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Clean Energy Groups Submit Formal Petition to NRC to Incorporate Lessons of Fukushima
Thirty-eight clean energy groups today submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. ...
Fukushima reactor readings raise reheating concern
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has said today that the temperature inside the No. 2 reactor in the Fukushima nuclear power plant had risen to 82C, a high since the reactor had attained a cold shutdown in December, raising concerns that the plant is n...
Thousands March Against Nuclear Power in Japan
Thousands of people are demonstrating today in Japan against nuclear power. The Associated Press reports that people are worried about the restarting of reactors that had stopped since the Fukushima disaster. Agence France-Presse reports on the protest...
New nuclear plant builder a major Washington player
The company benefiting from today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision to approve the construction of the first new nuclear plant in the U.S. in over three decades is an influential powerhouse in Washington. Southern Company, a power compa...
"The Atomic States of America": Exploring a Nation’s Struggle with Nuclear Power
Nuclear power has drawn wide support from both sides of the aisle, with both Republicans and Democrats advancing a pro-nuclear agenda even in the aftermath of last year's Fukushima disaster in Japan. We speak with Sheena Joyce, co-director of the new documentary "The Atomic States of America," which is featured at 2012 Sundance Film Festival. We're also joined by Kelly McMasters, whose book "Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town" inspired the film. Joyce says, "We used Kelly's book and the town of Shirley as kind of a springboard into the issue, to just talk to people really on both sides, but mainly to speak to the people in reactor communities... We wanted to seek an intelligent dialogue." [includes rush transcript - partial]
Report: Israel Intel Chief Says Nuke-Armed Iran Not An Existential Threat
The head of the venerable Israeli spy agency Mossad reportedly told a group of Israeli ambassadors that even if Iran should get a nuclear weapon, it would not pose an existential threat to the Jewish State. The comments come amid increasing war chatter and rising tensions between the West and Iran over the latter’s nuclear [...]
JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
Japan's nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on M...
You Could Even Say It Glows: NRC Votes to Fast-Track a More Dangerous Nuclear Future
To paraphrase the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Merry Effin' Christmas. In a news dump that came a day early (because who really wants to dump on Christmas-Eve Eve?), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made a pair of moves Thursday that could have significant consequences for America's nuclear industry--and all the people who have to live with it.
Netherlands | Second nuclear plant postponed
Headlining with "Growing doubts about the construction of Borssele II," NRC Handelsblad reports on construction firm Delta’s decision to postpone the building of the country's second […] (News in brief : cover)
Regulatory Meltdown Goes Nuclear: Will Attacks on NRC’s Jaczko Kill Post-Fukushima Upgrades?
If you like politics as blood sport, this is great stuff. On the other hand, if you worry about people, their lives, their health, how their money is spent and how their government protects their lives, their health and how their money is spent, well, then, this sucks. If you had been waiting for the three-month follow-up to the Senate Environment and Public Works committee hearing on the Fukushima Near-Term Task Force recommendations--the one Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) promised in August at the last hearing on this issue of vital importance to US nuclear safety--well, that hearing was yesterday, Thursday, December 15. . . and whether you watched them or not, you are still waiting.
