San Onofre: Defective Holtec Nuclear Waste Storage System Must Be Recalled
Originally posted on San Onofre Safety:
Holtec UMAX lid with lower inlet air vents and upper (round) outlet air vent. The Holtec…
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Dry Storage and Transportation of High Burnup Spent Nuclear Fuel – Comment Deadline Monday Night 11.59 PM Eastern (There Was Less Than 2 Months For Comments – Request Extension)
This is a life and death important topic for future generations, as well as our own. And, the US NRC …
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 …
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 …
Catastrophe in the Making: Growth Machine Politics; Regulatory Capture; Hurricane Katrina; Fukushima; Disasters of Tomorrow
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
In “Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow“, Freudenberg, et.…
Trump EPA Attempt To Eliminate All Environmental Regulation
Comment on “Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 Comment Tracking Number: 1k2-94w2-3hnj I oppose this proposed rule which is a tacit attempt to …
Trump EPA Proposal Revealed By Proponent As Means Of Avoiding Nuclear Operating Costs; Cleanup Costs & Evac After Nuclear Disaster
Comment by tonight, 1159 US Eastern Time (NY-DC time zone) https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 The Trump administration is setting up …
USNRC Value of Death Update: All Tricks, No Value of Life, No Medical Care or Caregiver Costs
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Reassessment of NRC’s Dollar Per Person-Rem Conversion Factor Policy Docket ID: NRC-2015-0063Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)…
Radioactive Waste Dump Owner Semnani Paid Govt Official $600,000; Official Went to Jail, Got Cancer; Semnani Got Fined, Became Iran Policy “Expert”, “Philanthropist”
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The $40 million being given by the US DOE to a US nuclear reactor “start-up” company,…
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 …
Holtec Nuclear Waste Cans-Kris Singh: Apparent Bribery-Kickback And Allegation Of Attempted Bribery
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 …
Problems with Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: Comment Deadline July 30th, 11:59 pm
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 …
Holtec Nuclear Waste Storage System Designed to Leak; Lacks Proper Leak Warning System – Comment Deadline July 30th, 11:59 PM
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…
River Bend Nuclear Reactor Fallout Zone In Louisiana: Failures Of USNRC GEIS
Rosedown in St. Francisville Louisiana, near River Bend Nuclear Power Station. All comments can be seen here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NRC-2017-0141. Although the …
LSU Death Valley: An Entergy-River Bend Nuclear Disaster Could Make It Literal – Comment Deadline Monday 23rd July 10:59 PM CDT
Comment Due Jul 23, 2018 11:59 PM ET (10:59 CDT). It is easy and can be anonymous: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NRC-2017-0141 Comment is …
New York Hiding Full Risk Analysis For Gas Pipeline Near Nuclear Power Station: US Congresswoman Requests Access To Report From FERC And NYSDPS
Twenty million New Yorkers live within 50 miles of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station. It does not close until …
One Image Proves That Both Louisiana Nuclear Power Stations Could Be Replaced By Rooftop Solar – Comment Deadline July 23rd, 11:59 pm ET (10:59 CDT)
Comment Due Jul 23, 2018 11:59 PM ET (10:59 CDT) https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NRC-2017-0141. This is for comment on the US NRC’s Environmental …
Environmental Impacts Of River Bend Nuclear Power Station Near St. Francisville & Baton Rouge Louisiana – Comment Deadline July 23rd at 10:59 PM CDT
Comment Due Jul 23, 2018 11:59 PM ET (10:59 CDT) https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NRC-2017-0141 This is to comment on the environmental impacts of …
Why Does NuScale SMR Look Like a 1964 Drawing of Swiss Lucens Nuclear Reactor (which suffered a major meltdown in 1969)?
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Whatever NuScale is, or is not, it clearly isn’t “new”. The Bible must have foreseen the…
When it comes to Nuclear Power, Small Isn’t Beautiful, Nor Safe Nor Cheap Nor Even New
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NuScale in 2003 when it belonged to the US Gov and was called “MULTI-APPLICATION, SMALL, LIGHT…
Energy Fuels White Mesa Uranium Mill Radon Emissions Violate Clean Air Act; Alternative Feed “Sham Processing” of Radioactive Waste; Former Energy Fuels Lobbyist Now US EPA Chief
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Excerpts from the lawsuit filed by Grand Canyon Trust against Energy Fuels – the same Canadian…
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 …
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 …
His Primary Rules: Never Allow the Public to Cool Off; Repeat a Big Lie Frequently Enough and People Sooner or Later Believe It
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“…fascism, in Italy and Germany alike, has been subsidized above all by the magnates of heavy…
Arkansas One Nuclear Public Meeting On May 31st; US NRC Still Calling Worker Death “Incident”
Centralized location makes these old nuclear reactors, from the 1970s, a major hazard for much of North America, as is …
Problems with Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
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Holtec casks with arrows pointing to small cooling vents, Diablo Canyon, NPS, NRC gov If you…
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 …
Trump-Saudi Nuclear Deal Shrouded In Secrecy And Illegally So – US Senator Markey Demands Answers
The Saudi Crown Prince was at the White House in mid February and back again in mid-March. Is he moving …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station At Risk Of Spent Fuel Pool Uncontrolled Nuclear Reaction-Criticality Event Due To Degraded Neutron-Absorbing Panels
The Pilgrims arrived in 1620. In 1972 Pilgrim nuclear power station was commissioned. It legally discharges radioactive materials into the …
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 …
NTS Screw-Up of Testing of Nuclear Safety Related Components for AP1000 Nuclear Reactor (Toshiba-Westinghouse)
Whether or not this particular problem was rectified, how many more screw-ups like this? And, is NTS doing testing for …
Louisiana River Bend Nuclear Environmental/Socio-Economic Impacts Scoping Comment Deadline Tonight at 10:59 PM CDT
Impact Scoping Comment Deadline Monday Night, 10.59 Central Daylight Time: “River Bend Station, Unit 1; Intent to Conduct Scoping Process …
River Bend Nuclear Disaster Would Give New Meaning To LSU Death Valley
At around 34 miles from River Bend Nuclear Power Station, LSU is well within the 50 mile fallout zone designated …
France and Russia Compete In Attempts to Destroy Europe with Defective Nuclear Reactors; US Hell-Bent to Nuclear Auto-Destruct Too Thru a Combo of Ignorance and Malice
Nuclear regulators who are failing to do their jobs need to take notice of Japan: https://nuclear-news.net/2017/10/10/fukushima-district-court-finds-national-government-and-tepco-responsible Just because in most …
Astravets-Belarus Nuclear Power Station Is an Economic “Bomb” Says Lithuanian Foreign Minister; Discusses Russian Zapad Military Exercises and More
By Charter97.org: “Linas Linkevičius: Astravets NPP Is an Economic “Bomb” 9.10.2017, 10:53 LINAS LINKEVIČIUS The Lithuanian Foreign Minister gave an …
Russian Gov’s Rosatom May Buy Up Belarus Nuclear Power Station Contractor Best Known For Dropping the Reactor Pressure Vessel
Comment: If Belarus can’t think of anything better to do with this region than to hand it over to Russia …
Louisiana Nuclear Power Stations’ Dangerous Problems with Thunderstorms – Hurricane Should Serve as Reminder; Petition to Intervene Deadline Oct. 13th; Comment Deadline Oct. 23rd; Relicensing Must Be Stopped
Hurricane Nate’s path and the Louisiana Nuclear Power Stations – Waterford and River Bend. Both Louisiana Nuclear Power Stations are …
