East Coast Earthquake and North Anna 11:30 am, August 24, 2011 As indicated below, power has been restored to North Anna and emergency diesel generators are no longer being used. Both reactors at North Anna remain shutdown. One of the diesel generators suffered a coolant leak, which is why it failed. It’s not yet clear…
#NuclearIsDirty By all rights, nuclear power is on its way out. And that is thanks to the actions of thousands of activists like you, all across the country. Last week’s fifth anniversary of the ongoing Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster was the warning; this week’s kick-off of NIRS’ #NuclearIsDIrty! campaign is the answer. The only way to…
The Stop Fukushima Freeways Campaign shows the perils of the massive and unnecessary radioactive waste transportation that would occur across the U.S. if the moribund and scientifically-indefensible Yucca Mountain, Nevada waste dump were to be revived. Such large-scale transport would also occur if, as some in Congress advocate, a “centralized interim storage” site for high-level…
Nuclear Crisis in Japan: NIRS’ ongoing coverage of the Fukushima disaster from its onset to the present June 13, 2014. Important new critique from IPPNW and PSR: Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR Report “Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami.” March 6, 2012.…
Are you in the evacuation zone of a nuclear reactor? Should you be? Find out here with this interactive map from Physicians for Social Responsibility. April 30, 2014. NRC cannot provide documentation of its claim in denying NIRS EPZ petition that “majority” of emergency exercises include natural disaster as initiating or concurrent event. Emergency…
NIRS is launching a new campaign today, called #NuclearIsDirty. Over the next twelve weeks, we will be rolling it out through a series of online events, publications, and social media forums. #NuclearIsDirty is a forum to inform the public of the real environmental impacts of nuclear power, from the mining of uranium and production of…
What You Should Know About Potassium Iodide (KI) and Atomic Fallout,
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…
It’s no great revelation to say that the mainstream media, fractured though it may be these days, holds great power. It’s not direct power; the media can’t make actual decisions. Rather, the media grabs a theme–a meme if you want–and holds on to it, and repeats it, and provides slight twists to it so it…
When a nuclear power utility says one of its reactors is economically troubled and it may close early, should you believe it? For that matter, when a nuclear power utility says anything at all, should you believe it? Since the answer to the second question is almost always no, the answer to the first is…