Entergy reports dry-storage containers were not monitored

Comment: Well duh? Do you trust the nuke bunch? The nuke bunch from Canada wants to mine uranium in Virginia, they have ruined their countryside (badlands), and now they want to ruin Virginia Countryside! No to Uranium Mining and Nuke Power!

NEI SmartBrief 08/05/2009

The Vermont Public Service Board says Entergy Nuclear forgot until six weeks ago that it was supposed to monitor radiation from dry-storage containers at Vermont Yankee.

Entergy Nuclear reported Friday that it had not complied with the monitoring requirement in its 2006 state permit “due to an oversight.”

“We are a self-critical organization, and we found this could have been prevented with better checking within several departments,” said Entergy spokesman Robert Williams.

Rutland Herald (Vt.) (08/04)

http://wakethehellup.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/entergy-reports-dry-storage-containers-were-not-monitored/

Ontario suspends nuclear power plans

Comment: Nuke Power is too expensive, not CO2 free because of construction, uranium mining and milling!!

Published: June 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM

The government in the Canadian province of Ontario canceled a deal for the first North American nuclear power facility in three decades on cost concerns.

George Smitherman, the energy minister in the Ontario provincial government, called the $22.4 billion price tag "a substantial challenge" to a bid from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. on the reactor, the Financial Times reports.

Ontario has expressed reservations over dealing with AECL. The government canceled two AECL reactor projects in 2008 because of malfunctions and in May closed an AECL reactor used to produce more than 30 percent of the world's medical isotopes.

Smitherman, however, said the government would reconsider the reactor project if the costs are reconsidered.

Ontario had served as an industrial hub, looking to secure more nuclear technology by 2018. The province gets roughly half its electricity from nuclear power.

The North American nuclear energy sector, meanwhile, stalled 30 years ago following a meltdown at a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.

http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/06/30/Ontario-suspends-nuclear-power-plans/UPI-95431246372962/

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER*

Comment: Today the Nuclear Power groups are saying Nuke power is clean, green, no emmissions, which is not true. Uranium mining and milling has lots of emmissions, ruins the water, land and air. The Nuke group uses France as a Nuke Poster Child, which they are not, their nuke plants leaks into the French rivers, the processing plants puts the waste into the ocean!!

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER*

*but were afraid to ask

Today, many people are concerned with planning our energy needs for the future, and for the first time in decades, there are proposals to increase the production of nuclear power.

In order to make good choices for the future, we need to understand not only the present situation, but also learn from our past.

We hope you will take the time to watch this documentary—in whole, or in parts—and will come to a better understanding of why nuclear power is not the solution to climate change or our energy needs.

Please go to the link below for to play the entire, 42-minute video, or select specific topics from the video by clicking on a box below:

http://www.everythingnuclear.org/

Ralph Nader Rips Obama For Not Phasing Out Nuclear Power

Comment: No Nuke Plants, No Uranium Mining!!!!

Jay YarowMay. 11, 2009, 6:09 PM

America's curmudgeonly consumer advocate Ralph Nader took a few swings at Obama today in the New York Times' Green Inc. blog.

He's disappointed in the direction of the energy policy. Nader thinks Obama is trying to be all things to all people, saying "There’s no priority to his scheme."

NYT: If you were in Obama’s shoes, what’s something you would have done already that he has not?

Nader: I would have said no more loan guarantees to nuclear plants in the appropriations bills, and no more subsidies from the executive branch. We’re going to phase nuclear plants out and replace them with energy efficiency, which is far more megawatts than nuclear.

I would also declare a national solar energy mission — solar energy including waves, wind, photovoltaics, solar thermal and passive solar architecture. Open up the whole frontier and make that the priority as we convert our country to renewables.

Nader also says he's "astonished" by the cap and trade bill, and doesn't understand why there's no carbon tax instead.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ralph-nader-rips-obama-for-not-phasing-out-nuclear-power-2009-5