Impacts
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 MoreU.N. watchdog warns of ‘nuclear disaster’ from shelling at Zaporizhzhia plant
As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreGreenpeace Warns of Twin Nuclear Crises in Ukraine from Chornobyl to Russian Military Control of Zaporizhzhia Plant
Democracy Now! interviews Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace International on August 4, 2022. (In an April 29, 2022 interview by Democracy Now! with Ukrainian energy expert Olexi Pasyuk, deputy director of the group Ecoaction, previous Russian military threats to Ukrainian nuclear power plants were discussed. The story is entitled “Ukraine Accuses Russia of Firing Missiles Over…
Read More2016 report by Bob Alvarez, addressing cost impacts of pre-disposal for large — and potentially even larger — inventory of spent nuclear fuel at Diablo Canyon nuclear station
From an email sent by Bob Alvarez on July 7, 2022: Dear All– [Below] is a report I wrote for FOE in 2016 addressing the cost impacts of pre-disposal for the large and potentially even larger inventory of spent nuclear fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear station. According to the study’s summary: “Spent nuclear fuel…
Read MoreJuly 16 – 43rd Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration, Churchrock, New Mexico
Kevin Kamps’ statement re: Diablo at SLOMFP press conference
Image: “Diablo Boys,” by Mark Bryan — ArtOfMarkBryan.com
Read MoreSierra Club Michigan Chapter letter to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, expressing opposition to Palisades bailout and restart
Turmoil at Chornobyl
For 36 years things had been quiet at Chornobyl. Not uneventful. Not safe. But no one was warning of “another Chornobyl” until Russian forces took over the site on February 24 of this year. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine first took their troops through the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where they rolled armored vehicles across radioactive terrain,…
Read MorePower severed to Chernobyl, threatening irradiated fuel pools
Fighting around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power facility has severed a power line used to supply power to the two on-site irradiated fuel pools that house 20,000 capsules of radioactive waste. This waste is not just used and highly-radioactive fuel, but also ruined and radioactive material from the exploded reactor that melted down in 1986.…
Read MoreLake animals near Chernobyl have mutations
Animals in lakes close to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor have more genetic mutations than those from further away – giving new insight into the effect of radiation on wild species, researchers at the University of Stirling have found, writes Brendan Montague in The Ecologist. DNA analysis of freshwater crustaceans, called Daphnia (pictured), revealed greater genetic diversity…
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