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NRC Official Says 2012 A Safe Year At Millstone
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceThe Millstone Power Station operated safely in 2012, protecting the public and the environment from possible risks associated with the two working nuclear power plants at the site, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission official said Tuesday. Ronald Bellamy,...Tags: Nuclear Power, West Hartford, Career and Workplace, Employees
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Edison hopes to start up San Onofre by June 1
Southern California Edison has submitted a formal request to federal regulators for a license amendment that would allow the San Onofre nuclear plant to be fired back up for the first time in more than a year. Company officials told U.S. Nuclear...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, Southern California Edison Company
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San Onofre's other problem
The beleaguered San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego has been idle since January 2012 after the discovery of unsafe reactor conditions. The operator is now seeking approval to restart one of the plant's two reactors at 70% power for a five-...
Tags: U.S. Congress, George Washington, Nuclear Power, Environmental Issues, Waste
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Nuclear commission pushes back decision on San Onofre
L.A. NOWThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pushed back the date when it could make a decision on the fate of the San Onofre nuclear plant.... -
Nuclear power is far from safe or carbon-free
I became frightened when I read the commentary by Norman Meadow ("Nuclear blows away wind," Feb. 1). I wanted to say so much, but my thoughts were running way beyond the commentary. Just one example: The reactor at Chernobyl still contains enough...Tags: Lung Cancer, Nuclear Power, Environmental Issues, Waste, Energy Resources
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Nuclear blows away wind
The primary motivation among environmentalists for developing wind energy is legitimate concern about the effects of climate change. Wind is alleged to provide important relief from the emission of carbon dioxide from electricity production. But without...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Hydroelectricity, Maryland General Assembly, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Science and Technology
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The danger of relying on nuclear power plants
Norman Meadow's commentary promoting nuclear power over wind energy as a solution to climate change leaves out serious unsolved problems that wind does not present ("Nuclear blows away wind," Feb. 1). Huge piles of highly radioactive waste are sitting...Tags: Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power, Environmental Issues, Waste, Disasters and Accidents
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Edison failed to fix problems with San Onofre system, Boxer charges
L.A. NOWSouthern California Edison was aware of problems with replacement steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power but chose not to make fixes, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer charged Wednesday. Boxer’s office cited a leaked report from Mitsubishi Heavy... -
Nuclear plant operator accused in carjacking vanishes
The young woman was sitting in her car in a parking lot in Woodridge last May when an elderly-looking man approached and asked her quietly, almost in a whisper, if she needed help. "I thought he was an old drunk homeless guy," said the woman, who told...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Nuclear Power, Prosecution, Justice System, Theft
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San Onofre reactor unit could safely be fired up at full power, Edison says
L.A. NOWSouthern California Edison submitted an analysis to federal regulators showing that one of the two reactor units at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant could operate safely at full power for almost a year. The plant has been shuttered since...... -
Ratepayers get the shaft in San Onofre fiasco
There are train wrecks, and there are train wrecks. Then there's San Onofre. You probably know San Onofre as the full-figured fiasco overlooking the Pacific Ocean near the Orange/San Diego county line. Beginning in 2004, Southern California Edison,...
Tags: Pacific Ocean, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited, Crime, Law and Justice, Nuclear Power, Justice System
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US citing security to censor more public records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored in the name of national security files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama...
Tags: Police Investigations, Environmental Politics, Transportation Industry, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of State
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