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Lack of Response Ability		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Lack of Response Ability The U.S. EPA is "not fully prepared" to handle a large-scale nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack on the country, according to an internal assessment by the agency. The report was commissioned by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman in response to the attacks of Sept. 11 and strongly suggests that if those attacks had involved nuclear, biological, or chemical weap ...
Topics: nuclear power, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Star Wars		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Star Wars The stars are twinkling over Nevada's Yucca Mountain -- movie stars and pop stars, that is. In the battle over the Bush administration's proposal to bury high-level radioactive waste below the mountain, the glitterati are siding against the president. Barbra Streisand, Bonnie Raitt, Martin Sheen, Melissa Gilbert, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, Morgan Freeman - ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Downwind for the Count		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Downwind for the Count Thousands of "downwinders" -- people living in the path of radiation releases from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- scored a legal victory yesterday when a federal appeals court ordered a lower court to reconsider two lawsuits against five former Hanford contractors. From 1944 to 1989, Hanford produced most of the nation's plutonium for warheads; research conducted ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Double-blind Test		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Double-blind Test The threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan seems to have abated slightly -- for the moment -- but what about the consequences of India's nuclear testing? Four years after the country exploded nuclear devices in underground tests in the Thar desert near the Pakistan border, villagers are questioning the government's pat assurance that no radioactivity was released. In Khetolai, ...
Topics: health, India, nuclear power, Pakistan, ranching (all these topics)

Hodging His Bets		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Hodging His Bets The U.S. government could begin moving radioactive plutonium from Colorado into South Carolina's Savannah River nuclear complex as soon as this weekend, following a federal judge's refusal yesterday afternoon to block the shipments. Gov. Jim Hodges (D) has vowed to appeal the ruling, and maintains that he won't allow the plutonium into South Carolina until he has a legal guaran ...
Topics: Colorado, nuclear power, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Grading, Nuclear-Plant Style	Suzy Becker	03 Jun 2002	Ha.

Topics: nuclear power (all these topics)

The Little Solar Station That Could		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Little Solar Station That Could The Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant at Washington state's Hanford nuclear reservation, sits just one mile from the White Bluffs Solar Station. For the past three weeks, Energy Northwest, the Pacific Northwest's nuclear power producer, has been generating a tiny amount of electricity from solar panels at White Bluffs and ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Washington (all these topics)

Nuclear Power As Fossil Fuel		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Nuclear Power As Fossil Fuel The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power producer, decided yesterday to restart a troubled nuclear reactor at its Browns Ferry plant in northern Alabama. The reactor has been out of use since 1985, when all three of the plant's reactors were shut down after engineers discovered that the reactors did not match their blueprints. Two of the three reactors were res ...
Topics: Alabama, energy, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Watch 'Em Blow, See 'Em Glow!	Suzy Becker	13 May 2002	Ha.

Topics: nuclear power, oceans (all these topics)

Mr. Yucca		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Yucca The U.S. House voted 306 to 117 yesterday to move forward with the Bush administration's plan to store the nation's nuclear waste under Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The overwhelming vote -- which overrode the veto of the plan by Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) -- was expected. Now the battle moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Majority Whip Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have prom ...
Topics: Harry Reid, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Cherignoble		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Cherignoble Sixteen years ago today, a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl exploded, resulting in the worst atomic accident in the history of the world. The explosion affected 3.3 million Ukrainians as well as untold numbers of other people, and sent a radioactive cloud drifting over much of Europe. All of the area within 18 miles of the plant has been a no-man's-land since the accident, but last year, under urging from the U.N. to ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, Ukraine (all these topics)

Let It Allard Hang Out		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Let It Allard Hang Out The plot thickens in the controversy over the federal government's decision to ship weapons-grade plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. Arms-control advocates and Democratic politicians in South Carolina allege that the Bush administration is backing a shipment plan in order to improve the re-election prospects of Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo ...
Topics: Colorado, North Carolina, nuclear power, politics, South Carolina (all these topics)

Guinn-ess Record		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Guinn-ess Record In the first-ever gubernatorial veto of a presidential decision, Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) yesterday rejected George Bush's proposal to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Federal lawmakers granted the state veto power over any presidential decision related to Yucca Mountain in 1982; now, two decades later, Congress has 90 working day ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Finnish Line		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Finnish Line From the department of creative activism: You've heard of hunger strikes, but what about baby strikes? Hundreds of Finnish women have signed a petition declaring that they will not bear children for the next four years unless the country's Parliament scraps plans to build a fifth nuclear reactor in their homeland. The protest has a precedent: In 1986, following the Chernobyl disaster, some 4,000 Finns signed a simila ...
Topics: Finland, nuclear power (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part Two Is the U.S. nuclear industry writing its own ticket on security?	Shelley Smithson	28 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Over the last 15 years, the nuclear power industry has lobbied the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Congress to weaken security requirements at atomic plants, even as the threat of terrorism has grown. But in reality, as Shelley Smithson shows in Part I of this series, nuclear energy security is already poor. In drills conducted by the NRC over the last decade, guards at nearl ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em Betting comes naturally to Nevadans, but the stakes are high and the odds are poor for a last-ditch effort to keep 77,000 tons of nuclear waste out of a proposed high-level radioactive waste facility in Yucca Mountain. The state's U.S. senators are about to unveil a multi-million dollar media blitz aimed at swaying the votes of key Republican lawmakers -- largely by ...
Topics: green living, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Nuke Security: Bar None?		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (all these topics)

Holy Toledo!		27 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Holy Toledo! The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered the operators of nearly 70 nuclear power plants to report back by Friday on whether the reactors at their facilities are safe to keep in operation. The order came after regulators discovered that acid in cooling water had almost burned through a six-inch lid on a reactor in Ohio. At the Davis-Besse nuclear power station, a 25-year-old plant near Tol ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (all these topics)

Help Wanted A look at the hiring practices at U.S. nuclear power plants	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Could the Sept. 11 hijackers have gotten jobs at nuclear power plants? Under the current rules governing nuclear safety, at least some of them could have easily gone to work as janitors, carpenters, computer programmers, or other plant employees, according to Dave Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer who works for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Before last fall's terrorist attacks, utili ...
Topics: business, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part One How secure are U.S. nuclear power plants?	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Roughly 40 miles from the rubble of the World Trade Center, U.S. Navy cutters patrol the chilly waters of the Hudson River. Military planes circle overhead. On the ground, members of the National Guard stand ready. The Indian Point nuclear power station, which churns out electricity to nearly 2 million homes around New York City, is defended by land, sea, and air. Yet many people -- and especiall ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, New York, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

There's a Place in France Where the Anti-nukies Dance		26 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
There's a Place in France Where the Anti-nukies Dance Lionel Jospin, the socialist prime minister of France, could lose his neck-and-neck race for the nation's presidency to incumbent President Jacques Chirac if Jospin's environmental allies make good on their promise to pull their support should the prime minister refuse to back a phase-out of nuclear power. The Green Party accounts for about 10 percent of the left-wing vote in Franc ...
Topics: France, nuclear power (all these topics)

Yucky Mountain	Suzy Becker	04 Mar 2002	Ha.

Topics: health, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

'No Way,' Says Norway		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
"No Way," Says Norway Long unhappy about pollution from Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant, Norway announced yesterday that it would call for a binding international agreement to force polluting countries to pay for toxic cleanups beyond their own borders. The nation's foreign affairs committee voted unanimously to ask the government to impose economic san ...
Topics: European Union, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca		30 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca All the effort by the feds to determine whether Nevada's Yucca Mountain would be a suitable place to permanently store the country's nuclear waste can be summed up as "a failed scientific process," according to a draft report by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. The report, which has been obtained by several newspa ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Government Accountability Office, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

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