The Bi-Polar Attitudes towards the nuclear threat
On April 16th – just over two weeks ago – Oregon Senator Ron Widen sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki seeking ways to quickly address the increasingly precarious condition of the…
NRC Kabuki Gets Senate Curtain Call
Many of us who have been following the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi have also been paying attention to what the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been doing to respond. A preliminary report was…
Current Business Wisdom: No Nukes
Editor’s Note Most of us are aware of the Nuclear Energy Institute [NEI] big bucks PR push for new nukes, now that the ongoing mass meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi have faded (by design)…
UCS to NRC: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah
Today I watched the CSPAN livestream of the NRC’s commission members before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, all about how very much safer and better our U.S. nukes are than…
Fukushima Anniversary: Theatre of the Absurd
It’s the 1-year anniversary of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. For more than a week I’ve struggled to find something to say about it that hasn’t already been said a hundred times in…
Fukushima FOIA Docs 8: A Real Outrage
The Rest of the Story… This installment of my series is about the more recent documents released to MA Congressman Ed Markey by the NRC in late October of last year, which led…
Fukushima FOIA Docs Part 7: We made the Onion!
In this, the 7th installment in my series examining documents released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Lucas W. Hixson in response to his FOIA request, the timeline remains late March to the…
Fukushima FOIA Docs 6 – Your Career Likely Over
View of the Fukushima Unit-4 Spent Fuel Pool fire from U.S. Navy helicopter fly-over, March 13, 2011 In Fukushima Docs 6: Did We Know This?? I examined the FOIA documents released to Lucas Hixson from…
Fukushima FOIA Docs 5 – Did We Know This??
In episode 4 of this series - A Marathon, Not a Sprint - we managed to get all the way to March 22, eleven days after the meltdowns began. I’ve been examining the NRC documentation…
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Fukushima Docs 4 – A Marathon Not A Sprint
In this fifth installment of documents released via FOIA from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission we’ll again be looking at what the NRC knew about the situation at Fukushima, what they were doing with the information they had,…
Fukushima Docs 3: Heavily Redacted
At this point in the series there are so many internal communiques between divisions and offices of the NRC that in order to keep a chronological order pertinent to each series, I have…
Fukushima Docs 2: I Feel Like Crying
Part I – Who Knew What When Originally Published Here In Part I of this series linking to some of the documents Lucas W. Hixson received from the NRC in response to an FOIA request –…
Fukushima FOIA – Part I – Who Knew What When
Part I – Who Knew What When Originally Published Here Lucas W. Hixson has been busy this week uploading what he calls a massive “document dump” from the NRC in response to a…
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May 17, 2012
Dee — Perfectly written, Linda!
Last year, Europe invested more in SOLAR Energy than any other energy source, and Renewable Energy has created...
May 17, 2012
Thanks, Enformable — Great reporting!
Remember how complicit the U.S. media was in downplaying the radiation from Japan?
I've never seen so many synonyms of...
May 17, 2012
Russell Lowes — Hi Linda,
Your article is appreciated. I want to point out that nuclear is not a good way in which...
May 17, 2012
misitu — What worries me more is the gabions in the picture. Gabions are chicken wire baskets of stones often used in...
May 16, 2012
CaptD — This ought to wake up some folks in Somerset!
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