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• Central Oregon Athlete: Andrew Boone

  
  Bend Blogs — Authority: 167
  A standout runner and alpine ski racer at Mountain View high school, Andrew Boone is an elite athlete. If there is any question about that, just look at his second-place overall finish at this year’s Pole Pedal Paddle behind four-time champion Marshall Greene. Boone, who refers to himself as a “weekend warrior” ...
  16 hours ago

• (PPL) PPL Corporation’s Plant Granted License Approval

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 164
  Recently, PPL Corp. ’s ( PPL ) Susquehanna nuclear power plant received a 20-year extension of the operating licenses for both reactors at the plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved extension of the license for Unit 1 to 2042 and for Unit 2 to 2044. NRC’s decision to extend the licenses is based ...
  2 days ago

• Christian Parenti Believes That Established Nuclear Plants Are "Zombies" - Dont Tell The Customers, Who Seem To Love Using The 800 Billion Kilowatt Hours Per Year That Those Plants Produce

  
  Atomic Insights Blog — Authority: 495
  CBSNews.com - a company whose lineage includes a period when its corporate name was Westinghouse and its basic nuclear plant design was the basis for approximately 2/3 of the plants built in the United States - has published an opinion piece by Chrisian Parenti titled What To Do With Zombie Nuke Plants . The piece ...
  3 days ago

• NRC responds to desperate shelter needs

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 719
  Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) NRC continues to respond to the shelter needs in Myanmar. Several hundred thousand people are still in need of sustainable shelter, a year and a half after cyclone Nargis struck."NRC has built ...
  4 days ago

• TMI Safe: Normal Outage Work At Three Mile Island Resumes

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  Event cause traced to airflow change inside containment building  - Edited by Randy Brich - Outage workers at Three Mile Island Unit 1 who were sent home Saturday evening returned to work Sunday and today and normal outage work has resumed.  About 150 workers stationed in the containment building of TMI Unit 1, ...
  4 days ago

• Audit Of NRC’s Physical Security Inspection Program For Category I Fuel Cycle Facilities

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  Attached is the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) audit report titled, Audit of NRC’s Physical Security Inspection Program for Category I Fuel Cycle Facilities (OIG-10-A-01)  - Edited by Stephen Heiser - The report presents the results of the subject audit. Agency comments provided during and subsequent ...
  4 days ago

• Global Nuclear Plant Construction Moves Forward, Except in the U.S. (politics and market conditions make it tough for the one large-scale rival to carbon-based energy)

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 527
  July 17, 1955, was the first time electricity generated by a U.S. nuclear power plant flowed into a utility grid. In what then was an experiment, Utah Power & Light plugged in the Argonne National Laboratory experimental boiler water reactor, BORAX-III. The plant produced merely 2 megawatts for more than an ...
  4 days ago

• Three Mile Island Cats Have 9 Lives, Too?

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Or will it be third time unlucky for the TMI puss?Radiation leak at TMI, home of the worst U.S. nuclear power disaster: No threat to public health and safety Those of us who are old enough to remember the 1979 near complete core meltdown at Unit 2 of  TMI, or smart enough to have carefully [...]
  5 days ago

• NRC: Risk Management and Security – is it Time for a Recalibration?

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  Remarks by Dr. Dale Klein, Commissioner U.S. NRC for the American Nuclear Society (ANS) November, 2009  - Edited by Linton Levy - Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. I am pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this important conference. The concept of managing risk to avoid adverse consequences ...
  5 days ago

• NewKleer Energy and Button Pushin

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  So they had a little radiation leak at Three Mile Island.  Again.Diane Screnci of the NewKleer Nuclear Regulatory Commission says everything is fine.  Sure an airborne radiological alarm went off, workers were exposed to a small amount of radiation…but this kind of incident does happen once in a while.  Chill ...
  5 days ago

• Three Mile Island Radiation Leak Again

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  Three Mile Island Radiation Leak Almost one month to the day that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)  released a Press release extending Three Mile Island’s license for 20 years, there has been another radiation leak at the facility.  ...
  6 days ago

• Reviewing the October fundraising numbers.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 667
  As promised. Short version: DNC beat RNC, NRSC edged DSCC, DCCC edged NRCC, and cash on hand would worry me more if the GOP hadn’t just removed the NJ & VA governorships from the Democrats and essentially handed NY-23 as part of a unfortunate but necessary life lesson to the GOP leadership. RNC 9.06 ...
  1 week ago

• Reviewing the October fundraising numbers.

  
  RedState — Authority: 812
  As promised. Short version: DNC beat RNC, NRSC edged DSCC, DCCC edged NRCC, and cash on hand would worry me more if the GOP hadn’t just removed the NJ & VA governorships from the Democrats and essentially handed NY-23 as part of a unfortunate but necessary life lesson to the GOP leadership. RNC 9.06 ...
  1 week ago

• NCS 2009: Attributes of a Successful Nuclear Construction Project A Regulator’s Perspective

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
    Part of a Special Section covering the Nuclear Construction Summit USA 2009, October 26-27 – Washington DC The Nuclear Construction Summit, USA 2009 was attended by porfessionals who finance, plan and develop next nuclear projects. Professionals delivered information that will ...
  1 week ago

• NRC: Revised International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale Users Manual

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  NRC Information Notice 2009-27: Revised International Nuclear And Radiological Event Scale User’s Manual United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office Of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office Of Nuclear Material Safety And Safeguards Office Of Federal And State Materials And Environmental Management Programs ...
  1 week ago

• NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko’s Remarks About Briefing On Agency EEO, Diversity And Small Business Programs

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  The agency has much to be proud of and we are obviously doing great work here.  Our staff deserves thanks for its hard work and dedication for achieving these accomplishments  - By Linton Levy - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been awarded The Best Place to Work in the federal government for the second ...
  1 week ago

• NRC: Revised International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale Users Manual

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  NRC Information Notice 2009-27: Revised International Nuclear And Radiological Event Scale User’s Manual United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office Of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office Of Nuclear Material Safety And Safeguards Office Of Federal And State Materials And Environmental Management Programs ...
  1 week ago

• New Report Available Regarding Understanding Landscape Change

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 426
  The National Research Council has just completed a new report about landscape change, and have identified nine research challenges and four research initiatives to better understand how Earth’s landscapes change. The research could advance our understanding of environmental issues, from coastal erosion to ...
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• Nuclear companies face reactor design problems, ethics questions

  
  Facing South — Authority: 557
  Federal regulators have expressed serious safety concerns about the design for 14 of the nations 25 proposed new nuclear reactors, raising questions about the future of what the industry calls its "renaissance." The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced last month that Westinghouse failed to demonstrate ...
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• Mike Fox: Nuclear Power Better Than Ever And Important Part Of Mix

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  Also Published In The Tacoma News Tribune  - By Michael R. Fox Ph.D. - Scarcely any mention is made in the Sixth Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Plan of the one energy source capable of making a decisive difference in air quality and greenhouse-gas emissions. Nuclear power already supplies safe, ...
  1 week ago

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