The Nuclear Regulator Regulatory Commission on Thursday announced a public meeting on June 18 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m at the San Juan Capistrano Community Center to present results of a months-long inspection at the troubled San Onofre plant. During the meeting, which is open to public observation, the NRC staff will provide a […]
Ted Craver, chief executive officer of Edison, the parent company of plant operator Southern California Edison, said as the process stands, the earliest that the Unit 2 reactor could restart would be the end of summer, and Unit 3 may take longer. Most of the troubling wear was found in Unit 3. To date, 1,317 […]
Workers at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant were getting ready to restart the plant after a month-long maintenance shutdown, when leakage was identified from a 3/4-inch weld during Reactor Coolant System (RCS) walkdown inspections. The leakage amount was approximately 0.1 gpm spray. “During the performance of MODE 3 engineering walkdown inspections in accordance with procedure […]
On June 1st of this year the New York Times reported that President Obama himself participated in the “Stuxnet” cyberattack against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, beginning very shortly after he took over the executive reins of the U.S. government from ex-President George W. Bush. It was under Bush that American and Israeli intelligence agencies got together […]
TEPCO Rate Hike Plan Criticized by Users Users of Tokyo Electric Power Co. criticized the power company’s plan to increase household electricity rates, in a public hearing held by the industry ministry on Thursday. Many users said TEPCO should cancel its rate increase plan and promote cost cuts. In an afternoon session, Shinichi Aida, mayor […]
Concerns About Nuclear Power The Japanese public is far more leery of nuclear power than it was in the immediate aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast coast and critically damaged the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. 70% of Japanese say their country should reduce its reliance on nuclear energy, in […]
Every year in the U.S., more than 70 million children and adults receive CT scans, a number that has grown six-fold over the last few decades. Beginning July 1, 2012 the state of California will require facilities performing CT scans to record radiation dose as part of patients’ radiology reports or as an attached protocol […]
Entergy Corp’s 1,022-megawatt (MW) Unit 2 at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York started to exit an outage, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). UNIT 2 EXPERIENCED AN AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP ON TURBINE MAIN GENERATOR TRIP “On June 6, 2012, at approximately 0612 hours, Indian Point Unit 2 reactor automatically […]
The use of CT scans for children to evaluate head, neck or spine injuries or neurological disorders has increased dramatically since they were introduced 30 years ago. CT, or computed tomography, scans take X-rays from various angles and combine them to create cross-sectional images, and they involve much more radiation than traditional X-ray techniques. An x-ray is […]
Toppan Printing Co announced Thursday it has developed a paper with a high density of tungsten that blocks radiation, making it the first company in the world to incorporate tungsten into paper in high density. The paper is expected to replace lead as it has few adverse effects on the environment and is easy to […]
Residents upset over potential Ohi restart More than a week after announcement of the intent to restart of two nuclear reactors in Japan , the decision is still causing controversy among area residents who want to know why the local leaders were being blamed for the economic damage that would result if the Ohi reactors […]
A huge floating dock cast adrift by last year’s killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, the biggest pieces of flotsam to make landfall on the U.S. West Coast so far. The 20-meter-long rectangular structure, made of concrete and metal, was spotted floating off the coast Monday and then washed in with the […]