No New Nukes at North Anna
January 29, 2009
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee late on the night of January
27 snuck in a provision to President Obama’s economic stimulus package
that would allow as much as $50 BILLION of your dollars to be used as
loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors. This would
be on top of the $18.5 Billion taxpayer dollars already [...]
NRC SEEKS COMMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION FOR PROPOSED NORTH ANNA NUCLEAR REACTOR, PUBLIC MEETING FEB. 3
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on its
evaluation of the environmental impacts of issuing a Combined License
(COL) for a third nuclear reactor at the North Anna site in Louisa
County, Va., about 40 miles northwest of Richmond.
The preliminary evaluation [...]
From the Tenessean
STEVENSON, AL–TVA has estimated the spill of gypsum slurry at 10,000 gallons, said Scott Hughes, spokesman for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
“We’ve got somebody on site who’s monitoring water quality to make sure there’s not any impact to aquatic organisms,” he said. Utilities that draw drinking water supplies from the Tennessee [...]
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January 14, 2009
Dear Friend,
From continued generation of radioactive waste to 26 new atomic
reactor applications to the horrific coal ash spill in Tennessee, the
signs are clear: it’s time for decisive action on a renewable energy
economy for America. NIRS has recently teamed [...]
Published on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
We Need Your Help Here in Eastern Tennessee
by David Cook
Just after midnight on December 22, our own levees broke, and a man-made pond containing toxic ash – essentially the leftovers from the nearby coal-burning power plant – burst its walls, and more than one billion gallons of coal ash [...]
Published on Friday, January 9, 2009 by The Rutland Herald (Vt.)
Vt. Yankee Springs Leak 2 Days in Row
by Susan Smallheer
Opponents of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant hold signs Monday, Dec.
3, 2001, Brattleboro, Vt., during a public hearing about security at
the plant. (AP Photo/Jon-Pierre Lasseigne) BORO — The Vermont Yankee
nuclear plant sprung another radioactive leak Thursday, [...]
By Michael Grunwald
Nuclear power is on the verge of a remarkable comeback. It’s been three decades since an American utility ordered a nuclear plant, but 35 new reactors are now in the planning stage. The byzantine regulatory process that helped paralyze the industry for a generation has been streamlined. There hasn’t been a serious nuclear [...]
Columns
Harvey Wasserman
Obama’s stimulus money must NOT be wasted on nuke reactors
January 8, 2009
A nuke power bailout must NOT be part of the hundreds of billions of
federal dollars about to pour out of Washington to revive our
Bush-whacked economy.
If the huge Obama stimulus package we all know is coming includes
money to build new reactors, the whole venture [...]
The Virginia State Water Control Board’s cooling water discharge permit for Dominion Virginia Power North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2 violates Virginia’s State Water Control Law, the federal Clean Water Act, and the Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
On December 18, 2008, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League appeared in court and asked the [...]
DURHAM, NC – For three years Progress Energy and Duke Energy have
insisted that giant nuclear and coal-fired power plants must be built
to handle growth in electricity demand. The NC Utilities Commission
has failed to connect the dots between glaring discrepancies in those
arguments, even though all the information below is from Commission
proceedings.
Gambling 35 to 40 billion public [...]
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