December 9, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis New York Nuclear-Accident Evacuation Would Work, Jaczko Says 08 Dec 2011 The New York City area may be safely evacuated in the event of a Fukushima-like disaster at the Indian Point nuclear plant because a crisis would unfold slowly [!?!], the top U.S. nuclear regulator [U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [...]
Tag: Nuclear
December 10, 2011
December 6, 2011
France to Test Nuclear Plant Security After Greenpeace Occupation
In a spectacular assault, the environmental group Greenpeace broke into a nuclear power plant in France Monday, as the French government is conducting nuclear safety tests. The gesture has fueled a hot debate over phasing out nuclear energy in Europe, and underscored divisions about nuclear power aired at climate talks in South Africa. Greenpeace [...]
November 17, 2011
UN Nuclear Watchdog Wants Iran Visit
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog wants to send a high-level mission to Iran to seek “clarifications regarding possible military dimensions” to its nuclear program. International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief Yukiya Amano said Thursday he put the request in writing to Iran’s top nuclear officials earlier this month and that he hoped a date [...]
November 15, 2011
New Reports Link N. Korean, Iranian Nuclear Programs
News media in Northeast Asia are reporting details of alleged cooperation between Iran and North Korea in trying to build atomic bombs. Such joint activities have been suspected for years. South Korea’s foreign ministry and the national intelligence service say they cannot comment on fresh reports linking Pyongyang’s atomic efforts to Iran. Officials with the [...]
June 30, 2011
June 29, 2011
NM Blaze Threatening Nuclear Lab, Sparking Fires
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Firefighters worked through the night hoping to put out spot fires erupting ahead of a wildfire in the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory. “That’s the biggest threat we have right now to homes in the community,” Deputy Los Alamos County Fire [...]
June 28, 2011
NM Wildfire, Grows, Forcing Shutdown of Famed Los Alamos Nuke Lab
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A fast-moving wildfire forced officials at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory to close the site Monday while stirring memories of a devastating blaze more than a decade ago that destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings in the area. More than 100 residents evacuated their homes as the fire swelled Monday to [...]
June 24, 2011
June 23, 2011
Republican Lawmakers to Unveil Bill to Delay EPA Toxic Air Rule
House Republican lawmakers will offer legislation in August aimed at postponing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed air-toxics rule, said Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican. “We want to delay the final rule,” Whitfield, chairman of the House energy and power subcommittee, said today at a nuclear energy conference in Washington. American Electric Power Co., [...]
June 12, 2011
June 9, 2011
Christie Scales Green Plan Back From ‘Pie in Sky’
Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey plans to rein in the state’s renewable energy ambitions to what he called a “responsible and achievable” target for the next decade, The New York Times reports. Christie, who recently pulled New Jersey out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multi-state cap-and-trade exchange for emissions, now wants [...]
May 30, 2011
Newest US Aircraft Carrier to be Named Kennedy
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says the nation’s next aircraft carrier will be named the John F. Kennedy. Mabus announced the honor Sunday in memory of the 35th president. The nuclear-powered ship will be built at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Mabus said the naming of the next Gerald [...]
May 19, 2011
April 12, 2011
Japan’s Reactors Have Gone Chernobyl…
Japan’s nuclear watchdog has decided has raised the severity level of the crisis at its stricken nuclear power plant to 7 – the highest level and equal to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the country’s nuclear safety watchdog, raised the severity level of the [...]