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Anxiety surrounds Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid unrelieved fears of an attack
As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreUkraine and Russia Accuse Each Other of Plotting Attack on Nuclear Plant
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has already been hit by shelling, and the United Nations chief, warning of disaster, called for a demilitarized zone around it. As reported by the New York Times.
Read MoreThe Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation
By Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Read MoreKeeping 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…
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