The Ongoing Saga 83: News, Updates, & More
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Hanford Nuclear Site: After President Trump’s Budget Proposal Comes up Short, Sen. Murray’s Proposal For A Nearly $200 Million Increase for Nuclear Waste Cleanup Goes To Full Senate Vote
Hanford Tunnel cave-in photo May 9th 2017 Hanford gov These nuclear clean-up sites need to be handled either by non-profits/not-for-profits …
5.8 M Quake Near Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site; Torrential Rains; Threats Of Increased Dumping of Radioactive Water to the Pacific
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20009yb7 “Magnitude 5.8 quake hits on Japan’s Honshu: PTWC Posted:Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:27:07 -0400 SYDNEY (Reuters) – An earthquake with …
GE-Hitachi F-Up Could Lead to Inability to Scram-Shutdown Several US Nuclear Reactors
CONTROL ROD DRIVE MECHANISMS OF 3 US NUCLEAR REACTORS CONTAMINATED WITH CHLORIDES because of a f-up by GE Hitachi during …
Russia’s Nuclear Marketing
Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Russia has taken the lead in marketing nuclear reactors overseas – but for how long? Just…
Why is West Cumbria Coal Mining Advisor Hiding Down Under In Oz? Earthquakes, Sellafield Nuclear Site and Methane Mix?
Comment deadline is July 10th. For more info: https://keepcumbriancoalinthehole.wordpress.com Donald Anthony Carroll is listed as a Company Director/Advisor for WEST …
Nuclear facilities targeted by hackers – say USA Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I.
Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I. Say, NYT, By NICOLE PERLROTH, JULY 6, 2017, Since May, hackers…
Hanford: Second Nuclear Waste Tunnel At High Risk of Collapse As Trump Aims To Remove Protective NM Perimeter; Trump Budget Fails To Adequately Fund Cleanup
After the PUREX (Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant) tunnel collapsed it was filled with sand and dirt and covered with what …
Trump Budget Inadequate For Hanford Nuclear Site Cleanup; Nuclear Waste Tunnel Collapsed; High Risk of Second Tunnel Collapse; Comment on Cleanup Priorities July 7th Deadline
Hanford Cleanup Priorities July 7th Comment Deadline: Trump Budget Wouldn’t Fund All Legal Requirements Even Prior to the Nuclear Waste …
Petition to Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear Installations in the UK
To: Health and Safety Executive of the UK Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear Installations In your role as protectors…
Proposed West Cumbria Coal Mine Near Sellafield Nuclear Site: Comment Deadline July 10th; Sample Letter; Leaflet to Print-Share
Write to Cumbria County Council to oppose by mail, email or online by the 10th July 2017 http://councilportal.cumbria.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=217 The UK’s …
Clearance to Build New Russian Nuclear Reactors in India is Illegal (Koodankulam 3 & 4)
Koodankulam Nuclear Power Protest – PMANE, – Dianuke.org “…the first two units of the Koodankulam nuclear power project are sub-standard, …
Coal AND Nuclear: Lethal Mix in West Cumbria UK
From West Cumbria Mining‘s License Map – with additions from RaFL ? Is Cumbria Being Frogmarched into Nuclear AND Coal?…
Former US Senator John Edwards Representing Thousands of U.S. Veterans Injured in Nuclear Disaster
Originally posted on nuclear-news:
RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the…
Another Coal Mine for Donald Trump to Embrace!
Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole:
West Cumbria Mining Video from Kevin Murphy on Vimeo The video above shows the same old…
The Ongoing Saga 82: News, Updates, & More
Last news update Wednesday 13 July 2017, UTC. News continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/the-ongoing-saga-83-news-updates-more/ Most recent updates are on top, after image-intro …
Coal Action Network Oppose New Coal Mine Plan for Cumbria Near Nuclear Waste Site
Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole:
Coal Action Network have written to Cumbria County Council opposing the new coal mine plan in…
Trump Donor-Fundraiser Loses Antitrust Case: U.S. District Court Blocks EnergySolutions’ Acquisition of WCS Nuclear Waste Site (June 21, 2017 Ruling)
WCS west Texas nuclear waste dump Energy Solutions, owned by Trump large donor Doug Kimmelman, wants to take-over competitor WCS …
US Congressmen Raise Concerns About Flynn’s Work on Saudi-Russian Nuclear Proposal
Trump as the guest of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Saturday evening, May 20, 2017, in …
Coking coal mine in Russia Causes Earthquake- a Warning to Cumbria
Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole:
Sellafield B30 Pond with Herring Gull and Spent Fuel Rods ? “The concrete is in dreadful…
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…
Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition Condemns Trump-Zinke Recommendation to Eviscerate Bear Ears National Monument; Other National Monuments on the Chopping Block Too
Zinke’s recommendation is at Trump’s behest: “Presidential Executive Order on the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act, EXECUTIVE ORDER“, …
Why Special Interests Want Bears Ears National Monument Gone: Uranium, Oil and Gas
The comment deadline for “Review of Certain National Monuments Established Since 1996; Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment” is July …
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. …
Tuesday: Recommendations Against Dumping Nuclear Waste from Germany and US Commercial Nuclear Waste in South Carolina
From Savannah River Site Watch: “Action Alert! On June 6, 2017, speak up at the Nuclear Material Committee of the …
Dangerous Cargo of Radioactive Trash Flying from Scotland to South Carolina
Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Toxic cargo of nuclear waste leaves Scotland for US under armed guard https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/toxic-cargo-of-nuclear-waste-leaves-for-us/ Jim Lawson, 04 June 2017 AN…
Preliminary Injunction Filed to Stop Construction at Rocky Flats Due to Plutonium Contamination Concerns
USFWS Historic Lindsay Ranch Rocky Flats: Wind and solar appear a better, safer, use of the site. From The Colorado …
Plutonium Concerns Prompt Federal Lawsuit over Rocky Flats Refuge Near Denver Colorado; Preliminary Injunction To Be Filed Today
US DOE photo “Groups opposed to public access to Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, where for decades workers made components …
UN Rapporteur Received Reports that Japan Media Avoids Covering Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Disaster; Reporter Demoted-Salary Reduced for Writing About Fukushima
USAF bombing of hiroshima-nagasaki fall 1945, color enhanced. “I have also received first-hand reports of newspapers delaying or cancelling the …
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 …
Letter Opposing Burial of Nuclear Waste Equivalent to 700 Nuclear Warheads on US Beachfront – Petition
This letter may be signed in the form of a petition and/or letters sent directly. Petition link at page bottom. …
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 …
South Dakota: Dewey-Burdock ISL Uranium Mining Aquifer Exemption Comment Deadline Extended to June 19th (Midnight)
The deadline was listed at midnight on Friday May 19th, apparently one minute to Saturday, but it’s not clear. It …
Russia selling debt and dependence to its overseas nuclear customers
Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Is Rosatom selling debt and dependence to its overseas customers? http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2017-05-is-rosatom-selling-debt-and-dependence-to-its-overseas-customers When a court in South Africa torpedoed…
Radioactive Waste Filled Tunnel Near Hanford Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant Reported Collapsed Today
THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING THERE TO MONITOR GROUND SHIFTING TO ALERT PRIOR TO COLLAPSE DESPITE ALL OF THE TAX …
Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima “No-Go Zone”; Forests Contaminated by Fukushima and Chernobyl “are Ticking Time Bombs”
From Common Dreams: “Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima ‘No-Go Zone’ Contaminated forests such as those outside …
Secretive South African Nuclear Deal Blocked by Court; Need for Vigilance Remains
Press Release from Earthlife Africa and SAFCEI: “NUCLEAR DEAL BLOCKED! JUDGEMENT MADE ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT’S SECRET TRILLION-RAND NUCLEAR …
The Risks Attached to South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Strategy
As published by “The Conversation”, August 19, 2015: “The risks attached to South Africa’s nuclear energy strategy By Vladimir Slivyak, …
Cumbria Life UK – “Chernobyl The Cloud Lingers On”
Cumbria Life and Chernobyl…a hard hitting article from 1996… The lifestyle magazine, Cumbria Life, is not where you would expect…
Children Still Endangered by Chernobyl Radiation in Russia; Russia Pretends Area Has Improved; Removes Medical, Social Insurance and Compensation
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/chernobyl-fukushima-radiation-light-painting/blog/56178 “Stariye Bobovichi is one of thousands of communities in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus officially declared contaminated by Chernobyl. …
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, Radioactivity Has Seriously Harmed Wildlife
From “The Conversation”: “At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife By Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina …
When “Energy” Drinks Actually Contained Radioactive Energy
From “The Conversation”: “When ‘energy’ drinks actually contained radioactive energy By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University Modern life have you …
Russia Continues Crusade Against Environmental Groups in Run-up to Earth Day
Norwegian NGO Bellona reports: “Another Russian non-profit tarred as a foreign agent for little more than existing. In a continuing …
Russia’s Secretive, Floating, Old Style Nuclear Reactor: Fueling and Testing in St. Petersburg on the Baltic?
Russian President Putin trying to nuke his hometown? As Trump would say: “Sad”! Rosatom, the Russian State owned company which …
Beatrix Potter’s Beloved Lake District Still Endangered by Proposed New Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Waste
Beatrix Potter, best known as the author-illustrator of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit“, “supported the efforts of the National Trust …
US NRC Webinar on Wed (sign up by Tues 2 pm): Global Nuclear Fuels Americas Performance Review – Putin Must Think It’s Great; Trying to Get an Exemption to Run His Nuclear Fuel in Illinois
While it’s not what the US NRC appears to have in mind when discussing GNF-A’s performance review, it’s been within …
Cameco Crow Butte Uranium Mine Evaporation Pond Requirements Amendment-Teleconference Tuesday 2.30 to 3.30 PM EDT (DC Time)
Crow Butte Evaporation Impoundment (“Pond”). “PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT Title: Evaporation pond requirements amendment April 11, 2017, 02:30 PM to 03:30 …
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 …
Putin’s Nuclear Fuel Co. Wants Exemption to Fuel Illinois Reactors with help of Exelon, GE, Toshiba, Hitachi and US NRC
TVEL belongs to Atomenergoprom that is a part of the Rosatom State corporation. As a State corporation, Rosatom is subordinate …
