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August 11, 2011

– 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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August 7, 2011

Musicians United for Safe Energy 2011

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August 1, 2011

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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July 25, 2011

New report for Greenpeace finds that Areva’s EPR reactor design is vulnerable to a prolonged blackout such as occurred at Fukushima. Design assumes power would be restored within 24 hours; Fukushima’s blackout lasted 11 days. Copy of full report. Summary of report. CV of report author, Austrian nuclear expert Helmut Hirsch.

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July 19, 2011

UPDATE, Tuesday, It has now been more than four months since the accident began at Fukushima Daiichi and unfortunately no end is yet in sight. Much like last year’s BP oil spill, which spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months yet vanished from the major media within weeks, so has much of the major media moved on from Fukushima. But the accident continues, radiation continues to be released (though much lower amounts, of course, than initially), and the risk of new problems remains.

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July 7, 2011

Test centrifuges crash at USEC enrichment plant in Ohio following power outage in June; USEC disclosed incident to political backers before the NRC as deadline for loan guarantee loomed.

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June 22, 2011

NIRS participates in NRC Stakeholder meeting on possible new rule to license reprocessing and associated activities. Workshop documents and additional information about how to weigh in on it here.

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June 21, 2011

UPDATE, Tuesday, A new version of the map we posted Friday of radiation readings in Japan sheds more light on the vast contamination of the northern part of the country and new evidence that the government’s response has been woefully inadequate. The map is here. (Warning, this is a very large—15mb—pdf file; not recommended for slow connections).

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June 17, 2011

UPDATE, Friday, There have been increasing reports of radioactive “hotspots” being found around Japan, especially in the area outside but near the evacuation zone of course, but also quite far away. For example, the Wall Street Journal reported today on a hotspot found in Chiba Prefecture 120 miles from Fukushima Daiichi and not too far from Tokyo. There have been reports of elevated readings in Tokyo itself, and across northern Japan.

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June 14, 2011

Flood at Fort Calhoun. Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun reactor is surrounded by floodwaters from the Missouri River. Updated page, including photo and video & other links on the situation and background information on the reactor and fuel pool.

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