Dangerous Radioactive Waste Storage in Texas Proposed by J.F. Lehman & France – US NRC Hearing
The proposed nuclear waste dump for Texas is by “Interim Storage Partners“– a joint venture between Waste Control Specialists (WCS), …
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Uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: A Story of Twin Tragedies (i.e. Mega-Conflict Minerals in the DRC)
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
From “The Conversation”: “The link between uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: a story of twin…
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE SUBCOMMITTEE ANNOUNCES LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP BILLS
More nuclear waste hearings… “ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE SUBCOMMITTEE ANNOUNCES LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP BILLS Jun 6, 2019 …
US House “Oversight” Hearing on Nuclear Waste Appears Designed to Create Gridlock; Ignore Critical Problems and Needed Solutions
Based on the news release, and on what we know of the list of invited witnesses, as of Jun 4, …
Concerns Raised About Three Mile Island Steam Generator Tube Defects; Could Rupture Leading To LOCA-Meltdown
The Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 is still operating and owner Exelon is pressuring Pennsylvania to …
Uranium Sellers To Owners-Operators Of US Civilian Nuclear Power Reactors Mostly Foreign, Including Foreign Governments
A lot of foreign interests, including foreign governments, benefit from US nuclear power and the subsidies which keep it afloat. …
United States Files False Claims Act Lawsuit in Connection With MOX Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Facility Contract
Areva is now Orano, which is around 90% French government owned, and 10% Japanese owned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orano Effectively the United States …
Remember To Speak Up Against High Level Radioactive Waste Coming To Texas – Deadline Extended To November 19th
Please remember to comment by November 19th, 11:59 pm EDT; 10:59 pm CDT, 9:59 pm MDT. You can comment directly, …
French Govt Trying To Balance Budget On Backs Of Americans With Nuclear Dump In Texas
Comment Deadline extended to November 19, 2018, 11:59 pm: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NRC-2016-0231 Click to access 73873.pdf The French government is trying to …
Catastrophe in the Making: Growth Machine Politics; Regulatory Capture; Hurricane Katrina; Fukushima; Disasters of Tomorrow
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
In “Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow“, Freudenberg, et.…
Problems with Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: Comment Deadline July 30th, 11:59 pm
Comment By Jul 30 2018, at 11:59 PM ET, ID: NRC-2018-0052-0058 on Holtec’s proposed spent nuclear fuel facility in New …
Facts On How Holtec Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters Are Substandard And Should Not Be Used, Parked, Or Buried Anywhere
Comment By Jul 30 2018, at 11:59 PM ET, ID: NRC-2018-0052-0058 on Holtec’s spent nuclear fuel facility in New Mexico: …
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Needs To Rebrand Itself As The US Natural Renewables Commission; New Vision For River Bend Station (Comment to US NRC)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29: 18) “Dear NRC Decision Makers, The request for public comment …
Problems with Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Holtec casks with arrows pointing to small cooling vents, Diablo Canyon, NPS, NRC gov If you…
Everyday Needs To Be Earth Day
April 22nd is officially Earth Day. Everyday needs to be Earth Day. NASA Earth-Rise Christmas Eve 1968 The human population …
France-India Nuclear Deal Expected To Be Signed On Fukushima Anniversary (Macron In India)
“Macron will visit India on March 11, 2018, seven years to the day since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi …
Does The Flynn Middle East Nuclear Reactor Deal Include A Plot For A New Oil Cartel To Double The Price Of Oil?
At the center of the Middle East US-Russia nuclear plan appears to be a plan for an oil cartel to …
France and Russia Compete In Attempts to Destroy Europe with Defective Nuclear Reactors; US Hell-Bent to Nuclear Auto-Destruct Too Thru a Combo of Ignorance and Malice
Nuclear regulators who are failing to do their jobs need to take notice of Japan: https://nuclear-news.net/2017/10/10/fukushima-district-court-finds-national-government-and-tepco-responsible Just because in most …
Problems with Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: Letter from the Sierra Club to the US NRC and Some Additional Info
Holtec casks with arrows pointing to small cooling vents, Diablo Canyon, NPS, NRC gov If you think that transferring the …
US NRC Response on Crystal River Nuclear Power Station Spent Fuel Pool Near Tampa; Our Response, and More
Our question re the closed Crystal River Nuclear Power Station and Hurricane Irma. (Screenshots of the original correspondance and of …
Nuclear Strategic Alliance for FLEX Emergency Response SAFER (NOT): Depends on Emergency Resources which may be Needed Elsewhere-Unavailable
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
“The first tier of the SAFER plan is established through PEICo contracts with commercial heavy-lift helicopter…
Mitsubishi Military Industrial Complex Nuked in Nagasaki: Mitsubishi Still Lives While Victims Still Die
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http://youtu.be/gR6xDij75-4 Mitsubishi Urakami Ordance Plant. Atomic Bomb Area Nagasaki. Movie by US National Archives and Records…
Nuclear Imbecilic Foot in Mouth Disease/France Dancing to the Bank
France’s new PM Édouard Philippe, appointed by President Macron worked as Director of Public Affairs at French State owned nuclear …
The Ongoing Saga 81: News, Updates, & More
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Last news update Thursday 15 June 2017, UTC Most recent updates are on top, after image-intro…
Secret MOX Plutonium Fuel Shipment Planned From French Gov Owned AREVA To Japan; Trump Administration Approved with Tillerson as Lead
Mere Coincidence or somehow related? AREVA Nuclear Fuel Facility in Washington State used to be Exxon Nuclear Fuel until 2001. …
Experts: Nuclear Industry Pressured USNRC into Low-Balling Consequences of Nuclear Accident
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Overlay Indian Point Nuclear Power Station – Greenpeace OpenStreet Map Trump Tower 5th Ave NY http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear/nomorechernobyls/exclusion-zone-comparison-map/ Trump’s …
The Ongoing Saga 81: News, Updates, & More
Last news update Thursday 15 June 2017, UTC. This post updated from May 24-June 15, 2017. It continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/the-ongoing-saga-82-news-updates-more/ …
German Anti-Nuclear Activist Jailed for Blocking Train Carrying Radioactive Waste Through Densely Populated Areas
“Without informing the local population, similar trains full of radioactive material are secretly passing through densely inhabited areas every four …
Chernobyl “Study” Contaminated by US-UK Nuclear Funding
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ber/berac/powerpoint/Bertsch.ppt http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(15)00988-4.pdf “The Savannah River Site was constructed during the early 1950s to produce the basic…
High Level Nuclear Waste Interim Parking Lot Storage in Texas Comment to April 28th
Comment Deadline April 28th, https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NRC-2016-0231 Most US high level nuclear waste appears to be kept in open air parking-lot like …
Russia Plans to Fuel Floating Nuclear Reactor(s) in St. Petersburg – Endangering the City of 5 Million, Before Towing It Around Scandinavia
Russian State owned Rosatom, which answers directly to the President of Russia (Putin). Thus, it appears more accurate to say …
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Ongoing: Japan Forcing People to Return to Radioactive Areas; NGOs Send Urgent Request to UN to Stop this Violation of Human Rights
From Greenpeace: “Tokyo, 7 March 2017 – Japan’s policy to resettle residents to heavily contaminated areas in Fukushima is in …
Interim Storage Open-Air Parking Lots of High Level Nuclear Waste Risk Major Radioactive Leaks – Most Canister Systems Do Not Meet Standards: Made of Thin Steel; Neither Adequately Inspected Nor Adequately Monitored
Holtec Spent Fuel Casks at Diablo Canyon, California “The majority of current U.S. irradiated spent fuel storage facilities use thin-walled …
Detonation, Fire, and Emergency Shutdown at French Nuclear Reactor on the English Channel Less Than a Month After Regulator Called the State of French Nuclear Installations “Worrying” (Updated)
Less than two weeks ago, the French nuclear regulator, ASN, published a press release on the English part of its …
Uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: A Story of Twin Tragedies (i.e. Mega-Conflict Minerals in the DRC)
From “The Conversation”: “The link between uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: a story of twin tragedies By Susan Williams, …
As Court Case Against It Looms, Rosatom (Russia), KEPCO (S. Korea), EDF (France), China State Nuclear – All State Owned Entities- Express Interest in S. Africa Nuclear Station Showing That Nuclear Power Is Unsustainable in a Free Market
Although a court case against the project will not be heard until end February, the South African government has announced …
The Ongoing Saga 77: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
Last update Sunday 12 February 2017, 637 am UTC It continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/the-ongoing-saga-78-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ Most recent updates are on top, after …
Nuclear Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) Does Not Protect People in India (Nor elsewhere)
India signing the CSC (Convention on Supplementary Compensation) was pushed for by the US-India Business Council when India-American Richard Verma …
India Must Black-list French Nuclear Suppliers: Former Power Secretary writes after Exposé in France
Via Dianuke.org: “India Must Black-list French Nuclear Suppliers: Former Power Secretary writes after Exposé in France NOVEMBER 23, 2016 E.A.S.Sarma 14-40-4/1 …
CSC Protects the Nuclear industry, Not Nuclear Victims
From Greenpeace.org: “Greenpeace condemns the new International Nuclear Liability Convention CSC protects the nuclear industry, not nuclear victims Press release …
Power & Symbolism for Putin: Russia Offers Partial Bail Out of French State Owned Areva; Atomic Energy and Political Power in Russia
Power and Symbolism for Putin? Symbolic Power? The old Creusot Forge. There was an attempt to set up a “Le …
Russia’s Nuclear Shakedown of Bulgaria and Its Nuclear Shakedown Colleagues: RWE, Areva, Toshiba-Westinghouse)
Reuters news from Friday had three titles about nuclear shakedowns, without calling them that, of course. Through international litigation, Russia …
Areva wants US Taxpayers Held Liable for Nuclear Accidents-Defective Nuclear Parts; Areva Gets Multimillion $ Contract for Equipment at Extra High Risk US Nuclear Power Station Despite Ongoing Areva Nuclear Parts Scandal
Even as French government owned Areva’s defective nuclear parts scandal was already underway, Areva sent a comment to the US …
Gov Nikki Haley $55,000 from Holtec Nuclear’s Kris Singh; Sec of State Interprets Treaties; Possible Conflict of Interest in Application of Nuclear Liability Agreement
Among the functions of the Secretary of State: “Negotiates, interprets, and terminates treaties and agreements“. http://www.state.gov/secretary/115194.htm This appears to include …
On Monday Holtec-USNRC to Discuss Peening of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Welds – Apparently before Flipping Areva-NuHoms Canisters from Sideways to Upright to Move to Holtec Interim Storage
US NRC Meeting on Monday “To discuss Holtec International’s (Holtec) technical details and proposed plans to perform peening of dry …
French and Japanese Quality Defects to Shut-down Multiple French Nuclear Reactors – Areva Le Creusot Forge and JCFC (Japan Casting and Forging) at Work
Notice that the above inspection was in 2009. Regulators have suspected or known about problems at French state-owned Areva Le …
Leak: Areva-Le Creusot Investigating 6,000 Nuclear Parts Files for Irregularities; US NRC to Participate in ASN Led Worldwide Inspection from Nov 28th to Dec 2nd
From a US NRC Inspection Report, October 6 – 8, 2009, by Kerri Kavanagh https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/us-nrc-on-areva-le-creusot-potential-defects-in-us-reactors-feigning-ignorance/ The US NRC had concerns …
St. Lucie Nuclear Power Station Built on a Barrier Island Post-Hurricane Camille: Nuclear Foolishness; Matthew Warning
“ a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and …
Hinkley Pt. Nuclear Power Contract Signed Days AFTER New Warnings About Areva-Creusot Defects-QT Problems by French Regulator and Large & Associates
While the UK government announced intention of moving forward with construction of Hinkley Pt. C Nuclear Power Station on Sept. …
Areva Creusot Forge: French Regulator Published List of Defects at Flamanville Nuclear and Elsewhere One Week AFTER French Nuclear Reactors Approval Announced for Britain (Hinkley Pt.); Still No News From US NRC re Potentially Defective Areva-Le Creusot Nuclear Parts
According to the French Regulator, ASN: “To date, Areva NP has identified 87 irregularities concerning EDF reactors in operation, 20 …
