No New Nukes at North Anna
About a year and a half ago the RTD published an editorial critical of my decision to appeal the jail sentence I received for protesting Dominion Resources plan to build a third reactor at North Anna (Opinion Sept 28, 2008, “Power Play”). You said, (T)he essence of civil disobedience consists in accepting an unjust punishment [...]
On January 12, 2010, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP) filed comments on a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposal to “simplify and streamline” utility applications for nuclear power plant license extensions. The NRC’s intent is to cut costs and time in the review process. The NRC, in its Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) [...]
Search for leak continues at Yankee By BOB AUDETTE, Brattleboro Reformer, Jnauary 13, 2010 BRATTLEBORO — A former nuclear industry insider turned nuclear safety advocate said the inspection team looking for the source of a tritiated water leak might consider the condensate storage tank, which contains 500,000 gallons of water that is used for normal [...]
On Thursday January 7, 2010, Paxus Calta went before a jury in defense of a pre-meditated trespassing charge to which he plead not guilty based on a defense of necessity. Calta was appealing the 2008 conviction in which a judge sentenced him to two weeks in jail. This time the jury found him guilty and [...]
Title: PACE MeetingLocation: C-ville CoffeeDescription: Monthly MeetingStart Time: 1:00 pmDate: 2010-01-11
Nuclear Power and the Bottomless Bank Envisioning a Nuclear Future—Funded by Taxpayer Dollars By Roger Witherspoon Congress and the Obama administration are on a course to provide the nation’s nuclear industry an unprecedented financial package—one that could dwarf the combined expenditures of last year’s bailout programs. And the legislative package comes with restrictions that would [...]
Update on Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League v. the Commonwealth of Virginia In the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond Case No. 07-6083 The ruling of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond was short and to the point: “Virginia law requires regulation of Dominion’s thermal pollution discharge because the exception for waste [...]
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