Tag Archives: nuclear power plants

US Nuclear Waste Sites Face Sea-Level Rise Threat via Yale Climate Connections

Posted on 2021/02/10 by nfield

[…] “We really focused in to say, ‘OK, well, how many plants might actually be subject to these risks?’” says Sarah Jordaan of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her team looked at 13 facilities along … Continue reading →

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Inviting Nuclear Disaster via Counter Punch

Posted on 2020/12/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY KARL GROSSMAN Nuclear power plants when they began being constructed were not seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise causing safety problems. But in recent decades, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission … Continue reading →

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U.S. nuclear plants in S. Carolina, Missouri face the highest quake risks: report via Reuters

Posted on 2020/10/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. nuclear power reactors facing the highest risks of a meltdown from earthquakes are not in tremor-prone California, but states including South Carolina and Missouri, an analysis of government data published on Thursday said. … Continue reading →

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Russians Who Pose Election Threat Have Hacked Nuclear Plants and Power Grid via the New York Times

Posted on 2020/10/26 by nfield

By Nicholas Perlroth Cybersecurity officials watched with growing alarm in September as Russian state hackers started prowling around dozens of American state and local government computer systems just two months before the election. The act itself did not worry them … Continue reading →

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Activists push Congress to revive probe into links between nuclear plants and cancer via the Orange County Register

Posted on 2020/10/14 by nfield

By TERI SFORZA | tsforza@scng.com | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: October 5, 2020 at 4:05 p.m.  Scientists and activists were stunned back in 2015 when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission pulled the plug on what was designed to be the best study of cancer near nuclear power plants … Continue reading →

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Japan diver reflects on unsung workers exposed to radiation as Fukushima 10th anniv. looms via The Mainichi

Posted on 2020/10/11 by nfield

Have you ever heard of atomic divers? Hisashi Okazaki, 58, who has worked at nuclear power plants as a diver while being exposed to radiation, wants people to know that professional divers like himself work in dangerous conditions for nuclear … Continue reading →

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Idle Threat? Azerbaijan’s Hint At Missile Strike On Armenian Nuclear Plant Increases Tensions via RadioFreeEurope

Posted on 2020/07/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Andy Heil Azerbaijan dramatically escalated tensions amid its border battle with Armenia this week with an implicit threat to bomb the region’s only nuclear power plant and unleash “great catastrophe” on Armenians. The July 16 warning drew outrage from Yerevan … Continue reading →

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Fire at Shuttered Dutch Nuclear Plant; No Radiation Risk via The New York Times

Posted on 2020/05/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A fire broke out Thursday at a decommissioned nuclear power plant in the central Netherlands. An emergency services spokesman said the blaze was quickly brought under control and there was no danger of radioactive radiation. “There … Continue reading →

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Worker infection halts anti-terror project at Genkai nuclear plant via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2020/04/16 by nfield

[…] Kyushu Electric Power Co. suspended work to build an anti-terrorism facility at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture after a worker there tested positive for the novel coronavirus on April 14. The infected construction worker was involved … Continue reading →

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South Jersey nuclear plant ready to refuel while following virus containment rules via KYW Newsradio 1060

Posted on 2020/04/13 by nfield

DAVID MADDEN APRIL 13, 2020 – 4:00 AM LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, N.J. (KYW Newsradio) — The Limerick nuclear plant in Montgomery County isn’t the only one in our region being refueled as we proceed through the COVID-19 pandemic. Another plant in … Continue reading →

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