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Congressional Budget Office report on government’s loan guarantee program for new reactor construction. Concludes that government is understating risks to taxpayers.
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UPDATE, The New York Times reports that Japan is finally getting ready to acknowledge what we have been saying in this space for months: that the Fukushima evacuation zone is an uninhabitable Dead Zone, and no one will live there again for at least many decades. An official government announcement is expected later this week.
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Nuclear Power After Fukushima. Report and recommendations to improve safety & security at U.S. reactor sites, from Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against a Nuclear Renaissance. New book from International Forum on Globalization, now available for free download. Good stuff!
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– Motion to Admit New Contention (13) and Reconsider Contention 5 Regarding the Safety and Environmental Implications of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Task Force Report on the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident. – Contention 13 Regarding NEPA Requirement to Address Safety and Environmental Implications of the Fukushima Task Force Report. – Rulemaking Petition to Rescind Prohibition Against Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Severe Reactor and Spent Fuel Pool Accidents and Request to Suspend Licensing Decision – Contention 5 on Severe Accident Impact on Multiple Sites – Submitted for Reconsideration by the Ecology Party of Florida, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and the Green Party of Florida – Declaration of Dr. Arjun Makhijani Regarding Safety and Environmental Significance of NRC Task Force Report Regarding Lessons Learned from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident.
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UPDATE, Tepco reported today the highest radiation levels yet measured at Fukushima Daiichi—1,000 Rems/hour (10 Sieverts/hour)—a lethal dose. The measurements were taken at the base of the ventilation stack for Units 1 and 2 (the stack that did not work during the accident). The actual levels may have been more than measured, since the monitoring equipment could not measure more than 10 Sieverts/hour. Workers sent to the area to confirm the measurements, which were first picked up by a gamma measuring camera, received doses of about 400 millirems in just a few minutes.
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