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Keeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is a dangerous waste of effort and money
A business column by Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times.
Read MoreThe danger scenarios at Zaporizhizhia
Writing in Down To Earth, Dr. M.V. Ramana explains the various meltdown risks at the besieged Zaporizhizhia six-reactor nuclear power plant in Ukraine, currently caught up in war fighting: “Broadly speaking, there are three scenarios that might result in the expulsion of radioactive materials from some facility at the Zaporizhzhia complex. “The first is the…
Read MoreDWM et al.-Sierra Club, re: ISP CISF, TX: PETITIONERS’ FINAL OPENING & REPLY BRIEFS
See the joint Don’t Waste Michigan et al. (a seven-group and one individual national grassroots environmental coalition)/Sierra Club FINAL OPENING BRIEF, in opposition to Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s consolidated interim storage facility targeted at Andrews County, Texas, here: Also see the environmental coalition’s FINAL REPLY BRIEF, here:
Read MoreRe: ISP CISF, TX: FINAL OPENING & REPLY BRIEFS OF PETITIONERS FASKEN LAND AND MINERALS, LTD. AND PERMIAN BASIN LAND AND ROYALTY OWNERS
See Fasken and PBLRO’s FINAL OPENING BRIEF in Don’t Waste Michigan v. NRC, in opposition to the Interim Storage Partners, LLC consolidated interim storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, here: Also see Fasken and PBLRO’s FINAL REPLY BRIEF, here:
Read MoreEU et al.: Joint Statement dated 12 August 2022 on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
The European Union and others, including the United States of America, have issued a joint statement urging the Russian military to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
Read MoreZelensky vows Ukraine will seek out Russian troops who target nuclear plant
Updates on the dire situation at and around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, as reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreHow Safe Are Nuclear Power Plants?
A new history reveals that federal regulators consistently assured Americans that the risks of a massive accident were “vanishingly small”—even when they knew they had insufficient evidence to prove it. By Daniel Ford, former executive director of Union of Concerned Scientists, published in The New Yorker. (The photo above shows the corrosion hole in the…
Read MoreA disaster is looming at a huge Ukrainian nuclear power plant
Washington Post Editorial Board opinion.
Read MoreShelling at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Is Raising Fears of an Accident. Here’s a Look at the Risks.
Repeated shelling inside the plant’s complex over the past seven days has stirred new concerns of a nuclear accident. As reported by the New York Times.
Read More“War Proves Nuclear is always a Weapon”
Beyond Nuclear appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Thom wrote “Does the Ukraine Nuclear Plant Under fire Show Off the Dangers of Nuclear Power? – Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist – Beyond Nuclear.” Thom interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, about the repeated military attacks on the Zaporizhzhia…
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