Egypt’s Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) Received Site Approval Permit for 4 Russian Nuclear Reactors at El Dabaa
ALL EGYPT NEEDS IS SOLAR! THIS IS APPARENTLY FOR WEAPONS OR SIMPLY FROM BRIBERY TO GIVE RUSSIA MORE CONTROL. By …
Tag Archives: Spent Nuclear Fuel
Holtec Nuclear Waste Can Oligarch Kris Pal Singh’s Son Loves To Buy Multi-Million Dollar Fast Cars
Nuclear waste can oligarch Kris Pal Singh of Holtec International has a son named Kris Pal Singh Jr. Junior loves …
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE SUBCOMMITTEE ANNOUNCES LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP BILLS
More nuclear waste hearings… “ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE SUBCOMMITTEE ANNOUNCES LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP BILLS Jun 6, 2019 …
US House “Oversight” Hearing on Nuclear Waste Appears Designed to Create Gridlock; Ignore Critical Problems and Needed Solutions
Based on the news release, and on what we know of the list of invited witnesses, as of Jun 4, …
Russia Launched New Nuclear Power Icebreaker While Other Countries Pay To Clean up Russian Nuclear Waste Ship (& Other Russian Nuclear Messes)
Russia launched its new nuclear icebreaker just as Norway and the EU have started helping financially and technically to cleanup …
How Companies & Allies of One Powerful Democrat Got $1.1 Billion in Tax Breaks [Re: Holtec Nuclear Board Member & Mar-a-Lago Club Member George Norcross]
From ProPublica https://www.propublica.org: “How Companies and Allies of One Powerful Democrat Got $1.1 Billion in Tax Breaks Meet George Norcross. …
Effect of Blisters and Rims on Radial Hydride Precipitation in (Spent) Nuclear Fuel Elements under “Dry Storage” Conditions
Comment Deadline tonight 11.59 PM Eastern for “Dry Storage and Transportation of High Burnup Spent Nuclear Fuel“, draft NUREG-2224, “Comments …
1992 NOAA Study Concluded A Severe Hurricane Could Induce A Storm Surge 6.4 Ft Above Brunswick Nuclear Power Station’s Design Basis Flood So NRC Commissioned A New Study To Prove That The Design Basis Was Good Enough – But It’s Not
It has been known that Brunswick Nuclear Power Station’s Design Basis storm surge-flood level was too low in the event …
Access To Brunswick Nuclear Power Station Limited Due To Flooded Roads; Workers Sleeping On Cots
Sometime between Thursday morning and Friday morning, the Brunswick Nuclear Reactors were powered down: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/reactor-status/2018/2018PowerStatus.txt On Saturday afternoon a report …
Hurricane Florence Landfall Radar With Location Of Nuclear Power Stations – Weather
For the very latest updates go to your preferred/local weather source. The orange icons are the nuclear power stations. Brunswick …
Brunswick Nuclear Power Station’s “Cliff Edge” Barriers Appear To Fall Almost 8 Feet Short Of Required Storm Surge Protection Level
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission NTTF [Near Term Task Force] observed that, “some [nuclear] plants have an overreliance on operator …
Brunswick Nuclear Power Station Apparently Still Hasn’t Addressed Flooding Worst Case Scenario (Reevaluation); Targeted By Hurricane Florence
As of April 2018, the US NRC hadn’t received information about how Brunswick Nuclear Power Station was going to address …
Recent Japan 6.6 M Earthquake Left Nuclear Power Station Without Power & “Relying On Emergency Generators For 10 Nervous Hours”
Although Tomari Nuclear Power Station was shut down subsequent to the beginning of the – still ongoing – TEPCO-Fukushima nuclear …
California Nuclear Earthquake Reminder
Yesterday’s California earthquake was small but serves as a good reminder that it might not have been. The first map …
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 …
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…
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: …
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 | …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dangerous Texas High-Level Radioactive Waste Open-Air Parking Lot Dump – Public Hearings on Monday and Wednesday; Public Comment to March 13 – License Application
News Release from Public Citizen: “Jan. 30, 2017 License Application for Dangerous West Texas High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump Is Now …
Nuclear Rip and Ship; Radioactive Waste Dilution- Lethal Underbelly of Private Nuclear Waste Revealed in US Lawsuit Against Trump Large Donor’s Corp.; Comment Deadline Friday 11.59 pm ET= NY-DC Time
Private Nuclear Waste “Interim” Storage Facility Comment by Friday, 27 Jan. 2017, 11.59 PM Eastern Time(NY-Boston-DC-Atlanta, Miami, etc.) This is …
Beware: US Congress Trying to Run Thru Radioactive Riders; US Taxpayer Guaranteed Exim $9 Billion for Toshiba to Build Nuclear Reactors in India
One of the sneak through provisions that some members of Congress – both Dim-witted Dems and Republicans – want to …
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 …
S. Australia Royal Commission Goes Against Tide of History: Proposes Nuclear Power and Nuclear Dump
“Australia has the highest average solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world“. http://arena.gov.au/about-renewable-energy/solar-energy/ “RenewablesSA is an …
Sen. Crapo of Idaho Wants More Nuclear Pork Barrel Jobs But Not Nuclear Waste; Sponsors Nuclear Bills Endangering the Rest of the Country; the Ugly Underbelly of the US Senate System – Idaho’s Shakedown of America
Idaho [Nuclear] National Lab (INL) benefits from fat cat funding and salaries, and promotes new nuclear reactors and thus waste. …
US NRC Commission Requires Re-Analysis of Severe Accidents at Nuclear Power Station Near NYC; A NY AG Win on Indian Point?
Chernobyl exclusion zone size superimposed on Indian Point Nuclear Power Station. Interactive Model from Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/code/2016/chernobyl/index.html Press release from the …
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 …
Man Entered Naval Nuclear Training Command in South Carolina Armed with a SIG Sauer Pistol: Owner of a German Based Co. Wanted in Relation to this and More
Area where the NNSA-Obama is having foreign plutonium and nuclear waste brought in to be later buried in America. “In …
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 …
200 Tonnes of High Level Nuclear Waste (Spent Nuclear Fuel) to be Dumped on America; Nuclear Fuel was 96% German Made – Oppose Until 25 March, 11.59 pm US Eastern Time – One Minute To Midnight
Currently Germany, with the complicity of the US government, is attempting to send 455 large casks of high level spent …
Germany Ushered in the Atomic Age; German Prototype Nuclear Reactors; Shouldn’t Germany Find Solution Other Than Dumping on Others? Deadline to Oppose German Dumping of Nuclear Waste on USA is March 11th
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945 As Germany is …
Nuclear Trail of Tears: Swiss-German Plutonium Believed to Have Just Been Dumped on South Carolina; More on Its Way – Object Until March 11th, 11.59 pm EST
“A Journey of Injustice Remember and commemorate the survival of the Cherokee people, forcefully removed from their homelands…” http://www.nps.gov/trte/index.htm They …
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 …
