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Nuclear Newsreel, Thursday, April 10, 2014
Nuclear Power No new reactors will be added to the existing Temelin site. Photo by Michael Mariotte. Another one bites the dust: Czech utility CEZ cancels new reactors at Temelin; utility’s stock immediately rises more than three percent. CEZ had planned to build two new reactors at its long-controversial Temelin site, but wanted government subsidies…
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Whine, whine. The nuclear industry thinks it’s under siege.
The nuclear power industry’s worst nightmare looks a lot like this. We couldn’t have written a better headline ourselves: Nuclear power industry under seige, FirstEnergy exec warns. Never mind the misspelling of “siege,” newspapers are having a hard enough time these days… The article leads off: “The nuclear power industry finds itself buffeted by financial…
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The NRC failed the American people
Fukushima radiation plume overlaid on map centered at Indian Point reactors. Can anyone (other than NRC) seriously believe this area can be successfully evacuated in a nuclear accident? From Samuel Lawrence Foundation website. Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission formally denied the petition for rulemaking initially submitted by NIRS and 37 co-petitioners on February 15, 2012…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Nuclear Power The mainstream media, in this case the Orange County Register, has finally taken note of a lawsuit filed by dozens of U.S. sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan alleging they have suffered health effects from Fukushima radiation. The ship provided assistance to Japan in the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima accident,…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Monday, April 7, 2014
Nuclear Power The New York Times reported over the weekend that dozens of U.S. reactors are more vulnerable to earthquakes than previously believed. The NRC has been requiring utilities to re-evaluate their ability to withstand possible earthquakes in their regions based on growing knowledge about plate tectonics and the nature of earthquakes–a process that began…
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UK: trying to offer worst possible deal for ratepayers?
The Hinkley Point A and B reactors; the UK government now wants to add a couple Plan C EPRs. Photo: Wikipedia The U.K. is already receiving substantial criticism from across Europe about its plan to subsidize the cost of proposed Areva EPR reactors at Hinkley Point–subsidized to a level that may well be rejected by…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Friday, April 4, 2014
A new report from the Department of Energy’s Inspector General says that some 2,000 radioactive waste capsules currently held underwater at a Hanford, Washington facility should be moved to dry storage because of the risk of earthquakes in the region. “We acknowledge the budgetary challenges facing the department and its impact on moving the capsules…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Thursday, April 3, 2014
Nuclear Power Another day, another poll–this one from Gallup–showing Americans support renewables & conservation, oppose more nukes. You’d think politicians, who are supposedly expert at reading polls, might have figured out which side of the issue to be on by now. But they haven’t. Eight hour Alert over after smoke seen at Exelon’s Fukushima-clone Quad…
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Nuclear Newsreel, Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Nuclear Power Exelon is up to its old tricks–the kind that already got it kicked out of the American Wind Energy Association. The nuclear giant is once again trying to kill production tax credits for wind and solar power, but it sure doesn’t want to give up its taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power. The reason…
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You know the nuclear industry is desperate when…
You know the nuclear power industry is getting desperate when it solicits its CEOs to start piling on ghost-written op-eds in publications chosen for their reach to key audiences. And you know the industry is really desperate when it brings out big guns like a couple of paid-for former U.S. Senators to support nuclear power…
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