The Limerick nuclear reactors just outside Philadelphia are the same design as those at Fukushima, all built by GE Under Control: Relax, Our Nuclear Spill isn’t an ‘EPPI’ Dave Lindorff A little over a month ago, back on March 19, at 3:00 in the morning, the Limerick Nuclear Power Station, which runs two aging [...]
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami} by Image courtesy of Digital Globe |Author =Digital Globe |Date =2011-03-16 Worldwide, safety regulators still see role as implementing nuclear industry plans opednews.com The ‘freeze’ on new nuclear has rapidly thawed. China, France and the UK have all announced the ‘all clear’. Even in [...]
In March 2012, a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. As tens of thousands of people were evacuated from nearby towns and villages, the world waited anxiously to see whether the radioactive fallout would spread across the country, or [...]
The Nuclear Contagion by WALTER BRASCH For a few hours on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the people of southern California were scared by initial reports of an alert at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. An “alert” is the second of four warning levels. Workers first detected an ammonia leak in [...]
War on the Earth: Atomic Appalachia and the Militarized Southeast By davidswanson - Posted on 25 September 2011 MIC50.org MIC at 50 – Charlottesville, VA, September 16-18, 2011 Coleman Smith and Clare Hanrahan of New South Network of War Resisters Militarism is killing us. It is waging a war on the Earth and the devastation wrought [...]
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska By Harvey Wasserman http://warisacrime.org/node/58321 Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about [...]
A nuclear-free future for America The US’s ageing stock of nuclear reactors only grows more unsafe as it gets older. Renewables offer clean, green energy Amy Goodman guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 June 2011 14.30 BST Article history The Fort Calhoun nuclear reactor, Nebraska, surrounded by flood waters from the Missouri River, on 14 June 2011. The [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, government officials say they may evacuate more towns affected by radiation. New monitoring data shows “hot spots” of elevated contamination farther away from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new hot spots were announced after authorities [...]
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant with a single pressurized water reactor, also referred to as a light water reactor. As of 2006, it is operated by the FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. The power station is located on the southwest shore of Lake Erie about 10 miles (16 km) north of Oak Harbor, Ohio and is [...]
