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Hurricane Sandy Brings Wind, Rain and Irony to US Nuclear Plants
Hurricane Sandy’s projected path as of 9 AM, Monday. (map courtesy of NOAA) With Hurricane Sandy projected to make landfall hundreds of miles to the south and the predicted storm surge still over 24...
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Alert Declared at Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (photo courtesy of NRC) The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that an “alert” has been declared at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in...
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Superstorm Sandy Shows Nuclear Plants Who’s Boss
Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Station as seen in drier times. (photo via wikipedia) Once there was an ocean liner; its builders said it was unsinkable. Nature had other ideas. On Monday evening, as...
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Oyster Creek Nuclear Alert: As Floodwaters Fall, More Questions Arise
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in pre-flood mode. (photo: NRCgov) New Jersey’s Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station remains under an official Alert, a day-and-a-half after the US Nuclear...
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LIPA’s Nuclear Legacy Leaves Sandy’s Survivors in the Dark
Head of Long Island Power Authority Steps Aside as Governor Convenes Special Commission, But Problems Have Deep Roots The decommissioned Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant still occupies a 58-acre site on...
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Yule Fuel
Yes, it’s time for that metaphor again. If you grew up near a TV during the 1960s or ’70s, you probably remember the ever-burning Yule Log that took the place of programming for a large portion of...
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The Long, Long Con: Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission; Thousands of Centuries...
From here to eternity: a small plaque on the campus of the University of Chicago commemorates the site of Fermi’s first atomic pile–and the start of the world’s nuclear waste problem. (Photo: Nathan...
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Fukushima Plus Two: Still the Beginning?
An IAEA inspector examines the remains of reactor 3 at Fukushima Daiichi (5/27/11) (photo: Greg Webb/IAEA imagebank) I was up working in what were in my part of the world the early morning hours of...
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Two Years On, Fukushima Raises Many Questions, Provides One Clear Answer
Fukushima’s threats to health and the environment continue. (graphic: Surian Soosay via flickr) You can’t say you have all the answers if you haven’t asked all the questions. So, at a conference on the...
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The Brief Wondrous Life (and Long Dangerous Half-Life) of Strontium-90
At roughly 5:30 in the morning on July 16, 1945, an implosion-design plutonium device, codenamed “the gadget,” exploded over the Jornada del Muerto desert in south-central New Mexico with a force...
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