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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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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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Need a geiger counter? There’s an app for that!

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation on July 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Had a nuclear power plant meltdown in your neighborhood and need to check radiation levels?  Well, there’s an iphone app for that. Crazy as it may sound, Safecast, a global project created after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan, has been building a radiation sensor [...]

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Three-quarters of US nuclear power plants have had radioactive tritium leaks

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged , , , , , on June 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »

According to an Associated Press investigative report, three-quarters of the nation’s commercial nuclear power sites have had tritium leaks (a radioactive form of hydrogen), often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping and the number and severity of the leaks has been escalating as the reactors age, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more [...]

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The Shroud of Fukushima

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged , , , on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the London Telegraph, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has announced that they will start construction of a shroud over the No. 1 reactor at the ill-fated Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant where a hydrogen explosion destroyed the walls and roof of the reactor building on March 12, the day after the cooling system was [...]

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Simmons’ Cronies

Posted in Global Warming, Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, Toxics, tagged , , , , , , on May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »

All rights reserved by Public Citizen Texas Infamously dubbed by Dallas Magazine “Dallas’ Most Evil Genius”, socialite and energy tycoon Harold Simmons is no stranger to Texas lobbying.  As this blog previously reported in January, Simmons has contributed $1.12 million from 2001 to September 2010 to Rick Perry significantly increasing his contributions between 6/25/2009 and [...]

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More on radiation in Texas drinking water

Posted in Radiation, tagged , , , , on May 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Back in November we blogged about a story that KHOU broke in Houston about radioactive contaminants in the Houston area drinking water. Revelations that came to light showed hundreds of water providers around the Gulf Coast region were providing their customers with drinking water that contains radioactive contaminants that raise health risks.  State tests by [...]

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Razing Arizona? – Save the Grand Canyon

Posted in Radiation, tagged , , on April 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

A crucial ban on mining uranium around the Grand Canyon is about to expire, and corporations have already staked more than 1,100 claims to drill. Ripping up radioactive material around a national landmark, with its fragile ecosystem and designation as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, will cause irreversible damage to its [...]

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“Jumpers” (ジャンパー) wanted

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged , , , , on April 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wanted: Short term, possibly long term position that pays thousands of dollars for up to an hour of work requiring little training working in perilously radioactive environments. A Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) official said this week that the company has tasks fit for “jumpers” (ジャンパー) — workers so called because they “jump” into highly [...]

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HB 2184 – A Texas-Sized Plan for Nuclear Waste

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

HB 2184 will probably be voted out of the Texas House State Affairs Committee later this afternoon and so far, legislation that impacts how much, from where and how safely radioactive waste will be stored at a West Texas site is moving forward in favor of the private operator, giving them the power to negotiate [...]

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Japan losing/lost the race to save a reactor

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged , , on March 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Experts believe the radioactive core in reactor No. 2 at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to the concrete floor of the drywell below.  This new development has raised fears of a major release of radiation at the site, and some nuclear industry experts [...]

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Greenpeace vigils tonight to show support for the victims of the Japan disaster

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged , , , on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today is the 32nd anniversary of the worst U.S. nuclear accident, a partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island power plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Although no deaths or injuries resulted, many of the concerns the public is expressing about the ultimate fate of the doomed Fukushima Dai-ichi plant were played out over five days in [...]

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NRC revising classification of low-level radioactive waste

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Reprint of NRC notice No. 11-027 February 16, 2011 PUBLIC MEETING FEB. 24 TO DISCUSS REVISIONS TO KEY NRC DOCUMENT ON CLASSIFICATION OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting Feb. 24 in Rockville, Md., to discuss potential revisions to a key document used by agency staff in classifying low-level [...]

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Texas’ proposed rule to accept radioactive waste from many other states concerns Vermont

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, TCEQ, Toxics, Transportation, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

In an article by the New York Times that focuses on Vermont‘s concerns about losing space to waste from generators in other states, Matthew Wald writes: Waste disposal is so difficult, says the company, Waste Control Services, that power plants and other generating sources have reduced their volumes sharply. And Vermont and Texas together produce [...]

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STOP TEXAS FROM BECOMING THE NATION’S RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP!

Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, tagged , on November 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Texas is at risk of becoming the nation’s radioactive dumping ground.  The new proposed rules were posted in the Texas Register on Friday, November 24th and the public comment period is through December 26th.  In the meantime, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission (TLLRWCC) has scheduled a public hearing on the import/export Rule on December [...]

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