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 …
Tag Archives: Germany
Nord Stream 2 – Not A Private Matter
Via Heinrich Boell Stiftung (https://www.boell.de/en ): “Nord Stream 2 – not a Private Matter Apr 22, 2016 by Annalena Baerbock, …
NATO Enhanced Forward Presence
http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2017_06/20170629_170629-eFP-map-en.pdf http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2017_05/1705-factsheet-efp.pdf Infographic: http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2017_06/20170601_170601-efp-infographic.pdf Generals Pulaski and Kosciusko Fought in the American Revolution for US Independence.
Trump Defends Confederate Statues Even Though His Ancestors Were In Europe During the US Civil War; Contrast To US Senator McCain Whose Ancestors Fought For the Confederacy
Hungary chose to send their old communist statues to an outdoor museum. Memento Park, Taken on February 8, 2012 by …
N. Korea: US Senators Call For Tougher Sanctions; Letting Recent Sanctions Work; Sanctions Enforcement; Diplomacy
Recent US sanctions that Trump unwillingly signed included those aimed at North Korea: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/trump-effectively-admits-to-being-putins-boy-plus-appears-to-regret-that-the-us-isnt-a-dictatorship-in-statement-re-sanctions-bill. Neither the recent US sanctions nor …
The Fate of Raoul Wallenberg, Lost Hero of the Holocaust: Will Russian Court Force the FSB to Turn Over Documents?
Wallenberg, who saved more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II, disappeared right after the Soviet army took over …
FBI Raided Trump Campaign Chief Manafort’s Home in July; Recall Ukrainian Journalist-MP Plea For FBI Help in March
From VOA: “FBI Raided Trump Campaign Chief’s Home Last Month August 09, 2017 1:01 PM, by Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — …
Trump Effectively Admits To Being Putin’s Boy Plus Appears to Regret That The US Isn’t A Dictatorship in Statement Re Sanctions Bill
Trump’s complaints regarding the US Sanctions Bill, which it would have been futile to veto because the US Congress would …
Trump Tells Putin He Can Keep Crimea; Take More of Ukraine In Exchange For Sberbank Loan To Build Trump Tower Moscow and Leaving Melania Alone?
(If you think this is satire, rather than legitimate speculation based on the personalities involved, then you’ve had your head …
Of Course NATO Is Operating On The Baltic; Russia Needs to Return Its Stolen Baltic Exclave and Stop Whining and Trying to Deceive People
Russia says a US B-52 was near its borders…duh. Russia stole part of Baltic Germany which has nothing to do …
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 …
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 …
US House Members Request Info from Deutsche Bank on Russia Money Laundering Scheme and Trump Accounts
Background: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/trump-lender-deutsche-bank-fined-for-mirror-trading-10-billion-russian-money-laundering-scheme/ From US House Committee on Financial Services Democrats: “Committee Dems Request Information from Deutsche Bank on Russia Money …
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 …
Did Putin Pick French Candidate Le Pen’s Prime Minister?
BBC noted that “Correspondents on state-controlled Rossiya 1 and NTV give almost identical comments on French elections” and RFERL noted …
Did France’s General de Gaulle Foresee the Danger of Trump-Putin? Goal of De Gaulle’s 1963 Franco-German Alliance was to Maintain Independence from Russia and the USA
France and the United States have always been allies. France helped the United States gain its freedom from the UK …
American Ancestry 101 for Donald Trump and Other Recent Arrivals to the USA
Donald Trump, whose mother immigrated to America from the UK in 1930, hundreds of years after US Senator Elizabeth Warren’s …
Putin and the $100 million Deal that Disappeared; Investigator Died of “Natural Causes” Weeks After Talking to Journalists
From the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: “Putin and the $100 million deal that disappeared Published April 19 2012 By Maeve …
Russian Govt Owned Gas Pipeline Nord-Stream 2 Undermines European Independence-Security; Threatens International Nature Preserve in Baltic
Russian State owned Gazprom is the majority owner at over 50% of the proposed Nord-Stream 2 gas pipeline, but Germany’s …
Eastern Mediterranean Oil and Gas; EU Med Gas Pipeline to Reduce Dependency Upon Russia – Lest Europe Freeze Again as in 2009
Russia State owned Gazprom cut off gas to Europe in the dead of an especially cold winter 8 years ago. …
Trump Notified Russia Before Attacking Syria; Trump Formally Notified the US Congress on Saturday; 100 years Ago US President Wilson Asked Congress Before Entering WWI
April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress for a declaration of war before entering World War I on …
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 …
No April Fools’ Joke: Russia-Trump-Tillerson-NATO
Senator Merkley to now US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: On March 22nd, Congresswoman Kaptur remarked: “Mr. Speaker, years from …
Ukrainian Journalist, Now MP: Payments Received by Manafort Show All Indicators of Money Laundering and Fraud; Investigation Needed; FBI Must Examine Bank Account
[Discussion of the Banks involved and ties to previous money laundering, Bob Dole (AUB); Putin, Gazprom, Rosneft (Commerzbank) follows the …
Russia Rocking the European Boat?
From VOA (written last April when VOA still had a formally independent bipartisan board, unless the article has been changed): …
Russia Attacks Our Friends’ Elections by US Congressman Eric Swalwell
An excerpt from US Congressman Swalwell’s web site: “Russia Attacks Our Friends’ Elections by US Congressman Swalwell It’s no secret …
Trump Lender: Deutsche Bank Fined for “Mirror Trading” $10 Billion Russian Money-Laundering Scheme
Swiss Banker Josef Ackerman was Deutsche Bank CEO from 2002-2012, and is currently Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Ackermann. …
Russian Nuclear Threat on Multiple Fronts – Landsbergis to Lukashenka: Noose Is Ready For You On Kremlin Chimes
The Belarus nuclear power station, under construction by Russian state owned Rosatom, sits on the Lithuanian border, as does the …
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 …
Father of the US Nuclear Navy Thought Risks of Nuclear Power Not Worth Benefits Because It Produces Radiation; Opposed Continued Subsidies to the Nuclear Industry
“…every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a certain half-life, which in some cases is billions of …
His Primary Rules: Never Allow the Public to Cool Off; Repeat a Big Lie Frequently Enough and People Sooner or Later Believe It
“…fascism, in Italy and Germany alike, has been subsidized above all by the magnates of heavy industry (iron and steel, …
Political Contributor – Developer Charles Kushner Sentenced to Max (2 yrs) in Prison for Witness Retaliation and Other Crimes (Jared Kushner’s father)
Last November the Guardian raised the following issue: “Who is Jared Kushner? Trump’s son-in-law at center of transition team drama …
Volkswagen: A Dirty Old Company in More Ways Than One
June 1940 Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 101I-129-0480-25 by Boesig, Heinz CC-BY-SA Diesel engines can be run on clean …
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 …
Half of Swiss, French, Dutch, Portuguese Say People Fear Reporting Corruption
A small excerpt from Transparency International’s brand new study, “People and Corruption: Europe and Central Asia Global Corruption Barometer, 2016, …
Luxembourg-EU’s Juncker Proves Why Trump’s Right About NATO; Does “Mal Léché” Juncker Think Americans are his Serfs?
Luxembourg-EU’s Juncker is an arrogant “smart” one isn’t he? Thinks he’s going to get his way by calling Trump stupid …
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 …
Intrepid Hurricane Nicole Still Deters German Nuclear Waste Path to America
Hurricane Nicole The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as …
Shipments of Nuclear Waste Through Hurricane Prone Atlantic to Charleston SC Almost Monthly?
The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as well as …
Congressmen Ruiz, Grijalva Request Oversight Hearing to Discuss Tribal Consultation for Dakota Access Pipeline-Not an Isolated Incident
As these Congressmen point out, Dakota Access Pipeline is not the first nor only consultation failure. For instance, the US …
Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Conspiracy to Cheat US Emissions Tests
“According to the plea agreement, from 1983 until May 2008, Liang was an employee of Volkswagen AG (VW), working in …
Defective Areva-Creusot Nuclear Steam Generator at Fessenheim Nuclear Power Station: Regulator Suspends Test Certificate
Areva-Le Creusot at it again! They gave Fessenheim – already considered France’s most dangerous nuclear power station – a steam …
Why a Nuclear Reactor with Almost 1000 Pressure Vessel Flaws May Still Re-open Near Zurich: A Lesson in Myopic Accounting
The news that almost 1000 holes are in the reactor pressure vessel of Beznau 1 came on October 7, 2015. …
Okla. General Proud of Her Cherokee, Choctaw Heritage: American Ancestry 101 for Donald Trump
It’s rather strange that Donald Trump, whose mother immigrated to America from the UK in 1930, 200 years after Senator …
Germany’s Attempt to Dump Nuclear Waste and Liability Upon America: SRS Citizen’s Board Objects
“Germany is a wealthy and stable first-world ally capable of safely and securely managing this SNF [Spent Nuclear Fuel] without …
European Commission Nuclear Push? 90% of Uranium for European Reactors is Imported
From Greens-EFA: “Leaked EU Commission Paper Foresees Major Expansion of Nuclear Power, 17.05.2016 A draft paper from the EU’s Sustainable …
German Activists Protest Transport of German Nuclear Waste Across Germany and to America, while Americans Sleep
While German activists protest the possible transport of German nuclear waste across Germany and to America for processing and probable …
Greens Urge Ireland to Insist on Hinkley Nuclear Power Consultation Following UNESC Ruling
Ireland in relation to the two new nuclear power stations, which the UK government wants to impose Note that if …
UN Finds the UK in Violation of Transboundary Environmental Impact Convention for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station; Europe at Risk
A nuclear accident anywhere in Europe may seriously impact much of Europe, as did the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster, and to …
The Ongoing Saga 70: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
This post ran from April 29th to May 25th. News continues here starting with the 26th of May: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/the-ongoing-saga-71-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It …
