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Category Archives: Nuclear Power
Nuclear Denial
(January 24, 2002) Security requirements for plants like Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island have barely changed since the 1970s. About 6 p.m. on October 17, five weeks after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, officials at the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) telephoned the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with some chilling information. The intelligence community had intercepted a “credible” threat against the reactor. Continue reading
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission memo warns of terrorist attack
(January 23, 2002) Information assessment team advisory update for power reactors, non-power reactors, decommissioning reactors, category I and III fuel facilities, independent spent fuel storage installations, and large material licenses. Continue reading
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Environmentalists, province oppose Coleson Cove plan
(January 22, 2002) Big industrial users of electricity and those in line for construction jobs want NB Power to spend $747 million converting Coleson Cove to burn Orimulsion. Continue reading
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The NRC: What, me worry?
(January 21, 2002) The question immediately arose on September 11 and has persisted: As horrific as the terrorist attacks were, what might have happened if the terrorists who seized jumbo jets and used them as weapons against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had aimed them at nuclear power plants instead? And if more attacks are likely, as government officials have said, are nuclear facilities on the terrorist target list? Continue reading
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$100-million a year in public funding for CANDU questioned
(January 16, 2002) OTTAWA – Herb Dhaliwal, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, said yesterday a review is underway to determine whether Canadian taxpayers should keep subsidizing the CANDU reactor sales program to the tune of $100-million a year. Mr. Dhaliwal, only hours after taking over the portfolio, said a report will soon be presented to Cabinet to determine whether there are sufficient prospects for future sales of the reactor. Continue reading
Battle looms on Coleson Cove
(January 14, 2002) A battle over the air we breathe and the future cost of electricity begins today in a hotel conference room in Saint John. Continue reading
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Romanian reactor’s faulty environmental assessment
(January 14, 2002) Energy Probe’s Supplementary Comments on Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL’s) Cernavoda Reactor 2 Environmental Assessment Summary. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Plant Security, Nuclear Power, Towards Shutdown
Tagged nuclear costs
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Pickering A slow start
(January 13, 2002) TORONTO – Ontario’s multibillion-dollar effort to refurbish ailing nuclear plants is running years behind schedule and hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, Southam News has learned. Continue reading
Chronic Insecurity: Three Case Studies
(January 13, 2002) The Project on Government Oversight investigates, exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. Continue reading
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Tight security rings U.S. nuclear power plants
(January 10, 2002) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A day after a dismissed California nuclear power plant worker was arrested for allegedly threatening colleagues, U.S. power industry officials said he stood few chances of ever delivering those threats on the job. The nuclear power industry, already on high alert following the deadly Sept. 11 attacks, run its employees through a tough gauntlet of checks aimed at weeding out anyone who might jeopardize plant safety. Continue reading
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