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Star Trek spoof shot inside San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station by senior execs

thesafeinstitute — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:31:42 -0400

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) executives will head to...

thesafeinstitute — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:43:00 -0400

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) executives will head to Washington on Tuesday to begin “initial talks” on the federal budget issue that prompted rumors the giant utility might be sold.

"We don’t fight world hunger with caviar, and we’re not going to fight climate change with..."

thesafeinstitute — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:54 -0400

““We don’t fight world hunger with caviar, and we’re not going to fight climate change with outlandishly expensive energy sources””

- Peter Bradford, a law professor and a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

"Attendees of the International Nuclear Regulators Association meeting won’t speak candidly..."

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:27:33 -0400

“Attendees of the International Nuclear Regulators Association meeting won’t speak candidly unless meetings are held behind closed doors”

"CEO OF JAPANESE BANK ECOURAGES MEMBERS TO DO THEIR PART TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR POWER"

thesafeinstitute — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:50:39 -0400

“CEO OF JAPANESE BANK ECOURAGES MEMBERS TO DO THEIR PART TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR POWER”

"“There is something grossly wrong,” said the inside source, a safety engineer who worked..."

thesafeinstitute — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:18:08 -0400

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“There is something grossly wrong,” said the inside source, a safety engineer who worked at San Onofre and has 25 years in the nuclear field.

“These tubes were hitting each other — that’s dangerous,” said Team 10’s anonymous source. He wants to remain anonymous because he told Team 10 he fears for his safety.

“When they made these changes, they did not look at the academic research nor use critical question and an investigative attitude,” said the source.

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- San Onofre insider says NRC should not allow nuclear restart

"Opening up Japan’s power grid to new competition will ultimately benefit industrial and individual..."

thesafeinstitute — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:40:15 -0400

“Opening up Japan’s power grid to new competition will ultimately benefit industrial and individual consumers, Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi said.”

- “The demand side will have more options, which will lead to lower electricity prices,” he was quoted by Japanese media as saying.

NRC meeting melts down

thesafeinstitute — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:09:31 -0400

“NRC, uphold your mandates! Close down Pilgrim!” chanted the crowd at a tense public meeting Tuesday night at the Plymouth Town Hall.

“This is not an information workshop; it’s an obfuscation workshop,” said Lillia Frantin of North Falmouth. “This is not how meetings should be held.”

Fukushima Daiichi evacuees given tablet computers to monitor radiation levels and live footage of hometown

thesafeinstitute — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:51:31 -0400

Naraha Town evacuees were given tablet computers to receive notices, radiation level updates, and live footage from the town area over the internet.

Three other municipalities around the Fukushima plant have introduced tablet computers to contact evacuees.

Paper Reactors, Biggie Smalls and The Tinkerbell Effect

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:29:12 -0400

There is a disturbing game being played amongst old friends in the nuclear industry which is sometimes called ‘paper reactors’, but the rules are much like the ‘Biggie Smalls Mirror Game’. The root concept of both games is that if you repeat something enough, it will become true. Now, you and I may be reasonable enough to understand that standing in front of a mirror and repeating the name ‘Biggie Smalls’ three times will not create a portal through which the ghost of Biggie Smalls can come and assault us, but there are those who do believe that they can create ‘paper reactors’ which do not now and may not ever exist, save on some few random pieces of paper or in the proponent’s mind. The effects suffered by those who have fallen prey to either of these types of ideas have been labeled ‘The Tinkerbell Effect’, which describes a situation where something is only true because an individual or small group of people believe in it.

"The March 2011 disaster made it clear that alternative power sources are required when blackouts..."

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:02:36 -0400

“The March 2011 disaster made it clear that alternative power sources are required when blackouts occur that can paralyze communications.”

- Japanese mobile phone carriers are considering renewable energy as an alternative to power their base stations, which are vital for the transmission of network signals.

Fairewinds founder Maggie Gundersen and Enformable’s...

thesafeinstitute — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:19:28 -0400

Fairewinds founder Maggie Gundersen and Enformable’s Editor Lucas Hixson meet with Kevin Hurley to discuss the difficulties the public has in obtaining information from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and from reactor owners.

The crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan...

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:43:02 -0400

The crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan pictured in March of 2013.

"Chubu Electric Power Co. is scheduled to complete a seawall 22 meters high and 1.6 kilometers long..."

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:37:53 -0400

“Chubu Electric Power Co. is scheduled to complete a seawall 22 meters high and 1.6 kilometers long at its Hamaoka nuclear plant in Japan by December in order to prevent inundation by a huge tsunami caused by an anticipated megaquake in the Nankai Trough in the Pacific.”

- Chubu Electric had a seawall 18 meters high at the Hamaoka plant and had insisted that this was high enough to prevent tsunami damage to the plant, until the Cabinet Office said in August 2012 that the coastal area around the plant could be hit by a tsunami of up to 19 meters if a huge earthquake occurs in the Nankai trough.

Ministry of the Environment opens decontamination information site after shoddy decontamination revealed

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:33:47 -0400

Ministry of the Environment opens decontamination information site after shoddy decontamination revealed

Akira Kurosawa: DREAMS (1990) This segment is called MOUNT FUJI...

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:06:00 -0400

Akira Kurosawa: DREAMS (1990)

This segment is called MOUNT FUJI IN RED: a large nuclear power plant near Mount Fuji has begun to melt down, painting the sky a horrendous red and sending the millions of Japanese citizens desperately fleeing into the ocean.

"Fish caught at Fukushima Daiichi sets new radioactive contamination record at 7,400 times the..."

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:42:46 -0400

“Fish caught at Fukushima Daiichi sets new radioactive contamination record at 7,400 times the government safety limit”

- The fish, caught on Feb. 21 near water intakes for the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors at the plant, contained 740,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram.

Two years after Fukushima, nuclear remains staggeringly expensive

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:28:01 -0400

Two years after Fukushima, nuclear remains staggeringly expensive:

On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant north of Tokyo was hit by a wall of water 43 feet high that destroyed or disabled enough equipment to cause three reactors to melt down.

Two years later, the people of Japan are bouncing back. The nuclear industry, not so much.

"At the event staged by the Physicians for Social Responsibility organization, Kan drew a huge round..."

thesafeinstitute — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:46:55 -0400

“At the event staged by the Physicians for Social Responsibility organization, Kan drew a huge round of applause when he said, “The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize ‘zero nuclear power.’ ””

"If Entergy can’t come up with a fix for a serious issue at the Palisades nuclear power plant..."

thesafeinstitute — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:54:05 -0400

“If Entergy can’t come up with a fix for a serious issue at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township, it might have to shut the reactor by 2017”