Nuclear Power

EPA Protested At 10 Regional Offices Over Clean Power Plan

January 20, 2016 Staff of Our Power, www.storify.com Resist! Energy, Fracking, Gas, Incinerators, Nuclear Power, Solar, Wind

By Staff of Our Power Campaign. Below is a storify of the national day of action against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan which people see as rhetorical cover for expanding the use of methane gas, which is usually fracked gas, incinerators to burn waste and nuclear power. On Tuesday January 19th, activists with the Climate Justice Alliance's (CJA) Our Power Campaign met with EPA administrators and held rallies outside of EPA offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle. Our Power Campaign, Climate Justice Alliance The actions called for stronger safeguards for frontline communities and a "just transition" to a clean energy future. The called for community-based solutions and transition to a clean energy future. Clean energy does not include methane gas, incinerators or nuclear energy

Stop Radioactive Contamination Of The Great Lakes

January 19, 2016 Beyond Nuclear, www.stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.com Petitions and Online Actions Environment, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Water, Water Pollution

By Beyond Nuclear for Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump. Ontario, Canada - Ontario Power Generation plans to bury and abandon radioactive nuclear waste 400 metres below the bottom level of Lake Huron. Scientists cannot guarantee tat this nuclear waste dump will not leak. The Great Lakes provide fresh drinking water for 40 million people in two countries. Why would we bury radioactive nuclear waste beside this precious resource? Ontario Power Generation, the applicant, states this underground dump "is not likely to result in any significant residual adverse effects to human health or the environment, including Lake Huron and the Great Lakes." Is "not likely" good enough?

Another US Nuke Bites The Dust

October 15, 2015 Harvey Wasserman, www.commondreams.org Resist! Massachusetts, Nuclear Power

By Harvey Wasserman for Common Dreams - The chain reactor operator Entergy has announced it will close the Pilgrim nuke south of Boston. The shut-down will bring U.S. reactor fleet to 98, though numerous other reactors are likely to face abandonment in the coming months. But Entergy says it may not take Pilgrim down until June 1, 2019—nearly four years away. Entergy is also poised to shut the FitzPatrick reactor in New York. It promises an announcement by the end of this month. Entergy also owns Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3 some 40 miles north of Manhattan. Unit 2’s operating license has long since lapsed. Unit 3’s will expire in December.

Fukushima: The World’s Never Seen Anything Like This

October 2, 2015 Robert Hunziker, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Chemicals, Nuclear Power

By Robert Hunziker for Counter Pounch - The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 nuclear reactor fuel is missing from the core containment vessel. (Source: Up to 100% of No. 2 Reactor Fuel May Have Melted, NHK World News, Sept. 25, 2015.) Where did it go? Nobody knows. Not only that but the “learning curve” for a nuclear meltdown is as fresh as the event itself because “the world has never seen anything like this,” never. Utilizing cosmic ray muon radiography with nuclear emulsion, researchers from Nagoya University peered inside the reactors at Fukushima. The nuclear fuel in reactor core No. 5 was clearly visible via the muon process.

Drone Video – Nuclear Waste in Bags Near Ocean

April 19, 2015 Ruptly, www.youtube.com Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste

Ruptly reports: "Millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris can be seen packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture." The drone video taken by Ruptly shows how the Fukushima nuclear accident continues to be a major health and environmental catastrophe. Unbelievably, TEPCO, the corporation responsible for the nuclear plant at Fukushima, is storing some of the most dangerous waste on earth in plastic bags near the ocean. Once again TEPCO is showing irresponsible behavior in how they are handling the results of the nuclear accident that occurred on March 11, 2011 and resulting in a nuclear meltdown of the plant's six nuclear reactors.

One Less Fukushima-Type Reactor Threatens US

December 28, 2014 Jim Riccio, www.greenpeaceblogs.org Resist! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power

After a long struggle, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant near Brattleboro is slowing shutting down and will cease to split atoms on December 29th. Congratulations to the people of Vermont! Their steadfast efforts over decades made this victory a reality and now there is one less General Electric Mark I reactor, the same design as those that melted down and exploded in Fukushima, threatening New England. John F. Kennedy once said the “Victory has a thousand fathers ….” This one had a mother and a lot of aunts and uncles too. I cannot mention Vermont Yankee or Yankee Rowe for that matter without lauding my friend and colleague Deb Katz and the Citizen’s Awareness Network. (CAN) Deb and CAN understood that the restructuring of the electricity market offered Vermonters an opportunity to have a say in the fate of Vermont Yankee. They got Vermont the vote that precipitated this shutdown.

CEO Of Defunct Nuclear Power Scam Indicted On Multiple Counts

November 16, 2014 Blair Koch, www.environews.tv Educate! Corporate crime, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Nuclear Power

Boise, Idaho -- Plans to build a nuclear power plant in southeast Idaho may be bust as a federal investigation spanning several years culminated with a grand jury handing down 14 criminal indictments against former executives of Idaho-based Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEHI). Former president and company founder Donald Gillispie, 71, and former senior vice president of administration and secretary Jennifer Ransom, 40, are charged with 14 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, filing false tax returns and making false statements to federal agents. Also included in the indictment was a charge against Ransom for lying to federal investigators about her personal, intimate, relationship with Gillispie.

Nuclear Power’s Insanities: Taxpayer-Guaranteed

September 8, 2014 The Nader Page, www.blog.nader.org Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Power, Radiation, Taxes

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) – the corporate lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for the disintegrating atomic power industry – doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from the negative impacts of nuclear power. For nuclear power is a government/taxpayer-guaranteed boondoggle whose staggering costs, incurred and deferred, are absorbed by American taxpayers via a supine government regulatory and subsidy apparatus. So if you go to work at the NEI and you read about the absence of any permanent radioactive waste storage site, no problem, the government/taxpayers are responsible for transporting and safeguarding that lethal garbage for centuries. If your reactors experience ever larger cost over-runs and delays, as is now happening with two new reactors in South Carolina, no problem, the supine state regulatory commissions will just pass the bill on to consumers, despite the fact that consumers receive no electricity from these unfinished plants. If these plants, and two others in Georgia under construction, experience financial squeezes from Wall Street, no problem, a supine Congress has already passed ample taxpayer loan guarantees that make Uncle Sam (you the taxpayer) bear the cost of the risk.

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