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DOE Informs Nevada Court That 1/2 Tonne Weapons-Grade Plutonium Has Been Sent From South Carolina to Nevada; Location Of Second 1/2 Tonne Unknown

February 1, 2019

South Carolina wants to get shot of its plutonium, and Nevada doesn’t want it. But, Nevada’s happy to keep its …

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More US NRC Safety Related Exemptions for Holtec: Increase Risk of a Criticality Accident and are Illegal (Comment Deadline July 30th, 11:59 pm)

July 27, 2018

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

July 27, 2018

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Some will recall that March 9th 2015 was the comment deadline for another of Holtec’s attempts…

Australia: Bushfires Close To Nuclear Reactor Complex (April 16-17 2018 Maps And Interactive Map Links For Updates)

April 17, 2018

Fires as of April 16-17th. To give an idea of the map scale: Barden Ridge to Menai is approximately 3 …

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Australia’s Bushfires Threatening Nuclear Reactor: Changing the Name of a Suburb Helps the Government Keep this Quiet

April 17, 2018

Fires as of April 16-17th. To give an idea of the map scale: Barden Ridge to Menai is approximately 3 …

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Dangers of Bushfires-Wildfires & Nuclear Business

April 16, 2018

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
From “Bushfire Safety and Survival for Businesses and Organisations“, p. 19: http://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/public/download.jsp?id=30936 “Bushfires in Australia are…

France-India Nuclear Deal Expected To Be Signed On Fukushima Anniversary (Macron In India)

March 10, 2018

“Macron will visit India on March 11, 2018, seven years to the day since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi …

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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?

August 19, 2017

“A.G. Schneiderman Statement On Second Circuit Decision Regarding Constitution Pipeline Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit …

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Nuclear Imbecilic Foot in Mouth Disease/France Dancing to the Bank

June 16, 2017

France’s new PM Édouard Philippe, appointed by President Macron worked as Director of Public Affairs at French State owned nuclear …

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NORAD Tracks Santa & His Radioactive Reindeer for 60 Years, Incoming Air and Maritime Attacks to North America, but Not Radiation Plumes?

December 25, 2016

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
DoD/NORAD 151202-D-ZZ999-100.JPG A 2015 graphic commemorates the 60th anniversary of the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s…

Socialist Nuclear Power (i.e. Unfair Nuclear Subsidies; Corporate Welfare) in America (and Elsewhere)

August 23, 2016

“There are many forms of government subsidization of the nuclear power industry. These subsidies include the sponsorship of research, enrichment …

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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

May 3, 2016

Alongside the better known old, defective, Indian Point nuclear power station near New York City lurks a lesser known menace. …

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Another Three Mile Island Disaster or Worse in the Making: Brunswick and Perry Nuclear Power Stations Valve and Electrical Failures This Week

February 12, 2016

Oddly, Nuclear Power Stations depend on electricity from the grid for cooling of the reactor and its spent fuel pool. …

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Multiple Failures; Dependence Upon External Grid Led to Near-Miss at Scottish Nuclear Power Station

February 11, 2016

The electrical grid, sheep at Hunterston B – about 30 miles, 50 km, from Glasgow, Scotland. Dependence upon external sources …

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16 Fault lines near Jaitapur Nuclear Project Site; 6 within 5 km; 93 Major Tremors in Region over Last 20 Years

January 25, 2016

From Greenpeace India: “Was Jaitapur site given clearance without conclusive studies, questions Greenpeace Press release – January 22, 2016 New …

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Runaway, Floundering, Foundering, Sinking Nuclear Power Stations?

January 19, 2016

China, once upon a time a great inventor, follows on the heels of Russia in copying an old, stupid, US …

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Runaway Barges Endanger Nuclear Power Stations-Essential Infrastructure: Life on the Mississippi

January 16, 2016

Mississippi River Traffic visible near Waterford Nuclear Reactor In Reserve Louisiana the Mississippi was at 23.83 ft at 3 am …

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More US NRC Safety Related Exemptions for Holtec: Increase Risk of a Criticality Accident and are Illegal

January 6, 2016

Forget North Korea, Holtec and its owner Kris Singh is the biggest nuclear menace. Holtec’s nuclear “spent fuel” canisters are …

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NORAD Tracks Santa & His Radioactive Reindeer for 60 Years, Incoming Air and Maritime Attacks to North America, but Not Radiation Plumes?

December 24, 2015

DoD/NORAD 151202-D-ZZ999-100.JPG A 2015 graphic commemorates the 60th anniversary of the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s work tracking Santa’s Yuletide …

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Dangers of Bushfires-Wildfires & Nuclear Business

August 2, 2015

From “Bushfire Safety and Survival for Businesses and Organisations“, p. 19: http://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/public/download.jsp?id=30936 “Bushfires in Australia are frequent events during the …

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Nuclear Reactors: Forest Fire Propagation Risk Assessment Methodology (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

July 30, 2015

Forest fire propagation simulations for a risk assessment methodology development for a nuclear power plant Yasushi Okano *, Hidemasa Yamano …

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Safety Doubts Persist for Ukrainian Nuclear Power Stations; West Funds Extension of Reactor Operations

June 6, 2015

From Bankwatch Network-Bankwatch.org: “Operations suspended at one Ukrainian nuclear unit, as wider safety doubts persist Bankwatch Mail, May 14, 2015 …

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US NRC Approves Holtec Certificate of Non-Compliance with Scientific Method & ASME

June 3, 2015

“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is confirming the effective date of June 2, 2015, for the direct final rule …

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Nuclear Pressure Vessel Embrittlement- US NRC Dangerous Games

May 11, 2015

See more and how to comment here. It’s easy and can be anonymous: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/us-nuclear-reactors-brittle-fracture-failurenuclear-disaster-risk-comment-by-tues-12-may-11-59-pm-eastern-time/ In the April 18, 2013 US …

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Nuclear Reactor Embrittlement: Palisades Shutdown Urgent to Avert Catastrophic Meltdown

May 11, 2015

Your chance to complain to the US NRC on this topic before Tuesday, 12 May 11:59 pm Eastern Time, info/easy …

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US Nuclear Reactors Brittle Fracture-Failure/Nuclear Disaster Risk

May 10, 2015

[We added to this post on early 12 May UTC. See update at bottom.] “NRC-2014-0137 Technical Basis for Regulatory Guidance …

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Melted, Burst, Essential Service Water System Pipes OK at Nuclear Reactors Says US NRC, Comment by 14 May

May 9, 2015

Comment here: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=NRC-2015-0088-0001 Names like ASME RR and ASME 13R are NOT safety codes or standards. They are “Regulatory Relief”-exemptions …

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Price-Anderson Act: Billions in Bailout $ for Nuclear Disasters

May 9, 2015

CC-BY-NC-ND: https://www.citizen.org/documents/Price%20Anderson%20Factsheet.pdf

Fires around Chernobyl Revive Nuclear Nightmare

April 30, 2015

Based on a Greenpeace Brazil article: Fires around Chernobyl Revive Nuclear Nightmare News – 29 – April – 2015 Forest …

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Windscale, Moorside, Sellafield Accident Impact-Fallout Map

April 25, 2015

“The Chernobyl accident is an obvious example of how human failures when dealing with a modern technical system can have …

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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!

April 16, 2015

Some will recall that March 9th 2015 was the comment deadline for another of Holtec’s attempts to decrease safety by …

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India to Make Areva Nuclear Caskets: Burial for Areva-France or for the People of India?

April 11, 2015

We were alarmed upon reading today, in the Economic Times of India, about India making nuclear caskets in the context …

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US NRC Playing Brazen Legalese Games with Safety (Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement) at Palisades Nuclear Power Station and Elsewhere

April 9, 2015

In the April 18, 2013 US NRC “Summary of the March 19, 2013 Public Meeting Webinar Regarding Palisades Nuclear Plant” …

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Radioactive Liquid Release from Drums, Safety Alert-WIPP Prequel 2011

April 6, 2015

These metal drums of nuclear waste corroded from the inside out, within 2 months to 2 years of waste repackaging. …

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Discussion of Three Mile Island Radiation Plume

March 28, 2015

“The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in one of the …

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Holtec Nuclear Waste (SNF) Casks: Friction Stir Welds, Kissing Bonds, & Other Safety Concerns Comment Now!

March 10, 2015

Deadline imminent (11.59 pm Mon. March 9th EDT/ 4.59 am Tuesday UTC) for US NRC comment regarding storage of damaged …

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Revving up a 1959 Nuclear Transient Test Reactor in Idaho: More Proof of US DOE Mad Nuclear Scientists; Is it Halloween?

March 6, 2015

The “TREAT” reactor from 1959, is being restarted. It is of the same generation (about a year newer), and the …

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Nuclear Reactor Cracks: Widespread Disease-Scourge – Warns Nobel in Chemistry Nominee

March 3, 2015

Dr. Digby MacDonald compares damaging cracks in nuclear reactor pressure vessels to Ebola or measles. He is professor in the …

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Cracked Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessels: Belgian Regulatory Head – 2 Experts Warn of Global Implications

March 3, 2015

Press Release from Greenpeace regarding reactor pressure vessel cracks: “Thousands more cracks found in Belgian nuclear reactors, Belgian regulatory head …

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Thousands of Cracks in Belgian Nuclear Reactors, Probable Global Nuclear Scourge

February 28, 2015

“Tests revealed a stunning 13 047 cracks in Doel 3; and 3 149 cracks in Tihange 2.” (Greenpeace) The largest …

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Why the Recent Japan Earthquakes? Japan Trench: No Place for Nuclear Reactors; Beam Me Up Scotty!

February 23, 2015

7 days USGS with Iwaki, near Fukushima Really, time to shut those Japanese nuclear reactors down, once and for all! …

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WIPP Radiation Leak: the USW had to test its own workers for radiation contamination

February 21, 2015

The United Steelworkers Union (United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International), which now …

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Japan Continues to Tremble; Japan is No Place for Nuclear Reactors

February 21, 2015

Japan earthquakes in the last 24 hours, including a 6.3 magnitude, following upon the 6.7 magnitude earthquake earlier this week. …

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New London School Explosion: Why Natural Gas Leaks Smell

January 12, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Texas “Untreated natural gas is both odorless and colorless, so leaks are difficult to detect and may go unnoticed… the …

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UK Nuclear Industry: Sex-texting, Lies, and Coverups to Hide Nuclear Dangers and Billions in Waste?

January 10, 2015

“For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it …

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San Onofre Nuclear Spent Fuel Risks: Earthquakes and Flimsy Containment Endanger the Continental US

December 22, 2014

San Onofre Nuclear Power Station right on the earthquake prone California coast. Many of San Onofre’s components seem to be …

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Japan Nuclear Regulator Ignores its Duty to Protect the People (But the Fight’s Not Over Yet!)

December 18, 2014

“Sixty thousand people marched in central Tokyo on 19 September 2011, chanting “Sayonara nuclear power” and waving banners, to call …

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Uranium Spilled All Over Inside at ISL Mine; Exposed Workers; NRC Short of Time to Check Outside; Greater Sage Grouse Habitat at Risk

December 8, 2014

Lost Creek uranium miner, Ur-Energy, appears to have come up with a nifty trick: They spilled so much loose uranium …

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Leaked Sellafield photos reveal “massive radioactive release” threat

October 27, 2014

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
The B30 pond showing a full loading with fuel rods Radiation Free Lakeland have been given…

Swiss Prep for Inevitable Nuclear Accident: Potassium Iodide Isn’t Enough; Reactors Must Be Shut

October 26, 2014

Well protected in the event of a nuclear emergency? Based on Greenpeace Switzerland News: Stopping the 5 Nuclear Reactors is …

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