Tag Archives: Safety

Rosatom evacuates some employees from Bangladesh nuclear site via Nuclear Engineering

Posted on 2020/04/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has repatriated 178 employees from the Rooppur nuclear power plant construction site in Bangladesh. Rosatom had to obtain government permission to evacuate its employees. Russia temporarily suspended all international flights on 3 April in an … Continue reading →

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Go green, but not nuclear via Daily Herald

Posted on 2020/04/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

I am an engineer with over 40 years of experience. In the late 1980s, I studied to take the operator’s test for running nuclear power plants. As I studied, I realized how unsafe and dangerous these plants and waste storage … Continue reading →

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Nuclear plant lifetime extension: A creeping catastrophe via Bellona

Posted on 2020/03/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

 by Charles Digges Any discussion of nuclear disasters brings events like Chernobyl and Fukushima to mind. But the civilian nuclear industry could be facing a quieter nuclear failure. Simply put, the world’s nuclear reactors are getting dangerously old. […] The majority … Continue reading →

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TVA shuts down Watts Bar reactor, declares ‘unusual event’ via Chattanuuga Times Free Press

Posted on 2020/02/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by Dave Flessner The Tennessee Valley Authority idled one of the reactors at its newest nuclear power plant Wednesday after a gauge indicated a lower than expected level in one of its four steam generators and then, within 15 minutes of … Continue reading →

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NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE CONTAINERS BREAK DOWN WHEN EXPOSED TO WATER via Futurism

Posted on 2020/02/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

DAN ROBITZSKI The U.S. government’s plan for safely storing nuclear waste just hit a serious snag: Exposure to groundwater could corrode its new storage containers, spilling radioactive materials into the Earth. The plan, as it stands, was to trap nuclear waste in … Continue reading →

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The Computer Infection of Kudankulam and its Implications via The India Forum

Posted on 2020/01/11 by nfield

M V Ramana, Lauren J. Borja The October 2019 cyberattack on a computer system at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant points to new pathways to severe accidents that can result in widespread radioactive fallout. Attempts to lower this risk would further … Continue reading →

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Labor Department rules TVA cooked up cause to fire nuclear whistleblower via Knox News

Posted on 2020/01/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jamie Satterfield, Knoxville News Sentinel The U.S. Department of Labor says the Tennessee Valley Authority fired a nuclear engineer who blew the whistle on safety concerns and lied about it. The Labor Department is ordering TVA to give Beth Wetzel … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Colonialism: Indigenous opposition grows against proposal for nation’s largest nuclear storage facility in NM via NM Political Report

Posted on 2019/11/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Kendra Chamberlain A proposal for New Mexico to house one of the world’s largest nuclear waste storage facilities has drawn opposition from nearly every indigenous nation in the state. Nuclear Issues Study Group co-founder and Diné organizer Leona Morgan told … Continue reading →

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US nuclear reactor shut down after officials discover leak via Fox News

Posted on 2019/11/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

JENKINSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina energy company has shut down one of its nuclear reactors after officials discovered a small leak in the coolant system. Dominion Energy spokeswoman Rhonda O’Banion told The State on Saturday that the V.C. Summer reactor in Fairfield County is temporarily … Continue reading →

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New environment minister says Japan should stop using nuclear power via Reuters

Posted on 2019/09/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

 Japan’s newly installed environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, wants the country to close down nuclear reactors to avoid a repeat of the Fukushima catastrophe in 2011.  The comments by the son of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, himself an anti-nuclear advocate, … Continue reading →

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