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Beyond Nuclear Bulletin
January 21, 2010
“The Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Costs
of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee”
Background:
Despite assuring the State of Vermont for more than a year that it had
no buried pipes carrying radioactivity, Entergy Nuclear’s Vermont
Yankee reactor has revealed it is leaking radioactive tritium, almost
certainly from underground pipes that it now admits do exist. In fact,
Vermont Yankee has even announced the discovery of “highly radioactive
water,” 50 times more radioactive than would be allowed in drinking
water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Nuclear expert Arnie
Gundersen has made clear that Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee has indeed
lied about the existence of buried pipes over the course of many months.
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October 09, 2009
The Snake River Alliance, Idaho's anti-nuclear watchdog, turns 30
BY ROCKY BARKER - rbarker@idahostatesman.com
Copyright: © 2009 Idaho Statesman
The anti-nuclear Snake River Alliance got its start on a bench at Boise's Julia Davis Park
None of its founders can remember the actual date of the Snake River Alliance's first meeting in 1979.
It was in the spring, soon after the Three Mile Island Reactor in Pennsylvania partially melted down, raising fears nationwide about nuclear power. A report by U.S. Geological Survey scientist Jack Barraclough had just been made public showing iodine 129 in concentrations more than 25 times the allowable standards for drinking water near a well at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho. Dorian Duffin, a Rupert farm boy and a student at Boise State University, was meeting on campus with other students to form a group to do something about the waste. Across the Boise River, other people, including pregnant mother Diane Jones, were meeting at the same time on a Julia Davis Park bench after answering a classified ad about forming an anti-nuclear group.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:11 AM
By Jonathan Riskind
The Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will not grant a $2 billion loan guarantee for a planned uranium-enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio, causing the initiative to go into financial meltdown, the company and independent sources confirmed last night.
The U.S. Department of Energy's decision means "we are now forced to initiate steps to demobilize the project," said Elizabeth Stuckle, a spokeswoman for USEC. That's the company that is trying to build the $3.5 billion advanced-technology plant on the same site where it ran the Cold War-era uranium-enrichment facility that has been shuttered since 2001.
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Radioactive Waste
Congress Asked to Eliminate Subsidies
For Nuclear Power, Fund More Cleanup Work
BY JANICE VALVERDE
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is asking Congress and the federal government to eliminate funding for nuclear fuel recycling research, to ban
importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste, and to make public all contracts for cleanup of defense related nuclear waste, according to alliance leaders who spoke April 27 at a press briefing.
‘‘Atomic energy is too costly, slow, and risky to solve a climate crisis,’’ the alliance said in a summary of its positions. It advocates ‘‘carbon-free and nuclear-free energy . . . that is technically and economically attainable by 2050.’’
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Nuclear Power Will Not Solve Climate Crisis
In terms of both monetary cost and time, nuclear power is ineffective at solving the climate crisis. Dr. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, in his 2008 analysis The Nuclear Illusion, has shown that energy efficiency is seven to ten times more cost effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while renewable sources such as wind are significantly faster and less expensive to deploy than nuclear power. In his 2007 book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, Dr. Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), has shown that both fossil fuels and nuclear power can be phased out of the American economy by mid-century and completely replaced with efficiency and renewables
Download 2009 Fact Sheet: Reactors5 final.pdf
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a notification in the Federal Register today that it is extending the comment period on the Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) by 90 days. The public comment period will now end on March 16, 2009.
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Federal Plan to Double Nuclear Power Relies on Dumping More Highly Radioactive Waste at Hanford Energy Department Hearings This Week Exclude Seattle, Portland and Spokane – only NW hearings to be in Tri-Cities (Monday) and Hood River (Tuesday)
Download pdf: Heart of America Northwest Press Release 08.11.17.pdf
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Testimony by Susan Gordon
November 20, 2008
Global Nuclear Energy Partnership PEIS
The
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is a network of more than 36
local, regional and national organizations representing the concerns of
communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and
radioactive waste dumps. Many of our member organizations are in areas
targeted for reprocessing facilities and are gravely concerned that
their communities will become nuclear waste dumps just like West
Valley, New York, Pocatello, Idaho, Richland, Washington, and Aiken,
South Carolina.
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The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) objects to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)’s support for reprocessing of high level radioactive waste. As stated in the draft PEIS, GNEP intends to provide nuclear power that is safe, secure and economical while “reducing the impacts associated with spent nuclear fuel disposal and reducing proliferation risks.” ANA, however, finds that the GNEP proposal would actually exacerbate the inherent proliferation, cost, safety, waste, and security risks associated with nuclear power.
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COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel too risky
Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:20 AM
By Bob Alvarez
The push for new nuclear reactors became a top-tier issue in the presidential race. Yet one aspect of the debate received little attention: reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. This issue is especially relevant to Ohio, where the U.S. Energy Department has considered locating such a facility near Portsmouth.
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