NRC WILL HOLD A PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS 2010 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet in Glen Rose, Texas, on Thursday, May 12, with representatives of Luminant Generation Co., to discuss the agency’s assessment of safety performance for the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. The plant [...]
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NRC 2010 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Posted in Nuclear, tagged comanche peak, fort worth, japan, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas nuclear plants’ ability to handle a blackout
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Blackout risk, comanche peak, Nuclear, STP on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A 2003 Nuclear Regulatory Commission report shows the susceptibility of US nuclear power plants to blackouts that could lead to core damage. Click here to read the 2003 NRC report and click here to read the 2005 re-evaluation report. Draw your own conclusions but be warned, these are not user friendly reports. Click here to [...]
Take Action Today! Texas Representative Chet Edwards is pushing for $25 billion in US taxpayer backed loans for nuclear reactors
Posted in Global Warming, Good Government, Nuclear, tagged chet edwards, comanche peak, economy, energy and water appropriations bill, loan guarantee, Nuclear on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Thursday, July 15, the House Energy and Water subcommittee is scheduled to vote on $25 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors in the FY2011 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Only last month, the House passed $9 billion in nuclear loan guarantees in the 2010 Supplemental Appropriations bill (it has not yet passed [...]
Worried About Comanche Peak Water Use?
Posted in Nuclear, tagged brazos river conservation coalition, comanche peak, Glen Rose, granbury, hood county, Nuclear Power, water use on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are you worried about the water usage of the proposed 2-unit expansion at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant up near Glen Rose, Texas? Then you might be interested in the Brazos River Conservation Coalition meeting tonight at 7pm in Granbury, where they will discuss the impacts of increased water consumption if the project is [...]
Citizens Groups Win Right to a Hearing for Comanche Peak Intervention
Posted in Nuclear, tagged alternative energy, atomic safety and licen, atomic safety and licensing board, bob eye, comanche peak, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Karen Hadden, Luminant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, SEED Coalition, solar, Texas Representative Lon Burnam, true cost of nukes, wind on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Citizen opposition to more nuclear reactors at Comanche Peak continues. On August 6th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that Luminant had failed to adequately analyze issues brought by concerned citizens in their Petition to Intervene in the proposed expansion at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. “This is a major victory for [...]
Worried About Water
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agriculture, atascosa county, bastrop county, cinderella, clean water act, coal block, coal power, comanche peak, contaminated water, crop and livestock losses, drought, Exelon, federal disaster, fossil fuels, gerald north, Glen Rose, halliburton loophole, hay prices, hurrican katrina, hydraulic fracturing, ipcc, kerrville, lake buchanana, lake travis, matagorda bay, natural gas, Nuclear, safe drinking water act, Texas, texas a&m, Victoria, water, waxo, white stallion on July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking (and worrying) about water a lot lately. I suppose that the drought has brought all this concern along. Just a few months ago, folks were comparing this drought to the one that devastated Texas agriculture in the ’50s (when crop yields dropped by as much as 50%, all but one county in [...]
Emergency preparedness at nuclear plants: Let’s discuss
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged comanche peak, emergency preparedness rulemaking, FEMA, Glenrose, NRC on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will hold two public meetings tomorrow in Irving, Texas, on a proposed new rule that would change the emergency preparedness requirements for existing and proposed nuclear power plants. Since 9/11, there has been growing concern that the country’s 104 existing reactors are potential terrorist targets [...]
Proposed Nuclear Projects in Texas Could Cost $22 Billion
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged bay city, clarence johnson, comanche peak, costs of current and planned nuclear plants in texas, CPS Energy, fort worth, fort worth star telegram, Glen Rose, mayor hardberger, mission verde, Nuclear Power, nukes, San Antonio, san antonio express news, South Texas Project, tommy adkisson, true cost of nukes on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Impressive nuclear headlines in the papers these days, largely as a result of a new report released by our office entitled: “Costs of Current and Planned Nuclear Power Plants in Texas: A Consumer Perspective. The report finds that the proposed expansions of nuclear power plants in Bay City (South Texas Project) and Glen Rose (Comanche [...]
Citizens File in Opposition to South Texas Project Reactors 3 and 4
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Arjun Makhijani, bay city, citizen filings, comanche peak, federal energy regulatory commission, fort worth, Karen Hadden, NRG, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Public Citizen, SEED Coalition, south texas association for reponsible energy, South Texas Project, Victoria on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Tuesday citizens submitted a filing to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing NRG’s proposed South Texas Project (STP) nuclear reactors. Petitioners included the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, Public Citizen and the South Texas Association for Responsible Energy. This may sound familiar. “Didn’t citizens just file opposition to the nuke a couple weeks [...]
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