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nuclear power Archive
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Scary Nuke News: San Onofre Wants Live Tube-Rupture Experiment
Posted on March 21, 2013 | 5 CommentsSouthern California Edison says its analysis confirms that it would be safe to fire up the nuclear plant's Unit 2 reactor, but as a precautionary move it is proposing running it at only 70%. Yet it also suggests that running San Onofre at 100 percent for 11 months would present a strong possibility of a tube rupture resulting in a catastrophic release of radiation into the environment. -
Show Goes on in Bid to Restart Leaking Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 20, 2013 | No CommentsFor darn sure don't mention that cancerous creaky ol'nuke plant you were so handsomely paid to cheer for. Because talk of radioactivity at home, in the workplace, or at your kid's school, ruins an otherwise perfect day, no matter what. -
Dear Mr. President, Let’s Move Forward on Climate
Posted on February 20, 2013 | 2 CommentsPresident Obama, we need an energy policy focused on efficiency and conservation, integrated with a clean, renewable energy plan – one that breaks our addiction to dirty and dangerous fuels such as Coal, Fracked Natural Gas, Nuclear and Tar Sands Oil. -
Beware of the Nuclear Zombies – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 16, 2013 | No CommentsPaul Krugman defines a Zombie-idea as: a proposition that has been thoroughly refuted by analysis and evidence, and should be dead — but won’t stay dead, because it serves a political purpose, appeals to prejudices, or both. Sounds like nuclear power policies... -
Hurricane Chevron. Hurricane Exxon. How about Hurricane Edison?
Posted on November 2, 2012 | 1 CommentBill McKibben said hurricane-type disasters, like what slammed the East Coast: NYC's worst since its founding in the 1600's, should be named for major oil companies flooding the GOP with ginormous super pac contributions hoping to elect Romney and his anti-global warming pals, via Citizens United super pacs. -
Earthquakes at San Onofre: The Elephant in the Room
Posted on October 27, 2012 | No CommentsSan Onofre Nuke Plant was designed for a 7.0 earthquake, but sits next to a fault with an 8.0 earthquake probability — 10 times stronger and long overdue. -
Scariest Workplace in the USA, Shut Down, Still Scary – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsCalifornia's San Onofre Nuke Plant, although switched off, leaks radioactivity, and threatens a population of 8 million. It should be shut down permanently, today. -
San Onofre Nuke Plant: When the Bottom Line Pushes Us Over the Cliff – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsWhat's it going to take to have Edison admit its deadly addiction to nuclear, and mothball SONGS forever, before its thunder domes of molten uranium go over the cliff and 8-million citizens suffer the horrific, eternal consequences? -
Nuclear Fission: In the Beginning, It All Looked So Simple
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsNuclear Regulatory Commission & Edison host a town hall to discuss San Onofre Nuclear Power Generating Station's (SONGS's) status in its current Shut Down mode, due to systemic tube leaks in its new reactors. The experts scratch their heads as to why. -
Nuclear Power Plays: Ye Old Boys Club – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe Good Ol'Boys at the club say: "Nuclear is risky but, as an investment opportunity, with trillions in governmental subsidies, and naive ratepayers picking up the rest, how can one's portfolio be without it? That said, I heat the spas and pools in all of my homes with solar." -
FUBAR is San Onofre Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 16, 2012 | No CommentsAnalysis of San Onofre Nuke Plant degenerating pipes (leaking!!!), where the process of super heating water via nuclear fission, then pumping the crazy-hot radioactive liquid thru thousands of pipes to create steam, to turn a turbine, to make electricity, is cracking SONGS' pipes / FUBAR. Or snafu'd. Take your pick. -
The Atoms Family: Radiation is Everywhere!
Posted on August 19, 2011 | No CommentsEdison illuminates for elementary schoolers nuclear fission's faulty towers, "Let's Color and Do Activities with The Atoms Family!" Cancer or evacuations not included. -
Nuclear Waste: San Onofre’s Heavy Lament By Jerry Collamer
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 3 CommentsSouthern California residents are right to worry about the storage of "spent" fuel-rods at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi melts-thru to who knows where. To what horrific end, no one can predict. -
Nebraska’s Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Flooded
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 1 CommentThe makeshift flood berm holding floodwaters from Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant north of Omaha, NE collapsed, the plant now operating on emergency off-site power as workers try to restore electricity to the flooded containment buildings and electrical transformers. -
Impending Nuclear Storm: News Beyond Fukushima – 6 April 2011
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThreats: Mounting stresses on the containment structures filled with radioactive cooling water made vulnerable to rupture; explosions from the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater, and fuel rods continuing to melt. -
End Nuclear Power: Renewables and Conservation Now
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat about energy conservation, as well as cogeneration, wind power and cheaper, more–efficient forms of renewable energy? Physicist Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute argues that shifting investment of tens of billions of dollars from nuclear into renewable energy would reduce far more carbon per dollar. -
Government to Take Over Fukushima?
Posted on March 29, 2011 | No CommentsIf we add 20% additional solar and wind to our nation's grid, immediately, the only energy reaissance we will need will be the safe-and-sane renewable kind. -
The 20 Percent Solution to Nuclear Power
Posted on March 25, 2011 | 1 CommentThe simple-sane solution: don't create electricity by super heating plutonium. It's deadly crazy. Instead, let the sun, wind, or ocean waves light your kitchen, bedroom, patio, hot-tub, playroom or office. Even your car. -
Danger and Risk from Nuclear Fission Products
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsSome believe low, cumulative doses of radiation from dietary exposures are one-hundred to one-thousand times more dangerous than brief, high exposures as in the case of atomic bomb blasts or x-rays. It is known, in fact, that exposure to nuclear fission products impair the body’s defenses against cancer by depleting it of protective enzymes such as superoxide dismutase. -
Human Hubris Fuels Nuclear Catastrophe
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 3 CommentsFour of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth. Fire burns out of control at Reactor No. 4's pool of spent nuclear fuel, with six spent fuel pools at risk, all sites too hot to deal with. -
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – The Scariest Workplace in the USA – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 14 CommentsReading this will upset a bunch of folks living near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, called SONGS, between Orange and San Diego Counties, California. Because as far as I can tell, the truth percolating inside SONGS nuke plant ain't getting out. -
Disaster Roulette: Earthquakes and Nukes at San Onofre By Jack Eidt and Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 3 CommentsDisaster can be avoided, if you just don't go there. Yet our human nature is to go, to build, to deny the omnipotent laws of nature, then suffer that all too familiar consequence. -
Japanese Nuclear Disaster Worsens
Posted on March 14, 2011 | 1 CommentJapanese officials have admitted that nuclear rods inside three of the Fukushima reactors are melting. -
Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Disaster Unfolds
Posted on March 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsJapan's earthquake and tsunami have triggered meltdowns at several nuclear reactors, increased radiation levels, evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people in the face of radiation exposures already being reported. -
Nuclear Regulatory Smackdown at San Onofre
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 1 CommentPrecedent for closing San Onofre Nuke Plant: It's age and human fallibility managing an outdated plant fast approaching its 2013 expiration date.
