NRC No Restart at San Onofre
Steam
generator tubes and their support structures need to be extremely carefully
designed and manufactured within the allowed design tolerances. These tubes preform a very important safety
function b…
NRC No Restart at San Onofre
Steam
generator tubes and their support structures need to be extremely carefully
designed and manufactured within the allowed design tolerances. These tubes preform a very important safety
function b…
via The Guardian / December 14, 2012 / The operator of a Japanese nuclear power plant that blew up after a tsunami last year has admitted its lack of a safety culture and bad habits were behind the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, its …
Continue readingvia AFP / December 13, 2012 / An international conference will be held in Japan’s Fukushima region over the weekend to discuss nuclear safety following last year’s atomic crisis, Tokyo said Thursday. High-level officials, including governme…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / December 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is grappling to locate the source of a leak of highly radioactive water in the crippled No. 2 reactor, and will continue trying to pinpoint the cause ne…
Continue readingBy Mari Saito / via Reuters / December 13, 2012 / Nearly two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is failing to keep a pledge to tap global expertise to decommission its crippled reactors, …
Continue readingvia Fairewinds / December 9, 2012 / In today’s Fairewinds’ podcast with Arnie Gundersen, we examine the effect of the recent earthquakes on both the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini sites, as well as potential damage from other quakes still to c…
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
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This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and state documents.
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia The New Zealand Herald / December 7, 2012 / Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world…
Continue readingby Roger Pulvers / The Japan Times / December 9, 2012 / excerpt: As someone who has been studying Russian affairs for 50 years, having made my first trip there in 1964, I strongly believe that the aftereffects — ecological, economic, political and ps…
Continue readingBy Takashi Kida / via The Asahi Shimbun / December 7, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency said it will set up a joint program on decontamination next year with the Fukushima prefectural government as efforts continue at the crippled Fukushima…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / December 8, 2012 / The highest cumulative radiation dose received by the teenagers employed at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant is 56.89 millisieverts, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday. About 20,000 nuclear workers h…
Continue readingvia IndiaToday / December 7, 2012 / A strong earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of northeastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Authorities issued a warning of a possible tsunami. The Japa…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 7, 2012 / Update on the Magnitude 7.3 outer-rise earthquake on December 7 off Miyagi Prefecture. (Yesterday’s report is here.) It looks something may have happened at Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant. According to TEPCO, the…
Continue readingby Jason Bartashius / via Deep Kyoto / November 30, 2012 Music lovers are you staying in town for winter vacation? If so, be sure to check out the A Summer Dream for Children charity concert on December 22nd at the Miyako Messe. Featured artists in…
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Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and state documents.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia Business Recorder / November 25, 2012 / Japanese nuclear reactor maker Toshiba on November 21 unveiled a remote-controlled robot resembling a headless dog that they hope will be used at the battered Fukushima power plant. The tetrapod, which weighs…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne News / November 26, 2012 / The town government of Hirono and the village government of Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture have decided to resume planting rice next year. Both municipal governments had asked farmers to voluntarily stop plantin…
Continue readingby Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / November 25, 2012 / Cases of cancer caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not increase significantly, although the risk facing infants near the plant has risen, a draft report by the World Healt…
Continue readingBy Miki Aoki / via The Asahi Shimbun / November 22, 2012 / Of the many thousands of workers who have risked radiation exposure at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only a paltry 3.7 percent are eligible for free cancer screenings provid…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / November 21, 2012 / The Fukushima Prefectural Government will abolish a nuclear fuel tax imposed on two power plants operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., with an eye to having both decommissioned. Gov. Yuhei Sato said Monday the pref…
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Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and state documents.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingThe DAB Safety Team Agrees With Newly Released MHI Data:
Plug All Of SONGS Unsafe Tubes, Not Just Some
The DAB
Safety Team along with the support of an ever-growing number of SONGS
Concerned Insiders and Whistleblowers, prepared t…
SCE is now in Violation of
10 CFR 50, Appendix A, GDC 14, 15, 30 and 32 Requirements… And cannot be allowed to restart Unit 2 at ANY power level!
Decommission San Onofre
SONGS
is required to inspect its steam generators (SG’s…
The Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and state documents.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingBy Hiroshi Ishizuka / The Asahi Shimbun / November 13, 2012 / Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiati…
Continue readingBy Shingo Ito / AFP / November 12, 2012 / Japan’s only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth’s crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is “very silly” to allow it to continue operating. Mi…
Continue readingBy Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song / via Bloomberg / November 7, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. asked the government for more aid after estimating it may need at least 11 trillion yen ($137 billion) to cover costs from last year’s nuclear disaste…
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
Every week hundred’s of nuclear news stories are published around the world that the main stream media ignores on purpose. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a brief look at just some of nuclear news in the United States and around the world.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
This addition of the Radiation Bulletin focuses on documents submitted by government agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and state documents.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingSan Onofre Unit 2 Replacement Steam Generators Incomplete and Inadequate Tube Inspections
San Diego, CA (November 9, 2012) – The failure of eight Replacement Steam Generator (RSG) tubes (something which has never
happened before…
Will the NRC give SCE
what it wants, permission to restart?
A PUBLIC MEETING
NOTICE: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station DOCKET:
05000361/362 November 16th, 2012 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
(PDT) LOCATION: Doubletree Guest Sui…
by Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / November 7, 2012 / A briefing session was held November 4 for the residents of Koriyama in the Fukushima prefecture regarding thyroid cancer screenings for children. The tests were being conducted for childre…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / November 7, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear industry watchdog acknowledged additional errors in its maps for the expected spread of radioactive substances from a serious nuclear accident, further exasperating local governments …
Continue readingvia RTT News / November 6, 2012 / A year after reporting on the devastation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the world body’s Member-States that nuclear power is saf…
Continue readingMUST WATCH FOR ANYONE LIVING IN THE ZONE!!!
Both nuclear power reactors numbers 2 and 3 at San Onofre, California have been shut downsince January 2012 because of faulty, leaking new steam generators.Operated by Southern California Ediso…
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