NIRS memo to U.S. Senators comparing the most outspoken pro-dump Senators’ League of Conservation Voters scores (all 0%!) with the anti-dump Senators’ LCV scores (a wee bit better), urging Senators to block S. 1287, the Screw-Nevada-Again bill that would gut EPA’s radiation release regulation setting authority,
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NRC and FirstEnergy were in possession of this photo of Davis-Besse reactor vessel head taken during the refueling and maintenance outage just prior to allowing the reactor restart for its operational run to the February 16, 2002 shutdown. Photo clearly indicates extensive corrosion occurring on vessel head.
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U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Sierra Club, and Friends of the Earth request to U.S. Department of Energy to withdraw proposed rule change to 10 CFR 960 “General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for Nuclear Waste Repositories; Final Siting Guidelines,” as well as the proposed new rule, 10 CFR Part 963, specific to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository,
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“Decommissioning the Nuclear Power Industry: Rubble, Rubble, Toil and Trouble,” Nuclear Monitor article focuses an overview on nuclear power station decommissioning.
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NIRS sponsored “People’s Hearing on High-Level Radioactive Waste Transportation,” held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
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NRC Security Expert’s “Differing Professional Opinion” noting that 47% of U.S. reactors suffer from serious security deficiences, (, 2797k)
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Fact Sheet
The General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office or GAO) identified in an report to Congress “Nuclear Safety and Health: Counterfeit Parts and Substandard Products Are a Governmentwide Concern” that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission “is deferring its regulatory responsibility” by failing to take enforcement action against widespread safety violations where nuclear power utilities have installed nonconforming or “fraudulent” products (such as fasteners, pipe fittings, electrical equipment, valves, even bolts) in 64% of the nation’s domestic nuclear power stations. According to GAO, NRC inspections of 13 nuclear utilities’ quality assurance programs found problems with 12 and cited that the federal nuclear safety oversight agency enforcement actions “seem to conflict with the need for continuous and aggressive oversight of this problem.”
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