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Democracy Now piece on the film "The Atomic States of America": www.democracynow.org

Prosecutors file charges against TEPCO execs for radiation pollution into the sea. www.yomiuri.co.jp

more about scientists studying cesium in cedar pollen. www.fnn-news.com

UK nuclear watchdog toughens stance on waste reuse

The NDA has repeatedly ruled the multi-billion pound 600 megawatt (MW) reactor out of the running on the grounds that the technology lacks credibility for the purposes of plutonium disposal.

www.reuters.com

@lilly...the nuclear resurgence would have been dead in the water as it has been for the last many years except for the fact that it came in under the umbrella of global warming emissions. then all of a sudden nuclear popped to the top choice based solely on the green issues and that started the ball rolling. remember when Pres Obama came into office and he shut down YUKA, bad timing when the nuclear resurgence train was rolling. Incentives to start construction by a certain date came forward from the Bush era and it was debatable if they would have survived switching of presidents. It has been an overlap of sudden priority and it came up and stung some people in the nuclear govt world and utilities. We heard of FAST TRACKING through to licensing in a shorter time (which hasn't happened to date and in fact the NRC has thrown the westinghouse AP1000 reactor back to the drawing board. this all needs time to see where it falls out, but, in the mean time there are some starts on reactors....

@dean Did they change something on the AP-1000 again? I thought they approved it recently?

@M.I.A. read the comments! One guy claiming the people in the UK "freeze" when the wind isn't blowing to generate wind energy. :-) Silly man.

Peach Bottom trying to get out of metals testing....claiming conditional probability of a failure is low.

"14R-51 requests relief from reactor vessel circumferential weld examinations, as currently
required by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,
(ASME Code) Table IWB-2500-1, through the end of the extended license period for PBAPS,
Units 2 and 3. 14R-52 requests relief from the ASME Code, Section XI, "Rules for Inservice
Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components." Relief Request 14R-52 proposes an alternative
to the requirements contained in T"

Via NRC email.

March 11 conference on Fukushima in Vancouver www.straight.com

Ohio gozaimasu tomodachi

@LILLY.. hi, I believe the NRC approved the design and put15 years on it however, the license to operate the plant will still need to be done... I think there will be some legal battles to overcome before this whole thing is done

The NRC was doing some dual licensing nonsense. Will go see if I can find what it was. It was like they were going to approve the design and fast track the license for the one at Vogtle

getting ready for state of the union... be bak

@Peter I had seen abandoned tower where there were not nuclear plants but wasn't sure the purpose.

TMI could have been the cause, many nuclear plants in the US don't have cooling towers yet it seems to be the first thing people look for.