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Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant is cut off energy grid
The result was a mass power outage in the adjacent area after fires damaged the plant’s last functioning transmission line, Ukraine’s nuclear power company said Thursday. As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreZaporizhzhia: World narrowly avoided radiation accident – Zelensky
Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid, President Volodomyr Zelensky has said. As reported by the BBC. The image above appears in the article. It is entitled “Fire near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.”
Read MoreSierra Club: REPLY TO OPPOSITIONS TO MOTION FOR SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING (ISP CISF, TX)
On August 12, 2022, Sierra Club replied to oppositions filed against its motion for supplemental briefing in the federal appeal against Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s license for consolidated interim storage of highly radioactive waste in Andrews County, Texas. Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa serves as Sierra Club’s legal counsel. Taylor, on behalf of Sierra…
Read MoreThursday evening: NEIS Night With the Experts featuring Cindy Folkers
Nuclear Energy Information Service’s (NEIS) Night With The Experts is hosting Cindy Folkers — Radiation & Health Specialist with Beyond Nuclear — next Thursday, August 25 at 7pm Central (UTC -5) via Zoom. Cindy will highlight the damage radiation does to cells, including direct and indirect damage to DNA, and the diseases that can result…
Read MoreUkraine war: Allies seek more security at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
As reported by BBC News.
Read MorePutin supports nuclear plant inspection
As reported by the Washington Post: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said he supports allowing U.N. experts to inspect the Zaporizhzhia plant “as soon as possible” and agreed to provide the “necessary assistance,” during a call with French President Emmanuel Macron. However, Moscow has rejected broader requests to withdraw its military from the site, and has…
Read MoreCecile Pineda, wide-ranging Latina author, dies at 89
Obituary published in the Washington Post on August 15, 2022. Cecile Pineda passed on on August 11, 2022. As the obituary reports: Ms. Pineda wrote 10 books in all, many of them reflecting her engagement with the anti-nuclear movement, environmentalism and activism on behalf of immigrants and other marginalized groups. Her nonfiction work “Devil’s Tango,”…
Read MoreRev. Carl Kabat, Peace Activist and ‘Fool for Christ,’ Dies at 88
An associate of the Berrigan brothers, he spent nearly two decades in prison for his relentless protesting, often in a clown suit, against nuclear arms. Obituary published in the New York Times on August 17, 2022. Rev. Kabat passed on on August 4, 2022.
Read MoreThe risks to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, explained
Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant is also its most vulnerable. As reported by VOX. (The record needs to be set straight on an error reported in the article. The article reports that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was designed to withstand shelling or other military attack. This is not true. See, for example, this New…
Read MoreInside Ukraine’s captured nuclear plant, explosions and constant fear
Workers from the Zaporizhzhia facility describe disappearances at the hands of Russian soldiers and fear of nuclear catastrophe As reported by the Washington Post.
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