adam Justice / IBTimes.co.uk / February 9, 2015 / The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team that will review Japan’s decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant this week, said on Monday (9 February) that contaminated water leakage remains a challenging issue. Since the devastating March 2011 earthquake that caused triple meltdowns at the Fukushima plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has struggled with … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia world-nuclear-news.org / February 10, 2015 / TEPCO said it is installing a muon detection system at the unit. The system comprises two measuring devices. The first was installed on the north side of the reactor building yesterday, while the second was scheduled to be put in place on the west side of the building today. Once the system is installed, it will be ready for testing, the company said. Muons are high-energy … Continue reading →
Continue readingAn aerial view of the known extent of the tritium contamination in soil and groundwater at the VY site, on the banks of the Connecticut River in southeastern Vermont.Entergy Nuclear is infamous for its arrogance. Now, reports the Associated Press…
Continue readingOPG’s proposed so-called Deep Geologic Repository for radioactive waste burial would be located less than a mile from the Great Lakes shoreline.Today, DuPage County, the second most populous in Illinois, announced the passage of a resolution in opposit…
Continue readingFirstEnergy’s dirty, dangerous, and uncompetitive Davis-Besse atomic reactor, with Lake Erie in the background.Harvey Wasserman explores this question on his “Solartopia, Green Power, and Wellness Hour” radio show of Feb. 10th. Here is his summary of t…
Continue readingPhoto credit: http://www.csisun.com/solar-installations/As reported by the The Joplin Globe, solar PV advocates including Renew Missouri (the Earth Island Institute) and the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, and the Missouri Coalition for the E…
Continue readingAs shown on this graphic chart, Sr-90 seeks human bone tissue. Credit: Russell Hoffman.As reported by Susan Smallheer at the Rutland Herald, the State of Vermont has detected radioactive, hazardous Strontium-90 in groundwater monitoring wells at Enterg…
Continue readingThom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture”Thom Hartmann (photo, left) invited Beyond Nuclear onto his television program “The Big Picture” to discuss the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) impending decision to rubberstamp the proposed new Fermi …
Continue readingAs shown in Jim Day’s political cartoon (be sure to count the toes) in the Las Vegas Review Journal, the President Obama zeroed out funding, and ordered his DOE to withdraw the license application, in 2010.U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) Communication…
Continue readingAs revealed by a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “Event Notification Report” on Feb. 6th, Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor on Cape Cod Bay south of Boston, MA suffered “a major loss of emergency assessment capability,” during the sever…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Exelon’s Ginna atomic reactor on the Lake Ontario shore of upstate NY near RochesterAs reported by the Democrat and Chronicle, Exelon Nuclear’s Ginna atomic reactor — one of the oldest in the U.S. — is at risk of near-term shutdown….
Continue readingA Swiss-led European Union (EU) initiative to amend and strengthen international reactor safety standards in a post-Fukushima world was blunted by the United States delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Convention on Nucle…
Continue readingvia NHK World / February 3, 2014 / Japan’s nuclear regulator is set to compile next week its final assessment on 2 reactors at the Takahama power plant (pictured) in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. The final document will certify that the reactors have passed the regulator’s scrutiny, which is a prerequisite for their restarts. The final assessment follows the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s approval of its draft in December. The draft … Continue reading →
Continue readingNRC file photo of VY. The HLRW storage pool is located in the lighter colored upper portion of the reactor building, some 50 feet or more in the air.As reported by Vermont Digger, a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Lic…
Continue readingThe 500+ ton stator crashed through the floor, on top of its heavy haul vehicle, causing extensive damage, killing one worker, and injuring several others.David Lochbaum, director, Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, writes:
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NRC file photo of Entergy’s Pilgrim atomic reactor, a Fukushima twin-designOn Jan. 26th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) slapped Entergy Pilgrim (photo, left) with two “White Findings” in the aftermath of four unplanned shutdowns in 2013, …
Continue readingLogo from Public Citizens’ action alertPublic Citizen, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, PowerDC, and others have organized a rally in opposition to the proposed Exelon-Pepco merger, to be held in downtown Baltimore, MD at 10:30am on Thurs., Feb. 5th….
Continue readingCooper atomic reactor is shown here during a historic flood in the 1990s.As reported by Joe Jordan at Nebraska Watchdog, security protocols have changed little, if at all, at the Cooper nuclear power plant (photo, left) in Nebraska, a full year after a…
Continue readingvia Asahi Shimbun / February 1, 2015 / A 24-hour convenience store has reopened in this small town, even though the former residents are still not allowed to stay overnight due to concerns over radioactive contamination. FamilyMart’s Kamishigeoka outlet servicing the community of Naraha resumed operation on Jan. 30. The store was forced to close on March 12, 2011, as the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitical cartoon by Jim Day of the Las Vegas Review Journal (be sure to count the toes!). President Obama and his DOE defunded and walked away from the Yucca Mountain dump project in 2009-2010, declaring it “unworkable.”As reported by Steve Tetrault a…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s Pilgrim atomic reactor, located south of Boston on Cape Cod Bay. Plymouth, MA bore the brunt of winter storm “Juno,” but Pilgrim was one of the only electric grid casualites.As reported by Wicked Local Plymouth, despite bear…
Continue readingIronically enough, NEI left this Tweet up for days after Pilgrim was shut down by snow storm “Juno”!As reported by the Boston Globe, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will send a 4-5 person Special Inspection Team to Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atom…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s Pilgrim atomic reactor, on Cape Cod Bay south of Boston. Pilgrim bore the brunt of Nor’easter “Juno.” NRC’s website reports that Pilgrim is still at 0% power, as of 9pm Eastern ThursdayAs reported by the Pulitzer-Prize winni…
Continue readingIrradiated nuclear fuel being moved in a high-level radioactive waste storage pools. The courts ruled in 2012 that NRC’s days (well, many decades!) of lawlessness regarding nuclear waste generation, storage, and disposal are over.In a legal filing toda…
Continue readingvia NHK World / January 27, 2015 / Japanese fishers have demanded that the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant gain their understanding before releasing decontaminated water into the sea. The head of a national federation of fisheries cooperatives, Hiroshi Kishi, submitted the request to industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa on Tuesday. The Nuclear Regulation Authority last week released a plan to discharge decontaminated water below government standards into … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia phys.org / January 28, 2015 / A Virginia Tech professor is part of a team of scientists from Japan and the United States that may have discovered a way to remove radioactive cesium from the millions of gallons of contaminated water being held at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the 2011 disaster. “Radioactive cesium is the major radioactive component from the reactor,” said Barry Goodell, professor of sustainable … Continue reading →
Continue readingCarol Browner, a paid spokesman for industry PR front group “Nuclear Matters,” is but the latest in a long line of nuclear power snake oil salesman, seeking to gouge ratepayers and taxpayers”Nuclear Matters,” a high-priced front group featuring paid, p…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Davis-Besse on the Lake Erie shoreline east of ToledoAs reported by Tom Henry of The Toledo Blade, the Jan. 15 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) hearing in Toledo revealed a growing coalition of environmental, public interest…
Continue reading“Burning money” image by Gene Case, Avenging AngelsOn Jan. 27, the City Club of Chicago is sponsoring a luncheon under the innocent-sounding heading of, “Illinois’ Energy Future: A Policy Discussion.” However, two of the main …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor on Cape Cod Bay near BostonAs reported by The Enterprise, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has kept Entergy Nuclear’s Pilgrim atomic reactor (photo, left), near Boston, on its “degr…
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