No New Nukes at North Anna
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration soon may guarantee as much as $18.5 billion in loans to build new nuclear reactors to generate electricity, and Congress is considering whether to add billions more to support an expansion of nuclear power.
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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 in order to highlight the inequity of a circumstance.
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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) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants proposes to lump together numerous issues as “generic”, meaning the standard would be the same for all nuclear plants. Some other issues would have to be examined at each specific site.
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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 auxiliary feedwater pump supply.
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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 despite the Commonwealth Attorney, Tom Garrett, requesting “several months in jail” for the offense, the jury sentenced Calta to only 5 days.
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Title: PACE Meeting
Location: C-ville Coffee
Description: Monthly Meeting
Start Time: 1:00 pm
Date: 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 block the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from completely examining untried nuclear power systems.
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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 treatment simply
doesn’t apply here.” (Court Transcript, February 20, 2009) With this
ruling, a decades-old violation of the law was ended. The impact of
the decision could benefit the many thousands of people who use the
lake annually.
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Nuclear Monitor-a special issue published to coincide with
this week’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen that includes work by
Amory Lovins on the four myths of nuclear power (and why it isn’t an
answer to climate change) and Benjamin Sovacool on the carbon
footprint of nuclear compared with other energy technologies.
2000+ IN FIRST 24 HOURS!
BUT WE NEED A LOT MORE…
December 4, 2009
THANK YOU to everyone who sent a message to your Senators and President Obama over the past 24 hours–way more than 2,000 messages already have gone in.
But we need a lot more than that…
Here’s one reason why: Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) is one of three Senators trying to lard the climate bill with billions of your dollars for nuclear power, for “clean” coal, for more offshore oil drilling. Graham’s interest isn’t climate–it’s bailing out how the big energy interests.
Here’s what Graham said yesterday following a personal meeting he had with President Obama:
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