Tag Archives: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

A Fukushima Lesson Unlearned: NRC scraps public rulemaking on weak GE containments via enformable

Posted on 2015/09/04 by norma field

By Paul Gunter The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) typically begins its narrative on the “lessons learned” from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe with Japan’s March 11, 2011accident. Not surprisingly, the agency has avoided addressing the most critical lesson … Continue reading →

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NRC Rejects Recommendation to Require Nuclear Plant Owners to Establish Plans to Address a Core-Melt Accident via The Union of Concerned Scientists

Posted on 2015/08/28 by norma field

Washington (August 28, 2015)—The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has rejected the recommendation of the high-level task force it convened after the March 2011 Fukushima disaster to require nuclear plant owners to develop and maintain plans for coping with a … Continue reading →

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Linear No-Threshold Model and Standards for Protection Against Radiation via the Federal Register

Posted on 2015/07/29 by norma field

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received three petitions for rulemaking (PRM) requesting that the NRC amend its “Standards for Protection Against Radiation” regulations and change the basis of those regulations from the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model of radiation … Continue reading →

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Feds allege Xcel contractors falsified weld tests at Monticello nuclear plant via The Star Tribune

Posted on 2015/07/28 by norma field

Federal investigators have accused two former contract employees for Xcel Energy Inc. of willfully violating procedures and falsifying reports about safety-related tests of casks filled with high-level nuclear waste stored at the Monticello, Minn., nuclear power plant. The findings released … Continue reading →

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My view: Depleted uranium should not be Utah’s problem to solve alone via Deseret News

Posted on 2015/07/14 by norma field

By Ashley Soltysiak Utah will soon face a huge decision — whether or not to allow the disposal of depleted uranium (DU), an extremely long-lived nuclear waste, at EnergySolutions’ facility in our West Desert. But here’s the question that state … Continue reading →

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Pennsylvania nuclear power plant in ‘Hot Shutdown’ over valve closure via lehigh valley live

Posted on 2015/02/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A southeastern Pennsylvania nuclear power reactor unexpectedly shut down Monday night, and the owner was trying to find out why. Unit 1 at Exelon Corp.’s Limerick Generating Station in Montgomery County automatically shut down about 9:40 p.m. after a valve … Continue reading →

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Exelon seeks OK to operate LaSalle nuclear plant until 2040s via the Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2014/12/10 by norma field

Exelon Corp. is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow it to operate its LaSalle County nuclear plant until the 2040s. The company’s filing Tuesday with the commission sets off a two-year process that will determine if the plant can … Continue reading →

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Update — Dangerous Uranium Hexafluoride Leak Worse Than Initially Reported, Regulator Says via NEIS

Posted on 2014/11/10 by norma field

CHICAGO– A more serious incident occurred at the Honeywell Uranium conversion facility in Metropolis, Illinois than was originally reported by the plant operators to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC Event Report states, “DISCOVERY OF AFTER-THE-FACT EMERGENCY CONDITION – ALERT … Continue reading →

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Bowling for Meltdowns via Counterpunch

Posted on 2014/10/31 by norma field

Throwing Gas on a Radioactive Fire by JOHN LaFORGE Weakening radiation standards; a cap on accident liability; reactor propaganda vs improvements; old units running past expiration dates; revving the engines beyond design specs …. You’d think we were itching for … Continue reading →

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Lawsuit: Quake standards altered at California nuclear plant via San Francisco Chronicle

Posted on 2014/10/29 by norma field

Federal regulators secretly and illegally revised the license for California’s last nuclear power facility — PG&E’s Diablo Canyon — to mask the aging plant’s vulnerability to earthquakes, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by environmentalists. The suit claims that the … Continue reading →

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