BREDL files amended Contention
Ten regarding the North Anna application
June 26, 2009: BREDL files amended Contention Ten
regarding the application for a combined operating and
construction license filed by Dominion Virginia Power. In order
to meet its goal to assure NRC that there is space to store Class
B and C radioacive waste material for ten years, Dominion
Virginia Power has reduced its capacity for storage of Class A
material from 6 months to 3 months. This is simply "Robbing
Peter to pay Paul." View BREDL Amended Contention Ten
June 3, 2009: BREDL files legal brief with NRC.
In short, the law does not authorize the NRC to reinstate a
construction permit that has been terminated. Therefore, the
Commission should vacate its decision and void TVA’s
construction permits for Bellefonte Units 1 and 2. BREDL Legal
Brief
May 14, 2009: GROUPS TAKE AIM AT
BELLEFONTE 1 AND 2 - Today three citizens’ groups
announced a new lawsuit against TVA’s Bellefonte nuclear
site in Alabama. The groups’ effort centers on the
mothballed nuclear reactor units 1 and 2. They based their
opposition on 14 separate flaws in the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission’s recent approval of a construction permit. The
lawsuit was filed by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League,
the Bellefonte Efficiency and Sustainability Team and the
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
| "NRC’s got the cart before the horse.
Contrary to their own procedural requirements, they’re
handing out construction permits for reactors on a 40
year old gutted plant site before new reactor designs
have been approved and before environmental impacts have
been determined." - Sandra Kurtz, a
member of BREDL's Bellefonte Efficiency and
Sustainability Team. |
BREDL Press Release
| BREDL
Petition
April 22, 2009: Nuclear Power in Hot Water - BREDL Earth Day update
April 17, 2009: BREDL Reply
to Answers of Duke Energy and NRC Staff regarding new Contention
Eleven on proposed W S Lee Nuclear Plants
GROUP TAKES BELLEFONTE FIGHT TO A HIGHER
COURT
March 31, 2009: Yesterday the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense
League filed a Petition for Review in the US Court of Appeals of
the Bellefonte nuclear power plant in Alabama. The League seeks
judicial review of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s
reinstatement of construction permits for two nuclear reactors,
the so-called Bellefonte 1 and 2. BREDL Press
Release | Petition
for Review | NRC's
voting record
GROUP CHARGES NEW NUKES MUST
WAIT
FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE SOLUTION
March 10, 2009: Yesterday in a
flurry of legal activity the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense
League filed new arguments opposing nuclear reactor licenses in
Virginia, South Carolina and Alabama. The League acted because of
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's failure to recognize that
high-level radioactive waste storage would pose significant
environmental risks at proposed nuclear power plants at TVA's
Bellefonte, Duke Energy's WS Lee and Dominion Virginia Power's
North Anna stations. Read BREDL Press Release
(includes links to filing documents)
Victory in Landmark Clean Water Act
Challenge
League and Lake Residents Overturn Dominion Nuke Permit
Feb. 20, 2009: Today a Virginia court in Richmond ruled that
state agencies violated federal law and that the water quality
permit for Dominion-Virginia Power's North Anna nuclear station
is revoked. Read
BREDL Press Release | Background information | Transcript of Judge's Ruling
Jan. 2, 2009: BREDL's
reply to NRC and TVA regarding the Amended Contention NEPA-N
at Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant
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