Louisiana River Bend Nuclear Power Station Comment Deadline In A Few Hours; Petition For Hearing By July 23rd
Comment by June 21, 2018, 11.59 pm (23.59) EDT (DC-NY). 10:59 pm in Louisiana (CDT). A request for a hearing …
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Entergy-River Bend Nuclear Want To Move Reactor Cooling Core Injection Point From The Reactor Head Spray Nozzle; Remove Some Oversight From NRC – Comment By Thurs. 11.59 PM/Request Hearing By July 23rd
Comments must be filed by June 21, 2018, 11.59 pm (23.59) EDT (DC-NY). A request for a hearing must be …
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 End of July (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, …
Scott Pruitt Hell-Bent On Gutting EPA Protections Against Chemicals And Radiation – Comment Deadline August 16th
Comment here by August 16th: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 Comment is easy and can be short and can be anonymous, so there’s no …
USDOE Spent 18 Years And Over A Quarter Of A Billion Dollars But Failed To Prove Low Level Radiation is Safe, Because It’s Not – August 16th Comment Deadline Re Dangerous Trump-Pruitt-EPA Proposal
[Update: Note that the comment deadline was extended from May 30th to August 16th.] As explained in the US Congress …
Scotland At Risk Of Chernobyl Like Accident Due To Cracks In Nuclear Reactor Near Glasgow (Owned By French Govt.)
OGL-ONR UK: https://www.iaea.org/NuclearPower/Downloadable/Meetings/2017/2017-10-23-10-27-NPTDS/099_Bamber_Presentation.pdf While graphite cracking appeared much earlier, the keyway cracks were predicted in 2009 to appear by 2015. …
Russian Floating Nuclear Power Station To Be Fueled-Tested In Arctic-Murmansk Near Norway-Finland; Final Destination On Alaska Side Of Russian Arctic
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
The concept has its roots in a US Army project from half a century ago. It…
Chernobyl’s Children of Hope Rehab Centre: As Russia Sells Nuclear Power Station to Belarus; Govt Services for Chernobyl Survivors Cut; Greenpeace and others offer help
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
70% of Chernobyl fallout poured down upon neighboring Belarus. 30 years later the government is failing…
Governments Cut Services to Chernobyl Survivors while Spending Billions on Nuclear Power Stations
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
From Greenpeace.org: “Stand in solidarity with Chernobyl survivors! Today five million people in the Ukraine, Russia…
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 Proposal To Bury High Level Nuclear Waste – Written Comments Due End July
[Update: Written comment extension to end July: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2018/18-018.pdf ] Deadline Monday to Register for teleconference re burial of high level …
Smoldering Nuclear Waste Barrel Fire At Idaho National Nuclear Lab
Photo of an apparently similar fire at WIPP in New Mexico in 2014. The INL (Idaho National [Nuclear] Lab) nuclear …
World Heritage Sham
Today the Prince of Wales unveiled a plaque in Keswick to celebrate the Lake District being awarded World Heritage Site…
Who Will Protect Us from the World’s Nuclear Heritage Site ?
Dear Friends, This Monday Prince Charles will be visiting the Lake District to unveil a plaque to the Lake District…
Critical Minerals: Mining Involving Public Mineral Rights Should Be Nationalized; Export Banned; 1872 Mining Law Repealed; Recycling & Innovation Promoted
Under the 1872 Mining Law “mining companies–many of them foreign-owned–have taken over $300 billion worth of valuable metals from public …
National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act Testimony – Draft List of Critical Minerals
Draft List of Critical Minerals Comment Deadline is Mar 19, 2018 11:59 PM ET (US Eastern Time – presumably daylight …
US “Critical Minerals” List Comment Deadline Monday Night: Uranium Should Be Removed; Focus Should Be On Recycling & New Materials-Innovation; Exports Should Be Banned
Grand Canyon Rainbow from Pima Point NPS Photo by Michael Quinn If a mineral is “critical” then export should not …
Entergy Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station: Workers Given Exam Answers; Workers Failed To Make Rounds-Falsified Records
Staircase from the Windsor Plantation Ruins, now located at Alcorn State University near Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station Perhaps this …
Japanese Government Accepts UN Fukushima Recommendations – Current Policies Now Must Change To Stop Violation Of Evacuee Human Rights
This is good news. It also means that the nuclear industry must be shut down immediately and that there must …
Did The US NRC, Entergy-Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station And/Or Crane Nuclear Know About Defective Valve When Pilgrim Brazenly Operated During “Bomb Cyclones” Riley And Grayson? Pilgrim Shutdown Due To Leak Days After “Bomb Cyclone” Riley
Entergy-Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station brazenly kept operating at 100% during Winter Storm Riley, even though they had a forced shutdown …
Trump Administration Apparently Agreed To Give America’s Latest Nuclear Propulsion Technology To Russia In September 2017
The Trump Administration (NASA) signed an agreement with Russia (Roscosmos) in September 2017. This would appear to include giving America’s …
Nearly 2 Million Homes, Businesses Without Power After East Coast Storm; Status Of Nuclear Power Stations?
Winter Storm Riley – Nor’easter with nuclear power stations (orange skulls) early am EDT am UTC March 3 2018 Not …
Winter Storm Riley Hits The US Northeast; Emma Hits Ireland And Britain; Nuclear Power Stations At Risk in The US And Britain
US nuclear power stations (orange skulls) and Winter Storm Riley (late Friday or early Saturday), below. The US NRC used …
Russia Again Takes Discarded Old US Nuclear Tech From The 1950s/60s (Putin Pretends It’s New); US Considered It Too Dangerous And Provocative
A model of the Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile (SLAM) Putin appears to have just announced that they are or will use …
Follow The Cumbrian Coal Mine Money….All The Way To China
Sellafield Nuclear Site and area of proposed coal mine under the Irish Sea (St. Bees). Photo by Marianne Birkby. “To …
Russia: Radiation Hazard Warning This Morning Supposed Mistake-Technical Glitch
“The prerecorded warning, which aired at about 9 a.m., alerted residents to what it said were high levels of radiation …
Hands of ‘Doomsday Clock’ Closest to Midnight Since 1953
From VOA: “Hands of ‘Doomsday Clock’ Closest to Midnight Since 1953 January 25, 2018 2:30 PM, by Steve Herman WASHINGTON …
Lithuanian Experts Have More Than 100 Comments And Questions Regarding Russian-Belarusian Nuclear Power Station Project (Near Lithuania)
Belarus Nuclear Power Station location location exported from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_nuclear_power_plant From Charter.org: “Lithuanian Experts: We Have 100 Comments and Questions …
7th March 2018: New Date for Decision on First Deep Coal Mine in the UK for 30 years. Anyone Looking?
Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole:
Happy New Year! Thanks to all of you we have a fighting chance to stop the…
US East Coast Nuclear Bomb Cyclone? Pilgrim & Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Scrams-Power Reduction-Loss of Cooling Water Point To The Risks
Not only dangerous, nuclear power stations are unreliable electicity sources in extreme weather. So much for the “baseload power” lies. …
Russia To Build 4 Nuclear Reactors-Nuclear Waste Storage In Egypt On The Mediterranean (With A 35 Year Loan To Egypt From Russia)
By Middle East Monitor: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com “Russia to build nuclear fuel depot in Egypt December 5, 2017 at 9:29 am | …
Russian State Nuclear Corp. (Rosatom) Given Control Over Infrastructure-Shipping Along Arctic Northern Sea Route
Nuclear icebreaker “Yamal” by Wofratz (CC-BY-SA) “Russia encompasses over half of the Arctic coastline, 40% of the land beyond the …
Radiation Free Lakeland: Review of 2017
The Beautiful Lake District – pre National Park the whole of the Lake Counties included the Lakeland mountains to the…
India Audit Report on the (Defective) Russian Gov Designed-Built Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (For Which India, USA, Japan – Not Russia – Will Be Liable In the Event Of A Major Accident)
India signing the CSC (Convention on Supplementary Compensation) was pushed for by the US-India Business Council when Indo-American Richard Verma …
India’s Audit Report on Russian Kudankulam Reactors Reinforces Civil Society’s Concerns About Safety; And US-Japan-India Will Be Liable For A Major Accident; Not Russia
India signing the CSC (Convention on Supplementary Compensation) was pushed for by the US-India Business Council when Indo-American Richard Verma …
We work together, for a clean, nuclear-free planet
Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Thanks to all those who work with us – to cut through the corporate spin, and…
Russian Floating Nuclear Power Station To Be Fueled-Tested In Arctic-Murmansk Near Norway-Finland; Final Destination On Alaska Side Of Russian Arctic
The concept has its roots in a US Army project from half a century ago. It is not new. The …
Russian Built Koodankulam Nuclear Reactors Are Dysfunctional, But India Orders More
“Rather than order an inquiry into the Congress-led UPA Government’s hasty and substandard construction of such a large and potentially …
Seasons Greetings and THANK YOU to Colchester Council for the Best Gift!
In November the Maldon Standard reported that “COUNCILLORS will do everything they can to block the potential development of a…
Russia Continues To Deny That It Is Source Of The Radioactive Ruthenium Cloud In Europe, But Seeks Contractor To Clean Up Part Of The Mayak Nuclear Site
Charles Digges of Bellona points out that “Moscow issues suspiciously repetitive denials about radioactive leak“, in a December 11th article. …
The Mysterious Radioactive Cloud – The Ruthenium 106 Story: We Need Full Transparency
The multiple low pressure systems-former hurricanes in the north Atlantic, at the end of September, appear to guarantee that radioactive …
Divest from Coal (?) Letter to the Guardian – Unpublished
Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole:
Another unpublished letter to the national press on the first deep coal mine in the UK…
Canada Hopes That Raul Castro Can Defuse Tensions Between North Korea And “Old Lunatic Trump”; Trudeau “Rêve En Couleurs”?
” A U-2 reconnaissance photograph of Cuba, showing Soviet nuclear missiles, their transports and tents for fueling and maintenance.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis …
No Safe Dose of Radioactive Ruthenium 106; Increased Dose is Increased Risk; Even the US NRC Knows That It Is Toxic
Ruthenium 106 is both a chemical and radiological hazard. With a half-life of over one year, Ruthenium 106 will stay …
Locals Left In Dark About Russian Radiation Spike: Russian Authorities Confirmed Spike In Radioactivity in Air Over Ural Mountains; Classified It As “Extremely High Contamination”
“Air samples in the town of Argayash, 30 kilometers from Mayak, in late September-early October, for example, showed levels nearly …
EU Parliamentarians Still Awaiting Answers From EU About Radioactive Ruthenium Cloud That Spread Across Europe
A Polish and an Italian Member of the European Parliament asked for written responses, weeks ago, from the EU regarding …
“We are Still In”: US Sen. Markey & U.S. Lawmakers Stage Anti-Trump Revolt at UN Climate Talks in Bonn
By DemocracyNow.org: ““We are Still In”: Sen. Markey & U.S. Lawmakers Stage Anti-Trump Revolt at UN Climate Talks in Bonn, …
“People Have Become A Sort of Radioactive Waste”: “Mayak Is Everywhere”
“Mayak is everywhere. Rosatom may be polluting a Mayak near you: by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from your nearby nuclear …
Russia: “Left To Die As Guinea Pigs” – Tatar Village Struggles On, 60 Years After Nuclear Catastrophe
“People don’t know what to eat and how to survive,’ Ismagilova says. ‘They have been left here to die as …
Europe Needs to Take Prompt Action to Identify the Origin and Implement Safety Measures For Mysterious Radioactive Discharges
Earlier in the year there was a mysterious radioactive iodine discharge impacting Europe and the origin never officially identified. From …
