NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 6th, 2005 Statement on Today’s Release of National Academy’s Study on Nuclear Cooling Pools Today, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a declassified study which finds that pools storing highly radioactive waste at the nation’s nuclear power plants are vulnerable to terrorist attack. …
Nuclear Waste
Along with the well-known lack of any solution for disposing of “spent” fuel rods and “low-level” radioactive waste, a more immediate concern is that U.S. nuclear plants are storing thousands of tons of spent fuel in an extremely dangerous manner: high-density cooling pools (right)
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Highlights of Report on Spent Fuel – National Academy of Sciences
Safety & Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Public Report, National Academy of Sciences, April 2005 Report’s Highlights, Compiled by the Nuclear Security Coalition The U.S. Congress asked the National Academies to analyze the safety and security of commercial spent nuclear storage in the United States. Highlights of the …
NRC Withholds Study Damaging to Industry – News Release by Nuclear Security Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2005 Contacts: Jim Warren, NC WARN 919-416-5077, David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists 202-223-6133 Coalition Decries Withholding of Report Damaging to Nuclear Industry Groups, …
Could a NC Nuclear Accident Affect You?
View map of 50 mile radius around Shearon Harris
NRC Blasted for Subverting Science on Cooling Pool Hazards – News Release by NC WARN
NEWS RELEASE May 21, 2003 919-416-5077 NRC Blasted for Subverting Science on Cooling Pool Hazards Local Officials, Citizens Press State Attorney General For Action On Nuclear Waste RALEIGH, NC – Civic leaders and environmentalists revealed today that a commissioner with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is colluding with the nuclear …
UNC Researchers: Harris Disaster Could Impact 2 Million – News Release by Orange County Citizens for Nuclear Safety
ORANGE COUNTY CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY (OCCNS) News Release February 5, 2003 NUCLEAR RELEASE AT SHEARON HARRIS COULD IMPACT 2 MILLION, SAY UNC RESEARCHERS Over two million North Carolinians – one-quarter of the state’s population – live within 50 miles of the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant, according to a …
27 Attorney Generals Urge Security Upgrades for N-plants, Waste Pools
STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL A Communication From the Chief Legal Officers of the following States: Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Georgia • Hawaii Iowa • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi Montana • Nevada • New Jersey • New Mexico • New …
Low-Level Waste Dump
After celebrating the final defeat of North Carolina’s 12-year effort to license an ill-conceived seven-state nuclear waste dump, NC WARN has been working with the NC Radiation Protection Commission to help craft state policy for the long-term management of “low-level” radioactive waste. The RPC was instructed to make a recommendation to the NC General Assembly in May of 2000. We’re happy to report that “No dump” is the recommendation — at least for now.
Risks of Harris Waste Pools – Report for Orange Co. by Gordon Thompson
Institute for resource and Security Studies 27 Ellsworth Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Phone: (617) 491-5177 Fax: (617) 491-6904 E-mail: irss@igc.org RISKS AND ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SPENT FUEL STORAGE AT THE SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Executive Summary of a February 1999 report prepared for Orange County, NC, by …