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Sierra Club – 1 : TCEQ – 0

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Late yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of TCEQ’s decision to deny citizens the right to show how dangerous radioactive disposal would be in West Texas, State District Court Judge Lora Livingston ordered TCEQ to reverse their decision denying the Sierra Club the right to a contested case hearing over the license granted to Waste Control [...]

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Harold Simmons, WCS and the every expanding attempts to make Texas the radioactive waste dump for the country

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , , on April 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and got a permit for it in Texas, and is now working to fill it. To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billionaire has now hired lobbyists to urge [...]

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TLLRWDCC could have trucks carrying radioactive waste rumbling through Texas as early as April

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states could start rolling down Texas highways bound forburial at a dump in Andrews County on the Texas / New Mexico border as early as April,. The state’s commission (Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission) overseeing disposal of low-level waste in Texas may approve the final rule changes needed this [...]

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Fukushima Anniversary Action in Austin, TX

Posted in Nuclear, tagged , , on March 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Our thoughts and prayers will be with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese still living in contaminated areas. There are anniversary actions across the U.S. and entire world this weekend. You can find a list of many of them on the NIRS Actions page. [...]

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INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACUATION ZONES, IMPROVE EMERGENCY PLANNING AROUND U.S. NUCLEAR REACTORS

Posted in Nuclear, tagged , , on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Thirty-seven clean energy groups submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors.  If you would like to sign on as a co-petitioner, click here. Calling on the NRC to incorporate the real-world lessons [...]

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The task force responsible for revamping U.S. nuclear waste policy has issued its final report.

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Among the recommendations for managing the current stockpile of spent nuclear fuel — approximately 65,000 tons of waste stored at about 75 operating and shut-down reactor sites around the country — is a plan to move the waste to temporary storage sites. Public Citizen rejects this plan. In the absence of a permanent and viable [...]

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California nuclear plant may have leaked radioactive gas.

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged , , on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that a “small” amount of radioactive gas may have leaked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The San Onofre plant is on the Pacific Ocean coast near San Clemente north of San Diego. It consists of two units, No. 2 and No. 3. No. 1 was shut down [...]

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Radioactive waste dump seeking amendment to its license

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, Water, tagged , , , , , , on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) is seeking several amendments to its Radioactive Material License # R04100 from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).  Five of the amendments request design changes to the Compact Waste Disposal Facility (CWF) and the Federal Waste Facility (FWF) for commercial and federal low-level radiactive waste disposal. The other two amendment [...]

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NPR reports on how energy and environmental issues affect you

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Nuclear, Texas Legislature, Water on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

StateImpact is a collaboration among NPR and local public radio stations in eight pilot states to examine issues of local importance. The project seeks to inform and engage communities with broadcast and online news about how state government decisions affect people’s lives. In Texas, a collaboration between local public radio stations KUT Austin, KUHF Houston and [...]

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SMITTY discusses impeachment, grand juries, nuclear energy, water supplies, and more on ACCESS News

Posted in Global Warming, Nuclear, Nuclear Plants, Water on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

ACCESS News! A program about being a better citizen (Presidents included). What happens when the President of the United States runs afoul of the law? What is a grand jury? Is the future of nuclear energy dead? Is our water supply properly managed? The Director of Public Citizen’s Texas office, Tom “SMITTY” Smith, discusses impeachment, [...]

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Another hearing for STP expansion license

Posted in Global Warming, Nuclear, tagged , , , on October 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel will conduct an evidentiary hearing Oct. 31 in Rockville, Md., in the South Texas Project Combined License (COL) proceeding. The ASLB is the independent body within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that presides over proceedings involving the licensing of civilian nuclear facilities, such as nuclear power plants. This [...]

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Perry gets another chance to get the TLLRWDC Commission just right for Simmon’s WCS radioactive waste dump

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Gov. Rick Perry has replaced all six of the Texas commissioners who sit on the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission reappointing only two previously serving commissioner.  The TLLRWDCC commissioner terms were modified by Senate Bill 1605 as part of the 82nd Legislature giving Perry the ability to replace commissioners whose positions he didn’t [...]

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Why the Solyndra solar bankruptcy scandal is a big deal, but not the big deal some are making of it

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Good Government, Nuclear, solar, Tarsands, tagged , , , , , , , on September 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

California solar energy company Solyndra had its offices raided  last week by federal agents as part of an ongoing investigation into their bankruptcy and federal loan guarantees they’d received form the Department of Energy. Some critics have cried foul, trying to show how federal money spent on emerging technology is a waste. Others  have tried [...]

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West Texas – The new radioactive waste frontier

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Fox news station in Salt Lake City, UT, controversy has arisen about EnergySolutions’ plans to dispose of what they call blended radioactive waste at its Clive Facility in the west desert of Utah. There are three classifications of waste: A, B and C, all radioactive. Only the lowest level, type A, is [...]

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STP, the nuclear expansion project that just won’t die

Posted in Nuclear, Nuclear Plants, tagged , , , on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Despite the fact that NRG/Toshiba (formally know together as NINA) has been unsuccessful in their multi-year efforts to expand by two units, the South Texas “Nuclear” Project (STP) – the process for their Combined License (COL) is proceeding.  An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel will hear oral argument and conduct an evidentiary hearing, [...]

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