NRC Holding Public Meeting re: Decommissioning US GE Mark 1 Reactors - You can participate - ongoing now!
http://video.nrc.gov
October 7, 10-12noon EST
National Call in Day to NRC
FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS
Public Meeting has begun. Arnie Gunderson, Beyond Nuclear & others are testifying. Please participate: watch & comment.
After Chernobyl the NRC closed Hanford because it was the same, dangerous graphite design. The US has many GE Mark 1 Reactors of the same flawed design as the failed Fukushima Daiichi plants. Please participate in this public meeting/petition to review current safety concerns and offer your public comments.
MOOT
I remain a tepid supporter of nuclear applications in national defense, healthcare and electrical power generation.
But, the gross misconduct of the nuclear power industry renders that support quite useless. A constant barrage of lies just completely frustrates any possible future success.
Constant lying by the nuclear power industry is utterly contradictory to the natural requirements of proper public policy.
The constant lying, by both sides, does not alter my personal judgement regarding the underlying technology. It does however, make that engineering assessment moot.
Hiding in plain sight
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Hiding the truth in plain sight
I have decent broadband service. So I went to the NRC webpage to attempt to download a topic. After about 30 minutes, the time remaining to download the file was about 24 hours.
There is no telling what the suject matter is or the accuracy of the proposals. It is evident that 24 hours is an excessive download time. So the attempt was abandoned. It is assumed that this frustration is the deliberate intent of the NRC, the nuclear power industry and the US government.
http://video.nrc.gov/
10/07/11 Beyond Nuclear 10 CFR 2.206 Petition Public Meeting
01h 30m
OH BROTHER!!!
It is assumed that this frustration is the deliberate intent of the NRC, the nuclear power industry and the US government.
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If they wanted you not to see it; why did they even put it on the web in the first place.
Honestly, you think NRC is the first web site to have streaming video problems.
BTW - you might want to check to see if the bottleneck is your own ISP.
Should have said "voted to keep Hanford closed ..."
SENATE PANEL BLOCKS FUNDS FOR WEAPON REACTOR
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: May 01, 1987
NEW YORK TIMES
The Armed Services Committee of the United States Senate has voted to bar funds for reopening a troubled nuclear reactor in Washington State that is a key source of the nation's plutonium fuel for nuclear weapons.
The N-Reactor, at the Hanford Reservation near Richland, Wash., resembles the Soviet Union's Chernobyl plant more closely than does any other reactor in the United States. It has been closed since December for safety improvements after the explosion last April at Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history.
A high-ranking Reagan Administration official said that failure to reopen the reactor could impair the military's ability to maintain the nation's nuclear arsenal. A Graphite Reactor
The Senate panel's vote, in a closed session Wednesday, came in deliberations on a bill on military programs that the committee is expected to send to the full Senate today. It would bar funds for operation of the reactor but would permit the Energy Department to keep it ready to restart.
... (article continues:http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/01/us/senate-panel-blocks-funds-for-weapon-reactor.html?src=pm)
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This is beside the point of current significance anyway, which was that the NRC heard public testimony this morning about the GE Mark 1 BWR design flaws & public safety. The hour and a half of recording/transcript should be accessible in the meeting archives shortly.
http://video.nrc.gov
Again NOT NRC
The Armed Services Committee of the United States Senate has voted to bar funds
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Again, it wasn't just "voted".
The NRC does not have jurisdiction over a Government-owned facility such as
DOE's Hanford facility. The NRC didn't vote, the Congress stepped in.
The Hanford N-reactor wasn't needed anyway. The military really doesn't have a say; as long as
DOE produces for them the weapons they require. DOE decides how much plutonium it needs for weapons.
DOE, not NRC
After Chernobyl the NRC closed Hanford because it was the same,
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DOE which owns Hanford closed it because Plutonium production was no longer necessary.
Hanford is Government-owned by DOE, and therefore does NOT fall under the jurisdiction of the NRC.
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!
After Chernobyl the NRC closed Hanford because it was the same, dangerous graphite design.
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The last Hanford reactor, the N-reactor; was closed in 1988 because the USA had all the Plutonium that it needed. The closing of N-reactor was scheduled BEFORE Chernobyl, and the DOE hasn't built another Plutonium production reactor since.
In 1988, the DOE also shutdown the last of its reactors at Savannah River which produced Tritium for weapons. Those reactors were not graphite reactors, they were heavy water reactors.
There's nothing inherently dangerous or bad about a graphite reactor, if it is designed properly. Chernobyl was a bad design because it was over-modeerated. Chernobyl wasn't designed from scratch, it was a scale-up of an existing Soviet production reactor, and they did a poor job in the scale-up.
The USA went for about a dozen years without the ability to make Tritium, and relied on what was already on hand. However, Tritium decays with a 12 year half-life, so a production method had to eventually be brought online. Today, the DOE uses the TVA-owned Watts Bar reactor to produce Tritium for nuclear weapons.
They closed Hanford not
They closed Hanford not because of the design but because they no longer needed to produce Pu.