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Author Archives: Robert Singleton
Majority of Americans oppose nuclear power in new Gallup poll
Gallup reported yesterday: For the first time since Gallup first asked the question in 1994, a majority of Americans say they oppose nuclear energy. The 54% opposing it is up significantly from 43% a year ago, while the 44% who … Continue reading
Posted in Gallup, Nuclear Renaissance, Public opinion, Uncategorized
Tagged Gallup poll, nuclear power, Public opinion, United States
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Explosion and fire cause Alert declaration at South Carolina nuclear power plant
Yesterday afternoon, an explosion and fire took place in the Unit 1 transformer at the Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, South Carolina. The reactor shut itself down as a result of the incident. According to a report filed today with the … Continue reading
Another warning sign: EDF’s CFO resigns over Hinkley Point costs
Expatica reported today: The chief financial officer of French energy giant EDF, Thomas Piquemal, has resigned over a disagreement about the feasibility of an ambitious project to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant in decades, a source close to … Continue reading
Posted in EDF, Hinkley, Uncategorized
Tagged EDF, Great Britain, Hinkley C, nuclear power
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Event Reports: A scram, a radiation release at a recycling center and yet another drunk supervisor
Just a few items from this week’s Event Reports at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission website: On Wednesday, the Seabrook nuclear station informed the NRC that the facility’s sole reactor had shut itself down just before 3 am following a … Continue reading
Posted in Entergy, Grand Gulf, Seabrook, Uncategorized
Tagged Entergy, Fitness for Duty, Grand Gulf, Mississippi, nuclear power, Pennsylvania, radium, recycling, United States
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Bird poop caused Indian Point closure
I now that this site has been silent for several months now, but I couldn’t think of a better way to begin again. Albany’s The Journal News reported today: Bird droppings are likely to blame for the brief shutdown of one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Indian Point, Uncategorized
Tagged bird poop, Indian Point, nuclear power, United States
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Coming soon to a railroad near you: The Plutonium Express
There are these two holes in the ground, one in West Texas and one in eastern New Mexico, and the owners are fighting over who can bury the worst radioactive nightmares imaginable. The problem is that every imaginable route to the … Continue reading
Some good news: Japanese court blocks restart of two reactors
Reuters reported today: A Japanese court on Tuesday issued an injunction to prevent the restart of two reactors citing safety concerns, in a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to return to atomic energy four years after the Fukushima … Continue reading
Event Reports: Seismic monitor reviews reveal many outages
I’m trying to play catch up after not posting anything in quite a length of time. I’ve decided to do a series of longitudinal reviews of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Event Notification Reports for the last month covering a number of subjects, … Continue reading
Event Reports: A plethora of low level radioactive waste incidents
After having spent the better part of the morning tilting with the Texas Low Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission, I thought I’d focus on a month or so of Nuclear Regulatory Commission Event Reports on the kinds of waste that are supposed (in theory) to … Continue reading
Water leak forces shutdown at Pennsylvania nuke
Allentown, Pennsylvania’s The Morning Call reported yesterday: A water leak forced the shutdown of PPL Susquehanna nuclear power plant Unit 1 early Saturday morning. PPL Susquehanna, a subsidiary of PPL Corp. in Allentown, described the problem in a press release … Continue reading
Posted in Event Reports, Susquehanna
Tagged nuclear power, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna, United States
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