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WIPP – DOE to host town hall meeting Mar 6, 2014

March 5, 2014 By Rod Adams

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will host a town hall meeting on March 6, 2014 at 5:30 PM (MT) at the Walter Gerrells Performing Arts Center in Carlsbad, NM. Representatives from the DOE headquarters and from the Carlsbad Field Office will provide an information update on recovery activities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Contamination

New testing rules benefit oil producers

March 4, 2014 By Rod Adams

Oil price history - Cushing, OK WTI spot

One of the odd circumstances that arises out of extracting, transporting and marketing a commodity in high demand is that overall industry profits can increase as an indirect result of experiencing a scary accident that destroys a portion of a now infamous small town and kills nearly four dozen people. One predictable response to such […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Fossil fuel competition

Out of control fire at Australian coal mine

February 24, 2014 By Rod Adams

Ben Heard at DecarboniseSA posted an article titled The Silent Fire that describes a fire in a worked-out portion of a coal mine just outside of Morwell, Victoria, Australia. That fire has been burning since Feb 9. The town near the mine has been blanketed by the ash and smoke produced by the fire. The […]

Filed Under: Accidents

WIPP and Carlsbad residents will talk

February 23, 2014 By Rod Adams

On Monday, February 24, representatives of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), and local officials will meet with the public. The planned purpose of the meeting is to provide a status report and answer questions about the airborne contamination detected in the facility and the trace contaminants […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Contamination, Nuclear Communications

Response to contamination: WIPP and New Mexico should practice communication skills

February 21, 2014 By Rod Adams

Recent events at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) provide an opportunity to reinforce the need to practice good communication skills in order to improve the future response to a contamination event. Though there is no public hazard associated with airborne contamination levels of 0.64 Bq of Am-241 and 0.046 Bq of Pu-239/240, the New […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Contamination, Health Effects, Nuclear Communications, Radiation

Sabotage at TMI – Part 3

January 20, 2014 By Rod Adams

Nuclear Stocks Plunge: Accident Called Coal-Stock Aid

There is a good reason why life often imitates art in the form of fictional stories; good creative writing teachers emphasize the importance of research and a firm understanding of reality. Writers are taught — or learn on their own — that people prefer reading stories that are believable. Even fantasy or science fiction follows […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Antinuclear activist, Book, TMI

Did Sabotage Start TMI accident? – Part 2

January 19, 2014 By Rod Adams

The first installment of this series, titled Sabotage may have started Three Mile Island accident, describes how a number of individually improbable equipment conditions came together at 4:00 am on March 28, 1979, one year — to the minute — after the start of commercial operation at Three Mile Island (TMI) unit 2. It also […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Book, TMI

Sabotage may have started Three Mile Island accident

January 18, 2014 By Rod Adams

Updated (Sep 10, 2014 at 5:40 am) This post has been revised to improve the explanation of event sequence and resulting plant response. End update. Updated (Jan 21, 2014 at 10:40 pm) The pattern is not completely clear, and there are pieces missing from the puzzle, but I have found enough bits of evidence to […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Book, TMI

No Agenda Show recommends Hiroshima Syndrome for Fukushima info

January 6, 2014 By Rod Adams

One of my favorite pastimes is listening to Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, who bill themselves as “media assassins”, on the No Agenda Show. On yesterday’s episode, number 580, John and Adam spent about 15 minutes (starting at about 1:44:00) discussing the absurd tales that are propagating around the web regarding USS Ronald Reagan […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Atomic Advocacy, Nuclear Communications

Absurd photo illustrating Fukushima fear mongering site

January 4, 2014 By Rod Adams

There are a number of wacko sites trying their darnedest to stimulate fear and trembling about the events at Fukushima even though the reactors have been in a cold shutdown condition for two full years. As noted earlier this week, if you want to get information about Fukushima from a calmed, interested, and well informed […]

Filed Under: Accidents, International nuclear

Fukushima Accident Updates – Go To Hiroshima Syndrome

January 3, 2014 By Rod Adams

Hiroshima Syndrome hosts the best source of compiled information about the status of activities and investigations related to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station’s accident recovery and clean-up effort. The author, Les Corrice, is a semi-retired nuclear energy professional who works diligently to post the Fukushima Accident Update page twice a week. He has been pursuing that self-assigned […]

Filed Under: Accidents, International nuclear, Nuclear Communications

Burlington Northern oil train explodes and burns in Casselton, ND

December 31, 2013 By Rod Adams

At 2:12 pm on December 30, 2013, a Burlington Northern (BNSF) train pulling more than 100 tanker cars full of of crude oil extracted from the Bakken formation in North Dakota collided with another BNSF train carrying grain outside of Casselton, ND. Apparently, one of the trains derailed before the collision, but there have been […]

Filed Under: Accidents, Health Effects

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