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Latest Updates

• November 4, 2010

  The EPR in Crisis. A new report from Steve Thomas of University of Greenwich concludes that EDF/Areva should abandon the EPR reactor design because of its extraordinary costs.

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• November 1, 2010

  Letter from 11 groups (NIRS, PSR, Sierra Club, UCS, NRDC, FoE, etc.) to OMB urging no increase in nuclear loan guarantees in 2012 federal budget request.

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• November 1, 2010

  presentation from Tokyo Electric Power on how high-level radioactive waste is stored at Fukushima (including pool inventory and dry cask info).

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• October 26, 2010

  Bacchus Exhibit A. LNP DEIS Critical Deficiencies. Bacchus Exhibit A1. LNP Bacchus DEIS preliminary comment letter. Bacchus Exhibit A2. LNP Bacchus Affidavit. November 12, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit A3. LNP Interveners Motion to Compel Model files. September 27, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit A4. LNP Oral Argument Notice for Motion to Compel. October 15, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit A6. LNP Amended Contention 4. November 15, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit A7. Economic Impacts of Mining on Levy County. February 22, 2010 Bacchus Exhibit A8. LNP Deficient cultural resource surveys. Bacchus Exhibit A9. Impacts of inadequate archeological assessments. November 25, 2010

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• October 26, 2010

  Bacchus Exhibit B. LNP DEIS Federal Agency Comments. Bacchus Exhibit B1. EPA comments Levy DEIS. Bacchus Exhibit B2. NOAA comments on Levy DEIS.

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• October 14, 2010

  After Calvert Cliffs Collapse:  Two remaining top loan guarantee applicants seen as untenable. South Texas Project and V.C. Summer Reactor Trapped by Same “Powerful Undertow” of Unfavorable Economics, Cheap Natural Gas, Slumping Demand and Runaway Construction Costs That Caused the Collapse of Calvert Cliffs-3. Press release from 10/14/10 press conference.

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• October 9, 2010

  NIRS statement on Constellation Energy’s decision to end participation in the Calvert Cliffs-3 reactor project.

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• October 1, 2010

  Seven U.S. Senators send letter raising serious questions about plan to ship radioactive steam generators from Canada through the Great Lakes to Sweden, for eventual “recycling” into consumer and industrial goods.

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• October 1, 2010

  Bacchus Exhibit E. LNP Adverse Salt Drift Impacts Bacchus Exhibit E1. LNP salt drift FLDEPCOC appendices. Bacchus Exhibit E2. LNP Bruner email Tampa climate data. Bacchus Exhibit E3. LNP Citrus Levy SWFWMD cover classification map. Bacchus Exhibit E4. LNP NOAA Tampa rainfall data. Bacchus Exhibit E5. LNP NOAA Chiefland rainfall Rain. Bacchus Exhibit E6. NUREG 1555 on Salt Drift. Bacchus Exhibit E7. BDA Crystal River Aerial Salt Study’94-pics.

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• September 29, 2010

  Small Modular Reactors: No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power. New fact sheet from IEER & PSR debunks the industry hype over small reactors.

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