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24 Nov, 2006 7:10 am
... in East Tennessee noticed early yesterday morning that they might have a leak of radioactive cooling water inside the plant. As a
protective measure, the Tennessee Valley Authority declared the possible leak an "unusual event," the least severe ... since the 1979 accident at Three-Mile Island. Although it was
ultimately determined that this "unusual event" at the nuclear power plant was really just a miscalculation, news of the evacuation has made it everywhere from Tennessee to Australia to South ...
3 Dec, 2007 7:11 am
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted its first nuclear power plant application in 30 years. The application is also the first new combined Construction and Operating
License application for review. The application filed by NRG Energy Inc. seeks a license to build and operate two new nuclear reactors in South
Texas.
26 Jan, 2008 9:27 pm
Follow up to previous postings on nuclear power, this new CRS report, Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities, January 18,...
9 Jan 1:13 am
Source: Lexology, January 9, 2008. Arizona - Former employee of Arizona nuclear power plant sentenced to 15 months in prison in connection with exporting software to Iran Strasburger & Price LLP "Mohammad Reza Alavi, a former employee of
the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, was sentenced today in federal district court in Phoenix to 15 months in prison in
connection with exporting software to Iran. "
21 Apr 8:00 pm
... of Pittsburgh. The same group last year got $27.5 million to settle claims against Atlantic Richfield Co. that plant emissions and
groundwater pollution caused an unusually high cancer rate, other illnesses and property damage. The case concerns the former Nuclear Materials
and Equipment Corp. plant, which was built in 1957 and sold to ARCO in 1967. B&W bought the plant
in 1971 and has been cleaning up the site since shutting it down in the 1980s.
17 Dec, 2008 6:54 am
Mohammad Reza Alavi, a former employee of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, was sentenced today in federal district court
in Phoenix to 15 months in prison in connection with exporting software to Iran. Alavi was found guilty by a federal jury on May 27, 2008 for Unauthorized... This is a summary of the
article. Click on the above link or visit www.tradelawnews.com to read the entire article.
7 Jun, 2008 1:48 pm
They're probably running Windows Vista.
1 Oct 4:12 am
Albrecht v. Wackenhut Corp. Plaintiffs brought this action alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. ("FLSA") and violations of
New York Labor Law ("NYLL") seeking additional compensation for certain activities that occurred before and after their scheduled work shifts and workdays. Specifically, plaintiffs
alleged that [...]
15 Sep 6:49 am
... the answer to America's clean energy problem while refusing to even consider the nuclear (or nucular, depending on your party) option.
Never mind that the wind appears to be slowing down ... political front has been nonexistent. Lamar Alexander initiated his 100-new-nuclear-facilities-in-20-years campaign and was quickly relegated to crackpot-of-the-month status. ... power and he
added: We have got to build 100 nuclear power plants in the next 20 years. We can do that.
Right now, the administration's ...
11 Mar 8:20 am
... and in clean energy technologies, while securing and properly managing our nation's nuclear materials. He indicated that the budget is
coordinated with the ARRA and complements those investments. The line- ... sequestration. Senator Gregg asked, "Is the Administration going to support licensing new nuclear power plants?" Chu responded that nuclear power must be part of the overall energy mix and he doesn't think that nuclear licensing should be put on hold. He
said he would support more funding to ...
2 Oct, 2006 11:50 pm
... bet for eliminating the world's dependence on oil and diminishing the negative effects of global warming? Or will building new nuclear
power plants create ready targets for terrorists and raise new questions about operational safety and storage of nuclear waste? The ... edition of Justice Talking. KEYWORDS: electricity, nuclear power, nuclear energy, fission, fusion, reactor, melt-down, nuclear waste,
atomic waste, three-mile island, chernobyl, oyster creek, limerick, kerr-mcgee, price anderson act,
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12 Oct, 2007 7:33 pm
... this is ironic if you've studied the environmental movement in the U.S.--that climate change concerns may lead to the building of nuclear
power plants, both in the U.S. and worldwide, on a relatively large scale. We believe that, too. By the way, the ... U.S. was the Watts
Bar plant, a TVA facility in east Tennessee, in 1997. Remember the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission? See Environmental Protection magazine's "NRC Seeks Comment on Implementation of Reactor Oversight Process (ROP)" and the NRC's ...
16 Sep, 2007 3:25 am
... * * * The T.M.I. accident was, according to a 1979 President's Commission report, "initiated by mechanical malfunctions in the plant and
made much worse by a combination of human errors." Although some radiation was released, there was no meltdown through ... for further expansion. And so, instead of becoming a nation
with clean and cheap nuclear energy, as once seemed inevitable, the United States kept building power
plants that burned coal and other fossil fuels. Today such plants account for 40 ...
8 Oct 8:21 am
... of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety under the Committee on Environment and Public Works. GAO indicates that the 491 U.S.
coal-fired power plants are the largest unregulated industrial source of mercury emissions ... boilers operating sorbent systems alone
to meet state requirements. The cost is a fraction of the cost of other pollution control devices. When plants also installed a fabric filter device primarily to assist the
sorbent injection system in mercury reduction, the average ...
20 Jun, 2008 4:29 am
... of his plans, if elected president, that would move the country towards energy independence. The major focus of the speech was on nuclear
energy. McCain said, "If I am elected president, I will set this nation on a course to building 45 new reactors by the year 2030, with the ultimate goal of 100 new plants to
power the homes and factories and cities of America." He said nuclear provides the best zero carbon
emission plan with long term price stability. He also stated that he would put $ ...
20 Mar 8:30 am
... themes -- the licensing process and the financial challenges and other obstacles facing new nuclear power plant development. Bingaman indicated that, "The original licensing process was often blamed for the
construction delays and cost overruns ... nuclear industry. But nuclear waste is not the subject of
today's hearing. I hope to schedule a separate hearing on nuclear waste in the weeks ahead. Nonetheless, I recognize the keen interest that
Senators have in the problem, and in the Administration ...
29 Nov, 2006 9:35 am
... the wrong source of energy for California. For one thing, it's extrodinarily expensive. Nuclear power plants can only be built with huge government subsidies. Between 1948 and ... dangerous radioactive waste, currently stored in communities around
the country. And nuclear power plants can pose dangers to the community. We all remember the
Three Mile ... global warming pollution. Clean renewable sources like wind and solar power enjoy declining costs, and pose no dangers to
surrounding communities and ...
15 Aug, 2007 12:18 pm
... County officials have given the thumbs-up to an old yet controversial standby: nuclear energy. A recent AP article says that the county's
elected officials sent ... Commission giving their support for building a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. Constellation Energy Group, based here in Baltimore, filed a partial application ... isn't, these days?
But should we really be adding to the 11 nuclear plants already in the Chesapeake Bay watershed? Whether we poison the sky with an
overloaded ...
29 May 1:36 pm
... files, according to a search warrant affidavit by Dallas FBI agent Robert Smith. The Comanche Peak nuclear power plant in Texas. Company logs showed that the VPN connection originated at Shin's home IP address, Smith
writes. ... files that was tampered with, "Hourly Capacity Supplied - 2009 upload.xls," is described as an "input file to determine the power
generation required by the RFH system components." The net result of the tampering was that "the EFH management system was rendered inoperable, ...
12 Oct 4:59 pm
... modems) to establish point-to-point data connections," the NRC wrote in a memo (.pdf) to plant operators late last month. "Although this
technology was state of the art when ERDS was first ... conditions, and radioactivity release rates. As of May 1, 2009, operators of 19 plants had expressed interest in getting
rid of their modems. One hopes the other ... adopters. Next year, I hear they're getting cable. Top image: The Trojan nuclear power plant, courtesy Oregon.gov. Modem photo courtesy SecretLondon123 ...
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