This is the charter for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Task Force conducting a 90-day review of U.S. reactors and regulatory requirements in light of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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Radioactive Revenues. New report from WISE and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations examines the financial flows between uranium mining companies and African governments.
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Greenpeace video of campaign to stop shipment of plutonium-based MOX fuel to Fukushima in 1999. Updated to point out that anti-nuclear activists kept MOX out of the Fukushima reactors for more than ten years. If they hadn't done that, the situation at Fukushima would be even worse.
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For perspective, a radiation level of about 0.19 MicroSieverts/hour is roughly equivalent to the maximum allowable radiation exposure level (1 MilliSievert/year or 100 Millirems/year (note 0.19 actually comes out to 166 mrem/year) for the United States. Until , that was also the allowable exposure level in Japan.
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On , 174 organizations worldwide sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Japan and key Cabinet officials warning that funding for the South Texas project from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation would be an extraordinary financial risk. Copy of the sign-on letter to Japanese Prime Minister and Cabinet,
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New public opinion poll finds that 70% of North Carolina oppose a utility plan to increase electric rates to pay for new nuclear reactor construction (also know as CWIP, or Construction Work in Progress). Press release. Poll data.
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Important new report from Union of Concerned Scientists. First-ever comprehensive look at taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power, historical and current. Among the report’s conclusions are that “in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away.”
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