Taiwan looks globally for help managing spent nuclear fuel
Taipower, the state-owned utility in Taiwan is soliciting official bids from overseas to reprocess the spent fuel accumulating at its nuclear power plants. There are three operating nuclear power plants in Taiwan, and…
South Korea still searching for answers after hack of computers at nuclear power plants
Authorities are investigating a recent string of hacking attempts which have targeted nuclear power plants in South Korea. On December 9th between 5:00 am and 3:00 pm, computers of workers at the Korea…
Recent issues demonstrate risks of nuclear power in space
The recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space flight equation—as…
Will Diablo Canyon survive the next big earthquake?
As aftershocks of the 6.0 Napa earthquake that occurred Sunday in California continued, the Associated Press this week revealed a secret government report pointing to major earthquake vulnerabilities at the Diablo Canyon nuclear…
Solar vs nuclear power in space
A demonstration that in space as on Earth solar power is an alternative to dangerous nuclear power is to come this week when a solar-powered spacecraft called Rosetta will rendezvous with a comet…
EPA Wants My Opinion? Well, Here It Is…
The Environmental Protection Agency – the overseers of the suspiciously on-again/off-again RadNet monitoring system in the wake of the 2011 mass meltdown/blow-outs at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power station – has helpfully extended the public…
Gerry Spence and Karen Silkwood – Part 2 – Proving Strict Liability and Physical Injury
This is Part 2 of a 2 Part mini-series – Read Part 1 Here The following is the conclusion of a transcript of a speech given by Gerry Spence in Pennsylvania shortly after…
Gerry Spence and Karen Silkwood – Part 1 – Compensation for radiation injury
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part mini-series – Read Part 2 Here The following is the transcript of a speech given by Gerry Spence in Pennsylvania shortly after the Three Mile…
Keeping regulators and corporate America separate
By Karl Grossman “U.S. Agency Knew About G.M. Flaw But Did Not Act,” was the front-page headline of the New York Times this week. The article told of a memo released by the…
NRC’s inconsistent interpretations and applications of rules governing FOIA releases
Quantum mechanics imply that something can be both simultaneously one thing and another until it is observed. Erwin Shrodinger explained it using a box and a cat. If you seal the cat in…
More progress made overhauling site than decommissioning reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
In the three years since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster there has been a plethora of drastic changes made to the landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant including;…
On the third anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe
By Karl Grossman With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at…
A Delta pilot’s perspective on his approach to Tokyo in the wake of the March 11th earthquake
This story comes from the FOIA documents released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission related to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The message was communicated among NRC officials after March 21st, and offers some…
The Saga of Michael Buhrman and Landon Brittain
Michael Buhrman, 31, began his career in the nuclear industry after being honorably discharged in from the Navy nuclear program in 2005, where he had worked as a reactor operator and nuclear electronics…
Kan, Jaczko, Gundersen, Bradford and Nader — Nuclear Power Through the Fukukshima Perspective
It started this June in California. Speaking about the problems at the troubled San Onofre nuclear plants through the perspective of the Fukushima nuclear complex catastrophe was a panel of Naoto Kan, prime…
Is the United States remaining vigilant to Fukushima risks?
As our readers may be aware, on multiple occasions over the last two years Russia has made data public on contaminated imports from Japan which have been sent back due to radiation concerns. …
Indian Point supervisor arrested for deliberately falsifying critical safety records
Entergy announced on Tuesday that a former supervisor, who worked at the Indian Point nuclear power plant north of New York City for twenty-nine years, had been arrested for deliberately falsifying critical safety…
Nuclear issues in Japan piling up but no easy resolutions
There is a widespread and deep-seated dissatisfaction in Japan today surrounding the nuclear industry and its’ cozy relationship with the central government. All but two nuclear reactors are currently shut down while the…
Handling of Fukushima FOIAs drawing questions about omissions and timeliness
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the NRC has been overwhelmed with requests for information through the Federal Freedom of the Information Act, commonly referred to as FOIA requests. While…
Canada set to raise nuclear liability cap
In Canada, officials are working to submit legislative plans to increase the amount in damages Canadian operators of nuclear power plants would be responsible for in case of a nuclear accident, as well…
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