A Look Back At The 2014 Fire Near San Onofre Nuclear Power Station Which Is Again At Risk Due To Fires
Overlays of NOAA weather forecast, Near Real Time Fire Data, and San Onofre and Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Stations. This …
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Southern California Fire Weather Forecast Extreme: Many Millions Of People At Risk
If you are getting rain or snow be grateful. https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/imagery-and-data “The Ventura wildfire exploded to nearly 80 square miles (207 …
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. …
UK-French-Spanish Origin Chilean Spent Nuclear Fuel Dumped on America at US Taxpayer Expense – The Opening Round of Obama’s “Nuclear Security” Plan
[Update 2 April: Please note that despite the day of publication that this post is dead serious. The sick joke …
Another Look at the Recent Low Dose Radiation Exposure Study (INWORKS)
The most important thing to retain from the recent three country study of nuclear workers is that it supports the …
Study: Environmental Exposures-Behaviors Account for Vast Majority of Cancers
“A team of researchers from Stony Brook University, led by Yusuf Hannun, MD, the Joel Strum Kenny Professor in Cancer …
How Radioactive was your Thanksgiving Dinner? How Radioactive will future Thanksgiving Dinners be?
Inane Thanksgiving greeting from the US NRC, which constantly whittles away public safety, making a major nuclear disaster imminent. They …
New Study of US-UK-French Nuclear Workers Supports Linear No Threshold Model – Radiation is Bad for You: Increased Dose is Increased Risk; “Hormesis” Debunked; Funding from Pro-Nuclear Govts-Nuclear Industry
Update-clarification of the study below found here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/another-look-at-the-recent-low-dose-radiation-exposure-study-inworks/ Just in time to debunk the US NRC proposal for increasing radiation …
Biological Consequences of Nuclear Disasters: From Chernobyl to Fukushima
Slides from Mousseau’s May 2014 presentation at the US Library of Congress: “Biological Consequences of Nuclear Disasters: From Chernobyl to …
Nuclear SAFER NOT – Nuclear Emergency Backup in Heart of New Madrid Quake Zone
One of the most dangerous, and often ignored, aspects of nuclear energy is that nuclear power stations always have need …
Unconventional Gas and Oil Drilling Is Associated with Increased Hospital Utilization Rates
Flaring at the Scott Township fracking well, Lawrence Co., Western Pennsylvania, WCN 24/7 CC BY-NC 2.0, Flickr Excerpt from: “Unconventional …
Wildfires and Nuclear Don’t Mix: Lessons from San Onofre and Chernobyl to Australia
As the deadline looms (3 Aug.) for comments regarding the risks of the nuclear fuel chain for South Australia – …
Breast Cancer Deaths Near Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, Essex, UK, 1995 to 2001
Location of Bradwell Nuclear Power Station – identified as ‘Magnox’. Bradwell has Magnox type reactors, being “decommissioned”, by Magnox Ltd …
Radiation in Water: Dilute, Deceive, Externalize Costs
US NRC Comment Deadline on “Radiation Protection” next Monday 22 June 2015, 11.59 pm (one minute to midnight) NY-DC (ET). …
Safety Doubts Persist for Ukrainian Nuclear Power Stations; West Funds Extension of Reactor Operations
From Bankwatch Network-Bankwatch.org: “Operations suspended at one Ukrainian nuclear unit, as wider safety doubts persist Bankwatch Mail, May 14, 2015 …
US NRC – “Beyond Design Basis” as Excuse for Ignoring Risks: Revising Pressure/Temperature Limits as “Non-Significant Hazard” at the TVA’s Brown’s Ferry 3 Nuclear Reactor; Hidden Beneath Cybersecurity changes, June 4th 11.59 deadline
One of the US NRC’s tricks for ignoring risks seems to be saying that reactor pressure vessel (RPV) fracture and …
US NRC Caves on Foreign Ownership (and Why you Shouldn’t Expect it to Value Human Life like other Federal Agencies)
Originally posted on GreenWorld:
The NRC Commissioners voted unanimously earlier this month to adopt its staff recommendation that the agency’s…
Hitachi-US NRC Cut Nuclear Dry Cask Safety – Comment by Friday 15 May, 1159 pm, Eastern Time
Hitachi-Zosen bought the MAGNASTOR cask system for spent nuclear fuel a few years back. (As explained last time they are …
6.8 Japan Quake + Hitachi Zosen US Nuclear Dry Cask Safety Cuts: Comment 15 May (Earthquake & other safety cuts )
Another large Japan Earthquake occurred on Tuesday night, May 12th (UTC)-Wednesday May 13th in Japan: 2015-05-12, 21:12:58 (UTC). This one …
Melted, Burst, Essential Service Water System Pipes OK at Nuclear Reactors Says US NRC, Comment by 14 May
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 …
US Taxpayer Pays for French Gov-Japanese-US Corp. Nuclear Research: Wolves Guarding American Sheep/Henhouse
How is it that the US taxpayer is paying for research and development (R&D) for French State owned AREVA, Japanese …
Embrittled Nuclear Reactors Could Shatter Like Glass – Video Demo
[Warning: Please do NOT try this at home, as it can cause eye and other injuries.] From Fairewinds Energy Education: …
Mt. Aso’s Warning: Nuclear Reactors and Volcanos are Dangerous Mix
Japan just had a 6.8 Magnitude earthquake one week ago. Its largest active volcano, Mt. Aso, has just erupted for …
Japan’s 6.8 Magnitude Nuclear Reminder
How many warnings and reminders does everyone need? Epicenter location from USGS; Reactor coordinates from wikipedia Yesterday, Japan was reminded, …
BASF Told to Halt Uranium Discharge to River
Image: US Corps of Engineers NB: BASF was told “to stop discharging polluted waters from its property into the Cuyahoga …
US NRC: Kicking the Radioactive Waste Can Down the Road for 140 years in the “Short Term” Option for High Level Nuclear Waste (Spent Fuel Rods)
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), to be voted Tuesday, allows continued at site storage …
Great Sioux Reservation at Risk from Uranium Mining in South Dakota; Eastern Sioux Concerned by Nuclear Power Plant and Waste
“Traditional location of Sioux tribes prior to 1770 (dark green) and their current reservations (orange)”, via Wikipedia “Great Sioux Reservation” …
The Northern Swiss Nuclear Screw Up: Nuclear Containment Like Swiss Cheese Still Leaks Far Less than ICRP Standard Allows
For 6 years the primary containment barrier of the Swiss Leibstadt Nuclear Power Station, like Swiss Cheese, had holes, and …
SRS Citizens Advisory Board Letter re German Nuclear Waste Import to Savannah River Site, SC, USA
It’s not too late to get your letters in: “through July 21, 2014. DOE will consider all comments received or …
SRS-South Carolina is NOT a Disposal Site for High-Level Nuclear Waste – German or non-German – the USA has No Site!
Please remember to oppose shipping German Nuclear Waste to the USA. “through July 21, 2014. DOE will consider all comments …
Will you let the Nuclear Industry Choose for you to Die at age 70 or younger? Radiation “Protection” Assumes your lifespan is 65 to 70 years or Less! Do you agree?
If you don’t agree and you live in, or are a citizen of the USA, you better take notice and …
Counting Polar Bears from Space
This is meant as a supplement to the Radioactive Reindeer Series, where we have discussed the difficulties of counting seals. …
