Radioactive Waste
Sierra 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 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 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.
Read MoreAnxiety 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 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:
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