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Since the early 1990s, NC WARN has watch-dogged the state’s nuclear power industry over its “low-level” and high-level waste practices, along with reactor safety and security issues.
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Friends of the Earth, WARN Urge SC, NC to Deny Duke Nuke Costs Due to Design Problems – News Release by NC WARN and Partner Organizations
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Tom Clements 803-834-3084, Cell 803-240-7268 Jim Warren 919-416-5077 July 24, 2008 SC, NC Commissions are Urged to Revoke Duke Nuclear Cost Approvals Due to Design Problems, Delays Feds tell Westinghouse its design is off track; doubts over new nukes grow DURHAM, NC – Federal regulators now say …
Transcript of NRC Meeting
Harris, Most N-Plants to Violate Fire Safety for Years Longer – News Release by NC WARN
New regulatory scheme is fraught with delay, happy talk
GAO Cites Lax N-Plant Safety Enforcements – News Release by NC WARN
Update 9/09 : Congressman David Price is to be commended for initiating this investigation, but please urge him to follow through — and force the NRC to stop protecting nuclear lawbreakers: Dave.Russell@mail.house.gov, or 919-967-7924 NC WARN: Waste Awareness & Reduction Network NEWS RELEASE Contact: Pete MacDowell July 1, 2008 919-259-3140 Fed Watchdog Cites Lax …
GAO Confirms Watchdog Groups’ Charges – GAO Report
Design Problems: Regulators Warning Letter to Westinghouse
June 27, 2008 Mr. Robert Sisk, Manager Licensing and Customer Interface Regulatory Affairs and Standardization Westinghouse Electric Company P.O. Box 355 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355 SUBJECT: REVIEW SCHEDULE FOR AP1000 REVISION 16 (DOCKET 52-006) Dear Mr. Sisk: Your letter of May 20, 2008, requested the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to …
Design Problems: Nuke Revival Hits Quicksand at Harris, Other Plants – News Release by NC WARN
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Jim Warren June 24, 2008 Nuke Revival Hits Quicksand at Harris, Other Plants Delays, cost overruns loom as NRC concedes new designs are years from completion DURHAM, NC – Federal regulators now admit that designs for new nuclear power plants are years from completion and the …
Countering the PR: Nukes & CO2 – Letter to the News and Observer
It’s exasperating that The N&O repeatedly advances one of the nuclear industry’s most damaging distortions (“Progress’ nuclear plans attract friends, foes,” June 11 news article). Since 2005 the industry has with impunity claimed nuclear power is “carbon free” and therefore a solution to climate change.
Industry data prove new coal & nuclear plants are not needed – Statement From NC WARN
Speak out for climate protection. Duke Energy, Progress Energy and their political allies want to gamble tens of billions of public dollars to build (lucrative) coal and nuclear power plants. That path is already squandering our chances to avert climate catastrophe. Continuing disclosures prove that energy efficiency, cogeneration and renewable …