Nuking Japan - the Ugly Truth
There is not much news coming out of Fukushima these days, since TEPCO declared its melted reactors and fuel pools "stable" as they promised they would, whether they are or not. It has been five...
View ArticleMeltdown Debates: An Explanation
In a diary by dnpvd0111 the other day - Radioactive Steam Is Escaping From Cracks Under The Fukushima Reactors - "the usual suspects" descended late in the game to spout the pro-nuclear propaganda...
View ArticleA Few Oddities About That Nuke in VA
We all watched in somewhat lurid fascination the events yesterday when a 6.0 earthquake occurred within 4 miles of the two reactors at North Anna in north-central Virginia. In addition to causing...
View ArticleNorth Anna Nuclear Update
This is an update on the situation at North Anna's two PWRs since the Cuckoo Earthquake of August 23, 2011. For those who aren't familiar with rural Virginia villages, the one that happened to be...
View ArticleNorth Anna Public Meeting #1
The video below is of the September 8th NRC public meeting, where Dominion executives presented their initial inspection reports and restart plans to the NRC and took questions from both the panel and...
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Confessions of a Nuclear Puppeteer
Due to sustained dickishness (Markos' word) from some dedicated pro-nuclear apologists here at DKos, and my several attempts to impose Markos' new 'rules' for community interaction in my diaries to...
View ArticleSomething Good from Fukushima
Just a quickie to let people know what can come of taking charge, making contacts, and teaching people who are otherwise at the mercy of corporate and government agents, to begin doing for themselves....
View ArticlePre-Public Meeting: North Anna
It was today, for those keeping track. That's when Dominion was supposed to be all set to tell everyone why they don't need to do any in-depth testing of components or support systems before...
View ArticleFukushima: Stage Two
Releases Now 42% Greater Than Chernobyl TEPCO GM: "It's certain that fission is occurring…" As word came out over the couple of days that the utility 'in charge' of three melted reactors and four...
View ArticleFukushima Docs 8: We made the Onion!
In this, the 8th installment in my series examining documents released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Lucas W. Hixson in response to his FOIA request, the timeline remains late March to the...
View ArticlePalast: Nuclear "Seismic Qualification" Falsification
Greg Palast released an excerpt from his new book Vulture's Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Fraudsters on Thursday of this week in FreePress.org. Entitled...
View ArticleBrunswick Nuke Springs a Leak
Yesterday Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant on the Cape Fear River in southeastern North Carolina reported an "Unusual Event" when the reactor vessel sprung a leak during startup. The...
View ArticleThanksgiving Specialty Dishes
Thanksgiving has been a regular Big Deal around our homestead ever since we worked with a hunger project back in the early 1980s called "The Whole World Family Supper" that was scheduled for...
View ArticleTEPCO Fukushima Exec Resigns for "Health Treatment"
TEPCO's Masao Yoshida announced his resignation today for the purpose of receiving medical treatments for an undisclosed condition. TEPCO spokespersons would not confirm or deny that radiation...
View ArticleLet's Play: Where's the Corium?
Out just in time for holiday shopping, a new family board game modeled on such perennial favorites as 'Clue' and 'Balderdash' has made its debut. The game is modeled on the ongoing nuclear disaster in...
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NRC Chairman: Nuclear Complacency = Unsafe Nukes
Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko opined to utility CEOs at November's meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations that "complacency" from too many years' worth of safe...
View ArticleFukushima Strontium Leak 1 Million Times Govt. Limit
5.85 TBq Strontium leaked over weekend at Fukushima
View ArticleA Very REAL Nuclear Conspiracy
…that we should all be concerned about. Just a heads up to the group on something I learned this weekend while out of town, so haven't had time yet to incorporate into my Fukushima Docs series, and...
View ArticleFukushima Docs 9: A Real Outrage
The Rest of the Story... This installment of my series is about the more recent documents released to MA Congressman Ed Markey by the NRC in late October of this year, which led Markey to release a...
View ArticleNuke Industry Pet Pol's Big Show
Yes, Virginia. It's all about Yucca… Today's the day when the politically-charged Nuclear Regulatory Commission coup d'etat gets its final push in Darrell Issa's [R-CA] House Oversight and Government...
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