Tag Archives: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Texas is one step closer to housing tons of nuclear waste. What that means for DFW via Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Posted on 2021/09/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY HALEY SAMSEL Outside of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Arlington office on Monday, a dozen protesters spoke out against what they saw as the inevitable: The commission was going to approve a federal permit to transport high-level nuclear waste through Dallas-Fort Worth … Continue reading →

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Fukushima 10 years later: It still could happen here via the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/03/15 by nfield

By Edwin Lyman | March 11, 2021 On March 11, 2011, 10 years ago this week, a massive earthquake and tsunami flooding triggered a power blackout at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, causing three reactors to melt down and release … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Suicide by Embrittled Reactors: Karl Grossman – #503 via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2021/02/12 by nfield

by Libbe HaLevy | Feb 10, 2021  See more. Listen Here: Audio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Podcast: Download This Week’s Featured Interview: Karl Grossman is an author and journalism professor at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. … Continue reading →

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Proposal could mean Millstone reactors could operate 20 years longer than expected via The Day

Posted on 2021/01/25 by nfield

By Sten Spinella   Day staff writer Waterford — The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission convened Thursday to discuss the possibility of expanding license renewal for nuclear reactors to 100 years, potentially opening the door for Millstone Nuclear Power Station reactors to remain licensed until … Continue reading →

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NY AG files lawsuit to support complete removal of Indian Point nuclear power facility via ABC50 Now

Posted on 2021/01/24 by nfield

by: Isabella ColelloPosted: Jan 22, 2021 / 04:24 PM EST / Updated: Jan 22, 2021 / 04:24 PM EST NEW YORK (WWTI) — A lawsuit was filed on Friday in regards to the complete dismantling of Indian Point. On behalf of New York State, New … Continue reading →

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All casked up with nowhere to go: Why we shouldn’t be talking about nuclear waste “disposal” via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/11/30 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter (Note: Please join a webinar on nuclear waste hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC, and moderated by Beyond Nuclear, to discuss the World Nuclear Waste Report with its editor, Arne Jungjohann, and US chapter author and former Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Radiation Alert: Could You Have A Dirty Bomb Next Door? via Fairewinds Energy Education

Posted on 2020/11/02 by nfield

By Arnie Gundersen October 27, 2020 […] Unfortunately, my takeaway from these events and other small explosive events all over the United States is that it is relatively easy for a lone-wolf militant or several militia-type American citizens to build … Continue reading →

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: don’t allow radioactive waste into our local landfills! via Change.org

Posted on 2020/10/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Melissa Bumstead OCT 20, 2020 —  Tomorrow, October 21 is the last day to say no to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: No nuclear waste in our local landfills! The NRC’s “Proposed Interpretative Rule on Transfer of Very Low Level Waste … Continue reading →

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Regulatory Capture: Flying on the Small Modular Reactor via Fairewinds Energy Education

Posted on 2020/10/14 by nfield

By Arnie Gundersen October 8, 2020 Yes, Fairewinds tracks nuclear safety issues, and no, Boeing will not build Small Modular Reactors that fly.   However, when most of my colleagues and I look at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its supposedly … 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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