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Groups File New Legal
Challenge at Plant Vogtle
Aug. 17, 2010: League files new contention with
nuclear licensing board regarding inadequacy of
containment/coating inspection program for Vogtle Units 3 and 4.
Louis Zeller, Science Director for the Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League, explained why the groups took this
action. "Southern Nuclear Company has overlooked a major
problem which we simply cannot allow to go unchallenged. The
fundamental requirement of the operator is to protect public
health and safety. Southern Nuclear Company is not doing its job.
League Files Unprecedented
Air Pollution Challenge at Plant Vogtle
Aug. 12, 2010: This week in a bold move, the Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League filed a legal challenge to the
proposed air pollution permit at Plant Vogtle. The August 10th
filing was one of the first in the nation under the federal Clean
Air Act challenging excessive radionuclide emissions from nuclear
power. In a petition to the US Environmental Protection Agency,
the League called for rejection of the permit issued by the State
of Georgia because it failed to limit radioactive air pollution,
failed to protect public health and failed to prevent
environmental injustice.
BREDL Continues its Decade-long Campaign
to Halt Plutonium Fuel
Aug. 5, 2010: Tennessee Valley Authority’s
Browns Ferry and Sequoyah nuclear power plants are identified in
the July 19th Department of Energy Notice of Intent as the
reactors designated for plutonium fuel use. The handling of
special strategic nuclear materials requires the highest safety
and security procedures. But the identified problems with fire
protection, over-worked plant employees and site security lapses
at these TVA power plants should eliminate them from further
consideration by the DOE for plutonium disposition.
Read BREDL Comments
to U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security
Administration
League Challenges
Dominion's New Reactor Design
June 18: Lou Zeller, representative for the
League, said, “Dominion’s switching of reactor
technology is like altering the foundation after the walls are
up.” He said that the switch this late in licensing the
plant would make it difficult to regulate. Zeller added, “The
Commission may lack the regulatory duck tape to piece it
together.” He drew a comparison of the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission with the Interior Department's Minerals Management
Service, the agency which oversees offshore oil drilling and
which became too accommodating to its licensees.
Groups Urge Feds to
Suspend Nuclear Licensing;
Westinghouse Reactor Defect Was Missed By Regulators
April 21, 2010: Today the League and other environmental groups
held a national press teleconference to reveal a fatal flaw in
America’s planned expansion of nuclear power. We released a
detailed engineering analysis of a problem with the Westinghouse
AP1000. This marks the launch of a new national initiative.
BREDL comments on permit amendment for
Vogtle plant
April 6, 2010: BREDL and our chapter Shell Bluff Concerned
Citizens comment on the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Environmental Protection Division’s operating permit
amendment for Georgia Power Company’s two additional
pressurized water reactors at Southern Nuclear Operating Company
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. Read
BREDL Comments
North Anna April 2010 Update
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League v. the
Commonwealth of Virginia
Upcoming April 22 Court Date Read Update
Joint Petitioners' Respond to TVA's Motion to Strike Supplemental Basis for Contention 6 regarding Bellefonte Nuclear facility
Rust Never Sleeps: Bellefonte Nukes Would Threaten Tennessee Valley
Jan. 11, 2010: Joint Petitioners file Supplemental Basis for
Previously Submitted Contention 6 - TVA has not and cannot meet
the NRC's Quality Assurance and Quality Control Requirements.
The accident in the
nuclear reactor's containment area and the history of
prior failures all point to further problems if the
Commission were to allow the completion of the virtually
moth-eaten 35-year old reactors following years of
salvage operations and lack of maintenance and oversight.
BREDL files Brief regarding Dominion-Virgina Power's Appeal of North Anna Decision
Jan. 26, 2010:
BREDL's brief filed on Jan 19 regarding Dominion-Virginia Power's appeal in Circuirt Court. The Dominion-Virginia Appeal is of the February 2009 Virginia Circuit Court's decision that ruled state agencies violated federal law and revoked the water quality permit for the North Anna nuclear station.
Two-thirds of the energy generated at every nuclear power plant is not converted into usable electricity. Rather, it is wasted and discharged to the environment. This waste heat can be discharged directly to the air via cooling towers, or it can be discharged to a body of water. Heat discharged to waterways poses a special environmental threat and is subject to the Clean Water Act. For decades Virginia’s State Water Control Board has declined to limit thermal discharges from the North Anna nuclear power plant.
Plutonium:
The Last Five Years.
- a report, by Don Moniak, released
on February 6, 2001 to commemorate the 5th
Anniversary of former Secretary of Energy Hazel
O’Leary’s last “openness”
press conference at which DOE released its
publication “Plutonium, The Last 50
Years.” Download .pdf file or view html
files of report.
ACTION
ALERT : International NIX MOX
DAY - MAY 17, 1999 TO OPPOSE PLUTONIUM FUELED
NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS. This is the second annual
NIX MOX DAY, an opportunity to educate the
public, the news media, decision makers,
and our elected officials.
