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Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Apparently Falling Apart: Another Scram Follows “Five Unplanned Downpower Events” In Less Than One Year

December 15, 2018

Construction of Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station begin over forty-four years ago in May of 1974, and it was commissioned …

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Nuclear: Not Carbon Free Not Climate Friendly; Nuclear Destroys Precious Water Resources; Nuclear is Deadly

August 13, 2018

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Streetview of Moorside area sheep looking toward Sellafield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorside_nuclear_power_station Further below is a 2010 submission to…

New York Hiding Full Risk Analysis For Gas Pipeline Near Nuclear Power Station: US Congresswoman Requests Access To Report From FERC And NYSDPS

July 21, 2018

Twenty million New Yorkers live within 50 miles of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station. It does not close until …

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Scotland At Risk Of Chernobyl Like Accident Due To Cracks In Nuclear Reactor Near Glasgow (Owned By French Govt.)

May 4, 2018

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. …

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Russian Floating Nuclear Power Station To Be Fueled-Tested In Arctic-Murmansk Near Norway-Finland; Final Destination On Alaska Side Of Russian Arctic

April 30, 2018

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
The concept has its roots in a US Army project from half a century ago. It…

Entergy Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station: Workers Given Exam Answers; Workers Failed To Make Rounds-Falsified Records

March 15, 2018

Staircase from the Windsor Plantation Ruins, now located at Alcorn State University near Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station Perhaps this …

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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)

December 30, 2017

India signing the CSC (Convention on Supplementary Compensation) was pushed for by the US-India Business Council when Indo-American Richard Verma …

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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

December 30, 2017

India signing the CSC (Convention on Supplementary Compensation) was pushed for by the US-India Business Council when Indo-American Richard Verma …

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Russian Floating Nuclear Power Station To Be Fueled-Tested In Arctic-Murmansk Near Norway-Finland; Final Destination On Alaska Side Of Russian Arctic

December 20, 2017

The concept has its roots in a US Army project from half a century ago. It is not new. The …

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Russian Built Koodankulam Nuclear Reactors Are Dysfunctional, But India Orders More

December 20, 2017

“Rather than order an inquiry into the Congress-led UPA Government’s hasty and substandard construction of such a large and potentially …

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Bears Ears National Monument Undermines Unofficial Nuclear Waste Dump-Uranium Mining: Owner Energy Fuels Lobbied Trump Admin Against Bears Ears

December 14, 2017

Canadian Company Energy Fuels’ interest in stopping Bears Ears National Monument may not be the front end of the nuclear …

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Tribal Leaders-Bears Ears Commission Of Tribes Indignant Over Trump’s Proposal To Destroy Bears Ears National Monument Leaving It Vulnerable To Looting; Grave Robbing; Fossil Fuel And Uranium Exploitation

December 5, 2017

“We’ll tell the next generation, ‘You see that ash pit over there, that’s where Bears Ears was. Now it’s a …

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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”

November 22, 2017

“Air samples in the town of Argayash, 30 kilometers from Mayak, in late September-early October, for example, showed levels nearly …

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EU Parliamentarians Still Awaiting Answers From EU About Radioactive Ruthenium Cloud That Spread Across Europe

November 14, 2017

A Polish and an Italian Member of the European Parliament asked for written responses, weeks ago, from the EU regarding …

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Europe Needs to Take Prompt Action to Identify the Origin and Implement Safety Measures For Mysterious Radioactive Discharges

November 11, 2017

Earlier in the year there was a mysterious radioactive iodine discharge impacting Europe and the origin never officially identified. From …

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Vogtle Nuclear Power Station Construction Supervisor Flees Random Fitness For Duty Test But US House Republicans Propose More Tax Credits For Vogtle And Other Nuclear Power Stations In Tax Bill

November 3, 2017

Welcome to the US Insane Asylum-Nut House, also known as the US House of Congress: “House Tax Bill Trims Wind …

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India’s Nuclear Power Stations Come From India; Russia; France; Japan

October 6, 2017

Most of India’s nuclear reactors in existence and under construction are made in India based on the Canadian CANDU design. …

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The Trump Administration Throws An Additional $3.7 Billion To Late, Over Budget, Vogtle Nuclear Reactors for a Total of $12 Billion in Loan Guarantees (For Which the US Taxpayer is Liable)

September 30, 2017

New Vogtle reactors as saved from Google Earth in Oct. 2014 New Vogtle Reactors as saved from Google Earth 29 …

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Clearance to Build New Russian Nuclear Reactors in India is Illegal (Koodankulam 3 & 4)

June 27, 2017

Koodankulam Nuclear Power Protest – PMANE, – Dianuke.org “…the first two units of the Koodankulam nuclear power project are sub-standard, …

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Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition Condemns Trump-Zinke Recommendation to Eviscerate Bear Ears National Monument; Other National Monuments on the Chopping Block Too

June 14, 2017

Zinke’s recommendation is at Trump’s behest: “Presidential Executive Order on the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act, EXECUTIVE ORDER“, …

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Why Special Interests Want Bears Ears National Monument Gone: Uranium, Oil and Gas

June 11, 2017

The comment deadline for “Review of Certain National Monuments Established Since 1996; Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment” is July …

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Secret MOX Plutonium Fuel Shipment Planned From French Gov Owned AREVA To Japan; Trump Administration Approved with Tillerson as Lead

June 8, 2017

Mere Coincidence or somehow related? AREVA Nuclear Fuel Facility in Washington State used to be Exxon Nuclear Fuel until 2001. …

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Experts: Nuclear Industry Pressured USNRC into Low-Balling Consequences of Nuclear Accident

May 27, 2017

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 …

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Letter Opposing Burial of Nuclear Waste Equivalent to 700 Nuclear Warheads on US Beachfront – Petition

May 27, 2017

This letter may be signed in the form of a petition and/or letters sent directly. Petition link at page bottom. …

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2017/05/17 Japanese Nuclear Reactor Restarts Despite Unresolved Safety Issues

May 18, 2017

It is mind-boggling that there would be any nuclear restarts in Japan even as the Fukushima nuclear disaster is ongoing. …

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South Dakota: Dewey-Burdock ISL Uranium Mining Aquifer Exemption Comment Deadline Extended to June 19th (Midnight)

May 17, 2017

The deadline was listed at midnight on Friday May 19th, apparently one minute to Saturday, but it’s not clear. It …

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Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima “No-Go Zone”; Forests Contaminated by Fukushima and Chernobyl “are Ticking Time Bombs”

May 1, 2017

From Common Dreams: “Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima ‘No-Go Zone’ Contaminated forests such as those outside …

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Secretive South African Nuclear Deal Blocked by Court; Need for Vigilance Remains

April 28, 2017

Press Release from Earthlife Africa and SAFCEI: “NUCLEAR DEAL BLOCKED! JUDGEMENT MADE ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT’S SECRET TRILLION-RAND NUCLEAR …

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The Risks Attached to South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Strategy

April 28, 2017

As published by “The Conversation”, August 19, 2015: “The risks attached to South Africa’s nuclear energy strategy By Vladimir Slivyak, …

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At Chernobyl and Fukushima, Radioactivity Has Seriously Harmed Wildlife

April 26, 2017

From “The Conversation”: “At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife By Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina …

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Russia’s Secretive, Floating, Old Style Nuclear Reactor: Fueling and Testing in St. Petersburg on the Baltic?

April 20, 2017

Russian President Putin trying to nuke his hometown? As Trump would say: “Sad”! Rosatom, the Russian State owned company which …

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Beatrix Potter’s Beloved Lake District Still Endangered by Proposed New Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Waste

April 16, 2017

Beatrix Potter, best known as the author-illustrator of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit“, “supported the efforts of the National Trust …

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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

April 10, 2017

While it’s not what the US NRC appears to have in mind when discussing GNF-A’s performance review, it’s been within …

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Putin’s Nuclear Fuel Co. Wants Exemption to Fuel Illinois Reactors with help of Exelon, GE, Toshiba, Hitachi and US NRC

April 4, 2017

TVEL belongs to Atomenergoprom that is a part of the Rosatom State corporation. As a State corporation, Rosatom is subordinate …

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GNF-A (GE, Hitachi, Toshiba) Agreement to Bring Russian Government (TVEL) Nuclear Fuel to US Market

April 4, 2017

TVEL belongs to the Atomenergoprom, which is part of the Rosatom State corporation, which answers to Russian President Putin. From …

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Putin-Erdogan Nuclear Caliphate in Turkey Endangers Cyprus; Istanbul; Critically Endangered Seals; Turtles

April 2, 2017

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Coordinates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant USGS Circular 1193, 1999, p. 9 Part of the Human Chain Protest against Akkuyu…

Stop Koodankulam Nuclear Reactor Expansion: Modi-Putin Nuclear Tango in India

April 2, 2017

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Photo: Koodankulam Nuclear Power Protest, PMANE, Dianuke.org Via Dianuke.org: “Stop the Koodankulam NPP Expansion Now!: PMANE’s…

Toshiba’s Westinghouse Nuclear Declared Bankruptcy; US Taxpayers and Ratepayers Left on the Hook for Billions?

March 30, 2017

Even with gross subsidies, the nuclear industry is not viable. “Westinghouse Electric Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, …

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Trump Cuts Spell Trouble for Security at Indian Point Nuclear Power Station and New York Harbor; Removing Critical Coast Guard Resources May Hamper USCG’s Patrols and Emergency Response

March 17, 2017

To the left is open-air, spent nuclear fuel. The spent fuel casks have been called “Chernobyl in a Can” by …

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Russia Plans to Fuel Floating Nuclear Reactor(s) in St. Petersburg – Endangering the City of 5 Million, Before Towing It Around Scandinavia

March 16, 2017

Russian State owned Rosatom, which answers directly to the President of Russia (Putin). Thus, it appears more accurate to say …

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Was the Nuclear Control Room Panel Fire at Quad Cities Caused By a Defective GE-Hitachi Switch?

February 7, 2017

US NRC Photo: Control Room Panels (unknown nuclear power station), Nov-2007; black and white photo of Quad Cities Control Rm …

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Bears Ears Monument Partial Win: Is Canadian Energy Fuels Uranium Mine Included or Excluded?

January 2, 2017

Note that the original Intertribal Coalition proposal for the Bears Ears Monument is to the far right. The BLM probably …

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Russia’s Nuclear Shakedown of Bulgaria and Its Nuclear Shakedown Colleagues: RWE, Areva, Toshiba-Westinghouse)

December 12, 2016

Reuters news from Friday had three titles about nuclear shakedowns, without calling them that, of course. Through international litigation, Russia …

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Entergy Nuclear Staff May Not Have Standards to Know what “Good” Actually Is; Seem to Lack Engineering Acumen; Overwhelmed by Trying to Run the Nuclear Station; Security Forgot to Show Up to Safety Culture Focus Group – Leaked USNRC Inspection for Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

December 10, 2016

Excerpted from a leaked US NRC inspection report regarding New Orleans based Entergy owned Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station near Boston, …

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Most Powerful US Nuclear Reactor Not Working for Months; Special Inspection Report Pending; US NRC Renews License for a Total of 59 Years Anyway

December 8, 2016

Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station has the most powerful single nuclear reactor in the US, when it’s working, which it …

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Seaweed Has Again Blocked Cooling and Shut down Scottish Nuclear Power Station

November 24, 2016

Torness Nuclear Power Station is around 30 miles from Edinburgh. According to French State owned EDF, owner-operator of the UK’s …

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Japan Offshore Earthquake Upgraded to M 7.4, Strong Ground Acceleration at Fukushima Nuclear Site; Felt as a IX Fukushima Area; Loss of Cooling, Loss of Power at Fukushima Nuclear Site (Reported as Restored)

November 22, 2016

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the recent earthquake in Japan (05:59 JST, 22 Nov. 2016, Fukushima-Ken Oki) has been …

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Japan: Powerful 7.3 Earthquake Hits Offshore Fukushima; Onshore Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Est. as VI by USGS; Japan Issues Tsunami Warning “Evacuate Immediately” for Fukushima Coastal Area

November 21, 2016

[Update: Japan Meteo Agency says it’s a 7.4; USGS “Did You Feel It?” had a IX Intensity Report: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/japan-offshore-earthquake-upgraded-to-m-7-4-strong-ground-acceleration-at-fukushima-nuclear-site-felt-as-a-ix-fukushima-area-loss-of-cooling-loss-of-power-at-fukushima-nuclear-site-reported-as-re/ ] …

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Explosion-Fire at Nuclear Power Station Near New York City on Election Day Due to Equipment Failure

November 10, 2016

The US NRC report says that this “explosion in the protected area” which was “due to equipment failure” occurred at …

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US NRC PR Person Lazy or Engaged in Cover-up of the Offline Status of Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor 2

October 28, 2016

By now, this whole TVA-Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor Unit 2 saga is past degenerating into farce. It is still offline …

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