Although flood concerns at Nebraska’s two nuclear power plants have subsided for the time being, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced short and long term plans that will examine and possibly affect flood safety at both reactors. The NRC is schedule to be in Omaha starting July 27th examining flood control at the Fort [...]
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Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, one to watch
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Fort Calhoun Nebraska, Missouri River, Nuclear, Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
NRC’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS CHANGES TO REACTOR SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States on July 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Japan Task Force has proposed improvements in areas ranging from loss of power to earthquakes, flooding, spent fuel pools, venting and preparedness, and said a “patchwork of regulatory requirements” developed “piece-by-piece over the decades” should be replaced with a “logical, systematic and coherent regulatory framework” to further bolster reactor safety in [...]
Dresden Nuclear Power Plant issues alert
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, Exelon, Leak, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Exelon’s Dresden Nuclear Power Plant located in Morris, Ill., roughly 60 miles southwest of Chicago declared an alert at 10:16 a.m. CT today after a chemical leak restricted access to a vital area that houses plant cooling water pumps. The leaking chemical is sodium hypochlorite, which is similar to bleach, and is routinely used in [...]
Obscure Japanese prefecture governor could decide the fate of nuclear power for his country
Posted in Nuclear, tagged japan, Nuclear, Nuclear Power on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that the fate for nuclear power in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, could be decided by a local governor of an obscure prefecture of about 850,000 residents on the southernmost main island of Kyushu. Governor Yasushi Furukawa of Saga Prefecture, must decide in coming days whether to support a request by Prime [...]
Nowhere to run
Posted in Global Warming, tagged evacuation, Nuclear, nuclear accident, Nuclear Power on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a series of investigative stories, the Associated Press (AP) has been reporting on the state of the US nuclear industry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. In this recent report, the AP found that as America’s nuclear power plants have aged, the once-rural areas around them have become far more crowded [...]
Some U.S. Reactors on Borrowed Time
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, south texas on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Global Support for Nuclear Power Drops A new Ipsos/Reuters poll released on June 22nd reveal that global support for nuclear power has plummetted in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. A survey of over 19,000 people in 24 countries showed that three quarters of people now think nuclear power will soon be obsolete. Only three countries still show [...]
Fukushima may have been worse than a core meltdown
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Fukushima Daiichi, International Atomic Energy Agency, japan, Nuclear, Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Japanese authorities are now admitting the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in March may have been worse than a core meltdown. In an official report that will go to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) set up in 1957, Japan now says nuclear fuel [...]
“Clean Energy” Bank Bill would enable unlimited taxpayer funding of new nuclear reactors
Posted in Nuclear, tagged CEDA, Energy, Loan Guarantees, Nuclear on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER “CLEAN ENERGY” BANK BILL MAY 26, 2011 ACT NOW TO BLOCK “CEDA”! The Senate Energy Committee is scheduled to consider today–May 26, 2011–a bill establishing a new “clean energy” bank called the Clean Energy Development Administration (CEDA). Unfortunately, this “clean energy” bank is anything but a source for funding genuinely [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Nuclear Power: Poll shows a spike in U.S. opposition after Fukushima
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Nuclear, nuclear information and resource service, Nuclear Power, Three Mile Island accident on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent ABC News-Washington Post poll shows Americans oppose building more nuclear power plants in the United States, by a margin of 2-1. This is an 11-point increase in opposition, up from a few years ago. In the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear plant crisis, 64 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll now oppose new nuclear plant [...]
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 [...]
“Jumpers” (ジャンパー) wanted
Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged Fukushima, Job posting, Nuclear, Radiation, TEPCO 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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