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FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE - MORAL & DECENTRALIZED CLEAN POWER - NO MORE #FRACKING, NO MORE #COAL, NO MORE NUKING IN OUR BACKYARDS!
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-- May 20 - PLYMOUTH
Cape Downwinders organizes march to Pilgrim Station Sunday - Plymouth, MA - Wicked Local Plymouth
PLYMOUTH - The organization Cape Downwinders, whose mission is to “take action to protect the lives and welfare of the residents of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket against the threat of death or injury resulting from the use of nuclear energy…” is staging a march to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.
Where: Staging area 1 Elliot Lane, Plymouth, with a 1 mile march to the gate of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
When: Sunday, May 20, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
According to a press release announcing the march, Cape Downwinders holds that the Nuclear Regulation Commission is considering Entergy’s application for re-licensing the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for an additional 20 years, without implementing critical lessons learned in Fukushima, Japan.
Cape Downwinders says that groups of concerned citizens will gather in Plymouth to demand that the Pilgrim nuclear power plant’s 40 year license must expire (it’s due to expire in June). The General Electric Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor is the same design that failed at four reactors in Japan. Loss of offsite electricity was the cause and, according to NRC officials, a similar accident could happen here. The nuclear waste spent fuel pool was designed to hold 880 highly radioactive rods and currently holds 3,270... more
-- MAY 23 - SAN DIEGO
SHUT SAN ONOFRE RALLY AT UTILITY COMPANY OFFICES
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 4pm to 6pm
Location: Sempra Energy Offices, 101 Ash Street San Diego, CA 92101
(And at offices in Irvine, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fresno.) Parking: Free parking available at Horton Plaza parking garage (validate at machines in the mall). Trolley Stop: Civic Center station, two blocks away.
ShutDownSanOnofre.org | Shut San Onofre (facebook)
ONGOING Kudankulam protests in INDIA
Support Indian Protesters; Stop Kudankulam!
Online petition at NIRS
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• whats up: Kudankulam protests | Jaitapur
• Kudankulam protests INDIA - Google NEWS Search, past week
-- May 31
Portland, Maine, Bonnie Raitt benefit concert for New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
-- June
- UK
Anti-nuclear power activists planning meeting | Stop Nuclear Power Network UK | Campaigning against the UK's addiction to nuclear power
Stopping the nuclear juggernaut?
Building a sustainable non-nuclear energy policy
Date: Saturday 30th June 2012, 11.00am – 4.00pm
Location: Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester, M4 7HR
-- JULY --
NEW HAMPSHIRE • July 21 • Linda and Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear
#Occupy #Nuclear Power @WorldFellowship : Albany NH
-- AUGUST --
- NEW MEXICO
@0ccupyNewMexico
NEW MEXICO in AUGUST -(NukeFreeNow-Letter2pg.pdf)-
PAST --- NEWS --- FOLLOW UP
MAY 18 LONDON RE: INDIA
DEFEND THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO PROTEST AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
Picket the High Commission of India, Aldwych, London WC2B
Friday 18th May 2012 4.00pm – 7.00pm
South Asia Solidarity Group
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Foil Vedanta
Globalise Resistance
South West Against Nuclear (SWAN)
Contact: sasg@southasiasolidarity.org
NO to Kodankulam: Protest in LONDON in front of the High Commission — DiaNuke.org
PAST -- May 3 LONDON
Kick Nuclear, Stop Nuclear Power Network and friends are asking anti-nuclear activists from around the country to mobilise for this and to join them as part of the 'Dirty Energy' bloc at The Big Six Energy Bash in central London on Thursday 3rd May, from 11am, to give EDF Energy and friends a right ole bashin' and expose nuclear power as the false, dirty, dangerous and undemocratic 'solution' to climate change that it is...
more >
Stop Nuclear Power Network: The Big Six Energy Bash
The Big Six Energy Bash | Campaigning against the UK's addiction to nuclear power
PRESS RELEASE | climatejusticecollective
past - whats up: Shut Down San Onofre Rally, PHOTOS Apr 29 2012 | whats up: San Onofre CA: Rally Against Nuclear Power April 29 | Serious Steam Generator Problem, design changes made by Southern California Edison | #OcNukeDaily
past - OAK RIDGE | April 21, 2012
Protesters rally against new Y-12 uranium facility » Knoxville News Sentinel
knoxnews.com - OAK RIDGE — The pen is said to be mightier than the sword, and on Saturday a group of folks gathered at the Y-12 National Security Complex to apply that principle in protest of the Uranium Processi..
past - Dr Helen Caldicott: April 21 New York –
3pm – Green Festival Main Stage, Javits Center, 655W 34th St NY
whats up: OCCUPY: A15 HANFORD RALLY | SAGE Alliance, VT Yankee
Hanford: North America’s Fukushima A15 | #A15HanfordRally - OCCUPY PORTLAND | PRESS RELEASE April 15: Hanford Anti-Nuke Rally – Honoring the Tri-Party Agreement - Occupy Portland | Toxic Derivatives: Get On the Bus to Hanford | Portland Occupier
Occupy the EPA
Helen Caldicott "Educate those Corporate Prostitutes in Congress"YouTube
On day one of NOW DC ( http://nowdc.org ) Helen Caldicot speaks at the EPA about nuclear radiation and the need to shut down the dozens of reactors in the United States that are identical to the Fukishima plant and they are also on mostly on fault lines.
#OccupyNuclear #fukushima #nuclear #nukes #nonukes #antinuclear #occupy
Occupy ENTERGY
The Activists Occupy Entergy! Starring our anti-nuclear heroes! (A homage to "The Artist".) - YouTube
Eight intrepid heroes from the New England Natural Guard affinity group, traveled to New Orleans, the headquarters of nuclear corporation, Entergy. They were there to occupy Entergy HQ on the day that the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, owned by Entergy, should have ceased operation. Putting up crime scene tapes and holding banners, the group refused to leave without a meeting with Entergy CEO, J. Wayne Leonard. No meeting happened. 7 of the 8 agreed to be arrested, and were detained and released. Their actions came in solidarity with allies in Vermont, 1,000 of whom marched in Brattleboro, while a second affinity group of 5 were arrested at Entergy Regional HQ in White Plains, NY. The State of Vermont voted in February 2010 to shut the 40-year old Vermont Yankee plant when its license expired on March 21, 2012, a decision that was over-ruled by the federal government and Entergy which sued to keep the plant running in defiance of states' rights.
BeyondNuclear1's YouTube Channel
Beyond Nuclear - FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS
"Freeze Our Fukushimas" is a national campaign created by Beyond Nuclear to permanently suspend the operations of the most dangerous class of reactors operating in the United States today; the 23 General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactors, the same flawed design as those that melted down at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan.
past - SPRING ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIONS 2012 - NIRS
FUKUSHIMA ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED BY PROTESTS,
RALLIES, FLASH MOBS ACROSS U.S. AND ENTIRE WORLD
From Alabama to Wisconsin, Vermont to California and across the world, the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster will be marked by protests, rallies, flashmobs and other actions from the growing movement for a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future.
NIRS has compiled a list of Fukushima anniversary actions in the U.S. here: http://www.nirs.org/action.htm. Local contacts and/or links are provided for the actions. Note that there is a link to a different page listing actions across the world, available in five languages.
The listed events include a wide variety of actions, from “die-ins” in several states to a mock “evacuation” of Vermont Yankee to rallies in California, New York and elsewhere. In Washington, DC, a goat named Katie, whose milk contained high levels of radioactivity when she lived near the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant in Connecticut and who has been stricken with inoperable cancer, takes her Farewell Tour to the White House on Sunday, March 11, at 12 noon.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS
got nukes?
want to help? - find your closest nuke plant(s), look up the type and status of the reactor(s) and/or other facilites; and find out who the owners & operators are. then we can talk about some organizing and actions! - who is already working on the nuclear issue in your area? - what next? :)
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whats up: Links
whats up - label: new nukes
who is nuking in your back yard ???
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try a google map search, use the name of your state & see what comes up
see also, below: links and an extensive list of nuclear reactors in the US - way more than the "104 operational nukes" that you hear about
FOE Europe
FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS - March Against Nuclear Madness!
Beyond Nuclear - FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS - March Against Nuclear Madness! | March Against Nuclear Madness - FACEBOOK
March 2012 is “March Against Nuclear Madness” and Beyond Nuclear has created a new March Against Nuclear Madness Facebook page. We will be helping to coordinate, organize and promote events around the country throughout the month of March to commemorate the March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe in Japan. We encourage you to post your events and ideas on this page.
We are inspired by the opposition to nuclear power in Japan where today only four of the country’s 54 nuclear power plants are still operating. As nuclear power plants there shut down for routine refueling, local government and citizen opposition are refusing to allow them to restart.
We are further inspired by the principled democratic action being taken in Vermont. Here in the United States, the nuclear industry and the federal government look to pre-empt a state’s right to self determination for an energy future in the public good. In Vermont, where the Fukushima-style Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant should have closed by a state legislative vote when its operating license expires on March 21, 2012, a lower court federal judge has ruled that Entergy can extend its nuclear madness by another 20 years – for now.
Anti-Nuke Walk To Begin At Oyster Creek - Berkeley, NJ Patch: Advocates from near and far will gather at the Oyster Creek Generating Station for a “No More Fukushimas Peace Walk” on March 2.
“Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest nuclear plant in the country, has the same design as the Fukushima Nuclear Plant whose disaster caused the permanent displacement of 160,000 Japanese people,” Edith Gbur of Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch said.
The walk, which will call attention to the implications of the Fukushima accident for nuclear power safety in the U.S., will begin at the Forked River based plant and continue to the Indian Point power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. and finish at Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt.
“The walkers are Buddhist nuns, monks, and others from all faith traditions—about 10 to 15 in number,” she said.
The Buddhist walkers are from Grafton Peace Pagoda east of Buffalo, NY. Last year, the group was led by nun Jun San Yasuda, walking 206 miles from the Indian Point nuclear plant to Vermont Yankee.
The group will arrive on March 2 for a public gathering and begin the walk from Oyster Creek on Saturday.
“It's a wonderful opportunity for us to connect with local activists and concerned individuals along the way and hopefully bring renewed energy and determination to their work for a sustainable and peaceful nuclear free future,” said Christian Collins, a walk organizer.
SPRING ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIONS 2012
WHAT IS YOUR GROUP PLANNING?
HELP US HELP YOU ORGANIZE AND MOBILIZE!
February 7, 2012
Dear Friends,
The first anniversary of Fukushima is rapidly approaching and groups around the U.S. and across the world are organizing protests and other actions. Not far behind are the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl anniversaries--traditionally times of action. And this year there is a also a call for support actions against Vermont Yankee on March 24, which was scheduled to close on March 21.
We've heard about protest rallies and other events in Vermont, Georgia, Maryland, New York and elsewhere; now we want to learn about and help with your plans!
We will be posting all actions we learn of on our website beginning next week, and putting out Alerts and press releases, posting on social networks, etc. to support them and do all we can to help you organize, mobilize and build turnout.
Please fill out a brief questionnaire here and let us know what you're planning and how NIRS can help.
International actions welcome!
Don't have an action planned yet? It's not too late! Gather some friends and plan one now; we'll help however we can.
A few thoughts:
*As you surely know by now, there are 23 General Electric Mark I Fukushima-clone reactors operating in the U.S. Nothing has been done to upgrade them or close them in the past year. All of them should be closed (along with all of the other "pressure suppression" reactors). None of them should escape being a target of protest and exposure this Spring.
*For that matter, the NRC has not implemented a single one of its Fukushima Task Force recommendations made in response to the accident. This blatant failure needs to be brought squarely into the public arena.
*Current emergency planning requirements in the U.S. (and many other countries) are simply inadequate and must be strengthened. NIRS will be launching a major campaign on this February 15; we'll send you details at that time, but it may help inform some of your actions.
*Vermont groups are asking for actions--especially at Entergy Corporation power plants (of any kind) and offices across the country--on March 24 in support of Vermont Yankee shutdown and against Entergy's continued legal war against the State of Vermont and its people. We hope your group will consider doing such an action. More information from the SAGE Alliance here.
*Actions at utility offices in cities are generally much more visible than actions at reactor sites in remote locations, especially if you have a small group of people. Even a few people with signs and handouts for passersby bring needed attention to the issue. Occupying utility offices provides even greater visibility (although, of course, the possibility of arrest)!
*Not part of a group or simply can't get out to an action? During March and April take advantage of the attention nuclear issues will be receiving and help build it: write letters to the editors of your local newspapers, blog postings, posts on social networks, call into talk radio shows, etc. Demand nuclear shutdown. Help let the world know that it's time to implement a nuclear-free carbon-free energy future!
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org
A Simple Statement On Nuclear Power and Climate Change - NIRS
We're getting a little tired hearing nuclear industry lobbyists and pro-nuclear politicians allege that environmentalists are now supporting nuclear power as a means of addressing the climate crisis. We know that's not true, and we're sure you do too. In fact, using nuclear power would be counterproductive at reducing carbon emissions. As Amory Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute points out, "every dollar invested in nuclear expansion will worsen climate change by buying less solution per dollar..."
The simple statement below will be sent to the media and politicians whenever they misstate the facts. We hope you and your organization will join us and sign on in support here.
"We do not support construction of new nuclear reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis. Available renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than nuclear power."
go sign it > A Simple Statement On Nuclear Power and Climate Change - NIRS
Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS
#OCCUPY
1/28/2012: Support for a joint declaration between the assemblies of Moscow and New York from the Anti-War Working Group | NYC General Assembly # Occupy Wall Street
...Nuclear power continues to pose a threat to life and earth and is the essential technology driving the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Every nuclear reactor is a potential bomb factory that burns and produces materials which with further processing can be used to make nuclear warheads. Nuclear accidents have led to nuclear catastrophes. Chernobyl and now Fukushima have given us the resolve to say “No to nuclear!”...
CLAMSHELL ALLIANCE | Occupy – Nuclear Power
Blog Archive | Occupy – Nuclear Power
Jan 13
Occupy – Nuclear Power
Posted (Diane Clancy) on 13-01-2012
NUCLEAR POWER: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS OVER
Occupy is protesting the inequities that come from socializing risk onto the 99% and privatizing profits for the 1%. The collapse of housing and financial markets is a good example.
Nuclear power is another case of how the public pays for energy choices that favor corporate profits and control. Public dollars concentrate profits to nuclear corporations, warping energy choices to support centralized, capital intensive electric generation. Decentralized renewables and energy efficiency lose out.
THE 50-YEAR NUCLEAR POWER BAILOUT
Astonishingly, it would have been cheaper to buy electricity on the open market and give it away, than to have built and operated the 104 privately owned U.S. nuclear power reactors! Since 1960, public subsidies to nuclear power companies are worth more than all the electric power their reactors generate.
The public props up the nuclear power industry through a complex mesh of:
Ø Federal loan guarantees, now at $18.5 billion; Pres. Obama wants to raise them to $54 billion,
Ø Accelerated depreciation for fuel and construction,
Ø Ratepayers footing the bills for construction work before electricity is generated,
Ø Tax abatements,
Ø Long term operating costs for high level waste storage and reactor decommissioning,
Ø Hidden costs of nuclear proliferation and necessarily heavy reactor security,
Ø Limitations on disaster liability.
PUBLIC RISK, PRIVATE PROFIT. The Price Anderson Act of 1957 (extended to 2025) was enacted to protect the fledgling privately owned nuclear industry “against potentially enormous liability claims in the event of a nuclear accident.”
Ø First, members of the public—homeowners, businesses— cannot get nuclear disaster insurance.
Ø Insurance is limited to $300,000 per reactor issued by CT-based American Nuclear Insurers (ANI).
Ø More extensive damages at any reactor are to be covered from a common pot every owner funds
Ø The pot is about $11.6 billion, much too small considering:
US government studies show potential losses could rise as high as $560 billion;
The catastrophe at Chernobyl (different from US reactor models), cost about $350 billion;
The disaster at Fukushima Daiichi (same models and ages as the VT Yankee, Indian Point, and Pilgrim reactors) could cost as much as $130 billion by Japanese government estimates.
In 2001, ANI’s senior vice president told Congress that without Price Anderson, the nuclear industry cannot be insured, so the industry itself is not viable without this massive liability cap.
JOBS FROM CONSERVATION AND SAFE RENEWABLES. No other energy source enjoys this colossal and market-distorting support of public dollars. Millions of jobs can be created by opting for decentralized renewables and energy efficiency, choices that can provide safe, reliable energy.
Ø For every $1 million invested, solar, wind, and a smart electric grid create 14.25 jobs; nuclear: 4.2.
Ø An all-out WPA-type energy efficiency program can provide massive employment. Rather than perpetuating the wartime economy, give soldiers and veterans nail guns and training to use them.
Ø Replacing energy from a nuclear reactor (cost $41 billion; 2,400 jobs) by spending the same amount on retrofitting 3.2 million homes would create 440,000 jobs.
Ø Conserving energy in every building in the US would pull the US out of this economic depression. We would save half the energy we use, and put ourselves firmly on the road to true energy security.
SOURCES: Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org); Nuclear Information and Resource Service (www.nirs.org); Beyond Nuclear (www.beyondnuclear.org); the Cato Institute (www.cato.org); Political Economy Research Institute (www.peri.umass.edu), Office for Sustainability, Southern NH University (http://www.snhu.edu/9474.asp ); Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School (environmentallaw.vermontlaw.edu).
Occupy Boston Supports an End to Fossil Fuel & Nuclear Subsidies, Corruption | Occupy Boston
The below proposal reached agreement at OB General Assembly, on February 4, 2012.
Fossil fuel and nuclear corporations are some of the wealthiest interests on the planet – yet they still suck up billions of dollars in government subsidies. They buy off elected officials and corrupt our political process while sticking us – the 99% – with the bill for the health, ecological and climate destruction they cause. Their coal, oil, gas and nukes fuel our unjust economic systems, imperil our planetary future and prevent us from shifting to a clean energy economy of, by and for the people.
Occupy Boston therefore calls for:
• An end to all government subsidies to fossil fuel and nuclear energy interests;
• An end to corporate influence, including energy industry influence, on politics;
• Immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations to below the safe atmospheric threshold of 350 parts per million CO2e; starting with the rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline
• A just transition for workers currently employed in fossil fuel and nuclear energy sectors to sustainable employment.
We pledge to make personal and group choices that support these aims.”
whats up: OCCUPY NUCLEAR - New Nukes | February 9
- - - NEW NUKES ALERT - - -
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a vote for Feb. 9 on Southern Co.’s application for the first construction permit to build nuclear reactors in more than 30 years. The two Westinghouse nukes are already under construction at Plant Vogtle in Georgia.
Note this (meeting) is not to make a final decision on the Combined Operating License for the Vogtle units, but to affirm the decision of the earlier mandatory hearing that there are no environmental or safety reasons not to approve the COL. - once the Commission affirms the hearing findings, the staff is authorized to issue the COL.
OCCUPY NUCLEAR, February 9, 2012 -
• NRC: Rockville, Maryland | other NRC Locations
• Southern Company: NW Atlanta, GA
• Vogtle Electric Generating Plant: Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia
• Westinghouse Nuclear: Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania
UPDATE 2/9: NRC Approves Southern’s Nuclear-Plant Construction Permit, First Since ’78
NRC affirms earlier decision that "there are no environmental or safety reasons not to approve" the Combined Operating License for the Vogtle units, plans to issue the license tomorrow
Your tax dollars at work - The U.S. Energy Department in February 2010 conditionally approved an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to help the company build the two reactors.
> whats up: OCCUPY NUCLEAR - New Nukes | February 9
-- misc notes & links --
whats up: OCCUPY NUCLEAR - New Nukes | February 9
whats up: Links
anti-nuclear organizations and campaigns, nuke news and actions
Ace Hoffman's List of nuclear power plants in America
Operating or closed. Including their individual histories, locations, technical details, official contact points, and local activist groups.
(don't be afraid • you have been warned)
Nuclear power in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of 2008, nuclear power in the United States is provided by 104 commercial reactors (69 pressurized water reactors and 35 boiling water reactors) licensed to operate at 65 nuclear power plants, producing a total of 806.2 TWh of electricity, which was 19.6% of the nation's total electric energy generation in 2008.[1] The United States is the world's largest supplier of commercial nuclear power.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS
Beyond Nuclear - Home
Anti-nuclear groups in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some sixty anti-nuclear power groups are operating, or have operated, in the United States. These include: Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Greenpeace USA, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Nuclear Control Institute, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Public Citizen Energy Program, Shad Alliance, and the Sierra Club.
TARGETS --
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NRC
11555 Rockville Pike or 11545 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, MD 20852
telephone: 1-800-368-5642, 301-415-7000
Mailing Address: Washington, DC 20555-0001
Public Affairs: 301-415-8200; Fax: 301-415-3716
Safety or Security Concern: 1-800-695-7403
NRC Waste, Fraud or Abuse: 1-800-233-3497 (OIG hotline)
• NRC: Operating Nuclear Power Reactors (by Location or Name)
• NRC: Nuclear Materials Facilities (by Location or Name)
Nuclear Energy Institute
"NEI's Mission: The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry and participates in both the national and global policy-making process.
NEI’s objective is to ensure the formation of policies that promote the beneficial uses of nuclear energy and technologies in the United States and around the world."
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OPERATORS and MANUFACTURERS (examples)
GENERAL ELECTRIC - GE ENERGY
WESTINGHOUSE
ENTERGY
SOUTHERN CO
Type Public (NYSE: SO)
S&P 500 Component
Industry Utilities
Founded 1945
Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Key people Thomas A. Fanning, President and Chief Executive Officer,[1]
Art P. Beattie, Chief Financial Officer
Anthony J. Topazi, Chief Operating Officer
Revenue $17.46 billion USD (2010)[2][3]
Net income $1.64 billion USD (2009)[2][3]
Employees 26,112 (2009)[4]
Website www.SouthernCompany.co
Exelon *
more!
* Exelon Corporation is an electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in the Chase Tower in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago.[2] It was created in October 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia and Chicago respectively. Unicom owned Commonwealth Edison. Exelon has 5.4 million electricity customers and serves 485,000 natural gas customers in the Philadelphia suburbs. In October, 2009 Exelon had full or majority ownership of 17 nuclear reactors in 10 nuclear power plants. - Exelon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pacific Gas & Electric - Diablo Canyon in CA
Fuel vendors
The following companies have active Nuclear fuel fabrication facilities in the United States. These are all light water fuel fabrication facilities because only LWRs are operating in the US. The US currently has no MOX fuel fabrication facilities, though Duke Energy has expressed intent of building one of a relatively small capacity.
Areva
Areva (formerly Areva NP) runs fabrication facilities in Lynchburg, Virginia and Richland, Washington. It also has a Generation III+ plant design, EPR (formerly the Evolutionary Power Reactor), which it plans to market in the US.[68]
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse operates a fuel fabrication facility in Columbia, South Carolina,[69] which processes 1,600 metric tons Uranium (MTU) per year. It previously operated a nuclear fuel plant in Hematite, Missouri but has since closed it down.
General Electric
GE pioneered the BWR technology that has become widely used throughout the world. It formed the Global Nuclear Fuel joint venture in 1999 with Hitachi and Toshiba and later restructured into GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy. It operates the fuel fabrication facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, with a capacity of 1,200 MTU per year.
Industry and academic
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) scientific and educational organization that has academic and industry members. The organization publishes a large amount of literature on nuclear technology in several journals. The ANS also has some offshoot organizations such as North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN).
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is an industry group whose activities include lobbying, experience sharing between companies and plants, and provides data on the industry to a number of outfits.
Prospective nuclear units in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many license applications filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for proposed new reactors have been suspended or cancelled.[1][2] As of October 2011, plans for about 30 new reactors in the United States have been "whittled down to just four, despite the promise of large subsidies and President Barack Obama’s support of nuclear power, which he reaffirmed after Fukushima".[3] A reactor currently under construction in America, is at Watts Bar, Tennessee, was begun in 1973 and may be completed in 2012.[4][5] Matthew Wald from the New York Times has reported that "the nuclear renaissance is looking small and slow".[6]
Nuclear power in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of April 2011, a total of 45 groups and individuals are formally asking the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to suspend all licensing and other activities at 21 proposed nuclear reactor projects in 15 states until the NRC completes a thorough post-Fukushima reactor crisis examination. The petitioners also are asking the NRC to supplement its own investigation by establishing an independent commission comparable to that set up in the wake of the serious, though less severe, 1979 Three Mile Island accident.[113][114]
As of December 2011, construction by Southern Company on two new nuclear units has begun, and they are expected to be delivering commercial power by 2016 and 2017.[118][119] But, looking ahead, experts see continuing challenges that will make it very difficult for the nuclear power industry to expand beyond a small handful of reactor projects that "government agencies decide to subsidize by forcing taxpayers to assume the risk for the reactors and mandating that ratepayers pay for construction in advance". Mark Cooper suggests that the cost of nuclear power, which already had risen sharply in 2010 and 2011, could "climb another 50 percent due to tighter safety oversight and regulatory delays in the wake of the reactor calamity in Japan".[120]
Mining
In 2001 the United States mined only 5% of the uranium consumed by its nuclear power plants. The remainder was imported, principally from Russia and Australia.[52] After 2001, however, uranium prices steadily increased, which prompted increased production and revived mines.
Uranium enrichment
The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) performs all enrichment activities for U.S. commercial nuclear plants, using 11.3 million SWUs per year at its Paducah, Kentucky site. The USEC plant still uses gaseous diffusion enrichment, which has now been proved to be inferior to centrifuge enrichment. However, the capital cost of such a plant is so high that the plant will go through a few more years of operation before being replaced by a modern centrifuge plant.
Currently, demonstration activities are underway in Oak Ridge, Tennessee for a future centrifugal enrichment plant. The new plant will be called the American Centrifuge Plant, which has an estimate cost of 2.3 billion USD.[53]
Reprocessing
Nuclear reprocessing has been politically controversial because of the potential to contribute to nuclear proliferation, the potential vulnerability to nuclear terrorism, the political challenges of repository siting, and because of its high cost compared to the once-through fuel cycle.[54] The Obama administration has disallowed reprocessing of nuclear waste, citing nuclear proliferation concerns.[55]
Waste disposal
Recently, as plants continue to age, many on-site spent fuel pools have come near capacity, prompting creation of dry cask storage facilities as well. Several lawsuits between utilities and the government have transpired over the cost of these facilities, because by law the government is required to foot the bill for actions that go beyond the spent fuel pool.
There are some 65,000 tons of nuclear waste now in temporary storage throughout the U.S.[56] Since 1987, Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, had been the proposed site for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, but the project was shelved in 2009 following years of controversy and legal wrangling.[56][57] An alternative plan has not been proffered.[58]
At places like Maine Yankee, Connecticut Yankee and Rancho Seco, reactors no longer operate, but the spent fuel remains in small concrete-and-steel silos that require maintenance and monitoring by a guard force. Sometimes the presence of nuclear waste prevents re-use of the sites by industry.[59]
List of nuclear reactors - World Wide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>> here is a list of just the US reactors - note that the number of nukes is much larger than the "104 operating reactors" than you hear about
whether operating or not: many of these sites will contain nuclear fuels and/or concentrations of extremely toxic and dangerous radioactive waste, with various rates of surrounding contamination. also: this is a list of REACTORS, not other types of facilities such as processing and storage sites.
Power station reactors
NRC Region One (Northeast)
• Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania 40°37′24″N 80°25′50″W
• Calvert Cliffs, Maryland 38°25′55″N 76°26′32″W
• Connecticut Yankee, Connecticut (Decommissioned) 41°28′55″N 72°29′57″W
• FitzPatrick, New York 43°31′24″N 76°23′54″W
• Ginna, New York 43°16′40″N 77°18′36″W
• Hope Creek, New Jersey 39°28′4″N 75°32′17″W
• Indian Point, New York 41°16′11″N 73°57′8″W
• Limerick, Pennsylvania 40°13′36″N 75°35′14″W
• Maine Yankee, Maine (Decommissioned) 43°57′3″N 69°41′45″W
• Millstone, Connecticut 41°18′43″N 72°10′7″W
• Nine Mile Point, New York 43°31′15″N 76°24′25″W
• Oyster Creek, New Jersey 39°48′53″N 74°12′18″W
• Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania 39°45′30″N 76°16′5″W
• Pilgrim, Massachusetts 41°56′42″N 70°34′42″W
• Salem, New Jersey 39°27′46″N 75°32′8″W
• Saxton, Pennsylvania (Decommissioned) 40°13′37″N 78°14′31″W
• Seabrook, New Hampshire 42°53′56″N 70°51′3″W
• Shippingport, Pennsylvania (Decommissioned) 40°37′16″N 80°26′7″W
• Shoreham, New York (Decommissioned) 40°57′40″N 72°51′54″W
• Susquehanna, Pennsylvania 41°5′20″N 76°8′56″W
• Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania 40°9′14″N 76°43′29″W
• Penn State University Park, Pennsylvania
• Vermont Yankee, Vermont 42°46′44″N 72°30′47″W
• Yankee Rowe, Massachusetts (Decommissioned) 42°43′40″N 72°55′45″W
NRC Region Two (South)
• Bellefonte, Alabama (Unfinished)
• Browns Ferry, Alabama
• Brunswick, North Carolina
• Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor, South Carolina (decommissioned)
• Catawba, South Carolina
• Crystal River 3, Florida
• Farley (Joseph M. Farley), Alabama
• Hatch (Edwin I. Hatch), Georgia
• McGuire Nuclear Station, North Carolina
• North Anna, Virginia
• Oconee, South Carolina
• H.B. Robinson, South Carolina
• Sequoyah, Tennessee
• Shearon Harris, North Carolina
• St. Lucie, Florida
• Virgil C. Summer, South Carolina
• Surry, Virginia
• Turkey Point, Florida
• Alvin W. Vogtle, Georgia
• Watts Bar, Tennessee
NRC Region Three (Midwest)
• Big Rock Point, Michigan (Decommissioned)
• Byron, Illinois
• Braidwood, Illinois
• Clinton, Illinois
• Davis-Besse, Ohio
• Donald C. Cook, Michigan
• Dresden, Illinois
• Duane Arnold, Iowa
• Elk River, Minnesota (Decommissioned)
• Enrico Fermi, Michigan
• Kewaunee, Wisconsin
• La Crosse, Wisconsin (Decommissioned)
• LaSalle County, Illinois
• Marble Hill, Indiana (Unfinished)
• Monticello, Minnesota
• Palisades, Michigan
• Perry, Ohio
• Piqua, Ohio (Decommissioned)
• Point Beach, Wisconsin
• Prairie Island, Minnesota
• Quad Cities, Illinois
• Zion, Illinois (Decommissioned)
NRC Region Four (West)
• Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas
• Callaway, Missouri
• Columbia, Washington - formerly WNP-2
• Comanche Peak, Texas
• Cooper, Nebraska
• Diablo Canyon, California
• Fort Calhoun, Nebraska
• Fort Saint Vrain, Colorado (Decommissioned)
• Grand Gulf, Mississippi
• Hallam, Nebraska (Decommissioned)
• Hanford N Reactor, Washington (Retired - see Plutonium Production Reactors below)
• Humboldt Bay, California (Decommissioned)
• Palo Verde, Arizona
• Pathfinder, South Dakota (Decommissioned)
• Rancho Seco, California (Decommissioned)
• River Bend, Louisiana
• San Onofre, California
• Sodium Reactor Experiment, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, California (Accident 1959, Closed 1964)
• South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, Texas
• Trojan, Rainier, Oregon (Decommissioned)
• MSTR, Missouri
• Vallecitos, California (idle research center)
• Waterford, Louisiana
• Wolf Creek, Kansas
Plutonium production reactors
• Hanford Site, Washington
• B-Reactor (Pile) - Preserved as a Museum
• F-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned
• D-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned
• H-Reactor (Pile) - Being Cocooned
• DR-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned
• C-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned
• KE-Reactor (Pile) - Being Cocooned
• KW-Reactor (Pile) - Being Cocooned
• N-Reactor - Being Cocooned
• Savannah River Site, South Carolina
• R-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M (Surveillance and Maintenance) Mode
• P-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M Mode
• L-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M Mode
• K-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M Mode
• C-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M Mode
Army Nuclear Power Program
• Main article: Army Nuclear Power Program
• SM-1
• SM-1A
• PM-2A
• PM-1
• PM-3A
• MH-1A
• SL-1
• ML-1
United States Naval reactors
• Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Prototype S8G Reactor, S5W PROTOTYPE REACTOR, D1G PROTOTYPE (DECOMMISSIONED), S3G PROTOTYPE (DECOMMISSIONED, Ballston Spa, New York [NUCLEAR POWER TRAINING UNIT, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, USS DANIEL WEBSTER (SSBN 626) AND USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN 635)]]
• Main article: List of United States Naval reactors
Research reactors
• Arkansas-Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor, Arkansas
• SEFOR - Shut Down
• Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (and Idaho)
• CP-1 - Chicago Pile 1 (Relocated and renamed as Chicago Pile 2 in 1943) - Shut Down
• CP-3 - Chicago Pile 3 - Shut Down
• CP-5 - Chicago Pile 5 - Shut Down (1979)
• EBWR - Experimental Boiling Water Reactor - Shut Down
• LMFBR - Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor - Shut Down
• Janus reactor - Shut Down (1992)
• JUGGERNAUT - Shut Down
• IFR - Integral Fast Reactor - Never Operated[citation needed]
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
• High Flux Beam Reactor - Shut Down (1999)
• Medical Research Reactor - Shut Down (2000)
• Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor - Shut Down (1968)
• Hanford Site, Washington
• Fast Flux Test Facility - currently in cold standby Core drilled
• Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho
• ARMF-I - Shut Down
• AMRF-II - Shut Down
• ATR - Operating
• ATRC - Operating
• AFSR - Shut Down
• BORAX-I - Shut Down
• BORAX-II - Shut Down
• BORAX-III - Shut Down
• BORAX-IV - Shut Down
• BORAX-V - Shut Down (1964)
• CRCE - Shut Down
• CFRMF - Shut Down
• CET - Shut Down
• Experimental Test Reactor - Shut Down
• ETRC - Shut Down
• EBOR - Never Operated
• EBR-I - Experimental Breeder Reactor I (originally CP-4) - Shut Down
• EBR-II - Experimental Breeder Reactor II - Shut Down
• ECOR - Never Operated
• 710 - Shut Down
• GCRE - Gas Cooled Reactor Experiment - Shut Down
• HTRE-1 - Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 1 - Shut Down
• HTRE-2 - Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 2 - Shut Down
• HTRE-3 - Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 3 - Shut Down
• 603-A - Shut Down
• HOTCE - Shut Down
• A1W-A - Shut Down
• A1W-B - Shut Down
• LOFT - Shut Down
• MTR - Shut Down
• ML-1 - Mobil Low Power Plant - Shut Down
• S5G - Shut Down
• NRAD - Operating
• FRAN - Shut Down
• OMRE - Shut Down
• PBF - Shut Down
• RMF - Shut Down
• SUSIE - Operational
• SPERT-I - Shut Down
• SPERT-II - Shut Down
• SPERT-III - Shut Down
• SPERT-IV - Shut Down
• SCRCE - Shut Down
• SL-1/ALPR - Stationary Low Power Plant - Shut Down
• S1W/STR - Shut Down
• SNAPTRAN-1 - Shut Down
• SNAPTRAN-2 - Shut Down
• SNAPTRAN-3 - Shut Down
• THRITS - Shut Down
• TREAT - Shut Down
• ZPPR - Zero Power Physics Reactor (formerly Zero Power Plutonium Reactor) - Standby
• ZPR-III - Shut Down
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
• UHTREX - Shut Down
• Omega West - Shut Down
• Clementine - Shut Down
• Nevada Test Site, Nevada
• BREN Tower
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
• X-10 Graphite Reactor - Shut Down, Operated 1943-1963
• Homogeneous Reactor Experiment (HRE) - Shut down, Operated 1952-1954
• Homogeneous Reactor Test (HRT) - Shut down, Operated 1957-1961
• Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) - Shutdown, Operated 1954-1955
• Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) - Shut Down, Operated 1965-1969
• Health Physics Research Reactor (HPRR) - Shut down, Operated 1963-1987
• Low-Intensity Test Reactor (LITR)- Shut down, Operated 1950-1968
• Bulk Shielding Reactor (BSR) - Shut Down, Operated 1950-1987
• Geneva Conference Reactor - Shutdown, Operated 1955
• Tower Shielding Reactor-I (TSR-I) - Shut Down, Operated 1954-1958
• Tower Shielding Reactor-II (TSR-II) - Shutdown, Operated 1958-1982
• Oak Ridge Research Reactor (ORR) - Shut Down, Operated 1958-1987
• High Flux Isotope Reactor - Operational, Started 1965
• Pool Critical Assembly - Shutdown, Operated 1958 - 1987
• Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor (EGCR) - Constructed, but never operated (project canceled in 1966)
• Savannah River Site, South Carolina
• HWCTR - Heavy Water Components Test Reactor - Partial Decommissioning
• Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Hills California
• Sodium Reactor Experiment (Accident 1959, Closed 1964)
• SNAP-10A (Shut Down 1965, presently orbiting)
Civilian Research and Test Reactors Licensed To Operate
• Operator Location Reactor Power Operational
• Aerotest Operations Inc. San Ramon, California TRIGA Mark I 250 kW
• Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute Bethesda, Maryland TRIGA Mark F 1 MW
• Dow Chemical Company Midland, Michigan TRIGA Mark I 300 kW
• General Electric Company Sunol, California "Nuclear Test" 100 kW
• Idaho State University Pocatello, Idaho AGN-201 #103 50 W 1967
• Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas TRIGA Mark II 1250 kW 1962
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Tank Type HWR Reflected (MITR-II) 6 MW 1958 -
• Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, Missouri Pool 200 kW 1961 -
• National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland Tank Type, Heavy Water Moderated 20 MW 1967 -
• North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Pulstar 1 MW 1973 -
• Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Pool (modified Lockheed) [14] 500 kW 1961
• Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon TRIGA Mark II (OSTR) 1.1 MW 1967 -
• Penn State University University Park, Pennsylvania TRIGA BNR Reactor 1.1 MW 1955 -
• Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Lockheed 1 kW 1962
• Reed College Portland, Oregon TRIGA Mark I (RRR) 250 kW 1968 -
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York Reactor Critical Facility[19][20] 1 W 1965-
• Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission/University of Rhode Island Narragansett, Rhode Island GE Pool 2 MW
• Texas A&M University College Station, TX AGN-201M #106 - TRIGA Mark I (two reactors) 5 W, 1 MW
• University of Arizona Tucson, AZ TRIGA Mark I 110 kW 1958-2010
• University of California-Davis Sacramento, California TRIGA Mark II, McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center 2.3 MW August 13, 1998 -
• University of California, Irvine Irvine, California TRIGA Mark I 250 kW 1969
• University of Florida Gainesville, Florida Argonaut (UFTR) 100 kW 1959 -
• University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland TRIGA Mark I 250 kW 1960 -
• University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts Pool 1 MW
• University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri General Electric tank type UMRR 10 MW 1966 -
• University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico AGN-201M $112
• University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas TRIGA Mark II 1.1 MW
• University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah TRIGA Mark I 100 kW
• University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin TRIGA Mark I 1 MW 1961
• U.S. Geological Survey Denver, Colorado TRIGA Mark I 1 MW
• U.S. Veterans Administration Omaha, Nebraska TRIGA Mark I 20 kW 1959 - 2001
• Washington State University Pullman, Washington TRIGA Conversion (WSUR) 1 MW March 7, 1961 -
Under Decommission Orders or License Amendments
• (These research and test reactors are authorized to decontaminate and dismantle their facility to prepare for final survey and license termination.)
• General Atomics, San Diego, California (two reactors)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sandusky, Ohio (two reactors)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• [edit]With Possession-Only Licenses
• (These research and test reactors are not authorized to operate the reactor, only to possess the nuclear material on-hand. They are permanently shut down.)
• General Electric Company, Sunol, California (two research and test reactors, one power reactor)
• Nuclear Ship Savannah, James River Reserve Fleet, Virginia (one power reactor)
• University at Buffalo
• U.S. Veterans Administration, Omaha, NE
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
note: "Cocooning" or "Entombment" (also referred to as safe enclosure) of a nuclear reactor is a method of nuclear decommissioning in which radioactive contaminants are encased in a structurally long-lived material, such as concrete, that will last for a period of time to ensure the remaining radioactivity is no longer of significant concern. The entombment structure is appropriately maintained and continued surveillance is carried out until the radioactivity is no longer a major concern, permitting decommissioning and ultimate unrestricted release of the property. - Nuclear entombment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of nuclear reactors - World Wide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- this is a really scary page... especially seeing how many are being built in China right now
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