On the upper left hand corner of this page is a SEARCH feature.
It's not always complete, yet if you try NUCLEAR, ENTERGY, FUKUSHIMA, or similar related words, you might find some interesting stuff.
The Nuclear Industry lavished Congress with generous 'contribution' that some might label 'bribes' and were adequately rewarded.
Even though NUCLEAR ENERGY is not 'clean,' far more expensive than wind, solar, tidal, geothermal and what ever other CLEAN ENERGY you toss into the mix, NUCLEAR ENERGY in 100% US Taxpayer Guaranteed and protected...Such a deal!
The US has uranium mines that dot the nation, continuing their environmental contamination.
At the bottom is an article shared by RSN about 'potential' meltdowns....offered by Greenpeace in simple terms.
Below are just a few of the articles posted on this site.
NUCLEAR ENERGY is too expensive to be considered in our long term energy plans, among numerous other issues.
One of the significant problems with our education failures is to provide Americans with an adequate comprehension of the long term consequences of a NUCLEAR FAILURE.
Japan's Response to Fukushima Should Worry Us AllEntergy, Fukushima, Blah, Blah, Blah!ENTERGY:
http://middlebororeview.blogspot.com/2015/10/sore-loser-entergy-blames-others-for.html
http://middlebororeview.blogspot.com/2015/09/local-protesters-plan-annual-anti-nuke.html
http://middlebororeview.blogspot.com/2015/09/capecodtoday-shns-weekly-roundup-full.html
CapeCodTOday: SHNS: Weekly roundup: A full courseload Sen. Dan Wolf, of Harwich, blasted the governor in a letter for abdicating responsibility to the feds for Pilgrim Nuclear
Out-Of-Touch Guv Baker sends letter to NRC re: Pilgrim NuclearNRC to increase oversight at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
Another Pilgrim Nuclear Shutdown
CAPECODTODAY: NRC: PILGRIM OPERATOR FAILS DRUG TEST
CLG: Pentagon paying monthly stipends to Syrian rebels (aka ISIS) to eventually fight Assad and invoke regime change,
Faulty insulation caused fire, oil spill at N.Y. nuclear plant | 01 July 2015 | An insulation failure in a transformer caused the fire at a New York nuclear plant May 9 that spilled about 3,000 gallons of oil into the Hudson River. Entergy, the operator of Indian Point Energy Center, announced Tuesday that the failed insulation -- made of special paper -- caused a short circuit in a high-voltage coil. The company regularly inspects its paper insulation for signs of degradation, but no problems were detected before the fire near the Unit 3 generator.
Redeeming lives of Fukushima's irradiated animals | 29 June 2015 | In the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, much remains unknown [?!?] about the long-term health effects of the radioactive substances released. Seeking answers, Tohoku University Prof. Manabu Fukumoto has been examining the blood and other factors of slaughtered cattle and wild animals caught by hunters mainly within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant...Fukumoto discovered that cesium levels in the organs of calves were 1.5 times higher than in those of their mothers.
[FUKUSHIMA: SAME AGE SAME DESIGN AS PILGRIM NUCLEAR]
WHAT'S AHEAD IN STATE GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK
Anti-nuclear groups to march from Plymouth to Boston June 13
DUELING VIEWS ON PILGRIM PERFORMANCE AND SAFETY
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant back online....
CLG: Tepco May Need to Dump Fukushima Radioactive Water Into Sea, UN Says, 4 chemical tanker cars derail in Louisiana; precautionary evacuation ordered, Saudi Arabia 'to get nuclear weapons'
EXPERT: PILGRIM SHUTDOWN A 'NEAR MISS'
Pilgrim plant taken offline in advance of snowstorm
PILGRIM: ...one of the five worst performing reactors in the nation....
ENTERGY CORP., THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF PILGRIM, PROMPTLY REPORTED OTHER GLITCHES THAT OCCURRED DURING THE STORM TO THE NRC AS REQUIRED — INCLUDING THE LOSS OF CONSISTENT OFFSITE POWER AND SUBSEQUENT REACTOR SHUTDOWN; THE SWITCH TO TWO ONSITE GENERATORS; THE FAILURE OF THE HIGH-POWERED COOLING INJECTION SYSTEM NEEDED TO COOL THE REACTOR; AND THE SUBSEQUENT FAILURE OF ONE OF FOUR VALVES USED AS BACKUP TO THE COOLING INJECTION SYSTEM.
PILGRIM IS CLASSIFIED BY FEDERAL REGULATORS AS ONE OF THE FIVE WORST PERFORMING REACTORS IN THE NATION. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 99 REACTORS OPERATING IN THE U.S.
PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT BACK ONLINE SATURDAY
NRC SPECIAL TEAM TO VISIT PILGRIM MONDAY
NRC TEAM TO INSPECT PILGRIM AFTER SHUTDOWN
Pilgrim nuke plant remains among worst performers
Happy Retirement Vermont Yankee!
ENTERGY SUES OVER WASTE
UNDER THE NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT ENACTED BY CONGRESS IN 1982, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS REQUIRED TO BEGIN DISPOSAL OF COMMERCIALLY-GENERATED SPENT FUEL IN FEDERAL REPOSITORIES NO LATER THAN JANUARY 1998, IN RETURN FOR SOME HEFTY FEES PAID BY THE OWNERS OF THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPERATIONS.
ENTERGY HAS PAID $167 MILLION INTO THE WASTE FUND SINCE BUYING THE PILGRIM PLANT FROM BOSTON EDISON IN 1999, TO HELP COVER THE COSTS OF BUILDING AND OPERATING A FEDERAL REPOSITORY, ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS.
CURRENTLY ABOUT 3,300 RADIOACTIVE SPENT FUEL ASSEMBLIES ARE BEING STORED IN A LARGE POOL AT PILGRIM’S NUCLEAR REACTOR. THE POOL WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR ABOUT 800. SPECIAL RACKS WERE INSTALLED TO ACCOMMODATE THE LARGER NUMBER, BUT THE POOL IS NOW AT CAPACITY.
WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, 204 ROD ASSEMBLIES WILL BE MOVED INTO THREE HEAVY CONCRETE DRY CASKS THAT WILL BE STORED OUTDOORS ON THE SITE. THE TRANSFER, ALONG WITH COSTS TO PREPARE THE SITE AND INSTALL A CONCRETE PAD, TOTALS $65 MILLION.
PILGRIM TO MOVE SPENT FUEL INTO DRY CASKS
NO MORE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS! VERMONT YANKEE SHUT DOWN!
EPA TO HEAR FEEDBACK ON PILGRIM WATER INTAKE SYSTEM
Pilgrim Nuclear: "Fukushima Fix"...When do we say NO!
CLG: Mysterious illness strikes workers at Hormel Foods-owned turkey processing plant, lobbying against international post-Fukushima nuclear safety step
Judge snubs expert at Pilgrim trial
Watchdogs complain of lax Pilgrim security
"THE GUARD HOUSE IS UNMANNED AND THERE IS NO VISIBLE SECURITY PERSONNEL AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE OWNER-CONTROLLED AREAS," STATES THE PETITION. "PEOPLE CAN AND DO ENTER THE OWNER-CONTROLLED AREA WITHOUT A PROBLEM OR DETECTION."
Put another Uninformed Cluck Head in Office and VOTE for Mark Fisher!
FLIP FLOP CHARLIE BAKER DID NOT ANSWER!
LET'S INTERPRET HIS SPINELESS LACK OF RESPONSE IS HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO INFORM HIMSELF, YET AGAIN!
REMEMBER, CHARLIE BAKER'S UNINFORMED POSITION ON PREDATORY GAMBLING!
CHARLIE BAKER IGNORED THAT A SINGLE COMMERCIAL CASINO IN MASSACHUSETTS PAVES THE ROAD FOR HOW MANY INDIAN CASINOS?
REPUBLICAN CHARLES BAKER WAS THE ONLY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE NOT TO RESPOND TO THE SURVEY. HIS CHALLENGER IN THE PRIMARY, REPUBLICAN MARK FISHER, SAID HE DID NOT BELIEVE THE PLANT SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN.
REGARDING EXPANSION OF THE EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONE, FISHER WROTE HE WOULD SUPPORT IT IF STUDIES SHOWED AREAS BEYOND THE ZONE WERE IN FACT AFFECTED BY THE RADIATION PLUME.
TOTALLY UNINFORMED ABOUT THE ISSUES:
"I BELIEVE NUCLEAR PLANTS IN THE U.S. ARE OPERATING WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY WHICH, WHILE NOT ELIMINATING RISK, REDUCES RISK TO LEVELS ACCEPTABLE BY THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS," WROTE FISHER, WHO SAID HE HAS WORKED AT BOTH NUCLEAR AND COAL-POWERED PLANTS. "IRONICALLY, A COAL FIRED POWER PLANT RELEASES MORE RADIATION INTO THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT."
LET'S INTERPRET HIS SPINELESS LACK OF RESPONSE IS HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO INFORM HIMSELF, YET AGAIN!
REMEMBER, CHARLIE BAKER'S UNINFORMED POSITION ON PREDATORY GAMBLING!
CHARLIE BAKER IGNORED THAT A SINGLE COMMERCIAL CASINO IN MASSACHUSETTS PAVES THE ROAD FOR HOW MANY INDIAN CASINOS?
REGARDING EXPANSION OF THE EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONE, FISHER WROTE HE WOULD SUPPORT IT IF STUDIES SHOWED AREAS BEYOND THE ZONE WERE IN FACT AFFECTED BY THE RADIATION PLUME.
TOTALLY UNINFORMED ABOUT THE ISSUES:
"I BELIEVE NUCLEAR PLANTS IN THE U.S. ARE OPERATING WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY WHICH, WHILE NOT ELIMINATING RISK, REDUCES RISK TO LEVELS ACCEPTABLE BY THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS," WROTE FISHER, WHO SAID HE HAS WORKED AT BOTH NUCLEAR AND COAL-POWERED PLANTS. "IRONICALLY, A COAL FIRED POWER PLANT RELEASES MORE RADIATION INTO THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT."
Residents: Pilgrim waste hurts property values
Nuclear plants prevail on storage of waste
Same Design! Same Age as FUKUSHIMA! Pilgrim plant offline after latest malfunction
AMENDED: GOP-controlled House takes shot at Cape Wind
FROM NUCLEAR:
CONSIDER THIS -- NUCLEAR ENERGY COSTS
$7,500 PER KILOWATT TO BUILD
THAT’S MORE THAN DOUBLE THE CAPITAL COSTS FOR SOLAR POWER AND THREE AND A HALF TIMES THE COST FOR WIND.
PHEW! YA JUST CAN'T GET RID OF RON BEATY AND HIS TEA BAGGER EXTREMISM! [NOTE COMMENT BELOW.]
EVEN THE CLOSETED TEA BAGGER CHARLIE BAKER FIGURED OUT THAT MOST FOLKS FAVORED CAPE WIND AND CHANGED HIS POSITION....AT LEAST FOR NOW.
THIS IS PARTISANSHIP AT ITS WORST AND SHORTCHANGES OUR FUTURE WITH MYTHS AND MISSTATEMENTS.
Feds appoint new senior resident inspector to Pilgrim Nuclear Plant
"no escape from the Cape"
UNDER THAT PLAN AT LEAST ONE OF THE CAPE'S TWO BRIDGES WOULD BE CLOSED IN A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT TO STOP AN EXODUS OF CAPE RESIDENTS FROM SLOWING THE EVACUATION FROM THE 10-MILE ZONE.
Dukes County calls for Pilgrim closure
CITIZENS GROUP TO PRESENT PLYMOUTH SELECTMEN WITH PILGRIM NUCLEAR SAFETY PETITION
NRC EYES QUAKE HAZARDS TO NUKE PLANTS
NRC: QUAKE HAZARDS MAY IMPERIL NUKE PLANTS
Environmental group supports Pilgrim closure
Defendants found guilty of trespassing during final day of Pilgrim 12 trial
Downwinders convicted, say they made point
PILGRIM NUCLEAR PLANT PROTESTERS HEADING TO TRIAL
PILGRIM PROTESTORS PERSUADE PATRICK
NRC dings Entergy with a non-cited violation
BROCKTON ENTERPRISE: MANY DAYS LATE AND MISSING THE ISSUES!
Pilgrim nuclear plant faulted on security issues
FUKUSHIMA: THE ENDLESS CATASTROPHE
High tritium level seen at Pilgrim
MAYOR OF TOWN THAT HOSTED FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT SAYS HE WAS TOLD: "NO ACCIDENT COULD EVER HAPPEN"
More bad news expected for Pilgrim power plant
The Fukushima Silence
THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS SPENT LAVISHLY TO CONVINCE THE PUBLIC AND LEADERS OF ITS SAFETY, SECURING PROTECTION AND LOAN GUARANTEES. THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE AND DELIBERATE LACK OF INFORMATION WILL REVEAL THIS NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE FOR WHAT IT HAS BEEN AND HISTORY WILL NOT LOOK KINDLY ON THE PRETENSE.
THIS MAN WANTS YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT FUKUSHIMA
'FUKUSHIMA FASCISM' & ELIZABETH WARREN'S MORAL INSIGHT
Obama Shills for Nuclear Industry and Cost Overruns at Taxpayer Expense
Consider this -- Nuclear Energy costs$7,500 per kilowatt to buildThat’s more than double the capital costs for solar power and three and a half times the cost for wind.
the most heavily subsidized industry in the energy sector.
In 2005, Congress handed the nuclear power industry $13 billion in federal aid, and two years later went on to approve an additional $20.5 billion in loan guarantees, making U.S. taxpayers the cosigners on loans for new nuclear projects -- half of which are expected to end in defaults.
Wind is already more competitive than electricity generated from new nuclear and coal-fired power plants.
These are just a few of the entries posted about the Failures of the Nuclear Industry, the lack of security, the lack of safety:
Unprotected Nuclear Facility Break Ignored by Corporate Media!
“If unarmed protesters dressed in dark clothing could reach the plant’s core during the cover of dark, it raised questions about the plant’s security against more menacing intruders.”
Sellafield nuclear plant staff told to stay home after 'elevated levels of radioactivity' detected 31 Jan 2014 The Sellafield nuclear plant has been evacuated after "elevated levels of radioactivity" were detected. More than 10,000 non-essential staff have been told to stay at home following problems at the site in Cumbria, which is the biggest nuclear site in the UK. A perimeter alarm was triggered at the north of the site, leading to buildings being checked by safety staff, but it was later discovered the higher than normal levels had occurred "naturally".
the most heavily subsidized industry in the energy sector.
In 2005, Congress handed the nuclear power industry $13 billion in federal aid, and two years later went on to approve an additional $20.5 billion in loan guarantees, making U.S. taxpayers the cosigners on loans for new nuclear projects -- half of which are expected to end in defaults.
Wind is already more competitive than electricity generated from new nuclear and coal-fired power plants.
The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome
Scotland's tidal energy potential is greater than a nuclear power plant
The Fukushima Silence
Fukushima on the Hudson?
Pilgrim Nuclear: “That is not what we signed up for. It is not the legacy we want to leave for our children.”
Fukushima Apocalypse: Years of duct tape fixes could result in 'millions of deaths'
JANUARY 26, 2014
23 US Nuclear Plants use same GE Fukushima reactors
Health Effects of Fukushima
"Concluding Remarks
The Japanese government under Democratic Party rule, declared that the Fukushima accident was over at the end of 2011, and the prime minister in Sept 2013 under the Liberal-Democratic Party at the IOC meeting to select the next Olympic site pronounced that the Fukushima accident had been contained and Tokyo was well prepared for the Olympics.
The real situation is far different, as documented above. Leakage of radioactive materials through various routes continues. The locations and states of the melted fuel rods in the reactors at Fk-1 have yet to be determined. It was found only recently (by use of muon radiation/absorption technique) that the nuclear reactors of units 1 and 2 are indeed devoid of nuclear fuel rods in the core 23, but the technique was insufficient to locate the melted fuel rod debris.
Serious health effects of radiation in general have already been widely observed. It is best to refer to better studied examples of the past: Chernobyl 24 and down-winders of Nevada tests 25. The reality of health effects at Chernobyl due to fallout from the explosive accident as detailed in 26 and summarized in 27 may indicate the future of Fukushima and Japan.
The health effects of radiation are often slow in manifesting, particularly in the case of cancers, though cancer rates have already started to increase in Fukushima and elsewhere, as discussed above. Therefore, more people will be affected by radiation in the years to come, not only in Fukushima, but across Japan." Thanks Nick Thabit
The Oconee Nuclear Station in Seneca, South Carolina. (photo: Mary Ann Chastain/AP)
10 Near Misses at US Nuclear Power Plants Considered Precursors to a Meltdown
25 May 16
ollowing the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Greenpeace USA released a new report Tuesday on the 166 near misses at U.S. nuclear power plants over the past decade. Of the incidents identified in Nuclear Near Misses: A Decade of Accident Precursors at U.S. Nuclear Plants, 10 are considered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to be important precursors to a meltdown.
“Contrary to NRC commissioners’ claims, there is nothing safe about the nuclear reactors in the United States,” Greenpeace Nuclear Policy Analyst Jim Riccio said. “Thirty years after Chernobyl and five years after Fukushima, it is clear that these kinds of disasters could absolutely happen here. It is time for the NRC to listen to the whistleblowers within its own ranks and address these longstanding issues and vulnerabilities.”
In addition to the 163 accident precursors or near misses documented by the NRC, Greenpeace identified three significant near misses that NRC risk analysts failed to review under the agency’s Accident Sequence Precursor Program (ASP): the triple meltdown threat to Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Station west of Greenville, South Carolina. According to NRC’s risk analysts, if nearby Jocassee Dam had failed, all three of the nuclear reactors at Oconee were certain to meltdown.
The report identified the following incidents as the top 10 near misses at nuclear plants between 2004-2014:
- Browns Ferry 1 in Athens, Alabama: Residual heat removal loop unavailable; valve failure.
- Wolf Creek in Burlington, Kansas: Multiple switchyard faults, reactor trip and loss of offsite power.
- Robinson in Hartsville, South Carolina: Fire causes partial loss of offsite power & reactor coolant pump seal cooling challenges.
- Fort Calhoun in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska: Fire in safety-related 480 volt electrical breaker due to deficient design control. 8 other breakers susceptible.
- River Bend in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Loss of normal service water, circulating water and feedwater caused by electrical fault.
- Oconee 1 in Seneca, South Carolina: Failure of Jocassee Dam would result in a meltdown.
- Oconee 2 in Seneca, South Carolina: Failure of Jocassee Dam would result in a meltdown.
- Oconee 3 in Seneca, South Carolina: Failure of Jocassee Dam would result in a meltdown.
- North Anna 1 in Mineral, Virginia: Dual loss of offsite power caused by earthquake AFW pump out of service & failure of Unit 2 EDG.
- Byron 2 in Byron, Illinois: Transformer & breaker failures cause Loss of Off Site Power, reactor trip and de-energizing of safety buses.
“If the NRC can’t even accurately track near meltdowns why should the public have any confidence that they can prevent them? It’s time to retire these dangerous nuclear plants and end the nuclear era once and for all,” Riccio concluded.
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