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New Mexico: Native American Archaeological Site Which Holtec Tries To Hide In Its Environmental Report Is Over 1000 Years Old; Perhaps 8000 Years Old
Holtec’s proposed spent nuclear fuel (high level nuclear waste) site is to the west of Laguna Gatuna. The second large …
The Iffy Foreign Engineers Responsible For Holtec Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage & Small Modular Reactors; Holtec Abuse Of H1B Visas; No Apparent Effort To Find-Recruit Talent
Founded by India’s Kris Singh, Holtec appears to have a virtual monopoly on the storage of high level nuclear waste, …
The Holtec Browns Ferry Bribery Case Revisited: Despite An OIG Criminal Investigation Leading To Suspension-Debarment, Holtec Has Continued To Sell Its Nuclear Waste Cans And Services To Browns Ferry-TVA
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 …
Holtec Nuclear Waste Cans-Kris Singh: Apparent Bribery-Kickback And Allegation Of Attempted Bribery
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 …
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 …
Holtec Nuclear Waste Storage System Designed to Leak; Lacks Proper Leak Warning System – 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 …
Is the 100 in Holtec’s Spent Nuclear Fuel HI-STORM 100 Cask a Reference to “Exemptions” to its Certificate of “Compliance” (CoC)?
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Holtec is up to its 10th Amendment for its Certificate of “Compliance” for its Spent Nuclear…
More US NRC Safety Related Exemptions for Holtec: Increase Risk of a Criticality Accident and are Illegal (Comment Deadline July 30th, 11:59 pm)
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Forget North Korea, Holtec and its owner Kris Singh is the biggest nuclear menace. Holtec’s nuclear…
Holtec-US NRC Pushing for More Safety Related Exemptions for Nuclear Dry Cask Storage. 2nd Month in a Row! Holtec wants to Avoid Quality Testing! Comment Deadline July 30 11.59 pm
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Some will recall that March 9th 2015 was the comment deadline for another of Holtec’s attempts…
Holtec Refused to Make Costs-Profits Available to US Government But Wants Permission To Bury High Level Nuclear Waste In New Mexico – Comment Deadline July 30th 11.59 pm
Holtec should not be able to use a highly regulated and publicly funded industry to make profits, but to refuse …
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 …
Holtec Proposal To Bury High Level Nuclear Waste – Comment Deadline July 30th 11.59 ET
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Area of the proposed site: Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project, Comment Due Jul…
Poster Child For Faulty US Immigration Policy – Trump Should Be Banished To His Maternal Island In The UK (Which Once Belonged To Norway)
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
No this isn’t Trump’s sister, it is him with Norwegian PM Erna Solberg, January 10, 2018…
Holtec VP Says Spent Nuclear Fuel Can’t Leak Because It’s Not A Liquid! An Engineer Who Has Never Heard Of Gas, Radiation Leaks, or Flat Tires?
Remember to Comment by July 30th (Deadline extended from May: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/holtec-proposal-to-bury-high-level-nuclear-waste-teleconference-sign-up-deadline-monday-written-comments-due-end-may ) Joy Russell of Holtec Nuclear waste cans, who …
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…
Holtec Refused to Make Costs Available to US Gov; Continues to Suck Taxpayer Money; Wants To Bury High Level Nuclear Waste In New Mexico
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
As US attorneys noted: “Holtec should not be able to use a highly regulated and publicly…
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 …
Holtec Proposal To Bury High Level Nuclear Waste – Comment Deadline July 30th 11.59 ET
Area of the proposed site: Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project, Comment Due Jul 30 2018, at 11:59 …
Poster Child For Faulty US Immigration Policy – Trump Should Be Banished To His Maternal Island In The UK (Which Once Belonged To Norway)
No this isn’t Trump’s sister, it is him with Norwegian PM Erna Solberg, January 10, 2018 (WH Photo by D. …
America’s Upside Down Immigration Policy – A Million Immigrants Per Year For No Reason; The Needy Excluded: US Pulls Out of UN Migrant and Refugee Pact
Trump’s mother immigrated to the USA in May of 1930, after the 1929 crash, when unemployment had already risen 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 …
US Court Upheld NY State Right To Protect Water From Constitution Pipeline; Now Will The State Stop The Spectra-AIM Pipeline From Operating Near Indian Point Nuclear Site?
“A.G. Schneiderman Statement On Second Circuit Decision Regarding Constitution Pipeline Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit …
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. …
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 …
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 …
US Private Nuclear Waste “Interim” Storage Facility
This Private Nuclear Waste “Interim” Storage Facility, i.e. Parking lot for high level nuclear waste, comment deadline is even more …
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 …
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 …
Proposed S. Africa Nuclear Power Station Site at Risk for Fukushima-Like Nuclear Disaster: New Geological Report Discusses Hazards (Plus More)
“The public cost of cleaning up the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster topped ¥4.2 trillion (roughly $40 billion) as …
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 …
Gov Nikki Haley Vision of Color Excludes Black People: Gives Minority Status to Family Friend from India (Holtec); Excessive Black Unemployment in South Carolina and More
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley whose family is from India would count as a two for one “minority” in Trump’s …
JP Morgan Corrupt Hiring Scheme in China Teaches Lessons About Patronage, Nepotism, and Immigration Risks
“The so-called Sons and Daughters Program was nothing more than bribery by another name,” said Assistant Attorney General Caldwell. “Awarding …
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 …
SC Gov Nikki Haley’s Plutonium Hypocrisy: Financial and Family Ties to Areva, Holtec, and More
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley says she wants US and foreign plutonium out of South Carolina. And, yet, she wants …
Mishap with a Nuclear Spent Fuel Cask Could Cause Many Caskets: Holtec at Indian Point Evacuation Concerns; Holtec Routinely Requests and Gets “Amendments” Further Reducing Safety
Alongside the better known old, defective, Indian Point nuclear power station near New York City lurks a lesser known menace. …
US Senate Bill 2795 on Deregulation of the Nuclear Industry – Are Senators Inhofe, Booker, Crapo et. al. Just Lazy and Stupid or is it Conflict of Interest? Why is Sen. Carper Such a Jerk? A Quick and Dirty Look
It is perfectly possible that Inhofe, Booker, Crapo et. al. are simply lazy, stupid and ignorant in pushing a bill …
Fagg-Stouck Rep Nuclear Utilities AND Advise US Court of Claims: Sticking it to the American Taxpayer for Billions of Dollars
The revolving door of Mr. Brad Fagg (really his name) working for the US DOJ and then going to work …
Holtec Refused to Make Costs Available to US Gov; Continues to Suck Taxpayer Money
As US attorneys noted: “Holtec should not be able to use a highly regulated and publicly funded industry to make …
Is the 100 in Holtec’s Spent Nuclear Fuel HI-STORM 100 Cask a Reference to “Exemptions” to its Certificate of “Compliance” (CoC)?
Holtec is up to its 10th Amendment for its Certificate of “Compliance” for its Spent Nuclear Fuel System, for Lethal …
USNRC (“Regulator” John Goshen) Seeks Holtec (“Regulated”) Approval; Upside Down Methodology; Comment Deadline April 13th, 11.59 PM ET (1 min. to the 14th)
Comment on: “ID: NRC-2015-0270-0002 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Holtec International HI-STORM 100 Cask System; Certificate of Compliance …
Holtec Pleads Difficulty Testing Air Velocity-Heat Distribution for Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks, Comment Deadline April 13th, ET (11.59 PM), one minute to the 14th ET
Comment on “ID: NRC-2015-0270-0002 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Holtec International HI-STORM 100 Cask System; Certificate of Compliance …
Yet More Holtec Safety-Quality Related Exemption Request(s) – Amendment 10: Brittle Mangalloy Metal Composition
Holtec Spent Fuel Casks at Diablo Canyon [Note that this comment deadline is long past, but the information remains important-relevant] …
Nuclear Power Has Always Been A Dangerous Idea: People Make Mistakes; There Is No Good Way to Store Nuclear Waste – Bernie Sanders
“Even in a perfect world where energy companies didn’t make mistakes, nuclear power is and always has been a dangerous …
“Panama Papers: ‘An Old Tradition of English Piracy” and More
Painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris; Some Additional Information-Questions Raised Following the Article Below’s Notes From openDemocracy: “Panama Papers: ‘an …
Risk of Uncontrolled Nuclear Reactions (i.e. Criticality Events) in Water Saturated Deeply Buried Nuclear Waste
In “Conditions for criticality by uranium deposition in water-saturated geological formations“, Xudong Liu; Joonhong Ahn of the Dept of Nuclear …
