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Former BREDL Executive Director Janet Marsh stands next to BREDL's mock nuclear
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BREDL Nuclear Campaign
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Report Reveals 21% Higher Death Rates
Near Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
June 6, 2013: The results of a detailed investigation released today reveal residents living near or
downwind of Browns Ferry are at greater risk for cancer and death than average U.S.
communities. The study found potential links between radioactive emissions from Browns
Ferry and adverse health effects in seven counties near and downwind of the plant.
Read Press Release | View Report: Radioactive Emissions and Health Hazards Surrounding Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama
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Citizens Intervene to Halt Sequoyah Plant Relicensing
Unsafe Design, Future Flooding, and Cancer Rates Cited
May 7, 2013:
BREDL’s petition points out the dangers in Tennessee Valley Authority’s request to extend the license of its troubled Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant. The most significant risk is a system which depends on baskets of ice to prevent a Fukushima-style explosion of the reactor building. Our petition uncovers a fatal flaw based on aging and the inability to inspect critical parts of the reactor building. BREDL is calling for the early closure of all seven plants of this manufacture in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
BREDL Press Release | BREDL Petition
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Sequoyah Nuclear Plant - 18 miles northeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee
Do you live within the 50-mile radius?
DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2013 Folks, there is no time to waste as we work to stop Nuclear Regulatory Commission from extending Sequoyah Nuclear Plant licenses through legal avenues. A Declaration of Standing document link is below. Should you choose to sign it, you allow BEST/MATRR, chapter of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) to represent your concerns. You must be a paid up member of BREDL/BEST/MATRR. Send $20 or what you can afford with your declaration. What's it worth to keep you and yours from unthinkable radiation health risks and a lifetime of nuclear waste in your back yard?
More Details: 50-Mile Map | Declaration of Standing | BREDL Membership Form
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The League comments on W S Lee water permit
April 19, 2013: South Carolina’s draft NPDES permit is premature. First, a mandatory environmental review is incomplete. Second, the concurrent plant safety review is also incomplete and no license has been issued. Therefore, the state cannot issue this permit until these matters are decided, engineering and environmental questions are settled, and the construction and operation license is finalized.
Read BREDL Comments
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BREDL Fact Sheet: (no)waste confidence! Nuclear Waste Rule
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Waste Confidence Rule generic approach remains utterly inadequate to satisfy the requirements of both the Atomic Energy Act and the National Environmental Policy Act for the licensing decisions on nuclear power.
BREDL Fact Sheet
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Nuclear Waste Rule? No Confidence!
On June 8, 2012 the US Court of Appeals nullified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's
Waste Confidence Rule, clearing the way for a variety of challenges at scores of
commercial nuclear power reactors in the United States. "Waste confidence" is all about
high-level nuclear waste which is produced by nuclear reactors, generated in the reactor
core and highly radioactive.
The process for a new rule is now underway. Sometime in 2013, the NRC will prepare a draft environmental impact statement. Then a draft Waste Confidence Decision and proposed Rule would be issued for public comment. However, the NRC must first resolve many technical issues including long-term waste integrity, vulnerability, deterioration and accidents. But the NRC’s approach is utterly inadequate to assure public safety and the Commission is in danger of abrogating its responsibility to allow public to participate in a decision which affects them.
BREDL Jan. 2 Comments
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Emergency Planning Zones for Nuclear Accidents
Jan. 31, 2013: The regulatory guidance utilized by both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to evaluate the emergency plans at commercial nuclear power plants was established in 1980 and has remained essentially unchanged for thirty years.
BREDL Comments
In February 2012 the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League petitioned the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for improved emergency planning near nuclear power plants. Working with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and three dozen public interest groups across the nation, we seek to require federal agencies and the power plant operators to prepare for the accident we hope will never happen.
BREDL Dec. 12 Memo to chapters | Feb. 2012 Petition to NRC | April 2012 Federal Register Notice
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BREDL Statement to the Uranium Working Group
in Richmond, VA
Nov. 27, 2012: The environmental and public health impacts of uranium mining and milling are life-threatening and long-lasting. They include massive amounts of radioactive and toxic rock and sand, or “tailings,” surface and groundwater contaminated with radioactive and toxic pollutants, and airborne releases of conventional, toxic and radioactive pollution.
Read BREDL Statement
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Residents Raise Vogtle Safety Issues
at Meeting with Obama Administration
Nov. 19, 2012: Today Georgians concerned about Plant Vogtle met with Obama Administration officials to deliver a letter of grievances against the nuclear power plant in their midst. The meeting at the White House conference center included Jon Carson, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, and Paul Seidler, Director of External Affairs for Environmental Management for the US Department of Energy. Among those at the meeting representing the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League were Rev. Charles Utley, staff Environmental Justice Campaigner, and Board Vice President Rev. Willie Tomlin.
BREDL Press Release | Read BREDL Letter delivered to the White House
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The Waynesboro-Washington Watch
Shell Bluff area citizens travel all night by bus
Nov. 19, 2012:
Today Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff journeyed from Georgia to Washington, DC to witness the oral arguments in our case before the US Court of Appeals. Rev. Charles Utley is Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League’s staff member who helped organize the trip. Emerging from the courtroom, he said, “Our lawyers asked why the new information from Fukushima was not included in Plant Vogtle’s license.” Rev. Utley remarked that the judges seemed to notice the many people in attendance. “We traveled all night to be here today to bear silent witness against our nuclear neighbor, Plant Vogtle.”
Legal Fact Sheet | BREDL Press Release
News coverage: WFXG Fox 54 Story
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