By REBECCA SMITH Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday. Experts said upgrading the plants to withstand more substantial …
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Radioactive water spills into containment dome, yet there is no danger
to the public, officials say.
http://sanclemente.patch.com/articles/operators-shut-down-san-onofre-one-reactor-unit-as-a-precaution#_=
Here we go again. The public rela…
Continue readingWatch Nuclear Aftershocks on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Travel to three continents to explore the debate about nuclear power: Is it safe?
What are the alternatives? And could a Fukushima-style disaster happen in the U.S.?
One man’s fear mon…
Continue readingResidents Organized for Safe Environment (ROSE) Statement of Concern:
ROSE believes that the NRC’s stated alternative to Change the Waste Confidence away from the small step approach to the long-term Waste Confidence program for 200 years t…
Continue readingThe New York Times is reporting that the federal judge in a lawsuit has determined that Vermont Yankee does NOT have to close as per the state’s wishes. In a decision that could have ramifications everywhere there are states’ agreements with nucle…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that at least one in e…
Continue readingMarine debris is beginning to arrive from Alaska to Oregon. The local authorities there are gearing up for identifying types of debris so that studies can be made. If one wishes to participate locally, organize to ask local administrations to begin…
Continue readingThe year 2011 marked the first serious accident at a nuclear power plant in a quarter century. After the previous disaster at Chernobyl, the world’s nuclear industry axiomatically predicted that another accident—especially in an advanced countr…
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The San Clemente Times is running an amazingly biased little poll that asks, “Will you support the ballot initiative to close nuclear power plants” and then answers the question, “No Wa…
Continue reading“These reactors produce 50 years of electricity and half a million years of waste. It’s not a particularly good deal.” Danial Hirsch
On Oct. 11, 2011 a forum on the issue of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) running past it’s deco…
Continue readingIs the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that Fukushima is stable when it is not? Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen outlines major inconsistencies and double-speak by …
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairwinds Associates (a leading nuclear expert) and Warren Pollock (http://www.wepollock.com) redefine the Fukushima nuclear incidents (meltdowns and explosions) in terms of human and total cost. Its easy to look at the details of…
Continue readingIs cancer an epidemic in America? by Ace Hoffman
A friend and I were looking back at 2011.
She remarked about all the cancer she’s seen this year. Last month she lost a close friend — a woman in her 30s. Another friend, 40, has bladder canc…
Continue readingOUTRAGED EXPRESS THAT FOUR NRC COMMISSIONERS ARE PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES WITH THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
1. We believe it is outrageous that the NRC commissioners are playing political games with health and safety of the America…
Continue reading“If the NRC does not do its job, the American people will demand the ultimate protection – the shutdown of old nuclear power plants…”, says Senator Barbara Boxer to NRC Commissioners on 12/15/2011.The California Nuclear Initiative proposes to d…
Continue readingAt the mention of nuclear meltdown,
and its cataclysmic results (hello
Fukushima), the nuke industry’s
chorus erupts in unified denial,
“It can’t happen!” But it does happen.
In Japan and Russia, nukes’ tragic
opera has no end. Reality, televises…
While the world’s worst ongoing nuclear accident Fukushima continues to spew its toxic waste cocktail around the world, people sit and try to pretend nothing has happened and that there is no immediate danger. But the fact is there is danger to our f…
Continue readingCNN’s John King and Arnie Gundersen discuss “hot particles” detected in Seattle and Japan, the cozy relationship between Japanese regulator NISA (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) and plant owner TEPCO, and changes at the Fukushima accident site…
Continue reading#OccupyOC
San Clemente Green has been invited to speak at Occupy Irvine about nuclear
power issues. This will be a well attended event with our supporters, the
growing encampment in OC and will also be drawing from the Occupy LA movement.
We are …
#OccupyOC
San Clemente Green has been invited to speak at Occupy Irvine about nuclear
power issues. This will be a well attended event with our supporters, the
growing encampment in OC and will also be drawing from the Occupy LA movement.
We are …
We don’t want anymore nuclear plants, you’ve got to shut them down – Jerry Lopez Pipeline Master
Our Water Our Life. @Surfrider
Let’s not get caught inside on this one California! #DecomSONGS
Keep Paddling To Stop Nukes
Aging Nuke Plants On F…
Continue readingTEPCO: New Details on Reactor Damage
November 30, 2011
Translator
The likely state of Fukushima Daiichi 1
via NHK / November 30, 2011 /
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has announced the results of …
The damaged nuclear power plant in Japan came a lot closer to a full meltdown last spring than first thought. The company that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant said Wednesday that the radioactive core inside Reactor 1 burned through a concr…
Continue readingInterview with Marco Kaltofen, PE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about his research studying airborne radioactive particles from Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Nuclear Power =? Insanity!Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunam…
Continue reading“The earth and myself are of one mind.” ~Chief Seattle, Nez PerceAging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue reading“With us the circle stands for the togetherness of people who sit with one another around a fire, relatives and friends united in peace, while the Pipe passes from hand to hand. Once all the families in the villages were in turn circles within a la…
Continue readingSo the folks who run San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are seeking permission to bill you the ratepayers for a souped-up, $64 million earthquake fault study of the area around the aging nuke plant.
But who should oversee this study? Experts wor…
Continue readingAction plan with #NukeFreeCal a new phone campaign to Governor Brown no relicensing of Ca nuclear power plant’s 916- 445-2841 gov.ca.gov/m_contact.php stand for and with the people’s for safety governor. California does not need to be the next …
Continue readingScientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths.
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“It’s still growing. The size is w…
Continue readingOur Water Our Life by Surfrider
all surfers are joined by one ocean. @surfrider
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingTick Tick Tick
Who didn’t protest their daily,
childhood wake-up call,
“Get up, you’ll be late for school!”
We like our sleep.
Deep, deep sleep.
Wake us from it, and face our protest.
But protest, is what we do.
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Continue readingDan Hirsch, Nuclear expert speaking to the People of San Clemente,
Could Fukushima happen here?
The answer is yes.
Special thanks to Ace Hoffman for this very important video!
Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zo…
Continue readingIn the words of a great American, Trust But Verify…
San Clemente City Council, Where we can see live radiation readings on the city site?
San Clemente City Council, Do you support the TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT?
Trust Bu…
Downwinders refers to individuals and communities who are exposed to radioactive contamination…
Nuke Plants + Fault Lines + Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingJen Tucker San Clemente Disaster Guru #FAIL
Jen Tucker, SC’s emergency preparedness guru, as a rule,
paints a “no worries, we’ve got it covered” spin to a potential
SONGS hiccup (nuke-jargon for “OMG Chet, it’s happening!!!”)
I’ve n…
Continue readingSan Clemente: Are Regulators And The Nuclear Industry Applying The Valuable Lessons Learned From Fukushima? from Fairewinds Associates
Who is Arnie Gundersen?
Arnie is an energy advisor with 39-years of nuclear power engineering experience. A forme…
Continue readingSONGS and NRC spoke. Now it’s our turn,
to speak, listen and learn the Truth about
SONGS, and why the plant must close, now.
SCGreen has compiled an impressive group
of speakers from the nuke-industry, who oppose
nuclear generation of e…
Continue readingIn an excellent 17 minute presentation on July 15th PBS’s Need to Know laid out the details of the controversial 2008 discovery of the Shoreline Fault just 300 yards from Diablo Canyon. Here’s the presentation. Watch the full episode. See … Continue reading
This is the detailed Story of the Abalone Alliance’s historic 18 day blockade at Diablo Canyon. It is still the largest act of civil disobedience at a commercial US nuclear reactor when over 1900 arrests took place. Its being posted in remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the blockade’s September 10th, 1981 action.
The Alliance was formed in June of 1977 and at its peak was made up of groups from across California, with the goal of stopping Diablo Canyon from operating. On the last day of the blockade a newly hired 25 year old PG&E engineer discovered that the seismic supports were put in upside down. See the previous article for more details on this dramatic discovery!
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Just as the Abalone Alliance’s historic 20 day blockade at Diablo Canyon was coming to an end, a 25 year old, newly hired engineer discovered that Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) had built seismic bracing for unit one upside down. The dramatic error took place after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had given the go ahead to load and start operation of Diablo Canyon unit one. It would force PG&E to do 3 more years of work and over $3 billion repairing the critical error and hundreds of more problems that were also found.
Here is the Abalone Alliance’s article of the design errors in its October 1981 Newsletter.
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This is a wonderful tale about PG&E’s attempt to build what would have been the largest nuclear complex in the world a short distance from the epicenter of the 1906 quake that devastated San Francisco. Maybe folks forget that it was PG&E and its newly formed company’s gas lines that burned the city down in 1906. But opposition to PG&E’s plans in 1958 would become the first anti-nuclear power campaign in US history.
In August 1984 Diablo Canyon was illegally licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Here is an original article written in February 1985 documenting what happened.
The California Energy Commission (CEC) will be holding hearings on July 26th concerning the state’s long term power needs. Last spring the CEC sent out data requests to both Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) … Continue reading
The California Energy Commission (CEC) will be holding hearings on July 26th concerning the state’s long term power needs. Last spring the CEC sent out data requests to both Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) concerning safety related issues at their nuclear facilities. The CEC list of questions was extensive. Both PG&E and SCE have replied to CEC’s data request and those documents were publicly made available for review on July 14th. It should be noted that PG&E did not respond to a single question, but instead submitted 36 seismic reports several hundred pages long.
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On March 21st and April 14th 2011 the California State Senate held two post Fukushima hearings on the safety of nuclear power in California. The first hearing in the days when Fukushima was still news generated major media in California while the 2nd hearing was nearly empty, not even our representatives showed. A promised hearing on emergency planning never took place.
This is a review of those hearings.
Continue readingThe 3-10-11 9.0 Tohoku earthquake has shook the nuclear world to its knees. An event that was predicted to never occur by every pro-nuclear apologist on the planet just did. The incident at Fukushima wasn’t an event on par with … Continue reading
Field of secrets: The Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup saga hits 20 – LA Daily News BEFORE the spring of 1989, all most people knew of the Santa Susana Field Lab were the occasional rocket tests that sent a thundering … Continue reading
For more information, contact: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 For immediate release, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Livermore Lab Caught Conducting Illegal Restricted Bio-Experiments Tri-Valley CAREs recently received documents that the group had long been seeking under the Freedom of … Continue reading
December 12, 2008 The San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (MFP) today filed a Petition for Review with the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals challenging four orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The appeal, filed by … Continue reading
All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. : Indybay All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. by Francisco Da Costa Sunday Jul 6th, 2008 … Continue reading