Seabrook Watchdog Group C-10 Gains Standing w/NRC on Plant’s Concrete Review
Seabrook Watchdog Group C-10 Gains Standing w/NRC on Plant’s Concrete Review
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Stop the Dirty Energy Bailout
Overview Since 2014, nuclear power companies and supportive policymakers have begun promoting new forms of subsidies to benefit existing nuclear power stations in the United States. Thus far, such proposals have only been adopted in one state (New York), and legal and regulatory challenges have resulted in only one nuclear reactor receiving temporary financial support…
Hardened On-Site Storage
Overview Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS) is a community-based concept that aims to protect the public from the threats posed by the current vulnerable storage of commercial irradiated fuel. History For decades, high level radioactive waste has accumulated at reactor sites and continues to do so as nuclear reactors generate more waste. Without a…
Chernobyl
The RBMK-1000 Reactor The Chernobyl reactor complex just 80 miles north of Kiev, Ukraine is made up of four Russian made RBMK-1000 water-cooled graphite moderated reactor designed to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and modified to also produce electricity. There are 27 RBMK’s in the former Soviet Union. One distinguishing feature of the RBMK design…
Reactor Watchdog Project
“The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale. The utility industry has already invested $125 billion in nuclear power, with an additional $140 billion to come before the decade is out, and only the blind, or the biased, can now…
“Low-Level” and “VLLW” Radioactive Waste
In 2020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed a reinterpretation of its own regulations that would essentially allow all “low-level” radioactive waste to be considered VLLW or “Very Low Level” and go to places without a nuclear license. We call it Very Large Lies about radioactive Waste: VLLW. Tell the NRC: No nuclear waste in…
Chernobyl: Basic Facts
The RBMK-1000 Reactor The Chernobyl reactor complex just 80 miles north of Kiev, Ukraine is made up of four Russian made RBMK-1000 water-cooled graphite moderated reactor designed to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and modified to also produce electricity. There are 27 RBMK’s in the former Soviet Union. One distinguishing feature of the RBMK design…
Japan Diary 2016, Fukushima+5, Part 7. These women are pissed.
Don’t get me wrong: These women are pissed! (My word not theirs.) And they have every right to express that, even in Japan, at least according to its constitution. I cannot leave Japan without peeling back the layer of sticky rice and sweet bean paste that keeps the victims of Tepco’s iodine, cesium and strontium…
Japan Diary 2016, Fukushima+5 Part 2. Hope and False Hope: Atomic Fallout Changes our Environment and Always Results in Injustice
Some who read yesterday’s post from Temporary Housing near Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture are probably still unhappy with me! The idea that small reductions in radiation exposure are any kind of “solution” flies in the face of what we know: there is no safe dose of radiation. We say: “No cure, only prevention!” The women that…
Japan Diary 2016: Fukushima Daiichi+5
As the fifth anniversary of the onset of the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, Mary Olson, director of NIRS Southeast office in Asheville, NC and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates are on a five-week speaking/listening tour of Japan. We will be posting Olson’s “tour diary” beginning today and continuing with new posts through March 11,…